I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

the vice president is a klansman

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

This year, man. I lost a family member and had the worst depressive episode of my life. The simple things have been so hard, but so meaningful. Getting the xmas tree up was a battle. But I did it. I thought I'd never write again. I'm back at it. Grateful to the point of tears for all of it.

Not for the first time, the signature block for Self-Proclaimed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan spelled it “Virgina.”

I've taken many calls from white males who believe they've been discriminated against at work for their race/sex. The number of these calls that are so fucking stupid easily rounds up to "all of them."

Our dog is wearing a plaid hoodie that is a size too small, so a tuft of chest fur pops out over the zipper. She looks like a little Burt Reynolds or Tom Selleck strolling around here.

Not on X because the law school I attended was a right-run platform and . . . I'm good. Should I find a need, there's no shortage of chuckle-headed fucks out there to tell me what to do with my body or insist I'm too nice/sweet/pretty to be an attorney (and would do better in a supporting role).

the unstated assumption of Yglesias saying that we need to be with the Nazis for Discourse Reasons is a presumed interest in finding common ground with or convincing Nazis to stop being Nazis. i'll just say that is not how i, personally, am interested in solving the Nazi problem.

Our cat is drawn to open flame and he will only get bolder each night.

11 people in Australia were killed today by gunmen while they celebrated the first night of Chanukah at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Targeted because they were Jews. As Jewish families around the world, we place our menorahs in our windows. Our message to the world: Light will outlive the darkness.

My most fundamental belief is that we do not have to live like this.

Heartbreaking and horrifying to go to bed reading about the mass shooting at Brown University and wake up to read about the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. Thinking of the victims, their loved ones, and those affected by the hate that drove these attacks.

They legit had this up on the TVs at the IOP I went to. I saw it out of the corner of my eye, then straight-on, and there was no turning back. Laughed like a maniac.

Not exactly a Christmas song, but no winter trip home is complete without dusting off T-Baby's "It's So Cold in the D." It will be stuck in my head until it's warm out again.

Responding to a text from my husband about how my eye dr appt went, with dilated pupils: What I meant: "Good. No need to see a specialist." What I sent: "Good. No need to see I'm special. Lost."

I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.

Many times ride shares work out great, so its easy to forget that: Sometimes, you put your life into the hands of a stranger, aggressive in spirit, nature, and driving-style, who picks you up in his Tesla and weaves through traffic bumping sexually explicit* trance music. * *very*

Sometimes, @joshuaerlich.bsky.social will earnestly describe an insane case to me that he is thinking about taking. I've perfected a long, meaningful, "Are you insane? I fucking dare you" glare that I've found to be effective.

I have seen movies and television, so no. My grandma would have shaken her head at this story and said "Oh, brother!" before flipping to the crossword.

Once a year, I hear the Charlie Brown Christmas song playing in a grocery store and come dangerously close to buying a keyboard/piano again.

Everyone involved in this child’s kidnapping is going to hell.

Thanks to @jonschuppe.bsky.social and Mackenzie Mays at @nbcnews.com for this important feature on the inhumane treatment pregnant women face in prison. My client Jemika Johnson, who lost her baby when she gave birth in solitary, alone and without care, is included.

I graduated from IOP today, and they gave me a heftier worry stone that I can't break. (I'm not crying, you're crying!) I'm still here. Back to work later this week. I've got this.

I couldn't dream up the shit Megyn Kelly says even if I entered a Say the Most Depraved Shit Possible competition and there was a lucrative prize on the line. Something inside this woman has malfunctioned.

Oh, how's my day going? Just busy being impressed with myself.

This makes me so happy! One ot Callie's first trips to court, I think? It may have been a meeting, or a deposition. With a colleague who was very pleased to meet her!

Callie, my PTSD service dog, doing nothing but Getting Her Way since her retirement in 2022.

What my depression looks like: in cards/images. Yeah, I'm deep into the hippy-dippy stuff at this point. Bring it on, I'll try it. Also, these cards rock.

I’m mindful today of those for whom this is their first Thanksgiving without a loved one. I’m praying for a measure of peace and the comfort of beautiful memories.

For a show about depression, Pluribus is riveting.

@joshuaerlich.bsky.social ordered a cat litter box robot and it came today. It is the size of a washing machine. He had no idea. He brought it up to our apartment in a large canvas drawstring bag, slung over his shoulder like Santa Claus. I can't stop laughing.

The first & last time my mom (who does not eat turkey or ham) hosted a holiday: She made the classic mistake of not knowing a turkey took time to cook. Panicked, arranged slices of thinly-sliced deli ham (thinking "ham is ham") on a platter w/ baby carrots (for color), and served it as the entree.

Our vet calls our cat "Mr. Man" and I don't have the heart to tell her that's the literal German translation of my last name.

I startled a woman waiting directly outside the elevator doors today. She gasped and yelled "TALL!" at me (I had about a foot on her). We had a good laugh.

This is Cole. He is a deaf service dog at Dr. William Mennies Elementary School. He just turned 9, and all of his students learned sign language to sing him happy birthday at a massive party. 14/10 for all (IG: colethedeafdog)

Beside myself. Consider a safety audit before your dime store Teddy Ruxpin teaches children how to light a match and where to find the knives.

Here's the law, if anyone wants to read it. It's pretty short, and provides a list of what has to be released and when (heads up that agencies routinely blow past statutory deadlines), lists exceptions (e.g., no publishing of CSAM) and requires reporting to Congress. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Oh my GOD. Holy shit. Holy shit holy shit holy shit. To non-lawyers: this level of incompetence is BREATHTAKING. It is absolutely incomprehensible. This is a "mistake" that will be taught in criminal procedure classes for GENERATIONS.

NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.

If these people are ever thrown out of power, I hope we all understand there is no reformist pathway for institutions like this as much as Dems might desperately wish and claim there is.

I inherited a box full of identical monoculars. . . . I don't know either. But it's funny.

Suggestions for good places to go to scream into the void (without alarming good, decent folks)? D.C. area preferred.

Do you know what a 15 year-old isn't? A fucking adult. Megyn Kelly, you're an attorney who is well aware of what "age of consent" means and the fact that non-consensual sex is rape. This doesn't meet your def of a child rapist? Fine. You don't meet my def of a human. What the fuck are you.

Ignoring the news to avoid the very real and visceral anger it evokes. I think/hope things are finally happening, but I don't have the bandwith atm.

Sure this week has been abyssmal, but I'm currently chilling with my big sister playing chinese checkers and watching Saved by the Bell so -

Brad Parker, my step-dad, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly today at age 61. Tell the people you love how much they mean to you and keep them close.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published February)

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

I just keep scrolling and liking everything. Lovely change of pace. Hope is a beautiful thing.