this happened to me when i was a baby lawyer, like 8 mths out of law school, & a partner left it to me to file something (much less important than this) while he was abroad i figured out how to get it done in time bc i'm competent & wanted to do my job well - two things this AUSA is apparently not

good stuff happening in the VA subreddit

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

best halftime show in at least a decade

has anyone tried clearing the sidewalks with a blow torch?

just drove my car for the first time since it snowed. 0/10 not recommended.

someone sent me a link to their kid’s cookie sales page. i asked if i could just give her a donation for the troop instead bc i don’t need cookies, and she said her daughter won’t get rewards credit for donations, only cookie sales. extremely sus fundraiser tbh.

girl scout cookies are just an MLM for children and they sell better cookies at the grocery store year round send tweet

a bobcat plow just got stuck trying to plow the ice on my street

golf is political because you can’t golf if you’re murdered by masked agents of the state

re-reading the federalist papers for a project and it's striking how many of our current problems can be traced back to the fact that the guys who designed our government just could not fathom a sociopathic president. hamilton on the why pardon power shouldn't be limited:

no way, this rules. if you've never been to the Vegas Sphere, you have no idea what you're missing. it's genuinely incredible. and National Harbor is already a synthetic commercial district, this won't ruin anyone's neighborhood character or whatever. i hope people actually let this happen.

Well, those boots were not made for walking

the children have discovered 3d printing

the first time i saw Bob Weir was in 2001 at Pier 6 in Baltimore. RatDog was on tour w/ Rusted Root, Karl Denson, DJ Logic & Keller Williams. it was messy & joyful. the last time i saw him was in 2025 with Dead Forever at the Sphere in Vegas. it was slickly produced & awe-inspiring.

i thought Heated Rivalry was going to be fun, smutty escapism, then out of nowhere it emotionally wrecked me. i am now reading the books because i have to find out what happens to the characters and my husband has asked me twice this week if i am crying over the gay hockey porn again (yes)

i spent all of december pushing off as much work as possible until after the new year. pretty upset to discover that it is now, in fact, after the new year.

dave troy pointed this out on twitter: in fiona hill’s testimony during the first trump indictment in 2019, she claimed russia was signaling that they wanted to make a strange swap of some kind - venezuela for ukraine s3.documentcloud.org/documents/65...

yale law school graduate (derogatory)

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

no AI of any kind should ever be allowed in any court proceeding, unless it’s being entered as evidence against the humans responsible for the AI

a little part of my soul dies every time i have to cite a truthsocial post in a brief

spent two hours with my extended family on long island and the 7yo just asked what it means when someone is a “old bag”

you don’t even need the dates on this chart to see exactly when citizens united came down

the metro is way too crowded now, gov can shut down again if it wants

i love my local indie record store’s lists of monthly top sellers

this is how i found out dick cheney died and it’s perfect

realizing i made a parenting mistake at some point bc my 5yo thinks that "doing my best" is a cheat code that gets her out of putting in any effort. the third time i asked her to clean up her breakfast dishes this morning she yelled "i'm trying my best" while not moving from the couch.

winners of my kids’ halloween candy haul

NEW: Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, has issued a new statement declaring that Chicago "communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants."

A gradual abdication of authority from a body with no desire to govern. 441 individuals who feel their job is to raise funds and cut ribbons rather than legislate. An assembly of parade marshals.

this is true, but incomplete. it's pretty important to understand that John Brown was tried and hanged for treason *against the state of Virginia* - not against the United States. from Brian McGinty's book on John Brown's trial:

i’m so grateful i got to see D’Angelo on the Black Messiah tour in 2015 they oversold the Fillmore so we were all packed in extremely, uncomfortably close, but he filled the room with a sound so transcendent that nothing else mattered. it was one of the most incredible performances i’ve ever seen

jane goodall releasing a video of her listing the people she dislikes and ending with a vague message of hope is so iconic. truly someone i aspire to model myself after

i’m sorry they did WHAT

this in why they banned thinking machines in the Dune universe

it's probably not a good sign when federal judicial opinions start to look & sound like something out of House of Leaves

sort of want to put a 30’ triceratops in my yard just to annoy the save del ray ppl

this is true though, just not for the reason he thinks

i’m proud of ACPS for taking a stand here

this is also how certain jurists view the constitution

my second grader’s social studies curriculum sounds so aspirational right now

wait it came with instructions? we really could have used those earlier

All school shootings are political violence.

All gun violence is bad, unequivocally. Even when it's targeted at people who helped create and uphold our culture of endemic gun violence. It does not have to be like this.

barrett knows

sometimes young alumni from my schools hit me up to ask for career guidance & it always makes me feel like such a fraud. my best advice is to luck into an amazing job & stay there as long as possible. if technofascists take over and that job evaporates, you should luck into a new amazing job.

troops enjoying a lovely sunset at the wharf

it sucks that this administration is actively destroying everything good in the world because you can’t even enjoy how funny they are