Tallie had a good round of chomping on her octopus this evening.

I know that GE and PreCheck are a privilege but using a general "stick" to discourage protests is gross and a threat to our Republic. viewfromthewing.com/court-filing...

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

actual communications security considerations 😅 (also I'm Not Your Lawyer but do not plan crimes in writing, disappearing messages or not)

It’s says a lot about the state of the Department of Justice that the person they found to argue on behalf of the U.S. government here has been at DOJ for less than two months and is three years out of law school at the University of Florida. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

The invincible resolve and indomitable spirit of a community determined to throw off the yoke of injustice. Thank you Minneapolis for your strength and nonviolent resistance amidst horrific ongoing tragedy.

Granary Burying Ground, Boston

Wow

Show your papers. Kavanaugh stops. Your gender? We decide. ICE doesn't need a warrant. Abortion is our choice not yours. Immigrants don't deserve due process. State universities can't teach Plato. Civil rights protections are racist. But vaccination requirements threaten our freedom.

Wellesley College’s campus is named one of the most beautiful in the United States by Travel + Leisure magazine 🌲💙 https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/colleges-universities/americas-most-beautiful-college-campuses

Heard a story last week about asking LLMs a legal ❔ TLDR: the LLMs were very good at finding and reading the relevant rule, but couldn’t know (b/c not written down) that the relevant agency interpreted the rule differently than the LLMs assumed. Difference between artifact and “theory” 👇🏽

The look I get when Tallie finds a step to do "paws up" on and I'm out of snacks

Happy Friday bluesky friends

BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court will weigh a constitutional challenge to geofence warrants news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/us-su...

ICE is stopping its purchase of warrantless airline travel data, according to a new procurement record. This comes after the company selling it said it would not sell that data anymore, following our months of reporting on the company. More here: www.404media.co/airlines-wil...

tech adventures in lawyering for Monday.... it's 2026 but you have to call the Washington State Bar to change your credit card billing address if you have a different address than the one they selected in October for it. 🫥 At least they answer their phones quickly & are very nice, but come on. 🤨

In the age of AI agents that can be so useful at gluing various services together, the data hosts (Google, Slack, etc) need to do a *much* better job with narrow-permission API access. For example, I'd love to upload photos from Slack to Google Photos. No I can't give the agent full Slack access.

Enough is enough: ICE agents do not belong in our communities. We're taking to the streets this weekend in protest of ICE — join us. 📢https://www.mobilize.us/?tag_ids=29132&utm_source=aclu  #IceOutForGood

Unsure how this is comfy

I feel this in my bones 💀 (I teach 3Ls! You'd think by the time they made it to law school and made it to 3L they'd read the syllabus! nope. 😭)

The skinny leg. 🤣 There seriously is no Tallie under all the floof.

Continuing to go visit Seattle bakeries I've never been to- this morning was Byen Bakeri near the Fremont Bridge. Super tasty Scandinavian treats & a yummy salmon smørrebrød. #seattlebakeries

90 books in 2025! Fewer than last year but I'll take it. I just started another one last night but super unlikely I'll finish it today, so we'll call it 90 for the year. 🤓

No fruit theme because no more bandage!!!!!! She gets a little cotton infant sock/the medipaw over it or have her in her cone while her paw pad finishes healing for a few more weeks. Also holy moly her leg is super skinny- this is about a month's worth of hair growth from under the bandage. 😂

Happy holidays from your furiends at the zoo ✨ Thanks to Keeper Megan and Keeper Ali for the holiday pics!

Merry Christmas Bluesky friends who celebrate, from Tallie bear 🎄

the vet techs said they like the fruit theme for her, so... we have blueberries now. 🫐 I'm super curious if the fruit theme will continue next time or if we go back to colors. 😅 (Tallie apparently does not approve of taking a photo of her blueberries & is in "no I will not look" mood 🫣)

somewhere in this pile of floof is a sheltie napping

If you fight Nazis online then you’re banned from visiting America is a wild thing to even say let alone now being official U.S. government policy.

maybe lawsky has discussed this before — but are there any other instances in which a specific scotus justice's name became a term of art, the way it has with "kavanaugh stop"? there are countless examples where a case caption becomes a name ("miranda rights") but justice's name seems uncommon.

What do we think Tallie asked Santa for?

Well, I see Entra is having a Monday morning as well today. 😡☕☕☕☕☕☕☕

Flora Bakehouse for the quince pear danish, which was so worth the short drive early this morning! Delicious. #seattlebakeries

Last nosework class of the year tonight, & Tallie was so zippy & amazing. Lots of tricky hides and multiple hide runs tonight, but she worked right through them. Now we're home to relax & enjoy a quiet evening. (Also please note Tallie *finally* chooses the new pouf bed, not the old one!)

I spent some 15 years arguing against the post-9/11 expansion of surveillance authorities. I was routinely told I was paranoid because robust layers of checks guaranteed the political abuses of the Hoover era could never happen again.

Today's weather was much more amenable to walkies

Tallie is not a fan of all this rain.

smol Tallie pupdate, her new bandage has strawberries on it! 🍓 The vet techs have definitely been having fun with this, every time they change it we get a new color or print. 😂 This weekend was purple, which looked very 80s legwarmers. 💜

Welp, another trip to the doggo ER early this morning because she had some bleeding showing through the bandage, likely because she keeps trying to run around as soon as the Trazadone wears off. We're home again now & she has more good drugs. I still adore shelties but this has been 😣

Congratulations to @scotusblog.com on its new blog featuring three white men.

#LegalEthics Tidbit: Should #AI sanctions against a firm be individualized to account for each lawyer’s role? An AR firm submitted 11 pleadings to an OK court “containing fabricated case citations, erroneous citations, quotations of nonexistent law, and ... (cont.) #lawsky #law lnkd.in/eznJFVgM

paw bandage change achieved today without sedation. she is such a good & patient bear! we're celebrating with Christmas movies.

Tallie is still recovering from surgery but went full Lassie & saved our house from burning down when the unoccupied house under construction next door caught fire late last night. She smelled the smoke and alerted us so we could call 911. Super fucking hero doggo.

Fluffernutter is home post-surgery. Surgeon thinks maybe she found the problem and fixed it so please send us lots of good luck. (Also with the "no running or jumping for 2+ weeks." that will be fun.)

now at 81 books!

If you haven't read the Grave Reservations travel agent series... you need to read this series. One of my favorite mystery series; so well done, with memorable characters & a great jaunt around Seattle environs👇📚📚📚

An update on the Tallie Cone Escape adventures: we have a ribbon that goes through the front loop on her harness, through the cone loops, and ties off in a square knot through the leash clip at the back of the harness. She has figured out how to use her back paw to release the knot. 🤯

a small Tallie pupdate... we spent Thanksgiving at the doggie ER, and then went back today. She'll be going in for surgery on Thursday. Send her lots of well wishes; she should be OK but it's... been a lot. It's so hard when they can't tell you what's wrong. 💙

This is wrong. It, and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, are the two Must Watch Christmas movies in our household.