No idea huh? I wonder what the dragon's like. Is it a Grand Dragon, Stephen?

They still haven't consolidated full authoritarianism yet; they can still lose

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

Forever disturbed by the way the cops are at the beck and call of the most irritating white person you've ever met as an armed hall monitor

Lil baby, at ice cream shop: I want the cookies n cream in a cone Mom: oh a cone is too much, you can get the kid's scoop LB, stamping her foot: But I really want the cone! Mom: ok well you can get no cone, no scoop, and-- LB, pumping brakes: ok ok no cone I'll have a scoop! Smart call lil baby

Bro found a luxury indoor pool, his friends outside will never believe it.

The knee pain:

This is a genocide as well——just fyi

If you’re not a litigator, you may not know how pure & high-grade your bullshit has to be to get a judge to throw out your complaint before the defendant even asks. The lawyers who agreed to file this should be shunned by the profession.

Superb. And quite a contrast to NYT’s own blanderized report.

POV: you are me and you have cheese

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

I had these custom cornhole boards made for my wedding but we weren't actually able to use them at the time, but today we finally got to do so today! Our marriage is now consummated lol

Mine is That person has already proven they cannot read, more words will not help, discard. That person has already proven they cannot read, more words will not help, discard. That person has already proven they cannot read, more words will not help, discard.

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

just saw some wild posts that, upon reflection, led me to develop a related but distinct mantra: that take has already been thoroughly dunked, you can scroll by and not get involved, that take has already been thoroughly dunked, you can scroll by and not get involved

The funniest thing is he really thought he was doing something by filing in Florida.

This is great. *And* I appreciate that Balls & Strikes has an official thematic tag for “Deranged Freaks” :)

‘Most complaints filed in federal courtrooms do not spend dozens of pages recounting the plaintiff’s “singular brilliance” and “history-making media appearances” in programs like Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson.’ 🤣

I am always grateful when people tell me something reminded them to check out my book, both because of their interest and because it tells me there's no need to worry over posting about my book too much 😅 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...

oh looks like jill lepore wrote the book i thought i might write www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/b...

One of my most beloved mentors & intellectual influences is starting to forget. He calls me to have conversations about how I'm doing that we've already had. He doesn't remember what I told him last time. He always says he's proud of me and gives me advice. I will have this convo every single time.

You hear that, Ford Foundation? Give the people what they want! (They want me to have more money to talk more shit about right wingers)

Here is my fun new article about him suing the New York Times for a lot of money and the judge saying pls get the fuck outta my face with this shit and come back when you can act like you got some sense ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Dudes rock

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

The crowd is taking a knee in the street outside of the Broadview Detention Center with their fists up to honor Silverio Villegas-Gonzáles, the man ICE killed last week, victims of police violence, and the people being killed in Palestine.

34!

Katie Fallow from @knightcolumbia.org said the new policy is part of “the Trump administration’s broader assault on free speech and press freedom.” “A reporter who publishes only what the government ‘authorizes’ is doing something other than reporting,” she said.

This woman writes great analysis. And this title!! 🔥

Getting your defamation lawsuit struck under Rule 8 is roughly analogous to getting sent home early on the first day of school because you decided not to wear pants ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

More on the court's order in New York Times v. Trump by @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social with an appropriate headline. I would've reposted but I didn't want a pic of that guy on feed as we go into the weekend. ballsandstrikes.org/authors/madi...

“The complaint Trump filed on Monday […] is 85 pages long and reads more like an anthology of his Truth Social posts, with slightly better punctuation.”

The South Carolina Supreme Court decided that it has no power to weigh in on the state’s congressional district maps. The only people with the legal power to un-gerrymander the state, it seems, are the Republican lawmakers who gerrymandered it in the first place talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/nancy-m...

Something happened today that captured the exquisitely painful irony of this post-Charlie Kirk moment in the United States. It’s about guns. A short 🧵

Lawsuits rarely get tossed under Rule 8. But then again, lawsuits rarely spend 85 meandering pages talking about things like the plaintiff’s “singular brilliance.” Here is @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social taking us back to 1L (without the annoying jackasses (gunners) raising hands in the front row)

"With the overwhelming victory, President Trump secured the greatest personal and political achievement in American history" do you want to get your complaint struck because this is how you get your complaint struck ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Today's order striking the complaint was all the more (sorry) striking because it was issued "sua sponte," meaning on the court's own action — not in response to a motion from any of the defendants.

hahahahahahaha

“Segregationists are not satisfied by these numbers. In February, Ed Blum described himself and other anti-integration activists as ‘befuddled and concerned’ that the amount of students of color did not immediately crater throughout higher education, and accused schools of ‘cheating.’”

Last year, after a lower court blocked South Carolina GOP's wild racial gerrymander, the US Supreme Court said "actually that's not *racial* gerrymandering, it's *partisan* gerrymandering, and we can't do anything about that. try your state court, maybe" well... ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

I did it, I got an A+ in sleep

Ed Blum simply will not rest until there are no more people of color in places he doesn't think they should be

Just a reminder...

stumbled across an article showing that this year's freshman class at my alma mater is 5% Black, which hasn't been the case since 1968 it prompted me to take another look at the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision, & how it's already working as intended ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

I’m Selena Gomez aka Mz Wizards of Waverly and you are now listening to me slide on “Pick It Up” with Cardi B

This is all part of the plan that was drafted before Trump took office. Maybe we should be talking about the "police-ification of the military" in addition to the militarizing of the police. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

putting this in the timeline cleanse feed