It has been A DAY for legal news.

It’s even worse than she’s saying.

Big ol quake woke me up

Hallmark > whatever Kirk bullshit is on TV gaslighting people

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court. He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Got my flu and COVID vaccines on Thursday afternoon, but the body aches didn't hit until midday yesterday. They're still going strong.

I just learned that Rosh Hashanah yoga is a thing. Perhaps I shall request a religious accommodation to work from home next Tuesday so I can do yoga...

I may or may not be staying up until midnight to watch the finale of TSITP. You know, to take my mind off some shit going down in the real world. Or because I want to.

These deaths are a real feather in the cap of Brian Kilmeade and Fox News.

Going to leave work early on Thursday to get my COVID and flu vaccines.

BREAKING: Chuck Schumer was seen repeatedly bumping into the same wall, intoning "bi-par-ti-san-ship, bi-par-ti-san-ship, bi-par-ti-san-ship."

I think it’s fair to say there have been more overt attacks on and threats to freedom of expression in the US since January than in our entire history. And recently they are accelerating and getting more brazen.

Preach.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

waiting for Kaiser to make the COVID vax available. bah.

This matters a lot more than his tweets.

Did he actually appear?

The only way I can sum up this administration is "So many people are going to die." From preventable diseases. From climate change & related disasters. From gun violence. From lack of foreign aid. From deportation in the face of legitimate asylum claims. From police & military in our cities. Etc.

Earlier this year, SCOTUS tried to construct a stupid legal framework where the President was allowed to destroy basically all independent institutions except for the Federal Reserve, which was deemed too economically important. Unsurprisingly, even that was not enough for Trump.

I got home from work and now I really want to burn an American flag.

I would like to go back to bed.

The Confederacy has invaded Washington DC.

Whoever leaked this memo, leaked it to the MAGA NY Post. What does that tell you? It was leaked by a conservative (possibly MAGA) at HUD. It is also true.

Future employers: you have an arrest record Dunn: I threw a subway footlong at CPB

In other news, enjoying my return to strength training, but I hurt. Wednesday is one of my off days. I plan to come home from work & sprawl on the couch for hours with the dog and do absolutely nothing. I am also going to leave my work phone at work so my team leaves me alone. It shall be glorious!

it was always obvious DOGE was decorative "innovative efficiency" cover for the brutal dismantling of corporate oversight and the social safety net, but the press spent first six months of the year propping it up as a good-faith effort

This is… not where or when crime happens in DC

100% - if this administration gets its way, homeless people will be shipped to camps in the middle of nowhere to languish until they die.

Howling at my dog to amuse your kids may not cause her to bite you, but it may result in me embarrassing you in front of your kids. #thatisall

All this talk of pierogi makes me want some.

Before folks start critiquing the possibility of Democrats redistricting in blue states in response the Republican/Trump gerrymandering-palooza, let’s remember that the Dems would only be playing the hand SCOTUS dealt. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Going home to binge Wednesday

While they are focuses on extorting universities, the DOJ staff have stopped investigating profound civil rights violations of vulnerable groups.

The crew leader on an Oregon blaze said her team went hungry for several days, ran short of medical supplies and had to scrounge for chainsaw fuel after support staff quit the agency during two rounds of "fork in the road" buyouts.

I washed my car. Everyone rejoice!

I am quoted here so let me be totally clear on my take: Jonathan Greenblatt has made a calculated choice to aid the consolidation of authoritarian power by the MAGA movement in exchange for the suppression of criticism of Israel. And the consequences for American Jews will be devastating.

someone has got to explain to me what the VA has to do with national security

Well, this is, indeed, really fucking bad

GOP Senators have no shame.

Grassley even heard personally from 7 DOJ employees who confirmed that Erez Reuveni was a trustworthy and honorable man. And he went along with it anyway. Corruption pays.

My people!

The chihuahua is going craycray

the dog is doing the whole chihuahua stare down thing. she's already had enough snacks today so I am trying my best to ignore her.

"I think it’s a pointless exercise that needlessly derails a simple truth that should horrify all of us: the Israeli military is literally shooting and killing starving people while they attempt to get food."

I am deadly serious that he should be criminally investigated by a future administration for what he did in the J.G.G. case.

To summarize: Antisemitism is real, on the rise & extremely dangerous. Trump doesn’t give a damn about antisemitism. He cynically weaponizes it to attack his enemies. This makes Jews less safe by delegitimizing efforts to fight actual antisemitism. Columbia just empowered this horrific dynamic.