As a criminal defense lawyer, I know the burden of proof and presumption of innocence are vital to the protection of citizens from their government. As a voter, I know a preponderance of the evidence is more than enough to persuade me to protect the citizens from the wrong governors.

This is now a Geno Auriemma hate account. Of all the criticisms he richly deserves, stalking off at the end of the game without even a second look at the crushed young women on his team who just saw their season end, is beyond defense.

At the bottom of the Substack settings page, under "Danger Zone," you can turn off all subscriptions at once. Apologies to all my friends on Substack. I'd gritted my teeth and supported you because I love your work. But Substack's partnership with Polymarket is the last straw for me.

Some truly wonderful writers have relied on substack to reach larger audiences. They need to take those audiences elsewhere. Substack profits off of nazis and war profiteers. Unsubscribe.

groundhog day was last week AND YET: www.todayintabs.com/p/the-assass...

I can’t speak for other professions, but if you are a lawyer and you aren’t experiencing the joy of mentoring and supporting young lawyers as they enter the profession, what are you even doing? My job is hard, but, damn, it’s great.

infanticidal practices on the rise among South Carolina parents

Read it all please.

This thread is spot on. Many of the AUSAs I have known for 15+ years are miserable and looking for the exits. I think this reflects a choice to staff up a goon squad in DC that can travel around the country doing (or trying to) what the locals will not. /1

Federal agents deployed tear gas and flash bangs at peaceful protesters during a “Labor Against ICE” march in Portland on Jan 31. Photos by Taylor Griggs

Adding “chaotic piety” to my verbal toolkit.

Show me the most depraved undocumented immigrant, who has committed the most heinous crime, causing harm to me directly. ICE should not shoot that person. EVER. The state should NEVER execute a person, period, and certainly not without due process, certainly not in the street. This is fundamental.

This sums up my childhood in the 80s in South Carolina. I was an unending source of shock and dismay to the people around me.

From a FB post about Alex Pretti:

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

Just deleted a very snotty blind- item-style critique of a legal nonprofit leader whom I deeply dislike. I will be awaiting my reward in heaven.

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

Husband came upon a Honduran passport and wallet belonging to the same person in the road near our home in Mount Pleasant, SC. I checked our jail to see if this same person was recently detained, but there is no record of that. Best way to try to get it back to its owner without undue risk to him?

Question for any public defenders: does your office provide Westlaw and/or Lexus for research for all attorneys? Anyone using Fastcase or other lower cost solutions? Any fellow Casetext refugees found a suitable alternative since their absorption by the TR borg?

Question for any public defenders: does your office provide Westlaw and/or Lexus for research for all attorneys? Anyone using Fastcase or other lower cost solutions? Any fellow Casetext refugees found a suitable alternative since their absorption by the TR borg?

Giving real consideration to converting to exclusively focusing on Larry Summers dunk content.

Since Larry Summers is in the news for being a real son of a bitch I wanted to show my favorite piece of economic wisdom he had about the US coming out of COVID where he just lists all the possibilities and says they’re all equally likely

Can this most recent revelation about Larry Summers and Epstein mean we will never have to hear from this self-important, sexist jackass again?

Strong contender. Scott, Chris, Chad, and Brian/Bryan also doing heavy work among the coastal Southern Gen X contingent of my youth.

When “I know you are, but what am I” grows up to be speaker of the House.

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Sat on a call this afternoon with “experts” at a well known legal publisher trying to sell my org on their agentic AI. When I asked them to distinguish between agentic and generative, they offered AI-style word salad. I didn’t bother w/ the follow up about the stochastic/probabilistic distinction.

Nachmanoff was also the well-respected head of the Federal Public Defender’s office for EDVA for many years, who argued a bellwether case in federal criminal law (Kimbrough v US) before the Supreme Court. That case fundamentally shaped my career and outcomes as a FPD. He’s a real one.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Have you ever found yourself lamenting, "Wow, I wish I could just be wresting away control of a half-eaten fried chicken bone that was just on the sidewalk!"? If so, then dog ownership is for you!

Centrists need to learn why they /have/ weekends and lazy evenings to indulge their hobby of scolding leftists.

Good doomerism: "on our current trajectory, we're fucked." Bad doomerism "we're fucked."

Also, for people involved in the criminal legal system for everything from traffic offenses to murder, the law is still very much in play and not always in fair ways. The rule of law has always been an ideal we approach asymptotically. The curve is shallower today, but we cannot stop striving.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

Tell me again about the right’s principled stance on political violence. Here’s mine: I abhor violence. Against people I like and people I dislike. By and against the state. I also abhor hypocrites, liars, and bigots. The killing of such persons is wrong. So is their posthumous rehabilitation.

hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok

You're getting a clear X-ray of America right now. Look at who this country's powerful institutions choose to elevate, venerate, and celebrate. Look at the double standards. Look at the people who adore Charlie Kirk - then spend five minutes reviewing his hateful legacy. This is America.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is horrific, it's likely to lead to a very dark spiral that will worsen political violence, and it is also a byproduct of a profoundly broken society awash in 400 million guns.

How long before DOJ tries to indict grand jurors for conspiring to grand jury bigly wrongly?

BREAKING: A grand jury has REJECTED charges against D.C. attorney Paul Bryant, a West Point grad accused of assaulting and threatening to kill National Guardsmen. Easily the most serious charges to get no true billed so far during the federal surge. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

For decades everyone on the list argued they only knew Epstein in a professional capacity while all the notes to him are "I sure love being pedophiles together with you, my friend Jeffrey Epstein"

I guess it was smart of the Supreme Court to release its most racist decision since Plessy on the same day it was confirmed that Trump used his signature in the place of a vagina in his pedophile love letter/birthday card. I'll admit, I can't top that.

Most red states are just violently gerrymandered states. AND — as I’ve said before and will say again — if you genuinely care about liberation, you want liberation for EVERYONE. Freedom is not to be hoarded.

Over 300K Black women have lost their jobs. That's a huge story with wild consequences for the economy. Your first priority as a progressive org should be to hire some goddamn Black women.