Welp. BlueSky is over. It isn’t ever going to be done better than this.

We had the distinct honor of representing the Top Brands companies and John Ngan in this case. Thanks to @design-law.bsky.social (Sarah Fackrell) for highlighting it.

My father, child of two immigrants who got here from Greece just before Congress passed its first aggressively nativist immigration law (the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924), piloted 35 combat missions in a B-17 over Nazi Germany. He didn’t bomb Nazis so that a cosplaying Naziferatu could pull this crap.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

I’m just saying whoever taught the Animate Dead spell to the Trump administration has some things to answer for

Here’s how the LA Times edited (massacred) an op-ed to make it say something very different from what the author originally wrote.

Fly Schrödinger Air: It’s both safe and not safe.

PETER DOOCY: Given DEI hires, it's not safe to fly commercially, is it? LEAVITT: The president believes it is still indeed safe. With that said ...

I can’t believe we’re here, but here we are.

The question of whether Elon REALLY meant to throw up a Nazi salute is meaningless because Elon's entire persona is oriented around destroying the public's capacity for sense-making. He's always "just joking" or "triggering the libs." That's just how democracy-hating illiberals communicate.

For no particular reason, here is Orson Welles reminding you to apply critical thinking to the media you consume. The dominant broadcast mediums change over time, but the relevancy of the message will remain as ever.

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

An odd way to learn of this honor, but I got tagged in a LinkedIn post this morning notifying me that I appeared at No. 1 on this list of "The Top 25 Intellectual Property Attorneys of 2024." attorneyintel.com/the-top-25-i...

Important reminder: Dunking on stupid shit just amplifies the stupid shit. Join the campaign for 4S: Stop spreading stupid shit.

AYFKM?

Me today:

A huge barred owl flew down a Virginia family’s chimney, knocked over the star on top of their Christmas tree, and perched himself on top www.wusa9.com/article/life...

“We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

I’m not convinced, @wsj.com.

Oh, this just gave me an idea. As good as Bowen Yang has been on @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social playing JD Vance, can you imagine four years of Peter Dinklage playing JD Vance? TFG would destroy so many bottles of ketchup.

Conan O’Brien lost both of his two remarkable parents within the last week. Read about his father here. archive.ph/2024.12.13-0...

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If I were teaching Corporations (or Business Associations, or whatever your law school calls it), I would make question #1 on the final examination this Tweet with the prompt “Discuss.”

So do you think that Justices Alito and Thomas are going to strike down Tennessee’s law on gender-affirming care for teens on the ground that it interferes with parents’ “fundamental constitutional right to make decisions concerning the rearing of” their children? Or nah?

I was already following about 3/4 of these — this is a great list.

You claim empathy with those children and parents, but then promptly pivot to insisting that states’ rights trump theirs. That’s empty empathy. Conservatism was supposed to mean individual liberty and local decisionmaking. This deprives the local people best suited to decide—parents—from deciding.

A few highlights from this year’s Christmas tree.

Donald Trump won the 2024 election with one of the smallest popular-vote margins in U.S. history, but in news deserts – counties lacking a professional source of local news – it was an avalanche. Trump won 91% percent of these counties over his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris.

This year’s tree features (among other things) Stefon from SNL and a rare but coveted Four Seasons Total Landscaping ornament. This Saturday’s party guests will be encouraged to find other lagniappes hidden among the branches.

This is not a joke. It may sound like a joke, but it is completely, absolutely true. Because who better?

I have a FOIA joke, but [ (b)(1) ] because [ (b)(4) ] and [ (b)(3) ].

I have an NDA joke, but

Womp. (Saving the second one for now.)

State TV host Vladimir Solovyov—whose programs Putin likes to watch—rejoiced about Trump’s picks: “What an excellent team is coming along with Trump! If they are allowed to get in, they will quickly dismantle America, brick by brick. They are so great!”

Jesus. www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

Sigh. Guilty on all counts. blueskyroast.com

Armed toddler Islamic jihadist terrorists: 0.

This seems like a destabilizing thing for society.

History repeats. In late February 1921, 2 weeks before taking office as POTUS, Warren Harding writes a letter to the richest man in America, William Randolph Hearst, thanking him for helping him win the presidency with favorable coverage in major newspapers he owned & begging for his advice.

Mother Hegseth knows the score. By coincidence, Penelope was Odysseus’s wife, who, despite 108 suitors, remained faithful to him even once he had been gone and missing for 20 years after being called to fight in the Trojan War. Also, “Peter” is another word for male genitalia.

"LANDSLIDE!!!"

We are their product—and Elon has made a calculated mistake by favoring his stans, Nazis, and adjacent members of the $8 blue-check army: Without us as foils on the Ex-Twitter, the horrible are eating each other instead. (It’s a glorious thing to drop in on and see.)

Post-constitutionalism (per Vought) is needed because constitutional law has been “transformed, over decades, away from the words on paper into a new arrangement … that pays only lip service to the old Constitution.” Did he squawk when the Court granted sweeping atextual presidential immunity.