Anyway I finally found support for the proposition that “judges shouldn’t collect their own evidence, out of court, without notice to the parties,” and surprise, they keep it right next to the one about “judges shouldn’t contact the parties ex parte.” It should not have been such a journey.

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

This is not how I sext:

The first and last time I did a single justice appeal, I was in my first year of practice, making $15/hour and wondering if I knew what I was doing. The appeal was snatched up by the full court, and we needed to do all that printing. In a very short timeframe.

Motions in limine, in my very civil cases, are always going to be 75% criminal law citations, because that's where the law of evidence is made, in Massachusetts. Motions concerning discovery, are always going to be about 50% federal, because there's almost no law on discovery, in Massachusetts.

#LegalEthics Tidbit: If a witness is dead, can I create #AI Deep Fake evidence of them and submit it to the Court? A CA plaintiff (apparently pro se) in a landlord tenant dispute submitted a summary judgment motion with about 9 exhibits ... (cont.) #lawsky #law www.linkedin.com/posts/davidk...

reminder:

Sexts I receive:

If you see this picture post a random image from your device:

This is not how:

It's an objective fact that if you're running around arresting people based on the color of their skin, you're a piece of shit

These men are evil. This is evil.

This is how I sext:

Today is a really ironic day to be just jamming citations about due process into a motion, like it’s still a thing.

Everyone else, hearing about troubles at a firm that used to poach our associates and our clients: Hahahahaha yeah. Hilarious. Me: Oh, fuck, more 2008.

Elizabeth, I want to send my troops into one place that starts with P, and it ain’t Portland. Darcy

THIS IS HOW I SEXT:

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It’s not a terrible place to live, at all.

Come work with me, pals! #hiring

Maximillian sunflowers look like weeds until all the other sunflowers die. Then, they do this.

How much misery in the world has been perpetuated by the whims of small minded insecure men craving a show of force. If we fail to learn the lessons of history we will surely repeat them.

My day was so stressful that my face hurts now. The whole good side of my face. And every single tooth on that side, and my neck, and my shoulder.

Would a court be obligated to vacate or otherwise offer relief from a void judgment even if Rule 60 didn't exist, based on due process concerns?

Dr Ian Roberts was born in Brooklyn, NY. ICE took him and no one knows why. /

Why am I so worthless that I gave up every minute of my entire life to be a person whose homework is always late, every day, and nobody stopped me.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Something I will say is that the BBO seems to be making a genuine effort to discipline prosecutors for misconduct. masslawyersweekly.com/2025/09/26/p...

I want to die. Every opposing counsel is difficult. Every case is behind. Everyone wants something. And I am so tired.

Just because a bagel never fixed me before, doesn’t mean that this one won’t. Look how beautifully wrapped it is. Isn’t that an inherently satisfying thing?

Like I said, chocolate chip muffins with a little cream cheese inside.

What would be worse: (1) If for the rest of your life, nobody ever knows what you want, and you can’t tell them; or (2) If for the rest of your life, everybody knows exactly what you want, all the time? It’s two, right? Because one is just discontent until you die, and the other is embarrassing.

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

The Massachusetts Democratic party chair sent out an email asking people to collect signatures for Sec. Bill Galvin's Election Day Registration ballot question. Why not just ask the Leadership of the 84% Democratic House of Representatives to stop opposing it?

Quincy, my hometown, has a municipal ordinance that prohibits gas stations from selling anything but gas, oil, coolant, wiper blades, air fresheners. They can have vending machines. As long as the vending machines don’t sell milk.

One nice thing about being a lawyer is on the rare occasion I am in such a bad mood that I just want to fight with somebody…I can put that energy somewhere. Usually the overlong letter doesn’t get sent.

Anyway I made those chocolate chip muffins I’d imagined, with sweetened cream cheese hidden inside, and they tasted like chocolate chip cannoli and were as delicious as I’d thought they’d be.

What’s wrong with me is, I see a Boston-y photo and think: Which of my murders is that near? (If that’s where I think, Mary Tyner, 1874, never did figure out if Harvard has her skull).

Also in litigation.

This is how I sext:

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Yo

The best thing happened today.

🚨NEW! From @kennedycatherine.bsky.social and arguably one of her best: open.substack.com/pub/bullshit...

#poetry #poetsofbluesky #beatpoets #football #soccer #AllenGinsburg

If I were a ghost, I would be a useful ghost. I would hang around houses with young children, and every time a man notices he is in a room without a woman, but with a child who is content and occupied, and then picks the child up and says “let’s go find mommy,” I’d pull out one of his fingernails.

Me: But are those even accurate pants?

ICYMI 👇

you know how you solve the problem of trans and autistic children? you love them, and you listen to them, you raise them with the support of a community that supports about their well-being. you work to build a world that accomodates their needs. you give a shit.

hello, i made this bot. i am a trans autistic anti-fascist. you are following a work of trans autistic anti-fascist art. that is why it is screaming