Check in on your local Abundance bro, because they are not OK.

AI performs a lot of useful, time saving tasks. But the people building it keep coming up with unnecessary tasks that it’s terrible at because they’re hopelessly chasing revenue that doesn’t exist. This is about spamming you with ads.

Pretty much everything in this has been scientifically debunked.

BigHand survey confirms many law firms still don't get it when it comes to basic business practices. Clients want budgets and transparency. Firms that do budgets get 70% better realizations. Yet most firms don’t do a good job at eithe. abovethelaw.com/2025/09/bigh...

Republicans: "Don't call us Nazis!" Also Republicans:

Started… going.

The thing that’s so fascinating about an American Pope is that, generally speaking, American nuns are cool and American priests are weird, wannabe protestants who see “Latin” as their personal form of snakehandling.

So, to catch you up on X, the Abundance people are telling women they need to make straight men less lonely and that the president who deported more people in recent memory (Biden who deported more than Trump I), should be ashamed that they didn’t do more deporting.

“These movements portray foundational American principles (e.g., support for law enforcement and border control)…” Foundational? The Boston Massacre people who then built a country with no immigration laws until the late 1800s? Those people?

There is so much dumb in this, but remember when the GOP flipped out with the (misleading) claim that the IRS was targeting conservative groups and their tax exempt status? And now it's official WH policy for the IRS to target "left" leaning groups in that way.

Spin the wheel, invent the crime

So a DC-based colleague sent me this -- but apparently to get alerts from the White House you have to agree to *promotional and marketing messages notifications and customer service communications* Are other people seeing this? This seems like an obviously illegal use of public data. 1/n

New: The federal courts may not be able to fully sustain paid operations after October 3 if Congress does not avert a partial government shutdown by passing stopgap spending legislation before October 1, according to a new judiciary memo. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

What do we think? Did they even bother to research if this was legal first?

How did airport security get stupider? They’re now asking for IDs on the other side of security now

In light of today’s big interview, I realized I actually corresponded with Sunstein and wrote about that Star Wars book at the time. I didn’t make the book party cut, but I also didn’t carpet bomb Laos so it makes sense.

Marbury v Madison Beer

Q: Do you support defund the police A: No Q: Do you support defunding the police A: Yes

Honestly, watch this to see how insane this RFK/Trump nonsense is. Did you know it involves a guy who said his *personal* bone marrow was a cure all? Because it does! m.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIc...

I’m hearing that the WH has now — two days later — started saying he didn’t take the money. But their initial response was literally “sure, but it’s not really a crime”

Gonna be awesome when Kenvue gives Trump a free megayacht or some shit and the White House radically pivots and suddenly Tylenol cures autism and ibuprofen causes cancer

Inflation is so bad these days that taking a $50,000 cash bribe can't even get you indicted. SAD!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Remember, Zelensky didn't wear a suit, which was an insult to the seriousness of the White House...

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

This is a very good question.

I read three (THREE!) articles today that boil down to: “Bluesky is just an echo chamber of the same voices patting each other on the back over and over, and to prove it I talked to Nate Silver, Noahpinion, Ezra Klein, and Bari Weiss”

Now I’m seeing conservatives compare this to Dem legislators applauding Tucker Carlson being fired or Trump getting kicked off Twitter. These are all equally stupid & legally vapid comparisons. The line is *threatening government action.” Full stop. It happened here, didn’t happen in those.

For the legal technology nerds, this week might have marked a turning point toward smaller language models when it comes to AI

Uh oh... clock's broken.

There are people saying the Kimmel situation is justified because the Supreme Court ruled in Murthy that the government could talk to social media companies. This is a very dumb thing to say.

The conservative justices told Trump he couldn’t start firing Federal Reserve board members. They forgot that he wouldn’t care.

Once again, words cannot describe how dire a situation has to be for scores of civil servants to put their names to a letter like this. And there have been multiple such letters!

Blanche was a Biglaw partner. He almost certainly knows that this isn't how the law works. But in Trumpland, making up shit on cable news is the coin of the realm.

1/ Judge Kelly cites #whistleblowers report in granting preliminary injunction blocking deportation of Guatemalan migrant children.⤵️ The whistleblowers pointed to government's own data on kids likelihood of being "victims of child abuse, including death threats, gang violence, human trafficking."

This is also why the establishment Democratic strategy of tut-tutting bold candidates & running on “normalcy & competence” is stuck in neutral. Conservatives have built an epic struggle narrative and as perverted as it is that will tend to prevail over “let’s be unassuming middle management again”

Some are saying "Kimmel was incorrect but should be protected," but this adopts a false conservative frame. Kimmel wasn't "wrong," b/c he didn't actually say the shooter was MAGA. He said the Right spent the weekend desperately trying to prove he wasn't. Which is true!

Decent start, now also explain how you're going to break up the TV-station conglomerates that gave Carr the leverage

IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE: What I have not seen anyone discussing is that Nexstar pulling Kimmel, forcing ABC’s hand, comes as Nexstar is leading the way for the industry on trying to get FCC approval for media consolidation. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

If someone tries to use AI to produce the bulk of an article, it will be obvious to readers because AI produces crap. If someone uses AI like an intern to produce some draft copy that gets massively overhauled… it probably doesn’t actually need to be disclosed.

Some people think she's talking about the law school failing to TEACH the law, but the real failure is in failing to impart RESPECT for the law.

People ascribe a lot more competence to Andreesen and Ellison than anyone who has ever dealt with Oracle would

Let's check in with The Argument, the magazine pitched as a "group of left-leaning writers and journalists... arguing in favor of what liberalism is for, rather than just what it’s against." Oh.

Yep, sorry, but I have additional questions.

When the Kirk shooter's Groyper ties came out, conservatives embarked on a hard pivot from "violent leftists" back to "mental health" and "video games." But perusing Twitter today... it seems like they've decided to just loudly call him a leftist anyway.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Heck, you can ask the same question of her Chief Justice.

if you see this, quote with the energy you bring to bluesky

I cannot believe how many liberals take this idiot seriously.

For some reason, I don’t think he’s talking about the Groypers