Good morning. Birthright citizenship is very clearly the law and foundational (if insufficient) for equality in this country, but racists want it not to be so. That’s all.

The more I look at this, the more I’m just gobsmacked at how a single post can embody both misogyny and trans misogyny simultaneously. A great example of how transphobia hurts all women.

The allegations here are extremely disturbing. Prosecutors, possibly more than any other lawyer out there, have a duty to seek the truth regardless of the impact on their "case". Their duty is to the public and the law, not to police (or any other constituency).

(This *should* also be something resembling death to copyright claims against AI model developers based on output-side infringement, but we’ll see.)

Wake up babe, new contributory infringement test just dropped. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Good article on the various considerations for expanding Billy Bishop airport. Side note that caused me to 😶: 82% of all noise complaints came from four people.

HEY Y’ALL are you super mad about people being kidnapped and/or renditioned by the federal government, want to do something about it, but aren’t a lawyer? See below!

Yiiiiiikes

Sorry, still have winter tires on the car, can't drive south. Next time!

Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

Love it.

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

The internet may have been a mistake.

Really wish our Canadian leader had taken a similar position. As it stands, I am profoundly disappointed in our current PM.

Safe Parkside, site of the speed camera that was cut down over & over leading to Doug ford banning them, reports another high speed crash on Saturday via their IG account. Somebody will die here again. Doug Ford’s Ontario.

There are more important things going on, but I'd like to note that I just made my first PowerPoint presentation with Claude and I am never going back. This thing is beautiful and all it took was my ~5 sentence prompt and 10 minutes of thinking.

Worth noting that the U.S. is not a signatory to the UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convent...

Canada has a shameful history of our police doing this to the indigenous population (look up Saskatchewan starlight tours). Absolutely shameful and immoral.

If you look at US coverage of canada, our major issues are: -Free speech -vaccines -DEI/woke -immigration If you look at UK coverage: -MAiD -immigration If you look at polling its: -US threat -Immigration (but not as covered in either of those countries) -employment -cost of living

Luckily Toronto sports fans have trained for exactly this scenario.

Canada's official position at the UN General Assembly should be no more 3-on-3 hockey

Yes like every other lawyer in America I’m reading about tariffs right now.

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

Tfw an actual monarch understands the rule of law better than your own Supreme Court

The TRO goes in depth and provides very specific requirements.

Shocked Pikachu dot gif

I don't normally re-skeet this sort of thing, but @benv.ca is a good friend who truly believes in this product (and it sounds actually useful!). Congrats to him and the team. (Go check it out!)

A simple proposal for federal judges frustrated that Trump Regime isn’t freeing people in response to habeas corpus orders: Order that DHS bring each individual to court for their habeas hearing. If the judge grants habeas, the petitioner walks out free. Bonus: huge pre-hearing burden on feds.

As an IP lawyer by original trade, I would like even one company to learn that sometimes even in a commercial you can just fucking say “Super Bowl” and you don’t have to say “Big Game”. Are you talking about selling people a new TV to watch the Super Bowl? Then guess what you can say in your ad?

"Maybe the city's full" says the man living in a 2.7 million dollar house on Palmerston, while sipping $170 scotch after defeating a multiplex proposal across the street. www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

I literally just played this scene for my Patents students yesterday. RIP to an icon.

One thing to know: it's not like it's a free for all here. Abortion is highly regulated by the medical community directly. So while there are no criminal laws, there are restrictions.

On Jan. 28, 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled the abortion provision of the Criminal Code was unconstitutional & violated the Canadian Charter of Rights. Since then Canada has had no abortion law and it is considered a medical procedure. We still have a lower abortion rate than the USA.

This is why anything less than abolishing ICE is meaningless. Congress could set more rules, ICE will continue to flout them. The org is rotten to the core.

Proud to see @eff.org make a clear statement on ICE and CBP, as befits an organization dedicated to standing up for human rights. And the team's work in defending digital privacy has never been more vital than it is right now. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Hey everyone - I started a Toronto East-enders starter pack. I'm always curious about who else lives in our zone - roughly Don Valley to Victoria Park, waterfront to Taylor Creek (but flexible). I know there's people I follow who I didn't include, so reply for me to add you. go.bsky.app/9psq3Hq

I agree with this take. I don’t agree with capital punishment, in whatever form it takes. For the State to have moral legitimacy and supremacy, it must not ever purposefully take a life. Even in times of war, deaths must be minimized even if inevitable.

It’s time. I want the see Steve Kerr’s Warriors and Minneapolis’ Timberwolves agree that they simply cannot play this game tonight. A strike in solidarity with the besieged city and its murdered and abducted residents.

It is way, way worse than the first video made it look. He was helping someone else up, got maced, and then got dragged to the ground from behind and shot multiple times.

Today's murder courtesy of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.

I watched the video and pretty much everyone is representing it pretty much accurately and I don't think you need to watch it if your takeaway is that a bunch of ICE guys were on top of a dude who they were beating and then one of them decided to shoot him at point blank range for no obvious reason

Holy shit, half a dozen agents wrestling an observer on the ground and then one just shoots him, multiple times. Just f'ng shoots him

This won’t play well with Canadians, who remember it is Trump threatening to annex us and take away the Canadian way of life. Everything he does just pushes the national sentiment further away and into the arms of others.

We're good, thanks.

Canada suffered its first casualties in Afghanistan when a US fighter pilot mistaken bombed them. I don’t care if Trump really believes his shit or he’s trolling, he can fuck all the way off.

This should be given to first year law students as an example of how NOT to write persuasively. The rhetoric is extreme and undermines any argument they have.

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

This is insane to me. Are people not satisfied with their wealth? When is enough, enough?

This sort of response shows how deeply unserious Evan Solomon is about AI and its risks/benefits. Canada had an opportunity here to be a leader in setting norms around AI. Pity.