Melissa Stewart
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This is your regularly scheduled reminder that white evangelicals believe that both the genocide of Palestinians and war with Iran are prerequisites to the Rapture and the subsequent establishment of Christ’s reign on earth. That’s the end goal here - complete, global Christian homogeneity.
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Josh Chafetz
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Absolutely gutted
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This happened late last night. I got to work and told you what happened. It's what I've been doing in varying forms for more than 25 years, and it's essential work now—as our legacy media entities keeping failing us as often as our governmental and other corporate entities do. Support Law Dork.
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The Supreme Court's Republican appointees end civil rights redistricting protections
The majority invoked “our colorblind Constitution” to expand and transform April's Callais decision. Sotomayor, in dissent, highlighted the "grave harms" the majority "inflicts."
https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-alabama-colorblind-redistricting
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jamelle
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lmao of course. by the standards alito has set out, there is effectively no such thing as intentional discrimination in voting. also, so much for the purcell principle!
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This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Florida's fight to enforce law banning kids from drag shows returns to full 11th Circuit
An Orlando restaurant known for hosting family-friendly drag shows argued the Protection of Children Act fails to define what “lewd conduct” is, forcing businesses to censor themselves.
https://www.courthousenews.com/floridas-fight-to-enforce-law-banning-kids-from-drag-shows-returns-to-full-11th-circuit/
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Coverage of this morning’s en banc argument
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/f...
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Florida Drag Show Ban for Minors Meets Skeptical Eleventh Circuit
Florida’s restrictions on minors attending drag show performances were picked apart by the Eleventh Circuit Tuesday in an en banc hearing that highlighted the difficulty of drawing the line for “lewd”...
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/florida-drag-show-ban-for-minors-faces-skeptical-eleventh-circuit
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While I was arguing,
@sjromanoski.bsky.social
secured us Gracie tickets 😭😭😭
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First en banc argument ✅
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Elijah Wood: It's Done - Lord of the Rings
Alt: Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins: It's Done
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I still can’t send someone a photo in a dm.
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You fuck with my trans family, you fuck with me.
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Oh my GOD?!?
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“Sometimes you just know, right?” is giving “it’s time to go.”
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Oh this is a “changing profile pictures” announcement. Suspicious.
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Oh hey I was right. That’s a fun change of pace.
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Material Tangelo ✌️
3 days ago
Guys I love you all but the idea of Disney/Pixar putting an out queer character in a movie doesn’t align with their recent business practices whatsoever. Please don’t set yourselves up for disappointment by expecting that company to care about queer people. See:
variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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Pete Docter Says Pixar Cut LGBTQ Storyline From ‘Elio’ Because ‘We’re Making a Movie, Not Hundreds of Millions of Dollars of Therapy’
Pete Docter says Pixar cut the LGBTQ storyline from 'Elio' because 'we're making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy.'
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/pete-docter-pixar-lgbtq-storyline-elio-therapy-1236681692/
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Justin
6 days ago
🎶🎶 One of these things is not like the others, one of these things does not belong 🎶🎶
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris
6 days ago
I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1
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6 days ago
BREAKING: In a major blow to the Trump administration, a federal judge on Friday blocked the renaming of the Kennedy Center in lawsuit brought by Rep. Joyce Beatty.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Chris Geidner
6 days ago
T. Elliot Gaiser, the head of OLC, is quickly building up a track record to qualify as one of the true villains of this era. Today, Acting AG Todd Blanche is using OLC to team up with the FCC's Brendan Carr to make it harder for some immigrants to have phones and internet access.
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I have once again been mooted
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This is a dumb petty point, but “Great American State Fair” makes no sense. What is state doing there
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Joe Dudek
6 days ago
If you are in line to cancel your Great American State Fair performance, 🚨🚨🚨 STAY IN LINE 🚨🚨🚨
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Gillian Brockell
6 days ago
NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area.
gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...
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The PBS shows of my youth feel like a fever dream. Like what was Big Comfy Couch? What the fuck was that
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7 days ago
This is an actual Thirteenth Amendment violation, because they have not been convicted of any crime.
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They just . . . Announced performers without actually booking them.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio
7 days ago
These people are captives of a concentration camp fighting back against their heavily armed captors with only their bodies. Their heroism is extraordinary. Thank you to all of the protesters standing with and for them.
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alex roberts
7 days ago
lastly, contrary to what a lot of blueskiers seem to be posting, the idea of trademark having a duty to police is dramatically overblown. patagonia letting pattie be does not meaningfully undermine the strength of its marks or its ability to enforce its marks against others.
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alex roberts
7 days ago
i think the likelihood of confusion is low because the marks are different, the stylization is different, & "patagonia" is itself a geographic region, not a fanciful term that the brand invented. nothing about the merch shown in the complaint leads me to expect confused consumers.
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Gillian Brockell
7 days ago
What the fuuuuuuuuuuuuck
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Indivisible ❌👑
7 days ago
CALL YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS AND TELL THEM TO GET TO DELANEY HALL NOW: (202) 224-3121
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Whitney Curry Wimbish
7 days ago
@maketheroadnj.bsky.social
just sent out an SOS, calling on members of Congress in NJ and neighboring states to immediately go to Delaney Hall "and leverage all their power to end retaliation and free all detainees." Guards are going to kill someone if no one intervenes and shuts it down.
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NEW: Supreme Court, on another 5-4 vote, tosses out another death sentence. On Thursday, Justice Kavanaugh wrote his second majority opinion for the court upholding protections against racial discrimination in jury selection. Today, at Law Dork:
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Supreme Court, on another 5-4 vote, tosses out another death sentence
On Thursday, Justice Kavanaugh wrote his second majority opinion for the court upholding protections against racial discrimination in jury selection.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-court-pitchford-batson
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This would be enjoined in about 38 seconds, but it would be lowkey funny to watch them try.
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Laura Bassett
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All of it is just people starving
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Not really sure what they want from me here.
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Leah Litman
7 days ago
In light of the 3 decisions today, please, I'm dying to hear more about how Neil Gorsuch is great for criminal defendants!!!
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Too Big to Fail
7 days ago
"All the good lawyers" are in Biglaw, huh?
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Gracie Abrams presale on the exact date and time of my oral argument is a sick joke
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If you’re not familiar with this case, Pitchford did not kill anyone. The actual killer got 20 years. Pitchford got the death sentence.
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7 days ago
BREAKING: In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court tosses out Terry Pitchford's death sentence, ruling that the Mississippi Supreme Court improperly held that Pitchford had waived his Batson claim — of racial discrimination in jury selection — in his capital case.
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acallan1 is 95% of the way to a deal with Iran
8 days ago
for someone Paxton claims is vegan Talarico sure seems to like beef
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Me the week before argument:
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Man Arguing by Brick Wall
Alt: Man argues to a brick wall
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8 days ago
"Assistant federal public defender Amy Harwell, who represents [Tony] Carruthers, said what happened to him was 'not just foreseeable — it was, in fact, foreseen.'" Important Tennessee follow up from
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Gov. Bill Lee urged to halt Tennessee death penalty - Nashville Banner
Attorneys for Tony Carruthers urge Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to pause death penalty after failed lethal injection. Calls for legal challenge to be heard.
https://nashvillebanner.com/2026/05/27/tony-carruthers-bill-lee-tennessee-executions/
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See also, the rest of the South.
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I appear to have been mooted (part 1)
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
8 days ago
I propose the sweeping reform that he resign and sweep away everyone else involved in this with him
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