just remembered that years I ago I mildly criticized Swalwell for his weak 'just vote!' response to the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal (in an article for Bitch in my personal capacity) and was mildly reprimanded by my then-workplace for criticizing a Democrat who worked with us on voting rights lol

People get sooooo mad whenever anyone [INCLUDING THOSE OF US WHO ARE GEN X] talk about how reactionary white Gen X is in particular... they usually yell about how much they hate the concept of generations, lol.

You can tell this doctor is with the Red Cross because his cross is red.

BREAKING: Eric Swalwell just announced he's resigning from Congress.

From @metzger.bsky.social, I am HOWLING.

Yep yep yep. Evangelicals will make allowances for Catholic Supreme Court justices, because they align on key issues (like abortion and gay people). But make no mistake, evangelicals do not like Catholics. Most evangelicals do not even consider Catholics to be Christians.

It's telling that: a) he caught enough pushback from the religious right to delete something, which he almost never does b) those people have not used this influence to cross him on anything more substantive than a gross but fundamentally superficial aesthetic insult to their brand

Since we’re all making fun of Rod Dreher, I think about this at least once a week

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭

Uhh buh bye, Orbán. Hopefully the rest of us can get our shit together and send our own authoritarians to join you in disgrace.

Hungarian voters, you absolute legends

OLIVIER-AWARD WINNING RACHEL ZEGLER.

Didyoutakehimtothepierinsantamonicaforgettobringajacketwrapupinhimcauseyouwannato

just fucking vote to expel both of them. there doesn't need to be a move and countermove; just make it clear that neither of them should continue to serve in Congress. this isn't hard!

The letter fragment I've seen from Swalwell's attorney threatening defamation bears several things that, in my experience in this area, makes me immediately suspicious of Swalwell and his attorney and reflect meritless thuggery. /1

ngl this Pope goes hard.

Forced arbitration agreements are one of the dumbest features of law.

Corgis are a visual travesty.

A group of law professors is called a prominence.

Why, though? Like are people really clamoring for more Gilead?

Ope Pope get behind me, I’ll protect you.

The House in the Cerulean Sea animated series might actually fix me

I don’t get rapture anxiety very often anymore, but wow it came screaming right back today.

I hope Rebecca Bradley knows that these results are because people hate her, specifically.

I’d missed this. I’m speechless.

You guys are ruining literal taco Tuesday with that dumb acronym. Also why are we taunting the president for “chickening out” on committing genocide? Does that not feel weird to you?

On the substance of the day, and as I’ve made clear here and in the piece, today was truly a crisis akin to January 6. What happened today is not sustainable and Trump must be removed from office. When the clock was ticking, I explained how 25 could be used bc of its immediate effect.

If you *ever* see me defending Chuck Schumer, please shoot me.

Two weeks to remove him. Now.

If you want something concrete to do while so much is terrifyingly out of our control, here's one option: donate to a mutual aid effort supporting people displaced by Israel's genocidal war on Lebanon.

The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.

calling my senators mostly just to have someone to yell at

literally posting from the shower to share the insane thought that just leaped into my brain fully formed: “Zohran could just call him”

"This is a distraction" is just a lie. "They are taking your money and using it to commit criminal acts beyond our comprehension" is 100% true. I think we should tell the truth and not the lie. The latter also has the benefit of at least somewhat centering the issue of atrocities.

If only there were a federal body of elected officials with the power to do something about it.

call for an investigation into the president's fitness. call for the house to impeach. say you will obstruct every last bit of senate business. call for soldiers to disregard illegal orders. say you will prosecute the people who do this. say you will take their military pensions and benefits.

Sadly, I don’t have the ability to single-handedly stop the atrocities that are happening. But one thing I can do is not run around like a headless chicken spreading panic and expect everyone else to do the same.

I feel sick to my stomach, but I already called my congressional reps, and I do actually need to work today because l still have clients and they still need a functional attorney. So yeah, I’m going to dissociate a little so I can function, like I’ve been doing since October 2023.

This is a far simpler answer than people would like to believe. Trump issues the order via the National Military Command Center to the commander of Strategic Command, and then STRATCOM carries it out directly. There is no second vote, no veto, no check-and-balance.

"The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes... It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched." —Robert Jackson, Nuremberg

If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.

In two weeks the national press corps is going to laugh at his jokes and applaud him at their annual Hilton dinner for being a fun and interesting president to write about

I love when people shorten girlfriend to “gf” because there is always a fun moment where my brain thinks it means “gluten free” and nothing makes any sense.

This is a fantastic example of everything legal writing should not be. My god.

A few weeks ago an academic on this app informed me that GenAI is an “essential tool” for mental health. Anyway, this paper out of MIT is extremely grim. arxiv.org/pdf/2602.19141

I always laugh when I’m assigned to draft a class action complaint about defective vehicles. Like I’m just out here writing car words. Idk if they’re the correct car words, but I sure am writing them.

Honestly I’ll be surprised if TS13 *isn’t* released under her own label.

This is why AOC shifting on this issue actually matters btw

Me: “It’s so nice how I eat breakfast every day and go to bed at the same time every night.” My extremely well-regulated partner: “You’re welcome.”