How can he be so big and so baby at once?

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

I was just wondering how many people have become design patent agents since the new requirements went into effect in Jan. 2024; found these numbers! "Currently, there are 52,970 active patent practitioners (14,207 agents, 37,996 attorneys, 5 design and 762 limited recognition)."

Every network should be diving into this story: www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/u...

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

The White House is blatantly violating the Constitution, ignoring Congressionally-allocated spending. Approving any budget would put a stamp of approval on the end of checks and balances. It'll hurt, yes, but it's time for opposition. The political costs will mostly fall on the people in charge.

So much Democrat and pundit handwringing about the shutdown as if they're in charge of the government. They're not. The only possibilities are Trump makes things worse with Democratic approval or Trump makes things worse despite Democratic resistance. Don't bail him out. My latest (on @msnbc.com):

About to fly off to Chicago with John to attend amazing bonus cousin Lauren's wedding!! I actually specifically got this custom TLOAS shirt to wear for my talk on Taylor Swift fan merch and IP issues around it next week, but obviously I had to wear it for release day too!

Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers. In Virginia, it’s 37%. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care. #DidThisToday

"Yet government retribution for speech (precisely what has happened here) is directly forbidden by the First Amendment."

We don't often see anaphora like this repetition in judicial opinions. "But not all of them." (law firms) "But not all of them." (higher education) "But not all of them." (media outlets) Constructed through footnotes.

Skipping to the near end, after seeing @kyledcheney.bsky.social 's comments, Young is really upset about masks: "It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable." w/r/t Todd Lyons's claims about masks.

"…to chill the rights to freedom of speech and peacefully to assemble of the non-citizen plaintiff members of the plaintiff associations."

As you can tell, Young isn't happy: "this Court finds by clear & convincing evidence that…Noem &…Rubio…deliberately & w/ purposeful aforethought, did so concert their actions & those of their two departments intentionally to chill the rights …

"This case…squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio. It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?" WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"

2) If you live in a rural state, point to this stat, showing that 27% of farmers rely on ACA. Ask why they want prices for farmers to go up even as Trump has destroyed their markets. [Especially if you're in a soybean state.] www.kff.org/affordable-c...

3 ways you can make noise about the shutdown if you have a GOP Member of Congress. 1) Find where they publicly said Dems want healthcare for illegals [sic] and--in the most aggrieved voice possible--berate them for claiming their constituents who rely on ACA are not real Americans.

JUST IN: Oregon sues to stop Trump’s deployment of the military, saying its pretextual and that ICE protests have been small and relatively contained since June. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

not like i'm some important predictor of the future, i'm a shitposter, but i sort of thought there might be a climbdown here when i read that neither the pentagon nor the national guard had any fucking idea what he was talking about

The Right is nakedly trying to make it illegal to call them fascists which is about the most obviously fascist thing you could come up with.

Everytime a conservative calls a city "war ravaged" or a "hellhole," I just want to be like: So is there an actual crime problem there or did you simply just see an unhoused person and just ASSUME it was full of criminal elements?

"President Trump has directed 'all necessary Troops' to Portland, Oregon. The number of necessary troops is zero, in Portland and any other American city. Our nation has a long memory for acts of oppression.... www.portland.gov/mayor/keith-...

Me, a person who lives across the river from Portland and regularly drives through it/goes to events there. ....War ravaged? What tf is he talking about?

This old pic of me with orange hair color came up in my memories yesterday. It reminded me of how many different colors I've had over the years! I'm trying to grow it as long as possible (currently 22 inches), so I haven't bleached it since 2022, but I do miss the fun of changing it up sometimes!

I'm currently working on collecting the most niche, weird, and/or unhinged Taylor Swift fan merch I can find (whether official or fan made). This is actually for a real life IP law presentation, #researchresearch If you have any other examples, plz send them my way, kthnks.

We met James May tonight at his James Gin Happy hour in Portland! It was fun.

More than 40 media outlets published anti-trans misinformation in the wake of the Charlie Kirk shooting, according to research from @transjournalists.org Here's why that's such a big deal ⬇️ (Video for @xtramagazine.com by me and @cody.boats ) www.tiktok.com/@xtramagazin...

On Oct. 9, I will be participating in 🎤✨ Taylor Swift and IP: A Legal Celebration of Life of a Showgirl ✨🎤 hosted by UWI St Augustine. I'm so excited to talk about Swift's trademarks and her enforcement strategy relating to makers of fan merch! You can register here: uwi.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Y'all, please call, email, and/or write your representatives, then share WIDELY what this administration is doing to scapegoat, oppress, and violently erase trans folks. We need EVERYONE in on this.

Overheard at karaoke: A guy talking to his friend shortly after singing "I'm proud to be an American (God bless the USA)" by Lee Greenwood: "JIMMY FALLON! Right? That's so messed up!" ....he's a bit confused, but he's got the spirit!

I got my retired pediatrician mom to watch The Pitt so I could talk about it with her, YES. (John and I started watching it this week after it won so many Emmys and now we're totally hooked).

The library at my school is polling students on the best lawyer character of all time, hah.

WGA WRITERS protest abc & disney : “Writers against fascism — this isn’t just about Kimmel, it’s about our ability to say what we want and not be punished by the state… a chilling effect… you don’t capitulate to bullies…” (from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social )

I wrote about the backdrop for DOJ removing a report on far-right violence from its website days after Kirk was killed—that it is part of Trump’s efforts to create political space in which far-right violence can flourish. newrepublic.com/article/2006...

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

1. This is truly alarming. 2. What takes it to a bonkers level is that he said this in response to a tweet by Glee actor Kevin McHale??

Here is a copy of the declaratory judgment complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Morgan & Morgan sues Disney over Steamboat Willie Mickey Mouse ad floridapolitics.com/archives/756...

This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."

I'm doing research on Taylor Swift merch right now for a talk I'm giving on her IP prosecution/enforcement strategy soon. Here's one shirt available on her website. It /is/ embossed so there is actually something on it, but it's very funny that in 2 /3 photos it just looks completely blank.

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

So apparently, Brian Kilmeade can say it’s OK to kill the homeless, but Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and whoever else can’t say anything that Trump doesn’t like? This is bullshit.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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-...

1. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's shooting, the WSJ laundered claims that "transgender symbols" were found with the shooter's gun. Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found. WSJ owes a full retraction and apology. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I completed my online workplace harassment training today. It featured the single funniest illustration I have /ever/ seen in one of these trainings. Please enjoy.

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...