Like Proust before me, I a sweet baked good has carried me away into memory. Though mine is a Tim Tam that I just slammed, and those memories are mostly a statuesque pasifika gentleman hitting me very, very hard.

Yeah, this. It's not a hard case, but you never risk a jury unless you absolutely have to. Fuck what the commentariat think, win the case with your freedom on the line.

One of the oddest phenomena in the creative fields is watching creators who've made something brilliant either completely lose their fastball or forget the pitch they used to get strikes in the first place.

apnews.com/article/jimm... A whole lot of conservatives simply refused to learn that attempting to manufacture controversy without authority, clout, or follow-through is just the Streisand Effect on steroids. Dude's ratings are through the roof and he won this standoff every conceivable way.

"Your points are stupid and you're just posting through it because I kicked your ass in an argument so bad haha." - person with 32 followers and a ceiling of 3 likes on any given post

This is so, so correct. One of the worst things tribalism does to a person is detach them from their principles. You might have a lot of opinions of what people deserve, but nobody deserves injustice. Not the people ICE is abusing, nor people on which political violence is falling, and not Comey

The reason I take the time to educate people about this stuff is to let people on here know that when people don't respond to this administration precisely the way you want them to, they might have a good reason. Our chief export around here is outrage, so we should point it where it belongs.

When I was in law school, I did a LOT of research and writing on what I thought were obscure topics, like litigating government corruption, business defamation, things of that nature. For 10 years, that stuff was like trivia. It is amazing how almost all of it has come up because of Trump.

It genuinely amuses me that people take his work like a magic trick when it's really just doing his job, asking follow-up questions, and not settling for nonresponsive answers. He's just deposing people with an eye on readability, not elements. Its telling how few journalists out there do it.

I love being called a problem. Famously a thing that doesnt rile me up at all.

I'm going to die unwed and that's probably, overall, bullet dodged in these...interesting...times.

There's considerable difference between creative and activist lawyering and being a literal hack, folks.

Went that well, huh?

You can't sue the federal government for defamation. Because lots of people seem to think you can.

Oh, hey, something we've been theorizing based on common sense and vibes for years has been proven true. Good work, researchers, this is extraordinarily helpful.

A lot of their anger is performative and dictated to them by their leaders. Demonstrating that ours isn't is one of the more powerful things we can do right now.

Nobody is going to take a lecture about principles from people who don't have any. Something some folks on social media seem to miss when they can't figure out their lack of moral authority and getting mocked everywhere they go.

Man, I'd enjoy drafting Kimmel's complaint. Some lawyers are about to have a fun weekend.

My favorite part of my people pissing other people off online is all the weird descriptions of what we do that ensue. I need to let their haters write my next conference bio.

Folks, plenty of people text like that, I'm sorry to report.

Literal lol. They believe in literally nothing.

Alright, time to watch some boxing and forget about all this crap for a few hours

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

"The man who shot Charlie Kirk was a conservative white man from Utah. But the fact that we assumed it was a transgender Mexican demonstrates how out of control Leftist rhetoric has gotten." Tomorrow in the Washington Post

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This. He missed his target (probably the head) but still hit his man because 200 yards with a rifle just isn't a hard shot, folks. Nobody aims for the carotid amd most hunters can hit a deer further away than that reliably. Never had to be John Wick to make that shot.

The media could not be less equipped for this moment. This is a language most don't speak and some don't even know exists.

A dude who called me a crisis actor in 2012 after Aurora demanded I show "respect" and mourn Charlie Kirk this morning, and folks, that's one for the surreal memories file.

He's right, and not only that, American civil wars were largely unique in that they were fought "formally" (like OP means). That's unusual even accounting for wider history. It's because when you get right down to it, both were nation vs nation.

This is good in the interim for IP lawyers and their clients, too.

I do not think it would be at all surprising if they flat out can't find this person.

Hell, the Civil War was political and came from the right, good lord.

And too many people won't even get word that this senseless tragedy has happened. This is scary close to home. I probably know families with kids at this school. We all deserve to be safe. It breaks my heart that kids, those who deserve it most, live in a world where this happens to them.

Objectively correct. Political violence is terrible. It cascades. One more step down to an instability that is gonna hurt a whole lot of people.

You really should never represent yourself. If you do you have a fool for a client. But it becomes a worse idea when: -you're the defendant. -the plaintiff is a well-capitalized corporation. - their lawyers are studs -You did that shit. Self-inflicted wound. www.ign.com/articles/swi...

Project Veritas had no mainstream credibility. None. This dude may have just made this news. It was likely going to be ignored, because of that lack of credibility. It still might be. But holy shit, what an unwise comment.

I know this is what reading dismissals is usually like, but holy crap, that discrimination argument must've been dumb, becomes the Benny Hill music played in my head reading about it.

I genuinely don't think anything else was coming, given recent exposure risks. They're gonna try to get their immunity in the legislature. Until then, you're gonna see a lot more all in posture on oversight and mitigation.

The French mutinied after the Nivelle Offensive because it was too much fun and they were tired.

One of the worst things about the modern internet is you can pull up and app and just see a guy get murdered in the first video that loads when you do. No warning. Nothing. Now I just have to deal with that, I guess.

They're not making lists of things Republicans need to stop saying because GOP messaging is working. They're winning. Losers need to adjust things to stop losing as much and start winning more. Hence conversations about what they need to do different.

You know, must lawyers understand why a lot of society gives us side eye. Prosecutors and political legal types struggle making the same realization in the legal community and I find that tone deafness ever telling.

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

He's right, unfortunately. Education won't fix this, because it didnt break it. So, so much is responsible- more than a sigle better Civics course at 13 could fix.

Dershowitz knows political beliefs arent protected. He knows he's bullshitting. Which means he's being a bully. Using his education, status, and special privilege to menace somebody who doesnt like him and is validly using their freedom of association. I hate that shit, man. Disgraceful.

One thing that would help the whole "male loneliness" thing would be if we talked to *each other*. As in, other men. Showed vulnerability. Maybe even told each other how one can healthily date, given we're primary sources on how men find dates. Or we can keep yelling at women about it, I guess.

I literally got lightheaded reading this. I think I just narrowly averted a stroke.

Some politics 101: Zohran Mamdani is probably going to become NYC mayor. He's looking to get NYC votes. He'd get crushed running for just about anything in North Carolina, where Roy Cooper and his loud and proud Christian faith are the better play. We ideally want to win both races. That's all.

I don't trust men who cheat at golf. Not in business. Not in anything else.

*rubs temples* If the app is free to use, you are the product. Please internalize.