Cait
@caitesq.bsky.social
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Public defender. Professional troublemaker. Burrito and word game enthusiast.
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Apologies to my followers who are not here for the beansposting
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jamelle
about 6 hours ago
as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.
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Mar Hicks
about 1 month ago
look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)
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Andy Craig
about 7 hours ago
It's not going to work, but when the new House meets on Jan 3, there is a good chance Republicans will make bogus objections to seating the delegations of entire states, most likely CA and VA, on flim-flam arguments that their maps were illegal. It needs to be gamed out and prepared for.
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Stephen Wolf
about 11 hours ago
"You can only challenge the racial gerrymander if you preserve the partisan gerrymander that was the reason for the racial gerrymander" is tortured logic befitting Redemption or Jim Crow. The court effectively deemed the VRA and the 15th Amendment unconstitutional while pretending they didn't
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Angry Staff Officer
about 8 hours ago
Itâs the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck
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Paul Waldman
about 7 hours ago
Racism is over says the Supreme Court, which you can tell because it took literally a matter of minutes after they gutted the Voting Rights Act for Republicans in the South to start moving to make sure Black people in their states get no representation in Congress
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The Onion
about 16 hours ago
Supreme Court Overturns âRight v. Wrongâ
https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/
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Matthewăăă
10 months ago
Fortunato (coughing): Youâre certain the Criterion Closet is down here Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet
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Starfruit Weather Change
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about 9 hours ago
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Omri Marian
about 10 hours ago
When we retake the House put
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on Ways and Means, please and thank you, Signed, Your area tax professor
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I will eat the hot honey ricotta pizza and wash it down with a hazy IPA. Iâm basic and I donât care. In the words of Dr. Seuss: These things are fun, and fun is good.
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about 10 hours ago
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P. Andrew Torrez
about 18 hours ago
JFC. Callais says that precedents from before the Roberts Court essentially don't count because they come from a time when "this Court often paid insufficient attention to the language of statutory provisions"; i.e., they weren't drafted by right-wing loons under the banner of originalism.
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Brian
about 18 hours ago
Thought I'd do a quick share of something I enjoy about my classroom. Here's a video about our
#STEM
person of the week, Dr. Gladys West. She wrote the mathematical model of the earth that formed the basis for GPS. Also, my CS joke of the week: I'd tell you a UDP joke, but you might not get it.
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Discover Dr. Gladys B. West, enabler of GPS
YouTube video by National Center of Women's Innovations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLnxbA4gWP4
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Jamal Greene
about 16 hours ago
The practical result of adding the sum rev from yesterday to today's decision in Callais seems to be that use of race in partisan gerrymandering is permitted (because hard to prove it was race, not politics) *unless* the state is doing it to remedy a VRA violation. This is Bizarro 14th Amendment.
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Jamal Greene
about 15 hours ago
We also should not assume Democratic partisan gerrymanders that are challenged as racial gerrymanders have the same change of survival as Republican ones.
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Jamal Greene
about 15 hours ago
The idea that plaintiffs can't win under the VRA if the only alternative maps they can produce would threaten the legislature's political goals could not possibly be more antithetical to the VRA.
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jamelle
about 15 hours ago
The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is âfacially neutral,â gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.
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Merriam-Webster
about 15 hours ago
This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance⌠-Itâs âsleight of handâ -Itâs âbated breathâ -Itâs âlo and beholdâ -Itâs âone fell swoopâ -Itâs âbrass tacksâ -Itâs âfree reinâ
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Jane Coaston
about 13 hours ago
DON'T START SMOKING BECAUSE THE WORLD IS ENDING THE WORLD WON'T END AND THEN YOU'LL HAVE EMPHYSEMA
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Jay Willis
about 18 hours ago
ANALYSIS: son of a bitch
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This is good news and a little surprising to me (both that police leave their cameras on and that the footage makes a difference to prosecutors and judges).
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about 19 hours ago
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Max Dubler đłď¸âđ
1 day ago
We need to re-legalize the very cheap, bare bones housing that keeps people off the street. More broadly, we need policymakers to be ok with letting people build types of housing that they would not particularly want to live in.
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Cheap Rooms Once Prevented Homelessness. We Need Them Back.
Inexpensive single-room-occupancy dwellings were common in America decades ago, but overregulation has driven them from the housing market.
https://www.governing.com/urban/cheap-rooms-once-prevented-homelessness-we-need-them-back
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P. Andrew Torrez
1 day ago
6/ Where's the line? Is there an argument so preposterous, so stupid, so obviously false that this administration won't make it and this Supreme Court won't treat it seriously? If there is, we haven't found it yet.
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Andy Craig
1 day ago
And all of them should be categorically barred for life from ever holding any government job again, aside from how many of them should also go to prison.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
1 day ago
This is so terrible. The third country removals are human rights catastrophes; South Americans fleeing persecution in their homes, then being dumped in Kinshasa and told they canât stay and must go⌠somewhere. Preferably right back to where they fled.
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I mean, actually, I would have resigned. But if I were a prosecutor with a non-frivolous seashell-based threat case, I would probably try to deemphasize the medium in which the threat was delivered.
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Dex Anderson
1 day ago
One of my neighbors has the last name of Pope, and they keep missing their FedEx package so the delivery driver apparently has time on their hands
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I would very much like to see this (and will be nowhere near DC, so you should go instead and tell me about it)
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1 day ago
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Maybe It Will Happen Today
10 months ago
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Mitchell Epner
1 day ago
Supplemental Song for the Day: 867-5309 - Tommy Tutone
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTd...
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Tommy Tutone - 867-5309/Jenny (Official Video)
YouTube video by TommyTutoneVEVO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTdTwcmxyo
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P. Andrew Torrez
1 day ago
Is the Trump administration proposing to keep James Comey's seashells??
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Andy Craig
1 day ago
In any criminal case that ends in a dismissal or acquittal, the government should have to pay your legal expenses. Just by right, automatically, no exceptions.
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The number of people who responded to this with a Life of Brian reference is very encouraging
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Josh Fruhlinger
1 day ago
the British monarch gives a regular speech to parliament and in the room where they make them wait before going on thereâs a framed copy of Charles Iâs death warrant. just a fun historical fact, no reason to bring it up
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Gabriel Malor
1 day ago
Just spit out my coffee. "I concur fully with the main opinion, which I authored."
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More evidence for my theory that capybaras are just big guinea pigs, so baby capybaras are small big guinea pigs
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
1 day ago
The idea that "86 47" is not protected free speech is so insulting that a copy of the First Amendment in the National Archives spontaneously combusted upon the filing of this indictment.
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My opposing counsel's office has started pluralizing "mens rea" as "mens reae," because it makes them feel fancy. Two problems here. First, this is totally unnecessary; just rephrase the sentence to avoid it. Second, it's not right. The plural would be "mentes reae."
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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
1 day ago
Join Xerces and help protect bumble bees and other pollinators! Job Title: Bumble Bee Technician đLocation: Nebraska, Wyoming, or Colorado đ˛Compensation: $23.50/hr, 40 hrs/week đď¸Term: Seasonal; June through September đ Apply by: May 10, 2026 Learn more and apply at
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Sean Marotta
2 days ago
It is literally a maxim among appellate practioners that DOJ writes in "government grey." (Named, in part, for the color of all of DOJ's
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briefs). Competent, well-researched, clear, but not flashy or combative. Now there is this.
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8647 Hat
2 days ago
/4 DoJ recruits selectively, trains fairly intensively, and demands a high level of writing. So to see DoJ product that looks like a YouTube comment is freakish and shocking. Even if all of that was a pretense (and I think itâs more complicated than that), abandonment of the pretense is horrifying.
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My father loves this movie and decided that I should see it when I was 12. I did not understand it at all.
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ArtButMakeItSports
2 days ago
The Persistence of Memory, by Salvador DalĂ, 1931, đ¸ by David Ramos
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Once again: you could do worse than live your life according to the corporal works of mercy
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over 1 year ago
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
2 days ago
This whole presidency is just bouncing back and forth between murder and money laundering with occasional unholy mashups of the two
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
2 days ago
to take this further, most ppl genuinely do not fathom just how much alcohol consumption has reduced over the last 200 years or so. those mfs were downing ale at breakfast, beer at lunch, burgundy and spirits all night and between all of this they were doing glasses of sherry and claret
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Raffi Melkonian
2 days ago
A rule 62.1 indicative ruling is a real thing. Everything else is nuts. I can't imagine writing something to a judge like this on any topic.
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An âindicative ruling,â which is a thing that I, a lawyer, have definitely heard of
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2 days ago
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I used to have a T-shirt from an event called Guactacular that said âCHOS BEFORE HOS on it, with a picture of a nacho. I stopped wearing it because it took too much effort to explain.
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Richard Waite
2 days ago
I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isnât??????
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