So how’d bending the knee work out for ya, Jeff?

Curious if others have had noticeably different experiences re-entering the US - meaning as compared even to just last month. Because … yikes y’all. Legit wondering if maybe now’s the time 😬

Someone help me out here, I feel like there must be some subtle similarity between all three of the cities where Trump has been sending National Guard troops, can’t quite put my finger on it what could it be…

IT’S TOO SOON TO TALK ABOUT WHAT MIGHT HAVE CAUSED THIS

This coverage of Charlie Kirk is absurd. As a veteran, peacenik, anti-gun nut, and proud liberal, I do not advocate violence of any kind. Kirk used his politics as a weapon, and aimed to hurt innocent people. I am not celebrating his death, but I am lamenting the demise of truth in this country.

Why billionaires should not exist, Exhibit 8,463,207

I know I’m wearing rose colored vacation glasses but I kind of really want to move to France, everything here is just wonderful and beautiful and delicious and lovely

Some mornings I wake up and try to plan out my day, which things I have to prioritize, which meetings I have, etc. Other mornings I wake up and read the words “US Attorney Pirro” and just reach for the whiskey because fuck this timeline 🫠

"We've spent a lot of money on the military and now they have nothing to do so we might as well let the president use it domestically to satisfy his own petty grudges" is precisely why the Founders feared a standing army. I mean, it's pretty much fucking verbatim.

Because she was asking for a robot friend, @quinnypig.com introduced our 4-year-old to ChatGPT’s voice mode. She was immediately enamored and I suddenly felt, for the first time in my life, a visceral kinship with Dr. Pulaski 😬 #sorryData

The kids were too tired and bored to march, but I’m proud of them for making signs and holding them up and being part of a historic moment. Hopefully one that’s in a footnote to a story of how people stemmed the tide of fascism, rather than to a story about the American third reich. #nokings

We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This

A thing I actually said tonight to my nearly 8-year-old child: “when you comport yourself favorably around others, others are drawn to you. Does that make sense?” She, nodding sagely: “yeah. I mean, a little.” Reader, I’m not sure *I* entirely followed myself.

Really expected to feel happier about the future

To all of you out there who actually took that Maritime Law elective 3L year, now is your time to shine

This morning our four-year-old burst into our room saying “Surprise! It’s Easter Egg Day!” And I feel like our irreligious parenting style is yielding predictable results.

WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS

Nobody tell Jeff

I’m at lunch with the family & (as always) before I’m even halfway through my meal my children have encroached so thoroughly into my space that I don’t have room to feed myself. I rhetorically ask: “do I have a gravitational pull or something” and OH MY GOD NOW I KNOW WHY THEY CALL IT “MOTHER” EARTH

Between this and the tariffs on Mexico (from whom the US gets a huge percentage of its food), later this year complaints about the price of eggs will seem quaint.

At this point I no longer even bother giving Republicans any suspension of disbelief so I am immediately going down the “incompetence or planned” rabbit hole about this crash over Reagan and now @quinnypig.com and I are teaching our 7-year-old about how the Nazis rose to power how’s your night going

Made 2 eggs for my 7yo for breakfast today. I am officially a bourgeois pig.

Look y’all it’s just enthusiasm and love chill out

This is fucking Orwellian

Best conlaw take I’ve seen all year

Wishing y’all the best MLK Day possible. #peace #justice #love

Kicking off a long weekend of sober reflection as we prepare to bid adieu to American democracy as we know it 😢

Oh gee look at that it’s like the Twitter Files except actual reality instead of hyperbolic whining. I hate this timeline.

So tonight @quinnypig.com rapidly veered from “psh I can help with 2nd grade homework no problem” to “what the hell is a VCe” (I don’t know what this is) and I teased him and his response was “look I don’t know 2nd grade terms of art” and I feel like I need to ban business lingo in our house now.

Poking around Bluesky this morning has made me realize I live in more of a bubble than I thought. To me it is basic common sense that disasters are bad and decent humans should have compassion for people affected by a disaster no matter where they live. This skeet is not about the LA fires.

Audibly said “oh SHIT” when this alert popped up on my phone and now my kids are asking what’s wrong. FUCK. Sending all my love to LA right now. I genuinely love that city and its people so so much 😞

So @quinnypig.com recently went diving in Cozumel and acquired new headwear from a souvenir store near where he was staying. He is now displaying it on this. If anyone was thinking about getting me a holiday gift and not sure what to get, it’s booze. You can get me booze.

SIMPLY HAVING A

The only thing you can trust a billionaire to do is to entrench their power. Full stop.

Cool cool, just hanging out on the lowest floor of our house at 6 am because there’s a *tornado warning* in *San Francisco*, how’s your apocalypse going?

Hey look I found Luigi’s lawyer

Felt that one

A failed coup, resisted by democratic forces in South Korea, bears some important lessons for us here in the U.S. We can’t say we weren’t warned, but we can prepare for what might yet come. My write-up in the replies.

I have a joke about maxims of contract interpretation [and no other jokes].

I have a joke about res ipsa loquitur

Fucking GOOD

In fairness it’s still dumb but sometimes life is stupider than art

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all. Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

If you're enjoying Bluesky and you don't want it to turn into the cesspool of hate that Twitter did, you best speak up now. Cut that 'I don't know what to say' shit out and amplify Black and queer voices, because the BS team ain't listening to us.

Just learned that the Double Rainbow guy died three years ago and it’s making me sadder than I would have expected 😕

Apropos of nothing, a reminder of JFK’s successful Harvard application essay

Not to brag folks but I just got a text from Barack Obama