Such a good example of one piece of white privilege. I suspect many female lawyers have similar stories about being mistaken for a paralegal or court reporter. I also suspect black female lawyers have an entirely third set of stories about who they were mistaken for being.

I did not know that A Column For Sally Hemmings was part of a series!

In addition to the presumptuousness, these summations read like notes aliens are taking about the inhabitants of a human zoo

I don’t understand this at all. Churches WERE open, so wtf are they talking about?

Ken knows!

🚨 A very long thread 🚨 I need you all to actually come to terms with what happened last year. No, Harris did not run a bad campaign. You're just stupid. He ran on dictator shit, she ran on “He’s going to kill us all but I’m won't and here are the policies that will benefit you if you elect me”.

Is Bingo Hogan an actor from the Wire?

I think that a useful form of popularism would rest on this insight. You still have to sell your ideas to the public and find broadly popular values or desires to frame your policies. The poll chasers are wrong, but that doesn't mean you can ignore popular opinion.

To everyone comparing the run-up to the Iran War with the run-up to the Iraq War, let me present the definitive statement made by @tedrall.bsky.social in 2003.

@arikelman.bsky.social it doesn’t look like you check in here much, but just in case! Just finished your chapter in Myth America about the “Vanishing Indians” and it was great. A real viewpoint shifter for me!

@stacibaird.bsky.social thank you for all your work with the Community News. It’s important work! I would love to see a periodic article from a local farmer about what is happening in the fields. Not being in Ag, I drive past the fields and am like “why is there a big ditch?”

Completely unrelated. This is where the Washington Supreme Court sits. It’s called the temple of justice and it 100% feels like it should.

My hot take is that is is a bad thing to have a ghoul lose hate monger like Miller anywhere near power and if more journalists told the truth about this shit it would be better!

One of the weirder things about me is that I am admitted to practice before the Court of International Trade even though my practice hasn’t involved trade work for a decade.

Whose problem? Not mine. I don’t ever need to see Schumer being a do nothing or scold me because he pretends like he has no agency. I mean it’s a problem for the country that dem politicians don’t do their jobs, but not for me

I agree with this guy!

Unfortunately for us, the one period of time recently when there was a rapid drop in wealth inequality due primarily to a tight labor market is also the time when people, notably including the online political left, were obsessed with their sense of how horrible everything is going.

As ridiculous as this sounds, isn’t an AI “hallucinating” just as ridiculous?

Quite the payoff

A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.

Too much fun with this color way. Asteria doily and Appollo Mandala in Dahlia Halloween. #Crochet

fame, recognition and political power are all sitting there, waiting for democrats to take advantage of the moment!

There is no true answer, it just depends on your politics. (This is from Politico.)

Here’s to a great spring day!

THE SUPREME COURT’S TdA OPINION IS TERRIFYING. Not because it’s wrong, although it is, but because of how comfortable the Court seems in abusing authority to get to what it must see as an institutionally desirable outcome. 1/

I wrote about the free speech advocates who spent the last decade pearl clutching about the campus left while (intentionally or unintentionally) manufacturing consent for the right-wing assault on free expression.

The more coverage a story gets, the more important readers think it is. So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.

It’s strange when the press can tell when it’s a call to violence and when it’s just asking questions. I wonder how they make that call?

How’d this work out Brian? Think they are going to actually realize the threat and act accordingly now?

Once power stops flowing from the Constitution, and starts flowing from the executive, we live under authoritarian rule. It’s that simple. Are we going to acquiesce to it?

I’m legit curious… How are people upset about Palestine still running around blaming Biden for the bs happening today? We literally told folks putting that demon in the WH was going to be worse on the whole world yet they’re not protesting him. They don’t even have a nickname for him😂

I'm going to repeat this because it's getting lost in the more popular clip being the salute. ELON REFERENCED THE 14 WORDS AFTER HE DID IT. "It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured" is an allusion to the 14 words. There is ZERO debate about his intentions. He said it himself.

@livelovetoday.bsky.social yo! Welcome to Bluesky my friend! Let me know if you need any suggestions for who to follow. Do you know starter packs?

New information=bribes by TikTok executives. www.politico.com/news/2024/03...

According to Roldy, the holiday season has begun!

Ryan Day is going to have to move! 4 in a row! #GoBlue

Yes, stances are ethical. But if we want change, ethical stances must have power. That is political. One can be right and criticize others who aren’t, sure. And that is important. But then what? How do we flourish? We need to help the right thing win, and good people build. Electoral or not

Yes, this is more work for you, the user. But it means YOU decide what you want to see and not an algorithm! Start curating your feed the way you want it now, if you’ve just signed up. I promise it will make you happier with what you see.

@scalzi.com (or any scalziers out there). I read “Starter Villain” and loved it. I’m now about halfway through “Kaiju Preservation Society” and loving it. What work should I plan to pick up next?

It’s me, @mariabamford.bsky.social I’ve just left Twitter. I’m a comedian and had used Twitter to connect with fans and other comedians. I’m not sure how to let people know I’m here. Ha-ha.

Discussing Bluesky migration in terms of liberal flight misses the simple fact that most people use social media for fun not influence and this platform, unlike X and cruddified Facebook, doesn’t feel like you’re wading through shit to reach your friends. It’s not that deep.

This is Charlie. He wore his new glasses to daycare. Only got them so he'd look smarter. 13/10 it's working

Well I'm fucked.

The campaigns didn’t matter - Kamala’s incredibly tight ship and the Trump/Vance clusterfuck - because the media presented fictional version of the candidates to the public. You can’t campaign your way out of the incredible level of spin that we’ve seen this cycle. US political journalism is dead.

if you want a good reason why Trump might win it's becasue the media tried to explain to you that Joe Biden's gaffe was a bigger deal than RFK Jr's plan to murder your kids, which they mostly did not show voters.

I just want the Trump era to end. I just want it to be over. It sucked, he sucks, me informs me how much my countrymen suck, I'm just tired of it and want it to go away, please

@swordsjew.bsky.social I saw your interview with Andrew Keen today! You did great!

so yeah at least one of those Boys is a complete epic piece of shit who, at minimum, tried to cover up a rape perpetrated by one of his college teammates How very Barstool How very Trump