Trump rescinds his Executive Order targeting Paul, Weiss because the firm entered into an “agreement” with Trump. According to the White House, Trump agreed to rescind after a meeting w/ Paul Weiss chairman Brad Karp, in which Karp “acknowledged the wrongdoing” of former partner Mark Pomerantz. - ThreadSky

The DEI clause is really disgusting. How small and weak these people are.

citizenchronicles.bsky.social•64 days ago

They took a knee and kissed the ring. Then, forked over, excuse me, offered pro bono services for the regime to the tune of $40 million. This stuff makes me sick to my stomach.

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mrroybasset.bsky.social•64 days ago

Tell him what you think
[email protected]

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lynn0908.bsky.social•64 days ago

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marcosantana.bsky.social•64 days ago

Also sue them.

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marcosantana.bsky.social•64 days ago

Black ball the firm.

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muddles1968.bsky.social•64 days ago

Professionals will kill all of us to save themselves

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cplourde.bsky.social•64 days ago

I'd love to see Paul, Weiss release their agreement.

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bluekentuckygal.bsky.social•64 days ago

Presidential extortion works.

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orangedeflector.bsky.social•64 days ago

Weenies!

Keep giving your lunch money to the bully and they’ll keep taking it.

What a sad firm

Agreed to suck, lick and swallow on demand

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massivruss.bsky.social•64 days ago

For the cheap seats: DEI IS THE TRUE MERITOCRACY.

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mstthinskin.bsky.social•64 days ago

F*(&ing cowards.

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draudreyglover.bsky.social•64 days ago

Maybe Weiss will keep that agreement in the way Trump keep’s agreements

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sudgr8.bsky.social•64 days ago

😟🤯

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jodygrinder.bsky.social•63 days ago

Extortion!

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loveisphere.bsky.social•64 days ago

Extortion, conflict of interest, corruption, censorship, unconstitutional lawlessness, all out in the open.

We are on day 60.

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pjspassions.bsky.social•64 days ago

What a shame to hear he caved in, and for what? For whom, really?

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hermajestykatniss.bsky.social•64 days ago

If Paul/Weiss thinks this abject, groveling submission to the Dump Regime is going to save their sorry asses from further meddling, abuse, and bullying, then I have a couple very nice bridges in SF Iwould be willing to sell them cheap....

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humoristguy.bsky.social•64 days ago

This firm is toast. If they don’t fight for themselves they won’t fight for their clients.

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215poundsonthemoon.bsky.social•64 days ago

"... in which Karp “acknowledged the wrongdoing” of former partner Mark Pomerantz."

translation: he kissed Combover Caligula's a$$

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elizabethpgraham.bsky.social•64 days ago

What wrongdoing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_F._Pomerantz

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215poundsonthemoon.bsky.social•64 days ago

It's just a social media post by the liar-in-chief. I haven't seen any corroborating information. All of it may very well be false.

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poop-paper.bsky.social•64 days ago

Mark Pomerantz prosecuted criminal organizations for years. What wrong-doing?

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215poundsonthemoon.bsky.social•64 days ago

Attorney's are chiming in on Bluesky.

Example#1
https://bsky.app/profile/marcelias.bsky.social/post/3lkttui7sdk24

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muellershewrote.com•64 days ago

Ugh. @gtconway.bsky.social did you see this shit? $40M in free legal services and an admission of Pomerantz "wrongdoing"

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ezaherron.bsky.social•64 days ago

All of this is craven. The pro bono part… they’re probably already doing some of that already. The condition that they need Trump’s personal blessing for the pro bono clients is disgusting.

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tehjota.bsky.social•64 days ago

I mean arguably most pro bono work falls within “fairness in the Justice System.” I suspect there’s not much substantive change to PW’s pro bono projects or policies as a result of this. But by refusing to stand up against Trump’s illegal EO, PW is basically ensuring it will happen to other firms.

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rapistsroamfree.bsky.social•64 days ago

God damn it.

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oh4cryingoutloud.bsky.social•64 days ago

More capitulation, more citizens become disengaged because no one consistently has the spine or balls to stand strong against a convicted felon 🍊🤡 drug addict in diapers.

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albireo-50.bsky.social•64 days ago

And the $40 mil in pro bono work is to be used to support the “Felon’s initiatives”.

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piercingsnip.bsky.social•64 days ago

Why are these people so spineless? God!

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kernelkorn420.bsky.social•64 days ago

Unless and until someone with sovereign authority, such as a governor, takes a stand there isn't much any private actor is going to do against the US gov.

A shutdown would have helped because it would have made this everyone's problem at once

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sniffit.bsky.social•64 days ago

It is NOT cowardice.

It is AVARICE.

I really wish people would get straight that when the "fear" is of loss of power, prominence, privilege and profit, the motivating force is AVARICE, not cowardice. We default to the cowardice analysis waaaaaay too easy and often.

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piercingsnip.bsky.social•64 days ago

Yeah, the two are not mutually exclusive.

“😱
Oh god, they’re going to persecute us!” “😈 But if we do what they want we’ll be RICH!”

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skylarjordan.bsky.social•64 days ago

Because they're fucking greedy and in America, money comes before patriotism

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djuschka.bsky.social•64 days ago

Disgusting. Cave to a bully and you’ll be eating his sh*t every day. What a bunch of cowards.

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newblue25.bsky.social•64 days ago

It’s straight revenge and extortion.
“Bombshell: Chuck Schumer's brother is a partner in the NY law firm that loaned attorneys to Bragg's prosecution team against Trump”
https://lawenforcementtoday.com

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tj9701.bsky.social•64 days ago

Isn’t that extortion?

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iamdawne.bsky.social•64 days ago

And just like THAT... Paul, Weiss et al now KNOW how it feels to be UKRAINE!

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kevinpenner.bsky.social•64 days ago

it's clear that the wealthiest and most powerful are usually the biggest fucking cowards.

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jamesegraham.bsky.social•64 days ago

So, instead of Trump destroying the firm, the chairman has decided to destroy it himself (when 2/3 of the Associates and 1/3-1/2 the partners bail to go elsewhere rather than be associated with, much less participate in, this cowardice).

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djchocolatemlk.bsky.social•64 days ago

I would suspect there are lies being told

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iamdawne.bsky.social•64 days ago

Before it's over, Trump will have THEM working in DoJ, for HIM!

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torven42.bsky.social•64 days ago

Amazing how quickly you can tank a company's reputation with the stroke of a pen. Paul, Weiss is now not just a law firm who refused to fight for the rule of law, but a bunch of MAGA lackeys as well.

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daveferguson.bsky.social•64 days ago

Clearly Trump didn't [as in "couldn't"] write that, since it lacks his distinctive Capitalization, and since it leaves out "your favorite" just before "President."

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b4llbust3r.bsky.social•64 days ago

It is copy/pasta from Paul, Weiss

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daveferguson.bsky.social•64 days ago

Like I said. ;-)

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birdguy66.bsky.social•64 days ago

This is a sickening capitulation. It boasts PW was “first major [NYC] firm to break down the barrier of Jews practicing with Gentiles, the first to hire a Black associate, the first to hire a Black female associate, the first to make a woman a partner...”. No more. https://www.paulweiss.com/about-the-firm/history

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ttlyovrit.bsky.social•64 days ago

That's an extraordinary history. An obituary now though...

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apkgalway.bsky.social•64 days ago

Cowards. The world is discovering that the US is a Potemkin village. There’s no ‘there’ there.

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serienya.bsky.social•64 days ago

Forced speech is not free speech.

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excelsiorsmith.bsky.social•64 days ago

“This is your reminder that the corridors of power run and run the gauntlet. Your reminder that for all we are seeing on the surface, there is turmoil beneath and a lotta backstabbing and skullduggery in the undertow.”
https://lokiexcelsiorsmith.substack.com/p/a-god-complex-runs-the-gauntlet?r=fd4u4

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queenraven.bsky.social•64 days ago

So, it was

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its-jen-again.bsky.social•63 days ago

May also be “quid-pro-quo”.

Buying a member of the U.S. Government is the new norm.

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queenraven.bsky.social•63 days ago

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jarodjohnson.bsky.social•64 days ago

"Our justice system is betrayed when it is misused to achieve political ends" says the president misusing the justice department to achieve political ends

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paul-goldenberg.bsky.social•64 days ago

So..... blackmail is cool now?

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thepissedoldlady.bsky.social•64 days ago

I think this hurts their reputation more than the First Felon did in the first place. Kissing the ring is not a good look.

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vivshere.bsky.social•64 days ago

More knee bending

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badhorse.bsky.social•64 days ago

This shameful capitulation should be publicized widely, and people should think twice before hiring this firm, as they may throw you under the bus when put under any kind of pressure.

Reputation works both ways.

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bluedotteacher.bsky.social•64 days ago

Nobody should hire them.

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paradigm317.bsky.social•64 days ago

Nobody will

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elizabethpgraham.bsky.social•64 days ago

I could not possibly afford them.

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one-if-by-land.bsky.social•64 days ago

EXTORTION!! PERIOD!

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chantalligator.bsky.social•64 days ago

Fucking cowards

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serioustalk.bsky.social•64 days ago

I feel ill.

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nsogrammy.bsky.social•64 days ago

Government by coercion

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boomersinthehouse.bsky.social•64 days ago

Too shaming.

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suze309.bsky.social•64 days ago

That’s some major BS. What a bunch of wankers. Agreement with the biggest conman in history.

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davesecrest.bsky.social•64 days ago

Paul Weiss caved to the Mob Boss-In-Chief, agreeing to a $40M "tribute" for Trump's personal benefit, just as fed courts are ruling Trump's extortion racket is unconstitutional, leaving their colleagues to fend for themselves.
Unrelatedly, the firm has changed its name to Paul Weiss+Quisling.

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thetruthproject.bsky.social•64 days ago

Well looks like we now know who'll be the firm going after tramps political enemies.
Why else would he hire them?
Martial law is probably coming in days or weeks...he won't need lawyers for court orders.

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jjbrainstorm.bsky.social•64 days ago

Do they really think that after doing the pro bono work Trump won't just rethreaten them for more. That somehow they are good.

Nah, they are Trump's new Reek now. They will be made to give more and grovel as they do.

It has been eye opening to see how weak and cowardly the "elite" truly are.

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polipolitix.bsky.social•64 days ago

Every damn day it gets worse and worse I am very disappointed in this law firm

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rogerthat---ex-x.bsky.social•64 days ago

Cowards.

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searinglyaaron.bsky.social•64 days ago

Fucking sickening

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starrfire71.bsky.social•64 days ago

📌

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starrfire71.bsky.social•64 days ago

Sorry, late to this news, what was the original EO?

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drosera154.bsky.social•64 days ago

Here’s the made-up-facts sheet on it:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-addresses-risks-from-paul-weiss/

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starrfire71.bsky.social•64 days ago

Thankyou very much

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coffeecat311.bsky.social•63 days ago

CLEARANCES.

Seriously, can't they get somebody who can spell?🙄

I've lived in a country where people in charge can spell.
Basic.

I want my leaders to be better than me at every metric responsible to their charge.

We live on the stupidest timeline.😑

Pardon our dust.🙏
#WeShallOvercome🇺🇲

Resist.

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mmmccarthy.bsky.social•64 days ago

Humiliating. PW associates will have no problem getting new jobs. Get out before your billables become pro bono hrs defending some pro wrestler’s wife who hates education and kids with disabilities.

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hrryan.bsky.social•64 days ago

Or maybe one of Trump's Christofascist pastor buddies who is under arrest for child sexual abuse.

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jennipunk.bsky.social•64 days ago

Yikes

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lenbanco.bsky.social•64 days ago

Truly disgusting…a shonda

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sbwriter.bsky.social•64 days ago

Paul, Weiss will be out of business within a year. All the top partners and associates will get good offers from other firms.

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thewillow.bsky.social•64 days ago

Paul Weiss about to be the next law firm to discover anew that law firms are a “people” business

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realusapatriot.bsky.social•64 days ago

Someone else always does wrong to Tin Pot Donny. He's never the one at fault. Classic narcissistic always the victim behavior, or so every certified psychiatrist and psychologist tells us.

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tomgambell.bsky.social•64 days ago

😡 Knee... meet floor...

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mynahleague.bsky.social•64 days ago

FFS, is there no one left to defend the rule of law?

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scraigy.bsky.social•64 days ago

Sounds like Paul Weiss is not the firm to go to if you want real litigators: now we know they'd rather fold than fight injustice.

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notmylinkedin.bsky.social•64 days ago

I would expect that their Media Relations & Publications contact is about to have a busy Friday. https://www.paulweiss.com/contact-us

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brookeo.bsky.social•64 days ago

Is this real? Really?

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beethovengroup.bsky.social•64 days ago

Lawyers are such cowards.

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annabower.bsky.social•64 days ago

Among other things, Paul Weiss agreed to dedicate $40 million in pro bono legal services to “support the administration’s initiatives.”

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greya.bsky.social•64 days ago

Spineless Vichy-ass collaboraters

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mdfj.bsky.social•64 days ago

Quit now Paul, Weiss associates

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thepinkperil.bsky.social•64 days ago

🤯

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massivruss.bsky.social•64 days ago

Did he lick or, fully gargle?

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loveisphere.bsky.social•64 days ago

Is all this for real because WHOA.

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ocelots1.bsky.social•64 days ago

Gross.

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dondechert.bsky.social•64 days ago

That number 5 looks like it would also be problematic; it can't be accepted as volunteering services to the govt, so presumably it's partnering/support for legal NGOs alligned with Trump admin priorities a la ADF or outfits of that nature.

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mrgrumpeepantz.bsky.social•64 days ago

Well, I don't see Trump Admin using any of those services, so I guess they get off easy for their cowardice.

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excelsiorsmith.bsky.social•64 days ago

“This is your reminder that the corridors of power run and run the gauntlet. Your reminder that for all we are seeing on the surface, there is turmoil beneath and a lotta backstabbing and skullduggery in the undertow.”
https://lokiexcelsiorsmith.substack.com/p/a-god-complex-runs-the-gauntlet?r=fd4u4

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ericcolumbus.bsky.social•64 days ago

I would await confirmation from Paul Weiss on all of this.

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movenon.bsky.social•64 days ago

IF Mr. Weiss confirms this: What will be the outcome as it applies to other law firms?

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dangergirl6.bsky.social•64 days ago

I’m pretty sure Paul Weiss has confirmed it. His chairman was clearly speaking on his behalf so basically the Trump administration now owns this law firm and they will do Trump’s billing even if it violates the constitution and is based on lies and corruption! #TheUnitedStatesOfAutocracy

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dangergirl6.bsky.social•64 days ago

Billing = bidding

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seaweed-biscuit.bsky.social•64 days ago

Same thing really

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benjicardoso.bsky.social•64 days ago

Not me, I’ll assume they’re Trump toadies until they prove me otherwise

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rooster75.bsky.social•64 days ago

I wouldn't trust Trump's Truth Social delusions half as far as I could chuck them.

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grettahmettle.bsky.social•63 days ago

Um this agreement has happened

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rooster75.bsky.social•63 days ago

Um you missed my point. I'm not going to make conclusions or base my understanding of what has or hasn't happened solely based on Trump's Truth Social posts which are as often as not utterly delusional.

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stroligus.bsky.social•64 days ago

But still incredible that they would even give him the opportunity to write/lie about it. Man, we are cooked if the lawyers, and these guys are supposedly good lawyers, start buckling under so easily. Wow, this is really bad.

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colette101.bsky.social•64 days ago

So many people are caving. It makes me wonder if Elon gave their DMs to Donald.

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emmyem24.bsky.social•64 days ago

That is such an interesting idea. I could see it. Trump doesn’t just stumble onto the kompromat he’s built up on people for decades. No, he actively seeks it out to file away for when.if it’s needed. He will sit on stuff for years.

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colette101.bsky.social•64 days ago

And Elon got 10+ years of messages when he bought Twitter. Everyone's messages.

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brendastedham.bsky.social•63 days ago

Agreed!

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canericanisms.bsky.social•64 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/marcelias.bsky.social/post/3lkttui7sdk24

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holdencaulfield-jr.bsky.social•64 days ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/paul-weiss-deal-trump-executive-order-withdrawn.html

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dramber.bsky.social•64 days ago

Here you go.

https://bsky.app/profile/joshtpm.bsky.social/post/3lktt7n7tis2a

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dangergirl6.bsky.social•64 days ago

Since ppl seem to want to ignore that Paul Weiss confirmed this agreement 👇🏻

IThis law firm is officially controlled by Trump - no more hiring women or blacks.. the firm will support his illegal unconstitutional actions - they lost business as a result of an EO filled with lies from a butthurt baby

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read-travel.bsky.social•64 days ago

They claim to uphold being nonpartisan, yet . . . yet, capitulate to the political party and agree to do that party’s bidding. Isn’t that being partisan?

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supergoofnz.bsky.social•64 days ago

Nonpartisan = only doing stuff we agree with, according to the right-wing whinefest.
As the saying goes, 'the facts have a liberal bias.'

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mwharrisesq.bsky.social•64 days ago

And will sued in the process.. it's discrimination and discrimination is still illegal under Title VII. Hope it was worth it...their reputation is destroyed with this.

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emmyem24.bsky.social•64 days ago

If I were an attorney there, I’d have my resignation in before tomorrow morning.

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44lights.bsky.social•64 days ago

We waited…

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trueblue47.bsky.social•64 days ago

i worked there for three years...back when ted sorenson was a partner...i had so much respect fo them....i am embarrassed now that they knuckled under....so embarrassed

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gchernack.bsky.social•64 days ago

Seems many of us are skeptical of the veracity of the WH.

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steph1873.bsky.social•64 days ago

In the non-white-shoe legal world, that’s what most people call a “payoff”.

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missatlanticcity.bsky.social•64 days ago

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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mjomi.bsky.social•63 days ago

Waiting for Paul Weiss to erase from their website all the diversity and inclusion.

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eyeswideopen24.bsky.social•64 days ago

JFC

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avj73.bsky.social•64 days ago

While the whole thing is gross, at PW's rates, and taking into account the size of the firm, they are committing to the equivalent of roughly 10 hours of pro bono work per year for each lawyer.

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phillipmalone.com•64 days ago

Nice Dictatorship you have there in the US!

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leannestewart.bsky.social•64 days ago

Cowards!

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michelebella.bsky.social•64 days ago

Attorneys are required to perform a certain amount of pro bono work anyway, so why not find a way to use it as a negotiation tactic to make Trump feel like he got something out of the deal. Same thing Mexico and Canada did that stopped the tariffs a month or so ago. At least they can pick the cases.

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lindarn.bsky.social•64 days ago

WTF. Extortion?

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ncbears.bsky.social•64 days ago

If true, DOJ may claim this creates ethical conflicts such that it precludes Paul Weiss from representing clients in litigation with the US government - it may even preclude them from representing clients in discussions with the US Government on contracts.

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p0rtiab00.bsky.social•64 days ago

Jesus.

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badgramar.bsky.social•64 days ago

Translation: we'll make tons of associates work for free to support an administration they may or may not agree with. I'm sure this will go great.

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torven42.bsky.social•64 days ago

As far as we can assume, they now agree with them. This is no longer a firm I would rely on in a legal fight.

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darkvegetaman.bsky.social•64 days ago

Absolutely bonkers. Wtf

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eddyrobinson.bsky.social•64 days ago

Sounds like bribery

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tdb011235.bsky.social•64 days ago

Man, I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall to hear that negotiation/capitulation.

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clayjak.substack.com•64 days ago

blood money. shameful.

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clairejvannette.bsky.social•64 days ago

What does this actually mean? They'll defend the administration when it's sued? Or they'll take on cases for private citizens and organizations?

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mtcullen78.bsky.social•64 days ago

Not even sure that's legal. There is supposed to be a dollar limit on in kind gifts. But I would like this law firm to make sure this administration is following the Constitution. It appears AG Pam Bondi doesn't know there are 3 equal branches of government.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/pam-bondi-attack-judge-boasberg-offense-rcna197195

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badhorse.bsky.social•64 days ago

She knows there's supposed to be, they all know. She doesn't WANT the branches to be co-equal.

This is not stupidity. It's an all-out assault on the Constitution and it's up to the people to defend it.

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michaelnamikas.bsky.social•64 days ago

Pathetic

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athinkinggirl.bsky.social•64 days ago

The extortion machine grinds on.

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wheredoustand.bsky.social•64 days ago

Fascist pigs

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onemorecatlady.bsky.social•64 days ago

Maybe the Task Force on Anti-Semitism can get the DoD to restore the pages about Holocaust Remembrance?

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canericanisms.bsky.social•64 days ago

The shakedown continues.

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heliant.bsky.social•64 days ago

Now I want to vomit. Wondering what Columbia University, which means a lot to me, will do as they too, are being extorted??

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nutsandhappy.bsky.social•64 days ago

Maybe they'll purposely lose all their cases. I can only hope.

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lazyretiree.bsky.social•64 days ago

Who gets to pick the initiatives? And the nature of the support? "Hey Paul Weiss- we need your $ and lawyers to argue in favor of eliminating birth right citozenship." Or "please defend state requirements banning books." Can't wait.

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midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social•64 days ago

I am extremely not a lawyer but wouldn't this have massive Antideficiency Act problems?

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michellr22sd.bsky.social•64 days ago

So, it's ok to refuse to sell someone a cake because they're gay, but i can't refuse to sell my legal representation services to someone because they are a rabid Republican? Is "Republican" a protected class now?

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doyoulikepizza.bsky.social•64 days ago

I wish I could say “I can’t believe this is happening!” but I can, because I was born before January 20th.

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brendastedham.bsky.social•63 days ago

Or before January 6th!

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doyoulikepizza.bsky.social•63 days ago

That too

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bryvegbry.bsky.social•64 days ago

Are they 500k an hour?

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lcstem.bsky.social•64 days ago

Is this from the firm or from Trump?

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andriskowalski.bsky.social•64 days ago

Lawyers should be jailed

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thatsusanw.bsky.social•63 days ago

I feel sick to my stomach.

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aubreelane3.bsky.social•64 days ago

Wut??? That’s nuts.

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jfaunt.bsky.social•64 days ago

What if a veteran wanted to sue for wrongful termination by the Doge boys?

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davidotley.bsky.social•64 days ago

$40 million.
Is that like a day and a half’s work?

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mandyk.bsky.social•64 days ago

Lemme get this straight: Paul Weiss will volunteer $40mm of services to ... go after minorities + women, deport brown people and #1A activists, foster pollution and disease, oh shit a list too long for a skeet how can they sleep at night

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thatmanglenn.bsky.social•64 days ago

If I had a dollar for every time I was called an antisemite I’d have enough money to be Jewish.

Oh!

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fightlies.bsky.social•64 days ago

Solicitation of a bribe.

Time for a lawsuit.

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auntlaura.bsky.social•64 days ago

Pro bono quid pro quo shakedown

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caseyhartman.bsky.social•64 days ago

Shakedown successful. I'm sure capitu,ating won't come back to bite them ass anytime soon

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fionataylor.bsky.social•64 days ago

How is it legal for a law firm to do pro bono work for the president?

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brendastedham.bsky.social•63 days ago

Great question!!!

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dukeofsnoop.bsky.social•64 days ago

wtf? 🤬

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barblieberman.bsky.social•64 days ago

Can't wait to hear @marcelias.bsky.social on this

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b-korb.bsky.social•64 days ago

So, not any voting rights cases then.

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ofmarin.bsky.social•64 days ago

What's the 'wrongdoing' they mention? Did they throw one of their own under the bus?

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galencolwell.bsky.social•64 days ago

I doubt very much if this is the whole story. If true though, Paul Weiss should change his name, dissolve his current law firm and go incognito.

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deanalan5.bsky.social•64 days ago

So doing nothing for veterans, going after political enemies, and going after activists?

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nooneletgo.bsky.social•64 days ago

Despicable

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aletheia777.bsky.social•64 days ago

No idea who Weiss is — but I suspect Hair Fuhrer might have some...information on him that he wouldn't want to get out.

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swizzlesister64.bsky.social•64 days ago

Want to incarcerate citizens in gulags? We’re your guys! And it’s all free!

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pearatty.bsky.social•64 days ago

The fuck?

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charjg.bsky.social•64 days ago

there is a lot of very weak men in this country

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bettercallsteve.bsky.social•64 days ago

I will dedicate $40 trillion of my lawn mowing service for anti-Trump initiatives.

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vsapiro.bsky.social•64 days ago

Simple payoff?

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belligan.bsky.social•64 days ago

Wait, WHAT?

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eotech.bsky.social•64 days ago

So, extortion.

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sagastar.bsky.social•64 days ago

"pro bono"

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thebaroness.bsky.social•64 days ago

More like quid pro bono.

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ricosuavejd.bsky.social•64 days ago

total capitulation

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theblueline.bsky.social•64 days ago

I feel nauseous.🤢

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sybilltrelawney.bsky.social•64 days ago

WTAF. To support Trump’s initiatives? Like removing all references to the achievements of Black people and other people of color from history? Bullying Canada to become our 51st state? Making sure women hemorrhage to death in parking lots waiting to be close enough to death to get a D&C?

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cocothecat.bsky.social•64 days ago

Please don't hurt me. Here's $40 million.

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bambif.bsky.social•64 days ago

WTAF

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nicolasshado.bsky.social•64 days ago

Paul Weiss has become the tesla of law firms

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brendastedham.bsky.social•63 days ago

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linda-lu.bsky.social•64 days ago

Does “Trump initiatives” mean defending tfg in court when he breaks the law, e.g. by shuttering a federal agency like USAID,taking over a private business like USIP or the indiscriminate firing of civil service employees& then lying about it?

If tfg’s post is to be believed, Paul,Weiss is shameful.

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bobbimurray.bsky.social•63 days ago

That’s a lot of legal services.

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rflax.bsky.social•64 days ago

So like 6 partner hours?

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biglywords.bsky.social•64 days ago

IANAL but that sorta seems like a lil bit of extortion? Crazy times

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imaginehimhappy.bsky.social•64 days ago

One way to solve DOJ brain drain and not pay for legal services: blatent coercion.

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debkat.bsky.social•64 days ago

Amazing that a company full of lawyers doesn't know that an executive order hasn't even been proven to be legal. He's extorting a bunch of lawyers and they just folded. Shame on all of them.

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robredotruthe.bsky.social•64 days ago

why are we suddenly takin trump's word as gospel, sorry?

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debkat.bsky.social•64 days ago

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robredotruthe.bsky.social•64 days ago

right, that was my question: why are we suddenly taking trump/trump WH's word as gospel? seems crazy.

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brendastedham.bsky.social•63 days ago

That’s because it is! 🤣

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kencox.ca•64 days ago

Everyone eventually kneels before Zod.

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grueloflaw.bsky.social•64 days ago

Imagine being a young associate, looking for and encouraged by the firm (with billable credit!) to take up pro-bono hours, and your first assignment is to draft a memo in support of extrajudicial rendition of asylum seekers to a Latin American torture camp. (Or in defense of white civil rights).

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btpowered.bsky.social•64 days ago

Quid pro quo in plain sight.

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brendastedham.bsky.social•63 days ago

True

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usasunder.bsky.social•64 days ago

It is the Public Shaming that is valuable to Trump and Project 2025. The 40 million in services is nothing.

It's the demoralization and chilling effect on others they want

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heatherfrompgh.bsky.social•63 days ago

I mean......wow

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hrryan.bsky.social•64 days ago

Did they find something in the FBI files that they used to extort this??

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antimattermorrigan.bsky.social•64 days ago

Yeah, they can't be trusted to take on any work AGAINST Trump now. He'll just bully them into screwing their clients again.

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goodbranding.bsky.social•64 days ago

Does Karp understand that the things he's already agreed to do for his extortionist are just the down payment?

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goodbranding.bsky.social•64 days ago

I wonder how this Paul Weiss Office feels about this?
Diversity and Inclusion
Danyale Price
Chief Inclusion Officer
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019-6064
E-Mail: [email protected]

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mbmesq.bsky.social•64 days ago

Please do not spam this woman who has zero control over this situation

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mrroybasset.bsky.social•64 days ago

Yes spam the person in power instead

[email protected]

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goodbranding.bsky.social•64 days ago

I'm just gonna suggest that guy is a lost cause already but here is another suggestion, the Deputy Chair:
[email protected]

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frankiefrank.bsky.social•64 days ago

Feel very bad for her

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ellenbraaten.bsky.social•64 days ago

Disgusting

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coffeecat311.bsky.social•63 days ago

5) REMEMBER PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
https://bsky.app/profile/coffeecat311.bsky.social/post/3lazcu5ings24

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driver9.bsky.social•64 days ago

All of this is the inevitable consequence of the Republican Party selling its soul to a career criminal rapist thug.

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madisonlexie104.bsky.social•64 days ago

Ah! The spineless 1 %

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jon639.bsky.social•64 days ago

Is this a trick???

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benjicardoso.bsky.social•64 days ago

This is disgusting, corrupt and Orwellian, and particularly alarming coming from a prominent supposed liberal like Karp

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davidpaintstuff.bsky.social•64 days ago

So they're now formally part of the Trump administration

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perdamkier.bsky.social•64 days ago

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cyneheard.bsky.social•64 days ago

Boycott them too.

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curiouswitness.bsky.social•64 days ago

Start the countdown until Trump comes back at them with an even more coercive maneuver and they regret not fighting him on this one.

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auntie-germaine.bsky.social•64 days ago

The soft, white underbelly of complicity. Cowards

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pixelsforaface.bsky.social•64 days ago

Hopefully the points from Trump aren't actually true.

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badjohnbrown.bsky.social•64 days ago

Wow.

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dnlmsstch.bsky.social•64 days ago

That 40 million in pro bond work to support the administration seems a real problem

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hrryan.bsky.social•64 days ago

Yeah, that's a shitload of pro bono work.

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thurstonsam.bsky.social•64 days ago

Works out to about 1 full time partner and 3 associates. Their rates are pretty high

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cabbageridge.bsky.social•64 days ago

Shitload of work on shitty policies

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elizabethpgraham.bsky.social•64 days ago

Remember, these are "billable hours." I don't know what the current conversion rate is to standard hours.

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cabbageridge.bsky.social•64 days ago

Let’s say $1000 per hour that’s three head count dedicated per year for the next four years
Assuming they can complete 50 hours per week. If I were an associate I would leave now

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subtlefire.bsky.social•64 days ago

extortion

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eranfowler.bsky.social•64 days ago

Good lord, Trump really is the world's biggest whiny crybaby bully.

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kazzmo.bsky.social•64 days ago

If this is true, to admit "wrongdoing" by the attorney is a bridge too far and the move of a dictator. We the People are interested in more info. Why would the firm be so intimidated by a two bit con?

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themadstatist.com•64 days ago

For fuck sake. They had a case they could win but decided extortion and helping the regime was the way they wanted to go. 🤬

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angiesplittgerber.bsky.social•64 days ago

This is abhorrent. No one should go work for them.

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fetchinketch555.bsky.social•64 days ago

That STINKS to high heaven, what a cheap mobster Trump is! 🤮🤮🤮🤮

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brettholomew.bsky.social•64 days ago

#disgraceful

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nutsandhappy.bsky.social•64 days ago

Under the bus he goes. Former partner will now be under fbi investigations. End up in El Salvador?

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nickjames82.bsky.social•63 days ago

We have all but completely lost our democracy.
I’m questioning whether the midterm elections will ever happen at this rate.

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squindar.bsky.social•64 days ago

We don't have a president, we have a low-class mob boss.

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goodvibesdadvibes.bsky.social•64 days ago

This is so disgusting and disheartening. Come on guys. Really? REALLY!?!?

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seansthumbs.bsky.social•64 days ago

I mean, there’s “bending the knee,” and then there’s flat-out “bending over.”

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bornsmiledie.bsky.social•61 days ago

Paul, Weiss = Disgraceful, never to be trusted again!

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fanofwalt.bsky.social•64 days ago

How could they tell what Brad Karp had to say when his mouth was stuffed so full?

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publica.bsky.social•64 days ago

Most of the EO's allegedly offensive acts don't even concern things that Paul, Weiss was involved in ... So it's especially egregious that they did this. Paul, Weiss can now be deemed a collaborator.

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abogadomike.bsky.social•64 days ago

Cowards

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jmonkeh.bsky.social•64 days ago

Yeah a nice fat bribe of free legal service will get you far under this regime.

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angerunlimited.bsky.social•64 days ago

They are all terrorists. Every single one of them.

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holdencaulfield-jr.bsky.social•64 days ago

So happy Paul Weiss did not think I was good enough for them when graduating law school.
Pond scum.

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strengthandpower.bsky.social•64 days ago

Brad Karp is an embarrassment who obeyed without a fight. He might have once been a big bundler for the Democratic Party and that was great but now he will live his life with this stain.

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dionenyc.bsky.social•64 days ago

What?!

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losaltoslaw.bsky.social•64 days ago

This is utterly shameful and Paul Weiss should be embarrassed. Perkins’ response has been exemplary. Hope clients shift spend away from backstabbing cowards like Paul Weiss.

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saneenglish.bsky.social•64 days ago

Holy shit, this is unbelievable

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arcticchar.bsky.social•64 days ago

📌

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highestbitter.bsky.social•64 days ago

Here’s the Weiss site, including staff, contact, etc…. https://www.paulweiss.com/

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nerdpaulnyc.bsky.social•64 days ago

Horrifying. Disgusting. What a capitulation and just to keep money rolling in while they now participate in the administration's attack on the Constitution.

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ehg1234.bsky.social•64 days ago

5 hours per year from each of 1,000 lawyers at $2,000 per hours over 4 years.

But still

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gidget.bsky.social•64 days ago

This is so fucking grotesque.

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pixxygirlonbluesky.bsky.social•40 days ago

Isn't this a form of extortion? If so, when did extortion become legal or acceptable in our democracy? If lawyers, whom I once revered as a strong-willed group of professionals with high moral standards (at least a good percentage of them), have buckled, then we are going to hell. F'ng cowards!

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erkal77.bsky.social•64 days ago

6. Paul Weiss is a little bitch.

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erikgunderson.bsky.social•64 days ago

If this is true... bunch of cowards.

I hope it's not true.

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neiljrm.bsky.social•64 days ago

Shakes head and lost for words

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charlesmiller.bsky.social•64 days ago

"Oh, do NOT obey in advance, sorry, I misunderstood"

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dhistoryman.bsky.social•64 days ago

I hope a long list of prominent clients "fire" Paul, Weiss, and make a very public point of moving to a different law firm.

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pam327.bsky.social•64 days ago

They have very prominent public clients: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/transactional/entertainment/practice-overview/our-clients

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ilisette.bsky.social•64 days ago

Patti LuPone is vocally anti-Trump, so she’s one of many I am sure are planning to fire them.

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dhistoryman.bsky.social•64 days ago

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pam327.bsky.social•64 days ago

🤣🤣🤣

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aileenann.bsky.social•64 days ago

HFS!!!

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92wolv.bsky.social•64 days ago

I emailed Brad Karp to give my frank (non-threatening) opinion of what he did. [email protected]

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walkerwest.bsky.social•64 days ago

When I hire lawyers, I look for a firm that folds at the first whiff of adversarial opposition.

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sukisue.bsky.social•64 days ago

The rich and powerful will always capitulate. That’s how they stay rich and powerful.

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chadlevinson.com•64 days ago

Paul, Weiss is about to learn about the consequences of compliance with ascendant authoritarians

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joepositive.wtf•64 days ago

sigh

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cowchaser24.bsky.social•64 days ago

If the nation survives, this will be used to teach kids about gaslighting

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padem420.bsky.social•64 days ago

Blackmail.

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geraldinegirljp.bsky.social•64 days ago

Obscene level of subjugation

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geraldinegirljp.bsky.social•64 days ago

If true. As I read further down the thread not clear if this was just the second in command pile of 💩 talking or the firm

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maplemememagnate.bsky.social•64 days ago

Highly Dishonorable

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myinwit.bsky.social•64 days ago

Cowardice

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dberl.bsky.social•64 days ago

FFS

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dabizomb.bsky.social•64 days ago

I guess time to cancel some retainer agreements anyways

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swgeneralmills.bsky.social•64 days ago

Mob stuff

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paradigm317.bsky.social•64 days ago

Shows me these assholes make way too much money to fork over 40M breathlessly

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paradigm317.bsky.social•64 days ago

Feckless assholes

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askgma.bsky.social•64 days ago

Revenge tour 2. on steroids.

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transponder1.bsky.social•64 days ago

Extortion.

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hulkling-she-her.bsky.social•64 days ago

another COWARD of fascism

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b-korb.bsky.social•64 days ago

Spinectomies are apparently contagious. Who knew?

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spock1.bsky.social•64 days ago

Beware of being represented by a firm that will cast you to the winds should it become "inconvenient" to do so.

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bershod.bsky.social•64 days ago

Because Weiss bent at the knee and kissed the ring of the wanna be king

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cateweber.bsky.social•64 days ago

Quid pro quo = sickening 😨

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1dgrn.bsky.social•64 days ago

“According to the White House” is certainly totally credible.

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ginger1728.bsky.social•64 days ago

wow

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mslowins954.bsky.social•64 days ago

paul weiss sounds like a pab pushover

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out5p0ken.bsky.social•64 days ago

That’s an expensive $40m bribe ❗️— and do we know if Paul, Weiss has confirmed this or are we talking the word of Trump?

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villagegenius.bsky.social•64 days ago

My god does nobody have a spine anymore?!

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robertswartz.bsky.social•64 days ago

Shameful behavior, Mr. Karp.

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dirtside.bsky.social•64 days ago

hooray for cowardice

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pauletteparis1.bsky.social•64 days ago

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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marshallmintz.bsky.social•64 days ago

I'll be amazed if the firm lasts another 5 years.

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celestialclockwork.bsky.social•64 days ago

So….kissing Trump’s a** and a poorly disguised bribe?

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lenday.bsky.social•64 days ago

Capitulation. Tickle his nuts and he's fine.

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thurstonsam.bsky.social•64 days ago

Admittedly I'm not in the income bracket to hire a white shoe law firm, but if I was, I don't think I would want to hire an obviously spineless one?

"You guys really know when to give up, and it's immediately! You're hired!"

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susubrooks.bsky.social•64 days ago

Embarrassing. Can't imagine what their clients think.

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crb0628.bsky.social•64 days ago

Paul Weiss is a felon 47 bootlicking firm!

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politicallyint.bsky.social•64 days ago

I highly doubt that they "acknowledged wrongdoing."

That would be a legal disaster...

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thelooza911.bsky.social•64 days ago

There’s kissing the ring and then there’s full on deep throating it. This is the latter.

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xanboni.bsky.social•64 days ago

I don't remember the particulars, if I ever knew them, but does this Pomerantz guy have anything to say about this?

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laurenorder.bsky.social•64 days ago

Hope my firm gets to pick up some good PW folks.
If I worked there my resignation would be effective immediately.
Fg spineless, repulsive sycophants.

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melissamallou.bsky.social•63 days ago

This is extortion!

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greywulff.bsky.social•64 days ago

Fucking cowards one and all. Makes me ashamed to call them fellow lawyers.

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freckleface.bsky.social•64 days ago

Another nail in the coffin.

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tbluvoter.bsky.social•64 days ago

How many laws did that corrupt BS break, if we actually had laws that apply to Republicans, that is.

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shevawn.bsky.social•64 days ago

Omg. I’m outraged!

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hoobajoob.bsky.social•64 days ago

📌

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brendaninboston.bsky.social•64 days ago

This is some supremely cowardly shit.

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1girlnextdoor.bsky.social•64 days ago

What EO is he referring to?

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thecatsmeow-17.bsky.social•64 days ago

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5323890/experts-say-trumps-targeting-of-law-firms-is-unprecedented

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rytualerror.bsky.social•63 days ago

What a disgusting capitulation to fascism

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vcan.bsky.social•64 days ago

🤬 coward

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darrenkaplan.bsky.social•64 days ago

If you or your company is in the market for representation in a critical legal matter, you should probably not consider any law firm that folds like a cheap suit the first time they encounter some modest threat to their own revenue stream.

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drmke.bsky.social•64 days ago

Surrender and blame the scapegoat.
Fascism 101

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tancred1098.bsky.social•64 days ago

"Paul, Weiss LLP
A formerly premier law firm providing innovative initiatives in groveling rather than fighting illegal challenges by Donald Trump.

Our Motto: We won't defend ourselves, but sure we'll defend you, maybe, if Trump says it is ok."

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jenvn.bsky.social•64 days ago

This is revolting. A comment from Pomerantz about his “wrong doing”?my god I hate these people.

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pjeanne97.bsky.social•64 days ago

Jesus Christ

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gblatt.bsky.social•64 days ago

Among other humiliating concessions, the firm will provide 40 million equivalent in pro-bono legal services for 47's administration...

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mizmsr.bsky.social•64 days ago

Like Stalin’s show trials

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jcabraham.bsky.social•64 days ago

So, they bribed him. Shouldn’t they be disbarred?

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heidifaith.bsky.social•64 days ago

Money over morals.

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sandlanfair.bsky.social•64 days ago

What???

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yadayada13.bsky.social•64 days ago

The mud and muck keeps piling up.

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yadayada13.bsky.social•64 days ago

Deplorable and disgusting.

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lunakersauzon.operajunkie.net•64 days ago

Time to tank their 4.2 star Google reviews. *cracks knuckles*

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maxtropolitan.bsky.social•64 days ago

(Taps the sign ↓)

https://bsky.app/profile/michaelhobbes.bsky.social/post/3li5taaxaac2h

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robotblue.bsky.social•64 days ago

lol wait this is “according to the whitehouse”? Fuck that… I want to hear from the firms themselves

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maraleia.bsky.social•64 days ago

Fuck this capitulation.

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tweetintheblind.bsky.social•64 days ago

What the hell, this better not be what I think it is. Abdication.

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bradsafarik.bsky.social•64 days ago

Acknowledging "wrongdoing" is throwing their own professionalism and credibility in the trash can. Their blatantly bending the knee to a wanna-be autocrat. Everyone is clear on this transactionalism and Paul Weiss should and will forever bear the stain of this groveling before unlawful power grabs.

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