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submitted 19 hours ago • 94 comments

They’re cops. ICE agents are cops. Cops are behaving like this. Congress created these cops a couple of decades ago, and Congress could uncreate—abolish them, if you will—anytime. We need to get over this idea that this happened overnight, by accident, through infiltration. It did not.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Israel isn't in control of the United States. This is just who the US is and has always been. Saying we're controlled is just a way of saying we're victims. We're not. We're an imperial power that likes war because it's profitable and enriches our oligarchs. That's it.

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

Tomorrow is a very good day to impeach a president and his entire cabinet. Today would be good too, but tomorrow will work for me.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

It's exhausting for there to always be a new, next bad (worse) thing that you're just constantly on the brink of learning about. I know everything was bad before he bombed Iran. But i wish the level of bad would stabilize so we can dig out, not just keep getting worse

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Law Dork turns 3 years old today! Thanks, all! Here’s the first post of year four; thanks for making it possible with all of your support, subscriptions, and reading! www.lawdork.com/p/mahmoud-kh...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

I've been rewatching Grey's Anatomy from the beginning in the evenings. On season 5, and my god did i forget how obnoxious Owen Hunt is. He's the character I most wish the show had written off but he just keeps being there every new season

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

BIG: Judge Farbiarz ordered Mahoud Kahlil's release. DOJ asked for a seven-day stay. Mahmoud Khalil's lawyers asked for the order to be immediately. Farbiarz said it will be today — and left any issue as to release conditions to be worked out with the magistrate judge.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

NEW: My colleague @tylermcbrien.com reports that Mahmoud Khalil has been ordered released on bail. 🧵 with live posts from the hearing ⬇️👇

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

I can't talk about details but we just won an appeal that directly involves a member of the Trump administration, so this is my jumping up and down giddily post. And also a reminder that lots of us are doing things about this Administration we can't publicly talk about. 🙂

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

There are obviously more pressing things happening in the world, but if any lawyers have encouragement for this bar study-er, please share! We're nearing the end of June, and I'm feeling exhausted more often and worried about the sheer volume of info to be memorized

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Happy Juneteenth our reparations report is in print! www.njpac.org/event/the-no...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

If you're Black and in need of or requesting mutual aid, drop your payment links here and I will repost them!

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

Most of my many interactions w/ medical systems in the past 12 months have been disasters. People not listening, people not doing their actual jobs. Mistakes I work very hard to make sure we avoid happening anyway. Today: an Rx got sent to a wrong address despite 2 calls confirming the correct one

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Unsure if related to the proliferation of AI, but after my google pixel's latest update, the autocorrect is significantly worse. It'll change things it never did before, before I'm even done typing words. I guess I'm turning autocorrect off, but it's frustrating bc it worked fine and now it's bad

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The idea that stripping rights from trans people and sanctioning the nationwide vitriol against them is "a distraction" is despicable. Distraction from what? It is one of many expressions of a broad project of bigotry, and calling it a distraction from anything is an abdication of responsibility

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

We are not a distraction we are real people facing real existential threats

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

Today is one of those days where studying for the bar and being present to what's happening in the world feels impossible. Studied the equal protection clause this week, still have to pretend it exists, but as of today it's functionally gone

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

fuck Supreme Court released Skrmetti Roberts opinion, liberals dissent the awful outcome--blessing anti-trans discrimination--isnt in and of itself surprising, but it's a bit stunning the way they're pretending the Equal Protection Clause isn't even relevant www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

yes they are. they are christians and you have to deal with that

submitted 5 days ago • 99 comments

I will not argue I'll just block I will not argue I'll just block I will not arg

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

You didn't "buy local" if you bought the things you're talking about at the location of a chain that is "local" to you! That's not how words work! "All local outfit" and it's literally made up of pieces from national chains 😩

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Viewing disability and sickness as punishment to people we don't like is a hallmark of eugenics.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I'm tired of the concept of "takes." It's flattened every instance of belief, opinion, expert assertion, & assessment into one level of statement w/ which people agree or dismiss. Doesn't feel like just widespread adoption of a phrase; the concept helps collapse our ability to engage w/ others

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I am telling you some appliance maker is missing out on the huge opportunity here to sell disconnected devices. You can have easy slogans like. It just washes your clothes and doesn't harass you. We are not spying on your underwear or your fries. We are not creeps. I would be first in line.

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

happy fathers' day! vote early, nyc! #RankTheSlate #NoCuomo vote.nyc

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

didn’t mask up today at the rally’s? please care for your community by preventing the spread of anything you may have picked up today. at home sars2 tests are notoriously finnicky, make them more sensitive by using them repeatedly in 48hr increments and swabbing throat before nose 👇🏻

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

It is apt but also extremely typical of the DC area this time of year that the weather was overcast but pleasant during the day, when all the No Kings protests are going on, and there will be massive thunderstorms rolling through in the hour or two before sunset, when they scheduled Trump's parade.

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

Being cruel, lacking compassion… being evil is not a mental illness. Please use more accurate descriptions of evildoers.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

And, bc I think chasing down sources is important, I know it's from 2020 bc the Omaha Police Department Facebook page posted this video ion June 2, 2020. The Hispanic News Network U.S.A. page reposted yesterday w/ a caption that it was from 2020

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Stop trying to rehabilitate the image of cops while they attack people nationwide. It's a self-soothing tactic that makes people feel better about liking cops! The vid going around of cops kneeling in Omaha isn't current & we all know what happened after those performative stunts back in 2020

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Genuine Q for the lawyers (esp those with military experience): when people say of the military "their oath is to the Constitution," how are they taught what that actually means? Do non-JAG learn any law? How does knowing anything about the Constitution square w/ "all you do is follow orders"?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Studying for the bar in a chronically ill body that decided now is the time for a flare really sucks. Can I get a loaner for the next month and a half? Happy to take mine back after the exam!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University. That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...

submitted 11 days ago • 59 comments

In addition to whatever you want to do to call for impeachment of RFK Jr. or other actions, PLEASE start wearing a KN95 or N95 mask again if you stopped. Vaccines are miracles, and we don't have to just wander desolately into epidemics of measles and chicken pox as they take vaccines away

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment