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Lawyer. Not your lawyer. Mother. Not your mother. By day (and frankly nights and weekends), a civil rights lawyer for people who are incarcerated. Other times, just exhausted. Washington DC based.
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Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater

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I found a tailor that does house calls and it has made my life better.

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Dear Manager, This week: 1) I am ahead 2) I am advanced 3) I am the first mammal to make plans, yeah 4) I crawled the earth, but now I'm higher (2010, watch it go to fire) 5) It's evolution, baby Thank you for your consideration. Best, srfrjulie

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Dear Manager, This week. I 1. Paved paradise 2. Put up a parking lot 3. Took all the trees 4. Put 'em in a tree museum 5. Charged the people a dollar and a half to see them

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Dear Manager, This week, I 1. I woke in the morning 2. I stepped outside 3. I took deep breath 4. I got real high 5. And I screamed from the top of my lungs "What's goin' on?"

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Lexis will automatically check your citations and your quotes. There is no reason to fuck up this badly.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

1. Monday - fell apart 2. Tuesday - broke my heart 3. Wednesday - same 4. Thursday - didn't even start 5. Friday - I'm in love

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

My undergraduate student lost her paid summer legal internship as part of the DOGE cuts (😡), and she’s looking for any law related internships in DFW. If anybody has any ideas - let me know.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

America's first gender neutral bathroom was Rush Limbaugh's gravesite.

submitted 6 days ago • 599 comments

I have found a personal use for generative AI. It is very good at "take this bitchy, rude, unprofessional thought and turn it into something a friendly, approachable lawyer should say."

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

We fucking told you. Abortion saves lives.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Hey, want to hang out with me tomorrow evening?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I am a full fledged adult and my dinner is mashed sweet potatoes and popcorn.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Lol

submitted 4 days ago • 158 comments

become ungovernable

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

A quick reminder that these case names we cite all the time are real people, like Ms. Farmer.

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Move fast. Break things. Kneecap your lawyers.

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Hey, I know her! Time to dig out this old meme I made as advice to lawyers about social media.

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

Me about Judge Reyes

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These folks are great, they fixed my wife's grumpy cat up so he could be grumpy another 10 years

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Nonsense, the Visigoths are destroying the aqueduct that I always thought was constructed poorly because, I assume, they are familiar with my critiques of it and will invite my feedback on how to replace it.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

I just watched the new Captain America movie, and without spoilers, it does raise some deep constitutional questions.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I forgot that earlier this week, I'm a depressed fugue state, I had a little online shopping therapy session, but just got the notice my things are shipping and I'm quite happy about it

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

No one who actually litigates constitutional questions regularly calls themselves a "constitutional lawyer"

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

I feel like a whole lot of people are about to learn for the first time that the services their kid receives at school and in the community are the result of federal funding.

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I am starting to think that rewarding legal academics based on the perceived novelty of their arguments creates some bad incentives.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

This. All. Day. It's like these ppl have never done crisis management. Have you ever watched a fistfight? A real one, like MMA? Often, more punches miss than land. And yes, missed punches waste energy and opportunities. But if you don't throw punches. you can't win.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Damn, in my fantasy "I fucking quit" letters, I never even went this hard

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Good luck and all the good snacks to Judge Ho's law clerks, who are most definitely not sleeping this weekend.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

submitted 9 days ago • 710 comments

Federal public defenders are so amazing

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I learned this morning how his name is actually pronounced, but I'm not going to stop calling him Boov youtu.be/MyqZf8LiWvM

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

LGB**T**Q icons you should know ⤵️

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Getting so pissed off at a request for your participation in public corruption that you call a reporter from the delivery ward to be like, JUST SO WE ARE CLEAR, I AM FUCKING QUITTING TOO

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

This letter is the legal equivalent of this. Done well and ethically.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment