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Minneapolis attorney, advocate for planners, lover of old movies, refugee from Musk's mayhem, who rescues from obscurity fascinating people.
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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." - Hannah Arendt

submitted 5 days ago • 97 comments

Once upon a time, these were actions by a private company. Now they are actions being undertaken by a high-ranking government official, in connection with his public activities. This raises 1A issues that didn’t exist before.

submitted 13 days ago • 56 comments

Watching the "thank-you" set of credits at the end of #WorkingGirl, I saw one to "7 World Trade Center." Its first iteration was brand new when the film was being made in 1987-88, but it did not survive the Sept 11, 2001 attacks, due to a chain of damage that caused structural failure. #TCMParty

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I never worked on Wall Street, but the opening fifteen minutes of #WorkingGirl (with the ferry, the Twin Towers, the crowded sidewalks, the brokerage's green-on-black mainframe desktop monitors, and the rampant workplace sexism) should be on a loop in a history museum. #TCMParty

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Can you imagine the afterparty? #SNL50

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

We have little more than one person who prefers to get people to Mars over finding a cure for cancer - and he's got President Trump's ear and power for the moment.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!

submitted 23 days ago • 252 comments

Trump appointee (and former Clarence Thomas clerk) told Trump he can't strand USAID workers or force them home immediately. He did so, in part, bc when he asked why this was so important, they offered no proof of fraud or corruption. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/08/t...

submitted 25 days ago • 38 comments

I'm waiting for Hegseth to make the "scarcity" excuse (that there isn't enough room, so some needed to be moved). We're talking about the second-largest office building in the world, with 6.5 million square feet of space. It's classic viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

If there is one single helpful thing George W Bush might be able to do it’s to make a public defense of PEPFAR.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

This would be an unlawful seizure of territory in violation of the United Nations Charter, and the forcible transfer of the population of Gaza would constitute crimes against humanity. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 29 days ago • 77 comments

Marge Gunderson provided the perfect retort to Elon Musk's "wood chipper" stunt when another greedy, immoral fool tried it in "Fargo" more than two decades ago. "And for what? For a little bit of money? There's more to life than a little money, you know. " www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmoY...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

One of the legacies of the current conservative SCOTUS majority's drive to overrule precedents is that the "voluntary cessation" branch of the mootness doctrine has become very narrow. If a federal judge wants to reach the merits CJ Roberts made it easier in cases such as Trinity Lutheran v. Comer.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

“If you promise people what they want, they will always believe you.” (George Orwell).

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

My firm is willing to represent pro bono those fired in this unlawful and vindictive purge. These dedicated civil servants were performing their jobs and upholding the rule of law.

submitted 37 days ago • 346 comments

Trump’s clash with Colombia in a nutshell: EX (pounding on your front door): OPEN THIS DOOR RIGHT NOW! You: I gave you a key, and you’ve been using that. Why don’t you use that instead? [Short pause] 1/3

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment