I really need (either licensed and legit or fan created) some Ben Arroz merch to become available for purchase so I can wear it when I start getting time to go to Yankees games.

One of these days maybe I will get a client that will answer without mtd to head right to discovery in something like this. I can dream…

Cases take so long that reading your old briefs before a hearing is like another lawyer wrote them. He and his team did a good job though!

That is One Big Pile of Shit YouTube video by Thrifty032781

It’s tiring but also deeply entertaining to take @osayko.bsky.social to a new doctor bc their reaction to her medical history, allergies, and medications is always basically this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnun...

It is so exhausting having to see stuff like this. Open contempt for visible Jewishness.

I hereby declare myself too old for west coast Yankees games that start at 9pm. Go yanks, beat the mariners, I’ll be in bed.

Liz lemon from 30 rock with white text saying “jack just say Jewish. This is taking forever.”

All of us to Nathan

This is the story of being a lawyer in your 40s.

To recap, these Adam County Sheriff's deputies raided Afroman's house on a bogus tip and got mocked for it, sued Afroman for using his own surveillance footage to ridicule them, testified and cried in open court about how much Afroman's music videos hurt their feelings, and then lost. This is an incredible sequence of events, a truly Drake-like example of self-ownage and the Streisand effect. It's worth remembering, as Afroman repeatedly pointed out on the stand, that the state initiated violence against him first, and he responded with artistic speech. It may have been vulgar speech, intended to insult and publicly demean its targets, but the fact that it was brutally effective is secondary to the fact that it was launched in response to, and in criticism of, government force. The deputies seem to mainly object to discovering that the state's monopoly on violence doesn't extend to diss tracks, and the jury rightly saw that government officials can't claim both the power to break into a rapper's house and stop him from making music about it.

wrote a little about the Afroman verdict, which hit the sweet spot of being important on principle and hilarious reason.com/2026/03/19/j...

Thinking of some of my opposing counsel most likely to use genAI to make up bullshit…no thanks, I’ve suffered enough I’d prefer not to have to eat them too.

You know you are in need of a vacation when you are unloading the dishwasher and start trying to load the clean dishes into the fridge.

(I am going on vacation this week so…good timing! 🫠)

My largest need for a budget to get my car detailed is “my dog licks all the surfaces constantly.”

On the back of the photo (which is preserved by the World Holocaust Remembrance Center), she wrote:

"Juda verrecke"
die Fahne spricht
"Juda lebt ewig"
erwidert das Licht”

Which translates to:

"Death to Judah"
So the flag says
"Judah will live forever"
So the light answers

A menorah in a window overlooking a building hanging a Nazi flag

In 1933 (around the same time my own family fled Germany), a woman named Rachel Posner took this picture. It’s preserved at the World Holocaust Remembrance Center. Menorahs are typically placed in windows to be seen outside. Rachel placed hers in the window despite what was across the street.

I refuse to let some worthless coward rob me of community, reflection, consideration of my moral responsibilities on this earth, and any of the million things I’m lucky to get from being a part of my synagogue and from being a Jew.

So it is an active choice to go to synagogue, because you are doing something that even though it shouldn’t, is placing you in jeopardy of never going home. But it is also no choice at all, at least for me. I refuse to let any fear steal from me what Nazis wanted to snuff out.

That can be in their dress, their mannerisms, their location, or nothing at all. I have been called the K word on the subway. I have had to call local authorities to have swatstikas and other graffiti painted over near an apartment where I used to live. Few Jewish people have no stories like this.

Temple Israel was thankfully spared a worse outcome. No congregants were injured or killed and the only staff injury was one of the security guards who bravely confronted and stopped the attacker. But Jewish lives are in danger every time they step out their door and choose to be observably jewish.

Every time I enter my synagogue (shout out Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn), I acknowledge it is possible I will die there. It was not the first time Jews were killed in a synagogue nor the last, but this became a more concrete thought in my mind after the Tree of Life murders.

Going to synagogue is an active choice but for me there is also no choice at all. What do I mean by that? Yesterday’s news is just the latest example of someone aspiring to murder Jews in a sacred community space. One that usually includes worship, mutual aid, activities, and child care. 🧵

Wow that would really be something, wouldn’t it?

*stefon voice* this case has everything

…a sentence in a particular prison bc of programming for inmates, proximity to loved ones, etc. There are also release conditions that can affect incarcerated people when they are no longer incarcerated. Judges can’t “order” (and instead only recommend) on that stuff bc of the structure.

Not being housed under the courts prevents judges from overseeing the administration of sentences in a way that is consistent with what the judge views as best for serving the interests of justice, including for the incarcerated person. For example, while clerking I saw a lot of requests to serve…

While we’re at it, my inside baseball long-held no-one-in-politics-cares belief is that both the US Marshals and the Bureau of Prisons should be reorganized as agencies subordinate to the US Courts, not DOJ.

The ‘Most Massive Attack On Free Speech’ Is Happening Right Now, And The Twitter Files Crew Is Mighty Quiet For the last five years, we had to endure an endless, breathless parade of hyperbole regarding the so-called “censorship industrial complex.” We were told, repeatedly and at high volume…

The silence from the "Twitter files" pearl clutchers on this abuse of power shows, once again, that they never cared about free speech, but rather controlling the narrative and suppressing dissent.

Thanks to @masnick.com for this important piece.

www.techdirt.com/2026/02/18/t...

My ashkenazi ancestors really did me a solid with the Yiddish phrase “Ich darf es vi a loch in kop” (I need this like I need a hole in the head).

The fact that my classmates from law school are now professors at my law school is such a wild trip.

Taking responsibility for your actions is a tool of Western Imperialist hegemony

One of us, one of us. bsky.app/profile/max-...