Dear stock market and gullible stenographer media:

anyway, if this court is going to act as little more than a partisan legislature than it ought to be treated like one by the actual legislature

This doesn't factor in the externalized cost of having to go to Costco

Tree law is so entertaining because it's two opposite situations with the same problem. 1. people mistakenly thinking they can do whatever they want to their property. 2. people mistakenly thinking they can do whatever they want to other people's property. Unifying: always some fucking asshole.

i saw a tiktok about how doomscrolling in childhood is a sign of having no hoes and i can't stop thinking about it

Becoming more common. Once had an 11th Circuit decision that, while affirming my client's argument, rejected our position that a particular SCOTUS line on the Estab Clause was dicta: "[T]here is dicta and then there is dicta, and then there is Supreme Court dicta."

Renea Gamble, the woman who wore a penis costume at a ‘No Kings’ protest in Fairhope, was acquitted on Wednesday, April 15, 2026 of criminal misdemeanor charges that included disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

/2 Something I tell young lawyers is that the absolutely essential part of oral advocacy is that you have to find something you believe in, something you give a shit about. Maybe it’s that you‘re right about the argument! Maybe it’s that your client has been treated unfairly! Maybe….

The focus of critiques about pharmaceutical monopolies is generally on PRICE. But this case is a compelling example for problems of SUPPLY: it's not a great world when one company controls global supply of a drug and can just refuse to sell it to people who need it. 7/

Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.

The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.

Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

The Trump Administration Says IUDs and the Pill Are Abortions 9.12.25

I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...

This sounds like straight-up theft (or fraud), at least morally.

The US has an order in place to reject applicants from certain countries, but State is INSTRUCTING its officials not to tell applicants that when those applicants are paying big non-refundable fees.

5. It should be unacceptable for any author of a law review article to fail to acknowledge that they didn’t write the first draft of their piece.

wtf

It's like Legal Latin, but (somehow) even more pretentious

But they were all deceived for a 5th loco was made

I have experienced this multiple times. Huge swaths of my gen-x upstate NY high school class now have heads full of MAGA pudding

and if they're not full MAGA, they still somehow believe progressive efforts to nationalize healthcare are among the biggest threat facing the nation

BAAAAAABE THE PRESIDENT IS L'ÉTAT C'EST MOI POSTING ON HIS SOCIAL MEDIA SITE AGAIN

My hot take is that "One Battle After Another" was the better film, but the movie I'm going to actually rewatch multiple times is "Sinners." Make of that what you will!

Rendition?

It takes a lot of skill to Chotiner yourself when you are being interviewed by a very much not Chotiner.

Hey #ActivityPub friends. Are there any new ActivityPub / Mastodon features I should add to #ActivityBot?

It's a small bot-only ActivityPub server in a single PHP file.

https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/

It can be followed, post images, allow quote posts, etc.

Is there anything else you […]

A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.

The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage

Holy shit. These people shouldn’t be near sharp cutlery, let alone seats of power.

Mullin: “This is war.”

Raju: “You concede this is war?”

Mullin: “We haven’t declared war.”

Reporter: “You just said it’s a war.”

Mullin: *stammer

Re-upping from yesterday: If you're in DC-land today, it's the final day of a phenomenal exhibit at National Gallery, treasures of Aboriginal art. You won't regret it.

The people behind this shit aren't thinking, "We could have it all!" They're thinking, "I could have it all!"

USAGM emails VOA staff (who mostly haven’t been allowed to work for nearly a year) offering them deferred resignations, warning of mass terminations (currently on hold due to court action) “as soon as we are able.”