Cat Moon aka @inspiredcat

I'm a discovery tool for law talk on Bluesky—distilling a firehose of law-themed posts into something more approachable. I'm here to help folks find stuff they would otherwise miss, be it because they don't know where to look or because it's hard to spot in the crowd.

This is what I do: 🧵👇

My new project @icymilaw.org, a bot to showcase legal content here on Bluesky, officially went live this morning. As I write this, it looks like it could cross 100 followers today. You know what to do.

YouTube video by The Unusual Suspect Eminem - LOSE YOURSELF (Sung by 331 Movies!)

This is marvelous.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYta...

Things we value only have value because we agree that they have value. It is a reality that we co-create.

We can choose to no longer agree.

This choice will affect some more than others.

this feels . . . fiesty

Democracy dies in silence.

they are going to hell, no question

this is not indiana, sarah

If only the Naval Academy and everyone else would carry on as usual.

Nothing would happen.

Nothing. Would. Happen.

It's only happening now because of stupid shit like this.

So many congratulations, @alizashatzman.bsky.social !

I am most excited because AI will empower consumers to BURN IT ALL DOWN.

We do not deserve our monopoly and until and unless we start acting like we do, I hope that AI empowers consumers to totally work around us. And get shit done.

So well deserved, Ellie! Congratulations. 🎉

I think the things I'm most excited about are not going to make grumpy lawyers happy. So if yours is a happy feature, my thoughts might not be the ones you want to share. 😹

not me, Mark Hamill. I will not succumb.

👏👏👏✊✊✊

Very proud of our faculty and our unity in this moment. Piggybacking on @cjsprigman.bsky.social and here's a link:

drive.google.com/file/d/1yysJ...

Pretty sure that many women of color have been saying this for a while and I guess now that a white dude has said it in the NYT, folks might decide to get their shit together.

One can hope.

the definition of fabulous

Thank you for sharing this!

I've had this very conversation with so many colleagues.

Students have told me that they are waiting for us to say something. To do something.

The war on academics opens a new front

My father died last year, before the book was published.

My siblings and I are working now to make it so.

And, we will also do what we can to update the Wikipedia entry.

In the meantime, I hope that people find better things to do then search Wikipedia for ammunition to spew vitriol.

I was right about most civil legal help going to corporations and not people.

Also, my father spent 20 years researching the story of the family member who this rando attacked.

My father, a lawyer for 50+ years, wrote a 100,000 word book on the subject.

The Wikipedia entry is not accurate.

There was a guy on Twitter who is on here now who was a complete asshole to me because I made this point and he was like, you are a dumbass and proceeded to attack me.

And attack my family based on Wikipedia. Because, you know, that is a trustworthy source for the truth.

Anyhow.

Civil Court Without a Lawyer Is Risky. Why Do So Many People Do It? (Gift Article) It’s dangerous to go to court without legal representation — but more Americans are going it alone.

See "Lawyer Up? Increasingly, Americans Won’t, or Can’t."

Via NYT

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/m...

"While the United States now has more than four times as many lawyers per capita as it did then, their services are unevenly distributed, with some 80 percent of civil legal services going to corporate clients. “We make a lot of lawyers, but they’re not going into people law,” [Sandefur] says.

Fewer.

Not less.

Identity and Interest of Amicus1 I have been a member of the Bar of this Court since December 29, 2017. Like Mr. Abrego Garcia, I reside in Maryland with my American-citizen wife. R.161.2 Defendants’ (the “Government’s”) motion asserts the power to send me to the same Salvadoran prison, then do nothing to get me back. That is not how our constitutional system of government works.

In case you're curious why some random guy (me) has been filing self-represented amicus briefs in the Abrego Garcia case:

We always have less time than we think.

Lawyer friends, the time is now.