Chip Smith

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.

The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

A fun part of the Tulsa, home of the Woody Guthrie museum, protest is how prominent Woody Guthrie was - from tshirts to signs to people playing his music.

Nothing that any elected Democrat has ever said about Republican voters is ever as crass or as cruel as what Trump says about Democratic constituencies every single day, and the media just treats it as background noise.

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

OKC was just one of 19 cities in OK to have a No Kings rally. These are the others: Tulsa, Norman, Lawton, Stillwater, Ardmore, Durant, Idabel, Pauls Valley, Ada, McAlester, Chandler, Guthrie, Enid, Ponca City, Bartlesville, Tahlequah, Muskogee, and Miami.

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I really love how in England they have modified No Kings to No Tyrants out of local sensibilities whilst in Ireland they are all like NO KINGS, do I stutter.

Don’t be a stenographer for the police. You know how often they lie. Only cover this type of story if you have done some actual reporting on it.

Block list of US Gov Bluesky accounts. You don’t want them seeing your stuff.

This part is important: “The jury program is funded by money not affected by the appropriations lapse and will continue to operate. Jurors should follow instructions from courts and report to courthouses as directed.”

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!

Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.

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If these 1Ls had not figured out by the way Big Law is capitulating to Trump that they would be terrible places to work, then this ought to drive the message home. Sadly, I doubt it will.

Cheers for AFPDs Abe and Ohm, and their client Ms. Reid, guardians of democracy all three.

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

It’s interesting that the second Rule 29 motioned was reserved instead of denied. I’ve had that situation once before and the judge granted my Rule 29 a couple of weeks after the jury verdict and briefing.

Using ChatGPT

AJ West • 1h Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government Reply 6

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

I think the fact that we allowed cops to lie openly with no real consequences is part of How We Got Here. If the people with the ability to shoot others in the street are allowed to lie about it, you can't expect other officials to abide by a higher standard.

They listen and weigh evidence all the time

Department of Justice lawyers, from Main Justice to AUSAs in the districts, have ALWAYS enjoyed a sort of aura of truth and justice and trust. That was arguably always unjustifiable but Trump DoJ has absolutely pissed it away with compulsive lying.

I've said it dozens of times. City government should put up live cams around the ICE facilities, the downtown area, and have them broadcast live feed, 24/7, on the city's website so people can go look for themselves whenever they wish.

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

I live here, too. Drummond opposes Stitt. There is no reason he would coordinate with Stitt.

Could the Supreme Court still apply different rules to a Democratic president? Of course. You don't need to remind me of that. But a lightning-fast blitz that repurposes Trump's new powers for good stands the best chance of standing up in court. Democrats need to start thinking about this right now.

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

The best "defense" of SCOTUS' hypocrisy is that there's an asymmetry between how Democrats and Republicans wield executive power. Broadly—Dems want to give things (health care, asylum, foreign aid, loan relief, civil rights) while Republicans want to take things away. SCOTUS makes the latter easier.