Ava Ayers

And "Matrix Resurrections" is a breathtaking masterpiece, I will die on this hill.

"Jupiter Ascending" and "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets." Just absolute neon space nonsense in both cases. Not "good," not even "coherent," but magnificent in the way that the movie "Purple Rain" is magnificent.

The plaque, at the park at Swann St & New Hampshire in DC.

The plaque, at the park at Swann St & New Hampshire in DC.

I’m happy to have played a small part in renaming DC’s Swann St after William Dorsey Swann, a former slave, arguably 1st drag queen, & early fighter for queer liberation.

Check out new plaque @ Swann St & New Hampshire.

Read Channing Joseph’s history of Swann: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

Places to get killed in Fargo, North Dakota, a thread.

#1: The Hotel Graver. "If you're staying there, your situation can't get any graver!" (A favorite joke of Fargo wits.)

Genuinely confused about "passenger attendants." That's like flight attendants, right? How is ChatGPT supposed to do that job?

It's also jarring how easily one imagines a Breitbart headline like "Snowflakes Say It's Racist to Ask Their Zip Code"

Has anyone ever said "My rights are a distraction?" It's always someone else's rights, right?

I aspire to be the MC Frontalot of legal academia.

"Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison, five months of home confinement, and two years' probation." Really not very important which judge sentenced her.

What a relief! I was starting to worry.

What this means is that every time I use a bathroom I'm braced for a confrontation, even when 98% of the time it never happens. And I'm pretty sure every other marginally gender-noncomforming person will tell you the same story. It's gotten worse in the last few years than when I was in college.

It is 2025 and you are the former mayor of San Francisco. If you think the "trans issue" is "so novel," possibly some alien species has abducted you and wiped your brain?

New Yorkers walk and bike more than almost anyone, says study Four boroughs lead the U.S. in ditching cars

Boys and girls together, me and Mamie O’Rourke
Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York

www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

As I suspect all of #AppellateSky can attest, talking to a mirror is in fact one of the most important ways to prepare for an argument or presentation. It helps get your thoughts ready!

The first sentence sounds like it was written by the intoxicated protagonist of an 80s comedy film, trying to pretend he knows what politicians talk like

The End of the Beginning What ICE has done so far was just a pilot project

. @michaelgkagan.bsky.social : "This bill adds so much money to ICE that it’s hard to fathom."

behindtheborder.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Ready to die with you on this hill. Kirk's smooching causes problems roughly as often as it solves problems. In "The City on the Edge of Forever" he keeps smooching Joan Collins even though he knows he's risking a Hitler victory and the destruction of the utopian future.

(The obvious mistake here being that the Tennessee law does, in fact, effectively prohibit all treatment of the condition, not just the use of a particular drug or technique.) /fin

Like a prohibition on using ivermectin to treat gender dysphoria: a prohibition on a particular treatment, not on the treatment of a particular condition. /2

I wonder if the best way to parse it is like this: "a prohibition on the prescription of puberty blockers to [enable transition] is simply a prohibition on THE PRESCRIPTION OF PUBERTY BLOCKERS AND HORMONES to treat [gender dysphoria etc]." /1

ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens GAO confirms ICE deported U.S. citizens due to systemic failures — and the agency still doesn’t know how many more it’s wrongly targeting

Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...

Lawyers, even when they're not representing clients, are not allowed to engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.

The first step in learning to exploit fractures in your adversary's coalition is learning to enjoy them.

The zeroth step is not attacking other people for enjoying them.

"You're not man enough to watch 2 idiots typing passive-aggressive insults at each other."

Never been sorry I walked out on this gender, I have no idea what's going on in there.

“They’re Ruining People’s Lives” The 98-page report, “‘They’re Ruining People’s Lives’: Bans on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth in the US,” documents the devastating consequences of these bans for transgender youth, inclu...

“They’re Ruining People’s Lives”: Bans on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth in the US

Agents zip-tie kids in new immigration crackdown in Texas At least three children were taken into custody and zip-tied at the San Antonio Immigration Court.

In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed.

www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

Strongly agree with the importance of readability; I guess part of my skepticism is I doubt lay readers will find "cleaned up" very helpful. (What was cleaned up? Sounds to me like the quoted source has been "cleaned," which I think isn't the intent.) But I'm not saying I have a better solution.