Beth Thornburg

Actually, they would have needed an opportunity to respond, but will be interesting to see what they file if they re-plead.

Sanctions for filing a legally frivolous and/or factually unsupportable pleading (oversimplified somewhat)

Rule 11 sanctions to follow?

Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III to step down after a week of turmoil over viral classroom video Calls for Welsh’s ousting intensified over his handling of a student’s complaints about gender identity discussions in a children’s literature class.

We live in dark times. University president forced to resign after not immediately firing an adjunct children’s literature professor who mentioned transgender issues. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/18/t...

Todd Crespi Supreme COURT OF THE United States

Todd Crespi’s brother is SMU law professor Greg Crespi. Todd has covered the Supreme Court for years. toddcrespi.com

Boy oh boy, definitely some prominent Rs in there

Home MUSEUMS IN TEXAS ARE AT A TIPPING POINT.

Hey all you #museums under siege and losing funding. Here is a great toolkit for building support and honing your message that #museumsmatter. It was created for Texas, but would work anywhere. www.texasmuseumstogether.com

And how shitty to sue student editors individually

5th Circuit ruling denies Texas library patrons First Amendment right Seventeen books addressing racism and transgender topics were removed from Llano County libraries in 2021 after residents deemed them “obscene” and “pornographic.”

Woe (again) to residents of the Fifth Circuit. En banc court says public libraries may remove books because they disagree with content. Bye bye books about racism and even In the Night Kitchen. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Same. And especially given that my Senators are Cruz and Cornyn so I get the polite “although we disagree I thank you for writing.”

Art of the Deal

I bet you still need to bake something delicious. How about something Canadian? www.canadianliving.com/food/baking-...

I turned off Copilot in two places and Word is still trying to get me to save documents that they have “improved.”

And season 2 of Andor is a chilling reminder of the evil of bureaucracy and the cost of resistance.

Ditto. And even if you do it to see some specific show, just pay by the month so you can cancel fast.

Has anybody figured out how to REALLY turn off Copilot in Word for Mac. I have deselected it but it keeps offering me “improved” drafts that seem to incorporate their editing changes that I don’t want.
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Where?

Female cardinal looking at Bird Buddy camera

Interesting. In our yard it’s almost always the female.

And their decisions about which Spanish words work and which do not are baffling.

This thread is so heartening.

#HandsOff

Have you watched The Residence on Netflix?

Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

🤣🤣🤣

If law schools don’t stand up for the law and train students to do so, it’s a step on the road to “the law is whatever powerful people say it is.”

Exclusive: Judges face rise in threats as Musk blasts them over rulings U.S. Marshals have warned federal judges of unusually high threat levels as Elon Musk and other Trump administration allies ramp up efforts to discredit judges who stand in the way of White House efforts to slash federal jobs and programs.

Yet apparently Somebody is anonymously sending pizzas to judges homes to show their addresses are known.

www.reuters.com/world/us/jud...

Well this sends chills up my spine.

I know, right? And they also said it isn’t funny. Sigh.

Saying it out loud. Big city newspaper drops Doonesbury because it is “not fair to Trump.” www.dallasnews.com/opinion/publ...

I was really hoping this was satire, but apparently it is real. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...