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@jessemerle.bsky.social

Lawyer in social enterprise and impact investing: -Director @ Lookout PBC (2024 Pulitzer Winner). -Counsel @ Kiva Capital. -Lecturer @ Berkeley Law. Married to a Dirty Immigration Lawyer. I delete things.

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Great news. We got an Indie Media representative! Speaking for
@lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social
@lookout-es.bsky.social

03.03.2026 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Love it! And ICYI:

bsky.app/profile/oakl...

02.03.2026 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the way.

01.03.2026 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Stop BLM from selling off our public resources for private gain!

01.03.2026 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Investing in a future-building social enterprise but turns out it’s a war machine

01.03.2026 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fuming about Trump illegally bombing Iran and frightened of the fallout

28.02.2026 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One day I hope β€œDetention Camp” generates the same repulsion we feel when we hear β€œGulag”

27.02.2026 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I’ve been ignoring the OpenAI restructure mess for a few months,
but tomorrow I’m lecturing at Stanford Law School about it again,
so I’m catching up on what happened last fall,
and OpenAI’s attorneys got the better of the CA AG,
and maybe that’s no surprise given who was doing the restructure work

26.02.2026 04:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jack Clark repeating β€œit’s just intuitive” a thousand times is a sign of something

24.02.2026 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is their corporate structure part of the problem?

24.02.2026 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Battery is a more polarizing issue tho

23.02.2026 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What Epstein files show(re Brad Karp eg) is that they’d already given away their integrity, the settling was just the public announcement of it

22.02.2026 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The mega-rich are increasingly losing touch with reality

22.02.2026 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Pundits really just want to forget about RBG’s last few years

21.02.2026 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My mom has ALS. Her insurance just denied her medication for being prescribed for the wrong use. The medication’s only use is for ALS.

We need real health care reform!

20.02.2026 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (Official Video)
YouTube video by natalieimbrugliaVEVO Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (Official Video)

Listening to a lot of 90s music to prep a bday party playlist, and gosh I still like this song

Torn by Natalie Imbruglia β€§ 1997

youtu.be/VV1XWJN3nJo

19.02.2026 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh how our daily discourse has devolved

19.02.2026 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let’s test it though

19.02.2026 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I believe that most of us are kind. So how then, from the highest levels, is our society is so cruel?

19.02.2026 06:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Always Sunny already did it

18.02.2026 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But also what ed said

18.02.2026 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Big if true

18.02.2026 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This. But ferments

18.02.2026 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

I love fermented food and it’s quite annoying that it’s getting right coded

18.02.2026 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If this is the court system working correctly, then the court system needs to change

16.02.2026 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder if this differs btw national and local news. We haven’t had a problem with getting paying members at Lookout and have been pleased with community demand

16.02.2026 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We are really testing how we prioritize our values right now

16.02.2026 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Santa Clara DA running into trouble

14.02.2026 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My most unpopular opinion is that criminals shouldn’t be removed. If a sentence is sufficient for a citizen then it is sufficient for an immigrant. Citizenship shouldn’t determine if you are able to rebuild your life after serving your time. It’s that or we don’t honestly believe in rehabilitation.

14.02.2026 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We should all be skeptical of the marketing around PBCs and purpose trusts. AI companies are using new corporate forms to mitigate against the risk of public backlash.

bsky.app/profile/jess...

13.02.2026 04:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0