Paul Smith

You really find out a lot about people when you can't be the person they expect you to be. My ex divorced me after 25 years because rheumatoid arthritis. Seriously.

Very true. I gave up on it completely and don't tell anyone about how much chronic illness fucks me up and my mental health is better off for it. Healthy people near universally just do not want to hear it, whether spouse, health care provider, whatever.

I am old enough to remember when Donald Trump refused to mobilize the National Guard on January 6th, 2021.

The fascism is right in our face. We are in the post-democracy phase of America now.

Happy Fascist Monday! Our Dear Leader is making a fantastic speech live right now to start our week. There is no greater purpose for federal law enforcement then beat patrol of a city where crime is out of control to the point it is at a 30 year low! Where thugs beat up cops on Jan 6th! Heil Trump!

Facts don’t matter once fascism takes hold, as it very clearly has in the United States.

Please add your name. UCLA and the UC system are trying to stand up to this extreme shakedown. I'm as proud of my UCLA Law degree as just about anything in my life. To see our greatest universities, indeed some of the greatest in the entire world, under this kind of attack is beyond appalling.

All of the above and more. The moment Columbia caved, we went down a very dark path. Each university that caves plunges us further into the authoritarian abyss.

Anyone who genuinely thinks they give a shit about Jewish students has lost the plot.

This assault on higher ed by a dipshit mob boss should unite all schools, rivalries be damned. The precedent set by Columbia and Brown disgusts me. On this topic, I can easily say Go Bruins and <gulp> Go Trojans. Fight Fight Fight! and Fight On!

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Me, too. My greatest accomplishment in life, so far, is graduating from UCLA Law. If they bend the knee, it's gonna break me.

Worked very hard on my book today, my first one. It's a practical law-related book for non-lawyers. I'm optimistic about it and the several others I have waiting in the hopper. That being said, I look forward to writing about the topics I am more passionate about soon, philosophy and maybe fiction.

Brave was a good move for me, although I admittedly haven't been able to fully cut the Chrome chord yet.

Also, terrific writing.

Disgusting and although I firmly believe in nonviolence, I'm not sure I could contain myself if I saw one of these dipshits doing this in person. I just cannot believe this culture of hate, ignorance, and cruelty. I was so naive thinking we were progressing beyond it.

It’s not like he campaigned on it…. oh wait.

Especially relating to someone Epstein victim Virginia Guiffre (🦋RIP) stated raped her SIX times. No pierogis for rapists seems like an honorable policy.

Could trigger CA Bar ethics review for frivolous filing, misuse of emergency process, & possible pro hac vice violations. Problem is these warrants aren’t court orders they are trying to enforce, they’re political acts of the TX House. No precedent for CA enforcing them.

I am not your monkey. And I am definitely not your pro-violence monkey.

The point, my dear confused friend, is that the oligarchs cannot be beaten other than through subversive methods. And with that explanation, I wish you well in the battles ahead.

The gospel according to Donald

Emergency pierogi decision on shadow docket now likely. This outrage cannot continue.

Also a good time to remember Epstein victim Virginia Guiffre said Dershowitz raped her six times. I believe her.

Oxfam’s inequality reports show that as of 2024, the richest 0.00001%, just a few dozen billionaires, control wealth comparable to that of billions of people combined.

Citizens United has allowed them massive influence over elections. The Kochs spent nearly a billion in the 2016 cycle alone.

Many people live under the delusion they'll join the "big club" one day, once whatever "other" they've latched on to as holding them back is taken care of (immigrants being the overwhelming other currently).

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I don't condone their tactics, but....

Would be a much hated "woke Trump-hater" now.

I’m old enough to remember letting go of Schwarber when he could have been signed for relative peanuts.

The Ricketts are exactly what their name sounds like, a disease.