@ajlepp.bsky.social
Canadian lawyer. She/her. Likes old dogs + new snow. Is prone to wandering. Opinions = just that. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - MLK Vancouver, BC
Thinking about all the folks like this across DC — the honorable government workers whose years of expertise and dedication have been trivialized and vilified by gleeful sociopaths for whom "public service" is inconceivable
11.02.2025 05:34 — 👍 40 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0I got death threats in 2014 for a blog about how we shouldn’t slut shame Jennifer Lawrence. Fucking grow up and govern.
11.02.2025 05:00 — 👍 1558 🔁 213 💬 20 📌 3This thread
11.02.2025 03:02 — 👍 29 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0One reason the press is being very cautious about talking about a constitutional crisis is that the top Democrats in the country are talking about high grocery prices. Try to imagine it from their perspective: how do they report on a "crisis" that even the opposition doesn't seem to acknowledge?
11.02.2025 04:36 — 👍 759 🔁 120 💬 33 📌 10AOC: The House is governed by a Republican majority. The Senate is governed by a Republican majority, and The White House has a Republican president. And if they want to pass their agenda, Republicans need to conjure up the votes to pass their own bills.
11.02.2025 04:37 — 👍 7767 🔁 1518 💬 181 📌 137
This is — literally — unheard of in federal prosecutions.
We can’t prosecute him because he’s a candidate for office? Wow.
It should not be radical for the American Bar Association to say that it supports the rule of law. But right now, it is. Let's see some other orgs taking a similar stance.
11.02.2025 03:19 — 👍 2650 🔁 514 💬 20 📌 8Asked another way, do Democratic leaders need a Formal Declaration of Coup before they start behaving appropriately?
11.02.2025 03:19 — 👍 743 🔁 115 💬 15 📌 4
Great example of the interpretation of “journalistic objectivity” that sees lobotomizing yourself as preferable to ever drawing any firm conclusions from any amount of evidence
11.02.2025 02:14 — 👍 2417 🔁 464 💬 40 📌 28It takes a little more work and creativity to find other images, but it is worth it.
Yes, expose the coup that is underway & the fascist billionaires who are financing it. But you don't need to use their images (which they love to see) to illustrate every story.
Make the people visible instead.
Request to progressive media/bloggers: Please do NOT use photos of #47, Musk, Miller, etc. as your featured image for every story.
We've never shared their images in our feed, nor will we.
If you write about the harm they do, then feature people they impact & who resist. Don't give hate free PR.
I'd rather continue to fund the banking police (who have returned billions to consumers) rather than giving everyone a check for $2.15
11.02.2025 00:00 — 👍 5787 🔁 1017 💬 78 📌 33Makes perfect sense to me, can’t have climate change if you don’t have a climate.
10.02.2025 22:03 — 👍 49 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0Art is, by nature, subversive, revolutionary, defiant. Tyrants always try to conquer it. It never works. There’s no one better in the world at hitting the “Do Not Touch” button than artists. The more taboo you make it, the hotter it gets.
11.02.2025 01:13 — 👍 58 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0It’s important to pay attention to them trying to take over art and artists. It means they are powerful tools for influence.
Use em to fuck this guy up.
it fucking sucks that substack waited until it had enticed a shitton of very good writers, established a very strong network effect, and created a sense of stability for authors in a time of great precarity before going open nazi. i moved, but it cost me & continues to cost me.
10.02.2025 23:38 — 👍 1711 🔁 340 💬 26 📌 9And it looks like it’s official. Trump is ignoring court orders.
The rubicon has been crossed.
We call upon our elected representatives to stand with us and to insist upon adherence to the rule of law and the legal processes and procedures that ensure orderly change. The administration cannot choose which law it will follow or ignore. These are not partisan or political issues. These are rule of law and process issues. We cannot afford to remain silent. We must stand up for the values we hold dear. The ABA will do its part and act to protect the rule of law. We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party or your views, change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less.
The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law."
Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/
19.01.2025 02:45 — 👍 1078 🔁 622 💬 64 📌 35to recap:
— Trump was *for* the TikTok ban
— which the GOP Congress passed
— and the GOP Supreme Court upheld
— and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway
— so that Trump could "save" it
— and the media fell for it
we really do live in the dumbest fucking country
AI OVERVIEW from Google search: “No, water will not freeze at 27 degrees Fahrenheit; water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. So, if the temperature is at 27 degrees Fahrenheit, the water will still be liquid. Explanation: The freezing point of water is 32 degrees Fahrenheit, meaning that water will begin to turn into ice when the temperature drops below 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Key point: Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. “
The amazing part isn’t just the wrong answer, but that the explanation it gives is accurate — and it *simply doesn’t know that 27 is a smaller number than 32.*
Billions of dollars spent to make a black box machine that doesn’t know something elementary school kids know.
I’m trying, and I hope other people will try, to hold onto the simple notion that a US president cannot simply declare a federal law that was passed last year and literally upheld this week to be a nullity—even if it’s a not-so-hot law. The Congress is the body that can amend or repeal federal laws.
19.01.2025 05:08 — 👍 5286 🔁 843 💬 207 📌 111
If you’re looking to support aid efforts that will hopefully now reach and remain safe in Gaza, I highly recommend donating to World Central Kitchen
“World Central Kitchen’s first-ever mobile bakery is now positioned in Gaza…. capable of producing up to 3,000 pitas an hour”
I have no idea what this even means, unless they are referring to having conquered the local newspaper. That he seems to have conquered for sure.
19.01.2025 00:17 — 👍 14261 🔁 2076 💬 1193 📌 197
And while Zuckerberg throws his former COO, Sheryl Sandberg, under the bus, Miller basks in Elon's warm embrace
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...
Not much to see here, just Mark Zuckerberg making sure that Stephen Miller, of all people, greenlights Facebook's new hiring policies.
Gift link to this excellent NYT piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...
