Lisa Needham

As I’ve been saying for ~8 or 9 years: If I could replace all the Republicans on the federal bench with Jay Bybee, I’d do it in a heartbeat—and no one is more surprised by that than 16-year-old me.

“It’s less fun to be a conlaw knower in a country without the rule of law” seems to occur to them but not their friends on SCOTUS

a few weeks ago it was john yoo saying that mayhaps bombing random boats might not magically become legal simply by intoning "drug trafficking" and now this. really hate living in the timeline where now even both torture memo guys are thinking things have gotten out of hand.

jay bybee? JAY BYBEE?

Well, this is a very bad way of describing this.

Like hands above the ocean tides holding onto to a shipwreck.

gotta say this is a super weird public humiliation kink to have, my dude. also, couldn't he just have gone straight to chatting with his imaginary AI friend rather than bothering Kathryn?

this was the first movie i saw in the theater at age 7. my mom was in the hospital in traction for 2 weeks, my dad had no idea what to do with my brother, age 3, and me, so he took us to the movies. i loved it, but my little brother crawled under his seat when they blew up the death star.

oh holy shit

ughhhh i hadn't even thought of that it might be "infusion of Barron's blood" or something

yeah, i'm generally not given to speculation like this either but my 85-year-old dad has severe dementia and a rare blood cancer that has completely compromised his bone marrow by now and he still is not in the ongoing regular IV level of care

YouTube video by Environ Architecture, Inc. Frank Gehry on The Simpsons

literally was going to post this right now lol. also:

let's give henry the transphobe the attention he wants before a block shall we?

Truly! Chris is so right here. It's astounding. www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-co...

I had to stop creating any appellate writing assignments that relied upon standing, which i'd reliably used for years because there's a defined test and a good-sized body of law and now it's just calvinball and you cannot teach students to write if they are trying to sort out calvinball and it sucks

YouTube video by Robert Hulshof-Schmidt Darling Be Home Soon - Anne Richmond Boston

<3

huge fan of the darin version but this one absolutely guts me

when i first developed my "john roberts is the worst chief justice in history" thesis i felt like i was overreaching but now i feel like that isn't even a strong enough statement

can district court judges just stop deciding cases and go draw their pensions or whatever? what's the point of careful, thoughtful, thorough rulings if the six conservatives on SCOTUS will reverse to get a preferred conservative result.

lmao you fucking credulous marks, there are a million fucking skull and crossbones tattoos in the world, there is, like, ONE that is specifically associated with the SS, you fucking rubes

Even for Mr. Trump — who has a long history of insulting Black people, particularly those from African countries — his outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry. And it came as he started a new ICE operation targeting Somalis in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region.

It does seem like “we’re sending troops after some Black immigrants I don’t like” is an escalation, to the extent that even the NYT is wiling to use some opinion-ish words

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

There are few positions more immediately clarifying than a person’s stance on the r-word.

New ICE Operation Is Said to Target Somali Migrants in Twin Cities

Only thing surprising about this is that it took this long for this racist garbage administration to target Somalis here

saw this in person finally at the haring retrospective at the Walker last year in Minneapolis and was just fucking flattened.

Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

hell yes this rules

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:

Dave Brubeck
Rosemary Clooney (twice)
Minutemen
Prince (thrice)
Shawn Colvin (at least a dozen)

this is the all-timer. we recite it in full every time we see any of these

Hey thanks!!

Goddamn the Tillman one goes so hard and I cannot wait to see the soccer jersey one as well.