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A fluffy cat with a flame point coloring, sitting on the floor with all legs tucked under in the loaf position. Looking at you.

Catloaf timeline cleanse.

It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!

The Supreme Court derives its power from its legitimacy. It earns its legitimacy by explaining its decisions. The endless stream of wholly unexplained orders in favor of the Trump administration is not just indefensible—it's a threat to the court's own long-term power. This reeks of illegitimacy.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the conservative majority wouldn’t let Biden halt a single border program, in a case where plaintiffs did not have standing and the actions were clearly lawful (as they later affirmed!), but did let Trump kill an entire Department via clearly unlawful actions.

Yes! Boo. Also the reviews made me question my sanity bc they were gushing about how great the author is but they must not have even been reading bc the prompts were there to see! Help

“It’s definitely a complex journey because I am many different things all at once. There’s no question in my mind that I’m Ugandan. There’s no question in my mind that I’m Indian. And there’s no question in my mind that I’m a New Yorker. And I’m all of these things, yet in each of these places I’ve been made to feel that it’s not actually my home to call– in Uganda, I’m told this guy is actually Indian, in India, I’m told this guy is actually Muslim, and in New York I’m everything but a New Yorker. But I’m realizing that it’s not a determination I should be outsourcing to others. It’s something that if I know and feel, then I need to become comfortable in asserting. Others will take time in catching up to that.”

This answer that Mamdani provided in a 2020 interview shows that he has always been extremely open about the complexities of his diasporic identity and remains the perfect rebuttal to the attempted scandal the NYT is trying to create today.

africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...

I encountered two fics on ao3 where the "authors" were passing them off as their writing, but they both forgot to remove the prompts one time... killed my interest in reading new fics there :/

This is also true on larger timescale. Treaties signed by one administration are vulnerable to being revoked because each election brings a new president who can unilaterally decide not to honor it. There's no point in working with the US.

Top Sexual Assault Hotline Drops Resources After Trump Orders

RAINN, the largest organization devoted to survivors of sexual abuse, has eliminated all resources for LGBTQ, immigrants, and other marginalized groups.

They're failing their core purpose.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/w...

Now from Öztürk’s ACLU lawyer Esha Bhandari:

“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”

People say "they're voting against their own interests", but we need to ask what those interests are first. Seems to me they are voting exactly in line with their priorities.

The horrors are not aberrations. This is the Trump administration's plan. This is their plan. But the plan is just that — a plan. It can and must be stopped.

NEW: The horrors are not aberrations. This is the Trump administration's plan.

This is their plan. But the plan is just that — a plan. It can and must be stopped.

My look this week, this afternoon at Law Dork —>

reporting on this has really got to get better about communicating the magnitude of the breach here. if you read the nyt article with minimal context, you would have no sense that this was watergate-level impeachable misconduct

Raskin and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) are giving law firms until April 28 to answer their Qs about who facilitated the deals they cut with Trump and what terms they agreed to.

Firms who got this letter:

Cadwalader
A&O Shearman
Latham & Watkins
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Kirkland & Ellis

Democrats Demand Answers From Top Law Firms That Caved To Trump's Wishes “Your agreement makes you complicit in efforts to undermine the rule of law," they fumed to five prominent firms that paid off Trump to avoid his attacks.

Key Democrats sent scathing letters to 5 top law firms demanding details on the lucrative deals they cut with Trump to avoid being punished by him.

“Your agreement makes you complicit in efforts to undermine the rule of law." www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

“Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy,” said Captain G M Gilbert, the army psychologist assigned to watching the Nazis on trial at Nuremberg.

Just in case you were wondering what to call it.

The same people defending the SAVE act are those who ran around claiming there were functional exceptions for abortion restrictions. Exhausting bad faith arguments parroting right wing talking points.

why is *every* newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been.

What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.

people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.

Knowing how many gamers supported the orange menace.....

US law firm Paul Weiss fired by client over Trump executive order Law firm Paul Weiss said in a court filing on Wednesday that a former executive facing criminal bribery charges has fired it as his defense counsel because of U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order this month targeting the firm.

5/ In a stunning announcement, Trump said that no government contracts would go to companies that employ legal firms that represent Democratic causes, a brazen and illegal attempt to cut off legal support for his opposition and lawsuits against him. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

9/ The tariffs are DESIGNED to create economic hardship. Why? So that Trump has a straight face rationale for releasing them, business by business or industry by industry.

As he adjusts or grants relief, it’s a win-win: the economy improves and dissent disappears.

2/ This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense.

That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.

can’t make this stuff up

4. With her consent, the University can confirm that Ms. Oztürk is a third-year doctoral student in good academic and administrative standing. Her research focuses on how young adults can use social media in positive, prosocial ways and she is described by her faculty as a hard-working student dedicated to her studies and the Tufts community. The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention. The University has seen an outpouring of support for Ms. Öztürk over the last week from Tufts students, faculty and staff. These individuals have described Ms. Öztürk as a valued member of the community, dedicated to her academic pursuits and committed to her colleagues.

NEW: Tufts files a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk: "The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention." www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

Every so often, it just comes back to me in full force. The political and economic order that allowed this man to come to power is obviously no longer tenable. The leaders who let it happen obviously have to be replaced. This is an epoch defining failure and we have to turn the page completely.

Hey, Politico --

I consider myself to have "long-term standing in the private legal community" and I have been willing to speak out almost every single day. And, I'm not alone.

Yes, there is widespread cowardice among law firms, but don't ignore those refusing to bow down.

Defiantly,

Marc Elias

A screenshot of a social media post from Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) dated March 22, 2025, at 7:39 AM. The post discusses the State of Maine apologizing for a statement made by their Governor regarding men playing in women's sports at the White House Governor’s Conference. Trump asserts that the Governor herself has not apologized and demands a direct apology and a commitment to avoid such "unlawful challenges" to the Federal Government. The post ends with “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! DJT.” Below the post, engagement metrics show 2.29k ReTruths and 9.58k Likes.

Maine caved and enacted a trans sports ban at the University level but it's still not enough.

Stop capitulating, they won't stop taking from you. They'll keep going until there's nothing left.