Deb Golden

I mean, have you looked at the world lately? It's exhausting af.

Ted Cruz, hater of cops and spelling

Just brings me joy!

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women - Wikipedia

Like there wasn't a whole book about what was going on at the time
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lolll this quote is a banger: “The best approach is putting drug dogs in the officer’s locker rooms, because that’s where it’s coming in.”

Judge McKee once opened on my counsel with "Counsel, I appreciated the concession in your opening brief that your client is no angel. Then I read the other side's papers and realized that was the understatement of the century."

Because of the order I put things in, some theory of prisons before disability issues, and that I would have them Google in class, I did have an internal game where I waited for the first student to realize that @sbagen.bsky.social is married to @mjschlanger.bsky.social.

We probably did get along best of anyone in that office

Way back when I would adjunct, I would ask students to look up the judge, who they clerked for, what they published, etc. Same with the lawyers arguing cases. How did this case get here? Apparently no one else asks this.

Thinking about this one summer intern at an old job that thought my boss (a happily coupled gay man) and I were having an affair. Our paralegal could barely stop laughing enough to be able to tell us at a staff meeting.

Worry me*

Although, tbf, also the American love affair with guns that means he could get shot any time

Now that I raise a nerdy smart teenager, those little influences are the things that work me, keep me up at night.

& a deeply generous man whose mom was in a camp pulled me aside and explained what it was really like for her.

If I had been trying to hide and was in a different environment, one invested in a different set of values, I probably would have been applauded or at least encouraged on that path.

I mean, truly, one of the formative experiences of my young high school life, that I think sent me down the path to my current career, was at one of those religious things I tried to hide in.

I said a really stupid uninformed frankly bigoted thing about the Japanese internment.

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I have hope for @51st.news for local, but there's no national replacement. Just nothing

It's so off the wall bad reading.

I say as a gifted nerdy closeted queer kid in the 80s who wanted to hide in the certainty of a religion like strict Catholicism, but oops, I was a Reform Jew, so accidently hung out with cool rabbis.

I could have gone ACB.

It gus me. Bezos killed an institution. And he has so much money, he could have just turned over a big ass pile of it and been a hero, a patron of great journalism and democracy.

Hot dog spill shuts down highway in Pennsylvania commuters' wurst nightmare By Associated Press UPDATED: August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM ET SHREWSBURY, Pa. (AP) - A truckload of hot dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania interstate Friday after a crash that briefly clogged the heavily traveled artery in both directions.

A writer waits a lifetime for a moment like this.

None*

I was crying so much I couldn't type

I just finished the Ice Chips episode of The Bear and why are Boone of you here to discuss it with me 😭😭😭

Thank you for the work of the angels

I once told my now 15 y/o that ‘gazpacho!’ was the Spanish version of ‘voila!’ and I’ve never corrected her.

I mean, I had no idea that NY had that weird wage law, but that's why if someone asked me, a decent enough lawyer if I say so myself, to draft a NY employment related contract, I'd suggest hiring a NY employment lawyer.

And to connect the day's threads, not a lawyer who happened to be in NY.

If Sam Alito divorced me, does me have to pay me alimony?

Cool cool cool. Love to see a court case trying to forcibly divorce me.

Bikini waxer

Sensei

My dominatrix

Nah, that shit can be subpoenaed

Can I tell you a secret? I'm better off now financially than when I worked at a big nonprofit with the big nonprofit overhead.