Esquire at Sufferance

These people were enslaved as laborers for a call center soliciting church donations in case you’re wondering the exact level of where we went wrong as a human species

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

I love that this is how I found your account here. Congratulations!!!

To be absolutely fair: Dem leaders don't have to do this because their base routinely does it for them. "That's what they get for living in a red state," after every natural disaster and failure by the govt.

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself?

"fork lady is eroding public confidence."

"ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field."

"lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability."

that's what you sound like.

75 years ago today, the Internal Security Act became federal law in the US, requiring communists to "register" with the Attorney General, and banning them from federal employment. It also excluded tens of thousands of immigrants on a political basis.

If this is the design of the statue, I sure hope that students don't leave dildos or other lewd things in its open hand. That would be terrible.

The gap between how law actually works and how Americans think law works is enormous and growing. Even though it's not entirely their fault, I blame the 3 million legal dramas on TV over the last 50 years.

Trans rights are human rights.

The only hope of uniting this country is in our shared hatred of health insurance companies. We should lean into that.

Call my boss, I dare you.

#OTD in 1963, a dynamite blast planted by the Ku Klux Klan killed four young girls in the church: Denise McNair, age 11, and Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins, all 14 years old. Twenty other people were injured. No one was arrested for the bombings for 14 years.

Hi!

I was homeless.

That's me he wants to kill.

If you don't know me, hi, I am pretty nice, I think. I'm a privacy lawyer. I drive a cute yellow Bronco. I do art. I have two really fluffy Maine coon cats. I volunteer at food banks when I can.

This guy would have killed me for being homeless.

He actually didn't. Y'all are just infants who mistake an even tone with civility.

restarting my life. if anyone can at least just share. please do

Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.

/8 I think there is a temptation, if you talk and write and debate for a living, to say that talking and writing and debating is inherently morally praiseworthy. I'm not sure it is. But that reflects a general philosophical split that I have with many people who talk about free speech:

First they came for Bill Clinton, and I said, yes, that man is a sex pest, get him

It Only Tuesday

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

I think they said, 50501 licks boots. It's an accurate statement in my area at least, given that the organizers seem to think inviting cops and prison guards to protests is a-ok!

a woman is sitting in a chair with her hand in her hair and smiling . Alt: Woman shrugging

“Why don’t you post about law stuff as much anymore”

Me, wondering what “the law” even is anymore:

Or, don't do that and get sat on the jury and then teach the other members about jury nullification.

I'm a lawyer. Lol, no.

Never forget ACAB.

Why are you drinking antifreeze?

Not checking the doomsday clock is self care ✨