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🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · Nov 20

For new arrivals…hi, I’m Sarah. I’m a law librarian and legal technologist. My past is EDU and A2J, but now work more with Big Law. I like making things better, open source and free law, professional development, and telling people they’re wrong. I live in rural USA with my 82 year old dad.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 41m

Your response to the "No Kings" protest is shrieking that the president is the state and you can't oppose one without opposing the other? Ok man

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David Colarusso @davidcolarusso.com · 1h

Are you in Boston for #ClioCon? Let me know so I can add you to this list, and welcome.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 1h

it's getting more and more obvious that fixing what's broken in this country is going to require levels of integrity and moral clarity that most people just simply do not possess and I'm not sure what to do with that information

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🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 1h

now wait a goddamn minute....ROBERTS IS A REGION RAT?

(that means he's from Northwest Indiana, which is where I live.)

clip from John Roberts bio on wikipedia. "In 1965, ten-year-old Roberts and his family moved to Long Beach, Indiana, where his father became the manager of a new steel plant in nearby Burns Harbor.[15] By age 13, Roberts "already had a clear plan for his life."[16] He attended the parochial La Lumiere School,[17] an academically rigorous Catholic boarding school in La Porte, Indiana,[18] where he captained the school's football team, participated in track and field, and was a regional champion in wrestling. He also participated in choir and drama, and was a co-editor of the school newspaper.[15] He graduated in 1973 as class valedictorian, becoming the first graduate of the La Lumiere School to enroll at Harvard University.[19]"

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

One of my only remaining joys is that every single time Amy Coney Barrett makes a stupid argument, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets a chance to follow up and illustrate her stupidity.
And this will happen again, and again, for the rest of Barrett's life.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

A foundational truth of this republic is it has no king.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 2h

when we win and rebuild SCOTUS one thing we're surely gonna GODDAMN do is MAKE ALL ORAL ARGUMENTS VIDEO LIVE STREAMED.

🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 2h

kind of weird to be (a) trying to work (b) while watching play by play of significant SCOTUS oral arguments that may literally put final nail in democracy in United States and (c) simultaneously having The Fate of Ophelia stuck in your head.

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🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 2h

yup. it's why they freak out about being a minority.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

The fight here with Gorsuch and Kav vs Nelson is whether the "use" of race automatically means "discrimination" on the basis of race.

That's interesting to me, because it's basically the white folks telling on themselves. They cannot see a "use" of race that isn't synonymous with discrimination.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

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🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 3h

they're trying to Black Lives Matter/Defund the Police the "no kings" slogan but even racist, cop loving Americans are pretty solid on the issue of kings. but anyway, please keep going with your all monarchs matter and publicity for the rally this weekend.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 16h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

By now, foreign governments must have put their least effective and competent spies on the job of spying on us. It's just too easy.

Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 19h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 4h

maybe although I've seen people use it before - I think I even did at one point.

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Jordan Couch @jordanlcouch.bsky.social · 4h

It’s finally here! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTP2F33G

411 Tips for Solo and Small Firm Lawyers

411 Tips for Solo and Small Firm Lawyers [Couch, Jordan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. 411 Tips for Solo and Small Firm Lawyers

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15h

Here is the students' @idsnews.bsky.social report out of Indiana University, where the student media director was fired today. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 14h

What a terrible time to be literate.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 17h

My parents friend group had monthly party and their friend Gayle (who lived in amazing Victorian right on river) always claimed October because she reasoned she wouldn’t have to clean cobwebs.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17h

Homeowner tip: If you keep forgetting to power wash the exterior of your home, you’ll end up with a spooky collection of authentic cobwebs just in time for the Halloween season. Very scary!

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 19h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, Meta has taken down a Facebook group with nearly 80,000 members that tracked and reported ICE (immigration enforcement) activity in the Chicago area.-Chicago Sun-Times

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21h

The entire first two months of the Biden administration were taken up by obsessive complaining about how he wouldn't do press conferences & wasn't taking policy questions (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).

This? Gone tomorrow. Totally different set of standards applied to two totally different parties.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump: "I don't take questions from ABC fake news after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States."

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🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 19h

I know we’re doing the whole fall of empire thing but bringing back lead poisoning was a neat throwback from the writers. Well played.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 19h

Today was a launch of the City 2000 at 25 exhibit. See thousands of photos of the entire city captured 25 years ago.

Digitized, processed, described, managed, and access provided by the experts and amazing colleagues I work with.

scalar-prod.lib.uic.edu/city2000/index

Chicago in the Year 2000: Home

scalar-prod.lib.uic.edu

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🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 19h

Third times the charm!

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

An attorney in a New York Supreme Court commercial case got caught using AI in his filings, and then got caught using AI again in the brief where he had to explain why he used AI, according to court documents filed earlier this month.

🔗 www.404media.co/lawyer-using...

Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion fo...

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🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 21h

well the weird thing is, soybean oil is a "seed oil" which is up there with vaccines, artificial colors, and <checks notes> Tylenol as things MAHA hates. so i'm not sure where he's gonna go with this....

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🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 21h

it'd be nice if the White House press corp had one ounce of a spine and respect for their colleagues.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."