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@legalminimum.bsky.social
No longer head lawyer for Bungie. Kinda retired. Have entered my super villain era. Ex-Chief Legal Officer of Pokémon. Produced Detective Pikachu. Entertainment Law prof (University of Washington). Supporter of trans kids.
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Looks like another person got himself in immigration trouble, which makes me think it might be timely to give some guidance on ways to mitigate this particular risk. The story is cut off but you see at the bottom of the screenshot where it says he had arranged something with his employer 1/
This is what’s lighting a fire under me to finish my book. I have another project to which I need to get. Helpful personal fact: my wife is a sociologist, so I can rely on her for the heavy theory lifting.
I’m writing some because you’ve identified the gap. Then my plan is to hit the PTA circuit.
December 9, 2025 at 5:21 AM
This is what’s lighting a fire under me to finish my book. I have another project to which I need to get. Helpful personal fact: my wife is a sociologist, so I can rely on her for the heavy theory lifting.
I’ve decided to use my handle as a word count so you all know I listened to you and #AmWriting.
December 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I’ve decided to use my handle as a word count so you all know I listened to you and #AmWriting.
Subscribe to LC. They deserve your eyeballs.
We need another $20,000 to hit our next crucial milestone of making it one-third of the way to our goal. We are not The Atlantic or the NYT. We will not ever promote open race "science" guys like Richard Hanania, or abandon trans people. Please help us compete those who would gofund.me/bb5e8eaed
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Subscribe to LC. They deserve your eyeballs.
HUMANS! If you care about child safety on the Internet, follow my friend Maureen. She's one of the best in the world on this stuff. Her statement below is correct, as is most everything she says.
There are two pernicious trends that have been encouraged here. The casual acceptance of criminal activity shifted away from criminals. And the casual weakening of parental responsibility for child safety. Both are bad, very bad.
December 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
HUMANS! If you care about child safety on the Internet, follow my friend Maureen. She's one of the best in the world on this stuff. Her statement below is correct, as is most everything she says.
Seeing all the coverage of the Slaughter hearing today made me wonder how this similar one was going. Oh look.
Unlawfully Fired Independent Board Members Take Legal Action Against Trump-Vance Administration's Race Discrimination - Democracy Forward
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December 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Seeing all the coverage of the Slaughter hearing today made me wonder how this similar one was going. Oh look.
But on the other hand, people might have had to vote for a Black lady who had once been the Attorney General of her state. So really, there was no right choice.
This is super cool bc:
1) Many of the highest-risk conditions, like ME/CFS & Long Covid, aren't on the list
2) The best way to protect the vulnerable is to protect the population so others don't infect them
3) None of this accounts for Novavax which is not mRNA
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
1) Many of the highest-risk conditions, like ME/CFS & Long Covid, aren't on the list
2) The best way to protect the vulnerable is to protect the population so others don't infect them
3) None of this accounts for Novavax which is not mRNA
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
CDC panel votes to limit who is eligible for this fall's Covid vaccine
Only people 65 and over or with underlying health conditions should get the shots, the advisory group recommended. There may be insurance roadblocks for others.
www.nbcnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
But on the other hand, people might have had to vote for a Black lady who had once been the Attorney General of her state. So really, there was no right choice.
If she honestly believed anything she's saying (yes, I know), she would resign her job immediately and insist that Trump appoint someone smarter.
Rollins: "The bridge that is needed to get from the last administration & what basically happened under the last president to this new golden age for farmers where instead of farming for govt checks they can farm to feed their families and sell their products, this bridge is absolutely necessary"
December 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
If she honestly believed anything she's saying (yes, I know), she would resign her job immediately and insist that Trump appoint someone smarter.
Let them fight dot gif.
That said, this is how the American system “works”: someone with a state-sanctioned monopoly gets angry that someone else is pushing in on it and fights back.
Let’s see how this goes. Didn’t work for the taxi folks, but at least Uber/Lyft provide a useful service for some.
That said, this is how the American system “works”: someone with a state-sanctioned monopoly gets angry that someone else is pushing in on it and fights back.
Let’s see how this goes. Didn’t work for the taxi folks, but at least Uber/Lyft provide a useful service for some.
oh my god i just saw an american gaming association ad against betting markets lol
December 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Let them fight dot gif.
That said, this is how the American system “works”: someone with a state-sanctioned monopoly gets angry that someone else is pushing in on it and fights back.
Let’s see how this goes. Didn’t work for the taxi folks, but at least Uber/Lyft provide a useful service for some.
That said, this is how the American system “works”: someone with a state-sanctioned monopoly gets angry that someone else is pushing in on it and fights back.
Let’s see how this goes. Didn’t work for the taxi folks, but at least Uber/Lyft provide a useful service for some.
This is why we need to fund the public schools better: dorks like this would know that Neville Chamberlain was weak in the face of Hitler’s desire to carve up territory to his own benefit. As in: Trump is playing the Hitler role in this particular metaphor.
Indiana's Christian nationalist Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith blasts Republicans who are resisting efforts to redistrict his state as "Neville Chamberlain types" who "think they can make peace with Hitler." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
December 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This is why we need to fund the public schools better: dorks like this would know that Neville Chamberlain was weak in the face of Hitler’s desire to carve up territory to his own benefit. As in: Trump is playing the Hitler role in this particular metaphor.
Not a @runforsomething.net story, but also not not a @runforsomething.net story.
She took a chance, ran for city council — and won by 20 votes
Sam Doyle’s nail-biter of a win serves as something of a case study for people who might be interested in running for office for the first time.
www.seattletimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Not a @runforsomething.net story, but also not not a @runforsomething.net story.
After my summer spent working in a boiler room, I knew my way around the USA and Canada by area code.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
December 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
After my summer spent working in a boiler room, I knew my way around the USA and Canada by area code.
I would like every idiot who, when Greene turned on Trump, started to believe the enemy of their enemy was their friend, to take a look at this. Sometimes your enemy’s enemy is just that.
LESLEY STAHL: You contributed to the toxic culture. You were out there pounding, insulting people
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: You've contributed to it as well
STAHL: I want you to respond to what you have done in terms of insulting people
MTG: I'd like for you to respond to that
December 8, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I would like every idiot who, when Greene turned on Trump, started to believe the enemy of their enemy was their friend, to take a look at this. Sometimes your enemy’s enemy is just that.
I suspect this isn’t the one you’d have thought I’d pick.
December 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I suspect this isn’t the one you’d have thought I’d pick.
Thread. It’s all great.
I feel compelled to write a review thread 🧵 for The Liz Truss Show because in the madness of the content, other aspects - vital aspects - are being missed.
1. The Aesthetics
Unless they were aiming for "Harley Street urologist waiting room circa 1992" this interview area is just unacceptable. 1/
1. The Aesthetics
Unless they were aiming for "Harley Street urologist waiting room circa 1992" this interview area is just unacceptable. 1/
December 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Thread. It’s all great.
Nick Emmanwori is having a fucking GAME.
December 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Nick Emmanwori is having a fucking GAME.
Falcons kicker Zane Gonzalez has very strong Todd Bonzalez energy.
December 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Falcons kicker Zane Gonzalez has very strong Todd Bonzalez energy.
And that’s why teams let Sam Darnold go.
December 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
And that’s why teams let Sam Darnold go.
Is it because they’re so fucking smug? Why do all of these people have such punchable faces?
CURTIS: All of us need to wake up every morning & say, 'what am I doing to make immigrants feel welcome' regardless of an individual says
BASH: But he's not just an individual. He's the president calling an entire community garbage
C: We knew very well what we were electing. We wanted a disrupter
BASH: But he's not just an individual. He's the president calling an entire community garbage
C: We knew very well what we were electing. We wanted a disrupter
December 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Is it because they’re so fucking smug? Why do all of these people have such punchable faces?
Prof Zimmer always has good observations. Thread.
What is next for MAGA?
I wrote about the MAGA civil war, the dynamics shaping this ugly struggle for supremacy on the Right, what Trumpism without Trump might look like, and why MAGA is likely to emerge more ideological and more radical.
Some thoughts from my new piece for @zeit.de:
I wrote about the MAGA civil war, the dynamics shaping this ugly struggle for supremacy on the Right, what Trumpism without Trump might look like, and why MAGA is likely to emerge more ideological and more radical.
Some thoughts from my new piece for @zeit.de:
MAGA: Wie MAGA um die Zeit nach Trump kämpft
Donald Trumps Macht über seine Bewegung wird rissig. Sie streitet schon jetzt, wer nach ihm kommt – und zwar auf ihre Art: Die Rede ist vom MAGA-Bürgerkrieg.
www.zeit.de
December 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Prof Zimmer always has good observations. Thread.
Being a naturalized citizen, I find it interesting that the current attack on birthright citizenship leaves me functionally immune to challenge because I can literally document the date on which I was granted US citizenship.
December 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Being a naturalized citizen, I find it interesting that the current attack on birthright citizenship leaves me functionally immune to challenge because I can literally document the date on which I was granted US citizenship.
Thanks to @marisakabas.bsky.social for her independent media roundup this week which reminded me I had planned to sign up for @liberalcurrents.com but hadn't gotten myself organized enough to do it. Now done. My only quibble is that Ms Kabas skipped @defector.com and @discourseblog.com.
December 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Thanks to @marisakabas.bsky.social for her independent media roundup this week which reminded me I had planned to sign up for @liberalcurrents.com but hadn't gotten myself organized enough to do it. Now done. My only quibble is that Ms Kabas skipped @defector.com and @discourseblog.com.
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Today, we remember the women murdered at the University of Montreal on December 6, 1989 for having the audacity to be women in an Engineering program. We see and remember their names.
École Polytechnique massacre - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Today, we remember the women murdered at the University of Montreal on December 6, 1989 for having the audacity to be women in an Engineering program. We see and remember their names.
I want to give this lady her flowers. She’s a chef making what looks like incredible meals for hundreds using food she gets from her local food bank. Everyday heroes.
Today @ the food bank: CHARRED SCALLION SHAKSHUKA, curry chicken + garlic bread. Was sososososo happy to see scallion, one of my favourite ingredients #cookeat #fyp #volunteer #foodbank #food
TikTok video by maddygoldberg1
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December 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I want to give this lady her flowers. She’s a chef making what looks like incredible meals for hundreds using food she gets from her local food bank. Everyday heroes.
The first entry, though.
“While he watched over FaceTime, I slowly poured liquid Tylenol all over my naked body. I loved him enough to make myself autistic. He wept.”
More Excerpts from Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto
“Forget the sex; the real scandal here is the crime against language.” — Brian Phillips, The Ringer, on Olivia Nuzzi’s new memoir, American Canto, ...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The first entry, though.
Today, we remember the women murdered at the University of Montreal on December 6, 1989 for having the audacity to be women in an Engineering program. We see and remember their names.
École Polytechnique massacre - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Today, we remember the women murdered at the University of Montreal on December 6, 1989 for having the audacity to be women in an Engineering program. We see and remember their names.