Lex Ludens
@lexludens.bsky.social
They/Them. Family law/legal generalist attorney interested in social justice issues, D.C., anti-racism, OSINT, politics, neurodivergence, games, and the law. Center-left. Agender, working on shrugging off masc socialization.
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The DOJ ordered US Marshals to the house of the pardon attorney who refused to sign off on a pardon to give Mel Gibson back his guns. Big law firms told her they supported her but did not want to be seen representing her.
This is the use of government-sponsored fear to silence dissent.
This is the use of government-sponsored fear to silence dissent.
November 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The DOJ ordered US Marshals to the house of the pardon attorney who refused to sign off on a pardon to give Mel Gibson back his guns. Big law firms told her they supported her but did not want to be seen representing her.
This is the use of government-sponsored fear to silence dissent.
This is the use of government-sponsored fear to silence dissent.
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
We send our kids news articles on their lingo to help expedite the uncool process where we can, but unfortunately they still know 6-7 annoys me.
lifehack if you are sick of a phrase people are using just start using it yourself but but it in quotation marks when you do. this grandpafies the phrase so fast that people will run screaming from its usage. trust me this little trick "hits different"
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We send our kids news articles on their lingo to help expedite the uncool process where we can, but unfortunately they still know 6-7 annoys me.
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But think about it from Halligan's perspective: her entire future depends on MAGA enduring & her being seen as a hardcore MAGA loyalist. And doing a wretchedly bad job but getting a nominal 'indictment' that a judge will then dismiss is better for her than not indicting, b/c she can blame the judge.
Selectively falsifying bits of the grand jury record was an obvious way to get herself in huge fucking trouble *and* lose the case, but she looks to have done it anyway because Dear Leader wanted to get Comey indicted and the statute of limitations was right about to close.
November 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
But think about it from Halligan's perspective: her entire future depends on MAGA enduring & her being seen as a hardcore MAGA loyalist. And doing a wretchedly bad job but getting a nominal 'indictment' that a judge will then dismiss is better for her than not indicting, b/c she can blame the judge.
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Please don't let her be the only one. Larry Summers is a massive figure in Democratic politics. He's also a racist and misogynistic sex pest, a best friend to Jeffrey Epstein for more than a decade after his first conviction for child prostitution, and a reactionary centrist to boot.
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Please don't let her be the only one. Larry Summers is a massive figure in Democratic politics. He's also a racist and misogynistic sex pest, a best friend to Jeffrey Epstein for more than a decade after his first conviction for child prostitution, and a reactionary centrist to boot.
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If that didn't immediately set off a song in your head, you are in for a treat
Eat, Fry, Love: A Cautionary Remix (REUPLOAD)
YouTube video by Dingle Dangle
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November 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If that didn't immediately set off a song in your head, you are in for a treat
The DOJ was targeted for corruption early on in Trump's second term. It's hard not to conclude that the extent of a government office corrupted by Trump is in direct correlation to his ability to use the office for his own ends and his ability to influence it.
Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The DOJ was targeted for corruption early on in Trump's second term. It's hard not to conclude that the extent of a government office corrupted by Trump is in direct correlation to his ability to use the office for his own ends and his ability to influence it.
The best I can justify this nonsense with is Nuzzi heard the phrase "spitting bullets" while watching Gurren Lagann and thought of a mech shooting a bullet that somehow shot another bullet.
In case you writers out there have ever felt imposter syndrome, "From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible" is an actual sentence in whatever this is.
Vanity Fair's West Coast Editor Olivia Nuzzi was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The best I can justify this nonsense with is Nuzzi heard the phrase "spitting bullets" while watching Gurren Lagann and thought of a mech shooting a bullet that somehow shot another bullet.
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone KILLS drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone KILLS drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.
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Sexual harassment & bullying is power. Power, prestige, & connections of the abusers leveraged against those without it.
Academia is full of these power differentials. That coupled with institutional refusal to enforce anti-discrimination measures leads to this type of abuse. He's but ONE of many.
Academia is full of these power differentials. That coupled with institutional refusal to enforce anti-discrimination measures leads to this type of abuse. He's but ONE of many.
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender…
www.thecrimson.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Sexual harassment & bullying is power. Power, prestige, & connections of the abusers leveraged against those without it.
Academia is full of these power differentials. That coupled with institutional refusal to enforce anti-discrimination measures leads to this type of abuse. He's but ONE of many.
Academia is full of these power differentials. That coupled with institutional refusal to enforce anti-discrimination measures leads to this type of abuse. He's but ONE of many.
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The legal profession is chock full of women who interviewed with lots of law firms in hotel rooms as first or second year law students
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The legal profession is chock full of women who interviewed with lots of law firms in hotel rooms as first or second year law students
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i created this to annoy a buddy who hates springsteen and tolkein, and ended up crafting my finest work of art yet
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The Two Thunder Roads
YouTube video by talkwordy
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November 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
i created this to annoy a buddy who hates springsteen and tolkein, and ended up crafting my finest work of art yet
youtu.be/0pLVt_phV5o?...
youtu.be/0pLVt_phV5o?...
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
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I really think we are seeing an MTG/Funetes/Carlson alliance forming.
I love what that spells for MAGA right now, and also I have deep misgivings for what that is going to mean in the longer term
I love what that spells for MAGA right now, and also I have deep misgivings for what that is going to mean in the longer term
November 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I really think we are seeing an MTG/Funetes/Carlson alliance forming.
I love what that spells for MAGA right now, and also I have deep misgivings for what that is going to mean in the longer term
I love what that spells for MAGA right now, and also I have deep misgivings for what that is going to mean in the longer term
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a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans
Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.
veritenews.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
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Rich rapists have unbelievable levels of solidarity
November 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Rich rapists have unbelievable levels of solidarity
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You cannot forgive wrongs that were not done unto you.
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
You cannot forgive wrongs that were not done unto you.
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truly it is a mystery why women find it hard to get ahead in academia
"I could be a mentor to this very sharp person but as they aren't interested in me romantically I'm going to have to cut off all communication with them."
"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."
"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."
November 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
truly it is a mystery why women find it hard to get ahead in academia
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This is the publication most responsible for pushing the narrative that leftist thinkers and organizers are the ones who live in a bubble.
November 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is the publication most responsible for pushing the narrative that leftist thinkers and organizers are the ones who live in a bubble.
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NEWS: President Trump has issued a *second* pardon for Jan. 6 defendant Dan Wilson.
Wilson, a militia member, remained in prison on a firearms conviction unrelated to the Capitol attack. But Trump's new pardon explicitly covers the gun charges. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Wilson, a militia member, remained in prison on a firearms conviction unrelated to the Capitol attack. But Trump's new pardon explicitly covers the gun charges. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
NEWS: President Trump has issued a *second* pardon for Jan. 6 defendant Dan Wilson.
Wilson, a militia member, remained in prison on a firearms conviction unrelated to the Capitol attack. But Trump's new pardon explicitly covers the gun charges. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Wilson, a militia member, remained in prison on a firearms conviction unrelated to the Capitol attack. But Trump's new pardon explicitly covers the gun charges. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
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The cybertruck is a massive men's rights win. Finally a car that she won't take in the divorce.
October 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The cybertruck is a massive men's rights win. Finally a car that she won't take in the divorce.
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Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly
Welcome to the third Red Scare.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
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During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org