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Charlotte Garden
@charlottegarden.bsky.social
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Professor @ University of Minnesota Law School. Teaching & writing about workers' rights; skeeting in my personal capacity, mostly about cats.
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“Excuse me, I heard there would be snacks????”
November 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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According to his wife, Stephen Miller eats only mayonnaise.

I cannot decide if this disgusting fact is the most or least surprising thing I've read this week.
Ms. Johnson revealed that her husband “eats almost everything except cranberry sauce, mayonnaise and bananas,” which could have been viewed as subtly undermining of Ms. Miller, who revealed on the debut episode of her podcast that Mr. Miller eats only mayonnaise. Literally.
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Im a sucker for the copy on the RL website
In the process, it also helped democracy flower, ensuring that even those in the country’s farthest reaches could have access to newspapers and magazines printed far away. No less an observer than Alexis de Tocqueville called it “the great link between minds” in 1831, and that was before the Pony Express began serving the frontier on horseback, an iconic image that still resonates nearly two centuries later.
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Things are not looking up for James, who is growing weary of the “stackable cats” game
A tuxedo cat has another tuxedo cat’s legs in his face A tuxedo cat’s face pokes out from under another cat’s body
November 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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James, after 10 minutes of reading this website
A cat wrapped up in blankets, with a glassy eyed expression
November 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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update from The Menace: She‘s finally figured out how James can contribute to the household
A tuxedo cat lies flat on his back, while a torbie cat uses him as a pillow
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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”Doctors agreed that long wait times for appointments were bad, yet also expressed concerns about patients turning to magic 8 balls for medical advice”
Doctors we spoke with said they agreed that there are real flaws in the medical system. But they also said they worried about how often people seemed to be turning to chatbots — which have been known to give incomplete or entirely made-up answers — for such high-stakes decisions.
November 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Just need to re-punctuate: "Anti-ICE protests rock, Charlotte!"
A still from the Simpsons: "Works on contingency? No, money down!"
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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OMG
It’s challenging to unpack the DOJ Letter because it contains so many factual, legal, and typographical errors. Indeed, even attorneys employed by the Texas Attorney General—who professes to be a political ally of the Trump Administration54—describe the DOJ Letter as “legally[] unsound,”55 “baseless,”56 “erroneous,”57 “ham-fisted,”58 and “a mess.”59
November 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Err…
You think I sleep with a phone full of evidence? You think I don’t wipe my phone every night? You think I’m dumb? Come get me.”
November 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Guess who:
The official who delivered the message, Paul Ingrassia, is a lawyer who previously represented the Tate brothers before joining the White House, where he was working as its DHS liaison.
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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This is some weapons-grade nonsense
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
No Democrat has had a better two years than Gavin Newsom and because of it, the California governor — a national figure since he was a 36-year-old boy mayor — has claimed a new title: front-runner.
November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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New from WaPo: travel tips from/for absolute psychopaths
Once you pass security, embrace your newfound anonymity. Maybe you’re going to your friend’s wedding in Rhode Island, but you’d rather play a road warrior headed to a cement conference in Las Vegas. Maybe you want to try a new accent. The bar is your oyster. Walk by at the crack of dawn or in the middle of a Tuesday, and you’ll find strangers sharing pet photos, shedding tears together and forming bonds that can last a few hours — or change the trajectory of their lives.
November 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I like how the implication here is that people ordering shared dishes want to eat them with strangers
Share plates have become the new standard, especially among Gen Z, and communal tables are the perfect setting for that — they naturally turn dinner into a shared experience," Pablo Rivero, CEO of Resy and Tock and Senior Vice President of Global Dining at American Express, said. "You never know who you'll be seated next to; that's the fun of it!
November 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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I wasn’t sure! But thought it was too big to be a duck?
A white bird - maybe a swan? Maybe a duck? A group of…swans?
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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This swan doesn’t cross picket lines @sbworkersunited.org
A swan, pictured from the neck up, looking directly at the camera
November 14, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Folks, we are truly through the looking glass here.

This statement - from Senator Jim Banks - could have been taken verbatim from an article lamenting the censorious left.
“At least one student in the classroom was uncomfortable, and I’m sure there are more,” he said. “This type of hateful rhetoric has no place in the classroom.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Third, this is a really depressing view of the purpose and scope of higher ed
“Curriculum is created and approved based on the accepted body of knowledge needed for our students to be successful in their chosen profession,” Mr. Torn said. “It is unacceptable for other material to be taught instead.”
November 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Exhibit A:
Summers to Epstein: U r wall st tough guy w intellectual curiosity. Epstein to Summers: And you an interllectual with a Wall Street curiosity
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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This is Gus; we adopted her after she made clear that she had no desire to be a mouser on our friend's parents' alpaca farm. Once we showed her a bird feeder live-feed on my laptop; after that, she'd diligently check all household computers and TVs for birds
A torbie cat lies on the floor. She is clutching a shredded roll of paper towels.
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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There's *so much* in there about Bannon's work to promote the far-right in the US and Europe, e.g., this exchange the usefulness of giving the press and the public an enemy to focus on (specifically, China):
Epstein: They need the new eyeballs. Big targets., Russia not useful, trump dead for a while. Health care over. China perfect pinata" "yes yes yes"
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Also, it's clear throughout that Bannon thinks Trump is an idiot, e.g., here's how he talks about advising others to deal with Trump
"Of course ::: very complex -- just tell potus: 'Orange Man Great'
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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E.g., Bannon is soliciting Epstein's ideas here:
Take the lead on getting me potential names and ideas -- we are begging [beginning] process of pulling footage
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Here's Epstein casually talking about Trump's strategy for dealing with the threat posed by the Deutschebank subpoena:
"yes, it is a race, they have also asked for too much. so to fully understand it will take forever, unless weissleburg leads them through it and that would require fed immunity , unlikely to be authorized by barr. nystate, is the key." "unless barr makes weissleburg a material witness and keeps him away from ny. fun play"
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM