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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PRO TIP
When certain things make you intensely uncomfortable like certain discussions of consent
or forgiveness
that is often a sign that you have work to do. I invite you to sit, quietly, with your discomfort. I invite you to focus on people who's opinions and thoughts you value and respect...
When certain things make you intensely uncomfortable like certain discussions of consent
or forgiveness
that is often a sign that you have work to do. I invite you to sit, quietly, with your discomfort. I invite you to focus on people who's opinions and thoughts you value and respect...
November 18, 2025 at 5:32 AM
PRO TIP
When certain things make you intensely uncomfortable like certain discussions of consent
or forgiveness
that is often a sign that you have work to do. I invite you to sit, quietly, with your discomfort. I invite you to focus on people who's opinions and thoughts you value and respect...
When certain things make you intensely uncomfortable like certain discussions of consent
or forgiveness
that is often a sign that you have work to do. I invite you to sit, quietly, with your discomfort. I invite you to focus on people who's opinions and thoughts you value and respect...
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"Heck of a job, Bobby."
"If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization."
(gift link)
"If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization."
(gift link)
C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
"Heck of a job, Bobby."
"If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization."
(gift link)
"If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization."
(gift link)
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I’m not sure I see the logic in continuing to teach but stepping back from, like, making public appearances? The issue is with behavior while teaching. Why would it do anything to, like, step off the lecture circuit or whatever? That’s emphatically not the problem.
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Emails revealed that Summers sought advice from Epstein on romantically pursuing a woman he referred to as his mentee.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I’m not sure I see the logic in continuing to teach but stepping back from, like, making public appearances? The issue is with behavior while teaching. Why would it do anything to, like, step off the lecture circuit or whatever? That’s emphatically not the problem.
Divorce according to my clients.
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Divorce according to my clients.
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A realistic dramatized portrayal of the inner workings of SCOTUS—
(1) in many respects, would undermine perceptions of the Court’s legitimacy, and
(2) in most aspects, would be unimaginably boring
(1) in many respects, would undermine perceptions of the Court’s legitimacy, and
(2) in most aspects, would be unimaginably boring
Neal Katyal says he's working on a TV show that he describes as "The West Wing for the Supreme Court," and my question is, have We As A Society not suffered enough
A Brief History Of Awful TV Shows About the Supreme Court
The concept of “The West Wing for the Supreme Court” might be the only thing more upsetting than the actual Supreme Court.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
A realistic dramatized portrayal of the inner workings of SCOTUS—
(1) in many respects, would undermine perceptions of the Court’s legitimacy, and
(2) in most aspects, would be unimaginably boring
(1) in many respects, would undermine perceptions of the Court’s legitimacy, and
(2) in most aspects, would be unimaginably boring
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Everyone's missing potentially the most interesting thing about this order, which is the judge's finding that Halligan may have returned an indictment that was never presented to the jury
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Everyone's missing potentially the most interesting thing about this order, which is the judge's finding that Halligan may have returned an indictment that was never presented to the jury
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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.
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
www.youtube.com
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
youtu.be/0pLVt_phV5o?...
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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.