The Questionable Authority
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Father, Army Husband (Ret.), lawyer. KUSK alum; public servant. Litigation disaster tour guide. Odd Fellow (and odd fellow). Proud member of the terminally online community since 1993. he/him
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Deleted a post because I cannot, in fact, confirm whether someone is or is not fucking kidding me.
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Deleted a post because I cannot, in fact, confirm whether someone is or is not fucking kidding me.
We have progressed from the "stopped on the taxiway looking at the terminal waiting for a gate" phase of flight to the "parked at the gate looking at the jet bridge waiting for a gate agent" phase.
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We have progressed from the "stopped on the taxiway looking at the terminal waiting for a gate" phase of flight to the "parked at the gate looking at the jet bridge waiting for a gate agent" phase.
They keep them on the shelf below the binders full of women.
Mike Johnson on the Republican healthcare plan: "We've got notebooks full of ideas."
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
They keep them on the shelf below the binders full of women.
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Few things have made more more mad over recent months than the attention given to this while the Supreme Court is actually taking step after step to make life more difficult for trans and nonbinary people.
Like, this actually happened last week — in an unsigned order.
Like, this actually happened last week — in an unsigned order.
SCOTUS lets Trump administration implement anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy
The Democratic appointees, led by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented. The ruling, which applies during litigation, effectively reverses two lower court rulings.
www.lawdork.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Few things have made more more mad over recent months than the attention given to this while the Supreme Court is actually taking step after step to make life more difficult for trans and nonbinary people.
Like, this actually happened last week — in an unsigned order.
Like, this actually happened last week — in an unsigned order.
Doctors owe patients duties. Lawyers owe clients duties. Clergy owe penitents duties. A a minimum, all have a duty to act in the best interests of the patient/client/penitent.
You want to privilege communications with a LLM, you need to explain what duty the LLM owes the babbler.
You want to privilege communications with a LLM, you need to explain what duty the LLM owes the babbler.
More and more people these days are interacting with LLMs as legal, psychological, and spiritual confidants. The government should not be able to have access to those thoughts willy nilly. My latest: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Opinion | Doctors, Lawyers and Priests Keep Secrets. Why Not Your Chatbot?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Doctors owe patients duties. Lawyers owe clients duties. Clergy owe penitents duties. A a minimum, all have a duty to act in the best interests of the patient/client/penitent.
You want to privilege communications with a LLM, you need to explain what duty the LLM owes the babbler.
You want to privilege communications with a LLM, you need to explain what duty the LLM owes the babbler.
If you throw a staff member under the bus when you are the attorney, you are beneath contempt. Utterly reprehensible.
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![A: No. AI was not used to beef up the brief….
Q: [Judge offers more details.] … Did you use AI in using that quote, counsel?
A: No….
Q: Then how did it get there? …
A: An individual who works at the office drafts briefs, prepares them.
Q: Maybe the individual. Did the individual use AI and report it to you?
A: It is possible, but that person did not—
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November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If you throw a staff member under the bus when you are the attorney, you are beneath contempt. Utterly reprehensible.
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There's a baby on here with very healthy lungs, and, kiddo, at this point in the flight, so say we all. Right there with you - in spirit, if not in decibels.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
There's a baby on here with very healthy lungs, and, kiddo, at this point in the flight, so say we all. Right there with you - in spirit, if not in decibels.
Diaries and the like are generally not privileged.
And if you don't see why that's a better analogy than 'lawyer' or 'priest,' you need to touch grass.
And if you don't see why that's a better analogy than 'lawyer' or 'priest,' you need to touch grass.
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Diaries and the like are generally not privileged.
And if you don't see why that's a better analogy than 'lawyer' or 'priest,' you need to touch grass.
And if you don't see why that's a better analogy than 'lawyer' or 'priest,' you need to touch grass.
I was promised linear time, but it just turned Monday again and that was yesterday.
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I was promised linear time, but it just turned Monday again and that was yesterday.
For those who want/need a reminder of why:
I don't think anyone making the (correct) prediction thinks SCOTUS routinely acts in good faith or respects precedent, or has confidence that Obergefell is safe in the long term.
But this was clearly not the case that would result in its downfall.
I don't think anyone making the (correct) prediction thinks SCOTUS routinely acts in good faith or respects precedent, or has confidence that Obergefell is safe in the long term.
But this was clearly not the case that would result in its downfall.
As literally everyone knowledgeable predicted.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
For those who want/need a reminder of why:
I don't think anyone making the (correct) prediction thinks SCOTUS routinely acts in good faith or respects precedent, or has confidence that Obergefell is safe in the long term.
But this was clearly not the case that would result in its downfall.
I don't think anyone making the (correct) prediction thinks SCOTUS routinely acts in good faith or respects precedent, or has confidence that Obergefell is safe in the long term.
But this was clearly not the case that would result in its downfall.
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People who believe Schumer had nothing to do with it are ridiculous.
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
People who believe Schumer had nothing to do with it are ridiculous.
As literally everyone knowledgeable predicted.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
As literally everyone knowledgeable predicted.
Bingo.
I think a lot of the anger this morning stems from a feeling that we did our part, but they did not do theirs. This is an oversimplification, but my dudes, no wonder people are like, “OK, let’s try the democratic socialist, then.”
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Bingo.
As I sit here in the airport lounge, looking down out the window at the passengers below, I think about the number of hours strapped to an uncomfortable chair in a flying metal pipe it took to earn this.
It was so not worth it.
It was so not worth it.
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
As I sit here in the airport lounge, looking down out the window at the passengers below, I think about the number of hours strapped to an uncomfortable chair in a flying metal pipe it took to earn this.
It was so not worth it.
It was so not worth it.
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To say this was Dems voting, e.g., to fund ICE paychecks isn't unfair or an exaggeration. It's literally true. That they'd already given up on even trying to do anything about that doesn't change it, it's still in there. This is what constitutional accountability for the power of the purse is for.
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
To say this was Dems voting, e.g., to fund ICE paychecks isn't unfair or an exaggeration. It's literally true. That they'd already given up on even trying to do anything about that doesn't change it, it's still in there. This is what constitutional accountability for the power of the purse is for.
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Well, there is one silver lining to all of this. This shit deal expire with respect to funding in about 6 or 7 weeks and we can go through all this again. It expires with respect to ACA before the election, and I fully expect Trump to fuck up whatever the Republicans do to try to run from it.
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Well, there is one silver lining to all of this. This shit deal expire with respect to funding in about 6 or 7 weeks and we can go through all this again. It expires with respect to ACA before the election, and I fully expect Trump to fuck up whatever the Republicans do to try to run from it.
Honestly, I don't know that this does anything at all - were any of them federally convicted of anything substantial? It was all (or nearly all) state actions and/or bar discipline, right?
Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.”
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Honestly, I don't know that this does anything at all - were any of them federally convicted of anything substantial? It was all (or nearly all) state actions and/or bar discipline, right?
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The Senate Democrats just sacrificied one of the few opportunities they have had to use leverage to effect positive change. That in no way exonerates Trump. But it does indicate new congressional Democratic leadership is needed.
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The Senate Democrats just sacrificied one of the few opportunities they have had to use leverage to effect positive change. That in no way exonerates Trump. But it does indicate new congressional Democratic leadership is needed.
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You can say that the coming spike in health care costs and overal gutting of government services is 100% Trump's fault AND that the national Democratic party in Congress is failing as an opposition party. Those are wholly conistent views.
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
You can say that the coming spike in health care costs and overal gutting of government services is 100% Trump's fault AND that the national Democratic party in Congress is failing as an opposition party. Those are wholly conistent views.
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A political party addicted to jamming its tongue into electrical outlets.
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
A political party addicted to jamming its tongue into electrical outlets.
Dipshittery.
Welp, that’s the Senate side of the shutdown over, it seems.
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Dipshittery.
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I truly don’t know how you look at the past week and THEN decide THIS is an appropriate — let alone the right — response.
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I truly don’t know how you look at the past week and THEN decide THIS is an appropriate — let alone the right — response.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Multilingual-> bilingual -> American.
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Multilingual-> bilingual -> American.