Too Big to Fail
@toobigtofail.bsky.social
New Yorker, union activist, employment lawyer, dad, generational trauma ender. He/him.
Yeesh, I'm sorry
November 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Yeesh, I'm sorry
I don't know, "boyfriend of 9 years" raises some serious red flags unless they started dating in middle school.
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I don't know, "boyfriend of 9 years" raises some serious red flags unless they started dating in middle school.
When I got my first tattoo, I learned that my body forms keloids wherever I got tattoos. Thankfully I would never want to remove any of my tattoos, since that could pose a problem.
November 20, 2025 at 3:39 AM
When I got my first tattoo, I learned that my body forms keloids wherever I got tattoos. Thankfully I would never want to remove any of my tattoos, since that could pose a problem.
Side note: I do not have any scars except the one I got on my head from jumping on a trampoline as a preteen; my brother-in-law is a tattoo artist.
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Side note: I do not have any scars except the one I got on my head from jumping on a trampoline as a preteen; my brother-in-law is a tattoo artist.
Eh, it's not that uncommon. A bunch of tattoo artists specialize in it. It can look really cool if done properly.
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Eh, it's not that uncommon. A bunch of tattoo artists specialize in it. It can look really cool if done properly.
It reads like a novel - running essentially from the Howth gun- running in 1914 through the execution of James Connolly, although it also includes Roger Casement's attempt to form an Irish POW brigade as a B plot and follows through his execution - but it's a precise factual retelling of events.
November 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
It reads like a novel - running essentially from the Howth gun- running in 1914 through the execution of James Connolly, although it also includes Roger Casement's attempt to form an Irish POW brigade as a B plot and follows through his execution - but it's a precise factual retelling of events.
My uncle has a lake house in the Poconos in northeastern Pennsylvania, and I take the kids there and they can walk in the mountains and see stars and deer and whatnot, and then go sleep in a nice warm bed.
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
My uncle has a lake house in the Poconos in northeastern Pennsylvania, and I take the kids there and they can walk in the mountains and see stars and deer and whatnot, and then go sleep in a nice warm bed.
You can do it by informal application in NY; I've never had to because judges will always recuse before I would ever ask them to. The procedure is then to proceed with 4 judges instead of 5 at the intermediate level; 6 instead of 7 at the Court of Appeals. If they tie they bring in another judge.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
You can do it by informal application in NY; I've never had to because judges will always recuse before I would ever ask them to. The procedure is then to proceed with 4 judges instead of 5 at the intermediate level; 6 instead of 7 at the Court of Appeals. If they tie they bring in another judge.
I think of camping as "taking time off from work and spending money to pretend to be homeless" and it holds zero draw for me. Our house has a big back yard (big for Long Island, at least, a half acre), and my wife won't even go outside in it because she's worried she might get a mosquito bite.
November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I think of camping as "taking time off from work and spending money to pretend to be homeless" and it holds zero draw for me. Our house has a big back yard (big for Long Island, at least, a half acre), and my wife won't even go outside in it because she's worried she might get a mosquito bite.
I do not know how that works in Circuit courts; I deal with recusal in NY appellate courts pretty regularly and judges are really quick to recuse there.
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I do not know how that works in Circuit courts; I deal with recusal in NY appellate courts pretty regularly and judges are really quick to recuse there.
There's a part of me that feels slightly bad for my kids that my wife and I will never take them camping because the idea of sleeping in a tent is anathema to both of us, but then I remember how miserable I was whenever I went camping as a kid, so I don't, like, feel that bad.
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
There's a part of me that feels slightly bad for my kids that my wife and I will never take them camping because the idea of sleeping in a tent is anathema to both of us, but then I remember how miserable I was whenever I went camping as a kid, so I don't, like, feel that bad.
He mentions "Soros" 17 times in the dissent. He talks about an expert witness having a "Soros piggybank." What type of media consumption diet gives you that sort of brain pudding?
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
He mentions "Soros" 17 times in the dissent. He talks about an expert witness having a "Soros piggybank." What type of media consumption diet gives you that sort of brain pudding?
"I want to clarify that I was in no way slow walking this" [proceeds to write a hundred pages of rambling incoherent conspiracy theories that could have been a text message]
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"I want to clarify that I was in no way slow walking this" [proceeds to write a hundred pages of rambling incoherent conspiracy theories that could have been a text message]
That it's 100% never done, and all I can think of is that he wrote a bunch of zinger lines intending them to be the last line of his dissent, and then just decided to throw them all in at the same time.
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
That it's 100% never done, and all I can think of is that he wrote a bunch of zinger lines intending them to be the last line of his dissent, and then just decided to throw them all in at the same time.
They gave him a 13 page outline of their opinion on November 5, but apparently he insisted on getting the full text before starting to write his dissent, which they didn't get a draft of to him until November 13. Alarmed they believed he was trying to slow down the process by dragging his feet.
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
They gave him a 13 page outline of their opinion on November 5, but apparently he insisted on getting the full text before starting to write his dissent, which they didn't get a draft of to him until November 13. Alarmed they believed he was trying to slow down the process by dragging his feet.
A search for "Soros" in the dissent reveals 17 mentions. This footnote appears on page SEVENTY EIGHT of the dissent:
November 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
A search for "Soros" in the dissent reveals 17 mentions. This footnote appears on page SEVENTY EIGHT of the dissent:
This is so far beyond the pale of anything I've ever encountered. This is a judiciary coming apart at the seams.
November 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This is so far beyond the pale of anything I've ever encountered. This is a judiciary coming apart at the seams.
I would probably care more about the decorum enforcer if his dissent didn't open with: "The main winners from Judge Brown’s opinion are George Soros and Gavin Newsom. The obvious losers are the People of Texas and the Rule of Law."
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I would probably care more about the decorum enforcer if his dissent didn't open with: "The main winners from Judge Brown’s opinion are George Soros and Gavin Newsom. The obvious losers are the People of Texas and the Rule of Law."
When you have criminal charges, you present them to the grand jury, and they vote yes or no on whether to issue an indictment, which then starts the process towards a trial. What appears to have happened here is that the grand jury never voted "yes" on the indictment they're taking to trial.
November 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I also do not believe that banning firearms involves the use of violence in "disarming" people. In the 1980s, lawn darts were made illegal. Nobody went door to door threatening violence to confiscate people's lawn darts; they just got rid of them.
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I also do not believe that banning firearms involves the use of violence in "disarming" people. In the 1980s, lawn darts were made illegal. Nobody went door to door threatening violence to confiscate people's lawn darts; they just got rid of them.
I do not believe that there is ever any justifiable reason for the commission of violence. I do not believe that causing harm to another human being in "self-defense" should be acceptable under the law. I do not believe that hunting animals should be acceptable under the law.
November 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I do not believe that there is ever any justifiable reason for the commission of violence. I do not believe that causing harm to another human being in "self-defense" should be acceptable under the law. I do not believe that hunting animals should be acceptable under the law.
I mean, I disagree on the morality issue, but ok.
November 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I mean, I disagree on the morality issue, but ok.
It's a pretty solid object lesson!
November 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It's a pretty solid object lesson!