Allison Lepp
@ajlepp.bsky.social
Canadian lawyer. She/her. Likes old dogs + new snow. Is prone to wandering. Opinions = just that. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - MLK
Vancouver, BC
Vancouver, BC
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September 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Thinking about all the folks like this across DC — the honorable government workers whose years of expertise and dedication have been trivialized and vilified by gleeful sociopaths for whom "public service" is inconceivable
I don’t spend much time in DC, but in my mere week of commuting I’ve had two long, lovely conversations with older women in restrooms — career gov’t workers, former congressional staff who then moved over to the LoC, who are proud of their 40-50 yrs of public service. It’s really 🥹
February 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Thinking about all the folks like this across DC — the honorable government workers whose years of expertise and dedication have been trivialized and vilified by gleeful sociopaths for whom "public service" is inconceivable
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I got death threats in 2014 for a blog about how we shouldn’t slut shame Jennifer Lawrence. Fucking grow up and govern.
Gillibrand on WNYC today said one reason they're all falling in line is that they get death threats.
cassidy changing his tune after what he said on the senate floor is what has upgraded my position from "they are being bribed" or "they are worried about primary challenges" to "they are worried about being murdered"
February 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I got death threats in 2014 for a blog about how we shouldn’t slut shame Jennifer Lawrence. Fucking grow up and govern.
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This thread
You were taught that educated, single, child-free women are unwanted and pathetic because a woman who is unmanageable through attachment and enraged at the exploitation all around her is a very dangerous thing to an institution that needs to manage and exploit her in order to survive.
February 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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One reason the press is being very cautious about talking about a constitutional crisis is that the top Democrats in the country are talking about high grocery prices. Try to imagine it from their perspective: how do they report on a "crisis" that even the opposition doesn't seem to acknowledge?
I really don't understand the ambiguity here. Trump deputized the richest man on the planet to unilaterally cut off congressionally-funded and congressionally-authorized agencies. A power which neither of them can wield legitimately. That was the beginning of the constitutional crisis right there.
>> @kaitlancollins.bsky.social: "We are three weeks into the second Trump presidency, three weeks, and tonight, there are warnings that the U.S. is dangerously close to a constitutional crisis."
February 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
One reason the press is being very cautious about talking about a constitutional crisis is that the top Democrats in the country are talking about high grocery prices. Try to imagine it from their perspective: how do they report on a "crisis" that even the opposition doesn't seem to acknowledge?
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AOC: The House is governed by a Republican majority. The Senate is governed by a Republican majority, and The White House has a Republican president. And if they want to pass their agenda, Republicans need to conjure up the votes to pass their own bills.
February 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
AOC: The House is governed by a Republican majority. The Senate is governed by a Republican majority, and The White House has a Republican president. And if they want to pass their agenda, Republicans need to conjure up the votes to pass their own bills.
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This is — literally — unheard of in federal prosecutions.
We can’t prosecute him because he’s a candidate for office? Wow.
We can’t prosecute him because he’s a candidate for office? Wow.
Justice officials tell prosecutors to drop charges against N.Y. Mayor Eric Adams
A top Justice official said New York Mayor Eric Adams should not have to face trial given his reelection campaign and the fight against crime and illegal immigration.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
This is — literally — unheard of in federal prosecutions.
We can’t prosecute him because he’s a candidate for office? Wow.
We can’t prosecute him because he’s a candidate for office? Wow.
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It should not be radical for the American Bar Association to say that it supports the rule of law. But right now, it is. Let's see some other orgs taking a similar stance.
The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
February 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
It should not be radical for the American Bar Association to say that it supports the rule of law. But right now, it is. Let's see some other orgs taking a similar stance.
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Asked another way, do Democratic leaders need a Formal Declaration of Coup before they start behaving appropriately?
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
February 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Asked another way, do Democratic leaders need a Formal Declaration of Coup before they start behaving appropriately?
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Great example of the interpretation of “journalistic objectivity” that sees lobotomizing yourself as preferable to ever drawing any firm conclusions from any amount of evidence
February 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Great example of the interpretation of “journalistic objectivity” that sees lobotomizing yourself as preferable to ever drawing any firm conclusions from any amount of evidence
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It takes a little more work and creativity to find other images, but it is worth it.
Yes, expose the coup that is underway & the fascist billionaires who are financing it. But you don't need to use their images (which they love to see) to illustrate every story.
Make the people visible instead.
Yes, expose the coup that is underway & the fascist billionaires who are financing it. But you don't need to use their images (which they love to see) to illustrate every story.
Make the people visible instead.
February 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
It takes a little more work and creativity to find other images, but it is worth it.
Yes, expose the coup that is underway & the fascist billionaires who are financing it. But you don't need to use their images (which they love to see) to illustrate every story.
Make the people visible instead.
Yes, expose the coup that is underway & the fascist billionaires who are financing it. But you don't need to use their images (which they love to see) to illustrate every story.
Make the people visible instead.
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Request to progressive media/bloggers: Please do NOT use photos of #47, Musk, Miller, etc. as your featured image for every story.
We've never shared their images in our feed, nor will we.
If you write about the harm they do, then feature people they impact & who resist. Don't give hate free PR.
We've never shared their images in our feed, nor will we.
If you write about the harm they do, then feature people they impact & who resist. Don't give hate free PR.
February 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Request to progressive media/bloggers: Please do NOT use photos of #47, Musk, Miller, etc. as your featured image for every story.
We've never shared their images in our feed, nor will we.
If you write about the harm they do, then feature people they impact & who resist. Don't give hate free PR.
We've never shared their images in our feed, nor will we.
If you write about the harm they do, then feature people they impact & who resist. Don't give hate free PR.
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I'd rather continue to fund the banking police (who have returned billions to consumers) rather than giving everyone a check for $2.15
February 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I'd rather continue to fund the banking police (who have returned billions to consumers) rather than giving everyone a check for $2.15
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Makes perfect sense to me, can’t have climate change if you don’t have a climate.
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
February 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Makes perfect sense to me, can’t have climate change if you don’t have a climate.
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Art is, by nature, subversive, revolutionary, defiant. Tyrants always try to conquer it. It never works. There’s no one better in the world at hitting the “Do Not Touch” button than artists. The more taboo you make it, the hotter it gets.
February 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Art is, by nature, subversive, revolutionary, defiant. Tyrants always try to conquer it. It never works. There’s no one better in the world at hitting the “Do Not Touch” button than artists. The more taboo you make it, the hotter it gets.
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It’s important to pay attention to them trying to take over art and artists. It means they are powerful tools for influence.
Use em to fuck this guy up.
Use em to fuck this guy up.
Trump: "We took over the Kennedy Center ... it's not gonna be woke. There's no more woke in this country."
February 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
It’s important to pay attention to them trying to take over art and artists. It means they are powerful tools for influence.
Use em to fuck this guy up.
Use em to fuck this guy up.
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it fucking sucks that substack waited until it had enticed a shitton of very good writers, established a very strong network effect, and created a sense of stability for authors in a time of great precarity before going open nazi. i moved, but it cost me & continues to cost me.
If you're using substack and linking to it, everyone else hears it as you going "hey guys check out this cool Nazi bar I hang out in"
It turns out telling people you hang out in a Nazi bar is not a very effective way of advertising yourself.
It turns out telling people you hang out in a Nazi bar is not a very effective way of advertising yourself.
February 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
it fucking sucks that substack waited until it had enticed a shitton of very good writers, established a very strong network effect, and created a sense of stability for authors in a time of great precarity before going open nazi. i moved, but it cost me & continues to cost me.
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And it looks like it’s official. Trump is ignoring court orders.
The rubicon has been crossed.
The rubicon has been crossed.
February 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
And it looks like it’s official. Trump is ignoring court orders.
The rubicon has been crossed.
The rubicon has been crossed.
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The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law."
Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
February 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law."
Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
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Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/
Immigration Policy Tracking Project
A comprehensive and dynamic catalogue of immigration policies issued by the Trump administration since January 2017.
immpolicytracking.org
January 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/
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to recap:
— Trump was *for* the TikTok ban
— which the GOP Congress passed
— and the GOP Supreme Court upheld
— and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway
— so that Trump could "save" it
— and the media fell for it
we really do live in the dumbest fucking country
— Trump was *for* the TikTok ban
— which the GOP Congress passed
— and the GOP Supreme Court upheld
— and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway
— so that Trump could "save" it
— and the media fell for it
we really do live in the dumbest fucking country
January 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
to recap:
— Trump was *for* the TikTok ban
— which the GOP Congress passed
— and the GOP Supreme Court upheld
— and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway
— so that Trump could "save" it
— and the media fell for it
we really do live in the dumbest fucking country
— Trump was *for* the TikTok ban
— which the GOP Congress passed
— and the GOP Supreme Court upheld
— and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway
— so that Trump could "save" it
— and the media fell for it
we really do live in the dumbest fucking country
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The amazing part isn’t just the wrong answer, but that the explanation it gives is accurate — and it *simply doesn’t know that 27 is a smaller number than 32.*
Billions of dollars spent to make a black box machine that doesn’t know something elementary school kids know.
Billions of dollars spent to make a black box machine that doesn’t know something elementary school kids know.
January 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The amazing part isn’t just the wrong answer, but that the explanation it gives is accurate — and it *simply doesn’t know that 27 is a smaller number than 32.*
Billions of dollars spent to make a black box machine that doesn’t know something elementary school kids know.
Billions of dollars spent to make a black box machine that doesn’t know something elementary school kids know.
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I’m trying, and I hope other people will try, to hold onto the simple notion that a US president cannot simply declare a federal law that was passed last year and literally upheld this week to be a nullity—even if it’s a not-so-hot law. The Congress is the body that can amend or repeal federal laws.
January 19, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I’m trying, and I hope other people will try, to hold onto the simple notion that a US president cannot simply declare a federal law that was passed last year and literally upheld this week to be a nullity—even if it’s a not-so-hot law. The Congress is the body that can amend or repeal federal laws.