Alex the Lupine Lawyer
@alexjd.bsky.social
Attorney by day. Wolf by night. He/Him. 🏳️🌈
It me.
[DM who has only played Baldur's Gate 3 running session zero of their first tabletop campaign] ok what vulva style are you thinking of taking
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It me.
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This is why there are fewer women in prison.
this is so beautiful and also it makes you think (assuming you have a curious mind)
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This is why there are fewer women in prison.
They’ll circle the wagons over anything. Even if you think her argument has any validity, this is coming on the heels of an absolutely jaw dropping revelation about institutional rot and failure. Sick culture.
As a former member of NYT’s finance team & the co-author of this story exposing the relationship between Epstein & Bill Gates as well as one on Epstein & JPMorgan, I am really frustrated to see people claiming that NYT sat on publishable info about Trump and Epstein 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/b...
Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
They’ll circle the wagons over anything. Even if you think her argument has any validity, this is coming on the heels of an absolutely jaw dropping revelation about institutional rot and failure. Sick culture.
*tim Robinson voice* It REALLY annoys me.
one thing i hate is when the president is a pedophile
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
*tim Robinson voice* It REALLY annoys me.
NYTIMES:
“The president is a pedophile - but will that give Democrats the break they need?”
“The president is a pedophile - but will that give Democrats the break they need?”
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
NYTIMES:
“The president is a pedophile - but will that give Democrats the break they need?”
“The president is a pedophile - but will that give Democrats the break they need?”
An insidious long-term effect of this is that govt agencies under law-abiding administrations may be much less willing to investigate elected officials, for any reason, or even to seek information from those officials in investigations in which they are not targets.
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
An insidious long-term effect of this is that govt agencies under law-abiding administrations may be much less willing to investigate elected officials, for any reason, or even to seek information from those officials in investigations in which they are not targets.
Oh shit.
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Oh shit.
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The two worst metaphors to infect discourse:
1. Touching the stove
2. Dog catching the car
When Roe vs. Wade was overturned we won some election in Kansas and everyone was excited and then at the very next election Donald Trump became president again.
Wins are still wins even if the PR sounds bad
1. Touching the stove
2. Dog catching the car
When Roe vs. Wade was overturned we won some election in Kansas and everyone was excited and then at the very next election Donald Trump became president again.
Wins are still wins even if the PR sounds bad
Indeed, it’s almost like “stove touching” is a horseshit framework which gets thrown around wildly on BSky by people who seem to think it makes them sound tough
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The two worst metaphors to infect discourse:
1. Touching the stove
2. Dog catching the car
When Roe vs. Wade was overturned we won some election in Kansas and everyone was excited and then at the very next election Donald Trump became president again.
Wins are still wins even if the PR sounds bad
1. Touching the stove
2. Dog catching the car
When Roe vs. Wade was overturned we won some election in Kansas and everyone was excited and then at the very next election Donald Trump became president again.
Wins are still wins even if the PR sounds bad
“You had a singular opportunity to change a big facet of this and let the other side experience all the fallout and you took it, right? Right?”
'you just don't understand how recondite and archaic the Senate is'
'so you're working to change it, right?'
*anakin face*
'so you're working to change it, right?'
*anakin face*
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“You had a singular opportunity to change a big facet of this and let the other side experience all the fallout and you took it, right? Right?”
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It looked to me like Trump was about to rip up his Congressional relationship to kill the filibuster, and, like maybe even find a way to get himself big, wet impeached.
And yet the dickless wonders didn't want to let that play out.
And yet the dickless wonders didn't want to let that play out.
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It looked to me like Trump was about to rip up his Congressional relationship to kill the filibuster, and, like maybe even find a way to get himself big, wet impeached.
And yet the dickless wonders didn't want to let that play out.
And yet the dickless wonders didn't want to let that play out.
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Damn sounds like Republicans should have been really motivated to end the shutdown then.
👇There it is, the alternative was to keep federal employees unpaid for 13 MONTHS. How the fuck do you think that would play out? A collapse of the entire underpinnings of the country, that's how.
Victory looks like a bill that extends the ACA subsidies OR (and this is a key or) keeps the government shut down until the midterms.
Yes. That's a victory too.
Yes. That's a victory too.
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Damn sounds like Republicans should have been really motivated to end the shutdown then.
This. Theres so much cope on here this morning about how this was always going to happen, we got small wins, etc. We funded the govt for 2 months for “concessions” that were just rollbacks of petty shutdown retribution, while they were bleeding support, and we ensured next time will be worse for us.
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This. Theres so much cope on here this morning about how this was always going to happen, we got small wins, etc. We funded the govt for 2 months for “concessions” that were just rollbacks of petty shutdown retribution, while they were bleeding support, and we ensured next time will be worse for us.
Ok. Going to bed. I’ve never felt this demoralized about my party in my life. Having trouble processing the scope of their failure here. Not in a good head space.
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Ok. Going to bed. I’ve never felt this demoralized about my party in my life. Having trouble processing the scope of their failure here. Not in a good head space.
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So what was the point of this?
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
So what was the point of this?
The SNAP thing is bad but also a Republican choice, largely. The Fed thing is overblown. It’s another in a long line of assaults on our dignity but most banks are willing to ignore Fed debt and interest during a shutdown, and some even offer interest free loans. This capitulation is a catastrophe.
also, like, the die for pain was cast a year ago. the pain will continue for, at minimum, another three years. every choice now is between only bad options, and people will suffer no matter what choice is made, and senators cannot and should not be immune to that.
two contradictory ideas that i hold in my head at the same time: 1) i think the threat to both SNAP recipients and federal workers is significant enough now that even bad deals are worth making to prevent further harm, and, 2) everyone who caves now should retire in shame
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The SNAP thing is bad but also a Republican choice, largely. The Fed thing is overblown. It’s another in a long line of assaults on our dignity but most banks are willing to ignore Fed debt and interest during a shutdown, and some even offer interest free loans. This capitulation is a catastrophe.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
I don’t think democrats have a good grasp on the damage they will do and the anger they are going to cause if they pass a funding bill with no concessions. It will be the biggest unforced error I’ve seen them
Make in my lifetime. Catastrophic.
Make in my lifetime. Catastrophic.
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I don’t think democrats have a good grasp on the damage they will do and the anger they are going to cause if they pass a funding bill with no concessions. It will be the biggest unforced error I’ve seen them
Make in my lifetime. Catastrophic.
Make in my lifetime. Catastrophic.
These are *not* concessions on the part of republicans. If you treat them as such, you’ve incentivized them to weaponize the federal workforce to the maximum degree in every single future fight. I feel like I’m losing my fucking mind.
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
These are *not* concessions on the part of republicans. If you treat them as such, you’ve incentivized them to weaponize the federal workforce to the maximum degree in every single future fight. I feel like I’m losing my fucking mind.
Damage is done now even if they don’t get to 10 in the Senate. Media breathlessly reporting a deal has almost been reached to end the shutdown. Even if these fucking morons don’t have the votes, they’ve handed republicans a giant PR victory for no reason. I’m literally sick of this.
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Damage is done now even if they don’t get to 10 in the Senate. Media breathlessly reporting a deal has almost been reached to end the shutdown. Even if these fucking morons don’t have the votes, they’ve handed republicans a giant PR victory for no reason. I’m literally sick of this.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
Even if these fools can’t get themselves to 10, by dealing like this, they signal to the public that republicans are putting something forward that is worth taking seriously, and that other Dems are being unreasonable in rejecting it. Primary these sick f*cks.
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Even if these fools can’t get themselves to 10, by dealing like this, they signal to the public that republicans are putting something forward that is worth taking seriously, and that other Dems are being unreasonable in rejecting it. Primary these sick f*cks.
We could have had them nuke the filibuster, further tank their approval, and then avoid having them hold that knife to our necks when we regain control. But oh well I guess. What did I just go through and for fucking what.
November 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
We could have had them nuke the filibuster, further tank their approval, and then avoid having them hold that knife to our necks when we regain control. But oh well I guess. What did I just go through and for fucking what.
I have no reason to criticize Dems yet but I swear if they agree to end this shutdown and don’t get what they initially demanded in return, which was modest, I’m going to be incensed beyond reason. What we’re going through right now better have a fucking point to it.
November 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I have no reason to criticize Dems yet but I swear if they agree to end this shutdown and don’t get what they initially demanded in return, which was modest, I’m going to be incensed beyond reason. What we’re going through right now better have a fucking point to it.
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This doesn't compare to my idea of the 100-year mortgage.
Oh good. the 50-year mortgage. That should solve everything.
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This doesn't compare to my idea of the 100-year mortgage.
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Some dumbfuck accounts that only post Luigi gifs are 100% going to fall for this.
Republicans waged a relentless, decades-long campaign to privatize Medicare and Medicaid
They fought even mild efforts to expand public insurance
Now they are objecting to extending extra ACA subsidies, supposedly because money flows to private insurers
We are supposed to take this seriously?
They fought even mild efforts to expand public insurance
Now they are objecting to extending extra ACA subsidies, supposedly because money flows to private insurers
We are supposed to take this seriously?
November 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Some dumbfuck accounts that only post Luigi gifs are 100% going to fall for this.