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Are you a #lawyer who is feeling soooo stressed out about multiple things? Let’s reset. #tapping

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Tapping for When the World is on Fire - Lawyers' Edition. 🌎🔥

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November 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM

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The Associated Press

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BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.

Follow AP for live updates.

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power

One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

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November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹

@amazonatty.bsky.social

Allllll energy has to be directed at Hochul to not be an impediment to Zohran’s plans for parity.

November 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM

Dr. Michelle Thompson, Esq.

@michdionne.bsky.social

Are you a lawyer or a whirling dervish?

Is all this ACTIVITY helping you meet your billable hours and/or revenue targets?

Check this post out - resistantvision.com/law/revenue-...

Revenue Up 30%: The Non-Billable Hour Secret - Resistant Vision

You know you work hard enough because at 5 p.m., you are wiped out from client and colleague meetings that didn’t bring in the revenue you were looking for. Yeah, there were the phone calls and scribb...

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October 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM

Dr. Michelle Thompson, Esq.

@michdionne.bsky.social

There’s got to be an easier way to do the business of law.

There is.

I write about it here.

#lawyers #billablehours #revenue #thebusinessoflaw

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Make Your Time Profitable - Resistant Vision

You get into the office, and that’s when everything starts falling apart. You start by working on a particular client matter. The phone rings. This client is upset, not at you, but about the thing the...

resistantvision.com

October 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM

Reposted by Dr. Michelle Thompson, Esq.

Kevin Elliott

@kjephd.bsky.social

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

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Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

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October 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM

Reposted by Dr. Michelle Thompson, Esq.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

We’re kicking the politics of the past aside and scoring a new generation of leadership — and we want you on our team.

Join us for The Cost of Living Classic, a free citywide soccer tournament in Coney Island this Sunday, co-hosted by NYC Footy.

Details + register at zohranfornyc.com/colclassic ⚽

October 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM

Reposted by Dr. Michelle Thompson, Esq.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

CUNY is the nation’s largest urban public university system and an engine of social mobility for the city's working class.

But like so many of our public institutions, Andrew Cuomo subject it to years of disinvestment and neglect as Governor. That record cannot be forgotten.