The Nerdy Lawyer
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Formerly vtaltos on Twitter. She/her. Professional attorney, hobbyist theologian, unrepentant lifelong nerd, belated AuDHD diagnosee. Kicked out of the GOP for having principles. Luke 20:46-47. Mr. Rogers had it right all along.
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I dabbled in divorce law early in my career; never again.
In almost any other legal field, negotiation to a reasonable settlement is more likely than a long, expensive court battle. (1/4)
In almost any other legal field, negotiation to a reasonable settlement is more likely than a long, expensive court battle. (1/4)
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Wrote a quick script in python to in-redact the whole thing. Here’s the file. Any more we can recover?
December 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Wrote a quick script in python to in-redact the whole thing. Here’s the file. Any more we can recover?
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here’s the 60 Minutes CECOT segment, which is temporarily available in Canada
you all know what to do
you all know what to do
December 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
here’s the 60 Minutes CECOT segment, which is temporarily available in Canada
you all know what to do
you all know what to do
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Read this thread, from a an account of the spiked 60 Minutes story that was (apparently mistakenly?) aired in Canada.
Weiss refusing to air this story isn't just journalistic malpractice, it's running interference to help cover up atrocities.
Weiss refusing to air this story isn't just journalistic malpractice, it's running interference to help cover up atrocities.
This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
December 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Read this thread, from a an account of the spiked 60 Minutes story that was (apparently mistakenly?) aired in Canada.
Weiss refusing to air this story isn't just journalistic malpractice, it's running interference to help cover up atrocities.
Weiss refusing to air this story isn't just journalistic malpractice, it's running interference to help cover up atrocities.
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I grew up in Argentina and spent my teens under the military dictatorship that disappeared people.
What Akiva posted here is much, much worse. I had to stop reading about four posts in.
What Akiva posted here is much, much worse. I had to stop reading about four posts in.
December 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I grew up in Argentina and spent my teens under the military dictatorship that disappeared people.
What Akiva posted here is much, much worse. I had to stop reading about four posts in.
What Akiva posted here is much, much worse. I had to stop reading about four posts in.
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In case you're unclear on what JD Vance is trying to do here maybe it will help to recall Italian writer Ignazio Silone's 1938 description of what fascism is:
“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In case you're unclear on what JD Vance is trying to do here maybe it will help to recall Italian writer Ignazio Silone's 1938 description of what fascism is:
“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
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Put it up on YouTube as well.
First part of banned 60 Minutes CERCOT episode
YouTube video by Lee Drake
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Put it up on YouTube as well.
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This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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Holy shit practically the entire Heritage legal center resigned www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusi...
December 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Holy shit practically the entire Heritage legal center resigned www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusi...
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I never once felt remotely compelled to apologize for "being white" UNTIL I saw J.D. Vance 🤷♂️
...then I remember that I may be white, but I ain't TRASH - and thus he and I have nothing in common 😉 Hell, intellectually we're barely even the same SPECIES.
...then I remember that I may be white, but I ain't TRASH - and thus he and I have nothing in common 😉 Hell, intellectually we're barely even the same SPECIES.
ICYMI — Vice President JD Vance referred to Minneapolis as “Mogadishu”, said Jasmine Crockett has a fake “street girl” persona, and said “you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore” in 🇺🇸
If you’re sensing a (racist) theme here you are not alone
If you’re sensing a (racist) theme here you are not alone
December 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I never once felt remotely compelled to apologize for "being white" UNTIL I saw J.D. Vance 🤷♂️
...then I remember that I may be white, but I ain't TRASH - and thus he and I have nothing in common 😉 Hell, intellectually we're barely even the same SPECIES.
...then I remember that I may be white, but I ain't TRASH - and thus he and I have nothing in common 😉 Hell, intellectually we're barely even the same SPECIES.
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Sometimes the scroll is startlingly on point.
December 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Sometimes the scroll is startlingly on point.
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That's not a "fake debt collecting business," that's a "debt holding business." The difference is negligible but the former implies someone committed fraud. He didn't. His business has the right to hold whatever debts it purchases and may act or not on those debts for whatever reason it chooses.
The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
That's not a "fake debt collecting business," that's a "debt holding business." The difference is negligible but the former implies someone committed fraud. He didn't. His business has the right to hold whatever debts it purchases and may act or not on those debts for whatever reason it chooses.
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Man, I'm done with the days getting shorter! I am talking to MANAGEMENT. I will GET RESULTS. If the days get longer here on out, you'll know who to thank.
December 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Man, I'm done with the days getting shorter! I am talking to MANAGEMENT. I will GET RESULTS. If the days get longer here on out, you'll know who to thank.
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the candace owens clusterfuck is not so much voting for face-eating leopards as a face-eating leopard adopting another leopard, training it to eat faces, and then complaining when it eats his own face
Ben knows what he's talking about, he paid Candace Owens a hefty salary to vomit up antisemitism and other bigotries for YEARS before she added Israel to her list of obsessions.
December 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
the candace owens clusterfuck is not so much voting for face-eating leopards as a face-eating leopard adopting another leopard, training it to eat faces, and then complaining when it eats his own face
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The split within MAGA seems to be whether they should hate everybody EXCEPT Jews or hate everybody but ESPECIALLY Jews.
December 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The split within MAGA seems to be whether they should hate everybody EXCEPT Jews or hate everybody but ESPECIALLY Jews.
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Document everything. Every weird interaction. Every unacceptable request/instruction. Every insult. Be strict about never going beyond the explicit requirements of your work. Encourage them to get bolder; get them to make mistakes in writing if possible. Then? Sue the living shit out of them.
Anyone know how to deal with workplace bullies? Like, I’ve been picking my battles since I’ve started, but I’ve been feeling the very real urge to ask just who tf ppl are talking to a lot more frequently lately. Like, to ppl who can make one call and get me fired. Ppl who basically are trying to
December 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Document everything. Every weird interaction. Every unacceptable request/instruction. Every insult. Be strict about never going beyond the explicit requirements of your work. Encourage them to get bolder; get them to make mistakes in writing if possible. Then? Sue the living shit out of them.
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I honestly still can’t believe they did this
it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried
it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried
This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release.
AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.
AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.
December 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I honestly still can’t believe they did this
it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried
it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried
Timeline cleanse!
Oh my god oh my god oh my goddddd the local aquarium has three new born otters and they CHIRP
December 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Timeline cleanse!
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“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
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This is one of those things where I'm not surprised they would *want* to do it but I'm still a bit shocked they actually did tbh, jesus.
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is one of those things where I'm not surprised they would *want* to do it but I'm still a bit shocked they actually did tbh, jesus.
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this is the news tonight. No need to frame it otherwise. zeteo.com/p/trump-epst...
New tonight for @zeteo.com
New tonight for @zeteo.com
Trump Drags Out His Epstein Files Cover-Up
The Trump administration published heavily redacted Epstein records and many photos of Bill Clinton, while failing to comply with the law from Congress.
zeteo.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
this is the news tonight. No need to frame it otherwise. zeteo.com/p/trump-epst...
New tonight for @zeteo.com
New tonight for @zeteo.com
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The epitome of misleading bullsh*t from the WH deputy press secretary. 👇 Getty Images link to a 2003 pic of the same event. www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-...
December 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The epitome of misleading bullsh*t from the WH deputy press secretary. 👇 Getty Images link to a 2003 pic of the same event. www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-...
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If you want to understand how BAD indoor smoking was, think about this one fact:
Conservatives are NOT currently trying to **undo** anti-smoking legislation or practices. No, not even RFK. Even the stupidest Trumpsuckers don't actually want to go back there.
Conservatives are NOT currently trying to **undo** anti-smoking legislation or practices. No, not even RFK. Even the stupidest Trumpsuckers don't actually want to go back there.
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
If you want to understand how BAD indoor smoking was, think about this one fact:
Conservatives are NOT currently trying to **undo** anti-smoking legislation or practices. No, not even RFK. Even the stupidest Trumpsuckers don't actually want to go back there.
Conservatives are NOT currently trying to **undo** anti-smoking legislation or practices. No, not even RFK. Even the stupidest Trumpsuckers don't actually want to go back there.