Owen Barcala
@obarcala.bsky.social
I would prefer not to.
NM civil litigator. Trials, appeals, plaintiff, defense, you name it. Opinions are my own, not my firm's #USMC
NM civil litigator. Trials, appeals, plaintiff, defense, you name it. Opinions are my own, not my firm's #USMC
Les Miserables
"Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you."
"Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you."
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Les Miserables
"Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you."
"Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you."
the mystical spirits of the great beyond mixed up easements by estoppel and easements implied by prior use
the psychics provided a really messed definition of proximate cause
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
the mystical spirits of the great beyond mixed up easements by estoppel and easements implied by prior use
Loving the idea of going to psychics to assure you that you don't really need to study instead of just studying more
Kim Kardashian slams psychics who told her she'd pass the bar exam: 'All fucking full of shit'
Kim Kardashian slams psychics who told her she'd pass the bar exam: 'All f---ing full of s---'
'All f---ing full of s---': Kim Kardashian has some choice words for the psychics who predicted she'd pass the bar exam.
ew.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Loving the idea of going to psychics to assure you that you don't really need to study instead of just studying more
Getting caught cheating on my fiancée: "Honey, you need to understand, I've trained my whole life on the battlefield of crisis."
I don’t think any of us are fully prepared for the level of self-pity and absolution that’s going to be in Olivia Nuzzi’s (hilariously titled) “American Canto”
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Getting caught cheating on my fiancée: "Honey, you need to understand, I've trained my whole life on the battlefield of crisis."
They hired a writer who genuinely believes that James Bond has had seven face transplants, has grown and shrunk three inches, and has aged backwards and forwards without ever really growing older
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
They hired a writer who genuinely believes that James Bond has had seven face transplants, has grown and shrunk three inches, and has aged backwards and forwards without ever really growing older
Had a great drive to work today, no traffic, parking spot up close, and then I realized, Ah yes, I'm working on a holiday
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Had a great drive to work today, no traffic, parking spot up close, and then I realized, Ah yes, I'm working on a holiday
I think we can all agree that we'll be better off if we just forget that thing I did last weekend
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I think we can all agree that we'll be better off if we just forget that thing I did last weekend
Do I have a moral obligation to make pointless videos on Sora if it will speed up the collapse of OpenAI?
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Do I have a moral obligation to make pointless videos on Sora if it will speed up the collapse of OpenAI?
I'm a little surprised that Gorsuch was the primary justice arguing against a recovery in this case
This case has one of my favorite non-dispositive facts of all time - that the prisoner showed up to jail with a Fifth Circuit decision saying dreadlocks could not he cut, and the guards threw it out and shaved him anyway
At 10am, Supreme Court hears arguments in this religious rights case involving a Rastafarian prison inmate whose dreadlocks were cut off against his wishes:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I'm a little surprised that Gorsuch was the primary justice arguing against a recovery in this case
This makes it very clear that Trump believed the possibility of a shutdown continuing into the holidays would kill his approval numbers
Trump to air traffic controllers: "For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn’t step up to help the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK"
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This makes it very clear that Trump believed the possibility of a shutdown continuing into the holidays would kill his approval numbers
One big drawback to the era of remote hearings is that you start getting real nervous if it's a few minutes past the hearing time and you're still not let into the meeting
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
One big drawback to the era of remote hearings is that you start getting real nervous if it's a few minutes past the hearing time and you're still not let into the meeting
Reposted by Owen Barcala
This case has one of my favorite non-dispositive facts of all time - that the prisoner showed up to jail with a Fifth Circuit decision saying dreadlocks could not he cut, and the guards threw it out and shaved him anyway
At 10am, Supreme Court hears arguments in this religious rights case involving a Rastafarian prison inmate whose dreadlocks were cut off against his wishes:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Supreme Court weighs Rastafarian man's religious rights claim over shorn dreadlocks
Damon Landor is seeking damages after Louisiana prison officials cut off his dreadlocks in violation of his religious beliefs.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This case has one of my favorite non-dispositive facts of all time - that the prisoner showed up to jail with a Fifth Circuit decision saying dreadlocks could not he cut, and the guards threw it out and shaved him anyway
One of the fun things about doing business litigation is you get to see surprising ways that people make money. Apparently in New Mexico you can make an absolute killing by crushing rock into aggregate or developing mobile home parks.
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
One of the fun things about doing business litigation is you get to see surprising ways that people make money. Apparently in New Mexico you can make an absolute killing by crushing rock into aggregate or developing mobile home parks.
Reposted by Owen Barcala
Reposted by Owen Barcala
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
See, my vote actually makes sense when you realize it's promised on the belief that democracy doesn't work
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
See, my vote actually makes sense when you realize it's promised on the belief that democracy doesn't work
Giving up after concrete results show your strategy is working may be the most on brand Democrat thing ever, really gotta hand it to them
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Giving up after concrete results show your strategy is working may be the most on brand Democrat thing ever, really gotta hand it to them
"People are still boycotting us because of the anti-diversity thing. What should we do?"
"Make everyone act like they've been replaced by an alien."
"Make everyone act like they've been replaced by an alien."
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
"People are still boycotting us because of the anti-diversity thing. What should we do?"
"Make everyone act like they've been replaced by an alien."
"Make everyone act like they've been replaced by an alien."
Reposted by Owen Barcala
Judge rules Education Department messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown unconstitutional www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Education Department's out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown are unconstitutional, judge rules
The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed after the Trump administration altered employees’ email messages to add partisan language about the government shutdown without their consent.
www.nbcnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Judge rules Education Department messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown unconstitutional www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Reposted by Owen Barcala
‘At one point during cross examination, the prosecutor Peter Wright KC called Barton’s explanations “nonsense”, to which the former player responded by asking: “Are you calling me a nonce?” Wright in turn responded: “No, nonsense.”’
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
‘At one point during cross examination, the prosecutor Peter Wright KC called Barton’s explanations “nonsense”, to which the former player responded by asking: “Are you calling me a nonce?” Wright in turn responded: “No, nonsense.”’
Reposted by Owen Barcala
if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.
I comfort myself in knowing that anyone who drinks Trump-branded wine will be slumped on the toilet nursing a terrific hangover the next morning
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I comfort myself in knowing that anyone who drinks Trump-branded wine will be slumped on the toilet nursing a terrific hangover the next morning
I honestly didn't know so many universities had like $30-40 million just lying around to just hand over to the federal government. Seems like something you'd put up a big fight not to do.
But I'm not a university president getting paid $1.5 million to make these kinds of decisions.
But I'm not a university president getting paid $1.5 million to make these kinds of decisions.
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I honestly didn't know so many universities had like $30-40 million just lying around to just hand over to the federal government. Seems like something you'd put up a big fight not to do.
But I'm not a university president getting paid $1.5 million to make these kinds of decisions.
But I'm not a university president getting paid $1.5 million to make these kinds of decisions.
Reposted by Owen Barcala
Cornell agreed to pay $30m, hand over admissions data with demographic breakdowns, produce annual "campus climate" surveys to check on antisemitism and changes "since October of 2023," and—here's the dumbest part they agreed to—that the govt can open new investigations whenever it wants.
Appeasers.
Appeasers.
Cornell has reached an agreement with the federal government to restore our funding:
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
An agreement to restore Cornell’s federal research funding | University Statements | Cornell University
statements.cornell.edu
November 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Cornell agreed to pay $30m, hand over admissions data with demographic breakdowns, produce annual "campus climate" surveys to check on antisemitism and changes "since October of 2023," and—here's the dumbest part they agreed to—that the govt can open new investigations whenever it wants.
Appeasers.
Appeasers.