Michelle LaLonde
@petitecarcajou.bsky.social
Academic law librarian, adjunct professor, & attorney. J! champion for a day, Wolverine for life. #GoBlue #Michigan #Detroit
Very troubling article. Prior to 9/11 & COVID, we thought nothing of going back & forth across the border. I've been a frequent border crosser b/w Michigan & Ontario b/c of family and cultural ties, shopping, or traveling further east. This interference just makes our world that much smaller.
Michigan - you are being watched. apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Very troubling article. Prior to 9/11 & COVID, we thought nothing of going back & forth across the border. I've been a frequent border crosser b/w Michigan & Ontario b/c of family and cultural ties, shopping, or traveling further east. This interference just makes our world that much smaller.
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NOW HEAR THIS: Every service member has an OBLIGATION to NOT carry out “Blatantly” Unlawful orders:
1) COMMIT A CRIME OR WAR CRIME
2) VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION
3) VIOLATE TREATIES & INTL LAWS
4) VIOLATE THE UCMJ
5) ORDERS YOU TO ABUSE YOUR POSITION OR AUTHORITY OR SUPERIORS PERSONAL GAIN
1) COMMIT A CRIME OR WAR CRIME
2) VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION
3) VIOLATE TREATIES & INTL LAWS
4) VIOLATE THE UCMJ
5) ORDERS YOU TO ABUSE YOUR POSITION OR AUTHORITY OR SUPERIORS PERSONAL GAIN
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
NOW HEAR THIS: Every service member has an OBLIGATION to NOT carry out “Blatantly” Unlawful orders:
1) COMMIT A CRIME OR WAR CRIME
2) VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION
3) VIOLATE TREATIES & INTL LAWS
4) VIOLATE THE UCMJ
5) ORDERS YOU TO ABUSE YOUR POSITION OR AUTHORITY OR SUPERIORS PERSONAL GAIN
1) COMMIT A CRIME OR WAR CRIME
2) VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION
3) VIOLATE TREATIES & INTL LAWS
4) VIOLATE THE UCMJ
5) ORDERS YOU TO ABUSE YOUR POSITION OR AUTHORITY OR SUPERIORS PERSONAL GAIN
Including one of my Senators!
I know I’m a libtard but I think it’s bad the U.S. president keeps calling for the killing of specific sitting elected officials who didn’t even commit crimes
November 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Including one of my Senators!
Especially important for those attorneys who use Gmail as their work email. You could be unwittingly violating your duty of confidentiality to clients!
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Especially important for those attorneys who use Gmail as their work email. You could be unwittingly violating your duty of confidentiality to clients!
This is pretty disgusting. My family’s historic parish, Ste. Anne de Detroit, is now mostly Hispanic. It breaks my heart to think of the gov’t possibly invading our parish to go after families who just want to go to Mass and have a few moments of sanctuary, peace, & hope.
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
This is pretty disgusting. My family’s historic parish, Ste. Anne de Detroit, is now mostly Hispanic. It breaks my heart to think of the gov’t possibly invading our parish to go after families who just want to go to Mass and have a few moments of sanctuary, peace, & hope.
^^This. It's literally out of the N@z! playbook of how to "other" people "outside" of the majority.
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
^^This. It's literally out of the N@z! playbook of how to "other" people "outside" of the majority.
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When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
What perfect album came out the year I turned 16? These 4 are still on my playlists!
November 17, 2025 at 4:26 AM
What perfect album came out the year I turned 16? These 4 are still on my playlists!
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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The “Epstein Files” saga shows that Republicans were only ever interested in using sexual assault as a pretext to smear political rivals and deprive LGBT people of their constitutional rights www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The President Who Cried ‘Hoax’
Republicans went after Epstein only when it was politically useful.
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The “Epstein Files” saga shows that Republicans were only ever interested in using sexual assault as a pretext to smear political rivals and deprive LGBT people of their constitutional rights www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
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I love a meme targeted for my demographic
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I love a meme targeted for my demographic
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DO NOT COME AFTER THE HALIFAX EXPLOSION CHRISTMAS TREE ISTG
Massachusetts Republicans are so cooked that they're trying to attack Michelle Wu for "wasting" taxpayer money by visiting Nova Scotia to pick up Boston’s annual Christmas tree.
Now who's waging a War on Christmas, huh?
Now who's waging a War on Christmas, huh?
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
DO NOT COME AFTER THE HALIFAX EXPLOSION CHRISTMAS TREE ISTG
Many eons ago, I worked at ISR and worked on this survey. It's really the gold standard of knowing what U.S. customers think & feel about the economy for decades.
These results are NOT a good sign for the GOP.
These results are NOT a good sign for the GOP.
The university of Michigan released its consumer confidence index.
US consumer confidence is at the lowest level since 1951.
Trump tanked the economy in his first term!
Is he’s doing it to us again?
US consumer confidence is at the lowest level since 1951.
Trump tanked the economy in his first term!
Is he’s doing it to us again?
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Many eons ago, I worked at ISR and worked on this survey. It's really the gold standard of knowing what U.S. customers think & feel about the economy for decades.
These results are NOT a good sign for the GOP.
These results are NOT a good sign for the GOP.
Hilarious as a former History of Art undergrad who’s not the biggest fan of Impressionism.)
"It’s not 1859 anymore, guys. This is not your blue period. You are not in your watercolor era. You are just a cheap asshole who is quite adept at depicting this bawdy revue."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
I’m the Owner of This All Day Café in Nineteenth-Century Paris: Can We Stop It with the Fucking Easels?
I opened this café with the best of intentions: to provide a salon par excellence with a focus on good food and live entertainment, a third place t...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Hilarious as a former History of Art undergrad who’s not the biggest fan of Impressionism.)
Absolute BS in today’s majority ruling. AFAIK, most trans folk seem to just want to live their lives freely as who they feel they are & without interference. Not sure why anyone else should have any say in that?
Jackson's dissent, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan, says the evidence showed that gender-incongruent passports led to humiliating, invasive searches of trans Americans (including strip searches) since their gender marker didn't align with their appearance. The policy is both cruel and irrational.
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Absolute BS in today’s majority ruling. AFAIK, most trans folk seem to just want to live their lives freely as who they feel they are & without interference. Not sure why anyone else should have any say in that?
Boy, the whole RW is not subtle about the whole “girls are icky” thing, are they?
The front page of the New York Times is asking if women belong the workplace and @aselrod.bsky.social and @liberalcurrents.com, come through with this.
Incredible timing.
Incredible timing.
Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women.
I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
November 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Boy, the whole RW is not subtle about the whole “girls are icky” thing, are they?
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
Huh…interesting that he thinks the AI bubble will pop soon.
The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Michael Burry Returns With Two Big Shorts: Palantir and Nvidia
Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michae...
www.wsj.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Huh…interesting that he thinks the AI bubble will pop soon.
Jeez, Louise…what would this guy do in a real war if he’s that traumatized by a slightly unwrapped Subway sandwich?
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Jeez, Louise…what would this guy do in a real war if he’s that traumatized by a slightly unwrapped Subway sandwich?
And they have the audacity to call themselves “Christians”!! 🤬🤬
“The money’s there. Don’t be fooled by the Republican rhetoric about SNAP benefits … They’re lying. From the White House to the governor’s mansion, they’re lying. All of them.” www.alreporter.com/2025/10/31/o...
Opinion | Republicans have the money to feed the hungry. They're choosing not to.
Republicans at the federal and state levels have the ability to fund the SNAP program and not let people go hungry. They're refusing.
www.alreporter.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
And they have the audacity to call themselves “Christians”!! 🤬🤬
JFC, this is horrific. We should not be building enslavement camps (again) in the US.
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
JFC, this is horrific. We should not be building enslavement camps (again) in the US.
Yes, please ask a librarian to help you find reputable information rather than relying on AI.
A trip to the indie bookshop or local library (or supporting them online) instead of placing an order through a mega-retailer.
Heading to a local coffee shop instead of an international chain.
Joining an indie's book club, fostering IRL connections.
Asking a librarian instead of relying on AI.
Heading to a local coffee shop instead of an international chain.
Joining an indie's book club, fostering IRL connections.
Asking a librarian instead of relying on AI.
October 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Yes, please ask a librarian to help you find reputable information rather than relying on AI.
Whoopsies! It’s almost as if teachers get special training to do their jobs…
But within a couple years, some of those same Brownsville families wanted out of Alpha. They felt the school impacted their children, left them with glaring gaps in their education, and is now using the school to sell a story of success.
Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out
In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.
www.wired.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Whoopsies! It’s almost as if teachers get special training to do their jobs…