Alyssa
@alybrogers.bsky.social
Attorney by training. Smartass by nature.
Oh damn
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Oh damn
I'm officially done with my CLE hours for this 3 year cycle, a whole 2.5 weeks before the end of the year
December 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I'm officially done with my CLE hours for this 3 year cycle, a whole 2.5 weeks before the end of the year
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Pretty notable that Republicans in a deep-red state declined to go along with a partisan power grab specifically because of the toxic, violent culture Trump encourages. www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...
The deeply personal reasons why many Indiana Senate Republicans said no to Trump | CNN Politics
Jean Leising spoke at a breakfast this fall at her 8th grade grandson’s school. Hours later, when she was set to give him a ride home from basketball practice, he bashfully told her that his entire te...
www.cnn.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Pretty notable that Republicans in a deep-red state declined to go along with a partisan power grab specifically because of the toxic, violent culture Trump encourages. www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...
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Anyway, a very good FOIA to file this morning would be for all emails and calls received in the last 24 hours by the immigration “judge” who issued the order.
December 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Anyway, a very good FOIA to file this morning would be for all emails and calls received in the last 24 hours by the immigration “judge” who issued the order.
For fuck's sake leave this man alone
BREAKING: At 7am ET, in response to the emergency overnight filing, Judge Xinis issued a TRO barring the Trump administration from re-detaining Abrego Garcia.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
Memorandum and Order – #114 in Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Maryland, 8:25-cv-02780) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM ORDER granting 112 Motion for Temporary Restraining Order; Respondents are enjoined from re-detaining Petitioner in ICE custody until this Court can receive further briefing from the partie...
www.courtlistener.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
For fuck's sake leave this man alone
Deteriorated?
Erika Kirk: Viral Charlie clips lack context, late husband "shouldn't be deteriorated to two sentences."
Erika Kirk: Viral Charlie clips lack context, late husband "shouldn't be deteriorated to two sentences"
The CBS News town hall with Erika Kirk will air Saturday at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
cbsn.ws
December 12, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Deteriorated?
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Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.
December 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.
Hoo-hoo-hoosiers
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Senate Republicans reject new congressional maps in defiance of Trump’s redistricting push.
December 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Hoo-hoo-hoosiers
Oh no
SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power.
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary
The Taken actor can be heard calling mRNA COVID vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news
December 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Oh no
ffs
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
nbcnews.to
December 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
ffs
Damn 🔥
December 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Damn 🔥
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it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society
This is...dramatic
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
December 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is...dramatic
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the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.
it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.
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Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
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Best summary of Slaughter (i.e., the FTC removal case)
Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
December 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Best summary of Slaughter (i.e., the FTC removal case)
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard Mode: No Star Wars, Marvel etc
December 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard Mode: No Star Wars, Marvel etc
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Here’s what I think the modern Dem platform should be:
-Prosecute this administration
-Expand and pack SCOTUS
-Outlaw private equity
-Limit corporate consolidation
-Ban fossil fuels
-Ban AI
-Heavily regulate gambling
-Free healthcare/free pre-K thru college education
-Permanent DST
For starters.
-Prosecute this administration
-Expand and pack SCOTUS
-Outlaw private equity
-Limit corporate consolidation
-Ban fossil fuels
-Ban AI
-Heavily regulate gambling
-Free healthcare/free pre-K thru college education
-Permanent DST
For starters.
December 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Here’s what I think the modern Dem platform should be:
-Prosecute this administration
-Expand and pack SCOTUS
-Outlaw private equity
-Limit corporate consolidation
-Ban fossil fuels
-Ban AI
-Heavily regulate gambling
-Free healthcare/free pre-K thru college education
-Permanent DST
For starters.
-Prosecute this administration
-Expand and pack SCOTUS
-Outlaw private equity
-Limit corporate consolidation
-Ban fossil fuels
-Ban AI
-Heavily regulate gambling
-Free healthcare/free pre-K thru college education
-Permanent DST
For starters.
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it cannot be said enough, and should be shouted from the rooftops:
this is a fake legal issue that's been backstopped by on-demand scholarship from academics who are part of the same project as the conservative justices. the "authority" they will cite is no better than citing AI slop.
this is a fake legal issue that's been backstopped by on-demand scholarship from academics who are part of the same project as the conservative justices. the "authority" they will cite is no better than citing AI slop.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court agrees to take up a challenge to President Trump's January 20 birthright citizenship executive order.
The court will hear DOJ's appeal of a loss below in a class-action challenge brought in the wake of June's decision limiting universal injunctions.
The court will hear DOJ's appeal of a loss below in a class-action challenge brought in the wake of June's decision limiting universal injunctions.
December 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
it cannot be said enough, and should be shouted from the rooftops:
this is a fake legal issue that's been backstopped by on-demand scholarship from academics who are part of the same project as the conservative justices. the "authority" they will cite is no better than citing AI slop.
this is a fake legal issue that's been backstopped by on-demand scholarship from academics who are part of the same project as the conservative justices. the "authority" they will cite is no better than citing AI slop.
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If you want a read about the recent anti-constituonal attempt to denaturalize American children from their claim to birthright citizenship using bad history, @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, I wrote about it in the Cornell Law Review Online. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If you want a read about the recent anti-constituonal attempt to denaturalize American children from their claim to birthright citizenship using bad history, @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, I wrote about it in the Cornell Law Review Online. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...
JFC
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino has publicly distanced himself from his own conspiracy rhetoric, offering a striking walk-back of claims he made before joining the agency’s leadership.
Bongino Makes Jaw-Dropping Admission About His Unhinged Conspiracies
“I was paid in the past for my opinions,” former podcaster explained on Fox News.
trib.al
December 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
JFC
Full day CLE at a law firm downtown. There's a whole buffet pan of appropriately cooked bacon. I found several that were nearly charred enough for me
December 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Full day CLE at a law firm downtown. There's a whole buffet pan of appropriately cooked bacon. I found several that were nearly charred enough for me
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TLDR: SCOTUS rules, 6-3, that racial gerrymandering is totally okay when Republicans do it. And if a district court suggests otherwise, they were dumb and too mean to Republicans (specifically “not presuming their good faith”).
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
TLDR: SCOTUS rules, 6-3, that racial gerrymandering is totally okay when Republicans do it. And if a district court suggests otherwise, they were dumb and too mean to Republicans (specifically “not presuming their good faith”).
Well of course
December 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Well of course
lolllll
NBC News: DOJ fails to get a new indictment of Letitia James.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
December 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
lolllll