A. K. Roberts
@ehkayarr.bsky.social
Lawyer as a second career. Passionate about equality, actual justice, civil rights, and kindness. Slowly but constantly trying to be a better person. Social justice barbarian. He/him/his.
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It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.
They are in charge.
They are in charge.
June 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.
They are in charge.
They are in charge.
I think that, hypothetically, people who are released pre-trial into treatment should stay there. Just a thought. Not related to any real events.
January 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I think that, hypothetically, people who are released pre-trial into treatment should stay there. Just a thought. Not related to any real events.
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Wild that BlueSky makes its user data public, makes a point of proclaiming how important that is, won't let us make our accounts private even for our own safety, and then bans Juni for using that celebrated public information to show what posts the head of T&S interacts with on his work account.
December 20, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Wild that BlueSky makes its user data public, makes a point of proclaiming how important that is, won't let us make our accounts private even for our own safety, and then bans Juni for using that celebrated public information to show what posts the head of T&S interacts with on his work account.
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Reskeet if you think Jesse Singal should be banned.
If you haven't already, you should block @jessesingal.com.
December 13, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Reskeet if you think Jesse Singal should be banned.
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Welp
CNN: “There is a real sense of nervousness and even fear in C-suites across the country.”
December 12, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Welp
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Good birthright citizenship thread
🧵 🧵 Let's talk a bit more about birthright citizenship. An explainer thread. The start of the 14th Amendment reads as follows:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
December 9, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Good birthright citizenship thread
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it just amazing that a radicalized American shot someone actually responsible for the type of problems he had and not like a school or a mall
December 9, 2024 at 8:36 PM
it just amazing that a radicalized American shot someone actually responsible for the type of problems he had and not like a school or a mall
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Wet Hot American Psycho, is this anything
December 9, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Wet Hot American Psycho, is this anything
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My take on the Hunter Biden news is that trump has proposed creating a network of concentration camps to deal with the undocumented millions in our country
December 2, 2024 at 2:08 AM
My take on the Hunter Biden news is that trump has proposed creating a network of concentration camps to deal with the undocumented millions in our country
I love talking about my job as a public defender. But summarizing the work really highlights how capricious the system is.
“What happens to my client is heavily based on which judge and which prosecutor we have” is still one of the most depressing things I have to say.
“What happens to my client is heavily based on which judge and which prosecutor we have” is still one of the most depressing things I have to say.
November 28, 2024 at 6:57 PM
I love talking about my job as a public defender. But summarizing the work really highlights how capricious the system is.
“What happens to my client is heavily based on which judge and which prosecutor we have” is still one of the most depressing things I have to say.
“What happens to my client is heavily based on which judge and which prosecutor we have” is still one of the most depressing things I have to say.
Sometimes I have to remind myself that I read words from a dead language written in ancient, leathery books, and I use these phrases in rituals to control the outcome of events. I paid a terrible price for this knowledge.
And that’s how I make my living.
And that’s how I make my living.
November 26, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Sometimes I have to remind myself that I read words from a dead language written in ancient, leathery books, and I use these phrases in rituals to control the outcome of events. I paid a terrible price for this knowledge.
And that’s how I make my living.
And that’s how I make my living.
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Disabled people, aided by the Black Panthers, staged the longest sit-in in American history in 1987, winning 504 protections. Just 3 years later we orchestrated the capitol crawl, in which many wheelchair users crawled and pulled themselves up the steps of the capitol to win passage of the ADA.
Please don't leave disabled people behind in your revolution. Please do not see us as sacrifices for the greater good, or dead weight. Please see our lives as worth saving, too.
November 10, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Disabled people, aided by the Black Panthers, staged the longest sit-in in American history in 1987, winning 504 protections. Just 3 years later we orchestrated the capitol crawl, in which many wheelchair users crawled and pulled themselves up the steps of the capitol to win passage of the ADA.
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Additional scripts for cis het white men who want to be better allies:
“What a weird thing to say”
“Do you hear yourself right now?”
“You shouldn’t say shit like that to people”
“I won’t let you talk to them that way”
“That’s a disgusting opinion to have”
“Shut the fuck up, dude”
“What a weird thing to say”
“Do you hear yourself right now?”
“You shouldn’t say shit like that to people”
“I won’t let you talk to them that way”
“That’s a disgusting opinion to have”
“Shut the fuck up, dude”
Cis men truly need to understand the power of saying “that’s fucked up bro why would you say that” to another cis man
The responsibility for resisting and correcting this behavior shouldn’t fall solely on a specific gender. If you’re a man of conscience and you see another man mimicking Nick Fuentes, fuck him up on sight before the women even get a chance. I mean that.
November 9, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Additional scripts for cis het white men who want to be better allies:
“What a weird thing to say”
“Do you hear yourself right now?”
“You shouldn’t say shit like that to people”
“I won’t let you talk to them that way”
“That’s a disgusting opinion to have”
“Shut the fuck up, dude”
“What a weird thing to say”
“Do you hear yourself right now?”
“You shouldn’t say shit like that to people”
“I won’t let you talk to them that way”
“That’s a disgusting opinion to have”
“Shut the fuck up, dude”
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Trying not to be alarmist, but please make sure you have the number for a criminal defense attorney memorized. If you’re indigent, memorize the number for the public defender’s office and NEVER TALK TO COPS WITHOUT AN ATTORNEY PRESENT
We are probably about to see an explosion in police violence. Cops are mostly Trumpers and DJT has explicitly told them he wants them to be violent. Local prosecutors are notoriously subservient to cops. The DOJ has been a check on this (albeit insufficiently) but that check is about to evaporate.
November 7, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Trying not to be alarmist, but please make sure you have the number for a criminal defense attorney memorized. If you’re indigent, memorize the number for the public defender’s office and NEVER TALK TO COPS WITHOUT AN ATTORNEY PRESENT
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it's always Shut The Fuck Up Friday
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
November 7, 2024 at 12:08 PM
it's always Shut The Fuck Up Friday
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We The Action has an excellent list of projects for which they’re seeking volunteer lawyers. If you want to use your license to help vulnerable communities, this is a way. wetheaction.org/projects?ord...
Join the cause
We The Action connects volunteer lawyers with nonprofit organizations. Together, they advocate for a more equitable, inclusive, and just society.
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November 6, 2024 at 8:55 PM
We The Action has an excellent list of projects for which they’re seeking volunteer lawyers. If you want to use your license to help vulnerable communities, this is a way. wetheaction.org/projects?ord...
I started my career change after the 2016 election. I signed up for the next LSAT that day.
It’s 8 years later, somehow, and I’m doing exactly what that me wanted to do, but thought he never could. It’s my small victory. I’m so lucky, and I hope I can just leave things a little better.
It’s 8 years later, somehow, and I’m doing exactly what that me wanted to do, but thought he never could. It’s my small victory. I’m so lucky, and I hope I can just leave things a little better.
November 7, 2024 at 12:03 AM
I started my career change after the 2016 election. I signed up for the next LSAT that day.
It’s 8 years later, somehow, and I’m doing exactly what that me wanted to do, but thought he never could. It’s my small victory. I’m so lucky, and I hope I can just leave things a little better.
It’s 8 years later, somehow, and I’m doing exactly what that me wanted to do, but thought he never could. It’s my small victory. I’m so lucky, and I hope I can just leave things a little better.
It sucks knowing that the US actively chose to be worse.
But I love my job, and it matters to me. I get to help people. I’m surrounded by people who want to make it better.
I’m privileged and safe, and I can use that for others. And I can do the next right thing.
But I love my job, and it matters to me. I get to help people. I’m surrounded by people who want to make it better.
I’m privileged and safe, and I can use that for others. And I can do the next right thing.
November 6, 2024 at 11:57 PM
It sucks knowing that the US actively chose to be worse.
But I love my job, and it matters to me. I get to help people. I’m surrounded by people who want to make it better.
I’m privileged and safe, and I can use that for others. And I can do the next right thing.
But I love my job, and it matters to me. I get to help people. I’m surrounded by people who want to make it better.
I’m privileged and safe, and I can use that for others. And I can do the next right thing.
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People who are able to preach “rising above” and “coming together” right now think they have such maturity when really it’s just staggering privilege
November 6, 2024 at 1:14 PM
People who are able to preach “rising above” and “coming together” right now think they have such maturity when really it’s just staggering privilege
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EXTREMELY GOOD: climate activists intervene in an event honouring ExxonMobil's CEO Darren Woods:
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December 8, 2023 at 11:05 PM
EXTREMELY GOOD: climate activists intervene in an event honouring ExxonMobil's CEO Darren Woods:
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there is no "type" of woman whose husband dies too young. there is no "type" of person who cries in our lobby after losing a child. there is no Other person who is Different from you, so Different that you are freed from your responsibility to care and love and protect them.
the most insidious thing that any politician or media or cruel, malicious stranger can convince you of is that there are people who are not people in the same way you are. and i want to bring them to my job and shake them and tell them look, look at this grief, tell me this person is not my people
the number one thing that my job has given me, that i wish i could forcibly give to everyone, is an understanding of the universality of grief and in turn the universality of humanity. there is no "type" of person i meet in a day, and once you understand that, there are no "types" of person at all
December 10, 2023 at 4:50 PM
there is no "type" of woman whose husband dies too young. there is no "type" of person who cries in our lobby after losing a child. there is no Other person who is Different from you, so Different that you are freed from your responsibility to care and love and protect them.
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These dogs look like the villains in a movie where a golden retriever wins a snowboarding tournament
December 10, 2023 at 3:25 AM
These dogs look like the villains in a movie where a golden retriever wins a snowboarding tournament
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This statement on Henry Kissinger from President Biden is the equivalent of an appellant judge staring his/her opinion with "My learned brethren..."
This statement from Biden about Henry Kissinger is one cold-blooded shiv of a paragraph, to a degree that I truly didn't expect we were going to get.
I'm impressed.
I'm impressed.
December 1, 2023 at 12:24 AM
This statement on Henry Kissinger from President Biden is the equivalent of an appellant judge staring his/her opinion with "My learned brethren..."
My follow list on bluesky is basically a spiral that started with every liberal I could find, and is now pretty much just a rainbow of queer sex workers circling all the way to the center. This is the best website.
November 30, 2023 at 1:08 AM
My follow list on bluesky is basically a spiral that started with every liberal I could find, and is now pretty much just a rainbow of queer sex workers circling all the way to the center. This is the best website.