@jaymillikan.bsky.social
Actual innocence and post-conviction attorney, former public defender, native Masshole, lifelong Wolverine. Dad.
F off, OSU (2026 is all about taking my victories where and when I can get them).
January 1, 2026 at 4:07 AM
F off, OSU (2026 is all about taking my victories where and when I can get them).
All my love to Providence, RI and the Brown community (I went to high school right across the street from campus and have nothing but fond memories).
December 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
All my love to Providence, RI and the Brown community (I went to high school right across the street from campus and have nothing but fond memories).
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One of the fundamental career public defender insights is that the legal system prizes civility and professionalism far more than justice.
December 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
One of the fundamental career public defender insights is that the legal system prizes civility and professionalism far more than justice.
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I get that some people genuinely think every trans person is mentally ill, or delusional, but if your response to the existence of trans people of that its ok if they get raped in prison, you're a disgusting disgrace of a human being.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I get that some people genuinely think every trans person is mentally ill, or delusional, but if your response to the existence of trans people of that its ok if they get raped in prison, you're a disgusting disgrace of a human being.
These people are practically Bond villains.
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
These people are practically Bond villains.
My son wants to see the new season of Stranger Things and my daughter wants to see Zootopia 2. My post-Thanksgiving viewing plans are pretty well sorted.
November 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
My son wants to see the new season of Stranger Things and my daughter wants to see Zootopia 2. My post-Thanksgiving viewing plans are pretty well sorted.
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these people need to be disbarred. I recognize that state bar discipline can take time, and I don't think anything should be rushed, but these cases need to move to the front of the line. if they aren't gonna do it for the sake of the country, they need to do it for the profession's reputation.
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
these people need to be disbarred. I recognize that state bar discipline can take time, and I don't think anything should be rushed, but these cases need to move to the front of the line. if they aren't gonna do it for the sake of the country, they need to do it for the profession's reputation.
Oh. My. God.
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Oh. My. God.
This, plus the beginning of Watership Down and the entirety of an insane Canadian movie called “The Peanut Butter Solution” (I think). Pure nightmare fuel.
Growing up we there any moments in movies that traumatized you?
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
This, plus the beginning of Watership Down and the entirety of an insane Canadian movie called “The Peanut Butter Solution” (I think). Pure nightmare fuel.
Honestly I’m trying to figure out whether I want to read this because I WILL have some sort of emotional breakdown.
“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.”
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October 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Honestly I’m trying to figure out whether I want to read this because I WILL have some sort of emotional breakdown.
Co-sign. She’s unbelievable in that movie, and arguably outshines both Beatty and Jack.
There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.
October 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Co-sign. She’s unbelievable in that movie, and arguably outshines both Beatty and Jack.
I can’t handle these Sox-Yankees games the way I could when I was young. That was before “blood pressure” was a concept that had any relevance to my everyday life.
October 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I can’t handle these Sox-Yankees games the way I could when I was young. That was before “blood pressure” was a concept that had any relevance to my everyday life.
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Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach.
To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat.
And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.
To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat.
And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.
September 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach.
To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat.
And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.
To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat.
And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.
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Democracy, more than anything is a practice. I always think that the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because from the Civil War black Americans built institutions: universities, fraternities and sororities, churches, that engaged them in democratic practice.
generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)
September 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Democracy, more than anything is a practice. I always think that the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because from the Civil War black Americans built institutions: universities, fraternities and sororities, churches, that engaged them in democratic practice.
This sucks. What a life, what a career.
September 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This sucks. What a life, what a career.
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(I’d put prison conditions, family defense and other similar lawyers with technically “civil” practice in the category of criminal defense for trauma purposes. Same with the support staff for all those lawyers. I’m sure I’m still leaving many out, but that’s a start.)
August 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
(I’d put prison conditions, family defense and other similar lawyers with technically “civil” practice in the category of criminal defense for trauma purposes. Same with the support staff for all those lawyers. I’m sure I’m still leaving many out, but that’s a start.)
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Justice Jackson remains the best thing Joe Biden ever did.
Jackson: “This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”
@courthousenews.bsky.social
@courthousenews.bsky.social
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Trump emergency appeal to freeze $783 million in NIH grants for health research
5-4 ruling, Roberts joins the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
5-4 ruling, Roberts joins the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Justice Jackson remains the best thing Joe Biden ever did.
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I guess on a very basic level we need to tell people over and over that watching cable news is not something a smart person does it’s the opposite of that. You can feel free to watch Top Chef or baseball or Mario 64 speedruns, none of them, genuinely, will make you as ignorant as CNN shouty bullshit
August 14, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I guess on a very basic level we need to tell people over and over that watching cable news is not something a smart person does it’s the opposite of that. You can feel free to watch Top Chef or baseball or Mario 64 speedruns, none of them, genuinely, will make you as ignorant as CNN shouty bullshit
I’m currently going through some combination of rage, denial, and ironic detachment. Which of course is a very 90’s kid thing to do…
Want to feel old? There is a ‘90s exhibit at the history museum.
July 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I’m currently going through some combination of rage, denial, and ironic detachment. Which of course is a very 90’s kid thing to do…
Sort of puts the lie to the “it’s a distraction to get sucked into Republican culture war nonsense” theory when its very proponents decide to enthusiastically repeat and amplify some of that same nonsense, doesn’t it?
Hakeem Jeffries on Mamdani: "'Globalizing the intifada' by way of example is not an acceptable phrasing. He's gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward."
June 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Sort of puts the lie to the “it’s a distraction to get sucked into Republican culture war nonsense” theory when its very proponents decide to enthusiastically repeat and amplify some of that same nonsense, doesn’t it?
Embrace “Spencer Tracy in ‘Bad Day at Black Rock’ Thought.”
The rise of people like Lander and Walz, whose ideologies don't exactly match mine but have the exact right combination of "love thy neighbor" and "fuck you, asshole" attitudes, is massive positive for people who care about left of center politics
June 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Embrace “Spencer Tracy in ‘Bad Day at Black Rock’ Thought.”
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1m people allegedly in boston today. the scale of this is just crazy. i think record-breaking www.wcvb.com/article/more...
More than 1M descend on Boston Common for Pride, No Kings rallies
The Boston Pride Parade and No Kings march converged Saturday in downtown Boston.
www.wcvb.com
June 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
1m people allegedly in boston today. the scale of this is just crazy. i think record-breaking www.wcvb.com/article/more...
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I hope, if nothing else, what's going on in LA will remind the nation's young people that true rebelliousness is not saying slurs that HR told you not to say, it's fighting fascists who are using state power to suppress speech & impose violence on marginalized groups.
June 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I hope, if nothing else, what's going on in LA will remind the nation's young people that true rebelliousness is not saying slurs that HR told you not to say, it's fighting fascists who are using state power to suppress speech & impose violence on marginalized groups.
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it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up
June 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up
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god, NIGHT MOVES…what a picture
May 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
god, NIGHT MOVES…what a picture