Nathaniel Segal
@natesegal.bsky.social
Investment Management ⚖️; Partner @VP, frm @SRZ; US Fed. Securities Laws Geek; Cardozo & GW Alum; sneakerhead 👟; Diehard Boston Sports Fan; Phish Phanatic 1.⭕️; 💙🧘🏼♂️🚴🏼♂️🌎 🇺🇸🇺🇦✡️🎗️
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“It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.”
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“It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.”
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"Would CHICKEN FINGERS be an indoor-only or indoor-outdoor cat? If indoor-only, are you willing to cater every room in your home to CHICKEN FINGERS’ specific needs? If indoor-outdoor, go to hell."
A Brief Questionnaire Before You Adopt This Rescue Cat
Thank you for your interest in CHICKEN FINGERS, an available cat with Furrever Rescue. Furrever Rescue currently has over a hundred cats that despe...
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October 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"Would CHICKEN FINGERS be an indoor-only or indoor-outdoor cat? If indoor-only, are you willing to cater every room in your home to CHICKEN FINGERS’ specific needs? If indoor-outdoor, go to hell."
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![UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
PERKINS COIE LLP,
Plaintiff,
V.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 25-716 (BAH)
Judge Beryl A. Howell
MEMORANDUM OPINION
No American President has ever before issued executive orders like the one at issue in this
lawsuit targeting a prominent law firm with adverse actions to be executed by all Executive branch agencies but, in purpose and effect, this action draws from a playbook as old as Shakespeare, who penned the phrase: "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, HENRY VI, PART 2, act 4, sc. 2, 1. 75. When Shakespeare's character, a rebel leader intent on
becoming king, see id. I. 74, hears this suggestion, he promptly incorporates this tactic as part of
his plan to assume power, leading in the same scene to the rebel leader demanding "[a]way with
him," referring to an educated clerk, who "can make obligations and write court hand," id. 1. 90,
106. Eliminating lawyers as the guardians of the rule of law removes a major impediment to the
path to more power. See Walters v. Nat'l Ass'n of Radiation Survivors, 473 U.S. 305, 371 n.24
(1985) (Stevens, J., dissenting) (explaining the import of the same Shakespearean statement to be
"that disposing of lawyers is a step in the direction of a totalitarian form of government").
The importance of independent lawyers to ensuring the American judicial system's fair
and impartial administration of justice has been recognized in this country since its founding era.
In 1770, John Adams made the singularly unpopular decision to represent eight British soldiers
charged with murder for their roles in the Boston Massacre and "claimed later to have suffered the](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t4x2ruk2qmob2b2cx55h4v7r/bafkreibym7gqxofw4wrpxo3r5q2yf7rki7sbtv4o6t6b2oiznxqwv2of3q@jpeg)
May 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
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February 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
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Elon Musk is a terrible president.
February 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Elon Musk is a terrible president.
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Why bother learning big words when you can fabricaciously prestidigitize them?
January 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Why bother learning big words when you can fabricaciously prestidigitize them?
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Serious question: can the president just spend all his time in office suing people and then use the litigation as a "legal" way of accepting bribes via "settlements"?
January 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Serious question: can the president just spend all his time in office suing people and then use the litigation as a "legal" way of accepting bribes via "settlements"?
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1. The executive orders did *not* freeze federal funding.
2. The Monday OMB memo *did* freeze federal funding.
3. OMB rescinded Monday’s memo, thereby rescinding the funding freeze.
4. The EOs (which did not freeze federal funding) are still in effect—and, for these purposes, irrelevant.
Sigh.
2. The Monday OMB memo *did* freeze federal funding.
3. OMB rescinded Monday’s memo, thereby rescinding the funding freeze.
4. The EOs (which did not freeze federal funding) are still in effect—and, for these purposes, irrelevant.
Sigh.
January 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
1. The executive orders did *not* freeze federal funding.
2. The Monday OMB memo *did* freeze federal funding.
3. OMB rescinded Monday’s memo, thereby rescinding the funding freeze.
4. The EOs (which did not freeze federal funding) are still in effect—and, for these purposes, irrelevant.
Sigh.
2. The Monday OMB memo *did* freeze federal funding.
3. OMB rescinded Monday’s memo, thereby rescinding the funding freeze.
4. The EOs (which did not freeze federal funding) are still in effect—and, for these purposes, irrelevant.
Sigh.
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This is some idea. But not sure it’s as nuts as it seems. And yet it is also nuts. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Opinion | Biden Should Pardon the Jan. 6 Insurrectionists
Pardoning the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol doesn’t condone their crimes. But it’s a start at healing a fractured nation.
www.politico.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This is some idea. But not sure it’s as nuts as it seems. And yet it is also nuts. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Annual reminder:
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
December 14, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Annual reminder:
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
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"We’ve painted the walls a beautiful sage green, installed a double sink vanity, and replaced our perfectly fine, functioning bathroom door with a sliding barn door. It’s exactly like a regular door, except it never closes."
We’ve Remodeled Our Bathroom, So Now You Have to Take a Dump Behind a Sliding Barn Door
Welcome, come on in. Let me give you a tour of our new bathroom. We’ve painted the walls a beautiful sage green, installed a double sink vanity, an...
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December 10, 2024 at 2:20 AM
"We’ve painted the walls a beautiful sage green, installed a double sink vanity, and replaced our perfectly fine, functioning bathroom door with a sliding barn door. It’s exactly like a regular door, except it never closes."
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i think INTERSTELLAR is a bona fide masterpiece — maybe nolan's greatest film — and i'm not at all ashamed to say that i weep every time i watch it.
Interstellar’s Most Enduring Quality Is What People Used to Hate About It
Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi spectacle is fascinating precisely because of what so many pegged as its fatal flaw in 2014: its unabashed emotionality.
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December 6, 2024 at 5:18 PM
i think INTERSTELLAR is a bona fide masterpiece — maybe nolan's greatest film — and i'm not at all ashamed to say that i weep every time i watch it.
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Caillou: I wanted to ride on the fire truck
Caillou’s Mom: I know, Caillou
Caillou’s Dad: I shave your head every night while you’re asleep
Caillou’s Mom: I know, Caillou
Caillou’s Dad: I shave your head every night while you’re asleep
December 3, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Caillou: I wanted to ride on the fire truck
Caillou’s Mom: I know, Caillou
Caillou’s Dad: I shave your head every night while you’re asleep
Caillou’s Mom: I know, Caillou
Caillou’s Dad: I shave your head every night while you’re asleep
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It should be easier to predict when concerts will start and finish
December 4, 2024 at 12:57 AM
It should be easier to predict when concerts will start and finish
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Since not a day goes by without someone saying I’m “just another big account that doesn’t say what to do.” I’ll once again say what I think you can do.
1) 30 states have local/state elections starting in Feb. Get involved/run.
2) Join a special issue group like civil rights, abortion or immigrant
1) 30 states have local/state elections starting in Feb. Get involved/run.
2) Join a special issue group like civil rights, abortion or immigrant
November 27, 2024 at 4:31 AM
Since not a day goes by without someone saying I’m “just another big account that doesn’t say what to do.” I’ll once again say what I think you can do.
1) 30 states have local/state elections starting in Feb. Get involved/run.
2) Join a special issue group like civil rights, abortion or immigrant
1) 30 states have local/state elections starting in Feb. Get involved/run.
2) Join a special issue group like civil rights, abortion or immigrant
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There’s a narrative that Gaetz was a deliberate head-fake — a distraction to boost the real candidate — but I am always suspicious of narratives that attribute four-dimensional chess to trump as opposed to knocking over the table and eating the checkers.
November 22, 2024 at 2:50 AM
There’s a narrative that Gaetz was a deliberate head-fake — a distraction to boost the real candidate — but I am always suspicious of narratives that attribute four-dimensional chess to trump as opposed to knocking over the table and eating the checkers.
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I see a lot of you still sharing posts from the obviously fake Count Dracula account, so please be aware:
- the real Count would never post during daylight hours in Romania
- his full given name is Vlad, not Vladimir
- he does not actually say “blah” and would never write it out in a post
- the real Count would never post during daylight hours in Romania
- his full given name is Vlad, not Vladimir
- he does not actually say “blah” and would never write it out in a post
November 20, 2024 at 4:21 PM
I see a lot of you still sharing posts from the obviously fake Count Dracula account, so please be aware:
- the real Count would never post during daylight hours in Romania
- his full given name is Vlad, not Vladimir
- he does not actually say “blah” and would never write it out in a post
- the real Count would never post during daylight hours in Romania
- his full given name is Vlad, not Vladimir
- he does not actually say “blah” and would never write it out in a post
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I love when people introduce their cats because it almost always comes with a little caveat at the end like this is Mrs. Strawberry Shortcake MD don’t ever turn your back on her if you know what’s good for you
November 20, 2024 at 1:15 AM
I love when people introduce their cats because it almost always comes with a little caveat at the end like this is Mrs. Strawberry Shortcake MD don’t ever turn your back on her if you know what’s good for you
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day 7 of not using twitter: the brain swelling has lessened. i see visions of the future, you are in it. dolphins splashing in the horizon
November 18, 2024 at 6:56 PM
day 7 of not using twitter: the brain swelling has lessened. i see visions of the future, you are in it. dolphins splashing in the horizon
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Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory
November 15, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory