Michelle LaLonde
@petitecarcajou.bsky.social
Academic law librarian, adjunct professor, & attorney. J! champion for a day, Wolverine for life. #GoBlue #Michigan #Detroit
Sobering to think of all the dismantling and sabotage of everything that is part of the common good being done by this regime just to save billionaires from having to pay taxes.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Sobering to think of all the dismantling and sabotage of everything that is part of the common good being done by this regime just to save billionaires from having to pay taxes.
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Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.
Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords
This is evil.
www.thegodpodcast.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.
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For anyone who knows anything about genocides and the incitement of genocidal violence, this is the kind of hair-raising stuff you find in transcripts of testimony before special tribunals.
Tom Emmer pushes racist lies on Fox: "80% of the crimes being committed in the Twin Cities and Minnesota are being committed by Somalis"
December 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
For anyone who knows anything about genocides and the incitement of genocidal violence, this is the kind of hair-raising stuff you find in transcripts of testimony before special tribunals.
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October 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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This is one advantage of having the historical memory of authoritarianism, as I have from Brazil: you know that, when the regime is gone, the people who collaborated and acquiesced look terrible in retrospect. It may look reasonable and justifiable now, but believe me, it will age like milk.
November 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This is one advantage of having the historical memory of authoritarianism, as I have from Brazil: you know that, when the regime is gone, the people who collaborated and acquiesced look terrible in retrospect. It may look reasonable and justifiable now, but believe me, it will age like milk.
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
Let’s Go Blue!!! 💛💙🏈
November 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Let’s Go Blue!!! 💛💙🏈
A sobering thread for those of us in academia. Again, it’s astonishing how much this regime (w/help from Heritage & Project 2025) is committed to literally destroying everything good about this country.
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
November 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A sobering thread for those of us in academia. Again, it’s astonishing how much this regime (w/help from Heritage & Project 2025) is committed to literally destroying everything good about this country.
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
Post something random or you'll have an awful December
November 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This quarter of Lions-Packers appears to have the roughly the same number of sacks as a Hermès boutique does of in-stock Birkins!
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This quarter of Lions-Packers appears to have the roughly the same number of sacks as a Hermès boutique does of in-stock Birkins!
"Wishbone" was just the absolute best show!
One popular Thanksgiving tradition is making a wish while breaking the fulcrum of the turkey, more commonly known as the wishbone. 🧵⬇️
(NOT HIM)
(NOT HIM)
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"Wishbone" was just the absolute best show!
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No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
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Happy St Catherine’s Day! She’s the patron of women students, anyone who works with wheels (e.g., potters), tanners, philosophers, and librarians. She’s also my confirmation saint. I love this painting of her by Caravaggio.
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Happy St Catherine’s Day! She’s the patron of women students, anyone who works with wheels (e.g., potters), tanners, philosophers, and librarians. She’s also my confirmation saint. I love this painting of her by Caravaggio.
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
Oddly satisfying!
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Oddly satisfying!
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
Obviously my favorite one thus far…
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake, they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early
Of the big lake, they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early
November 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Obviously my favorite one thus far…
If this sets Verstappen up to win the championship, a lot of fans are going to be pissed off.
Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have been disqualified from the Las Vegas Grand Prix, creating a significant shake-up in the drivers’ championship with two grands prix and one sprint race remaining in the 2025 Formula One season.
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Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri disqualified from Las Vegas GP, rattling the F1 championship
The penalty for excessive plank wear erases crucial points from Norris' championship lead with two grands prix remaining
theathletic.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
If this sets Verstappen up to win the championship, a lot of fans are going to be pissed off.
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
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It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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.
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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!