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Roger Allan Ford (he/him)
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lawyer, law professor, union member
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Post-football local news coverage of the shutdown deal, in the first minute of the program:
Full-screen Elizabeth Warren tweet saying “I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.” Full-screen Seth Moulton tweet saying “Tonight is another example of why we need new leadership. If @ChuckSchumer were an effective leader, he would have united his caucus to vote ‘No’ tonight and hold the line on healthcare. Maybe now @EdMarkey will finally join me in pledging not to vote for Schumer?”
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Here’s the full tweet. He’s not looking for access to something that is otherwise illegal. He’s looking for help with his customer-service issues with Kaiser Permanente.
Scott Adams: “On Monday, I will ask President Trump, via X, to help save my life. He offered to help me if I needed it. I need it. As many of you know, I have metastasized prostate cancer. My healthcare provider, Kaiser of Northern California, has approved my application to receive a newly FDA-approved drug called Pluvicto. But they have dropped the ball in scheduling the brief IV to administer it and I can't seem to fix that. I am declining fast. I will ask President Trump if he can get Kaiser of Northern California to respond and schedule it for Monday. That will give me a fighting chance to stick around on this planet a little bit longer. It is not a cure, but it does give good results to many people.“
November 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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It appears that the California decision disbarring him is not final, but is a recommendation to the California Supreme Court. Though he is currently suspended from practice in both California and the District of Columbia. apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Lic...
November 3, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Supreme Court Rule 8 says that when a lawyer is disbarred by a state bar, they will be suspended from practice by the Supreme Court and ordered to show cause concerning whether they should also be disbarred from the Supreme Court bar.
Rule 8. Disbarment and Disciplinary Action 1. Whenever a member of the Bar of this Court has been disbarred or suspended from practice in any court of record, or has engaged in conduct unbecoming a member of the Bar of this Court, the Court will enter an order suspending that member from practice before this Court and affording the member an opportunity to show cause, within 40 days, why a disbarment order should not be entered. Upon response, or if no response is timely filed, the Court will enter an appropriate order. 2. After reasonable notice and an opportunity to show cause why disciplinary action should not be taken, and after a hearing if material facts are in dispute, the Court may take any appropriate disciplinary action against any attorney who is admitted to practice before it for conduct unbecoming a member of the Bar or for failure to comply with these Rules or any Rule or order of the Court.
November 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Looking through the briefs in Trump v. Wilcox, the case in which the Supreme Court will overturn Humphrey’s Executor, and I come across this brief listing John Eastman as counsel of record. Wasn’t he disbarred for trying to help Trump overturn the 2020 election? www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
November 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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DA VIS MILLS
A tv with a football game and some truly unconscionable kerning
November 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Imagine if Obama unilaterally tore down the White House and built this as a replacement.
AI-generated image. Prompt: “Imagine a Democratic president tore down the White House and replaced it with an ultramodern building. What might that look like?” The image depicts a sleek, modern, multi-story office building with flowing, curved white levels and expansive glass windows, set against a clear blue sky on a manicured lawn with a prominent American flag flying on a pole to the right.
October 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Ewwww
“What JD Vance and a Throw Pillow Have in Common”
October 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Flaming guitar guy from Mad Max: Fury Road
September 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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What in the actual fuck
Retired general tweeting “July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.” And Pete Hegseth responding “Cool story, General”
September 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Fox News
“Secret Service investigating after president, first lady forced to walk up escalator”
September 24, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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The chaos from the first day of a meeting of the federal vaccine committee appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. bled into the second day, as the panel reversed one decision and indefinitely postponed a vote on a hepatitis B vaccine they had already deferred once. On Friday morning, the committee voted not to allow a federal vaccine program to cover the cost of a combination vaccine that protects against measles, mumps, rubella and varicella, or chickenpox. This reversed a vote on Thursday to allow coverage, apparently because some members had misunderstood the way it was worded. And the panelists said they felt unready to decide whether to limit the use of a vaccine for hepatitis B that is typically given to all newborns. Some said they still had questions about the vaccine's safety, while others seemed relieved that the panel did not make what they saw as a rash decision that might harm children. Thursday's session ended with the panel members at odds. A hot microphone caught one panelist calling another committee member "an idiot," although it was unclear who was speaking. Friday's session, too, at times devolved into raised voices and sharp-toned remarks. Dr. Jason Goldman, a liaison to the committee from the American College of Physicians, accused the committee's chair, Martin Kulldorff, of muting him. "You want debate and discussion, but you're muting people and silencing them," Dr. Goldman said. "If you could respectfully tell the public how you are going to be analyzing all of these vaccine decisions, we can have confidence in this committee." Dr. Kulldorff retorted: "You made that comment before, and I responded to that comment in a very nice and polite manner."
September 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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“President Trump’s hundreds of history-making media appearances and roles include: WrestleMania V (1989); Ghosts Can’t Do It (1989); All My Children (1992); Lady Boss (1992); Home Alone 2 (1992); Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson (1993); Fresh Prince of Bel Air (1994); The Little Rascals (1994); Across the Sea of Time (1995); Eddie (1996); The Nanny (1996); The Associate (1996); The Drew Carey Show (1997); NightMan (1997); Spin City (1998); 54 (1998); Celebrity (1998); Sex In The City (1998); Miss Universe 2001 (2001); The Job (2001-2002); Zoolander (2001); Donald Trump Real Estate Tycoon! (2002) (video game); Two Weeks Notice (2002); Miss USA 2002 (2002); Ali G Show (2003); Marmalade (2004); Days of Our Lives (2005); Miss Universe Pageant; The Apprentice (2004-2015) and Celebrity Apprentice (2008-2015); Hosted Saturday Night Live (2015); Hosted WWE; and much more.”
September 16, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Amazing, Fox News is trying to prop up Kash Patel
Fox News lede story: “Father identifies son as Charlie Kirk’s alleged shooter after FBI chief’s bold evidence strategy”
September 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Remember how after 9/11 Trump bragged about how now he had the tallest building in lower Manhattan?
The day after Charlie Kirk was killed, Stephen Crowder changed his Twitter bio from talking about hosting “the #2 Conservative Daily Show” to “the #1 Conservative Daily Show”
September 13, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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And as we all know, that prediction came true and today there are no more coders.
Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code
September 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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The second Trump administration, finding new innovations in the art of institutional destruction since 2025
“Trump’s Federal Reserve pick plans to keep his White House job while serving on central bank, in unusual threat to Fed independence”
September 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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This is just embarrassing for the solicitor general’s office
“The stakes in this case could not be higher. The President and his Cabinet officials have determined that the tariffs are promoting peace and unprecedented economic prosperity, and that the denial of tariff authority would expose our nation to trade retaliation without effective defenses and thrust America back to the brink of economic catastrophe. C.A. Doc. 158, at 8-9 (Lutnick). “To the President and his most senior advisors, these tariffs thus present a stark choice: With tariffs, we are a rich nation; without tariffs, we are a poor nation. According to the President, ‘[o]ne year ago, the United States was a dead country, and now, because of the trillions of dollars being paid by countries that have so badly abused us, America is a strong, financially viable, and respected country again.’ C.A. Doc. 154, at 1 (Aug. 11, 2025). The President predicts that ‘[i]f the United States were forced to pay back the trillions of dollars committed to us, America could go from strength to failure the moment such an incorrect decision took effect,’ and ‘the economic consequences would be ruinous, instead of unprecedented success.’ Id. at 1-2. “Nonetheless, in a fractured, 7-4 decision, the en banc Federal Circuit declared that the President’s use of IEEPA tariffs was unlawful. …”
September 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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lol
Chat on the AP livestream of Trump’s proof of life
September 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Getting solar panels 2.5 years ago turned out to be an extremely smart move
Graph of residential electricity costs over time showing a dramatic increase around 2022–2023 and even more increases since
August 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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This earlier paragraph is fairly explicit (“the mutation of sexes, or transition into one another”) but uses “transexion” rather than “transfeminated”
“As for the mutation of sexes, or transition into one another, we cannot deny it in Hares, it being observable in Man. For hereof beside Empedocles or Tiresias there are not a few examples: and though very few, or rather none which have emasculated or turned women, yet very many who from an esteem or reality of being Women have infallibly proved Men. Some at the first point of their menstruous eruptions, some in the day of their marriage, others many years after: which occasioned disputes at Law, and contestations concerning a restore of the dowry. And that not only mankind, but many other Animals may suffer this transexion, we will not deny, or hold it at all impossible: although I confess by reason of the postick and backward position of the feminine part in quadrupedes, they can hardly admit the substitution of a protrusion, effectual unto masculine generation; except it be in Retromingents, and such as couple backward.”
August 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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It sounds like this is more a description of a spontaneous natural process than one that is medically induced or treated, but that’s just a sense from quick skimming.
“But surely it much impeacheth this iterated transection of Hares, if that be true which Cardan and other Physicians affirm, that Transmutation of sex is only so in opinion; and that these transfeminated persons were really men at first; although succeeding years produced the manifesto or evidence of their virilities. Which although intended and formed, was not at first excluded: and that the examples hereof have undergone no real or new transection, but were Androgynally born, and under some kind of Hermaphrodites. For though Galen do favour the opinion, that the distinctive parts of sexes are only different in Position, that is, inversion or protrusion; yet will this hardly be made out from the Anatomy of those parts. The testicles being so seated in the female, that they admit not of protrusion; and the neck of the matrix wanting those parts which are discoverable in the organs of virility.”
August 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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It looks obscure but it’s worth noting that the OED does have an earlier citation for the adjective form, transfeminated, which is expressly a textual reference to people.
1646 “These transfeminated persons were really men at first, although succeeding years produced the manifesto or evidence of their virilities.” Sir T. Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xvii. 148
August 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Back when there were actual progressives on the Supreme Court
“In my view, every citizen who applies for a government job is entitled to it unless the government can establish some reason for denying the employment. This is the ‘property’ right that I believe is protected by the Fourteenth Amendment and that cannot be denied ‘without due process of law.’ And it is also liberty—liberty to work—which is the ‘very essence of the personal freedom and opportunity’ secured by the Fourteenth Amendment.”
August 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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What the fuck is this garbage
Actual tweet — no, really, I went and looked it up — by @TheDemocrats, with the Norman Rockwell painting of the guy speaking at a town meeting or something, with the text (I’m so sorry) of the tweet saying “We think the Cracker Barrel rebrand sucks too”
August 22, 2025 at 4:08 AM