Lea Bickerton

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Someone talking on a landline.

Pillow Talk (1959)

Here's the thing about using AI for lit reviews ... If you've actually read the scholarship, writing the lit review yourself isn't that taxing. But what's gonna happen is folks will use AI to save themselves having to *read* the scholarship, which will then make the rest of their article trash.

Joey Porter On The Reaction To Mike Tomlin Stepping Down | Not Just Football YouTube video by Not Just Football with Cam Heyward

Joey Porter sharing his thoughts on James Harrison and Big Ben and what they’ve said about Mike Tomlin. RuPaul was right. Reading really is fundamental.
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My paper on the original meaning of birthright citizenship is now published

Everybody: That show was beautiful.

Me: OVERRULE THE INSULAR CASES TOMORROW FFS

That was either Kenny G or the world’s best Kenny G impersonator on the saxophone for the national anthem. Which makes sense because he’s from Seattle.

Have to give it to the NFL for dropping that Kenny G Easter egg in there for the boomers and Gen X

Okay, I wasn’t the only one who saw Kenny G in the orchestra there, was I? If so, I REALLY need to lay off the cold meds.

Advance copies are in the mail. Can't wait to hold a physical copy!

Thinking on something @beaubaumann.bsky.social said yesterday. There would be less acrimony in the legal academy if folks developed expertise, workshopped ideas, and incorporated criticism into their work. That's the process of doing scholarship, but it doesn't work when you're chasing litigation.

A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.

Words fail me.

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RFK slams processed foods, pesticides, vaccines as harmful to kids in sweeping MAHA report The commission to "Make America Healthy Again" was tasked with investigating chronic illness and delivering a plan to fight childhood diseases.

“The 69-page report, titled ‘Making Our Children Healthy Again,’ also says these drivers are partly propelled by corporate influence and government lobbying.”

He called it the MOCHA Report. I vaguely remember learning that titles set the tone for what follows…

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This is how the Republican Justices on SCOTUS have defined corruption-they insist it is the *only* definition of corruption. (It is not! They don't control the English language! Or common sense!)

Congress has defined corruption in other ways- SCOTUS has just imposed its own definition on all of us.

Had a really interesting discussion with some friends last night about why so many lawyers end up practicing at full blast into their 70s and even 80s. From all our perspective, man no way! But then I bet many people who said that 30 years ago are still at it.

You’ll want to read @ilyasomin.bsky.social on anti-commandeering and how Trump keeps losing in court with this stuff

The Attorney General shall pursue all necessary legal remedies and enforcement measures to enforce the rights of Americans impacted by crime and shall prioritize prosecution of any applicable violations of Federal criminal law with respect to State and local jurisdictions whose officials: (a) willfully and unlawfully direct the obstruction of criminal law, including by directly and unlawfully prohibiting law enforcement officers from carrying out duties necessary for public safety and law enforcement; or

So this, I think, is reasonably interpreted as a claim that it is illegal for states to prohibit state officials from assisting ICE. This is bullshit. State officials are not obliged to enforce federal law and actually constitutionally can’t be forced to do so. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Remember how in “Romeo and Juliet,” Romeo was really distraught because he was banished from his city-state and he felt that banishment was worse than death?

Y’all, I remember when I thought that AI legal research and drafting tools were ok if they were used by lawyers, who would have the capacity to know if the cites were good

Defamation is a fancy way of saying “he lied about me and hurt my reputation.” If the statement is a fact or opinion, it’s not defamation. So, “you probably deserved it” isn’t defamation while “I heard you deserved it” could be.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

There it is: 7:19 pm — Cory Booker has buried the odious arch segregationist Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history — and Booker is acknowledging him as “the man who tried to stop the rights on which I stand… I’m here despite his speech."

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I’m sure he’s looking up watching right now.

Watching Cory Booker and thinking about just how committed to segregation Strom Thurmond had to be to do this before Gatorade, Depend, and 48-hour antiperspirants.

“Like an attorney, the media are supposed to have a duty to their client, the public.”

Just had a flashback to an ethics class where the professor mentioned imminent harm to others as one of the times when an attorney’s duty to the public outweighs the duty to the client…

Not being the least bit curious about who you’re related to has its benefits.

This is why certain people who are between 5’8 and 5’10 just lie and say that they’re 5’11 and a half.

The AI chatbots apparently have a lot in common with bad lawyers.

‘Earth, Wind, & Fire’ implies the existence of Water and Heart, and when their powers combine…

James Bond owners reveal gender of the next 007 EXCLUSIVE: Fans of 007 feared Amazon Studios would corrupt the British super spy after buying the Bond franchise and rights for £770 million from Bond stewards Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson.

Bond is going to be “British or from the Commonwealth.” Which means a Jamaican Bond is possible. I’d go to the theater twice to see that.
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