little girl initially denied a passport in the UK because her name is khaleesi, which the passport office said is "trademarked by warner brothers" 🤨
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Clearly about keeping women out of the military - but as base hospitals serve families as well, particularly in nations like Germany, it's about excluding families from overseas postings. The end goal is to only spend money on active duty men - see also the attacks on veteran healthcare.
Given the obvious portents for Republicans, seems that this election is going to be riddled with fake Democrats and the billionaires that fund them.
AI has nothing (or at most very little) to do with it; Claude is not writing 25k words for you. Law journals short-sightedly destroyed the Fall submission season, and compacted the Spring season into a few weeks, and now complain they get too many submissions at once to manage.
"We ask that the leaders of the business world in the US--some of whom it has been our privilege to teach--speak out now, act now, in defense of democracy....[T]here is no conflict between their responsibilities as CEO and their responsibilities as citizens. The cost of silence is incalculable."
passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
Still not clear on why the insider trading company targeting kids with gambling ads is permitted to legally operate, but then again I feel that way about a lot of tech companies that would have been broken up and forced to close as flagrantly criminal enterprises even 20 years ago.
THIS.
I wish my clients were given even the tiniest amount of this kind of grace and compassion.
Jury awards Post University $75M in damages from CourseHero for 1202(a)/1202(b) violations for "modifying the class materials to add its name in banners, logos, watermarks, & notices" 👀
news.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw...
TTAB Deems CHATGPT Merely Descriptive of Chatbot Software
thettablog.blogspot.com/2026/03/ttab...
Thread. You can’t trust the Trump/RFK/Bhattacharya regime, even when they make representations to courts.
I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.
This shows the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on end-to-end encryption and that it's only governed by Swiss privacy law, can provide to third parties. In this case, the FBI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
If the parties were reversed in this situation (and the several others involving Jan. 6 rioters), we would never stop hearing this guy's name from Rs. There'd be hearings where they'd bring the parents. They'd be proposing laws named after the victims. Why are Ds so bad at this?
I am heartbroken over the loss of Emmanuel Damas.
At 29, I lost my twin brother Andre, a pre-trial detainee, as a result of inadequate health care — much like Emmanuel.
I know the tremendous loss his family is facing. My prayers are with them as we continue to fight to hold ICE accountable.
I feel safer already with this guy as the new DHS nominee.
Born too late to watch Star Trek TOS in first run
Born too early to see warp drive
Born just in time for the Eugenics Wars
A Florida bill would create a "counterterrorism unit" to “detect and neutralize” people, groups, businesses, and others whose "actions, views or opinions are a threat or are inimical to the interests of this state and the United States of America.”
Already passed a State senate committee 7-1.
Listening to Kevin R Free as Murderbot is my Sanctuary Moon
One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.
Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.
“Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.
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Semitic graphic design is his passion
We cannot ignore the unconstitutional and dehumanizing attacks on incarcerated trans people.
leveraged, partnered, advanced, precise — somehow even more grotesque when the numbed, bullshit jargon of corporate marketing, already nihilistic, is transposed into the domain of state murder
1. Tim Muris, who held top roles at the FTC in the 1970s-80s and 2000s, has teamed up with the Competitive Enterprise Institute on a new effort to discredit and bury the Robinson-Patman Act.
Muris has a record of inventing history to support his agenda. Here are a few examples.
9. Here are a few other things independent grocery stores invented during the decades when Robinson-Patman was enforced: automatic doors, shopping carts, and loyalty cards. The law protected competition. And that yielded innovation, lower prices, and stronger communities.
"Texas sued a precious metals dealer...to invalidate its trademark registrations of generic shapes of the state of Texas and the state flag's iconic Lone Star, arguing Monday that the dealer is attempting to...strong-arm the state into paying...to sell Texas-themed commemorative items."
"The Court’s order is clear: the referendum election will proceed. I’m grateful to the lawyers in the Office of the Attorney General who worked swiftly and skillfully to ensure that the voices of Virginians will be heard at the ballot box.” - AG @jonesjay.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2026/03/brea...
Transformative work of the damned (h/t @zacharyschrag.bsky.social )
