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Crimprof, evidence curmudgeon, former public defender, Seattle University School of Law professor, true crime enthusiast, parent of many, fan of bitter food.

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With the caveat that I am not 100% sure because I didn’t meet either, one was a truck mechanic and the other was a farm worker who started driving trucks eventually.

05.03.2026 02:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t know how much spine it takes to stand up when you are confident of success.

02.03.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I follow a cheese tiktok account and my favorite series is β€œunhinged pairings,” where she finds the best cheese pairings for gummy bears or oreos. Even hinged cheese pairings would be great.

02.03.2026 21:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am just pointing out that if you had *stayed here* you could enjoy her :P.

28.02.2026 18:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And I want to point out she was at the Torrent game last night supporting women’s hockey and still manages to do her actual job.

28.02.2026 18:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/jaya...

28.02.2026 18:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Streisand effect though (immediately went to find the name of the extern).

27.02.2026 00:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m a Brown alum and PWHL season ticket holder and no one has ticked me off more in the past 36 hours.

24.02.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Causal inference is my passion.

21.02.2026 14:55 πŸ‘ 675 πŸ” 75 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 2

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20.02.2026 14:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was at a women’s sports bar watching the hockey final and we were screaming for Amber Glenn on a side screen. Alyssa Liu’s brilliance and autonomy gives me hope for my sports kids, and heals something in the former me that trained in ballet. At the risk of sincerity, what an Olympic day.

20.02.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Those waffles were the only thing I could get down for months when pregnant with kid #2 in South Carolina.

19.02.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œGadflies.”

19.02.2026 15:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

NEW: Today, an immigration judge terminated removal proceedings for Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia student, Palestinian activist, and U.S. permanent resident whom the Trump administration arrested in April 2025 and attempted to deport under the foreign policy provision.

17.02.2026 21:11 πŸ‘ 568 πŸ” 136 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 7

β€œThat’s my jam” and it’s Erasure at the QFC.

17.02.2026 19:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks to this, just did! That felt great actually.

15.02.2026 23:24 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If they need a data point, my two oldest kids applied there (ended up ay other small liberal arts colleges) and based on this alone I would advise my other kids against considering Bard.

15.02.2026 22:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It is near happenstance that I went to an Ivy rather than my state public flagship and glad to know people think my education should be radically different based on whether or not my parents relented on me leaving the state.

13.02.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

With a side of β€œthe real problem here is not the rape, but the victims saying anything about it.”

13.02.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My dog has more self-respect than this and my dog is on point of fact a pug.

12.02.2026 18:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly my first reaction.

11.02.2026 21:07 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Age verification? The Love Boat promises something for everyone.

11.02.2026 03:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

If you follow Joanne Freeman she reported last week that Holocaust survivors living in assisted living homes, I think in Florida, we asking home administrators if they could hide their Haitian nurses and care-givers in their apartments to keep them safe.

10.02.2026 23:05 πŸ‘ 993 πŸ” 137 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 9

Pray for me, a professor teaching a morning class in Seattle today.

09.02.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am a pro-legalization scholar who thinks that drug use generally isn’t great!

09.02.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Speaking of Jesus I was hoping these folks got this out of their system complaining about the Cynthia Erivo Jesus Christ Superstar that none of them saw in the first place but it seems not.

03.02.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I imagine they will be hesitant to work for any DOJ because you don’t want to have to upend your career every time the presidency changes hands.

31.01.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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ICE Begins Buying β€˜Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.

This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 β€” literal warehousing of people.
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30.01.2026 16:47 πŸ‘ 5736 πŸ” 3680 πŸ’¬ 488 πŸ“Œ 631

We’re going to have it forcibly downloaded onto our phones like that U2 album.

26.01.2026 21:55 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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