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Civil Rights Lawyer | Drag is not a crime | πŸ³β€πŸŒˆ | lissajostewart@gmail.com | Memphis | they/she

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LMAO

06.03.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

He's putting up record job losses, driving the country into a war he can't even explain, and was credibly accused of raping a teenager in the Epstein files released yesterday - so of course it's time to try and ruin more trans people's lives

06.03.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 815 πŸ” 249 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 3

I know how people are relying on these tools. I just don’t think the tools are necessary or inevitable.

06.03.2026 14:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As a chronically ill person, I think this is bad, actually!

06.03.2026 14:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No I’m not willing to consider β€œtrade offs” that justify the water consumption, air pollution, and art theft.

And I think it’s facially absurd to argue that the technology created and controlled by comically villainous billionaires is ever going to be a net positive for humanity.

06.03.2026 14:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s one thing to oppose an over-broad law, and another to claim that GenAI’s positive applications outweigh the devastating environmental and human costs.

06.03.2026 14:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah people do matter in this discourse. People like the artists having their work stolen matter. And the people in the Black neighborhood in my city being poisoned by data centers also matter!

06.03.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Say psych right now

06.03.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah I’m fine with eliminating the positive uses of the suicide-encouraging, art-stealing, environmental-scorching computer, actually.

06.03.2026 14:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Technology is an essential part of that.

GenAI is not.

06.03.2026 13:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It is genuinely embarrassing how much you go to bat for GAI

06.03.2026 13:43 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah we wouldn’t want to prevent the Kill Yourself Computerℒ️ from engaging in conversation with people in crisis.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

06.03.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh no, not censoring the chatbot. Whatever will people do? Use a search engine to find information with proper sources and context?!?

06.03.2026 13:35 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Lord of the Rings β€œI have failed you all” shirt

It is a short sleeved button down collared shirt, with a repeating pattern of Sean Bean as Boromir, dying with his sword clutched to his chest. Just rows and rows of dying Boromir.

The Lord of the Rings β€œI have failed you all” shirt It is a short sleeved button down collared shirt, with a repeating pattern of Sean Bean as Boromir, dying with his sword clutched to his chest. Just rows and rows of dying Boromir.

Is a Borormir Death Shirt appropriate courtroom attire? Asking for a friend.

06.03.2026 02:10 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThis proved frustrating for Justice Sam Alito, whose commitment to originalism waned when confronted with the prospect of not prosecuting a brown man.β€œ @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app telling it like it is, as always.

05.03.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

05.03.2026 23:26 πŸ‘ 8512 πŸ” 2066 πŸ’¬ 342 πŸ“Œ 54

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

05.03.2026 19:12 πŸ‘ 13017 πŸ” 2511 πŸ’¬ 499 πŸ“Œ 341

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

05.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 28871 πŸ” 3957 πŸ’¬ 361 πŸ“Œ 160

Yeah, this clip will certainly be shown as evidence at the trials.

05.03.2026 15:13 πŸ‘ 4099 πŸ” 922 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 19

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.

I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

05.03.2026 13:07 πŸ‘ 8456 πŸ” 2354 πŸ’¬ 424 πŸ“Œ 98

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

05.03.2026 05:17 πŸ‘ 16663 πŸ” 5486 πŸ’¬ 126 πŸ“Œ 99

Who is sitting down to eat 12 sweet potato fries?!?!

05.03.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

This bag of frozen sweet potato fries claims it contains 6 servings, and I do not appreciate being lied to

05.03.2026 01:11 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Judge moves, cautiously, toward civil contempt in case over treatment of trans people in prison β€œOnce I issue an order, it’s my intent to enforce it,β€œ Judge Lamberth told the government. And: Facing the Trump administration's ridiculousness. Until the elevator door closes.

NEW: Judge moves, cautiously, toward civil contempt in case over treatment of trans people in prison.

β€œOnce I issue an order, it’s my intent to enforce it,β€œ Judge Lamberth told the government. And: Facing the Trump administration's ridiculousness. Until the elevator door closes.

Law Dork:

05.03.2026 00:33 πŸ‘ 513 πŸ” 135 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 3

53 U.S. Senators just voted to do nothing to stop an executive branch doing this.

04.03.2026 22:46 πŸ‘ 561 πŸ” 179 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 10

My favorite thing about this is the commitment to the wardrobe

04.03.2026 22:15 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

How to win in November

04.03.2026 19:53 πŸ‘ 10910 πŸ” 3028 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 39

Being chronically ill is just an endless cycle of β€œHey your bloodwork in this area has massively improved! Oh but this bloodwork over here that was perfectly fine 3 months ago? Yeah you’re fucked now and we don’t know why.”

04.03.2026 22:08 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas suffered a string of defeats in Tuesday’s state primaries, when two longtime Republican state senators who had blocked her plan to build the state’s biggest prison scored resounding wins against her handpicked challengers and the State Senate majority leader was swept from power by another prison skeptic.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas suffered a string of defeats in Tuesday’s state primaries, when two longtime Republican state senators who had blocked her plan to build the state’s biggest prison scored resounding wins against her handpicked challengers and the State Senate majority leader was swept from power by another prison skeptic.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders very very bad primary night

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

04.03.2026 18:14 πŸ‘ 287 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 6

There are a couple hundred corporations I’d pick a fight with before I’d go after Dunkin.

04.03.2026 16:33 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0