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Partner, Ryan, Swanson & Cleveland, PLLC — Trademark attorney, vinyl collector, film + concert goer, part-time jogger. All posts are mine alone. he/him/his

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There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

08.03.2026 02:12 👍 17530 🔁 4711 💬 614 📌 247

HOPPERS is like AVATAR, if AVATAR had satisfying character arcs, smarter politics, and something profound to say about spirituality and our relationship to nature.

08.03.2026 04:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

DARVO is now the official foreign policy of the United States.

May no one who helped this man take office ever live it down.

07.03.2026 23:44 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Me to my spouse, when I bring home more salsa and tortilla chips from CostCo: “We have a virtually unlimited supply… regardless, however, we also increased Orders.”

06.03.2026 20:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fair point, but if there was a good test case to that theory…

06.03.2026 02:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is there any reason why the Democrats aren’t turning every one of these people into Willie Horton?

Where are the talking points? Where are the ads?

06.03.2026 02:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ant-Man | Ants, Ants, Ant-Man ! | Promo HD
Ant-Man | Ants, Ants, Ant-Man ! | Promo HD YouTube video by Les Toiles Héroïques

youtu.be/UpPx7E27Bc8?...

04.03.2026 22:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

……..what?

04.03.2026 22:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If Iran was two weeks from obtaining a nuclear weapon, it would be a big deal.

If our president is lying about this, it would be a big deal.

It’s either one thing or it’s the other.

04.03.2026 20:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe as a show of good faith, Dunkin’ could offer to release a liver and ferments smoothie. They could name it after him!

04.03.2026 16:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What you see is what you get
You've made your bed, you better lie in it
You choose your leaders and place your trust
As their lies wash you down and their promises rust
You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns
And the public wants what the public gets

-The Jam, "Going Underground"

03.03.2026 17:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hamburger Helper mascot

Hamburger Helper mascot

Wait till they find out about this little guy…

02.03.2026 23:29 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I want to be VERY clear to anyone who may be following me and who has the ear of any electronic consumer goods executive…

I will pay extra for devices that are NOT connected to the web, that are NOT enabled with anything AI, that are NOT constantly trying to upload or download data.

Think analog.

02.03.2026 21:31 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Trump to Drop Court Fight Against Law Firms Targeted in Orders The Justice Department is backing out from a court battle with four major law firms that won rulings blocking President Donald Trump’s executive orders against them.

Any company looking for a big law firm to represent their interests, to fight on THEIR behalf, needs to ask themselves one question:

Who stood their ground in the face of a bully and who complied in advance?

news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

02.03.2026 20:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I assumed the United States typo would be “Untied States”, which I swear must be the typo I have to correct the most often in my own drafts.

Although, every day, more and more, “Untied” may be the better description for our country.

02.03.2026 16:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#CountryRockSunday

youtu.be/t-ZPWEEf89s?...

02.03.2026 04:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oreo Reese’s cookies

Oreo Reese’s cookies

Sometimes I miss things just being what they are and not two or more things.

01.03.2026 21:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Invading a country isn’t like opening a casino and letting it go bankrupt because you know you can always take out more loans.

When our Armed Forces act, there are actual real world consequences for us AND the world, something our president doesn’t understand and his Yes Men refuse to acknowledge.

01.03.2026 20:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m not sure if there’s something analogous to malpractice insurance for software engineers, at least on the individual level that practicing attorneys require. I don’t know anyone who got into law for the tedious work, but I also don’t know anyone willing to risk their bar license over it.

28.02.2026 15:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m glad to have practiced when tools like Westlaw made research more efficient than thumbing through books. I’m sure that research tools were always going to improve in one way or another. But I’m not as sure that the core basics of what makes a good versus bad lawyer have really changed or will.

28.02.2026 04:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

* Wikipedians

(lousy autocorrect)

28.02.2026 04:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The discussion around AI as applied to the legal profession leads me to think that a lot of people think “the law” is basically just a big Wikipedia-style exercise, in which lawyers are basically just Wikipedia’s working together to reach a consensus on the “right” answer to any question.

28.02.2026 04:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Anyone care to join me for a nice dinner of liver and ferments tonight?

27.02.2026 22:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s a dull job he has, Aaron. Let him have this.

27.02.2026 17:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Define “junk food.”

27.02.2026 01:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
27.02.2026 00:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I thought he was a toad.

26.02.2026 17:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bottle Boys - Johnny Cash on Beer Bottles
Bottle Boys - Johnny Cash on Beer Bottles YouTube video by Bottle Boys

I had heard that Johnny Cash and his gang would have beer bottle fights between shows back in their rowdier days (before June Carter entered the picture).

I tried to find something about that online, and this is what my internet search pulled up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y8...

25.02.2026 23:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I second this.

25.02.2026 20:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0