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Attorney w/ tech background. Husband. Dad of 3. Law/tech/startups. T shaped lawyer - (relatively) normal shaped human. Views mine. Indiscriminate giver of likes

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This dog looks like it’s selling earrings in the Sears Christmas Catalog.

You should adopt her and sell earrings from the Sears Christmas Catalog together

14.03.2026 01:21 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

my glass coffin company β€œremains to be seen” is not doing as well as i thought it would.

03.12.2024 01:02 πŸ‘ 4770 πŸ” 745 πŸ’¬ 71 πŸ“Œ 38
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Trump says US Navy sank Iran's warship off the coast of Sri Lanka because "it's more fun" to sink ships than capture them.

09.03.2026 21:04 πŸ‘ 3265 πŸ” 1453 πŸ’¬ 460 πŸ“Œ 846
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The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm

09.03.2026 15:43 πŸ‘ 6086 πŸ” 1564 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 79

The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.

09.03.2026 04:04 πŸ‘ 3659 πŸ” 907 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 26

How is that helpful? Look, if your expectations are that I need to pay for your training when other options are available now (and they are), that model is not long for this world. Not unique to law at all. Everyone is dealing with that, but harder in the billable hour world.

05.03.2026 19:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, but as your client, why should I pay for that if there is a much cheaper alternative?

05.03.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

02.03.2026 07:54 πŸ‘ 23922 πŸ” 5974 πŸ’¬ 1736 πŸ“Œ 633

"Kudos. Anyone who can sexually exploit a subordinate to the point where she takes her life by setting herself on fire has my full endorsement...."

27.02.2026 22:36 πŸ‘ 385 πŸ” 106 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 3
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

26.02.2026 01:10 πŸ‘ 8542 πŸ” 4245 πŸ’¬ 320 πŸ“Œ 746

Ha. I saw the Aggie bobsled family and I was like, Cmon, are we not even on the same side for the Olympics?

24.02.2026 01:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash Civil rights groups and parents gathered in front of the Quakertown Police Department Saturday demanding answers for the violent confrontation Friday.

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday.

They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

21.02.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 3237 πŸ” 1805 πŸ’¬ 144 πŸ“Œ 204

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

21.02.2026 19:00 πŸ‘ 10403 πŸ” 1738 πŸ’¬ 216 πŸ“Œ 94

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

20.02.2026 23:46 πŸ‘ 11898 πŸ” 5091 πŸ’¬ 163 πŸ“Œ 97
Screenshot of a legal document filed in Texas district court titled β€œState of Texas’s Original Petition, Emergency Application for Temporary Restraining Order, and Request for Temporary and Permanent Injunctions” in a case against Lola Olivia, Inc. The text alleges the company sells chest binders to girls ages 9–15 without disclosing health risks and seeks court-ordered restrictions.

Screenshot of a legal document filed in Texas district court titled β€œState of Texas’s Original Petition, Emergency Application for Temporary Restraining Order, and Request for Temporary and Permanent Injunctions” in a case against Lola Olivia, Inc. The text alleges the company sells chest binders to girls ages 9–15 without disclosing health risks and seeks court-ordered restrictions.

Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against NYC based Lola Olivia clothing for selling breast binders. He's arguing it's illegal to sell the equivalent of sports bras.

www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/defaul...

20.02.2026 17:25 πŸ‘ 1261 πŸ” 329 πŸ’¬ 106 πŸ“Œ 66

yes, the wheels of justice are slow. agonizingly, excruciatingly slow. and oftentimes they miss or go off the tracks entirely. in fact most of the time. but occasionally, very infrequently, that big wheel of justice delivers theoretical remuneration for a handful of vested business interests

20.02.2026 15:27 πŸ‘ 4426 πŸ” 755 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 17

Classic Miami experience. Cut off in traffic by a Cybertruck. Google the website on the license plate to find a private-jet brokering business owned by a guy with a lifetime FINRA bar after being convicted of securities fraud.

15.02.2026 16:49 πŸ‘ 476 πŸ” 67 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 5

It's obscene to allow the government to hide people's location and to incentivize judge-shopping by race to transfer

12.02.2026 12:42 πŸ‘ 330 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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Former professor requested thousands from Jeffrey Epstein Foundation to fund campus rape policy conference Content warning: This story contains discussion of pedophilia, sexual assault, harassment, rape and suicide. A former UT Classics professor requested over $10,000 from Jeffrey Epstein’s charitable org...

thedailytexan.com/2026/02/10/f...

10.02.2026 23:56 πŸ‘ 179 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 50

It’s great that the grand jury said nix, but the attempt was a significant escalation.

11.02.2026 02:09 πŸ‘ 2412 πŸ” 385 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 9
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Pete Hegseth’s Attack on Harvard The anger at the Ivy League is about status envy, not war-fighting.

Hegseth, among others, is using the school as a punching bag to express the generic social anxiety and status-based resentment that drives much of the MAGA movement.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

09.02.2026 23:08 πŸ‘ 1141 πŸ” 280 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 31
@Nick_Davidov
Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops"
Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything.
It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure.
She didn't have Time Machine.
Disc recovery tools can't see anything.
I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days).
I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack.

@Nick_Davidov Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops" Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything. It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure. She didn't have Time Machine. Disc recovery tools can't see anything. I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days). I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack.

Nick Davidov β€’ @Nick_Davidov
VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova

Nick Davidov β€’ @Nick_Davidov VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova

VC, founder, dumbass

08.02.2026 21:37 πŸ‘ 6799 πŸ” 1010 πŸ’¬ 298 πŸ“Œ 586

β€œTomorrow orcs”

07.02.2026 18:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None.
Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law?
Zachary: Correct.
Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

06.02.2026 15:00 πŸ‘ 5857 πŸ” 1966 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 203
A letter to the director of the CIA from Senator Ron Wyden saying he has sent a classified letter that expressed concerns.

A letter to the director of the CIA from Senator Ron Wyden saying he has sent a classified letter that expressed concerns.

This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

04.02.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 5141 πŸ” 1278 πŸ’¬ 99 πŸ“Œ 97

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

04.02.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 8811 πŸ” 2840 πŸ’¬ 93 πŸ“Œ 94
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This is what embodying the American spirit looks like.

Alex Pretti is America.
Renee Good is America.
Liam Ramos is America.

We are all the disenfranchised, downtrodden, and despondent. They are us.

H/t @jamestalarico.bsky.social

02.02.2026 02:22 πŸ‘ 7778 πŸ” 1856 πŸ’¬ 141 πŸ“Œ 64

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

01.02.2026 21:27 πŸ‘ 11259 πŸ” 2942 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 68

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."

Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

31.01.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 11190 πŸ” 4074 πŸ’¬ 311 πŸ“Œ 331
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Yes, who wrote this email to Jeffrey Epstein β€” and why did DOJ redact his name?

31.01.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 6682 πŸ” 3305 πŸ’¬ 630 πŸ“Œ 287