Jason Perseus / is on Nostr

Private, personal account.

Assistant City Attorney: Prosecution, Taxation, Parking, Civil Rights. All the other Municipal Law goodies too.

The Great State of Wisconsin. 🧀 🐄 🍺

Dare to ponder the “inescapably imponderable.”

My views and opinions are made in my personal, private capacity only, and I have many.

Last Notes

2024-06-26 14:15:08

Oh look another decision limiting the reach of bribery laws.
At least it is authored by one of the Justices not accused of being bribed by billionaires.
#uspol #politics #uspolitics #legal #law #lawfedi #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt

2024-05-09 11:48:21

Or we could just pay nurses more instead of giving them a designation as something they are not. They are clearly not what we mean when we use STEM as a term.
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/09/nurses-stem-math-science

2024-03-12 15:43:45

I don’t trust corporations not to kill people; I don’t trust the government to investigate them; and I don’t trust the media or news to report it accurately.
Which is probably why people are okay entertaining that idea that #Boeing may have killed the #whistleblower.
I don’t think there’s an issue investigating suspiciously-timed suicides of those testifying as key whistleblowers against corporations who are or have ties to major defense contractors.
I think it would be malpractice not to.

2024-01-09 20:07:34

For those who found me today, I figured I could do a short #introduction
I am a municipal attorney, so professionally a potpourri of different law, but my personal interests lie in structural constitutional law, national security law, and 4th Amendment law.
I post a lot on politics and my opinions, which are plentiful and subject to change with new information.
So feel free to engage (respectfully + kindly), especially if you disagree, it's how I figure out what I believe.
Also: Puppy pics.
https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/111/727/794/498/998/773/original/e9f9b4f814ee4e5f.jpeg

2023-11-16 12:45:07

⚠️ DO NOT CROSS THE PICKET LINE ⚠️
— ⛔️
Unionized Starbucks workers will be walking out today to demand better working conditions. Show your support for workers by NOT supporting their employer today.
Brew a cup at home and donate the $5 to a good cause.
— ⛔️
“This year, on the heels of victories won by striking workers across different industries nationwide, Starbucks workers are taking the rebellion to the next level,” the union said.
#labor #union #Starbucks #coffee #walkout

2023-08-31 13:52:31

Me trying to read and comprehend tax cases from the 19th century:
#dog #dogstodon #puppy #dogs #law #lawyer #taxlaw #lawfedi #LawyerPup
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2023-08-22 16:18:49

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@npub17a9…mv9a
Yeah, it just seems we’ve gotten to a place where “should” has become a question of “can or cannot” and no one is willing to enforce norms of behavior even when within the bounds of what one can do.
But of course, you get the moments like in 2017 with the Travel Ban where attorneys were working on the floor of airport baggage claims to defend the rights of non-citizens they had never met…
And you are right: A terminal of good lawyers for every bad one.

2023-08-22 14:22:13

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@npub17a9…mv9a
The absolute silence from the state bars in the face of so much ethical and professional misconduct by practicing attorneys has been quite demoralizing the last few years.
Although that has been a constant theme across most institutions I grew up admiring.
The moment comes, and they balk.

2023-08-19 16:12:06

I get you think your state is better… but c’mon.
#Wisconsin #Madison
https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/110/917/146/831/444/600/original/33aa9387d007e902.jpeg

2023-08-19 13:17:39

My apartment pays a flat rate water fee by number of bathrooms.
That really doesn’t make any sense… does it?
An apartment with four people and one bathroom will use probably 4x as much as I do with two bathrooms.
🤷‍♂️

2023-08-18 11:48:24

“Money sent home by migrant workers is a lifeline for millions of Mexicans. But the woman had never met the person who wired her the funds, nor the owners of the accounts where she took the cash. What she did know: The deal had been carefully arranged by the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the world’s largest drug trafficking groups, to repatriate profits from U.S. drug sales back to Mexico disguised as a routine remittance.”
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/mexico-drugs-remittances/

2023-08-17 15:05:00

We’re going to have to remember a time when we weren’t constantly smothered by smoke from wild fires.
This is the world conservatives helped create for the last few decades.
In the beginning their god created heaven and Earth, and in the end they destroyed the latter.
Not that their beliefs are usually anything but pretext for their hate and a justification for their immorality.

2023-08-16 15:43:32

Good battlefield news continues to come out from #Ukraine, which is now estimated to have achieved “breakthrough” in four areas of Russian defense.
Slow, but Ukraine is adapting and making headway after a rough and slow slog from the onset.
And on the flip-side, poor economic news continues to come out from #Russia, with the ruble’s value sliding and extraordinary measures by Russia not seemingly able to stave it off.

2023-08-15 19:41:54

I mean… what else was there to do all day?
😏
Post-Lockdown baby bump from COVID-19 pandemic found in study:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2222075120
#covid #demographics #socialscience #study #statistics #population

2023-08-06 14:05:49

I know I’m probably just a biased PuppyPapa, but I’ll never get over how beautiful Mayhem is 😍
#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #dogstodon #puppy
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2023-08-05 22:18:56

#LockUpTheWealthy

2023-08-05 15:18:28

The drama-seeking part of me wants the trial of #Trump to be televised, but I’m not convinced it would be a good thing.
Do we want the heightened states of passion the media would create surrounding the outcome?
The main argument for it—public access—doesn’t really persuade me that live video is necessary as opposed to other less sexy modes of access.
And the main argument against it seems compelling. This trial must be untainted and fair so the outcome is not in doubt.
#politics #uspol