Leftist Lawyer

Life really began with #sobriety in 2005. But I like to say I'm a #grateful #alcoholic b/c I had some amazing experiences including #Crabber #Seiner in #Alaska and #WildlandFirefighter in #Montana where I grew up.

Got my B.A. in #ClinicalPsych after sobering up. Then M.S. #BioregionalPlanning. Now, small town rural #Attorney #Litigator with certs. in #WaterLaw #NatRescLaw & #EnvLaw.

#Dad #Husband #Deadhead #Skier #Soccer #Hiker #Biker #Gardner #NoveltySeeker and general #JackOfAllTrades

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2024-10-11 02:49:42

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@npub137f…nlkw @npub1t3d…qnlg
Go ahead, keep rationalizing killing my kid.

2024-10-11 02:18:58

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And posting about it using an #AI generated photo qualifies as totally #moironic
Come on @npub1t3d…qnlg
AI is a massive contributor to those stacks of climate changing pollution. Particularly AI image generation.
Is the juice worth the squeeze for a #mastodon post?
Mutuals don’t let mutuals destroy the environment by promoting climate destroying technology for clicks. Do better.
#Climate #climateCrisis.
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2024-09-30 15:15:58

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@npub1c5u…sr87 Again, I find opportunity to post this little meme I made the other day:
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2024-09-28 13:44:57

And
I don’t know how this isn’t just tattooed on everyone’s brain
But
DON’T EVER, NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER — TALK TO COPS.
1. YOU have a RIGHT to remain SILENT.
2. YOU have a RIGHT to have an attorney present.
3. The law will CANNOT punish you for asserting your rights.
4. Only YOU can punish you by WAIVING your rights.
FACT: Everybody “says” they understand their rights. But I shit you not, maybe 1 in 10 of my criminal clients give me something to work with because they shut their mouth and asked for as lawyer. The other 9 sing like little birds and pay the price.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/24/24252235/police-unlock-phone-password-face-id-apple-wallet-id

2024-09-20 13:49:29

JFC people are stupid:
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2024-09-18 12:32:04

But there's a full moon risin'
Let's go dancin' in the light
We know where the music's playin'
Let's go out and feel the night
Because I'm still in love with you
I want to see you dance again
Because I'm still in love with you
On this harvest moon
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2024-09-15 04:47:04

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@npub1dfp…zhud Nope, but I’ll boost to better your chances.

2024-09-15 02:38:12

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@npub15eq…96sv Yup … you’ve been co-opted.

2024-09-13 16:22:34

#Trump — the #hypocrite
/1
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2024-09-11 16:18:19

Domestic differences.
Nothing changes w/o people changing.
#BoycottX
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2024-09-10 19:50:18

“Look at #MotherNature on the run in the #1970’s. We’ve got Mother Nature on the run in the 1970’s.”
This song has always haunted me. He foretold this Gen X’ers fate before I was old enough to understand it. It’s brought me to tears more than once.
I’ve been chasing Mother Nature as she recedes further into the distance my entire life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuI-ZV92sU4

2024-09-10 15:59:49

There are really only two types of people in the world anymore.
Trackpads & mice.

2024-09-09 15:00:34

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We want Microsoft Recall 🤣
Oh, I'm fucking dying over here 🤢

2024-09-09 14:58:49

Not really sure what planet this dude is from -- I don't want any of that crap.
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2024-09-09 12:53:12

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@npub1nta…pwen Oh. That's fucking gold.

2024-09-05 12:56:08

The **Overview Effect**???
I’m pretty sure nature didn’t want us blasting into space to realize this.
Which is why she provided us with rye ergot and psilocybin.
You’ll get to the same place.
https://www.good.is/when-nasa-astronaut-realized-a-heartbreaking-lie-after-seeing-earth-from-space

2024-08-31 15:24:11

Check all the hypocritical pearl clutchers using a racist website to call Politico out on its racist headline.
Fucking clowns.
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/politico-gets-raked-over-the-coals-for-kamala-harris-post-one-of-the-worst-headlines-written-in-a-long-time/

2024-08-20 12:32:31

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@npub19vn…xzqq No. I'm afraid not.

2024-08-19 16:48:14

#Economics is purportedly the #science of efficiently allocating scarce #resources.
#Capitalism posits the most efficient way to allocate said scarce resources is a regime of #laws that foster perpetual #war of each against all.
Do you get it now?
Capitalism *is* #StateSanctioned #PerpetualWarfare — #fascism is its natural mature state.
#uspol

2024-08-15 13:57:41

Given the ongoing #press hubbub, it might be a good time to remind everyone that the #MSM in the U.S. is a business … not a public service. They print what is good for their owners.
For example, the #NYT is a megaphone for equity traders … because it’s owned by equity traders.
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2024-07-27 11:22:54

Ahem:
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2024-07-24 05:27:21

There are just so many things I care about more than which end of the oligopoly you’re nattering on about.

2024-07-17 04:24:22

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@npub18x3…gk4v What other people think of me is none of my business.

2024-07-15 13:10:43

Everyone wants to know what #ThomasCrooks #motive was — when it is staring them right in the face. It sounds like the kid was #bullied incessantly.
So he went straight after the source and tried to take down the spray tan #BullyInChief
#uspol #trump

2024-07-12 19:51:12

If you own stock in #SpaceX or #Starlink or whatever fool is insuring them ... now is a really good time to think about selling to someone willing to buy real estate in #Florida

2024-07-09 05:00:16

Do you think fascists don’t think they are fascist?
Or, do they know they’re fascist and don’t care?

2024-07-02 00:49:56

After all the noise, at the end of the day the #SCOTUS #immunity decision amounts to this:
Which political party is willing to exercise the power the court just handed the #ExecutiveBranch?
Which party is willing to furthest push the “outer-bounds” of official acts?
Or, a better question: Which party NEVER exercises the power they’ve been given?
#Democrats

2024-06-22 13:28:03

What!?
I want to escape my masters and go live with the elk.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjjje07x35do

2024-06-16 16:07:52

The business cycle in an attention economy:
1. Hype … the product.
2. Ride … the irrational exuberance.
3. Hide … the flaws and the profit.
Repeat.
#HypeRideHide

2024-06-14 22:51:10

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I can remember thinking when I was a kid … “Man, I wanna have a midlife crisis. That sounds pretty cool”!
Remember, the elite are the reason we can’t have nice things anymore like a tidy little midlife crisis.

2024-06-14 22:46:38

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I guess I’m old enough to remember the good old days when we could afford to confine our crisis to midlife.

2024-06-14 22:41:04

Whatever happened to the “midlife crisis”?
It was all the rage for a while.
Don’t hear much about it these days.

2024-06-10 14:12:30

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@npub1uul…dkn7 Tincture. Couple drops on the tongue, then grimace at the taste … which I’ve slowly grown used to.

2024-06-08 15:53:21

I brake for #gardenpics
#photography #gardening

2024-05-29 14:55:03

#CapitalistPropaganda is only moderately effective in analog format.
So the billionaires laid siege to the internet.
And in so doing destroyed all potential benefit in their efforts to propagandize you for profit.
Yet, we intelligent few resist. Banding together in the #fediverse.
#TellYourFriends

2024-05-28 15:25:23

A hummingbird just checked my junk while I was peeing off the porch.
Not quite sure how I feel about that yet ...

2024-05-28 15:20:22

There is no "economic growth" -- only temporary resource allocation imbalances.
Only those suffering from myopia born of anthropocentric narcissism talk of "economic growth."
#PoliticalEconomy #Economics #uspol #climate #climatecrisis

2024-03-24 03:51:50

Can someone please explain why, on a planet 5 billion too many people and #ClimateCrisis, declining birthrates are a problem?
I'm at a loss.

2024-03-15 16:44:45

#LLMs masquerading as #AI is peak #CapitalistPropaganda.
The dipshits pushing this aren’t #engineers. They’re W.C. Fields.

2024-03-11 12:05:33

Has a “gadget” ever made your life better?
Not more expedient. I mean actually better. As in, consistently happier.
If not, then it might make sense to ask whose gadget you’ve become.

2024-03-10 13:46:59

Oh great …
It’s [send your kids back to school in the dark] time.

2024-03-08 13:35:33

Three simple rules of thumb that’ll never lead you astray.
1. #BelieveWomen
2. #DoubtTechBros
3. #PunchNazis

2024-03-05 07:34:10

Welcome to 1984.
#Orwellian #CapitalistPropaganda #uspol
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2024-03-05 03:37:20

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@npub1nvc…d8vu He's one of those people you look at for the first time and immediately conclude: Snake.

2024-03-05 00:11:37

I just learned #AdamSchiff threw money at a republican to try and take out #KatiePorter in the Feinstein seat run-off.
Establishment #democrats will always shiv someone to their left before someone to their right.
Really makes me want to vote for them.

2024-02-23 02:43:12

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@npub15th…6nvx That’s history my friend.

2024-02-23 00:23:09

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@npub15th…6nvx You did build yourself a fine little straw man though. Please reread the post and tell me, precisely, where it talks about executing anyone. You added that, not me. Pipe up with logical fallacies again and I’ll block you.

2024-02-04 16:32:51

The picture worth a thousand words.
We're at a place where we clearly understand that our tech is isolating us further and further from one another, during a time when political and economic conditions require us to band more and more tightly together.
I guarantee you, if you strap one of these on a baby's face with a mothering program playing 24/7, the baby will die from failure to thrive. We NEED each other. We need to feel another's touch. Smell their pheromones when they walk in the room. Listen to the unaltered sounds of voices.
We are a *biological* species, unseen chemicals passing between us loaded with information and context that make the sum of humanity greater than all its parts. When we interrupt this process, a part of humanity ceases to function ... erased by the self-imposed solitude spent in thrall of a competing knowledge paradigm -- hardware.
#BraveNewWorld #AI #Apple #Reduce #Reuse #Recycle #REFUSE
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2024-01-28 16:38:14

Vanished: Why Bad Things Happen To Bad Civilizations
#EliteHoarders #ConspicuousExcess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzoN2MFkCXI

2024-01-24 18:59:41

Everyone: #Covid is killing us!
The elite: But the economy!
Everyone: The #ClimateCrisis is killing us!
The elite: But the economy!
Everyone: Lack of affordable #healthcare is killing us!
The elite: But the economy!
Everyone: The elite not paying their fair share in #taxes is killing us!
The elite: But the economy!
Everyone: The #economy is killing us!
Elite: Exactly 😏
#NoWarButClassWar

2024-01-21 14:28:58

**We witness cities having massive freak-outs over homeless encampments expanding, but no consideration as to the conditions in society that have created this problem. How do you not see this explosion in need and suffering and not think perhaps we are backing an incorrect and untenable economic system?**
“it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
https://www.laprogressive.com/homelessness/late-stage-capitalism

2024-01-14 16:05:04

A limbic system is an indispensable precursor of intelligence.
We still suffer from the misguided notion that intelligence is some cold, hard, purely objective measurable trait.
But intellect, and emotion, are inextricably intertwined.
Memory is emotionally filtered.
Context is a direct result of the shared human emotional filtering process.
I'm baffled as to how one creates intelligence without neuro-transmitting chemicals incessantly producing *feelings* that guide memory transcription -- and thus behavior.

2023-12-02 04:18:58

A little whiny lawyer thread:
Just wrapped a 5 day civil jury trial. Mentally and emotionally wiped ... but my brain is still running on adrenaline and keeps asking this question:
Why in the hell do courts act out the performative bullshit of swearing people in?
You know, the whole "raise your right hand and swear an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth under penalty of perjury in the state of hocus pocus"?
People just tell lies, whole lies, and nothing but lies. Swear to god, I impeached three different opposing party witnesses ten ways to Sunday over the course of the week. Straight up played video from their depositions demonstrating the saying shit completely opposite what they testified to in court.
There's no penalty. There's no perjury. There is no accountability. How do we expect to have a functioning society without any accountability for lies? I mean sure, they may lose and take a money judgment slap. But, that only encourages them to lie even harder ... or better the next time.
Fuck, me. I hate liars.
/1
#lawfedi

2023-12-01 03:45:44

We criminalize #sexual #prostitution.
But all #advertising is, at root, *sexualized* #corporate prostitution.
Bottling up the urge to #procreate just better allows the elite to bottle the urge to procreate.
A #consumer, at the end of the day, is little more than the #commercial expression of repressed sexual drive.

2023-11-30 04:00:49

As a Gen X'er, I would readily join a class to sue X for false light.
Anyone know a good lawyer?

2023-11-05 15:23:49

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@npub1wlu…q294 I thought about it. Wavered between blowing up your mentions or letting people find you through your watermark … like I did when I first came across your work.
That said, I will certainly follow your lead.

2023-10-15 14:48:34

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@npub1788…9nku @npub1ccn…czwu And, every one of them containing at least a kernel of a lie.

2023-10-15 14:47:23

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@npub1ccn…czwu @npub1788…9nku Thank you, Pooka Boo. Very kind. We are definitely of a mind on that subject. Capitalists rage at "social experiments" when the government does it.
But, 5 generations of #papoganda forced down our throats in the form of "ads." Quite alright. "AI"? Go ahead, social experiment away. "Social media"? No sweat, let's just fundamentally alter how enire generations relate to the world w/o any testing or oversight.
🤔

2023-10-15 14:14:41

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@npub1788…9nku Not ignoring you, just had to hit the rack last night.
We're on the same page. And I promise you, I wouldn't be shooting my mouth off and throwing my opinions around if I hadn't done my homework. All the scholars you've noted, I've delved into. Some more deeply than others. I need to read more Parenti.
If you're not aware of Ian Welsh (old school NetRoots blogger), his, is the type of accessibility I aim for. I think you'll likely agree with his rules.
https://www.ianwelsh.net/7-rules-for-running-a-real-left-wing-government/

2023-10-15 03:00:17

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@npub1788…9nku And please, don't get me wrong, I go hard left. What I'm trying to do is expand the tent focusing on simplicity. I mean, as it appears you do too, people actually used to read books back when Marx was writing. Today???

2023-10-15 02:31:10

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@npub1788…9nku And when was the last one of those ... hmmm?

2023-10-15 00:57:49

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@npub1788…9nku Yeah, cool, let's get a bunch of intellectuals together and "analyze" Marx while the world burns. Good plan.
While we're at it, we can all virtue signal how much better one subtle difference in ideology is than another.
When through, we can all go home and pat ourselves on the back for totally alienating one another and accomplishing nothing.
Nobody but "intelligentsia" give two shits about Marx anymore. We call them PMC today and they lick billionaire boots.
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2023-10-14 17:13:58

There is no political left, or political right.
It's a false dichotomy designed to distract from the true state of the world.
Money, and no money.
There are rich people. And, there are poor people pitted against one another in service of rich people.
That's the dichotomy.
#EatTheRich #NoWarButClassWar