Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[D3RANG3D]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-this-just-happened-on-youtube-nsfw.943617/
 

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I think it's by design to rile up the lefties? When I open the YouTube at work and my lefty co-worker has logged in, all I see is activist content about Gaza and other current topics.
Lots of stuff about Trump too. 
But Nintex what does your YouTube look like?  

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and after a refresh

So I dunno what bro is watching all day

[Rendle]

My youtube recs look like that except without the political stuff or the Marvel/Disney stuff or the videogame stuff. Actually now that I think about it it's nothing like that.

[books]

Thank goodness I only have Jim Cornette and Howard stern thumbnails. Yall disgusting.

[Boredfrom]

noodle update

Yeah, this is pretty much the case for any of the protestors who happened to attend school in a much more conservative area—myself included.

Can't go into more details, obviously, but the court case for my friends and I is going to spill over into this coming school year. Moreover, the administration seems adamant in trying to make this as difficult as possible for us. Luckily, we have a lot of support from faculty and students as well as a really good lawyer on our side!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/protests-at-columbia-university-continue-as-groups-on-both-sides-of-the-aisle-call-for-action-to-be-taken-university-shifts-to-hybrid-classes.851787/post-126656499



https://www.resetera.com/threads/louisiana-becomes-the-first-to-legalize-surgical-castration-for-child-rapists.943620/#post-126658296

https://apnews.com/article/college-protest-israel-hamas-war-arrest-charges-7cb75debddc2e8bd795d16515d07de09

Since her arrest at a protest at the University of Massachusetts, Annie McGrew has been pivoting between two sets of hearings: one for the misdemeanor charges she faces in court, and another for violations of the college’s conduct code.

It has kept the graduate student from work toward finishing her dissertation in economics.

“It’s been a really rough few months for me since my arrest,” McGrew said. “I never imagined this is how UMass (administration) would respond.”

 

Ironically, the actual article says that a lot of charges are being dropped anyway. 

 New Paltz students said they were sitting with their arms interlocked when officers hauled them away on May 2.

“It was handled very brutally,” said Maddison Tirado, a student whose trespassing charge has been dismissed. Tirado said protesters were treated as if authorities saw them “like little terrorists running around.”

Owen Buxton, an Emerson student, said he suffered a concussion when police shoved him into a bronze statue. It was his second arrest of the semester for protesting the war in Gaza. The experience made it hard for him to concentrate or participate in classes.

“It stifled all my creativity — I didn’t make anything for months, which is not typical of me,” said Buxton, a filmmaker.

 

Not even Spike Lee is this whiny. 

That article really struggled to search for abused students (except one transgender person at the end were it sounds the police did they dirty), most of them sound like whiny asshats that are surprised that protest requires sacrifices and compromise.

[kaleidoscopium]

noodle update

Yeah, this is pretty much the case for any of the protestors who happened to attend school in a much more conservative area—myself included.

Can't go into more details, obviously, but the court case for my friends and I is going to spill over into this coming school year. Moreover, the administration seems adamant in trying to make this as difficult as possible for us. Luckily, we have a lot of support from faculty and students as well as a really good lawyer on our side!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/protests-at-columbia-university-continue-as-groups-on-both-sides-of-the-aisle-call-for-action-to-be-taken-university-shifts-to-hybrid-classes.851787/post-126656499



https://www.resetera.com/threads/louisiana-becomes-the-first-to-legalize-surgical-castration-for-child-rapists.943620/#post-126658296

Yep, pushed to September 


Edit: looks like Noodles court case even make local news!
https://www.25newsnow.com/2024/07/31/war-protesters-battle-isu-court-over-documents-release/

Illinois State University is fighting efforts to release documents in a criminal case against seven students who refused to end a sit-in outside the ISU president’s office during a Gaza War protest in May.

The attorney for students accused of criminal trespassing on state-supported property is demanding all information about protests at ISU from 1970 to the present. A second request is for records about ISU Dean of Students Andy Morgan’s views on the war.

The students believe Morgan is biased on Israel’s side, claiming he posed for pictures with “pro-war” students at a May 1 student government meeting.

Defense attorney Sheryl Weikal argued during a pre-trial hearing Wednesday that Dean Morgan allowed pro-Israel campus demonstrations, but not pro-Palestinian protests.

Weikal’s clients are accused of continuing their protests outside the president’s office after the Hovey Hall administration building closed for the day.

Weikal is requesting documents to learn whether Hovey Hall is left open for other groups.

ISU attorney Emily Galligan said Weikal is going on a “fishing expedition” to help the students in a civil lawsuit they filed against the university.

Galligan said the request for records have nothing to do with what the criminal case is all about, which is if the students were on state supported land after closing time.

can't imagine this is going to go well

[killamajig]

https://www.instagram.com/theleftistlawyer/

Defense attorney Sheryl Weikal

[Garfield]

the leftist lawyer, sliding scale payments 

Works on contingency? No, money down!

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-ot-2-what-can-be-unburdened-by-what-has-been.933294/post-126652605

The yearly hurricane threads are a legit good source of information, as an example of stuff people have likely joined to follow.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Pretty sure the pro war protestors didn't break any laws unlike Noodle and his friends.

Also didn't Noodles group get to have a sit down with the dean where they were unwilling to play ball? I bet he would've taken a picture with them if they got up and left when told. 

Lawyer is grasping for straws.

[kaleidoscopium]

their threads account is great

https://www.threads.net/@theleftistlawyer?hl=en

Since the DNC is in Illinois, if you’re arrested there protesting the genocide in Gaza, I can represent you pro bono. If you think you’ll need me, email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. I can’t take every case, but I will take as many as I can both pro bono and name-your-own-price.

Mercy and I are selling some things to make this happen. So if you want to support my work and have a little extra, my Patreon is in my bio.

The patreon: https://www.patreon.com/weikallaw

Selling a book on it:
https://www.patreon.com/weikallaw/shop/circu-court-how-racism-and-greed-legal-87848?source=storefront

CIRCU$ COURT$: How Racism and Greed Poisoned the American Legal System

Queer and trans Palestinians exist and I want them to grow up in homes that are safe in land that isn’t constantly being bombed with parents who are alive because you can’t be affirmed by a dead family.

I’m going to regret this, but here goes:I’m trans. I went (was forced) through what you call “male puberty.”I’m also 5’9” and 145 pounds soaking wet. My bones are weak from Crohn’s Disease and I’m borderline anemic even though I work out an hour every day. In any kind of contact sport, a cis woman would break me in half. I’m post-op and have the same levels of estrogen and testosterone as any cis woman. I have no advantages over cis women of any kind. (photo attached below, be warned)

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You wouldn’t know I’m trans unless I told you. I’m no model, I’m not a shining paragon of beauty, but I fit white cisheteronormative stereotypes of attractiveness well enough that believe me, most men DO NOT KNOW and think instead I’m a cis lesbian with my dress, haircut, and tattoos.Now not all trans women look like me. Lots are prettier than me, and more muscular than me, or a different shape than me. But then…cis women come in all shapes and sizes too.

THERE IS NO ONE RIGHT WAY TO BE A WOMAN. You don’t need to be cis. You don’t need to have certain hormone levels. You don’t need to have any surgeries. You don’t need to have certain organs.A woman is anyone who has the gender identity of “woman.” And if you have that gender identity, then you, yes you, are what a woman looks like. There are cis women and trans women and intersex women and non-binary women.There are more things in Earth and Heaven than can be dreamt of in your philosophy.

So miss me with this bioessentialist white supremacist shit. You don’t get to gatekeep womanhood. And no one has ever transitioned just to win a sporting event. Believe me, transitioning isn’t easy whether it’s medical or social or both. (And there’s no one right way to transition either.)And one last thing. If you’re okay with me but not my trans and intersex sisters because you think I fit your arbitrary standards and they don’t, fuck you. They’re women. They’re valid. You’re just a bigot.

It goes on and on like this, noodle be happy you only got 2 misdemeanors because your lawyer is fucking nuts

bonus: their website expired https://www.weikallaw.com/

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-cannot-handle-this-life-anymore-i-want-to-fucking-quit-im-so-tired.880026/

Bumped and before I got to the new post it got nuked.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

their threads account is great

https://www.threads.net/@theleftistlawyer?hl=en

Since the DNC is in Illinois, if you’re arrested there protesting the genocide in Gaza, I can represent you pro bono. If you think you’ll need me, email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. I can’t take every case, but I will take as many as I can both pro bono and name-your-own-price.

Mercy and I are selling some things to make this happen. So if you want to support my work and have a little extra, my Patreon is in my bio.

The patreon: https://www.patreon.com/weikallaw

Selling a book on it:
https://www.patreon.com/weikallaw/shop/circu-court-how-racism-and-greed-legal-87848?source=storefront

CIRCU$ COURT$: How Racism and Greed Poisoned the American Legal System

Queer and trans Palestinians exist and I want them to grow up in homes that are safe in land that isn’t constantly being bombed with parents who are alive because you can’t be affirmed by a dead family.

I’m going to regret this, but here goes:I’m trans. I went (was forced) through what you call “male puberty.”I’m also 5’9” and 145 pounds soaking wet. My bones are weak from Crohn’s Disease and I’m borderline anemic even though I work out an hour every day. In any kind of contact sport, a cis woman would break me in half. I’m post-op and have the same levels of estrogen and testosterone as any cis woman. I have no advantages over cis women of any kind. (photo attached below, be warned)

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

You wouldn’t know I’m trans unless I told you. I’m no model, I’m not a shining paragon of beauty, but I fit white cisheteronormative stereotypes of attractiveness well enough that believe me, most men DO NOT KNOW and think instead I’m a cis lesbian with my dress, haircut, and tattoos.Now not all trans women look like me. Lots are prettier than me, and more muscular than me, or a different shape than me. But then…cis women come in all shapes and sizes too.

THERE IS NO ONE RIGHT WAY TO BE A WOMAN. You don’t need to be cis. You don’t need to have certain hormone levels. You don’t need to have any surgeries. You don’t need to have certain organs.A woman is anyone who has the gender identity of “woman.” And if you have that gender identity, then you, yes you, are what a woman looks like. There are cis women and trans women and intersex women and non-binary women.There are more things in Earth and Heaven than can be dreamt of in your philosophy.

So miss me with this bioessentialist white supremacist shit. You don’t get to gatekeep womanhood. And no one has ever transitioned just to win a sporting event. Believe me, transitioning isn’t easy whether it’s medical or social or both. (And there’s no one right way to transition either.)And one last thing. If you’re okay with me but not my trans and intersex sisters because you think I fit your arbitrary standards and they don’t, fuck you. They’re women. They’re valid. You’re just a bigot.

It goes on and on like this, noodle be happy you only got 2 misdemeanors because your lawyer is fucking nuts

I think the only one with a bias here is the lawyer. 

[killamajig]

Got to be a Reeee member. If not make them a mod Bdombs. You don't have enough transbians on there telling people what to think.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-cannot-handle-this-life-anymore-i-want-to-fucking-quit-im-so-tired.880026/

Bumped and before I got to the new post it got nuked.

For posterity's sake. Guessing it was a suicide bump?.?.?

Joe2187
Member
May 23, 2024
#1
For my entire life I have been stuck with the burden of caring for my ailing and sick family members since I was a teenager.

My grandma was diagnosed with cancer and gradually wasted away over a six year period during my teens. During that time, my grandma was the one that cooked and cleaned the house while everybody else went to work or school. I was the youngest so I stayed home with her. I had to help her when she got more and more bedridden and naturally I took up the duties of cleaning and cooking. It got to the point where if I didnt cook, nobody ate that day or If I was too tired the house would pile up with trash. I had to roll her over to check for bed sores, change her clothes, bathe her, feed her, made sure she took her medications and neglected doing normal things a teen should be doing at my age.

When she eventually passed away it took a huge toll on the entire family, which lead to the downfall of my aunt and uncle. They were so dependent on my grandmother emotionally that they all ceased to function and in turn let themselves go entirely. My aunt was a chronic alcoholic with a smoking addiction and had serious type 2 diabetes and other chronic health issues. She was also a nurse, so trying to get her medical help was like pulling teeth from a cat. It was only four years after my grandmothers passing that I had to take care of her next after she became ill and bedridden enough to require medical attention around the clock. It got to the point where multiple appendages had to be amputated. I cooked, cleaned, bathed her, changed her clothes, made sure she took her medications and ignored any normal things a normal 20 year old would be doing like going to college. During this time I was in control of the finances, since nobody in my house can be trusted to handle money responsibly, I was forced to learn how to pay utility and mortgage bills at 16 years old.

When she eventually passed away, I was 22 years old and had no idea what real life was like outside of my home. I now had to keep a household together while dealing with fallout from the insurance money and the relatives in my life now congregating over my aunts corpse like flies. I was now a homeowner with four occupants that didnt understand that bills needed to be paid, and food needed to be bought in order to survive. My mom just drank and smoke till she passed out, my brother was a bi-polar psychopath who had tried on multiple occasions to kill me, my uncle was a dead beat alcoholic that drank a six pack in the morning, a 12 pack in the evening, and a 24 pack for dinner.

What I found out after my aunt passed away was that she was paying a 99% interest mortgage loan because she bowered against the original house back in the 90s and spent it on some fucking bullshit she was always buying from the QVC channel. it explained all the fucking garbage knicknacks and dolls she had cluttering her room and closet.

I tried to fight this in court, so I got to learn how the courts worked at 23, while dealing with relatives I never even heard of before coming at me for money, or a place to stay while paying a mortgage that barely even touched a percentage of it's initial debt. I had no idea what I was doing, and the mortgage company refused to even sniff in my direction. She left no will, or any sort of document detailing what to do in case of her death and If I didnt pay off the mortgage somehow I would be evicted.

I had to sell the house after getting a document claiming me as the inheritor of her estate after 3 years of playing back and forth with the courts but I only had a six month window to sell it before it expired. In the meantime I was going to college and living on my own, so when I went back to the house it was like walking into a dumpster fire. The entire house was like dilapidated and the floors were warped from where my brother and my uncle just pissed where they pleased after so much drugs and alcohol.

I had to leave my own place, drop out of college and fix the place myself. 98 bags of trash later, four months of work I fixed it as best I could. replaced the floors by hand, rebuilt the bathroom, rebuilt the backyard, fixed the roof, sanded and painted the interior and redid the plumbing. all the while living there and having to deal with my uncle and brother being crazy and violent. My uncles health started getting progressively worse at this time to the point where my dinning room ceiling would cave in repeatedly.

A process I documented when It was happening here with pictures https://www./threads/i-live-with-the-most-disgusting-person-on-earth-long-ass-ranting.592776/ (Old neo gaff links are banned so you can just look up "Live with most disgusting person on earth" Thread on google for the first result on neogaf)

I sold that house after a long grueling and mentally and physically exhausting ordeal while dealing with a mentally unstable brother who refused to do anything but be a blockade in my attempts to sell the house since he saw me as the one who had taken his property and house that he never contributed to but had this inflated sense of entitlement to it because my family for some reason prioritized the first born as being special. That's a whole other can of worms.

I move into a new place, and unfortunately my uncle is such a vile human being at this point nobody else would take him. Im once again thrust into the job of taking care of him. I refused to ever buy him alcohol no matter what but my mother and brother had no such claims. So I would come home from school and work and of course I was the only one who had to change his diapers, change his bandages, and pick him up off the floor and clean him of his own shit and vomit. IN MY OWN HOUSE. A year of this and one day, he's so drunk and fucked up he wanders off in the middle of the night crawling on his belly for the liquor store that he gets vivisected in half by a high speeding motorcyclist who is understandably traumatized for life by not expected to have cut someone in half that was face down in the middle of the highway at 4 am in the morning.

Not even a couple months from my uncles death my mom agrees to take in an uncle I've never even met before who had been in jail for 25 years with severe health issues and COPD, and the same process happens all over again. Im forced to care for this man I've never interected with before who has serious health issues and I need to bathe him, clean him, make sure he gets fresh oxygen, create specialized foods for him since his diet is very sensitive, change his diapers, change his bandages and chisel away at the dead skin the builds up on his calves every week or they start to smell like festering ass.

But he hated be taken care of, and always asked to get him beer, cigarettes, fatty and salty food. to the point where he called the cops on me for taking care of him as abuse ( My uncle, my aunt, and my mom also did the same things to me repeatedly. taking care of their health they translate as torture and absue) He opted to rather live in a halfway house for ex cons than live with me and be healthy. And not even a week later he was fucking dead because he neglected his health.

Fast forward to now, for the past 8 years my mom retired after serious health issues mainly regarding her alcohol abuse. (it's not an issue, she's not an alcoholic of course not...she's just has a few drinks here and there...two 64 oz bottles of wine is nothing) she has advance cirrhosis and kidney damage, she has now gotten to a point where she's in a state of constant confusion and can barely stand let alone know where she is. I have been picking her up off the floor of my home every day after work and doing the same routine I've always done, bathe her, clothe her, help her go to the bathroom, clean up, cook, make sure she gets medicine.

I recently started improving my own health, I have a great job as a chef at a country club, I met an amazing woman who has injected nothing but positivity into my life but now my mom is at a state of where she doesnt even know who I am anymore and im losing my fucking mind, I dont know what to do. My family has abandoned me and ghosting me in all my calls and texts.

I tried explaining this to my brother yesterday and he refused to even talk to me, or about the problems opting to instead try and take her from the hospital himself and take her to my home. when he was denied this by the doctors and myself he left, only for me to discover that he'd slashed all my tires and went to my house to destroy my garage and anything in it.

The doctors are telling me Im going to have to just take care of her myself, and I cant do it anymore. I feel like im going to fucking explode. I just want to run away, I want to fucking run and never look back and just leave it all behind.

I want to just jump off the fucking planet, I cant do it any longer. it's killing me. It's my mom, I know. But I cant do it anymore, not again.

[Garfield]

The fact that this looney tunes is representing all 7 of them underscores how sad this whole thing is-sad because it means that none of the 7 have actual parents to pay for a real lawyer.  A real lawyer, rather than this buffoon, would have negotiated an apology/slap on the wrist and waited until the criminal charges were dropped before going on this fishing expedition/civil lawsuit that will go nowhere because these "kids" have no right to disrupt the university over this bs.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-cannot-handle-this-life-anymore-i-want-to-fucking-quit-im-so-tired.880026/

Bumped and before I got to the new post it got nuked.

It was positive, the dude is doing better.

[benji]

I went (was forced) through what you call “male puberty.”

God damn millions of years of evolution, I did not consent to you!!!!

THERE IS NO ONE RIGHT WAY TO BE A WOMAN. You don’t need to be cis. You don’t need to have certain hormone levels. You don’t need to have any surgeries. You don’t need to have certain organs.A woman is anyone who has the gender identity of “woman.” And if you have that gender identity, then you, yes you, are what a woman looks like. There are cis women and trans women and intersex women and non-binary women.There are more things in Earth and Heaven than can be dreamt of in your philosophy.

You've stripped the word "woman" of any meaning in your desire to claim it, so congrats I guess, you now get to call yourself something meaningless. Hooray you.

[benji]

The patreon: https://www.patreon.com/weikallaw

No, I'm Not On BlueSky Anymore - and What's Next

April 15

Hello Friends! If you followed me on BlueSky, you probably know now that I'm not on there anymore. I made this decision for a few reasons, and I owe you both an explanation of those reasons and what it means going forward.

1. The Discourse Was Getting Too Toxic. One of the worst parts about the Old Site, even before it was taken over by a fascist antisemitic feudal lord, was the tendency to not give people the benefit of the doubt, for good people on the same side of an issue to end up hurting each other over misunderstandings, and that's become increasingly evident on BlueSky the last few weeks. The Discourse has descended into a demand that the day's main character be condemned or praised. That this is a niche microblogging site becomes meaningless. We lose sight of the fact that real people with real feelings are being impacted by lose-lose propositions masquerading as Discourse. There's nothing being actually accomplished, just arguing for its own sake. I argue with bad people for a living in my day job; I don't want to argue with good people recreationally.

2. People Were Not Honoring Boundaries. Related to #1 was the reality that no matter what I did or how I asked, people were not honoring the boundaries I asked for with respect to my law practice. Please understand that I want to help everyone I can, and I will always be name-your-own-price. However, it is not okay to volunteer me to represent someone, and in the past week that happened three different times including, in one instance, for someone in another country. It's not fair to me or to them to say that I will represent someone without talking to me first. I simply can't represent someone who isn't in Illinois because I am only licensed in Illinois, and it is actually really, really expensive - as in, thousands of dollars expensive - to get a license in another state.

I strongly believe that the artificial formalities created by legal rules and jargon are bad and the law must be made accessible if we are ever to realize true equality and the end of the carceral state. At the same time, I cannot simply ignore the rules as they exist because it endangers my other clients and my wife, and that's not okay. And whilst I appreciate that people think I can win any case anywhere, I'm not a superhero or any other kind of hero. I'm just a girl with a law license, a passion for helping people, and a messiah complex.

3. I Need to Protect Mercy. Mercy is my wife, my best friend, and the love of my life. I will do anything - literally anything - for her and to protect her. Mercy is also a Black intersex trans woman in a very white, cis, male field dominated by conservative politics. When people are sending my posts to Mercy's bosses, or my posts are ending up in discussions about Mercy's writing, that's not okay.

4. I Need to Protect My Own Mental Health. Honestly, I'm tired. This job is really, really hard. I wake up every day worried about whether I'll have enough money to pay my bills and go to bed every night worried about whether my clients will have roofs over their heads or their freedoms intact the next morning. I also have an autoimmune disease that hits a ten on the pain scale on a regular basis. I need to reduce stress in my life, because unfortunately I'm not 25 anymore.

5. I'm sick of getting suspended and warnings. I want to be able to say that fascists who do genocides deserve nothing but bad things without getting suspended for it, to be completely honest.

So what's next? I will be posting a lot more On Here, hopefully. I'm still going to be answering your questions - so you can submit them via email to sheryl@weikallaw.com, or just message me On Here or on Facebook. And you can find me on Facebook or on Instagram, and I will try to post a bit more there too.

On Palestine, Protest, Power, and the Legal System

May 13

Last week, I was in a jail visiting a client when I was sexually assaulted.

I've spent a lot of time in jails and prisons over the years - when you represent marginalized people and you're less expensive than the public defender, it's inevitable - but representing protesters has meant even more time in jails than usual.

I suppose now is a good time to mention that I have a bit of a reputation here in Illinois. I've sued a bunch of police departments, and running a name-your-own-price practice is controversial to say the least. Some call me "that trans lawyer". One attorney says I "represent the dregs of society." Another calls me a "schoolmarm teaching morality"; it's not a compliment. A Cook County Assistant State's Attorney said last month I was the most inflammatory lawyer they'd ever met, because I filed a motion saying that police encounters are dangerous for Black people as a matter of law. The kindest thing a prosecutor ever said about me was that I was a "wannabe Lincoln lawyer who can't afford a Lincoln." A judge said that my roving "lawyer for the common man" practice was "quaint but outdated." Cops pull me over and address me by name before asking for my ID. The point is that...I'm known, for better or worse. And representing college encampment protesters hasn't exactly buttressed my reputation in the broader legal community. Don't get me wrong, I don't do this work for the adoration, but the point is that I'm not exactly beloved by anyone in my field.

So here I am in this jail, and this guard decides he needs to teach me a lesson - by, during a pre-meeting search, having another guard put their hands under my blouse inside my bra to squeeze my breasts and play with my nipples, under the guise of searching me, as he looks on and laughs. And yes, he said this was a lesson. Society has rules, he said, and I am severely against them. I need to be shown what happens when the rules are violated. Maybe, he says, I will now understand the importance of rules in society. Maybe now I will rethink who I represent.

Sexual assault is never about sex and always about power. When judges ordered me to undergo genital inspections when I first transitioned, or stopped proceedings to demand the right to inspect me themselves, it wasn't because they found me attractive, it was because they were asserting dominance. It's always about power.

I will not name the facility this happened in because I have clients there and the staff at this place will retaliate against them, so please don't go guessing in the comments or on social media. One day, when I don't have clients there, I will name names. That's also why no, I won't formally report this. It's easy for me to report this when I can leave at the end of the day; my clients have no such luxury. Their well-being has to come first. Of course, that's the galling part about this: the guards know this facility's well earned reputation for retaliation against inmates means I can't risk reporting it. It breeds impunity. But I will not sell my clients out. For now, it will suffice to say this happened, and it was vile, and the doers are known only to themselves and me.

But the lesson is clear: representing anti-genocide protesters on purpose isn't just met with scorn and ridicule the way my ordinary practice is. It is reminiscent of being trans in that it's considered a violation of the rules. It needs to be punished. I am used to being called a fake Jew or a bad Jew in open court; that keeps happening. Hell, even a public defender in one county called me to tell me not to represent the student arrestees there, thinking that I was doing this out of some strange obligation instead of sincere opposition to genocide. Usually public defenders in small counties are glad to see me, as I lighten their loads; not this time.

I won't stop running a name-your-own-price practice. I won't stop representing protesters for a free Palestine. And I won't stop speaking truth to power about the legal system. But I am scared. I'm scared for what this meant and means for my safety moving forward. I'm scared for Mercy's safety. And no, I'm not okay, but I don't have the luxury of healing, because I have another batch of protesters to represent tomorrow.

[kaleidoscopium]

a baseball article she won an award for,
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-human-side-of-the-cubs-addison-russell-decision/

this award https://sabr.org/latest/ring-the-human-side-of-the-cubs-addison-russell-decision/

[Alpacx]

a baseball article she won an award for,
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-human-side-of-the-cubs-addison-russell-decision/

this award https://sabr.org/latest/ring-the-human-side-of-the-cubs-addison-russell-decision/

Oh hey, I know that Fangraphs writer. They suck and are bad at legal writing. Noodlesoup is fucked.

Used to be a real estate lawyer IIRC. Weird to move from stable real estate dollars to "name your price" activist stuff.

Had no idea they were Trans until I clicked through to their Instagram account just now and clocked them just by their profile picture. Most trans women try to make it difficult with filters and angles. Not here so points for honesty I guess

[benji]

Democrats now throwing the Revolution under the bus by calling it right-wing.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Someone from that FFXIV subreddit mod police thread linked Cenauru's tweet about people not liking Wuk Lamat as transphobic
https://x.com/CenDotharl/status/1819454506637443415
thebire can't seem to put the tweet for some odd reason

[benji]

 Read the room and shut the fuck up.

[clockwork5]

Noodlebrain is counter suing in civil court? Counter suing the university he attends? Before the criminal case has settled? 

What a dumb fuck.

[HaughtyFrank]

You guys laugh but when noodle faces court he'll at least be able to look back proudly at his accomplishment of.... Uh...

[benji]

[benji]

Cenauru retweeted this.

[benji]

Girl thoughts:

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[benji]

Noodlebrain is counter suing in civil court? Counter suing the university he attends? Before the criminal case has settled? 

What a dumb fuck.

I can't seem to find anything other than that mention in that story, the other news stories don't use that line. But from looking at the other stories I can see where the reasoning goes, they use the documentation since 1970 and that one dudes views to claim it was discrimination against their pro-Palestine views specifically then they sue the university for a civil rights violation.

I don't know enough about Illinois to know what docket to check to see if anybody's sued the university.

edit: doesn't seem like anybody is suing Illinois State University in the Central District Court, or at least not yet, zero cases for it

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Ugh.. the dean, like.. cares about jews?