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Eddie Bauer > LL Bean by all metrics. There. I said what I said. My "rugged" winter LL Bean coat shredded at the seams, zippers broke with 2 years of casual VT use. My EB coat? More pockets, no seam wear, no zipper issues. Solid as a brick house. RIP Eddie Bauer.

Had a disheartening conversation with a fellow 3L yesterday. She's planning to go to med school after graduation because "all this is clearly bullshit now." Many graduating students feel this way. If I were younger, I'd join them.

As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.

Just so we're all clear, when any NRA shill in Congress says, "Thoughts and prayers," what they're actually saying is, "We've made a policy decision that this is okay. They weren't our kids and that's all that matters to us."

I propose we turn the student loan industry against the gun lobby. We certainly can't appeal to their humanity. This is enraging. My heart breaks for these students & their families I'm now more focused on memorizing emergency exits than I my exam materials.

Lee Zeldin couldn't care less about effluent limitations. I 100% Men's Warehouse guarantee it.

This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇

It's time to acknowledge reality:   Our health system is broken. It's time to guarantee good-quality care to every man, woman & child in this country.   Our campaign finance system is broken. It's time to get rid of Citizens United and publicly fund elections.   Let’s do it.

As hundreds of thousands of federal employees are furloughed, the grant offices that fund DV shelters have gone dark. www.jezebel.com/marnie-shiel...

Last weekend, @annabower.bsky.social started to receive Signal messages from the U.S. attorney who is leading the prosecution of Letitia James. Throughout the exchange, Lindsay Halligan complained about Bower’s tweets and reporting on the indictment–but never once asked to be off the record.

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

The government shutdown is undermining the Office on Violence Against Women 🚨🚨🚨 More than 100 of their 120 employees have been furloughed, bringing their lifesaving work to a halt. This will have devastating impacts on women across the nation.

“We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” ~ Louis Brandeis (1933)

It doesn’t matter if you’re working class or a billionaire: climate change will hurt your grandchildren. That’s why I cannot understand oil executives who sacrifice the planet’s health for their short-term profits We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels NOW.

We're studying the 4th Amendment in Criminal Procedure. Instead of opening Thursday's class (9/11/25) discussing the recent #SCOTUS decision legalizing racism (under 4th Amendment) or lasting effects of the Patriot Act, prof. started w/ #CharlieKirk & why it was bad. No mention of #CO shooting.

Trying to trace which judge started the "deeply rooted in history & traditions" line so beloved by today's #SCOTUS. Do they even garden? Someday I'll write a book tracing this phrase for a book called "Pot-Bound: How the Supreme Court Asphyxiated the Constitution."

As job market slumps, Trump administration says it could take a year to see better economic data reut.rs/45QsjJp

John Roberts' opinion dishonors Robert Jackson's memory. slate.trib.al/OypJYv2

GOP responses to mass shootings: Step 1: Blame it on mental health, not guns Step 2: Vote to cut funding for mental health Repeat I live outside the US, and I can assure you: the rest of the world has people with mental health problems. What they don't have is easy access to unlimited guns.

US deficit grows to $291 billion in July despite surge in tariff revenue reut.rs/4mxRTbI

Roberts, Barrett, and Kavanaugh are quickly leading us on a path to our generation's Korematsu if they don't grow spines. Look at this:

The "Big, Beautiful Bill" was originally called "Shameful, Self-Enriching" but was given an AI marketing makeover?(probably).

@vermontpublic.org I don't know what brought one of your vehicles to my neck of the woods on 6/17, but please know that I 👋 (belatedly). 😅💚💚💚

SCOOP: 'Big Balls' has officially left the building. 19-year-old technologist Edward Coristine, a key operative in Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who's gone by the name "Big Balls" online, has resigned, the White House tells WIRED.

In writing, Trump's judicial nominees have all signaled their support for his election denier conspiracy theories, and their willingness to end birthright citizenship. But Senate Democrats didn't challenge the nominees on these answers when they had the chance. Most of them didn't even show up.

This is actually the second decision from the Roberts court endorsing plessy-like reasoning. The first was Dobbs. bsky.app/profile/jame...

Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.

You can tell he totally has MAGA Christians in mind with this quote 👇 #ResistTrump

new from me for @wired.com : the EPA is moving to reorganize its scientific research office, which will likely kill off a small but crucial program devoted to studying the impacts of toxic chemicals—which has been a target of industry groups for years

Not-a-lawyer Miller goes full Y'all-Qaeda. Remember, kids. Even his rabbi hates him.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

"This shift suggests that oil and gas is now a sunset industry, managing a long-term, if occasionally profitable, decline." Always read @davidfickling.bsky.social 🎁 Link www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

From now on, no matter what job she holds, I’m calling Kristi Noem the “Secretary of Handbag Security”

Kristi Noem is now undocumented.

A loss for humanity.

ICE is toying with the lives of innocent students in order to make quotas on deportations. Outrageous, incompetent and cruel.