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Not all the news is bad.

New pope. Fingers crossed. But anyone willing to confront J. D. Vance's hubris and apostasy can't be all bad.

And here’s an example of a firm being rewarded for standing up to Trump. Wouldn’t you prefer a courageous law firm that has and adheres to principles to a cowardly one?

Now the many law firms that have capitulated to Trump appear even more craven.

The fact that everyone in the Trump administration is a blatant liar is becoming impossible to deny.

Unbelievable, and yet predictable.

Even staunch Republicans are castigating Trump, as Robert Reich reports.

DOGE out of control and apparently facilitating Russian hackers. www.reuters.com/technology/c...

Law firms that oppose Trump’s unconscionable executive orders are consistently prevailing in the courts, making it ever clearer that those that do not are cowardly.

I hope it’s okay to lie, if I may, under my bay tree for part of the day.

Got back to Joseph D. Grant County Park with Stella and Luggy. One might be forgiven for thinking there is still hope.

“Millions of people took part in protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk across all 50 states and globally on Saturday, organized by a pro-democracy movement in response to what they call a ‘hostile takeover’ and attack on American rights and freedoms.”

One sign showed Smokey Bear and read, “Only you can prevent forest fires. Seriously. We’ve been defunded. It’s just you now.”

Came across a poem fragment I wrote a long time ago, but that seems particularly appropriate now: Speak! Shout down the man that walks on our heads, the tiny man who calls his purloined vision God. His secret has been whispered and the reeds heard: the President has asses' ears.

Not content to destroy America, Trump sets out to destroy the global economy.

As an attorney, I’m aghast that any law firm, much less firms with the extraordinary resources of Paul Weiss and Skadden Arps, would yield to the threats of a tyrant without even attempting to test the legality of his actions.

Bite me, Elon.

Heading home from the Eastern Sierra and Death Valley with fond memories.