Roger Allan Ford (he/him)

@rogerford.org

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lawyer, law professor, union member

Weird little square keyboard thingy with lots of glowing lights, black protuberances, various-shaped buttons and knobs (some of them light-up), some writing for some reason, and possibly a missing key?
Podcast episode with a Federalist Society discussion about whether the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is unconstitutional
Holedown game where I crashed because of a block that should have fallen
Trump: “Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known, is dead! He was always working, and was a true American Patriot. Lindsey will be greatly missed!!! DETAILS AND ARRANGEMENTS TO FOLLOW. So sad!President DONALD J. TRUMP”
Nina Totenberg’s apology note to Sam Alito, as quoted by Brian Stelter on the bad place: “Dear Justice Alito, there are no words to adequately apologize for today’s error in reporting your retirement. It was entirely my fault. I rushed out of the courtroom after the opinion announcements, and when I realized that the usual rush of folks after a few minutes had not happened, I asked somebody was going on inside, to which the answer was, ‘retirement announcements.’ I didn't hear the ‘s’ on ‘announcements,’ and I assumed something no reporter should ever do, that you were retiring. It was the worst professional mistake of my more than 50 years in journalism. I could go on, but I don’t know what else to say, except that I am so, so sorry.”
Nine separate livestreams of the Kennedy Center building scaffolding in service, maybe, of eventually removing Trump’s illegally added name from the façade
A tv showing a live stream of the Kennedy Center façade, where a crowd is waiting to see Trump’s name come off the building.
Henry from Thomas the Tank Engine being bricked up into a tunnel to die a slow and painful death
“Nothing we say today resolves the distinct question whether the Administrative Procedure Act authorizes federal courts to vacate federal agency action. See 5 U.S.C. § 706(2) (authorizing courts to ‘hold unlawful and set aside agency action’).”
Trump, on Easter Sunday: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”
JUSTICE GORSUCH, concurring. The President claims that Congress delegated to him an extraordinary power in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)—the power to impose tariffs on practically any products he wants, from any countries he chooses, in any amounts he selects. Applying the major questions doctrine, the principal opinion rejects that argu-ment. I join in full. The Constitution lodges the Nation's lawmaking powers in Congress alone, and the major questions doctrine safeguards that assignment against executive encroachment. Under the doctrine's terms, the President must identify clear statutory authority for the extraordinary delegated power he claims. And, as the principal opinion explains, that is a standard he cannot meet.
Fake poster featuring a guest appearance from Measles
Chad Mizelle, former DOJ chief of staff / husband of a Trump-appointed federal judge / MAGA shithead lawyer, retweeting someone who posted a screenshot of a fake Don Lemon indictment excerpt saying “Overt Act # 16: While inside the Church, defendant LUNDY stood with other agitators in and around the main aisles in the Church to intimidate the Church members and obstruct and interfere with their freedom of movement. Defendant LEMON approached an elderly woman, shoved a phone into her face, and yelled ‘You got LEMONED you old bat!’ Defendant LEMON then located a broom in the janitorial closet and put it between his legs and started prancing up and down the aisles, singing ‘You got Lemoned! You got Lemoned! Lemoned Lemoned you got Lemoned!’ before eventually tripping and taking a header into the baptismal. Defendant LEMON emerged and appeared to be crying and pointed at Victim 7 and yelled ‘she pushed me!’”
BREAKING NEWS The E.P.A. will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
Epstein Files Photos Disappear From Website, Including One of Trump A total of 16 photos were struck from the website the Justice Department created. One featured a drawer containing other photos, including one of President Trump.
the incredibly shitty fifa peace prize medal
BRIEF FOR THREE FORMER SENIOR MILITARY OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE BRANCH OFFICIALS AS AMICI CURIAE SUPPORTING PETITIONER
Full-screen Elizabeth Warren tweet saying “I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.”
Scott Adams: “On Monday, I will ask President Trump, via X, to help save my life. He offered to help me if I needed it. I need it. As many of you know, I have metastasized prostate cancer. My healthcare provider, Kaiser of Northern California, has approved my application to receive a newly FDA-approved drug called Pluvicto. But they have dropped the ball in scheduling the brief IV to administer it and I can't seem to fix that. I am declining fast. I will ask President Trump if he can get Kaiser of Northern California to respond and schedule it for Monday. That will give me a fighting chance to stick around on this planet a little bit longer. It is not a cure, but it does give good results to many people.“
Rule 8. Disbarment and Disciplinary Action 1. Whenever a member of the Bar of this Court has been disbarred or suspended from practice in any court of record, or has engaged in conduct unbecoming a member of the Bar of this Court, the Court will enter an order suspending that member from practice before this Court and affording the member an opportunity to show cause, within 40 days, why a disbarment order should not be entered. Upon response, or if no response is timely filed, the Court will enter an appropriate order. 2. After reasonable notice and an opportunity to show cause why disciplinary action should not be taken, and after a hearing if material facts are in dispute, the Court may take any appropriate disciplinary action against any attorney who is admitted to practice before it for conduct unbecoming a member of the Bar or for failure to comply with these Rules or any Rule or order of the Court.
A tv with a football game and some truly unconscionable kerning
AI-generated image. Prompt: “Imagine a Democratic president tore down the White House and replaced it with an ultramodern building. What might that look like?” The image depicts a sleek, modern, multi-story office building with flowing, curved white levels and expansive glass windows, set against a clear blue sky on a manicured lawn with a prominent American flag flying on a pole to the right.
“What JD Vance and a Throw Pillow Have in Common”
Flaming guitar guy from Mad Max: Fury Road
Retired general tweeting “July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.” And Pete Hegseth responding “Cool story, General”
“Secret Service investigating after president, first lady forced to walk up escalator”
The chaos from the first day of a meeting of the federal vaccine committee appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. bled into the second day, as the panel reversed one decision and indefinitely postponed a vote on a hepatitis B vaccine they had already deferred once. On Friday morning, the committee voted not to allow a federal vaccine program to cover the cost of a combination vaccine that protects against measles, mumps, rubella and varicella, or chickenpox. This reversed a vote on Thursday to allow coverage, apparently because some members had misunderstood the way it was worded. And the panelists said they felt unready to decide whether to limit the use of a vaccine for hepatitis B that is typically given to all newborns. Some said they still had questions about the vaccine's safety, while others seemed relieved that the panel did not make what they saw as a rash decision that might harm children.
“President Trump’s hundreds of history-making media appearances and roles include: WrestleMania V (1989); Ghosts Can’t Do It (1989); All My Children (1992); Lady Boss (1992); Home Alone 2 (1992); Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson (1993); Fresh Prince of Bel Air (1994); The Little Rascals (1994); Across the Sea of Time (1995); Eddie (1996); The Nanny (1996); The Associate (1996); The Drew Carey Show (1997); NightMan (1997); Spin City (1998); 54 (1998); Celebrity (1998); Sex In The City (1998); Miss Universe 2001 (2001); The Job (2001-2002); Zoolander (2001); Donald Trump Real Estate Tycoon! (2002) (video game); Two Weeks Notice (2002); Miss USA 2002 (2002); Ali G Show (2003); Marmalade (2004); Days of Our Lives (2005); Miss Universe Pageant; The Apprentice (2004-2015) and Celebrity Apprentice (2008-2015); Hosted Saturday Night Live (2015); Hosted WWE; and much more.”
Fox News lede story: “Father identifies son as Charlie Kirk’s alleged shooter after FBI chief’s bold evidence strategy”
The day after Charlie Kirk was killed, Stephen Crowder changed his Twitter bio from talking about hosting “the #2 Conservative Daily Show” to “the #1 Conservative Daily Show”
Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code
“Trump’s Federal Reserve pick plans to keep his White House job while serving on central bank, in unusual threat to Fed independence”
“The stakes in this case could not be higher. The President and his Cabinet officials have determined that the tariffs are promoting peace and unprecedented economic prosperity, and that the denial of tariff authority would expose our nation to trade retaliation without effective defenses and thrust America back to the brink of economic catastrophe. C.A. Doc. 158, at 8-9 (Lutnick). “To the President and his most senior advisors, these tariffs thus present a stark choice: With tariffs, we are a rich nation; without tariffs, we are a poor nation. According to the President, ‘[o]ne year ago, the United States was a dead country, and now, because of the trillions of dollars being paid by countries that have so badly abused us, America is a strong, financially viable, and respected country again.’ C.A. Doc. 154, at 1 (Aug. 11, 2025). The President predicts that ‘[i]f the United States were forced to pay back the trillions of dollars committed to us, America could go from strength to failure the moment such an incorrect decision took effect,’ and ‘the economic consequences would be ruinous, instead of unprecedented success.’ Id. at 1-2. “Nonetheless, in a fractured, 7-4 decision, the en banc Federal Circuit declared that the President’s use of IEEPA tariffs was unlawful. …”
Chat on the AP livestream of Trump’s proof of life
Graph of residential electricity costs over time showing a dramatic increase around 2022–2023 and even more increases since
“As for the mutation of sexes, or transition into one another, we cannot deny it in Hares, it being observable in Man. For hereof beside Empedocles or Tiresias there are not a few examples: and though very few, or rather none which have emasculated or turned women, yet very many who from an esteem or reality of being Women have infallibly proved Men. Some at the first point of their menstruous eruptions, some in the day of their marriage, others many years after: which occasioned disputes at Law, and contestations concerning a restore of the dowry. And that not only mankind, but many other Animals may suffer this transexion, we will not deny, or hold it at all impossible: although I confess by reason of the postick and backward position of the feminine part in quadrupedes, they can hardly admit the substitution of a protrusion, effectual unto masculine generation; except it be in Retromingents, and such as couple backward.”
“But surely it much impeacheth this iterated transection of Hares, if that be true which Cardan and other Physicians affirm, that Transmutation of sex is only so in opinion; and that these transfeminated persons were really men at first; although succeeding years produced the manifesto or evidence of their virilities. Which although intended and formed, was not at first excluded: and that the examples hereof have undergone no real or new transection, but were Androgynally born, and under some kind of Hermaphrodites. For though Galen do favour the opinion, that the distinctive parts of sexes are only different in Position, that is, inversion or protrusion; yet will this hardly be made out from the Anatomy of those parts. The testicles being so seated in the female, that they admit not of protrusion; and the neck of the matrix wanting those parts which are discoverable in the organs of virility.”
1646 “These transfeminated persons were really men at first, although succeeding years produced the manifesto or evidence of their virilities.” Sir T. Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xvii. 148
“In my view, every citizen who applies for a government job is entitled to it unless the government can establish some reason for denying the employment. This is the ‘property’ right that I believe is protected by the Fourteenth Amendment and that cannot be denied ‘without due process of law.’ And it is also liberty—liberty to work—which is the ‘very essence of the personal freedom and opportunity’ secured by the Fourteenth Amendment.”
Actual tweet — no, really, I went and looked it up — by @TheDemocrats, with the Norman Rockwell painting of the guy speaking at a town meeting or something, with the text (I’m so sorry) of the tweet saying “We think the Cracker Barrel rebrand sucks too”
Bunch of lawyers identified as being with “Task Force Vulcan” instead of like a normal government thing
Breaking News Attorney General Pam Bondi orders D.C. mayor to recognize DEA chief as 'emergency police commissioner'
A whole buncha green beans I grew, plus a couple snow peas
Jenner & Block apparently advised GM to avoid putting words like “Kevorkianesque,” “tomblike,” “maniacal,” and “rolling sarcophagus” in writing to describe its deathtrap cars
“During her nine hours speaking with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last month, Ghislaine Maxwell said nothing during the interview that would be harmful to President Donald Trump, telling Blanche that Trump had never done anything in her presence that would have caused concern, according to sources familiar with what Maxwell said. “The Trump administration, meanwhile, is considering publicly releasing the transcripts from the interview, multiple sources familiar with the internal discussions told ABC News.”
NYT: “N.Y.C. Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say”
White-male professor at the front of a law-school classroom full of curved seats, most of the students having laptops, and one bold risk-taking student with a pink laptop, turned around with her back to the professor for some reason.
Students in a classroom, each with one to four books on their desk, plus most are taking handwritten notes in a notebook of some kind. A white female professor in a suit stands at the side of the classroom, lecturing.
Old-school Professor-Kingsfield-style professor at a rather ornate wooden podium, with a class full of students each of whom is accompanied by approximately 87 books for some reason.
AI-generate image of a giant triceratops crashing into a classroom through the giant picture windows at the front of the classroom, sending glass and papers flying everywhere, while four white-male professors (??) in suits recoil in shock
“Stocks Drop on Report Powell Likely to Be Fired”
Push notification: “TRUMP ATTACKS SUPPORTERS “President Trump lashed out at criticism of the administration’s handling of the Epstein case, using an expletive and calling it a ‘scam.’”
Acting head of FEMA wearing a portion of shirt.
“Nim Kidd, the chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, said a National Weather Service advisory issued Thursday ‘did not predict the amount of rain that we saw.’ Officials and residents have said they were caught off guard by the torrential rain that led to deadly flooding in the early hours of Friday.”
Justice Sotomayor: “In a democracy, power implies responsibility. The greater the power that defies law the less tolerant can this Court be of defiance. As the Nation’s ultimate judicial tribunal, this Court, beyond any other organ of society, is the trustee of law and charged with the duty of securing obedience to it.” Mine Workers, 330 U. S., at 312 (Frankfurter, J., concurring in judgment). This Court continues to invert those principles. Today’s order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial. Respectfully, I dissent.
New (unconstitutional) NH law prohibiting public schools and universities from engaging in “DEI-related initiatives,” including “critical race theory.”