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contact local, state and federal officials. All because I sent an email. Stay tuned.

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I joined Eaton Fire Residents United, an advocacy group that’s on the ground, talking to people and contacting local and state politicians to raise these issues. Long story short(ish), just this week, we’ve found the right people to help us navigate this and they’re now helping us… (4/?)

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ineffective remediations, only to then refuse to pay for testing that would confirm whether the home is still full of lead, asbestos, arsenic, and a variety of other dangerous toxins (spoiler alert: almost certainly). After my own request for an independent industrial hygienist was declined… 3/?

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In the last month, I’ve learned more about the toxins left behind after a wild-urban interface fire (WUI) than I ever thought possible. Hell, I didn’t even know what a WUI was. I’ve learned how utterly cruel insurance companies are…forcing policyholders to go through expensive and utterly 2/?

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I haven’t been on here much, bc I haven’t had much to say. Now I do. My house is 2 blocks outside of the #EatonFire burn zone. When I learned that our house survived, I didn’t understand why it was spared when so many others were not. I knew I was meant to DO something, there was a reason… 1/?

Lisa Schultz @lisa-la.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I worked hundreds of hours for the Harris campaign. I was in the #WisDems Boiler Room on Election Day as a volunteer attorney. And I feel nothing. I didn’t lose my house, but my neighborhood is gone. And I feel nothing. At some point, all of this is going to hurt *really* bad.

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Lisa Schultz @lisa-la.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I know I haven’t started processing the #EatonFire yet, and I knew I was disconnected. Everything feels like I’m watching a really vivid documentary about another time and place. My only reaction today has been, “huh, well, that’s gonna suck.” For whoever it’s actually happening to, I guess. 1/2

Lisa Schultz @lisa-la.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Evacuation Day Whatever: this is Teddy, the “feral” cat who lives in our yard. There are 5 other cats plus us in one bedroom. He’s been exactly this chill the entire time. #HeKnows #EatonFire

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Lisa Schultz @lisa-la.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Scientologists have been making off with truckloads of donations across LA all week. There’s a group of them recruiting “volunteers” in a parking lot by Fair Oaks & Mountain in Pasadena if anyone wants to stop by and…say hello…

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adam mahoney (he/him) @adamlmahoney.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Throughout Los Angeles, ash, smoke, wind & flames are rewriting the landscape & although less publicized, Black history. My latest gets into what is being lost, & how disaster-capitalism + the collapse of the insurance system will make it so much worse. capitalbnews.org/california-w...

capitalbnews.org

Generational Black Homes in LA Reduced to Ash Amid Growing Wildfires

As multimillion-dollar mansions in celebrity enclaves dominate headlines, Black communities in Altadena face an uphill battle to rebuild their lives.

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Lisa Schultz @lisa-la.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This #EatonFire “update” is a fucking joke. If you don’t want us to come back, give us some FUCKING INFORMATION. Do I still have a house?

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Lisa Schultz @lisa-la.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Not much could make me laugh right now, but this did it.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 02/01/2025

This is great.

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Lisa Schultz @lisa-la.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Then I asked, “what must be established for a cause of action for sexual harassment to succeed under federal law?” The prompt purposefully could be better. However. It directed me to…not the statute or case law, which was oddly not hyperlinked… The RESTATEMENT. 🥴 (See attached screenshots)

Screenshot of Restatement section cited as supporting document by Lexis+ AI.

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Lisa Schultz @lisa-la.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I asked Lexis+ AI a series of questions related to CA sexual harassment law (FEHA) and then asked if the plaintiff could sue under federal law. Yes, it said…and pointed to Title VII, then said there were both similarities and differences between the state and fed laws. Good, right? Well…

Lisa Schultz @lisa-la.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Doing a side-by-side comparison of Lexis+ AI and Westlaw AI-Assisted Research as I do class prep today. Welcome to 2025. Might as well embrace the dumpster fire on Day One. Wish me luck.

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Hey law librarians…this antiracism in the classroom series is geared for teachers and librarians. I asked the facilitator if it is appropriate for graduate school-level educators and she said, “yes, absolutely!” Registration link coming soon.

Save the date - January 20 & 27 for an educational antiracism series, “Unpacking White Supremacy in the Classroom: A Call to Action for Reachers and Allies.” Registration link coming soon.

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That’s interesting. I’m in California and would *love* that. We have no good way to directly access most of that information. Can’t imagine that wouldn’t be financially viable. There are a few lawyers here. 🤣

Especially since AI is not a fact-finding machine. Since it’s looking for language patterns and not yes/no answers to queries, you’re absolutely correct about the best answer it could give…even if the data was 100% complete. Which it never will be.

If only. Heck, I’d settle for a tool that tells me exactly where to find (or not) different pieces of leg history materials, so I’d know where to start looking. Like one massive and continuously updated LibGuide.

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Not surprised. Lexis does a terrible job of connecting the statute to relevant leg history documents on the non-AI platform. Also, AI is notoriously bad with numbers, so asking it to make connections based on PL numbers, etc. would be disastrous.

Right. So theoretically, WL and Lexis won’t eat their own tails, but ChatGPT, etc. certainly could…and arguably already are. WL & Lexis’ AI is limited by the underlying data, and I’m skeptical about their commitment to maintaining secondary sources, in particular. Which is another problem.

At what point does GenAI just become the snake eating its own tail - ingesting content that it created, thus creating content that’s even less vetted/accurate? Or are we already there?

Lisa Schultz @lisa-la.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Is it just me, or has Lexis’ regular search functionality (t&c especially) gotten substantially worse in the last few months? Trying to force us to use the AI or just diverting all of their resources to it and letting the main product wither?

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Republicans Against Maga @reclaimamerica.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This message deserves repeating!

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Let alone actually getting INVOLVED, how are our elected officials supposed to know what our opinions are? Do we expect them to divine it from the brick wall we screamed at? Or are we just waiting for a rich, white vigilante murderer to fix it for us?

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If the only thing we ever do is post our opinions on social media, we might as well be yelling at a brick wall. And that cause that we care so much about? What are we actually *doing* to advance it? If we’re not even calling our Congresspeople to tell them what’s important to us…

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a neutered version of the ACA…compromised to, primarily, Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson in exchange for their votes. Ok. Back to how inaction caused this. If we only show up every 2-4 years, why would our elected officials care what we think? They don’t even KNOW what we think.

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and Arlen Spector switched parties, but then Ted Kennedy died. His temporary replacement was a yes though, so the Dems had 60 votes…if no one defected and the vote occurred before the MA special election in January (which was won by Repub. Scott Brown). And that’s how we ended up with…

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because Republicans are dicks, but I digress). What about the ACA? It passed the House by 5 votes on Nov. 7, 2009. It needed 60 votes in the Senate to overcome a promised Republican filibuster. The Dems had 58 votes. By August 2010, Al Franken had been sworn in…

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when, instead of saying, “No! We want healthcare reform!,” they elected a slate of Congressional Republicans led by Newt Gingrich and his “Contract with America,” a Heritage Foundation-driven legislative agenda that ended the healthcare debate (and slashed welfare funding and food vouchers…

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is justified, our actions don’t back up our words. Let’s look back at 1993. “Hillarycare” was heavily opposed by Republicans and the pharmaceutical and health insurance industries, and it was defeated in the Senate in Sept. 1994. The American people defeated it at the ballot box that November…

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It was resurrected in 1993, with legislation drafted by Hillary Clinton. And then, of course, there was the ACA in 2010. What does that have to do with my original point? Well, despite the assertion that we are all SO fed up with the healthcare system in the US that we feel cold blooded murder…

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to accomplish that is a wave of vigilante murders. Newsflash: universal healthcare has been on the table since 1970. Yes, that’s right. Back then, it was even a bipartisan bill! It was proposed multiple times throughout the 1970s, but lost Republican support.

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Take the current reaction to the CEO murder for example. Nobody is particularly sad about that, because health insurance in this country is a fucking joke. It’s a criminal enterprise. Do we need major healthcare reform? 100%. But folks are out there acting like the best/fastest/only way…

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while doing absolutely fuckall to advance any of the policies they claim to care about. Perhaps nobody ever told them that democracy isn’t a spectator sport. If their elected officials are ineffective, it’s because the electorate is largely unengaged.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

You know who I could not care less about? Liberals who think all they need to do is vote every 2-4 years (after much hand-wringing about the *always* super flawed candidates, of course), but spend the entire time in between complaining about how “the Democrats” are useless… 🧵

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The Guardian writes up the hearing I testified at yesterday.

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Lisa Schultz @lisa-la.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

"Cahall maintained these books in her classroom…in furtherance of her sincerely held moral and religious beliefs that that all children, including children who are LGBTQ+ or the children of parents who are LGBTQ+, deserve to be respected, accepted, and loved for who they are.” 🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️

advocate.com

An Ohio teacher was suspended for keeping LGBTQ+ books in her classroom. Now, she's suing

An Ohio elementary teacher is flipping the script and using her religious beliefs against conservatives to support LGBTQ+ rights.

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Lisa Schultz @lisa-la.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

This is, unfortunately, so utterly relatable that at first glance I assumed that you’re in the US and “UK” stood for “University of Kentucky.” Solidarity, indeed.

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Dear Santa, Please strand him on top of the Swiss Alps with just a Canadian flag and a suit for protection from the elements. Will leave extra milk and cookies if you set up a live stream. Love, Me.

Truth Social Trump “tweet”: Oh Canada! With an AI image of Trump standing on top of the Swiss Alps, in front of a Canadian flag.

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Then, as soon as G turns away from her friend, the citizens of Oz start yelling at E: “Look at her! She’s WICKED! KILL HER!” In sum, Glinda is a terrible ally. You can almost picture the blue bracelet she bought after voting for Trump, can’t you?

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G isn’t ready to give up her proximity to power. She hasn’t learned that her silence isn’t going to keep her safe. G: I hope you’re happy now that you’re choosing this. I hope it brings you bliss. I really hope you get it and you don’t live to regret it. I hope you’re happy in the end/my friend.

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E: Glinda, come with me. Think of what we could do together. Unlimited. Together we’ll be the greatest team there’s ever been. Glinda, dreams the way we planned ‘em, if we work in tandem, there’s no fight we cannot win. You know, like intersectional feminism dismantling the patriarchy?

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But E has been othered her whole life and she knows that’s not true. They’ll turn against her as soon as she’s not useful. She tries to take her friend with her - reminds her of the things they were going to accomplish together, and says together they’d be unstoppable.

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