Juxtaposed Roses

Law school grad. Curious mind. Caged heart. Restless soul.

[1jellybaby]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BYdetWwHJSI/

[juxtaposed-roses]

April showers bring May Wallflowers.

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I was born in 1992, in the midst of the Rodney King riots.

I can’t believe we’re still fighting for the same thing 28 years later.

What’s changed?

Well now I can watch black people get murdered by the police on my smartphone.

Progress is hard to win when complacency is so easy to buy.

[juxtaposed-roses]

Looks like words on a whiteboard. Feels like nails on a chalkboard.

[liberalsarecool]

A well-regulated car rental company takes responsibility. The driver takes responsibility.

They save lives.

With guns, no one is well-regulated and no one has to take responsibility.

That increases death, suicides, violence and terror.

Gun sales need accountability. No more loopholes.

[smorzando]

[juxtaposed-roses]

Right amount. Wrong flower. Beautiful mistake.

[hplyrikz]

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via hplyrikz)

[dockterfrankensteez]

DEADASS!!!

[thedarkestlovee]

Aaaaand they will disbar a lawyer QUICK but these cops get paid vacation.

[brandieblaze]

All I’m saying is you need a master’s to be a social worker, but you can be a cop with a high school diploma. Like, on what fucking planet do that make sense?

[theomenroom]

Cops don’t have to know the law.

There was a supreme court decision recently that a cop is not falsely detaining someone if they’re doing something the cop reasonably believes is against the law, even if it’s actually legal. I think the specific case was about someone driving with a broken taillight in a state where a car is street-legal so long as at least one of its taillights works.

Meanwhile, as a civilian, ignorance of the law is not a defense.

Cops are not required to know the laws they enforce. You are required to know every law you might conceivably break. But then, of course, if you backtalk a cop because you have better knowledge of the law than they do, and they respond violently, good luck winning that.

[sideshowmads]

I’m sorry but not really, what the fuck?

[thepeoplesmanifesto]

States are terrorists

[juxtaposed-roses]

Two thoughts:

1. Cops have one of the most difficult and unpredictable jobs out there, and must constantly make judgment calls concerning the competing interests of protecting the public, instilling order on the scene, and ensuring their own safety.

2. Most (if not all) police departments are underfunded with respect to training and educational programs. Without effective and continued training, cops are left with the burden of trying to do their jobs without the necessary knowledge base, and the public is left with the burden of the inevitable negative consequences of lack of educational investment.

MONEY is the core of all problems we face today. Similar issues exist with funding in public schools. If we were to give teachers, police, firefighters and military personnel the funding they need to actually do their jobs effectively, a lot of these larger societal symptoms of the funding problem would go away.

[juxtaposed-roses]

This is so important. I wish they taught this in Con law.

Read: The Crisis of the Middle Class Constitution by Ganesh Sitaraman

[juxtaposed-roses]

Lines and vines.

[lawschoolruinedme]

Fifth Annual Lawblr Book Exchange

Happy Galentines Day Bitches!

Refresher Course - You will be matched round-robin style with another lawblr (mostly - I reserve the right to match two people exclusively where necessary for geography purposes). You will send someone one of your favourite books, and someone will send you one of their favourite books.

You will have the option of sharing an e-book or sending a physical book. Thriftbooks.com / Abebooks/ Amazon are all great resources for used books with cheap shipping rates. The trick is to buy from your recipients local amazon (ie. if you’re sending to germany, buy from german amazon)

You have to fill out the form here (x) - for those who have participated in previous years there’s an easy option to just reuse your submission from last year, but I need you to at least submit something so I know you’re participating

I’ve also now included a set of questions for people who have had past exchanges fall through. My goal is to match people up who have not sent a gift with someone who hasn’t received one, in the hopes that a little spoiling and good karma happens.

As for the rest of it:

The rules of my dictatorship have not changed (x)

Posts from years past in case anyone wants to brush up (x) (x) (x)

Reblog - tag your friends! - deadline to get your name in the hat is going to be March 1

Happy Lawblr Love

[pdxjenni]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Y’ALLENTINES DAY IS HERRRRREEEEE

[antoniettabrandeisova]

A still life of roses, peonies, carnations, convolvulus and other flowers in a gold vase on a stone ledge, Andrea Scacciati (Italian, 11642-1710)

[juxtaposed-roses]

Light and dark.

[perrfectly]

[juxtaposed-roses]

Caged heart.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

— E.E. Cummings

[thepersonalquotes]

[juxtaposed-roses]

So are Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[juxtaposed-roses]

26 and over it.

[belgiandad]

From VSCO

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Perspective.