Legal aid lawyer in Appalachia.

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[mysteriouslyjellyfish]

IF YOU LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES

AND YOUR ANNUAL GROSS INCOME IS LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO $73K

YOU CAN DO AND FILE YOUR TAXES FOR FREE USING SOFTWARE FROM AN IRS PARTNER SITE:

https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-for-free

everyone needs to know this. tell your family. tell your friends. if they make more than that, tell them anyway so they can tell their family and friends that make less. there is no reason you should be paying hundreds of dollars to do your taxes.

[attractive-nuisance-esq]

Guys, I just used TaxAct through this link - as easy as TurboTax, and fucking FREE. I paid $40 for my state return, but they’ll file most state returns for free (Illinois is just being a dick, I guess). Saved me like $120. Reblog to save an American life.

[cattorneyatlaw]

Opposing Counsel: I've been practicing since before you were born!

Me: Yikes you just put that out there? Whats your excuse for sucking so much?

[martiallylaw]

Why do they always do this

[tlirsgender]

Stress having physical effects is so stupid your body’s just like “you’ve been having a real shit time and I’m about to make it worse” I hope you die I hope we both die

[justintaco]

[sindri42]

[boomer-buzzard]

[st-just]

Not to be a Carter apologist or anything, but lmao. Incredible.

[lawschoolruinedme]

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

“Isn’t it crazy how animal documentaries can make you root for the lion OR the gazelle, just with the editing? Anyway, back to watching hilarious meme clips of an actual real world legal trial.”

[martiallylaw]

I'm so relieved that, after returning to Tumblr after a few weeks, the takes on this trial are less... one-sided than apparently the rest of the real and social media universes, especially the white men in a tiny New Hampshire town in my social circles who are all of a sudden experts, explaining this case to me, an actual domestic violence attorney.

[tinkkles]

[biglawbear]

[funnytwittertweets]

[martiallylaw]

This has been driving me bananas as i see it make the social media rounds. Studies show that summer break disproportionately harms low-income and minority students by contributing to the achievement gap. The summer break wasn't for the kids, it was for farmers who wanted child labor. Schools with the same amount of break spread out through the year help disadvantaged children more. https://www.ace.edu/blog/post/2019/07/17/the-pros-cons-of-year-round-school

To the point that we all need breaks: yes. But acting like the school calendar is centered around students rather than capitalism, or that it even benefits students, is not the best way to make the point

[bioethicists]

almost everything in life is considerably more complicated than "good guys" vs "bad guys". if your politics (or perhaps international politics only?) are based on the idea that a 'victim' is perfectly good and pure and a perpetrator is perfectly evil and corrupted, you aren't seeing a clear picture and may not be capable of providing meaningful input or support. your support will likely collapse as soon as you confront the complexity of reality because you didn't nurture critical thinking + unconditional compassion.

break past the "superhero" mentality of good vs evil; identify and cultivate a core value for equity and compassion; identify and oppose structural power in all its forms without requiring that its victims be angelic or its actors be unforgivable

[jejciu]

Adding op's tags if that's ok

[firstgrave]

ALSO in continuing my endless conversation about the legal field being designed only with wealthy (and privileged) people in mind, today I learned you can be denied admission into your state bar because you have too much debt. this even includes student loan debt. and their justification for it is they believe poor people are more likely to steal than rich people, which is so fucking insane just on its own

[yayfeminism]

Very informative thread -source

[lastroseofspring]

Dr. Sarah Taber fucking SNAPPED

[no-lo-lo]

Well here’s a buncha stuff I didn’t know

[smbc-comics]

[rainbow-femme]

[hollowboobtheory]

i support universal free healthcare for one simple reason: if you are diagnosed with a terminal illness you should quit your job. quitting your job is the correct response to terminal illness. but you can’t do that if your healthcare is tied to your job

[hollowboobtheory]

listen if somebody knows that they will be dead in a years time, and you are forcing them to continue to come into work, that’s fucked up. terminally ill people should be able to quit their jobs and live their last few months to the fullest. i don’t get how that’s a controversial opinion

[sabaeh]

writing sci fi is fucking exhausting bc i have a whole degree in aerospace systems now so my brain simply Will Not let me write a scene without doing the setting justice

[sabaeh]

me: they land on a planet

the part of my brain that remembers my airspace control and orbit mechanics courses: this is a trading planet so it would be high traffic, they’d be looking to avoid congestion. so they’d probably start in a graveyard orbit, assuming there’s some kind of air traffic control network in geostationary, and then it’d be a series of transfers down, they’d probably be waiting say eight hours for an appropriate transfer path? to they have any structures in low orbit? maybe an intercept and they just park in LEO? what happens if you don’t have standardised docking equipment? what if you need repairs? how about refuelling? what are they even using for fuel? would reusable/tradeable solar batteries work? could you park solar systems in geostationary for people just passing through? do they even need to land at all?

me: oh my fucking god get ON WITH IT

[saltysaph]

Yeah but the jixtaposition comedy of “oh you expected a Hollywood entrance? Yeah. Not until they call us back with our gate number.”

[bemusedlybespectacled]

this is why I can’t write courtroom dramas. or rather, I CAN write courtroom dramas but in a way that’s way more devoted to things like civil procedure than it is to attorneys giving dramatic speeches.

[martiallylaw]

Only time I've heard dramatic speeches in court IRL have been when an incompetent, boisterous lawyer is speaking on something unrelated to the law or facts at hand

[martiallylaw]

Y'all know what would solve many problems with inadequate rental assistance for unpaid rent accumulated during covid? Changing the bankruptcy rules so that the amount of unpaid rent would not have to deposited with the court and discharging it