Kate

[Kate @kateelldee]

I’m so glad my episode came out this week, before the bar. I hope that hearing my experience helps someone who is in the place that I was at this time last year. It was really empowering and moving to have this conversation with @YouAreA_Lawyer and to be able to share it now.

[You Are A Lawyer Podcast @YouAreA_Lawyer]

Does the bar exam affect your mental health? Is there power in withdrawing from a bar exam? Yes and YES!

@kateelldee explains why you must trust yourself & your decisions. Listen here:

https://t.co/KCAw4A8XlT

[Kate @kateelldee]

@NUSL A supervisor told me as a legal intern at the start of covid, "We get into this work bc we care about people. That has to include ourselves." So I also want to thank myself for having the self-knowledge & self-love to know when it was time to stop & when it was time to try again.

[Kate @kateelldee]

Five years after graduating from @NUSL, today I was sworn in as an attorney.

I'm not on here anymore but in case there is still anyone around from this tweet, I have thought often of the solidarity, vulnerability, and humanity shared with me at a time that was so hard. 1/8

[Kate @kateelldee]

I did not pass the bar exam. This has been the most painful year of my life. I don’t really have anything else to say.

[Kate @kateelldee]

@NUSL I want to thank my family and friends who believed in me when I didn't believe in myself, and the faculty and staff at NUSL who encouraged me in my first year out of law school when I felt so scared and adrift. 7/8

[antonio musto @deepcutiqtibas]

Lessons from a cat

"In the time of the shaykh, some plaster was laid out, perhaps in the mosque for some construction. A black cat approached and rolled itself in the plaster until its color turned white.

Then, it laid in wait for some sparrows, its black color no longer...

[Kate @kateelldee]

@jessicamalaty But at least two of the five people in this image aren’t wearing masks. And attendees seem not to be in other pics of the conference as well. A bit mind boggling to see the cognitive dissonance.

[Kate @kateelldee]

Another lightning speed turnaround of a stroke of genius from @deepcutiqtibas

[antonio musto @deepcutiqtibas]

added root dictionary to ishtiqāq (preliminary), cleaned up UI, added lane's lexicon and hava, and added user guide. you can look up arabic roots and full words w/ wildcards. hopefully this will be a helpful tool!

if anything is broken, lmk and will fix!

https://t.co/bGWoNuRfbK

[Kate @kateelldee]

Fordham admin have yet to reach the sensorimotor stage of development it seems

[katie smith @probablyreadit]

NOW: Staff are now putting up tarps to cover the windows surrounding the encampment at Fordham

[Kate @kateelldee]

@DrDGrossman Thank you for this!!!!!!!!

[Kate @kateelldee]

Always a pleasure to read @deepcutiqtibas’s work and learn about something that would never otherwise cross my path.

[Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta @alusuralwusta]

New article alert!

UW returns to Abbasid Baghdad, this time to the persecution of Sufis in the 3rd/9th & 4th/10th centuries. @deepcutiqtibas analyzes narratives of the Inquisition (miḥna) of Ghulām Khalīl and examines the role of these accounts in the texts of later Sufis

[David Klion @DavidKlion]

For @nplusonemag, I wrote about how we're living through the post-9/11 period all over again, in all the worst ways https://t.co/bcPkardnIz

[Kate @kateelldee]

God hates narcs

[antonio musto @deepcutiqtibas]

ok, this is like the best origin story for why dogs and cats hate each other, and it goes back to noah's ark. it's a bit of a long one, but worth the read:

"what's the reason that dogs, when they have sex, don't cry out, but cats do?

the reason behind this...

[Kate @kateelldee]

I have been checked out of twitter and bar stuff for awhile but LMAO FORTY PERCENT. Complete fucking joke.

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

Every couple years the NY Board of Law Examiners decides, for some reason, to release scores around midnight. Seems this was one of those years.

Pass rate 40%, down from 45% in February 2022.

[Kate @kateelldee]

@SonyaHerridge I relate to this. This is not advice, but I failed once and withdrew once and am now taking some time away - maybe I will return, idk! I am finding my way and you will too, even if it takes longer or looks different. You are not alone even though we are made to feel like we are.

[Garnet Henderson garnethenderson.com on Bluesky @garnethenderson]

Fellow journalists, it is terrifying enough to need an abortion in this climate. I am begging you not to make things worse by spreading misinformation