Lisa Lucas Talbot

mother | literary attorney + advisor | thoughtful eater | fmr Slow Food leader/governor | unrepentant bibliophile | Chicago girl, always

[Clint Fischer @clintwfischer]

Young farm couple asked for some tips on production contracts.

They're looking to raise broilers to expand their operation.

Here's 10 Basic Contract Rules:

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️ Hungarian Nobel laureate to donate prize money to Ukraine charity.

The Hungarian-born scientist Ferenc Krausz, one of the three joint winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded on Oct. 3, said he plans to donate the prize money to a charity he founded to help Ukraine.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Republicans should be forced to carry Kevin McCarthy to term, even if it endangers the life of the party.

[Lisa Lucas Talbot @snailwrangler]

@tobandyck @NYFarmer So glad your father got out in time.

[Richard Shimell @shimellprints]

I’ve finally printed some more of this magnificent old oak tree. The tree plate is printed on top of a colour background made with two other plates.

[Chicago Sun-Times @Suntimes]

Last year’s mild winter has led to a bumper crop of acorns this fall — all you have to do is look down.

https://t.co/Z9iwoIy5Cb

[John Hess @johnbhess]

Schoolchildren to get tips in spotting fake news & conspiracy theories on social media, in pilot lessons run by open source researchers @bellingcat ,its founder Eliot Higgins tells @UniofNottingham Media,Politics &Communication Research in Nottingham tonight. #verify

[Lisa Lucas Talbot @snailwrangler]

@OperativeXRay @TheRickWilson [sips coffee, narrowly avoids spit-take]

[Civil Eats @CivilEats]

"We made a strategic decision together that we were going to commit to no less than 50 percent of the food we grow remaining in Englewood." https://t.co/7A1eAcEmZv

[National Book Foundation @nationalbook]

An update on the host of the 2023 National Book Awards.

[Lynn Sweet @lynnsweet]

I am covering this morning - @SenatorDurbin Judiciary Committee Hearing on Book Bans. Illinois Secretary of State Giannoulias to testify on Illinois first-in-the-nation ban on book bans. Hearing room features covers of books banned through the years.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Emerging Republican consensus: having a drug-addicted child is an impeachable offense - but trying to mount a coup d'etat and overturn the Constitution by violence is not.

[Lisa Lucas Talbot @snailwrangler]

@OperativeXRay [sips coffee, purses lips; it’s not the coffee that’s bitter]

[The Authors Guild @AuthorsGuild]

Did you know that you can block OpenAI's web crawler from accessing their website? We've gathered some practical tips for authors to utilize so that they may protect their work from AI.

https://t.co/6PwAre6hFt

[The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters]

The Sonic Memorial Project began on @NPR after the events of 9/11. We came together—radio producers, ironworkers, traders, secretaries, policemen, firefighters, widows—to chronicle and commemorate the history of the World Trade Center and its neighborhood. https://t.co/474Fpbvr74

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

President Ford’s press secretary eloquently writes him to resign in protest over Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon, today 1974:

[Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads/Insta)🌻 @AWeissmann_]

The March 4 DC Trump trial date: Until 1936 it was the date on which presidential inaugurations were held. Lawmakers chose that date because it was the one on which, in 1789, the Constitution went into effect.

[@judgeluttig @judgeluttig]

The Fourteenth Amendment itself, in Section 3, answers the question whether disqualification is “anti-democratic,” declaring that it is not.  Rather, it is the conduct that gives rise to disqualification that is anti-democratic, per the command of the Constitution.

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

It’s becoming fashionable for commentators to say @judgeluttig and I are right as a matter of law but wrong as a matter of politics. But deciding selectively to “terminate” politically inconvenient parts of the Constitution is the surest path to democracy’s destruction.

[Lisa Lucas Talbot @snailwrangler]

@arealmofwonder Delayed response but had to put in a vote for B on principle