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From: AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
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Subject: The Rats Are Fleeing The Sinking Ship
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 06:02:03 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.


Brenna Trout Frey - Former Attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Mea... 
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Skadden Resignation

Today the executive partner of my former firm sent us all an "update" that attempted to convince some of the best minds in the 
legal profession that he did us a solid by capitulating to the Trump administration's demands for fealty and protection money.

Fellow Skadden attorneys: If you agree with Jeremy London's position that the firm should not engage in "illegal DEI 
discrimination," should devote prestigious Skadden Fellows to the Trump administration's pet projects, and should help 
"politically disenfranchised groups who have not historically received legal representation from major national law firms," 
(taking into account the robust pro bono work that major national law firms already do), then by all means continue working 
there.

But if that email struck you as a craven attempt to sacrifice the rule of law for self-preservation, I hope you do some soul-
searching over the weekend and join me in sending a message that this is unacceptable (in whatever way you can). As one of my 
more eloquent former colleagues put it: "Do not pretend that what is happening is normal or excusable. It isn"t."

There is only one acceptable response from attorneys to the Trump administration's demands: The rule of law matters. The rule of 
law matters. As an attorney, if my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for 
them.

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike 
of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into 
three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, 
as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting 
solely of hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything 
Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something 
nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received 
positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was 
a punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles 
Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people 
in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."