Ric Fouad
@ricfouad
Adjunct prof (legal ethics) Fordham Law & Temple Law (Tokyo Campus), attorney, child welfare advocate, Foster Care Alumni of America, Milton Hershey School alum (7YRS), expert on consequences of political violence for immediate family.
1/2 Because it’s getting lost in the noise, reminder that even longstanding Israeli apologist Theodor Meron supported ICC issuing arrest warrant for Netanyahu. Meron is venerated in Israeli legal circles, publicly defended occupation (while privately advising it was illegal),
Laura Loomer: Weapon of Mass Distraction. This peerless buffoon makes everything in the universe abt herself, the persecuted heroine of an epic story fighting sundry villains. She is absolutely perfect as Trump’s chief policy advisor.🤡🤡🤡
💯Remarkable piece. “This is ideological emigration. And you don't have to pity us; we're not refugees and we'll live well there [in Italy]. In Gaza and the West Bank there are refugees, and they're truly miserable."
But 20K dead Gaza children did not cross his red line? An ugly, odious ogre, his bigotry & cruelty are unspeakable. PA Democrats have been ill-served by those they elected, this monster & the smarmy Josh Shapiro, the whole party needs to be overhauled in that state, one w many true progressives.
This is so rich, irony is slapping its thighs ROFL: “The Trump administration says ‘weaponizing state bar discipline’ against executive branch lawyers could chill candid legal advice.” This, from Admin that’s declared open season on lawyers who displease it.🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Sam Neill captured ppl’s imagination, was a towering creative figure. But the role that most touched me was in Hunt For The Wilderpeople, had me choked up from opening scene. Rest in peace, legend.🙏🏾🌹❤️
For the love of God, put this man in a room cut off from all broadcast equipment, not in the NYT—he’s single-handedly darkened soccer game calling, enough already.
It’s tough to choose, but humility is probably Trump’s most admirable quality🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
We have a winner: the most dumbassed sports tweet of the century…🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Un-effing-believable: he survives the Taliban only to die at the hands of his US Gov allies, as part of our racist, deranged “plan” to try to deport 15M ppl, a logistical & legal impossibility. We are living in an insane asylum.
Only losers have given up on US WC dream. As Trump’s first phone call showed, *it’s not over till it’s over.* Lawyer SWAT teams shld file for injunction, creating “legal uncertainty.” Fans must storm FIFA HQ. Trump then makes second call: if Infantino shows courage, we can still win.🙏🏾
How are we supposed to get any work done this week? I posted my fall syllabus yesterday & got a tricky filing out—had to work on both all weekend too—but the whole time, felt constant centripetal pull of the TV, irresistible force…😅
5/ correction. In the face of all this, when I hear someone (w blatant financial & professional motives) “praising” Roberts or Barrett—while Thomas is smoking a cigar w his corporate patrons or Alito’s wife is raising an insurrection flag—I want to bang my head against the wall. Our nation is in a
Late to posting this, but the 250th called to mind for me Carl Sandburg’s “Threes.”
Yeah, Obama was great at speeches, among the best, had legions eating from palm of hand—& when speeches ended, was cosseting Wall St, droning innocent civilians, mugging it up w the Bushes, letting torturers walk, destroying Libya, & otherwise cruising towards summers of brunch on Martha’s Vineyard.
A swindler in the WH. Pls note that the $3.81B in losses suffered by Trump victims is essentially same as total losses suffered by Madoff victims—but give Trump & family time, still plenty of sucker money on the table, all plundered using every available instrument of government. Happy 250th!👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
WTF? This is Carnegie Foundation 2026 “Great Immigrants/Great Americans” ad. Notice any group missing?🤔
Argentina, be not proud: Cape Verde just played the WC game of the century. Mad respect.🫡
Vozinha is otherworldly, turning this WC game into Walt Disney movie, with help from Duarte & rest of these Cinderallas. Mercy.
1/2 Profile in Courage: Melat Kiros. I had forgotten that this was one of the young lawyers that several law firms punished. I remember at the time thinking how brave she was & how cravenly Sidley & Austin behaved. Kudos to her then & now—& thank you, Sidley, for helping send her to Congress.👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Listen to Rebecca Lowe shamelessly lament how “we lost Germany & now we’ve lost the Netherlands…” Imagine, even Alexi Lalas, a Trump supporter, rebukes her.
This is a “dividend?” We used to call such “enterprises” Ponzi schemes. There wld be rich irony in crypto bubble bursting just as Trump Admin falls apart, twin pillars of sand propping each other up but both collapsing. I shudder at dislocation this wld trigger—will be unlike any before.
1/2 WC can break your heart—Zidane baited by Materazzi in 2006 did. But this WC adds sheer disgust: letting bigoted war criminal US host games is reprehensible—of course it shaved enough off Iran performance to send them home. Rest of WC will be played in that shadow—& shame on all who said nothing.
Austrian player apparently believes American football rules are in effect, applies textbook NFL tackle to Algerian. #WorldCup2026 #Iran #Algeria #Austria
From which we shld also be banned. We’re as reprehensible as Russia & Israel, three hostis humanis, but powerful enough as a nation to impose will of minority of haters who call shots in our country. In a just world, our leaders—Dem & GQP—wld be tried at Hague, not preening at Olympics.