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Alyssa Leader
@alittleleader
public defender for kids and grown-ups | Cajun far from home | can guess your taylor swift era | she/her
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    Alyssa Leader
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    Apr 9, 2023
    As a public defender who has myself experienced childhood/young-adulthood trauma, I'm smacked in the face daily by the realization that the "resilience" I have spent my whole life being praised for is not much more than access to resources and a whole lot of grace.
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    Alyssa Leader
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    Jan 17, 2021
    When your position is both “People who can’t afford to go to college shouldn’t take out loans to do it” and “People who do jobs that don’t require a college degree shouldn’t be paid a living wage” it kind of starts to seem like you just want to keep poor people poor.
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    Alyssa Leader
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    Nov 21, 2019
    Y’ALL. I’m at the doctor and when I got on the scale the nurse said, “Are you okay with knowing the number on the scale or do you prefer not to?” !!!!!!! Every. Single. Medical. Professional. Should. Do. This.
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    Alyssa Leader
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    Jun 29, 2020
    With her velour sweatsuit, matching scrunchie, CD case, Godsmack, and B&BW body spray, this woman came straight from 2005 to save us from the anti-maskers. I would die for her.
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    bryanboy
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    Jun 28, 2020
    “And I’d do it again, bap bap bap bap”
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    Alyssa Leader
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    Aug 15, 2024
    I cannot stress enough how much this judge deserves to lose his job and ideally be subject to the same level of fear and ridicule in front of his peers.
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    Alyssa Leader
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    Aug 17, 2023
    Today at my office I ran into a guy with a service dog getting off the elevator, and the dog beelined STRAIGHT to my side. Me: Oh, he’s so sweet!!! Can he tell if people are stressed? Person: He’s a PTSD dog. Me: 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
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    Alyssa Leader
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    May 21, 2024
    Just walked to the grocery store at 10 PM and saw a disgruntled father walking out with his teen daughter, who was holding a tri-fold poster board and looked harried. Pray for this family.
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    Alyssa Leader
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    Feb 2, 2021
    AOC isn't going to read your comments minimizing her trauma and saying she's looking for attention. But all of the people in your life who have experienced trauma and want to know who around them is "safe" and reliable sure will!
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    Alyssa Leader
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    Jul 31, 2024
    I can’t express enough how much I love that Simone Biles stayed focused, took care of business, but did not forget to come back and take care of a hater as soon as she got her work squared away. May we ALL.
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    Alyssa Leader
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    Apr 19, 2024
    The only thing more mortifying than your ex writing a breakup album about you is your ex writing a breakup album that actually isn’t even about you. RIP Joe Alwyn, a man who wasn’t even eulogized at his own funeral.
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    Alyssa Leader
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    Oct 16, 2020
    I passed the bar exam. Seems like they’re gonna let me be an attorney.
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    Alyssa Leader
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    Sep 2, 2024
    One time a TSA agent yelled at me for trying to take my shoes off, as if I had just shown up and done some ridiculous and socially unthinkable thing as opposed to the thing I’ve been required to do every time I’ve flown since I was like 12 years old.
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    Alyssa Leader
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    Aug 23, 2025
    Not to “when I was a kid,” but when I was a kid we all had cell phones, many of them smart phones, and they were absolutely banned in class. That was a given and no big deal to anyone. Everyone lived. I am so confused about this discourse tbh.
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    Alyssa Leader
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    Oct 8, 2019
    If you have trouble believing that Elizabeth Warren experienced pregnancy discrimination because no one wrote down "Fired because pregnant," you are going to be floored when you learn about the experiences of.... any other human woman you know.