An angry mob of Simpsons townspeople, marching through the streets with flaming torches in hand, adorns the cover of a new lawyer-created Facebook group about the Harris County District Clerk’s Office.

The group, called “HCDC—We’re Not Going to Take It!,” sprang up overnight and gathered more than 200 members during a brief time from Thursday evening to Friday morning. Houston attorney Scott Rothenberg created the group because around 5 p.m. on Thursday, an administrator of the clerk’s office official page for lawyers, “Harris County District Clerk’s Legal Community Connection,” started prohibiting attorneys from writing new entries and commenting on existing posts. The change was short-lived, though. As of Friday morning, the settings were back to normal.

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