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Contingency Fee

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still a plaintiffs' attorney. nerd. ttrpg and video game enjoyer. occasional karaoke singer. he/him.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh we're going to require the theaters to have an intermission for sure
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I should buy a lottery ticket
This film is not real. It is the output of a game. The title, description, cast, crew, rating, quotes, and scores are all invented.
He sold salvation. Now he's buying revenge.
False Prophets

A dying fraud preacher, Clint Eastwood, comes out of hiding to destroy the televangelist, Al Pacino, who murdered his partner and built a billion-dollar ministry on the corpse. With his old forger, Morgan Freeman, and a bankrupt IRS investigator, Stanley Tucci, he stages a fake stigmata, a fake miracle, a fake confession — every con calibrated to make the righteous man commit one public, unforgivable sin on his own altar. The problem: forgiveness is the only grift Eastwood's character never learned.
Clint Eastwood · Al Pacino · Morgan Freeman · Stanley Tucci
a Martin Scorsese film

R
for strong violence, pervasive language and brief grisly images
Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian
“That's not a real church!”
r/movies user
“A three-hour sermon that earns every minute; Eastwood has never been colder, or funnier.”
Critic Review
Domestic box office
$325M
Critic score
99/100


“Marty shot the healing tent in an actual revival tent, in August, with two thousand real believers who didn't know it was a picture. When Clint raised his hand over that woman, people wept in the aisles — and we kept rolling. That footage is in the film.”
Producer’s Acceptance Speech
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If I were in this administration I'd think long and hard about whether I wanted to set a precedent for livestreaming executions. [˙ǝuo ɥɔıɥʍ ʍouʞ no⅄ ˙pǝʇʇıɯo ıuılossnW oʇıuǝᙠ ɟo ǝɹnʇɔıԀ]
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 08/10/2026
Anyway, this is also why don't need to voluntarily run anti-trans ads for no reason.
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Like, so many of them
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Me, once a day: We gotta put a lot of these people in prison
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 07/10/2026
And this is why she should have stayed in jail www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Journalists keep wanting the story to be "normal working class centrist has questions," not "our country is currently dominated by stupid people in a right wing echo chamber."
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"South Korea has already run the experiment. Its law requires the National Assembly to vote on presidential impeachment by anonymous ballot, and that rule has now removed two presidents." [@andycraig.bsky.social]
theunpopulist.net
A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Zero juice
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Grokholm Syndrome
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I wanna see Woke 2 with a Vengeance so bad
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW AD: Are you a data center company looking to take over rural Texas? Are you a crime-loving millionaire looking to throw the FBI off your scent? Are you a child predator looking to get out of jail after just 1 day? Call 844-WHOS-KEN to hear what Ken Paxton can do for you!
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Please, for the love of God, can the media stop calling random cranks who write fan fiction about their personal heroes in the past "historians."
Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide turned Watergate historian and revisionist, recently gave a two-hour presentation at Justice Department headquarters that laid out his theory that the deep state took Nixon down. The title of his 78-page slide deck: “Watergate As Lawfare.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are profoundly fortunate that these are the best and brightest they've got.
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Sam Eagle: You Are All Weirdos
Alt: Sam Eagle: You Are All Weirdos
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/08/2026
This got me to finally read the entire New Yorker article on the Tates and... yeah. I don't see how what they're doing is any different than what everyone has accused Jeffrey Epstein of doing. Except they're *more public* about admitting to what they're doing AND getting young men to join in.
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Oh man what could this mean for the peace talks tomorrow
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It'd go like this:
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He Deserved It, Didn't He? (Spider-Man 3)
Alt: Peter Parker in Spider Man 3 says "He deserved it, didn't he?"
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Yes which is weird because if a dude broke my 2-year-old grandkid's collarbone I'd be giving a statement that night, through my attorney, from jail.
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I don't always realize how much being a parent has affected my worldview but every once in a while I read a sentence like "he fractured his two-year-old daughter's collarbone" and the rage hits like a truck.
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Scare-emy Haunt Wheels @kateneely.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
every website offering to let you set up a "passkey" by handing over your biometric info feels like someone standing in front of the ATM offering to help with your transaction
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It's perpetually in my cart but never purchased. Do you happen to know how it compares to GR 2 / Summit Strike? Those were my favorites way back in the day.
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Jeanine Pinot.
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Oh yeah I'm getting some very mild bouncing plus E-Street lore. it's a good time
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Every time. But mostly because I see my dad channel his 20 y.o self which is a treat
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Me every time I see Springsteen
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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Claude, my banker just called and told me I'm facing a "Margin Call." He sounded pretty upset. Please give me a one sentence summary of what that is and some tips for blocking his number from my phone so he doesn't stress me out anymore bsky.app/profile/stev...
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Trump has denied most disaster requests from Democratic-led states

A graph  showing Presidential approval rates for disaster requests from Democratic-led states and Republican-led states

Source: POLITICO's E&E News analysis of FEMA records
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Logan Lucky
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
And you may ask yourself: "why shouldn't I get a jumbo margarita while I wait for my to-go order?" And you may ask yourself: "where am I? how did I get here?"
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
If Biden had thrown Trump in the slammer we wouldn't be here. You can piss and moan all you want but J6 was history books shit and history books shit requires the President to do President shit. And he didn't. And now the guy who saved millions has to eat shit from a penis like Ron Johnson
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
minnesota state rep jess hanson rides elon musk for filth for trying to defend his pervy app: "when the richest man in the world hangs out with the epstein class... we cannot act surprised when he's trying to protect the number one tool used to make child sexual abuse material"
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Charlie Brown says he's going to kick the football so hard this time
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"That sign won't stop me because I can't read!"
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Finally saw Parasite. God damn, what a movie.
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Will anybody notice though?
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Arm the retail workers.
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Fight Club is up there.
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Contingency Fee @contingencyfee.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Wife and I are nearly done with Widow's Bay and it is incredible so far.
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waxmonkey @waxmonkey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I've been able to mostly avoid video ads so I haven't paid a lot of attention how they've changed but I had to use the device without any of that and I am now a single issue voter to destroy gambling holy shit
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