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Dan Canon

@dancanon.bsky.social
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Civil rights lawyer & law prof. Past: won a big case at SCOTUS, wrote a book called PLEADING OUT, was a hired-gun guitarist in a million bands. Present: Externships & civ pro, studies election violence, writes appeals, raises kids. He/him. Fascism is bad.

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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is wild. I'm an only child and I don't understand sibling dynamics, but I have 3 kids and I would be mortified if they all thought one was my favorite.
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I would be fine with it if my feed were 100% Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman outtakes
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: Statement from Christa Pike's lawyers: ”Tonight the State of Tennessee once again failed to carry out a lawful execution. ... Christa is being treated at a nearby hospital. We have not been informed as to her condition.” www.lawdork.com/p/the-big-pr...
Statement from Christa Pike's attorneys Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason from the TN
Office of the Post Conviction Defender, and Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen from Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee
Tonight the State of Tennessee once again failed to carry out a lawful execution. We take no pleasure in being right, but the concerns raised by Ms. Pike proved to be true: difficult vein access, blown veins, degraded pentobarbital, no emergency medical care available when things inevitably go wrong, all under a protocol that remains veiled in secrecy.
Christa is being treated at a nearby hospital. We have not been informed as to her condition.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Attention: I no longer wish to be restrained by place, time, or resources. If you are one of the people or entities trying to do this to me, you're on notice.
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
В этом дерьме полно бога!
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
All you fascists still bound to lose
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I give advice for a living and I am here to advise as follows: if you're thinking of paying extra for a hotel because you have a virtual hearing and you think the higher price means better wifi, your wifi will suck no matter what and you should just do the cheaper room. Like and subscribe for more
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
into the light of a dark black night
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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 12/09/2026
Hard to beat "it's a [racist] scam" as a baseline assumption, from policing text to police tech.
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Few things are as gratifying as successfully navigating public transportation in a totally unfamiliar city
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Putting my bag down in a spilled pint of Guinness at the Dublin airport is not doing anything to quell my Truman Show-related suspicions, I can tell you that much
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Oh my dear lord
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Sic semper fatui
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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The mother of a USNA midshipman was detained by ICE AT HER GREEN CARD INTERVIEW and is now being held in a concentration camp and I find it insane that people don’t understand how THAT is a bigger national security threat than any undocumented immigrant.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
More brain drain: “Twenty-one universities in Canada announced on Thursday the hiring of dozens of researchers to join their top academic ranks, poaching the majority of the recruits from the United States. Of the incoming 64 researchers, 48 will leave American campuses…”
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Canada Hires U.S. Scholars From Harvard and Other Top Universities (Gift Article)
A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.
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Jay Bullock, cyclic vomiter @folkbum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“For sale: human decency, never used.”
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Had he renamed it "Lake Dolly" we'd have a real dilemma on our hands
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Looks like your number's up if you're exactly 80 years old ... ... ... (Ahem) ... I SAID
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
[me, texting a group of lawyers who have long since given up on social media] hey did you guys see that Spider-Man beat up a nazi in Minneapolis
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Just another day in American higher education
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Entrepreneurs: if my town had a late-night library/bar, I would spend all of my money there. All of it.
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Oh come on
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The stuff that's going to come out about this guy when he finally dies is going to melt even the most durable brains
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I have conducted an informal survey and I have concluded that everyone is broke as fuck
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Citizen Snippy △ @citizensnippy.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
85 years ago, Charlie Chaplin delivered his famous speech at the end of his first film with dialogue - The Great Dictator. He spoke these timeless words as Nazis rose to power, and the drums of war beat in Europe, echoing across the world. As relevant, and necessary to hear, today as ever #Resist
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Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator
YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I would say that domestically trump has not consolidated authoritarianism to the extent his worst critics feared, but in foreign policy his record has been exponentially worse than anyone was talking about, short of actual nuclear war. (still a possibility!)
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Stop making me choose between kidney beans and kidney cancer.
Stop making me choose between the radical left and the radical right
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
It's like me trying to speak French. Except I am not TRYING to say stupid shit
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The people in my small island community are VERY excited about the new Quiznos and I'm thinking of writing a Broadway musical about it
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
When this era of extreme xenophobic stupidity is over, I hope that we can rethink what it means to be a free human being on a big, beautiful planet, and that our kids wonder why we ever made it so damn complicated for ourselves to move from place to place.
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I'm going to guess that the worst thing Anthony Fauci has ever done *in his entire life* is: keep a diary on a government computer. He should be held accountable for that.
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"You know, defamation of character is also an investigative offense" -- a thing I just read online that is giving me a very slow-moving brain aneurysm
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I can assure you that it's not
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
At some point in the not-so-distant past, someone told this moron that EVERY public comment has to refer back to an "enemy" group of some kind. That idea alone has managed to take root in his demented brain, all logic and rationality be damned.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just a heads up that it costs a minimum of $500 to leave your house
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
OSSOFF: “.. Isn’t it humiliating to be unable to answer this question? To have to indulge the President’s delusions?”
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
These statements getting lazier over time is the predictable result of them not facing consequences for their previous murders. Why would they make up some convoluted reasoning to explain themselves? They don't have to
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The reason why ICE agents continue to shoot people is because nothing ever happens to them when they do. They essentially have been granted full immunity for whatever they choose to do to people by a lawless regime of thugs.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The feds just made it official: They won't fight a bid by members of the "Broadview 6" for attorneys' fees. They do "not concede that the United States has acted or done anything to warrant those fees." They also say there should be no discovery. Full filing: cst.brightspotcdn.com/dc/d1/e34a37...
I. Hyde Amendment Motion
Discussion
The Hyde Amendment motions are not ripe for decision and may never be. The United States does not intend to contest defendants’ entitlement to reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs in this matter as permitted by statute. (To be clear, the United States’ litigation decision not to challenge the defendant’s entitlement to fees, like in any typical settlement, does not concede that the United States has acted or done anything to warrant those fees.) The parties are currently attempting to work out the amount of recoverable fees and expenses. This court should take defendants’ Hyde Amendment motions under advisement while the parties attempt to amicably resolve this civil issue in good faith. The United States received the last of the former defendants’ fee submissions the day before this response was being filed, so the parties are now in a position to negotiate.
II. Discovery
Discovery related to defendants’ Hyde Amendment motions is not warranted under the circumstances of this case nor under applicable law. Defendants sought discovery, in their own words, to give them the “opportunity to demonstrate the bad faith, vexatious, and/or frivolous nature of this misguided prosecution.” Dkt. 206. But they will not be required to make that showing, so there is no reason or basis under the statute or otherwise to conduct that discovery.
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A guiding principle can be observed here: Whatever the wrong call is, the DNC will make it. I am sure it's more complex than that but it's hard to interpret the last decade or so any other way.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/07/2026
let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election
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Cascadia(PNW) @cascadiarevolting.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
There has been a massive uptick in ICE kidnappings in Washington State. We know why. Researchers at The University of Washington have been tracking these illegal kidnappings and the data that is helping ICE surveil and stalk people. This data is being shared with the feds. Mostly by local cops.
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I was not fully equipped to enter this phase of my life. Or any phase before, come to think of it
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Ha! Things that were better attended than Trump’s Great American State Fair this weekend include Minneapolis’ annual Cat Tour, Iran’s World Cup match in Seattle Friday night, and NYC’s Dyke March. Boom from @lebassett.bsky.social (No offense to cats 😹) open.substack.com/pub/laurabas...
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No one showed up to the Great American State Fair except a masturbating Uncle Sam
A MAGA livestreamer dressed in patriotic garb was arrested for lewd acts on an empty lawn.
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Is it clearly established under the Fourth Amendment that cops can't shoot someone for touching water in this particular public monument? You already know the answer
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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Me, a guy from the US: wow 40 seems really low for summer, but then I remember they're in a different hemisphere, makes sense now
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