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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7h

Judge Sara Hill, N.D. Oklahoma, issued this decision on Thursday —>

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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 9h

It really is ethically ~strange when a party in a case does not have the intellectual capacity to listen to their own lawyer’s repeated instructions. In normal circumstances, ethically, I’d be absolutely free to talk to Tarzia directly. But… Tarzia and Coleman… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Email from Jeff Tarzia’s lawyer, confirming he had to go over the fact that he shouldn’t contact the opposing lawyer “again” with his client

Tweet from Jeff Tarzia, apparently after that conversation, doing it again.

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 13h

When they put the paw over the eyes

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 16h

The most charitable interpretation I can muster for this sentencing judge's effusive praise of a victim impact statement *in the form of an AI video of the murder victim* is the judge was reflecting the victim's family's emotional energy back to them But, man is this grotesque

coa1.azcourts.gov

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 17h

This is a good introduction to why the AI executives sound like they do. I should probably read Becker's book again. I didn't know all the names the first time through.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 16h

Was prepping for a public LOAC discussion next week, including on challenges to LOAC compliance. The challenge I cited as an example was sheer brazen disregard for LOAC, as exemplified by Russia. And now Zelenskyy underscores my point.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20h

Great encapsulation of conservatism. “Well I got mine so who cares what happened to anyone else?” bsky.app/profile/jord...

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 20h

Its always "our nation" when it comes to costs but never when it comes to profits.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20h

Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.

Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ET

As the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

After all, it is the thought that counts.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 01/10/2026

GUYS I MADE MY FIRST EVER COURTROOM SKETCH

Federal judge considers special prosecutor for Broadview Six case sketch art where I’m sitting behind the Broadview 6

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Noah Dahl @noahdahl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not laughing. He attacked a public servant, calling him a dirtbag, on the basis of a false accusation. He owes Jack Smith an apology and it's beyond stupid that elected dems aren't making a bigger issue of this.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 01/10/2026

The Christa Pike botched execution triggered an old 6th grade memory for me. We were learning how to debate that year, and my topic was death penalty (which is an insane thing for 12 year olds to debate now that I think about it). I was on the anti-death penalty side.

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Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Translation: Warsh will do something or has done something to re-affirm his loyalty to his liege, and the rest of us will suffer the consequences momentarily. Maladministration will continue until morale improves.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 01/10/2026

Jesus Christ.

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Single Female Lawyer @singlefemalelawyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

$2M from the public trough for out-of-state travel is wild

Since assuming office in 2015, Paxton left about 730 workdays blank on his official calendars and took over 275 out-of-state trips to places such as the California wine country, Caribbean resorts and European tourism hot spots. The travel cost Texas taxpayers a minimum of $1.9 million to cover expenses charged by his security detail, records show. It is unclear how Paxton has financed much of his portion of the travel.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On the Hegseth thing, I just stop every so often to sit in the disgust of a government official just casually tossing around slurs in a prepared speech

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Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Skynet will try harder next time.

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Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

John Yoo's continued professional existence is both baffling and rankling. Shameless sophistery deployed for moral depravity.

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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 01/10/2026

A former attorney coworker who’s a 2nd gen US citizen told me she carries her passport everywhere even though she doesn’t “look” Hispanic. She’s advised her parents, who have darker skin & a Spanish accent, to carry their naturalization documents w/ them everywhere. This is America.

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are multiple appeals pending that ask this same question. Interestingly, the justices picked a different case than requested by the Trump administration

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of the many horrific aspects of the death penalty is that states are not good at carrying out executions. Every time I post about this, someone responds by saying that it should be simple. But it’s not, and proponents of the death penalty need to own that.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

FIRE could go a long way to convince people that it’s a good faith organization by radically altering or better yet eliminating its rankings

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Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Aside from resentments about the GWOT (and all DoD had to do) and currently losing a war, this is "smells clean, it is clean" from my drill SGTs as appearance equaling results which is not how to think about what DoD does. Just telegraphs how strategically put to lunch the US is.

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Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Break out that subpoena power, I guess. I think I take a dim view of being able to say "nah" without some sort of good cause rationale.

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Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm v v curious to hear what legal ethics folks think about this DOJ judicial ethics complaint. As a total nonexpert, it seems nonfrivolous? Whether that's right on the merits--and what the consequence should be if violation(s) are found--feel like pretty important questions.

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DodgerFanLA @dodgerfanla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I appreciate chris’s reporting on death penalty cases because he accurately describes the states desire to “kill” someone. Hate the euphemisms that are often used Anyways abolish the death penalty

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Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Was thinking of something like Deadlands which had an introductory adventure or even old WHFRP and SLA Industries had intro adventures. Or good ole Food Fight in the Shadowrun GM screen. Really good in setting the tone and dipping the toes in mechanics for both sides.

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Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's an old episode of "Are You Afraid of the Dark" which has a house where a basement eats people, and one of the initial times attempts to use a creepy doll as a lure that reminds me of this mascot.

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

*Record Scratch* *Freeze Frame* “Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation…

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What do authoritarians do when they are about to lose an election? I survey the big picture before the midterms - and investigate the struggle between authoritarian escalation and democratic resilience since the Trumpists took power. My new piece, for @blaetter.bsky.social:

blaetter.de

Autoritäre Eskalation oder demokratische Erneuerung: Die USA vor den Midterms

Die bevorstehenden Zwischenwahlen in den USA am 3. November sind ein wichtiger Stresstest für die US-Demokratie. Vieles hängt davon ab, inwieweit die Amerikaner für ihre Republik und deren Regeln eins...

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m a historian who does political theory. Political theory is fundamental to debates over justice, and to the shape of actual policy in the past & present. It might seem abstract, but it’s interwoven in the law. Without theory, there is no science of politics. Justice is framed by human debates.

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In case you missed it. The problems with @scholasticalr.bsky.social. And perhaps ways Scholastica can fix them before someone else does.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can’t do student loan relief. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can’t help home owners. Can commit human rights abuses.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Once again, courts acting as the linchpin to the multiple-property-owning plutocracy.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is also one of those things where the fact that the GOP staffer class are now a bunch of subliterate degenerates instead of like avaricious Duke Law grads becomes a problem Even if you believe this dumb conspiracy theory, a Smith is just never actually going to perjure himself. Bad plan!

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Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One take away is that maybe Congress needs to bulk up CRS and have some degree of instutional experts under their aegis.

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thread. YMMV, but I see much more attention paid to engineering institutional fixes for the exec and judicial branches than for Congress, especially relative to const'l hurdles.

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally. The extent to which Trump’s own judicial appointees delayed Boasberg’s proceedings on Trump’s behalf, with very little basis for intervening at all (“very little” is generous), should be a scandal. Today’s hearing won’t end the nonsense, but it’s a step closer.

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Sean Satori @seansatori.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is the very central issue driving the country’s aberrant politics right now. Continuous lack of accountability going back to the Nixon era.

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Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elite impunity (and related accountability) is really a problem.

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Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Really no full bird left behind; Schlichter being there is just showing the Hegseth resegregation policy.

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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 29/09/2026

ffs, you’re a member of congress.

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🪧 The University of Toronto (St. George) is hiring in American Politics, with a focus on democracy in the United States. Please spread the word! I'm on the committee and am more than happy to answer questions. Full ad & details here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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Zoe Tongue @whiterxbbit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My book exists!

Photo of a cardboard box with books inside. The book is titled 'Recognising a Human Right to Abortion' by Zoe Tongue. The cover artwork features a blue background and a white abstract figure of a pregnant person, with pink details.

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