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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good to see all 12 are still alive in both worlds

A screenshot of the original post saying that there are 12 Counterpart fans, with exactly 24 replies

Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In the middle of a hurricane and the weather app says there’s only a 75% chance of rain. Not sure who to blame here, Apple or DOGE

Screenshot of a weather app, showing a 75%-80% chance of rain every hour. Below the forecast is a radar image showing a hurricane over Hawaii

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Once again, the majority doesn’t even *try* to explain away art I, §8, which gives Congress the power to:

To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It’s Close Encounters a second time. This is Palm Springs, after all.

Andy Samberg and Cristin Miloti stare at each other in the time loop movie Palm Springs

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

He’s keeping people far away from his, too

Episode 1 of The Americans, Matthew Rhys about to maim a guy who creeped on his daughter

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Maybe my fantasy league's proudest moment, when someone dropped Wenceel Perez

He's a guy on the Tigers
He's their fielder in right
Buy him up
Before he goes to your rival

Base to base, out in the heat
Stealings tough, so is hitting
They sit him down 'til he's cut from the team
Still for .1 he's got the skill to survive

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Came across it on my bookshelf!

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

It's just false. Here's some of the information at issue, as summarized by the district court. Hard to call 2 and 3 anything other than a list of 'list of Jews.'

The EEOC’s subpoena therefore seeks, among other things, (1) the names of employees who reported antisemitic harassment to Penn; (2) the Jewish-related organizations on campus and the private contact information (personal phone number, email address and mailing address) of the employee members in each organization; (3) the private contact information of employees in Penn’s Jewish Studies Program; (4) the private contact information of employees who participated in Penn’s March 2024 listening sessions on antisemitism; and (5) the private contact information of employees who received a Penn survey on antisemitism. (Subpoena No. PA 25-07 at 5–7.)

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I dunno, little weirdo gremlins don’t always play well with critics

Image from Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Three adorably grimy gremlins are about to garrote film critic Leonard Maltin with a film reel.

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

He's so good at that kind of snowballing delivery

Still from "The Good Place": an academic looking shocked says "Oh, okay, sure. What I was saying, um, before, you know ... I saw the TIME KNIFE"

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I don’t know what you’re talking about, Lou Wilson INVENTED Reese’s

Promo image for Worlds Beyond Number’s “Hint,” using cards that look like they’re from the board game Clue. One of them depicts Lou Wilson as Professor Arnold Plumb.

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Fact-check: true, though not for the reason he’s implying

“In a wide-ranging interview, he also said… that his six-year-old son will never be better than an AI at academic work such as writing an essay or doing a maths exam.” (Math is spelled with an s because it’s an article from the Guardian, a British publication.)

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

My prediction on the tariffs case, FWIW.

September 4, 2025 skeets from Jeff Dubner:

“I see it a little differently. The tariff case is the one place I think they’ll see their interests aligning in favor of an injunction. It’s the preference of the corporate wing Roberts and Gorsuch came from; it lets them seem independent from Trump; it saves Trump from himself; and it’s an opportunity to expand the erstwhile anti-regulatory project of the MQD/NDD. (And hoo boy is it illegal.) So I don’t read this one as much of a bellwether.”

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Judge: And why is it a trick question? Balko: ‘Cause Subway didn’t make a meatball sub in 2017. The meatball sub didn’t come out ‘til 2021. And it wasn’t offered on toasted whole wheat until 2025. However, in 2025, the correct quality would be “four degrees below mediocre.”

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

If he turns it into this then maybe we can talk

The “are we the baddies” meme: an anxious man in a Nazi uniform, with the totenkopf skill on his cap.

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Right. Here's what NRA is seeking -- damages and injunctive relief.

a. Declaring, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2201, that Defendants have violated the NRA’s
rights to free speech, due process, and equal protection under both the Federal and New York
Constitutions;
b. Granting a preliminary and permanent injunction, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1651 (a),
42 U.S.C. § 1983, and Rule 65 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, ordering DFS, its agents,
representatives, employees and servants and all persons and entities in concert or participation with
it, Cuomo (in his official capacity), and Vullo (in her official capacity):
(1) to immediately cease and refrain from engaging in any conduct or activity
which has the purpose or effect of interfering with the NRA’s exercise of
the rights afforded to it under the First and Second Amendment to the
United States Constitution and Section 8 to the New York Constitution;
(2) to immediately cease and refrain from engaging in any conduct or activity
which has the purpose or effect of interfering with, terminating, or
diminishing any of the NRA’s contracts and/or business relationships with
any organizations;
(3) to immediately cease and refrain from further selective enforcement of the
Insurance Laws to the NRA endorsed policies; and
(4) to enjoin or preclude the enforcement of the provisions of the Lockton and
Chubb Consent Orders purporting to prohibit Lockton and Chubb from
doing business with the NRA;

b. Granting such other injunctive relief to which the NRA is entitled;
c. Awarding the NRA actual damages, including compensatory and consequential
damages, in an amount to be determined at trial;
d. Awarding the NRA exemplary or punitive damages;
e. Awarding the NRA pre-judgment and post-judgment interest at the highest lawful
rates;
f. Awarding the NRA such costs and disbursement as are incurred in prosecuting this
action, including reasonable attorneys’ and experts’ fees; and
g. Granting the NRA such other and further relief as this Court deems just and proper

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

my All-Remy team. Pity that Arquimedes Pozo was too early and Kyle Schwarber too late.

A grid of nine baseball players: Manny Declarmen, Hipolito Pichardo, Kelly Shoppach, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Kevin Millar, Paxton Crawford, Xander Bogaerts, Ryan Lavarnway, Hideki Okajima

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

You might be thinking of Liggett v. Lee, which struck down Florida’s anti-chain store law. Brandeis’s dissent is remarkable - all about the “Frankenstein monster which states have created by their corporation laws.” @thesituationist.bsky.social may have more thoughts on this…

“The prevalence of the corporation in America has led men of this generation to act, at times, as if the privilege of doing business in corporate form were inherent in the citizen, and has led them to accept the evils attendant upon the free and unrestricted use of the corporate mechanism as if these evils were the inescapable price of civilized life, and, hence to be borne with resignation. Throughout the greater part of our history, a different view prevailed. Although the value of this instrumentality in commerce and industry was fully recognized, incorporation for business was commonly denied long after it had been freely granted for religious, educational, and charitable purposes. It was denied because of fear. Fear of encroachment upon the liberties and opportunities of the individual. Fear of the subjection of labor to capital. Fear of monopoly. Fear that the absorption of capital by corporations, and their perpetual life, might bring evils similar to those which attended mortmain.”

“Able, discerning scholars have pictured for us the economic and social results of thus removing all limitations upon the size and activities of business corporations and of vesting in their managers vast powers once exercised by stockholders -- results not designed by the states and long unsuspected. They show that size alone gives to giant corporations a social significance not attached ordinarily to smaller units of private enterprise. Through size, corporations, once merely an efficient tool employed by individuals in the conduct of private business, have become an institution -- an institution which has brought such concentration of economic power that so-called private corporations are sometimes able to dominate the state. The typical business corporation of the last century, owned by a small group of individuals, managed by their owners, and limited in size by their personal wealth, is…”

“… being supplanted by huge concerns in which the lives of tens or hundreds of thousands of employees and the property of tens or hundreds of thousands of investors are subjected, through the corporate mechanism, to the control of a few men. Ownership has been separated from control, and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power. And, as ownership of the shares is becoming continually more dispersed, the power which formerly accompanied ownership is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few. The changes thereby wrought in the lives of the workers, of the owners, and of the general public are so fundamental and far-reaching as to lead these scholars to compare the evolving "corporate system" with the feudal system, and to lead other men of insight and experience to assert that this "master institution of civilized life" is committing it to the rule of a plutocracy.”

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The same is true for organizations that represent individuals through associational standing. Here’s how the Northern District of California summarized the state of the law in Vietnam Veterans of America v. CIA, 288 F.R.D. 192, 204 (N.D. Cal. 2012):

"many courts have held that organizations with associational standing may serve as class representatives, at least where the underlying purpose of the organization is to represent the interests of the class"

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Here’s @stevevladeck.bsky.social: www.stevevladeck.com/p/162-what-d...

"states (and organizations like CASA) can't be class-action plaintiffs (the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure that authorizes class-wide relief requires the plaintiffs to be persons)"

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