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Michael Elizondo @elidelajandro.bsky.social · 1h

It's not being a doomer to point out what is right under your nose.

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Michael Elizondo @elidelajandro.bsky.social · 1h

(Plus, I'm still avoiding it like the plague and I can't be asked to schlep back and forth to LA...plus feels like an academic wishcasting exercise ala 2021.)

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Michael Elizondo @elidelajandro.bsky.social · 1h

Dodgers World Series ticket presale went live about twenty minutes ago. (Feels more like an academic question than anything else at the moment.) Get in the door price was about a grand for G7, which is way than the three bills paid for last year's G7. The earlier games? ~$800.

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Chernobyl: Not Great, Not Terrible Quote

Alt: Chernobyl: Not Great, Not Terrible Quote

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.

Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);

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Michael Elizondo @elidelajandro.bsky.social · 15h

Even got the card from Rick Monday and everything

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My written Japanese is terrible. So there I have help. Speaking: I'm better than a tourist but don't ask me for concepts outside of travel. Reading/writing: Basically illiterate without help. I can recognize characters and words here and there but yeah...

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(You idiot. How selfish are you? Do you not have a mirror? Watching you fail is difficult. If no one else will the you the truth, I will.) --- I wrote at like 3 am today that me being consistently right about this malpractice was like beating a dead horse. Except the horse claims he's not dead.

このバカ。どれだけ自己中心的なのですか？鏡がありませんか？あなたが失敗するのを見るのはつらいです。誰もあなたに真実を話さないなら、私が話します。 [kono baka doredake jiko chūshin'tekinanodesuka kyōga arimasen'ka anataga shippaisurunoo mirunowa tsuraidesu daremo anatani shin'jitsuo hanasanainara watashiga hanashimasu]

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 18h

I wrote like a paragraph in Japanese out of sheer annoyance.

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Ah, the great @saletan.bsky.social already caught this insane propaganda.

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May you lose this week's trivia by tiebreaker and/or pun. That said, hi. :)

Oh okay. But I was being literal, there was a skeet in the middle I couldn't see.

I'm missing something in the middle.

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Mr. Burns Wins the Inanimate Carbon Rod Award

Baka. MJE at 4 am today: The only wrong move is to do nothing. The Dodgers: I show you inanimate! --- The malpractice continues for at least 48 more hours. I'd be mad but I already did my bit for King and Country.

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Alt: Mr. Burns Wins the Inanimate Carbon Rod Award

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That's not an actual person. That's AI. Right? ...right? RIGHT?!?

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Did you know that Chris Taylor apparently had a double locker in the 2024 World Series? I sure as heck didn't. On a totally unrelated note, I need to find a 12 x 48 picture frame now.

Michael Elizondo @elidelajandro.bsky.social · 21h

We salute you, you glorious Rube.

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Michael Elizondo @elidelajandro.bsky.social · 21h

Or being bitten by a lion. I have spent the last two years learning about the myth of a man, this proto-Kiké Hernandez.

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Michael Elizondo @elidelajandro.bsky.social · 22h

There's also a White Sox joke here, @jacki.bsky.social but I'm too classy to make it. Using him up like the Green Ranger...you know, the Green Ranger dies in the original source material. So does the original pilot of the Blue Lion in GoLion.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 22h

STOP LETTING JD VANCE MEET POPES

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Makenna @makfmartin.bsky.social · 22h

i will be posting/contacting the raffle winners + my thank you for everyone’s donations for #bracketszn26 TOMORROW night, so watch out for that! 🩵

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Michael Elizondo @elidelajandro.bsky.social · 23h

I was 12 years old on my school's annual science trip for sixth grade. I was mixing the dressing into a salad for the table while trying to bring up the recent Oklahoma City bombing in conversation. I had multiple confused, frightened stares back at me. I realized "...oh. I'm scaring them..."

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Michael Elizondo @elidelajandro.bsky.social · 23h

It's a weird thing to realize that I was present for his last regular season homers in 25 and 26.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026

Mike Johnson threatens us with a good time: "If this group took over, they would turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body. They'd spend every day investigating the president, the first family, the cabinet, donors to the party, leaders of business ... "

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If and when Dems are able to take back power, I cannot tell you how much any question about the debt or deficit needs to be met with loud mockery and extreme derision. Just an aggressive, ‘Oh NOW you care about the debt? GTFOH.’ Over and over and over again.

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Michael Elizondo @elidelajandro.bsky.social · 23h

This Skeet is an adventure in itself.

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"Le Chonk" @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 13/10/2026

this is not a take on whether the Dodgers can come back and win this series or the next one, but on the off chance it happens, please remember how it feels right now, in this moment, when people then say "no one else ever had a chance"

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Michael Elizondo @elidelajandro.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Couldn't tell you anything about the movie other than the title. I don't like scary stuff.

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Michael Elizondo @elidelajandro.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

That's where my mind instantly went and I abhor horror movies. 🙈

Michael Elizondo @elidelajandro.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Joe Davis famously said last year that to beat the champs, you gotta knock em out. The defending champs got their bell rung in Milwaukee and were in a standing eight count after Game 2. As they return to their corner before Round 3, we reflect on the hole the Dodgers have dug for themselves.

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Dodgers in a standing eight-count

The Dodgers have backed themselves into a corner: win at least two of the next three games or the title defense ends.

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Michael Elizondo @elidelajandro.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I was thinking you'd go the horror route and here you are trimming your way to a different joke.

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Michael Elizondo @elidelajandro.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's the hell we deserve. The hipsters can make oat drink out of Tampa / Milwaukee. Not MKE/CLE. 😬