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le Pooch Noir

@eltiante.bsky.social
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Recently retired federal attorney. Droning on about politics & law, baseball, usage, etc. Please listen carefully as our menu options have changed

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026
Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...
Proposal	Favor or oppose
Favor	Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices	89	10
Limited terms for justices	79	21
Increase number of justices	53	47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🔥 @jumaane.bsky.social : “They’re going to try to make the gentleman they shot the worst human you’ve ever heard of… a father picking up his child was shot by a rogue agency controlled by Trump. That’s what occurred. He represents evil. He is doing the Devil’s work.” #AbolishICE
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Funny thing is, the tradition was for WS games to be day games for a surprisingly long time: the first WS night game was played in ‘71
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Soon the playoffs will start right after the all star break and involve 28 teams
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Gotta squeeze out every last primetime dime
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Little Girl's Autumn Tantrum
ALT: Little Girl's Autumn Tantrum
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Brazil Movie Terry Gilliam
ALT: Brazil Movie Terry Gilliam
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Andy’s always been a dick.”
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m so old I remember when invoking “the exercise of judgment” would’ve made originalists clutch their pearls so hard the string would break
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Jerry Seinfeld: That's a Shame
ALT: Jerry Seinfeld: That's a Shame
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Hate See
ALT: Hate See
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They are. That’s part of the savings.
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WILL SOMEONE THINK OF THE BIRDS
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Honestly, it was seeing news clips of a night Klan rally when I was five. I was a white kid living in a leafy suburb, but the images gave me nightmares for weeks
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is your periodic reminder that the unredacted #MuellerReport has never been publicly released
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Sure, I can’t stand the sight of him, you probably can’t either, but let’s look at the bigger picture”
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Different rules, silly
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sinclair Lewis wrote this in 1935. Prescient down to the bribe for votes, don’t-buy-Brazilian-bananas, even the random Capitalization
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Guess which one follows the Constitution?
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dune 3: You Can’t Unsee It
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“My dad told me to do it”
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I could think of a lot of names for what it is, but right now it’s probably best I keep it to myself
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Never forget who gave him the power over the FTC and every other formerly independent agency: SCOTUS
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“how you ever got to be a Senator from anywhere is beyond me”
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Your periodic reminder #everybodyneedstohearthis
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Somebody’s getting screamed at right now
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oceania is at war with Eastasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WTF
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Mill on the Flosser
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Keep digging, Doc
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
<immediately pulls up YouTube>
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
People would freak out if he looked like an adult
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
* checks watch*
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“style”
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes, great stuff PS John Rocker still exists?
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That’s what they meant by “we messed up” — they didn’t give enough
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yep pretty low energy
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If I’d seen this headline 15 years ago I’d have thought I was drunk
404Media headline reads “People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ah yes noted artiste Lee Greenwood
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When did he go insane??
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He refused to answer a direct question about whether humanity *ought* to survive
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yet again, in words neither of us foresaw a generation ago: I agree here 100% with @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social .
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fawn Brodie endured a shower of abuse for positing this half a century ago. Hell of a historian.
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“The very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires.” - Warren Burger
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
H2K
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I wouldn't believe it if he'd donned blackface and shuffled around saying "yassuh boss," and I don't believe it here
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
except maybe concealing it better....
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Joe Dimaggio
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le Pooch Noir @eltiante.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
they’re not “skeptics”
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