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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Not hearing much from the Sound of Freedom crowd about this child trafficking operation, are we

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Ugh 🏴‍☠️👻🏴‍☠️ @ajaxatax.bsky.social · 22h

I think work from home is a big factor. Almost everyone masks or performs to some degree in life, but a lot of people finally had experiential proof of how much better they felt not having to do 9 straight hours of masking.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 9h

I would have been so starstruck

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 9h

JD Vance had the boorish manners of a Yalie!

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 9h

Bitch status tbd when the stars play the wings

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 11h

They play ice hockey? I’ve never seen evidence.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Republicans Don’t Know Ball Update: A hockey blogger asked the two Michigan Senate candidates for statements on the Red Wings. Rogers: blah blah Michigan loves the Red Wings El-Sayed: angry rant about how the cheap owners MUST pay Detroit’s young star defenseman octopusthrower.com/what-each-mi...

"Hockeytown, USA will always be a coveted destination for the world's top players,"
Rogers said. "The Detroit Red Wings boast one of the league's most storied and respected histories, dating back to their days as one of the Original Six franchises.
Few professional organizations can match the tradition, legacy and rpestige that define this iconic franchise. GO WINGS!"

"I was at the game when Darren McCarty took on Claude Lemieux," El-Sayed said.
"The '97 and '98 Stanley Cup championships are still highlights of my childhood. The teams the last few years have been a far cry from the Wings I came to love as a kid. They're stacking losing season on losing season, yet the llitch family's wealth has done nothing but grow.
Michiganders are sick of sky-high ticket and concession prices buying them nothing but disappointment.

"The team holding out on Simon Edvinsson is just the latest example in a long series of ownership prioritizing their bottom line over the team and the fans. Our teams aren't just assets for billionaires, they're part of our culture and heritage. Hockeytown deserves better."

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 14h

That many years after graduation

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 14h

A group of businessmen made a deal with charismatic TV preachers to seize political power by manipulating the stupid and venal but then the monster got free from their tenuous control

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 15h

YOU WILL ENJOY PAYING MORE AS WE PAY OFF THE BANKS AND YOU WILL ENJOY IT

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 22h

I know I'm a broken record on this, but one part of what is going on is that people have literally no idea what the US immigration system actually is; effectively, that there are no pathways into the country legally for someone who wants to wait in line.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 15h

You can’t avoid the race to the bottom. You win what gains you can while you can while running the race.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 17h

@stevevladeck.bsky.social is hosting a discussion on proposals/threats to expand the number of SCOTUS justices. I don't expect him to respond to a "large small" or "small medium" account like mine, and I have a point that I think should not be lost in the hundreds of post over there. So...thread!

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it's coup for my family @ghostesq.bsky.social · 16h

testing the limits of my "we should have diploma privilege for everyone" opinion

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 16h

“THE 1911 WUN TWO WURLD WURZ”

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 16h

In the US, If you are a graduate of a law school who has not passed a bar or been admitted to practice, I recommend you call yourself “___, JD” or nothing at all. You’re not a lawyer, an attorney (at law or otherwise) or an esquire. You’re just someone with a degree.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 16h

The US, by the constitution, does not permit titles of nobility. So we never had the tradition of making all lawyers minor gentry, but kept the tradition of Esq. signaling someone is a lawyer. These days it just makes you look like a prig.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 16h

It’s the same thing as “esquire.” Used to be in England to be a member of their legal society you had to be ennobled. So anyone who got his law degree would be conferred the absolute lowest rank of the nobility, an esquire.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 16h

Etymologically attorney means a personal representative. US law maintains this usage only in “power of attorney” or attorney-in-fact for someone with a power of attorney. The distinction between lawyer, counselor, and attorney-at-law has been collapsed in the US for centuries.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 16h

Some countries, like Australia, have a "split bar," where a solicitor can offer legal advice but only a barrister can represent clients before the tribunal. This is where the idea that there's a distinction between the two terms comes from. But the US has a unified bar, and there is no distinction.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 18h

If these frat boys were holding up "Stop The Genocide" signs on campus instead of raping women, universities would have expelled them and banned the frats already

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 19h

Also, they released a "number of people you referred" leaderboard last week and I am deeply amused I am #1 of all time and @hipcrimevocab.net is #3. We both have a lot of word nerd followers!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

i think it is fun when people write things that are just totally in tension with easily observable reality. like, this is “charlie brown had hoes” levels of nonsense: “in his first term Trump largely respected the cultural consensus of the Obama years.” www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

compactmag.com

How ‘Woke 1’ Radicalized the GOP

On May 30, 2020, five days after the death of George Floyd, the head of a prominent DC-area think tank issued a stentorian condemnation of the killing and the bigotry she said had enabled it.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 15/10/2026

“Oh no, the thing that has worked in Europe for decades will surely fail in the US.”

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 15/10/2026

How does one say honeypot in mandarin

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This is all disgusting. I've had people accuse me of using AI when I do shit like use an em-dash. I struggle to avoid yelling but HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES AND AT LEAST TWO BOOKS I WROTE have been scraped by OpenAI. I'm part of why your chatbots write the way they do. They're copying me.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 14/10/2026

Hey #LawSky, a client here in Texas just got served with an application for protective order filed in San Bernadino, CA. Who is the go-to for filing a special appearance in that jurisdiction? You can send replies to lhaygood at kusklaw dot com.

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

For those that also suffer from depression

DEPRESSION: So when you were going to work, running your household and doing everything else, no-one took you seriously when you said you were struggling with me.

ME: Right.

DEPRESSION: And then when you finally broke down and couldn't do anything except lie in bed, they still didn't take you seriously and just said "pull yourself together".

ME: Yeah.

DEPRESSION: That must've made you feel unbelievably s***.

ME: You think?

DEPRESSION: Anyway, tell everyone thanks for me. They make my job of terrorising you a whole lot easier.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 14/10/2026

She's not mocking it as "crazy fangirls and their headcannon" [sic]. That's other people.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 14/10/2026

Is it rare "ass porn" or "rare ass" porn

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 14/10/2026

well I got en banc rehearing granted, so I'm at least putting off losing, but it seems like the circuits are converging on a rule in favor of my client

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 14/10/2026

CourtListener doesn't have the en banc brief yet, but the cause number is 24-50564 in the 5th Circuit, styled "United States v. Peter Villa Cordova," for those interested. www.courtlistener.com/docket/73204...

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United States v. Cordova, 24-50564 - CourtListener.com

Docket for United States v. Cordova, 24-50564 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 14/10/2026

En banc briefs are fun! The printing costs for printing and serving 22 copies of said en banc brief was not. Owch.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 14/10/2026

I know the "imagine if Obama" thing is a tired old meme but seriously folks imagine if someone in Obama or HRC's orbit had similar ties.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 14/10/2026

Those interested in publishing can continue to do so; books will still be written, blogs and websites will still exist, but the journal system and its paid, gated access creating a walled garden in academia benefitted no one but the journal publishers and JSTOR.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 14/10/2026

I’d actually recommend we utilize conferences and symposia, the time-honored methods of the discipline, to present ideas, engage in debates and responses, and generate the materials that will be studied for the next century.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 14/10/2026

Peer review is a bad gate for quality so we lose nothing by losing referred or reviewed journals. Only time can sift the quality from the not-quality, and that’s ok.

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