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Senator Klobuchar sits roughly 30 feet from Senator Smith as the crow flies. The WNBA 3-point line is roughly 22 feet from the basket. This was a logo 3.

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One more for the list, @rgoodlaw.bsky.social: D.V.D. v. U.S. Dep't of Homeland Sec., No. 26-1212, 2026 WL 2797801, at *9 n.6 (1st Cir. Sept. 18, 2026).

In framing its jurisdictional challenge to the district court's FARRA/CAT ruling, DHS quotes § 2242(d) as stating that “no court shall have jurisdiction to review ... any ... determination made with respect to the application of [the FARRA/CAT] ... except as part of the review of a final order of removal.” These ellipses render the quotation materially inaccurate. Section 2242(d) in fact states that “no court shall have jurisdiction to review the regulations adopted to implement this section.” (emphasis added). Only after this underscored language does the statute state what we quote in the text. And the provision we quote in the text does not purport to oust courts of jurisdiction found elsewhere; it merely disclaims that it should serve as a source of jurisdiction. See Saint Fort v. Ashcroft, 329 F.3d 191, 201 (1st Cir. 2003).

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Horrifying, but could we please have units along the X-axis, BBC?

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We're gonna hurry up and decide this case, but in the meantime we insist that the government spend Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's dumping people in countries they've never known in violation of the UN Convention Against Torture.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For the record, I have never seen the Atlanta Hawks either.

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Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The lawyer who insisted on this provision deserves some sort of medal.

(b) Nothing in this section requires the alteration of previously issued regulations, Presidential actions, contracts, grants, or other historical documents.

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Interesting that Addiesdive (a Chinese watch brand that has traditionally sold overseas on AliExpress) is now in Wal-Mart. These are pretty good watches for the money. They use the bottom-of-the-line Japanese Miyota 8215 automatic movement, still a reliable workhorse. www.walmart.com/ip/seort/210...

Addiesdive watch with a brown/orange dial

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Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

live your life so that patricia millett never reads the record aloud to you

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Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I re[pre]sent this story. Liberty Biberty and Booking dot com are ruining Succession.

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Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cash Starship 🤝 Fell into a burning ring of fire

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Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I forgot about the time that it took Justice Alito six months to figure out that parties who do not participate in appeals are still parties to litigation.

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Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: We have reports of a snoot-involved four-paw pileup.

A cute white dog, whose paws are all near his nose

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omg guys i'm voting by mail today and yet election day is still election day. crazy work.

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Spending all morning applying the tune from Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious to “COVID-conscious lesbian bar in Western Massachusetts.”

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 26/09/2026

Somebody ping me when we learn what section 4.4 of the DOJ Grand Jury Manual actually says.

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It is the duty of the extremely online to send this to your friends, relatives, or colleagues who own portable generators.

Three geese flying with carbon monoxide alarms on their backs. The geese are flying through an intense blizzard over the US. The geese are wearing wool hats with pom poms on top. They are not afraid. The text reads: Carbon monoxide safety geese brigade. Ever loud! Every lifesaving! Ever bird! Make sure your carbon monoxide alarms are working. Keep your portable generator outdoors and 20 feet away from your home!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Having hobbies just because they're fun makes me a better lawyer.

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THE COUNCIL OF ELROND Elrond: "Speake nowe, who will carrye the ring to Mordor?" Frodo [lookinge for place on the table to putte hys iced coffee]

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Stays pending appeal to this Court are granted only in extraordinary circumstances. A lower court judgment, entered by a tribunal that was closer to the facts than the single Justice, is entitled to a presumption of validity." Graves v. Barnes, 405 U.S. 1201, 1203 (Powell, J., in chambers).

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Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Read the document (Gift Article)

Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter

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Today in intellectual property: Cincinnati Watch Company introduces the "Riverboat Rodent" featuring Steamboat Willie:

https://cincinnatiwatch.com/products/riverboat-rodent-featuring-steamboat-willie?utm_source=chronoscout.co&utm_medium=referral

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I'm sorry, the Senate is considering the nomination of someone named "Overton"? The writing is getting lazy.

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Do you lose your due-process rights if the government abducts you and dumps you in a foreign country? If the first word out of your mouth is anything other than "no," boy, I don't know ...

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Davis: "I think it's quite telling that the other side has no case where constructive custody was found over a foreign prison." Yeah, dawg, it sure was unprecedented when you sent people to a foreign prison for American detention.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

JGG v. Trump will follow USA v. Venkata, so the lawyers from DOJ's Public Integrity section and the Federal Public Defender's Office will have an outsized audience.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE
This case is about a scheme to steal proprietary government software systems and sensitive law-enforcement databases and to exploit them for commercial gain. Defendant-Appellant Murali Venkata, a software developer then-employed by the Department of Homeland Security – Office of Inspector General (“DHS-OIG”), deployed his technical expertise to further that scheme. When questioned about his actions, he lied to investigators and deleted relevant communications from his cell phone. For this conduct, a jury convicted Venkata of conspiracy, theft of government property, wire fraud, and destruction of records. This Court should affirm his convictions.

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God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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When you decide to abandon your mathematics degree and pursue law, you think that you'll be leaving the Intermediate Value Theorem behind.

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