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There appears to be no Episcopal Bar Association. That surprises me considering how many Episcopalians (historically and currently) are attorneys, judges, legislators, etc. There are like ten attorneys at my parish alone.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 2h

Haven't seen any reporting from the Catholic Bar Association's recent conference but this was quite the lineup of speakers: catholicbar.org

catholicbar.org

Catholic Bar Association - Home

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Colorado Avalanche @avalanche.bsky.social · 2h

What a month it was. Really flew by.

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 6h

Judge Raymond Kethledge is the new Chief Judge of the Sixth Circuit. Outgoing Chief Judge Jeff Sutton has assumed senior status, and will be replaced by the already confirmed Ben Flowers.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4h

NEW: Bishop Mariann Budde, who gained fame for preaching a sermon challenging Trump, has announced her intention to resign as the Episcopal Bishop of Washington. But in an exclusive interview with @rns.org, Budde explained the process actually takes nearly 2 years. religionnews.com/2026/10/01/b...

religionnews.com

Bishop Mariann Budde to resign, will remain in post during lengthy replacement process

WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘I’m going to do all that I can to both lead well in this period and to ensure that there’s as much wind in the sails of the future leader and the diocese going forward as is humanl...

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 5h

When you reduce college to expensive vocational training while reducing the return on that training, what do you think people are going to say about its importance? news.gallup.com/poll/715133/...

news.gallup.com

Record-Low 31% Say College Education Is 'Very Important'

A record-low 31% of Americans say a college education is very important, while 29% now say it is not too important.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6h

Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.

44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 6h

What's funny (to me) about this is that this is a problem entirely of their own making and they could generate a tremendous amount of goodwill if they took the always-available legislative path to fix the problem themselves.

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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 9h

We review the use of "public religion" over the past few decades, noting divergent diagnoses, sources, and applications. Our proposal? Stop using the phrase "public religion" Instead, analyze empirical data along three dimensions: -politicized religion -civic religion -public religious culture

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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 8h

New- We've all heard about the spiraling, skyrocketing, and soaring rates of college tuition. In reality, undergrad net tuition education has been stagnant or even declining for roughly two decades. So why do very few people know this? www.chalkbeat.org/2026/10/01/w...

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 13h

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 10h

Kavanaugh Stops and Roberts Removals.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 11h

Absolutely hilarious stuff.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 11h

Today in Torts, a group of teens do nothing while their friend loses a game of Russian Roulette, a train engineer lets an injured motorist freeze to death at a North Dakota crash site, and a therapist is exposed to liability when his former patient kills a third party. Uplifting stuff.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 11h

Hockey season got off to a great start yesterday, which is good because the baseball season ended early this year.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 11h

No matter the pain, damage, and suffering the botched execution caused, the Constitution won't stop the state from trying to execute Christa Pike again. Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947).

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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 19h

Christa Pike, who was supposed to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years, is still alive after the state tried and failed to execute her on Wednesday. TDOC officials refused to comment after the state’s second failed execution this year. nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/30/c...

nashvillebanner.com

Christa Pike survives botched lethal injection attempt - Nashville Banner

Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike for a 1995 murder, but the lethal injection failed. Pike survives and was moved to a medical facility.

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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 30/09/2026

A Michigan nurse is accused of helping an injured immigration detainee escape from a hospital while in federal custody.

newsweek.com

Nurse helped injured Mexican escape ICE custody at hospital: Feds

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21h

Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21h

UPDATE: At a call with the federal court tonight, "the state [of Tennessee] represented that medical personnel have begun to administer medical care as requested in the motion."

ORDER finding as moot 123 Motion to Expedite. At a conference call with counsel for all parties, the state represented that medical personnel have begun to administer medical care as requested in the motion. This is the complete order of the court. There is no document associated with this docket entry. Signed by District Judge Clifton L Corker on 9/30/2026. (Corker, Clifton) (Entered: 09/30/2026)

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 21h

"Media were asked to leave the witness room inside the prison before a time of death was declared for Christa Pike. No prison officials were outside to tell the media what was happening as the first responders arrived. No time of death has been publicly provided."

tennessean.com

Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates

Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21h

Emergency court filing from Pike's lawyers seeking to "halt and stay" the botched execution tonight in Tennessee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

EMERGENCY MOTION TO HALT AND STAY EXECUTION
The Tennessee Department of Correction began the execution of Petitioner
Christa Gail Pike at approximately 8:00 p.m. CDT. According to counsel witnessing the execution:
1. Both syringes of pentobarbital have been administered.
2. Ms. Pike has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat and is
audibly snoring.
3. Curtains have gone down twice.
4. It took counsel approximately 7 minutes to be connected via phone.
Accordingly, the Petitioner requests and order immediately staying her execution
and ordering immediate medical care.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 22h

Update: Christa Pike still alive after administered execution drugs, attorneys say. www.tennessean.com/story/news...

tennessean.com

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Supreme Court allows execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee to move forward. Liberals object to lifting lower court stay.

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Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org · 30/09/2026

My car went rogue when i forgot to set the parking brake, left in drive, and exited it.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The NEA is running a bunch of AI ads on IG and they’re getting relentlessly ratio’d.

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Micah Schwartzman @micahschwartzman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As Linda Greenhouse writes, St. Mary v Roy is a case asking a fundamental question about religious freedom: “Equality or preference?” She links my article with @nelsontebbe.bsky.social and @richschragger.bsky.social, arguing that the Court is committed to the latter — a doctrine of preference.

nytimes.com

Opinion | This Case Has Flown Under the Radar. It Won’t Stay There.

This case has flown under the radar, but it won’t stay there.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The hype and excitement among the legal AI boosters is starting to wear off it seems. Seeing a lot more LinkedIn posts like this of late.

I always thought that the rise of Al in law would be a great thing. I now think I may have been wrong.

Somewhere this morning a trainee is doing a first-pass document review that an Al could have finished before they got their coat off.
Everyone agrees this is progress. I'm not sure it is.

The grunt work is how lawyers learn. You read four hundred bad contracts and somewhere around number three hundred you start spotting the one that's wrong before you can explain why. Nobody taught you that. You got it from the volume.

Take the volume away and you still get a qualified lawyer at the other end. You just get one who never built the instinct, and who now has to supervise a machine doing a job they've never done themselves.
Firms are automating the bottom of the pyramid and assuming the top will look after itself.

I don't think it will. I think in about ten years we find out what a generation of lawyers who never did the boring bit actually looks like.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here is a random July 2026 Kentucky bar exam statistic. Of 38 repeat takers, only seven passed, for a pass rate of 18.42%. Ouch.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This guy in full retreat now while American bases abroad lay in ruins and our opponent has captured the global oil trade.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Former students taking the time to email me to tell me they passed the bar exam is just one of the best things ever.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Attended a lovely Red Mass at the Cathedral of the Assumption in Louisville today. Thanks to the Louisville Archdiocese for praying for all those who are called to service in the judicial branch.

A LAWYER'S PRAYER TO ST. THOMAS MORE:

Pray that, for the glory of God and in the pursuit of His justice, I may be trustworthy with confidences, keen in study, accurate in analysis, correct in conclusion, able in argument, loyal to clients, honest with all, courteous to adversaries, ever attentive to conscience.

Sit with me at my desk and listen with me to my clients' tales.
Read with me in my library and stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul.

Pray that my family may find in me what yours found in you: friendship and courage, cheerfulness and charity, diligence in duties, counsel in adversity, patience in pain— their good servant, but God's first.
Amen.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In our society, merely taking responsibility for your actions has become a radical act.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here's the new complaint: www.justice.gov/sites/defaul... Here's the NYT story at issue: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u... Here was earlier Law Dork coverage of this practice: www.lawdork.com/p/on-dojs-pe...

lawdork.com

On DOJ's petty and small — but also alarming — complaint against a federal judge

Chad Mizelle filed the judicial complaint against Judge Ana Reyes after a hearing over one of Trump's anti-trans orders. Also, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a spectacular essay about the Supreme Court by @bbaumann.bsky.social. Just read it. bbaumann.substack.com/p/function-w...

bbaumann.substack.com

Function without Myth

Rewatching “The Crown”

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026

"Only 28 percent of Americans believe that AI technology should move full speed ahead. Everyone else wants it slowed down or stopped, temporarily or permanently." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/one-more-r...

paulkrugman.substack.com

One More Reason Americans Hate AI: It Does Nothing for Them

Trillions of dollars in spending, higher interest rates, hardly any jobs

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The funniest thing to me about Schmitt humiliating himself is that his staff had a fancy placard printed up, somebody proudly carried it to the hearing, and everyone on the team was probably like "man, we got his ass, wait until Smith sees this."

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I can't explain it but I really hate the use of the word "scaffolding" in a pedagogical sense.

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally, a way to optimize and automate things I enjoy doing

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Nick Land Acknowledgement 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think a buried lede here is that these guys aren't even listening to music they are just trying to financialize record collecting.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Even though there was an incredible amount of human expertise lying around, we made crappier machine expertise and now that's your only option. And you're complaining.

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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I firmly believe that a majority of Americans are actually halfway decent people, and if somebody takes the time to speak to them with basic respect for their intelligence, they will respond positively to their ideas.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cubs have the Padres right where they want them.

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