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Kendyl Hanks

@kendylhanks.bsky.social
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Biglaw appellate lawyer, #FlyFishing angler, orchidophile, native Texan & erstwhile NewYorker, public school supporter, Birdie’s Mom & Bonus Mom to 2 awesome teens. Speaking for me not my firm, not your lawyer. #AppellateSky ⚖️ #Orchids #LadyLawyerDiaries

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 4h
This is something that birding and fly fishing have in common
A gathering of cows that have trapped me on the river edge
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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David Ziff @djsziff.bsky.social · 11h
cc: @kendylhanks.bsky.social
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We're one month out from Election Day. Listen to Willie. Vote for change this year.
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Crabs!
Little freshwater crabs which apparently you eat like popcorn
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Henley has been donating to Dem TX candidates for years
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For all of the Mamdani team's brilliance with social media, this is the most basic thing in the political playbook: Do good things for your constituents, then tell them about it. It shouldn't be as startling as it is! It's the job!
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Watching Grease with 2 teens honestly living my best life
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Woman in Shades Laughs Weirdly
Alt: Woman in Shades Laughs Weirdly
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Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com · 03/10/2026
You just now figuring this out, Karl? What took you so long?
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Apparently he can’t count either
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cdpositive @cdpositive.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Any #lawyers out there? Is this actionable? (As everyone can tell, I'm not a #Journalist or a lawyer, but needs to be addressed with appropriate compensation, imho....)
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Fmr. Justice Sarah Beth Landau @justicelandau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Action shot of oral argument. An honor to argue before the court I’m running to join to defend a verdict in a well tried case.
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Raymond Norman @raymondnorman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state. newrepublic.com/article/2160...
newrepublic.com
In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I always remembered Steinbeck with fondness but I forgot how … sad his stories are
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#BREAKING U.S. District Judge April Perry is moving forward with further fact-finding regarding potential prosecutorial misconduct in the case of the "Broadview Six," with a special prosecutor still on the table.
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s that time of year again people keep an eye out
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you live in the Princeton area, they're planning on building a massive data center near us. Register your complaints here: dep.nj.gov/boss/permit-...
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I love this Pope really I do
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have reconfirmed my voter registration no less than five times every week this last month
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ain’t no one getting past my security team. Although I think Birdie might be a weak link.
Three pups pressing their faces against a glass door because a neighbor had the audacity to walk past our house
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m reading the comments and wonder if science people are as perplexed when they read comments to #appellatesky skeets
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is one of the reasons why being embedded appellate counsel at trial is one of my specialties. I’m basically the trial team’s Natalie, walking around with a computer giving them legal arguments and briefs and objections. Except it’s not weird
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If ashli babbitt's family can get $5 million after she literally broke into the Capitol to overturn an election, Renee Good's family should get at least triple that for ICE agents murdering her in the damn street.
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’ve been v busy, lots of long nights, and finally had a chance for a bath last night. Birdie wanted to join
Cavalier King Charles spaniel with her little Dr Seuss paws up on the side of my tub Cavalier King Charles spaniel with her little Dr Seuss paws up on the side of my tub
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Aww now I want a baby highland cow
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Ricky Memphis Bleak @sknowsthatp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just gonna put this here. Published 1989
researchgate.net
(PDF) FRATERNITIES AND RAPE ON CAMPUS
PDF | Despite widespread knowledge that fraternity members are frequently involved in the sexual assaults of women, fraternities are rarely studied as... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
chicago.suntimes.com/live/broadvi... for you non-law folks you should know this judge is laying a predicate for contempt. These are issues on which the D has a right to hear the allegations and respond, so she was never going to do it here –
chicago.suntimes.com
'Broadview Six' judge raises specter of a ‘cover-up’ while pushing forward with inquiry: Live updates
U.S. District Judge April Perry said Thursday she’ll create a list of issues she wants further evidence on, with a special prosecutor still on the table. A key sticking point appears to be the disclos...
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Grace from TKOR Ecstatic and Excited
Alt: Grace from TKOR Ecstatic and Excited
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At long last, I met @legalminimum.bsky.social irl & I can honestly vouch that he is just as much a delightful, generous, quirky, and thoughtful mensch as he seems. And, like me, he generally lacks a filter, which made for quite the entertaining and illuminating conversation! What a treat! 🤗
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
newrepublic.com/article/2160.... Somethin’ Happenin’ Here … what it seems pretty damn clear 🎶🎶🎶🎶
newrepublic.com
In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Something wicked this way comes
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Supreme Court’s majority gave no reason for its literal life-and-death decision to wipe out an appeals court order issued earlier today and which was, on its face, intended to be temporary in nature. Sotomayor wrote tonight’s dissent. Order and dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The Court's decision to vacate that stay interferes with the Sixth Circuit's routine administrative handling of a capital case and unnecessarily prevents that court from giving due consideration to Pike's claim. Worse, the Court grants such extraordinary relief solely to allow the State to execute Pike before litigation over her conviction has properly run its course in the lower courts. I see no reason to short-circuit the ordinary process of appellate review, particularly in light of the grave consequences of an erroneous de-cision. Tennessee's desire to expedite Pike's execution by a few days or even weeks cannot outweigh her "fundamentalinterest in [her] own life." Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U. S. 1,
9 (1985).
In capital cases, "[a]ppreciation of our own fallibility, and respect for the judgment of an appellate tribunal," demand caution before "acting irretrievably." Bowersox v. Williams,
517 U. S. 345, 347 (1996) (Ginsburg, J., dissenting). Indeed, this Court often states that it is "'a court of review, not of first view?" McLane Co. v. EEOC, 581 U.S. 72, 85 (2017) (quoting Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709, 718, n. 7
(2005)). Today, the Court, as it has too often lately, chooses to overlook that principle precisely when it matters most.
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I just read in passing a headline ≈ “AI company acquires Learned Hand in first foray into judiciary” and I feel downright ill
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Scarlett Johansson's Disbelief Look in Marriage Story
Alt: Scarlett Johansson's Disbelief Look in Marriage Story
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Al G Rhythm @algrhythm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Relationshipping done right.
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I know there are many things we don’t know—and I DO believe in due process—but the info coming out is just horrifying, not just re the gang rape itself (which shocks the conscience) but the institutional lack of care & diligence in the aftermath. She will suffer her whole life, from all of it.
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Epremo @epremo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Broadview Six case stemmed from a September 2025 protest outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, and resulted in federal charges against six protesters, including then-congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, Oak Park village trustee Brian Straw.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Incredible. The 11th Circuit, in a 3-0 opinion (two Obama appointees and one Trump 1.0 appointee), agrees that Trump and his lawyers have failed to rebut the judge's finding that the entire IRS settlement was collusive, highlighting that no other explanation for their conduct was even offered.
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The appellants mount two main attacks on the district
court’s speech-related sanction. First, they argue that the court
lacked a sufficient basis to find that the lawsuit and the settlement
were collusive and that Messrs. Brito and Epstein acted in bad faith.
Second, they contend that the sanction is a broad and impermissible gag order which constitutes a prior restraint and violates the
First Amendment. We conclude that the appellants have not made
a strong showing that they will succeed on either of these grounds.The appellants did not submit or offer any evidence to explain their litigation conduct or demonstrate that the lawsuit and the settlement were not collusive. Given the record before us, the
appellants have not made a strong showing that the district court
committed clear error in its collusion and bad faith findings
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Incredible
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kathy, “I’m lost,” I said, though I knew she was sleeping.
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My honey gets up earlier than I do. Sometimes I find a breakfast taco waiting for me. #LuckyGirl
A breakfast taco wrapped in foil sitting on a cast iron griddle
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
wordsmith.org/words/idiocr... #WordOfTheDay
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idiocracy
noun: 1. Government by idiots. 2. A society governed or populated by idiots.
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SIXTY WHOLE DAYS WOW
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yay, sure, but I bet he counted votes before doing it.
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God gave her vaccines and she refused his lifesaving offer
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
R&J Act 3, Scene 1 Mercutio: … [to Romeo] Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm. Romeo: oh F***. I thought all for the best.
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am from Austin. I live steps from a lot of the OG Austin music venues. I covered SXSW for a local paper in 1995. I have not heard Choosin Texas. In fact I read the lyrics today and I STILL have not listened to the song.
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I can’t believe people are engaging in serious conversation re whether something called “slutcon” is a ok
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Have a plumber working on a sump pump and recalling that scene from History of the World Part I where he’s selling plumbing: “it pumps the 💩 right out of your house!”
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History of the World - Standup Philosopher
Alt: History of the World - Standup Philosopher
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