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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

It’s just like a rural hotel tacks a casino on right after gambling is legalized.

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I feel like I’ve been reading All the Colors of the Dark for 3 weeks. But today I will finish it and move on!

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Hey friends. We’re rolling out electronic order signing. That means I will not sign orders that do not meet the court’s requirements. I can’t just interlineate the same error for the 10,000th time in your form anymore. You have to fix it and refile.

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Jury services at George Allen will resume to normal next week.

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Cheerleader shows always make me cry.

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Just a reminder that Dallas County, including the courts, will be closed tomorrow to celebrate Juneteenth.

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Love Island should do a new kind of heart rate challenge to show the response to someone crashing out.

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Adam VanHo @adamvanho.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that the National Park Service is asking people to report activities that the Trump Administration could consider unAmerican activities — right out of a Soviet or Chinese authoritarian playbook. (1/3) www.cleveland.com/news/2025/06...

cleveland.com

National Park Service seeks informants to report disparaging remarks about Americans

Signs in National Parks ask visitors to report "negative" information about Americans.

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Jury services are cancelled at the George Allen Courthouse ONLY for the rest of the week. All other courts’ jury summons and cases will move forward as noticed.

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

All jury panels are cancelled at the George Allen Courthouse today. I’ll keep you posted if we cancel tomorrow’s panels as well.

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Many weekends I think “only a new Love Island UK binge can fix this.” This weekend it can!

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Someone restrain me from the bookstore. I cannot govern myself accordingly.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 11/06/2025

This Texas mail carrier rushed to be first in line to adopt a dog from his mail route. 13/10

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

There’s not an ice cream flavor for this.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I’m not sure if you can overdose on schadenfreude but we’re about to find out

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I’m still occasionally entertained on the bad place because their favorite AI sometimes answers honestly.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 02/06/2025

This is Koda. He is approximately 70% fluffy and 30% floppy. An ideal ratio. 13/10 would pet enthusiastically (IG: koda_and_wrigley)

a long-haired german shepherd puppy with black fur sits in a wicker basket. one gigantic fluffy ear is up while the other ear flops to one side. his tongue is out.

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Aislinn @imnotmerida.com · 01/06/2025

Happy Pride Month, everyone! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

More Pride, less prejudice graphic: a woman sipping tea in front of a rainbow background

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

The upgrade seems be going well. 🤞🤞🤞 Please keep in mind that, even if everything goes perfectly, the clerks will have a backlog so it will take a few days to get completely caught up again.

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

How did I not know there are new episodes of 100 Foot Wave!?!

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

It barely needs to be said, but there are exactly 0 federal judges who are communists or marxists in any sense.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

NEW—Rubio issues State Dept. cable instructing enhanced social media vetting for ALL people (students, faculty, etc) seeking travel visas to Harvard under guise of “antisemitism.” All social media profiles must be public, otherwise seen “as an effort to evade or hide certain activity.” Full cable:

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Dallas county lawyers: The court management software system will be updated over the weekend. No filings will be processed after 1:30pm Friday until the system comes back up on Monday. You can still efile, it just won’t be processed or accepted until next week.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

just going on the teevee and admitting it's all first amendment violations

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

“The Court of International Trade ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority in imposing tariffs on all imported goods, calling an immediate halt to his signature trade war policy.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

washingtonpost.com

Live updates: Trade court blocks Trump’s tariffs, saying they are illegal

Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the Republican-led Congress.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/05/2025

while I knew judges have been getting anonymous 'I know where you live' pizza deliveries, I didn't know til writing this piece on Trump endangering judges that many orders were placed in the name of a judge's son who was murdered by someone posing as a deliveryman ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

ballsandstrikes.org

Federal Judges Increasingly Concerned That Trump Could Get Them Killed

Republicans’ threats against the judiciary have some judges trying to figure out just how unsafe they are.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Of interest to Texans following the state's new potential ban.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Dressing like a guy in Andor now. My shirt collar is also part of my jacket somehow. My tie is some kind of strap. I have two capes on.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/05/2025

A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again theonion.com/a-shatt...

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 26/05/2025

If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social #WriterSky #BookSky #KidLit

Handwritten quote on a white sheet with an illustrated face at the bottom and pink hearts around the text. The quote reads:
"If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting."
— Liana Brooks

Illustration and lettering by Debbie Ridpath Ohi. A paintbrush lies across the page on a wooden surface.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 27/05/2025

NEW: Judge Murphy, sounding MAD, rejects the Trump admin's request to reverse his order to give due process to deportees on their way to South Sudan, saying that they are "manufacturing the very chaos they decry." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Defendants have mischaracterized this Court's order, while at the same time manufacturing the very chaos they decry. By racing to get six class members onto a plane to unstable South
Sudan, clearly in breach of the law and this Court's order, Defendants gave this Court no choice
but to find that they were in violation of the Preliminary Injunction.
Even after finding that violation, however, the Court stayed its hand and did not require
Defendants to bring the individuals back to the United States, as requested by Plaintiffs. Instead, the Court accepted Defendants' own suggestion that they be allowed to keep the individuals out of the country and finish their process abroad. In the interest of full transparency, the Court quotes
at length from the hearing transcript:

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Benson Boone is just Tom Sandoval with an actual record deal.

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Saturday plans: Diving into this book under a fuzzy blanket with the AC blasting until I doze off and wake up with no idea what day it is. Annnnddddd GO!

The cover of the book The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji on a fuzzy cream blanket.

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Every game is a Game 7 in my heart.

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Well, well, well. If it isn’t a glaring example of why injunctions should not be by district or circuit.

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Free hockey is my favorite hockey. Victor E.. Green better come out in his kilt!

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I had not realized how badly Kagan mauled John Sauer until just now.

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I met a person named Melissa this week who was born in 1998. I’m pretty sure she’s the last of us.

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SIDE FANGS 🧛‍♀️ (SIDE BANGS, Halloween Edition) @sidebangsmusic.com · 16/05/2025

Have you tried frolicking about it

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

If there’s a game 6, it’s going to be the chippiest game of all time.

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

A lawyer friend (recently attended a Stars’ game near me) reported back to a partner at their firm that their “favorite part of the game” was when “Judge Bellan started yelling ‘refs you suck’” and all I can say is I will not beat the charges. And we’re one win from conf finals.

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Melissa Bellan @melissabellan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

In case y’all didn’t hear earlier: STARS WIN! STARS WIN!

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