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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 14h

To me, AI has always meant "automated information". A far better characterization, imo.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So by this year, Henry must have had some pretty ugly gout symptoms. Charming role for the actor. :-)

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What a gift. Thanks for sharing.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's remarkable how LEDs are changing skylines.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026

NEW / HUGE: Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama sued nearly three dozen abortion pill providers + a pharmacy and The states asked the Supreme Court to be able to sue New York, Massachusetts, and California to challenge their telehealth shield laws @autonomynews.co storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Dear Mr. Cayce:
I write to notify the panel of two legal developments material to the
panel’s resolution of this case.
First, today Louisiana—joined by Arkansas and Alabama—filed a
lawsuit in the Western District of Louisiana against nearly three dozen
individuals and entities responsible for remotely dispensing FDA-
approved mifepristone in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama. See
Louisiana v. Nouhavandi, No. 2:26-cv-03836 (W.D. La.) (attached). As
the complaint in that case illustrates, none of those individuals and
entities could carry out their current operations without the 2023
REMS’s removal of the in-person dispensing requirement.
Second, also today Louisiana—joined by Arkansas and Alabama—
filed a motion for leave to file a bill of complaint (attached), Louisiana v.
New York, in the United States Supreme Court against New York,
Massachusetts, and California. The bill of complaint challenges the
telehealth shield laws of those states on various legal grounds.
Both complaints explain how Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v.
FDA will eliminate the flood of FDA-approved mifepristone into the
State. Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v. Nouhavandi will eliminate the
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ability of nearly three dozen of the most prominent actors to illegally send
any abortion drugs into the State. And Louisiana’s success in Louisiana
v. New York will strip all shield-law state residents—regardless of any
back-up drugs they may try to use—of the claimed authority to violate
Louisiana’s laws with impunity.
espectfully,
/s/J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
Solicitor General
Counsel for Louisiana

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've been thinking comparatively (see, Alexei Yurchak's "Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation," 2026) to understand how the American constitutional order might run on the trust that it will always endure, even if nothing else supports that trust.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Please: Do not besmirch us -dt Schmidts by confusing us with a -tt Schmitt like this clown.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hope they gave him an award made out of lead and invited him to change it into gold if he wanted.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I were considering adopting that dog, I would know when to walk away. I might even run.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Watching a @constitutionctr.bsky.social preview of the the Supreme Court term, and @gregstohr.bsky.social says we've been "spoiled" with big cases the past couple years. Court watchers, please try to remember the stakes, to real people, in cases. They aren't primarily there for your amusement.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Absolutely. Straightforward communication is just good praxis.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What a great day for traditional rivals to face off in Big Ten football. You know, like UCLA vs. Maryland and USC vs. Oregon.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've given up on Eric Clapton, but every fall, I just have to try to separate the art from the artist so that I can soak in his rendition of "Autumn Leaves".

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Agreed. You're not going to rock an interview that way.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As is said of fashion, it may take two years for a style trend to go to the catwalk to main street. In terms of fair food, you're living in Paris, so now you're observing how long it takes for deep-fried ranch to reach the fringes of society (i.e., Texas).

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm tired of the baddies in this story arc--Putin, Xi, Trump, Netanyahu, etc. It was good that they wrote some minor characters, like Orban and Maduro, out of this season, but the whole series needs a reboot.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Did you end up winning or losing?

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Russia might have had inside assistance with the targeting. At least, it seems fishy to me.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here in Minnesota, we talk about the weather a lot, though in a fact-of-the-matter way. The Northeast apparently needs to make it all about them and their feelings.

Weather map of the Northeast with a label "annoyingly wet and gusty" covering most of the region.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One "but cf." Scalia opinion that comes to mind is Republican Party v. White. Scalia (for a 5-4) argued that although MN wasn't required to have elections for state judges, once it chose to, it wasn't free to limit the speech of judicial candidates.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He probably thinks a state investment in alchemy would solve future holes in the budget by giving us a supply of gold.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It isn't "immigration law" in any meaningful sense.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's the substance of these polls, consistently reflecting somewhere around 39 - 40% of Americans approving of the job he's done as president, that is so horrific.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

No one could possibly have foreseen that a massive effort to deport millions of legal and undocumented immigrants would have affected the industries in which said immigrants were employed in large numbers.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"We would be rich if we stopped trading with everyone" is just so, so impossibly dumb.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

(To be clear, I shop and know my prices. Beef is expensive, not $2/lb. But Whole Foods--or as my students call it, "Whole Paycheck"--is not a representative window on food price trends.)

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nothing at Whole Foods is the price that most people pay. Try Aldi.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm not surprised. I was going to open a fruit co-op celebrating Middle Eastern fruits, and once people learned it was called the Date Center, support dried up.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I like that it sticks out on both sides: a Fillmore East and a Fillmore West.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The best argument I've heard for a Harris candidacy.

headline from Politico: "Newsom says he won't run for president if Harris runs again"

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is a lovely thread, Bill, both the gesture (something old) and the redemptive reflections.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

(Although I did not write the trial chapter, I have collaborated in a jointly-authored and as-yet unpublished biography of Medina.)

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It is difficult to cite the Dennis example as a parallel here. The posture of the defense counsel through the nine months was extraordinary, and Medina believed that they had tried to make it a media spectacle, or to goad him into mis-steps that would trigger a mistrial.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

But how much does it cost to smear some black greasepaint on your cheeks?

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Perfectly charming gentleman, I'm sure.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is basically a push poll and Zohran still beat it.

12. Mayor Mamdani has faced intense scrutiny from critics regarding his political circle and
statements. Do you feel his administration represents the core values of the average New Yorker
or is his platform out of step with average New Yorkers?
(N=500) n %
Represents core values of average New Yorkers-------301 60.20
Platform is too out of step with average New
Yorkers -----------------------------------------------------------140 28.00
Undecided --------------------------------------------------------- 56 11.20
Refused--------------------------------------------------------------- 3 0.60

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

(Did it have an impact? Sure, though the impact of the Declaration of Independence is rather more complicated and interesting than it first appears.)

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I worked about 9 months, part-time, writing radio commercials for a station in rural Pennsylvania. There were 2 women doing sales and they were tapped out, so I was a new supply of creative ideas. I got to know every business in a 20 mile radius.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This hits hard for a Minnesotan on the last day of the state fair.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Neville Chamberlain: "We're going to have peace for our time, and I'm going to have memories for a lifetime."

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Bohemian Rhapsody, because the volume needs to cover up everyone who will try to sing along.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I thought we would crest 2m this year, where we were before covid. While heat can affect attendance dynamics, the bigger issue I think is the late Labor Day and how many schools have already started. This past week just didn't keep pace.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"What's the story, morning glory? : The Garden as Oasis"

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Neptune's Harvest Organic Tomato fertilizer.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#UsedToBeAHooters (Mall of America, or if you'd prefer, Mall of Southern Canada, September 2026)

Closed restaurant in shopping mall, with a bright orange awning.

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