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Jules

@penguinlawyer.bsky.social
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Parent, lawyer, weather nerd. My dog is a DisasterGoblin. Formerly BananasInTheFan.

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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bluesky’s algorithm is getting better, particularly in the Discover tab but I do need it to realize that the same word can have different meaning. For example, just because I like a video of a cute puppy, does not mean I want to be inundated with fetish PuppyPlay. 🤦‍♀️🤣
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Meredith Nudo 🤌🏻 @meredithnudo.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026
But also, on the other side of the coin, I continue to be amused whenever NY Times reporters have their minds blown that Houston isn't actually an all-white backwater shithole with only 5 residents, 10 horses, and 200 guns 🤣 How many more times do we gotta go through this, guys?
Priya Krisna, a food writer at New York Times, says "When I first ate at Aga's a few years ago, my server mentioned they were the top restaurant globally on Uber Eats. I dismissed it, thinking, how could a suburban Houston restaurant do that many orders?"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My neighborhood is nice but it has only intermittent sidewalks so we often walk on the side of the street. Stepped into a nice uneven pothole on the evening walk. I’ll try to bury the pic of my skinned knee in the comments but I’m really hoping the ankle on the other leg isn’t broken. Sigh.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Isn’t it strange that Texas misses its deadline for the Maternal Death Report only when Greg Abbott is up for reelection? As a reminder, if it does actually come out in December, it won't cover the first 2 yrs following the aborting ban, per a vote by TX’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee.
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What do you do when you have a nut allergy but adore pesto? Grow your own basil and spend an afternoon processing it. Between the garlic and the herbs, my house smells sooooo good right now.
A bunch of basil sits on the counter ready to be washed and prepped. 12” square container of the already processed basil. Some garlic. A food processor.
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Post your getaway vehicle
An old Chevy surburban with the top sawed off and an awning welded on top, filled with kids and dogs, driven by an 8 year old.
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Swung by HEB to pick up stuff for my office mates - hot chocolate, half n half, some bottled water for clients that ask for it. Forgot that tropical moisture in the Gulf means that HEB is our last lifeline of hope and OMG everyone must shop before the Heights gets 2 inches of rain.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 19/08/2026
It can’t be overstated how lasting the consequences of the Trump presidency will be for our national parks and forests long after he leaves office
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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Tarrant County Sheriff's Office confirms they really think it's their job to ARREST a resident for saying "bullshit" while he was speaking at a public meeting against a plan to cut nearly 50% of Election Day voting locations
O’Hare’s office has since told the Fort Worth Report that Carrion’s arrest is a “law enforcement matter” with which he “has no involvement.” In a statement to Texas Monthly, the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office said that deputies have a duty to respond “when conduct inside the courtroom disrupts official proceedings,” and that O’Hare “requested the removal of several individuals whose behavior was deemed disruptive.”
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Air Force One catering truck scandal is deeper and darker than the media is portraying it — it’s a Russian nesting doll of corruption and national security threats: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...
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The Five Scandals Within the "Air Force One" Scandal
Donald Trump, a Catering Truck, and the Qatari "Air Force One" represent a Russian Nesting Doll of Scandal and Corruption
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Rain* in August is a gift. *Non-hurricane
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 03/08/2026
“Without this, people become homeless. They lose their income. They lose their stability. Whatever tiny safety net they had is gone,” @shannonrosa.bsky.social said. “It’s just cruel.” My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty
Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026
Reminder that on his last day of his first term, Trump awarded a commendation to Dr Fauci "in recognition of his exceptional effort on Operation Warp Speed"
cap of White House page honoring Fauci
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The kid and I share an iCloud account. So when she takes pictures on her iPad, they show up on my phone the next day. Apparently the dog was being cute…
A screenshot of my picture library with a whole page of photos of the dog laying in bed.
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Four runners are not ready for the cold. The power of friendship is worth its weight in Olympic gold.
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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Houston, you need to lock in right fucking now. The federal government is claiming they put armed officers on your streets without body cameras, they're saying they can shoot you in the street without providing video footage and your mayor is lying to you, claiming the city cant even investigate it.
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I could tolerate the Nazi shit because I felt like I needed to know what was being said. But this…was untenable. I left X when they made it clear that Grok generating CP was cool with them. Fucking disgusting.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Once again, I am just a small-town international relations professor, standing here, begging our media & our Congress to take our most important signed, ratified international treaty seriously & threats by the One Special Boy to violate it as the presidency-ending scandal that it should have been.
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Dude, there’s literally a non handicapped space right night to you. There’s also a drive thru. Guess it was a donut emergency.
Some jerk parked diagonally across the handicapped accessible space.
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Deeply sad tonight but at least I made a watermelon. (Sugar baby variety - it’s a little personal sized guy.).
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I own a GIANT knitted blanket from @blumagaincurios.bsky.social Trust me when I say you want to bid on her making you a cowl.
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Tonight I shed a few tears for a man I barely knew. 10 years ago, I drafted his Will and he asked that I serve as his executor. As a general rule, I won’t write myself into a client’s documents. But he had no one. No spouse, no kids, parents, siblings. No friends close enough. 1/?
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Fully asleep with all four legs in the air and his mouth open. If he wasn’t breathing warm dog breath on me, I’d wonder if he was still alive.
Sleeping dog with mouth open to show a crooked teeth grin. Boopable snoot.
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It’s been feels like 4000° degrees with 💯% humidity here and the okra is like don’t care won’t care. Board games with friends this afternoon so I’m making Cajun roasted veg, entirely with stuff from my yard.
12” diameter bowl with eagle’s pass okra and cow pea green beans.
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Game Day in Houston and it’s suddenly pouring. Welcome to Htown, folks!
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 10/06/2026
Good morning to everyone except the officials who signed off on a detention facility where inadequate screening contributed to a TB outbreak, three detainees died, and evidence was reportedly missing or destroyed in one detainee death investigation. None of this is normal or acceptable.
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Largest ICE detention facility wasted millions and put detainees at risk, report finds
A new report alleges that mismanagement at a massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas produced unsafe conditions that contributed to detainees’ deaths and suffering even as millions of tax dollars were wasted on contractors.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
5/ Experts point to several factors for why it came back: 1️⃣Cattle smuggling outside control zones 2️⃣In early 2025, roughly 15,000 USDA positions were eliminated, and a USAID-funded monitoring project was terminated 3️⃣ The loss of specialized expertise as generations of entomologists retire
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We often have veggie starts out on our Free Plants table. Now people have started to leave us return gifts. Today it was honey from neighbors who keep bees. A few weeks ago, fresh chicken eggs. My secret hippie side is loving the gift-society.
Little jar of fresh honey from my neighbors.
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Happy PRIDE y’all. The parade may be rained out, but there’s still Barnaby’s cake.
A slice of rainbow cake too big to fit in the take away box. Gay Pride was not born of a need to celebrate being gay, but our right to exist without persecution. So instead of wondering why there isn’t a straight pride movement, be thankful you don’t need one.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate
Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won.
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Who wants to come over and taste-test all the World Cup Lay’s? Steak and chimichurri flavored chips? Let’s go! Haggis? That’s where I draw the line.
Lays World Cup themed chips, such as Argentinian Style Steak with Chimichurri and Brazilian style Garlic Sauce.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I really don’t love the idea of linking these to weapon systems
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
98% of the time, he’s sleeping. The other 2% he’s a baby possum killing machine. Ughhh.
A black and tan dog lays on the bed with his paws crossed in sleepy bliss.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Cops busting through a barricade that they set up is pretty tough to misinterpret.
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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The shamelessness with which these people lie to us really is amazing.
A 1 year chart of gas prices from FRED
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Meagan Hassan @justicehassan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Now every voting location in Texas’ 8th most populous county is down, apparently due to a system-wide bug. Everyone is voting via provisional ballot now in Fort Bend County: www.click2houston.com/news/local/2...
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Fort Bend County voting centers down due to system bug
Voting in Fort Bend County has been paused after a system bug caused all voting centers in the county to go down Tuesday afternoon.
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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
In case you have forgotten who Andy Kim is, he’s the rep who came into the Capitol building after Trump’s J6 goons had trashed it, got down in his hands and knees, and cleaned it up. And ICE have gassed him. They have peppersprayed the true patriot who thinks American ideals are worth defending.
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StruthSydney @struthsydney.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
GOP repeatedly condemned Biden for depleting Strategic Oil Reserve, accusing him of using it as a personal ATM to keep gas prices artificially low. Trump creates a worldwide oil crisis, refuses to take accountability for an illegal & ill-prepared war, & depletes oil reserves with GOP support.
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Texans: early voting for the Democratic primary runoff just started. This is my reminder to vote and my encouragement to vote for William Demond for Justice in the 14th Ct. of Appeals. William Demond is a gentleman, a scholar, a keen legal mind, and a good friend. williamdemondforjustice.com
williamdemondforjustice.com
William Demond | Candidate for Texas' Fourteenth Court of Appeals
William Demond is demonstrably committed to protecting the People's constitutional rights. Vote William Demond for the Fourteenth Court of Appeals, Place 9.
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Not sure what is being cooked in my grill but the rosemary is trying to escape.
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
New experience in the Houston restaurant scene: ordered at the bar, found a table, sat down and looked at this weird bubble on the table. Cocked my head to the side… what is that? Oh damn, it’s a hard contact lens. 🤷‍♀️
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Tried to get a picture of a native anole and a butterfly photobombed.
Green anole stares at the camera but the picture is interrupted by a blurry black and orange butterfly in the foreground.
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Thought we didn’t get enough chill hours for the plum this year (or rather they came after it had already started growing leaves) but a secret cache of fruits was just found!
Close up of a plum tree, showing a group fo 6 or so green fruits.
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Independent Book Store Day with @blumagaincurios.bsky.social. We went to Good on Paper in the Heights (and then Velvet Taco because shopping with an old friend also requires tacos) and they had one of her books on the shelf! Go check it out… there might now be a secret signed copy. 😉
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Beautiful fog on the bayous this morning. Looked crazy when I got down to the Galleria area though. Not often you can see the top but not the middle of Transco / Williams Tower.
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
@blumagaincurios.bsky.social shower thoughts of how we met and how ardently I love and admire you. I may never get around to writing you the love letter you deserve but a public social media post seems more like the millennial way anyhow. Here’s to 20+ years of friendship and so many more.
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a cartoon of a man holding a fireball in his hand
ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a fireball in his hand
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Jules @penguinlawyer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
If you see this, quote with a picture of you in glasses.
Kid with fluffy bangs does the thinker pose, while her mom gives her the side eye and tries (and fails) not to laugh
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