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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 27/08/2026

Ok this is embarrassing. Iowa and Montana are seeking to file an original-jurisdiction complaint in the Supreme Court to sue the twelve states that are trying to block the Warner Bros / Paramount merger. Ashley Keller and Adam Mortara should feel ashamed. deadline.com/wp-content/u...

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 14/08/2026

What an interesting lede in this WSJ story about Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

“NEW YORK—Luigi Mangione, whose coldblooded killing of an insurance executive on a Manhattan sidewalk rattled the nation and struck fear into Corporate America, pleaded guilty Friday to two federal stalking charges in the death of UnitedHealthcare leader Brian Thompson.”

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 14/08/2026

Does the White House know what “exquisite” means?

“This decision will result in carriers that are enabled by battle-tested steam and hydraulic systems that are more resilient and robust than the present, more exquisite, follow-on systems,” the White House said in a statement. “It will also reactivate portions of the maritime industrial base that are easier to scale.”

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 16/07/2026

Pop quiz! Is this (a) an ugly hardware prototype, (b) an actual consumer product that OpenAI plans to sell for hundreds of dollars, or (c) somehow both simultaneously?

Weird little square keyboard thingy with lots of glowing lights, black protuberances, various-shaped buttons and knobs (some of them light-up), some writing for some reason, and possibly a missing key?

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 15/07/2026

Federalists getting nervous about the Electoral College?

Podcast episode with a Federalist Society discussion about whether the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is unconstitutional

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 12/07/2026

@grapefrukt.com Hey, are you aware of a rare intermittent bug in Holedown (iOS) where a block that should fall doesn’t? Or is it worth me writing up an email report? I’ve seen it occasionally for a long time (years I believe) but just lost a game due to it for maybe the first time.

Holedown game where I crashed because of a block that should have fallen

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 01/07/2026

Well this feels like a career-ending fuckup.

Nina Totenberg’s apology note to Sam Alito, as quoted by Brian Stelter on the bad place:

“Dear Justice Alito, there are no words to adequately apologize for today’s error in reporting your retirement. It was entirely my fault. I rushed out of the courtroom after the opinion announcements, and when I realized that the usual rush of folks after a few minutes had not happened, I asked somebody was going on inside, to which the answer was, ‘retirement announcements.’ I didn't hear the ‘s’ on ‘announcements,’ and I assumed something no reporter should ever do, that you were retiring. It was the worst professional mistake of my more than 50 years in journalism. I could go on, but I don’t know what else to say, except that I am so, so sorry.”

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 13/06/2026

A truck, and some people in reflective vests, appear. The crowd starts cheering.

A tv showing a live stream of the Kennedy Center façade, where a crowd is waiting to see Trump’s name come off the building.

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 01/05/2026

We know that in part because the CASA footnote quoted by the fifth circuit cites § 706, not § 705.

“Nothing we say today resolves the distinct question whether the Administrative Procedure Act authorizes federal courts to vacate federal agency action. See 5 U.S.C. § 706(2) (authorizing courts to ‘hold unlawful and set aside agency action’).”

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 20/02/2026

It’s almost like the major-questions doctrine is unprincipled bullshit.

JUSTICE GORSUCH, concurring.
The President claims that Congress delegated to him an extraordinary power in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)—the power to impose tariffs on practically any products he wants, from any countries he chooses, in any amounts he selects. Applying the major questions doctrine, the principal opinion rejects that argu-ment. I join in full. The Constitution lodges the Nation's lawmaking powers in Congress alone, and the major questions doctrine safeguards that assignment against executive encroachment. Under the doctrine's terms, the President must identify clear statutory authority for the extraordinary delegated power he claims. And, as the principal opinion explains, that is a standard he cannot meet.

Whatever else might be said about Congress's work in
IEEPA, it did not clearly surrender to the President the sweeping tariff power he seeks to wield.
Not everyone sees it this way. Past critics of the major questions doctrine do not object to its application in this case, and they even join much of today's principal opinion.
But, they insist, they can reach the same result by employing only routine tools of statutory interpretation. Post, at 1 (KAGAN, J., joined by SOTOMAYOR and JACKSON, JJ., concurring in part and concurring in judgment). Meanwhile, one colleague who joins the principal opinion in full suggests the major questions doctrine is nothing more than routine statutory interpretation. Post, at 1 (BARRETT, J., concurring). Still others who have joined major questions decisions in the past dissent from today's application of the doctrine. Post, at 1 (KAVANAUGH, J., joined by THOMAS and ALITO, JJ., dissenting). Finally, seeking to sidestep the major questions doctrine altogether, one colleague submits that Congress may hand over to the President most of its powers, including the tariff power, without limit. Post, at 1-2 (THOMAS, J., dissenting). It is an interesting turn of events. Each camp warrants a visit.

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 02/02/2026

They’re the hot new viral sensation in right-wing circles

Fake poster featuring a guest appearance from Measles

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 01/02/2026

Either Chad Mizelle fell for this or he thinks this is funny. I can’t decide which would be worse.

Chad Mizelle, former DOJ chief of staff / husband of a Trump-appointed federal judge / MAGA shithead lawyer, retweeting someone who posted a screenshot of a fake Don Lemon indictment excerpt saying “Overt Act # 16: While inside the Church, defendant LUNDY stood with other agitators in and around the main aisles in the Church to intimidate the Church members and obstruct and interfere with their freedom of movement. Defendant LEMON approached an elderly woman, shoved a phone into her face, and yelled ‘You got LEMONED you old bat!’ Defendant LEMON then located a broom in the janitorial closet and put it between his legs and started prancing up and down the aisles, singing ‘You got Lemoned! You got Lemoned! Lemoned Lemoned you got Lemoned!’ before eventually tripping and taking a header into the baptismal. Defendant LEMON emerged and appeared to be crying and pointed at Victim 7 and yelled ‘she pushed me!’”

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 12/01/2026

I don’t think that’s how cost-benefit analysis works…

BREAKING NEWS
The E.P.A. will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 21/12/2025

Well this isn’t at all suspicious!

Epstein Files Photos Disappear From Website, Including One of Trump
A total of 16 photos were struck from the website the Justice Department created. One featured a drawer containing other photos, including one of President Trump.

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 09/12/2025

wow, they really phoned it on the medal design

the incredibly shitty fifa peace prize medal

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 09/12/2025

Interesting amicus brief dug up by the New York Times, filed by Pam Bondi last year.

BRIEF FOR THREE FORMER SENIOR MILITARY OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE BRANCH OFFICIALS AS AMICI CURIAE SUPPORTING PETITIONER

ARGUMENT

I. The President's Broad Power as Commander in Chief Does Not Include the Authority to Order the Military to Commit Murder.
II. Military Law and an Executive Order Forbid Murder and Assassination.
A. Murder Is a Crime Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
B. An Executive Order Bars Assassination.
III. Military Officers Are Required Not to Carry Out Unlawful Orders.
IV. The Military Would Not Carry Out an Order to Commit Murder.

III. Military Officers Are Required Not to Carry Out Unlawful Orders.
Any presidential order to the military to use lethal force without legal justification would be an order calling for the commission of a grave felony crime. And any military officers who knowingly issued or carried out such an unlawful order would themselves be criminally liable. The Rules for Courts-Martial (RCM) are promulgated by the President as Commander in Chief, and are a mechanism by which the Commander in Chief implements the UCMJ. A servicemember may assert as an affirmative defense to a crime that the servicemember was carrying out an order, but that defense is valid only if the order is lawful. See RCM 916(d).

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 10/11/2025

Post-football local news coverage of the shutdown deal, in the first minute of the program:

Full-screen Elizabeth Warren tweet saying “I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.”

Full-screen Seth Moulton tweet saying “Tonight is another example of why we need new leadership. If @ChuckSchumer were an effective leader, he would have united his caucus to vote ‘No’ tonight and hold the line on healthcare. Maybe now @EdMarkey will finally join me in pledging not to vote for Schumer?”

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 03/11/2025

Here’s the full tweet. He’s not looking for access to something that is otherwise illegal. He’s looking for help with his customer-service issues with Kaiser Permanente.

Scott Adams: “On Monday, I will ask President Trump, via X, to help save my life. He offered to help me if I needed it. I need it. As many of you know, I have metastasized prostate cancer. My healthcare provider, Kaiser of Northern California, has approved my application to receive a newly FDA-approved drug called Pluvicto. But they have dropped the ball in scheduling the brief IV to administer it and I can't seem to fix that. I am declining fast. I will ask President Trump if he can get Kaiser of Northern California to respond and schedule it for Monday. That will give me a fighting chance to stick around on this planet a little bit longer. It is not a cure, but it does give good results to many people.“

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 03/11/2025

It appears that the California decision disbarring him is not final, but is a recommendation to the California Supreme Court. Though he is currently suspended from practice in both California and the District of Columbia. apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Lic...

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 03/11/2025

Supreme Court Rule 8 says that when a lawyer is disbarred by a state bar, they will be suspended from practice by the Supreme Court and ordered to show cause concerning whether they should also be disbarred from the Supreme Court bar.

Rule 8. Disbarment and Disciplinary Action

1. Whenever a member of the Bar of this Court has been disbarred or suspended from practice in any court of record, or has engaged in conduct unbecoming a member of the Bar of this Court, the Court will enter an order suspending that member from practice before this Court and affording the member an opportunity to show cause, within 40 days, why a disbarment order should not be entered. Upon response, or if no response is timely filed, the Court will enter an appropriate order.

2. After reasonable notice and an opportunity to show cause why disciplinary action should not be taken, and after a hearing if material facts are in dispute, the Court may take any appropriate disciplinary action against any attorney who is admitted to practice before it for conduct unbecoming a member of the Bar or for failure to comply with these Rules or any Rule or order of the Court.

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 03/11/2025

Looking through the briefs in Trump v. Wilcox, the case in which the Supreme Court will overturn Humphrey’s Executor, and I come across this brief listing John Eastman as counsel of record. Wasn’t he disbarred for trying to help Trump overturn the 2020 election? www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 20/10/2025

Imagine if Obama unilaterally tore down the White House and built this as a replacement.

AI-generated image. Prompt: “Imagine a Democratic president tore down the White House and replaced it with an ultramodern building. What might that look like?” The image depicts a sleek, modern, multi-story office building with flowing, curved white levels and expansive glass windows, set against a clear blue sky on a manicured lawn with a prominent American flag flying on a pole to the right.

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 13/09/2025

Amazing, Fox News is trying to prop up Kash Patel

Fox News lede story: “Father identifies son as Charlie Kirk’s alleged shooter after FBI chief’s bold evidence strategy”

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 13/09/2025

Remember how after 9/11 Trump bragged about how now he had the tallest building in lower Manhattan?

The day after Charlie Kirk was killed, Stephen Crowder changed his Twitter bio from talking about hosting “the #2 Conservative Daily Show” to “the #1 Conservative Daily Show”

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 12/09/2025

And as we all know, that prediction came true and today there are no more coders.

Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 04/09/2025

The second Trump administration, finding new innovations in the art of institutional destruction since 2025

“Trump’s Federal Reserve pick plans to keep his White House job while serving on central bank, in unusual threat to Fed independence”

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 04/09/2025

This is just embarrassing for the solicitor general’s office

$“The stakes in this case could not be higher. The President and his Cabinet officials have determined that the tariffs are promoting peace and unprecedented economic prosperity, and that the denial of tariff authority would expose our nation to trade retaliation without effective defenses and thrust America back to the brink of economic catastrophe. C.A. Doc. 158, at 8-9 (Lutnick). “To the President and his most senior advisors, these tariffs thus present a stark choice: With tariffs, we are a rich nation; without tariffs, we are a poor nation. According to the President, ‘[o]ne year ago, the United States was a dead country, and now, because of the trillions of dollars being paid by countries that have so badly abused us, America is a strong, financially viable, and respected country again.’ C.A. Doc. 154, at 1 (Aug. 11, 2025). The President predicts that ‘[i]f the United States were forced to pay back the trillions of dollars committed to us, America could go from strength to failure the moment such an incorrect decision took effect,’ and ‘the economic consequences would be ruinous, instead of unprecedented success.’ Id. at 1-2. “Nonetheless, in a fractured, 7-4 decision, the en banc Federal Circuit declared that the President’s use of IEEPA tariffs was unlawful. …”$

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 30/08/2025

Getting solar panels 2.5 years ago turned out to be an extremely smart move

Graph of residential electricity costs over time showing a dramatic increase around 2022–2023 and even more increases since

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 30/08/2025

This earlier paragraph is fairly explicit (“the mutation of sexes, or transition into one another”) but uses “transexion” rather than “transfeminated”

“As for the mutation of sexes, or transition into one another, we cannot deny it in Hares, it being observable in Man. For hereof beside Empedocles or Tiresias there are not a few examples: and though very few, or rather none which have emasculated or turned women, yet very many who from an esteem or reality of being Women have infallibly proved Men. Some at the first point of their menstruous eruptions, some in the day of their marriage, others many years after: which occasioned disputes at Law, and contestations concerning a restore of the dowry. And that not only mankind, but many other Animals may suffer this transexion, we will not deny, or hold it at all impossible: although I confess by reason of the postick and backward position of the feminine part in quadrupedes, they can hardly admit the substitution of a protrusion, effectual unto masculine generation; except it be in Retromingents, and such as couple backward.”

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 30/08/2025

It sounds like this is more a description of a spontaneous natural process than one that is medically induced or treated, but that’s just a sense from quick skimming.

“But surely it much impeacheth this iterated transection of Hares, if that be true which Cardan and other Physicians affirm, that Transmutation of sex is only so in opinion; and that these transfeminated persons were really men at first; although succeeding years produced the manifesto or evidence of their virilities. Which although intended and formed, was not at first excluded: and that the examples hereof have undergone no real or new transection, but were Androgynally born, and under some kind of Hermaphrodites. For though Galen do favour the opinion, that the distinctive parts of sexes are only different in Position, that is, inversion or protrusion; yet will this hardly be made out from the Anatomy of those parts. The testicles being so seated in the female, that they admit not of protrusion; and the neck of the matrix wanting those parts which are discoverable in the organs of virility.”

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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 30/08/2025

It looks obscure but it’s worth noting that the OED does have an earlier citation for the adjective form, transfeminated, which is expressly a textual reference to people.