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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 43m

Right, if you thought "tanking" for better draft position in the NBA was bad . . .

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 50m

I really like this. “Nobel Certificate of Merit, Genocidaire Division…”

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 54m

This is literally a comedy sketch in the United States. youtu.be/KivCRqfFcqY?...

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It's Illegal to Say

YouTube video by WKUK: Whitest Kids U’ Know

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 15h

This is a really solemn responsibility you’ve taken on.

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 19h

This is clearly not acceptable

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 22h

Yup! I've been casually following this. In recent weeks, compare Judge Katsas (D.C. Cir.) (using DoW, but then adding "[DoD] which now calls itself DoW") and Judge Immergut (D. Or.) ("[DoD] is the official name designated by statute") with Judge Davis (W.D.Tx.) (it's Department of War now).

Over the past two years, the Department of Defense (which now calls itself the Department of War) has greatly expanded its use of AI. During this time, Anthropic partially—but not completely—relaxed its use restrictions to accommodate the Department.

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The Department of Defense is also referred to as the Department of War, abbreviated as DoW. This Court refers to the agency as the Department of Defense because that is its official name designated by statute. See 10 U.S.C. § 111.

From the scatered record provided by the parties, it appears that at least from October 2022, Zhou and some of Plaintiff's employees were prioritizing the acquisition of lucrative U.S. Department of War (then-Defense) contracts. See ECF No. 20-1 at pp. 1-5. Because Zhou is a citizen and native of the People's Republic of China, it appears that his control over and majority ownership (which had dipped to 94%) of Plaintiff would prove to be an insurmountable barrier to defense contracts. Id.

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

👀 (This is gonna be quite the contrast w/ the America250 stuff.)

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Challenges for cause" are understudied, lawless, and really important.

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

BREAKING: Christa Pike is now awake and talking, per her attorneys:

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Of all of the monuments to Trump that will need to be torn down in 2029 and beyond, the 450 years’ imprisonment meted out to the Prairieland 8 has to be one of the most obscene. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/m...

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Inside the Group of Texans Accused of Being Antifa Terrorists

The strange story behind the first federal terrorism prosecution of American protesters.

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Story here. Attorneys say Pike is unconscious, on a ventilator and that both of her arms were “swollen, burned, and blistered” upon her arrival at the hospital Wednesday night. nashvillebanner.com/2026/10/02/c...

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Christa Pike on ventilator after failed execution attempt - Nashville Banner

Christa Pike was unconscious and on a ventilator a day after she survived two doses oft the lethal injection drug pentobarbital, according to a court filing.

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Alright here's my American Legal History syllabus drive.google.com/file/d/1FZY1...

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_American Legal history Syllabus 2026.pdf

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The statement of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide on the botched execution of Christa Pike is worth reading in full.

CCDPW Statement on the botched execution of
Christa Pike
October 1, 2026
Christa has endured punishment greater than any other person in the history of the American death penalty. The governor must commute Christa's sentence now.
-Randy Spivey, one of Christa Pike's lawyers
Last night, the State of Tennessee recklessly and callously sought to execute Christa Pike, notwithstanding the warnings of medical experts that Tennessee's lethal injection protocol would cause her to experience agonizing pain and psychological terror. Today, Christa remains in the hospital after the State tried and failed to execute her over the course of two hours. We do not know whether she will recover and what her recovery will look like. We are heartbroken for Christa's family, friends, and her legal team for having to endure the consequences of the state's barbarity.
After she was strapped to the gurney, the execution team inserted at least seven different needles in her left arm over the course of an hour. According to Christa's lawyer Randy Spivey, one of the needles appeared to be bent as they removed it from her arm. Medical experts had anticipated these problems based on Christa's small veins and a condition called thrombocytosis. When the executioners finally inserted an IV and injected the poison, something went terribly wrong. Although they injected her with double the usual dose of pentobarbital, Christa did not die.
While some media outlets reported that she was "snoring," her attorney and others stated that she whimpered, heaved, choked, breathed deep and raspy breaths, and moved frequently. At one point she stated that she felt her arm was burning up.
Christa's lawyers demanded that the prison halt the execution, they begged the courts and the governor to intervene, and they were met with stony silence while Christa suffered. Two and a half hours after the execution process began, the prison finally called an ambulance to take Christa to the hospital, where she is receiving t…

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Worth re-reading the whole statement, today particularly: www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/9...

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Callins v. Collins,,510 U.S. 1141 (1994)

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Justice Blackmun (30 years ago): "Rather than continue to coddle the Court's delusion that the desired level of fairness has been achieved and the need for regulation eviscerated, I feel morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed."

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How many times does a far-right doctor have to inflict excruciating pain during “botched” executions before one concludes he’s doing it on purpose?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

UPDATE: At a call with the federal court tonight, "the state [of Tennessee] represented that medical personnel have begun to administer medical care as requested in the motion."

ORDER finding as moot 123 Motion to Expedite. At a conference call with counsel for all parties, the state represented that medical personnel have begun to administer medical care as requested in the motion. This is the complete order of the court. There is no document associated with this docket entry. Signed by District Judge Clifton L Corker on 9/30/2026. (Corker, Clifton) (Entered: 09/30/2026)

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To paraphrase Bryan Stevenson, the question right now isn’t whether Christa Pike deserves to die; it’s whether the State of Tennessee deserves to kill. That moral authority has been so manifestly forfeited.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've included the witness update into my story at Law Dork, but this is just horrifying — and cannot be in fitting with the state's execution protocol.

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Christa Pike's status unclear after execution attempt: Updates

Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. She is scheduled to be executed Sept. 30.

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Media witness to Pike execution just now (9:39CT): “we have no idea if she’s still alive or not.”

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

“I am not afraid to die. I’m only nervous about the process.” Just an unbelievable failure of governing and the legal system and basic decency.

Before learning Monday that Lee would not be intervening in her case, Pike wrote in a letter to NBC News, shared by her spiritual adviser:
"Whether my clemency is granted or not, l am at peace."
"I am not afraid to die," wrote Pike, who has been on death row for more than three decades. "I'm only nervous about the process."

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour.

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My team at the NVA Lab has produced a new dashboard for exploring our data on US protests from Jan 2025-May 2026. This snapshot shows the 61k+ protest events (>14.6M+ recorded participants) active in the US since Trump's second inauguration. Link to dashboard in thread.

A platform displaying the data on US protests from the Crowd Counting Consortium. It includes a map of the US with counts of protest events in circular form overlaying the protests' locations. It also includes weekly tallies of protest events and participations, top protest issues, and various filters allowing users to explore events by location, issue, date, political valence, etc. The top of the image shows a total of 61,782 protests with 14,684,201 participants across 55 US states and territories from January 20, 2025 to May 31, 2026.

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Law schools should require all future prosecutors to spend 30 minutes learning about confirmation bias.

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sorry, what's the upside of the gamble here? Why not ram it through?

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bipartisan, but effectively split Democrats and near unanimous Republican support. This bill protects the NCAA, not college sports, and certainly not college athletes. The only way to do that is to let athletes collectively bargain (which this bill leaves out). www.espn.com/college-spor...

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U.S. Senate votes 77-22 to pass Protect College Sports Act

The Protect College Sports Act, a federal bill aimed at reshaping the industry, took a step toward becoming law on Monday when the U.S. Senate voted, 77-22, to pass it, with Ted Cruz saying "this bill puts an end to the chaos plaguing college athletics."

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The next Democratic Congress/President needs to add 35 seats to the 5th and 8th Circuits.

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Ben Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1/ The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights just released its report on campus antisemitism and Title VI. I testified at the hearing. The report is unanimous, bipartisan, & debunks the main legal theories behind recent attacks on universities for allegedly tolerating antisemitism. 🧵

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Securing this kind of concession from the Chinese right before the midterms should really shore up Trump’s standing with America’s frozen monkey meat exporters.

NYT text: The world's two biggest economies announced separate lists of nonsensitive goods worth $30 billion each that they planned to cut tariffs on, in a bid to ease economic tensions.
Washington's list of Chinese imports eligible for reduced tariffs contained 77 items, including Christmas toys and ornaments, hunting and recreational goods such as fishing hooks and skeet targets, tableware and home appliances, and car seats.
Beijing's list had 1,619 products, including frozen meat from primates and reptiles, live animals such as whales and dugongs, agricultural products including corn and vegetables, and medical devices like X-ray machines, pacemakers, ultrasound equipment and surgical robots.

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Absolutely. They’re the ones we should be the most scared of.

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have a sinking suspicion that they’re going to file something really crazy. The “supplement” from late last night means he’s not listening to the grown-ups in the White House or DOJ.

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Counsel for Defendants was up late sending Trump’s insane tweets about Ford’s Theatre to the judge. Odd he’s not responding to calls from opposing counsel this AM.

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The only other plausible explanation is that Trump’s lawyers want him to lose. But I do not think that is what’s happening with the guy whose favorite book in college was Mein Kampf.

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not inexplicable: Trump obviously told the DOJ to make sure the judge saw his insane Tweet. A self-respecting lawyer would refuse to file this and explain to his client that it was actually counterproductive.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

just a little Thursday morning constitutional crisis

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TROs are famously advisory opinions with no legal force. This shouldn’t be a big deal.

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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The great virtue of the Trump administration may be that it has pushed the argument so far, and is seeking to defend such egregious presidential behavior, that virtually no one will be on board with it and the rights-privilege distinction will die a second more final death…. Here’s hoping.

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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The NYT has reprinted the gov brief in the press ban case and it is revealing. It makes clear that the admin's central arg for why Trump could kick CNN etc. out of the WH is that access to the WH is not a right but a privilege🧵 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Read the White House Response to the Lawsuit From CNN, MS NOW and Politico

The Trump administration has defended its ban on the three media outlets in a court filing.

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh wow, this might be even worse that the memorandum. Here’s Trump saying directly that CNN was banned for reporting on the U.S. military killing 200 schoolgirls. Lawyers wrote this.

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Don’t get carried away now… bsky.app/profile/tfra...

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Has any Gorsuch clerk said anything about him? Because if not, I'm just assuming this is normal talk at the clerk reunion. Like, I'm assuming it's a Nazi bar by now.

Wikipedia entry for "Nazi Bar": Etymology
Popularized by a July 2020 tweet by Michael B. Tager (@IamRageSparkle) explaining how he had once witnessed a bartender expell a non-disruptive customer whose "vest … was all nazi shit" because

"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too. And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now.["][1][2]

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In fairness, there really is a need for more national security infrastructure in this part of Northern Virginia.

Satellite map of area showing Pentagon nearby.

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is really solid writing on how the APA works for non-lawyers. More of this please.

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