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Let’s talk about Transformers! Or we could talk about law stuff, I guess. If you really want to.
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Alejandra Caraballo
10 months ago
It seems like federal district courts are in full revolt against SCOTUS. I've never seen such direct scathing criticism of SCOTUS like this from the bench over their shadow docket rulings quietly overturning precedent without explanation. From the Harvard decision today.
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A Blokees-heavy August Rodimus Collection update!
www.shadowbot.com/rodimus/posts/2025/8/31/august-2025-collection-update
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August 2025 Rodimus Collection Update — Shadowbot
This month also saw the Ages 3 And Up exclusive version of the MDLX Rodimus figure from Threezero in Lost Light colors. Between this and Shattered Glass, we’re reaching almost seeker-level mold reuse ...
https://www.shadowbot.com/rodimus/posts/2025/8/31/august-2025-collection-update
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Today, on a weekend with both kids away, Lori and I got up and did stuff. Woodland Art Fair, lunch at Sawyer’s downtown, and then finally visited the Lexington History Museum. 25 points for intentionality! Now, naps.
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Chris McFeely
10 months ago
As a certified Rescue Bots mark, I practically vaulted over a row of chairs to be sure I got a pic of
@thatlionwhocos.bsky.social
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Updates to the Rodimus Collection for July - Blokees and Ziplocs and maybe-but-I-don’t-know bootlegs?
www.shadowbot.com/rodimus/post...
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July 2025 Collection Update — Shadowbot
There’s a new plush keychain from Reesee , the first Hot Rod Blokees figure (which resulted in me buying all of the Defender figures so I could also get all of the pieces for Devastator), and the n...
https://www.shadowbot.com/rodimus/posts/2025/7/11/july-2025-collection-update
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This is obvious BS (not only for the political reasons; it just ignores Escobar's materiality requirements). But perhaps this obvious BS will finally force the courts to put limits on an out-of-control relator's bar bringing meritless FCA cases.
www.wsj.com/opinion/whis...
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Opinion | Whistleblowers Can Stop Illegal DEI
The Justice Department expands its effort against discrimination by invoking the False Claims Act.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/whistleblowers-can-stop-illegal-dei-justice-department-effort-against-discrimination-expansion-cb83c927?st=kE8ZUu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
about 1 year ago
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Parker Molloy
about 1 year ago
And ultimately, Chuck Schumer made a "deal" in which the Dems wouldn't fill the spot. So now, instead, Trump's hush-money lawyer is getting a lifetime appointment to the 3rd circuit
afj.org/article/circ...
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Circuit Courts Face Political Flips if Senate Democrats Follow Through on Confirmation 'Deal' - Alliance for Justice
https://afj.org/article/circuit-courts-face-political-flips-if-senate-democrats-follow-through-on-confirmation-deal/
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Kat Abughazaleh
about 1 year ago
The current budget bill is an atrocity and out-of-touch leaders like Chuck Schumer laid the groundwork by voting for the CR. Appeasement and complicity do not work. When you bend the knee, they’ll break your leg.
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Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! It is unthinkable that the Trump admin would not encourage the worst forms of exploitation so long as there’s money to be made.
techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/w...
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White House scraps plan to block data brokers from selling Americans' sensitive data | TechCrunch
The decision to reverse course comes after an industry lobby group called for the rule change to be withdrawn.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/white-house-scraps-plan-to-block-data-brokers-from-selling-americans-sensitive-data/
about 1 year ago
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I can now add window glazing to my list of skills to begin leveling up from 1.
about 1 year ago
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New additions to the Rodimus collection for April: a new version of the My Busy Books Hot Rod figure (it's different!), a 2006 repaint of the Heroes of Cybertron mold, and Fans Hobby MB-15E Turbo Punk!
www.shadowbot.com/rodimus/post...
#rodimus
#rodimusprime
#hotrod
#transformers
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April 2025 Collection Update — Shadowbot
New additions to the Rodimus collection: a new version of the My Busy Books Hot Rod figure, a 2006 repaint of the Heroes of Cybertron mold, and Fans Hobby MB-15E Turbo Punk!
https://www.shadowbot.com/rodimus/posts/2025/4/29/april-2025-update
about 1 year ago
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Given the reality of the Trump admin tearing down agencies and structures that have been built over the last 70 years, where are the plans for how we’re actually going to build back better once adults get back in charge?
about 1 year ago
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Dan Larson
about 1 year ago
Just crimes. Everywhere. All the time. Crimes, crimes, crimes. They keep getting richer, we keep getting poorer, and no one faces any consequences.
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He’s bringing sexy back
#rodimus
#transformers
#shatteredglass
Not in a wholesome way, though.
about 1 year ago
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cait (and adonis)
about 1 year ago
at least he just came out and said "we are not going to do anything and are waiting for our constituents to fix our mess by taking to the streets to get killed by police"
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I can't tell if the WSJ editorial board is trolling its readership.
about 1 year ago
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I’ve now got my whole Hot Rod/Rodimus collection individually photographed and up on my collection site. Come check it out!
#transformers
#rodimus
#toycollectors
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Shadowbot
Dan Hancock collects Rodimus and Hot Rod Transformers toys - this site is the catalog for that collection.
https://www.shadowbot.com/
over 1 year ago
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My party is embarrassing. We don’t need a “calvary.” We need a “cavalry.” It’s not just a typo in the email, it’s in the subject line too. Unless you’re suggesting the party is going to sacrifice itself.
over 1 year ago
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It’s terrible that people like Rand Paul and Thomas Massie are voting the way Democratic Senate leadership should have.
over 1 year ago
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George Takei
over 1 year ago
These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
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Hot Rod has been reissued a lot, and there’s something different each time. I’ve written up a definitive guide to all of the variations of my favorite G1 Transformer!
www.shadowbot.com/rodimus/post...
#transformers
#hotrod
#rodimus
#rodimusprime
#transformersG1
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The 1986 Hot Rod Mold and its Reissues — Shadowbot
A guide to the major and minor variations between the various issues and reissues of the Transformers Hot Rod action figure.
https://www.shadowbot.com/rodimus/posts/1986hotrod
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
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Sure would be nice if the people in my house that really wanted the bathroom renovated wouldn’t be upset with me because I’m renovating the bathroom.
over 1 year ago
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Andrea Pitzer
over 1 year ago
If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.
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SchoolHouse Rock - No More Kings
YouTube video by tennesseejed93
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvOZs3g3qIo
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Steve Vladeck
over 1 year ago
“The agreement we came to.” Just two government officials publicly admitting that one sold out his constituents in exchange for not getting prosecuted for his corruption by the other’s colleagues. *This* is why six DOJ lawyers have already resigned:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/124-the-th...
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Joshua J. Friedman
over 1 year ago
READ Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Pam Bondi, via
@nytimes.com
: "Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case."
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This is, in a word and as a former AUSA, disgusting. The attorneys who are being penalized by Bove, who is a stooge, are the good guys.
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over 1 year ago
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I guess they’re saving willful court order defiance for next week. Or maybe tomorrow.
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over 1 year ago
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Josh
over 1 year ago
Just finished the overall plotting and had to draw out a little teaser
#BeastWars
#WhatIf
#Season3
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We will really need to see the states step up to hold Musk and his lawless cronies to account, as federal law enforcement has been co-opted.
over 1 year ago
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The useful days of social media were murdered by late-stage capitalism. Overreaching government idiots will now do the same to cloud storage. Soon we’ll have eradicated all of the benefits of ubiquitous internet.
sixcolors.com/link/2025/02...
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UK orders Apple to implement secret global backdoor for end-to-end encryption
Sobering story from the Washington Post’s Joseph Menn (paywalled, unfortunately) that the United Kingdom’s government has mandated Apple provide a backdoor for access to end-to-end encr…
https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/02/uk-orders-apple-to-implement-secret-global-backdoor-for-end-to-end-encryption/
over 1 year ago
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See, here’s where they might be successful, on the basis of “it takes one to know one.”
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over 1 year ago
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I’m tickled that video game golf is apparently now a televised sport, but I’m fascinated to learn that CAMBOT from MST3K has a new job!
over 1 year ago
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Yashar Ali 🐘
over 1 year ago
NEWS Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz says he’s putting a blanket hold on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up and running.
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Exclusive | Democratic Senator Says He Will Block Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back
The move would require Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use precious floor time to advance the president’s nominees through the confirmation process.
https://bit.ly/42zQs5P
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
over 1 year ago
Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options. Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.
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If one thing is obvious from the first week and a half, it’s that our Democratic presidential candidate for 2028 sure shouldn’t be anyone from the Senate.
over 1 year ago
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Josh Sternberg
over 1 year ago
The governors are correct. Democratic leadership is too old, too white, and too entrenched into rules/norms that don't exist anymore. You can't make the argument, for months, that Trump is a vital threat to democracy and then work with him.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/u...
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Schumer Is Pushed by Democratic Governors to Fight Harder Against Trump
On a call with Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, six Democratic governors pushed him to slow down the confirmation of President Trump’s nominees and to do more to block his agenda.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/us/politics/chuck-schumer-trump-agenda-cabinet.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Robert Farley
over 1 year ago
Apply to the Patterson School!
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/01/appl...
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Apply to the Patterson School! - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Long time readers will recall that I’ve made an annual tradition of pitching this community on what I do for a day job. If you recollect previous posts and know it’s not for you, feel free to skip (al...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/01/apply-to-the-patterson-school
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Has anyone gotten anything other than disturbing garbage from Apple’s image playground app?
over 1 year ago
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Concept proved. I cut a short Billy to serve as an extension to my existing short Billy toy shelves, and lit it with a Mittled light strip as my beloved Norrfly strips have been discontinued. The walls in this room slope at the top, and this takes the shelves as high as they can go.
over 1 year ago
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Your Hardcore Dad
over 1 year ago
One thing that needs to result in immediate bullying is anybody trying to humanize Mitch McConnell as some bipartisan hero for not confirming an embarassingly unqualified person when he is one of the top reasons this is happening in the first place
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John Collins
over 1 year ago
Don’t worry, Mitch McConnell, we haven’t forgotten that most of this shit is your fault.
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Kentucky Lantern
over 1 year ago
Check out Kentucky on this map. Appears that Biden administration was very, very good to Bluegrass State.
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Lady Emily ☄️
over 1 year ago
The Transformers subreddit is taking a stronger stance against Elon doing a Nazi salute than the ADL
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Blue Sky’s also a bit lonely. I have some pals here, but many of my IRL pals weren’t into Twitter even when it was great, so they aren’t looking for an alternative. I’d love to make some new pals in the Transformers and toy collecting communities. Or, if need be, other lawyers. 🤓
over 1 year ago
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Also, I’m going to plug Mozi again. No one I know except my daughter is on it (only b/c I made her sign up), so it’s lonely. But I’ve already found it useful to keep track of planned trips–some of which are just tentative–outside of a calendar that shows all of my obligations.
www.mozi.app
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Mozi: A Place For Your People
Mozi is the best way to privately share with your friends where you are and where you're going.
https://www.mozi.app/
over 1 year ago
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Third: a copy (not the best quality, but finally a copy) of Marvel’s Transformers #67, which I somehow didn’t realize until last year had a cover by Jim Lee (who is just a wonderful person to meet and talk to at a New York Toy Fair in the early 2000s when he’s in the Mattel booth promoting Batman)
over 1 year ago
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Second up: a restocked beer fridge, courtesy of our recent trip to see family in Georgia!
over 1 year ago
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