Melissa Stewart
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This is your regularly scheduled reminder that white evangelicals believe that both the genocide of Palestinians and war with Iran are prerequisites to the Rapture and the subsequent establishment of Christโs reign on earth. Thatโs the end goal here - complete, global Christian homogeneity.
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Justin
3 days ago
๐ถ๐ถ One of these things is not like the others, one of these things does not belong ๐ถ๐ถ
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris
3 days ago
I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1
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Chris Geidner
3 days ago
BREAKING: In a major blow to the Trump administration, a federal judge on Friday blocked the renaming of the Kennedy Center in lawsuit brought by Rep. Joyce Beatty.
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Chris Geidner
3 days ago
T. Elliot Gaiser, the head of OLC, is quickly building up a track record to qualify as one of the true villains of this era. Today, Acting AG Todd Blanche is using OLC to team up with the FCC's Brendan Carr to make it harder for some immigrants to have phones and internet access.
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I have once again been mooted
3 days ago
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This is a dumb petty point, but โGreat American State Fairโ makes no sense. What is state doing there
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Joe Dudek
3 days ago
If you are in line to cancel your Great American State Fair performance, ๐จ๐จ๐จ STAY IN LINE ๐จ๐จ๐จ
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Gillian Brockell
3 days ago
NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area.
gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...
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The PBS shows of my youth feel like a fever dream. Like what was Big Comfy Couch? What the fuck was that
4 days ago
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
4 days ago
This is an actual Thirteenth Amendment violation, because they have not been convicted of any crime.
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They just . . . Announced performers without actually booking them.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio
4 days ago
These people are captives of a concentration camp fighting back against their heavily armed captors with only their bodies. Their heroism is extraordinary. Thank you to all of the protesters standing with and for them.
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alex roberts
4 days ago
lastly, contrary to what a lot of blueskiers seem to be posting, the idea of trademark having a duty to police is dramatically overblown. patagonia letting pattie be does not meaningfully undermine the strength of its marks or its ability to enforce its marks against others.
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alex roberts
4 days ago
i think the likelihood of confusion is low because the marks are different, the stylization is different, & "patagonia" is itself a geographic region, not a fanciful term that the brand invented. nothing about the merch shown in the complaint leads me to expect confused consumers.
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Gillian Brockell
4 days ago
What the fuuuuuuuuuuuuck
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Indivisible โ๐
4 days ago
CALL YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS AND TELL THEM TO GET TO DELANEY HALL NOW: (202) 224-3121
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Whitney Curry Wimbish
4 days ago
@maketheroadnj.bsky.social
just sent out an SOS, calling on members of Congress in NJ and neighboring states to immediately go to Delaney Hall "and leverage all their power to end retaliation and free all detainees." Guards are going to kill someone if no one intervenes and shuts it down.
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Chris Geidner
4 days ago
NEW: Supreme Court, on another 5-4 vote, tosses out another death sentence. On Thursday, Justice Kavanaugh wrote his second majority opinion for the court upholding protections against racial discrimination in jury selection. Today, at Law Dork:
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Supreme Court, on another 5-4 vote, tosses out another death sentence
On Thursday, Justice Kavanaugh wrote his second majority opinion for the court upholding protections against racial discrimination in jury selection.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-court-pitchford-batson
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This would be enjoined in about 38 seconds, but it would be lowkey funny to watch them try.
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4 days ago
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Laura Bassett
4 days ago
All of it is just people starving
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Not really sure what they want from me here.
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Leah Litman
4 days ago
In light of the 3 decisions today, please, I'm dying to hear more about how Neil Gorsuch is great for criminal defendants!!!
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Too Big to Fail
4 days ago
"All the good lawyers" are in Biglaw, huh?
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Gracie Abrams presale on the exact date and time of my oral argument is a sick joke
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If youโre not familiar with this case, Pitchford did not kill anyone. The actual killer got 20 years. Pitchford got the death sentence.
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WHOA
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Chris Geidner
4 days ago
BREAKING: In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court tosses out Terry Pitchford's death sentence, ruling that the Mississippi Supreme Court improperly held that Pitchford had waived his Batson claim โ of racial discrimination in jury selection โ in his capital case.
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acallan1 is 95% of the way to a deal with Iran
5 days ago
for someone Paxton claims is vegan Talarico sure seems to like beef
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Me the week before argument:
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Man Arguing by Brick Wall
Alt: Man argues to a brick wall
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Chris Geidner
5 days ago
"Assistant federal public defender Amy Harwell, who represents [Tony] Carruthers, said what happened to him was 'not just foreseeable โ it was, in fact, foreseen.'" Important Tennessee follow up from
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Gov. Bill Lee urged to halt Tennessee death penalty - Nashville Banner
Attorneys for Tony Carruthers urge Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to pause death penalty after failed lethal injection. Calls for legal challenge to be heard.
https://nashvillebanner.com/2026/05/27/tony-carruthers-bill-lee-tennessee-executions/
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See also, the rest of the South.
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I appear to have been mooted (part 1)
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
5 days ago
I propose the sweeping reform that he resign and sweep away everyone else involved in this with him
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Anthony Michael Kreis
6 days ago
The only one abusing anything here is Prof. Wurman's violence against the history of the common law. You can't publish in the NY Times, testify to the United States Senate, submit a brief to the United States Supreme Court, have the federal government mention you to the justices, and cry smol bean.
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The person who designed my microwave is my nemesis
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Chris Geidner
6 days ago
BREAKING: SPLC seeks to have indictment tossed, arguing DOJ is engaged in an impermissible โ and unconstitutional โ vindictive prosecution.
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Courtney Milan
6 days ago
I really wish that we had this much discussion of the presumption of good faith when we were talking about the extremely well-researched and historically grounded work of Black scholars.
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Chris Geidner
6 days ago
For people saying that the three-judge panel here "ignored" SCOTUS or the like, that's just not so. The Callais ruling was about whether discriminatory effects were sufficient proof under the VRA; here there was a finding of discriminatory intent (under VRA and the 14th Amendment).
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Charlie Warzel
6 days ago
wake up babe the white house is a six flags
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Corey Rayburn Yung
7 days ago
Local law prof proudly proclaims: 1) his ideology dictates his legal analysis; and 2) he published his NYT op-ed before doing the scholarly legwork supporting it because it would have taken too much time to do the other way. Wow.
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Leah McElrath
7 days ago
Pope Leo quoting Tolkien in his encyclical on AI seems like a pointed reference for the tech oligarchs who have appropriated LOTR for their own ends.
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Whatโs it called when you get seasonal depression but in the summer? Because I have that.
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Sean Hecker
10 days ago
We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. Itโs a good day.
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Chris Geidner
10 days ago
BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses the case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Tennessee. Opinion:
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Order:
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Jon Seidel
10 days ago
NEW: U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin's office reacts to Thursday's "Broadview Six" revelations. The former lead prosecutor in the case had serving as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now Durbin's office says her detail from the Justice Department "has been terminated."
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Media stop pestering Jack about Taylorโs wedding when he is promoting his own fucking art challenge
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Proletariat
10 days ago
We allowed Israel to genocide a people just on the rumor of rape but first hand accounts by citizens of Canada and its all, "Oh well, we condemn." Canada has operators that provide training for the Iron Dome. Turn it off.
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My hot take is that the presumption of regularity is an objectively bananas doctrine and we should do away with it entirely.
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Illegal Aliens And Women Hat
11 days ago
Some notes now that Iโve seen the transcript of the hearing, thanks to
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WHOMST AMONG US has not experienced IT issues which just happen to conceal evidence of misconduct from the court
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