Res Ipsa Loquitter
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Just learned I have my first case going to the state supreme court!!
November 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Just learned I have my first case going to the state supreme court!!
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Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
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Thomas Jr., Landon
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Got another call from Connelly..
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Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
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In other words, the Court is trying to buy itself two more days to see if the House approves the shutdown deal (which may well moot this case), rather than having to rule *now* on whether USDA can be forced to fully fund SNAP for November. And KBJ objects because she’d just deny the application now.
November 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
In other words, the Court is trying to buy itself two more days to see if the House approves the shutdown deal (which may well moot this case), rather than having to rule *now* on whether USDA can be forced to fully fund SNAP for November. And KBJ objects because she’d just deny the application now.
What counts as work drama at my job would just be incomprehensible to anyone who is not an appellate attorney. I tell my coworkers "They filed a motion to publish!" and my coworkers gasp and yell "Those bitches!"
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
What counts as work drama at my job would just be incomprehensible to anyone who is not an appellate attorney. I tell my coworkers "They filed a motion to publish!" and my coworkers gasp and yell "Those bitches!"
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Today is #ElectionDay in 39 states across the country. Know your voting rights!
Images: When We All Vote
Images: When We All Vote
November 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Today is #ElectionDay in 39 states across the country. Know your voting rights!
Images: When We All Vote
Images: When We All Vote
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Trump's average disapproval rating has hit 56% in our tracker at fiftyplusone.news. He is now just a point off his (then historically low) net approval rating at this point in 2017, and nearly meeting the high point of Joe Biden's disapproval rating in 2022/late 2024 (57.3%).
November 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Trump's average disapproval rating has hit 56% in our tracker at fiftyplusone.news. He is now just a point off his (then historically low) net approval rating at this point in 2017, and nearly meeting the high point of Joe Biden's disapproval rating in 2022/late 2024 (57.3%).
Is it so wrong for me to want to own a house just so that I can install cute little wall sconces from Anthropologie
November 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Is it so wrong for me to want to own a house just so that I can install cute little wall sconces from Anthropologie
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JUST IN: Courts ordered SNAP payments to restart, and the Trump administration said Monday the food benefits would be half the normal payment. About 1 in 8 U.S. residents get an average of $187 a month per person on SNAP.
SNAP benefits will restart, but it will be half the normal payment
Courts ordered SNAP payments to restart, and the Trump administration said Monday the food benefits would be half the normal payment. About 1 in 8 U.S. residents get an average of $187 a month per person on SNAP.
n.pr
November 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
JUST IN: Courts ordered SNAP payments to restart, and the Trump administration said Monday the food benefits would be half the normal payment. About 1 in 8 U.S. residents get an average of $187 a month per person on SNAP.
THEY SNUGGLED TODAY
November 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
THEY SNUGGLED TODAY
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Breaking news: More Americans blame President Trump and Republicans in Congress than Democrats for the nearly month-long government shutdown, according to a Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll.
Americans blame Trump and GOP more than Democrats for shutdown, poll finds
Independents hold Trump and Republicans responsible for the shutdown by a 2-to-1 margin, according to a poll conducted by The Washington Post, ABC News and Ipsos.
wapo.st
October 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Breaking news: More Americans blame President Trump and Republicans in Congress than Democrats for the nearly month-long government shutdown, according to a Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll.
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BREAKING: Trump orders the Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons for the first time since 1992.
Trump orders Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons 'immediately'
The U.S. voluntarily halted nuclear explosive testing in 1992, though it has the ability to resume tests at a site in Nevada.
nbcnews.to
October 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
BREAKING: Trump orders the Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons for the first time since 1992.
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JUST IN: Anonymous 7th Circuit judge(s) block Chicago federal district judge Sara Ellis' order requiring Border Patrol commander to come to court each evening to report on public interactions during immigration enforcement. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#6 in Kristi Noem v. Sara L. Ellis (7th Cir., 25-2936) – CourtListener.com
ORDER re: 1. Petition for a writ of mandamus. 2. Emergency motion for a stay pending a ruling on the government’s petition for a writ of mandamus and an immediate administrative stay. The government’s...
storage.courtlistener.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
JUST IN: Anonymous 7th Circuit judge(s) block Chicago federal district judge Sara Ellis' order requiring Border Patrol commander to come to court each evening to report on public interactions during immigration enforcement. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Breaking news: The United States economy will lose between $7 billion and $14 billion due to the federal government shutdown, according to a report released by Congress’s nonpartisan bookkeeper.
Report: Government shutdown will cost the economy up to $14 billion
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the longer the government stays closed, the more costly the pause will be.
wapo.st
October 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Breaking news: The United States economy will lose between $7 billion and $14 billion due to the federal government shutdown, according to a report released by Congress’s nonpartisan bookkeeper.
Even if this was an unusual way to frame his relationship to this relative - it's not, I have a second cousin I've always called my aunt - it's such a meaningless distinction. They're bending over backwards to label Mamdani as untrustworthy, and they're getting away with it because he's not white.
I finally tortured myself by looking into the 'controversy' over Mamdani and it's even stupider than I thought: his "aunt" isn't just a female family friend of an older generation, it's his father's cousin.
100% of white people understand that person being called an "aunt." Most would say the same.
100% of white people understand that person being called an "aunt." Most would say the same.
Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”
October 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Even if this was an unusual way to frame his relationship to this relative - it's not, I have a second cousin I've always called my aunt - it's such a meaningless distinction. They're bending over backwards to label Mamdani as untrustworthy, and they're getting away with it because he's not white.
He's mad at me because I told him to stop licking my elbow
October 29, 2025 at 3:22 AM
He's mad at me because I told him to stop licking my elbow
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This article quotes the university president saying Lia was on the women's swimming and diving team, but she's not on this year's roster on their athletic department website. The NCAA banned her from being on the team when Trump first took office.
Lía Smith, a missing trans student in Vermont has been found dead.
"Vermont State Police touted the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline for those in distress or their loved ones." This is the same lifeline the Trump admin cut for LGBTQ people in crisis.
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
"Vermont State Police touted the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline for those in distress or their loved ones." This is the same lifeline the Trump admin cut for LGBTQ people in crisis.
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
Missing Middlebury College student confirmed dead after dayslong search, Vermont police say
Middlebury student Lia Smith, 21, was found dead Thursday, Vermont police confirmed. She had been reported missing several days prior.
www.boston.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This article quotes the university president saying Lia was on the women's swimming and diving team, but she's not on this year's roster on their athletic department website. The NCAA banned her from being on the team when Trump first took office.
Had the once-in-a-lifetime experience last night of scream-singing the chorus of Unwritten while dancing in the rain on the patio at my wedding reception
October 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Had the once-in-a-lifetime experience last night of scream-singing the chorus of Unwritten while dancing in the rain on the patio at my wedding reception
i love the protest frogs
October 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
i love the protest frogs
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It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.
October 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.
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The new Supreme Court term starts today, meaning that -- in a novel twist -- the justices will hear oral arguments in some cases before they issue rulings that actually explain what they are doing.
October 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The new Supreme Court term starts today, meaning that -- in a novel twist -- the justices will hear oral arguments in some cases before they issue rulings that actually explain what they are doing.
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Again these are the officers under JB’s authority. Don’t need name patches “with this uniform.” At least five of the protesters arrested yesterday were arrested by ISP or CCSO.
Have seen a few troopers out here without their name patches. This one tells me they're not required to wear them "with this uniform."
Asked him to identify himself and he then told me his name is "Tad Nelson."
Asked him to identify himself and he then told me his name is "Tad Nelson."
October 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Again these are the officers under JB’s authority. Don’t need name patches “with this uniform.” At least five of the protesters arrested yesterday were arrested by ISP or CCSO.
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.
October 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.
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@evanbernick.bsky.social @anthonymkreis.bsky.social this is such an amazing paragraph from the First Circuit.
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
October 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
@evanbernick.bsky.social @anthonymkreis.bsky.social this is such an amazing paragraph from the First Circuit.
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
This won't be my favorite album. But I like plenty of the songs well enough.
I think the lyrics of Wood are very reminiscent of Blank Space, mocking the public perception of her. But I don't know how many people will think the same.
I think the lyrics of Wood are very reminiscent of Blank Space, mocking the public perception of her. But I don't know how many people will think the same.
October 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This won't be my favorite album. But I like plenty of the songs well enough.
I think the lyrics of Wood are very reminiscent of Blank Space, mocking the public perception of her. But I don't know how many people will think the same.
I think the lyrics of Wood are very reminiscent of Blank Space, mocking the public perception of her. But I don't know how many people will think the same.