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Athul K. Acharya
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Civil-rights lawyer
Executive Director of @pubaccountability.org

https://pubaccountability.org/athul-k-acharya
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I’ve filed a variation on this brief 4-5 times now, and these two grafs have never changed. Some day I may do better for beat and punch, but I think it’ll be a long while
When Roman law introduced appellate review, it allowed appeals from interlocutory as well as final orders. Carleton M. Crick, The Final Judgment as a Basis for Appeal, 41 Yale L.J. 539, 540-41 (1932). The Romans soon found this liberality "burdensome" and scrapped it. Id. By the time of Justinian, "practically all" interlocutory appeals were forbid-den. Id. at 541 n.7 (quoting William W. Buckland, A Text-Book of Roman Law from Augustus to Justinian 665 (1921)). At common law, the same rule prevailed: "[N]o writ of error could be brought except on a final judgment." McLish v. Roff, 141 U.S. 661, 665 (1891). Across the Atlantic, the First Congress enacted this "well settled and ancient rule" into American law with the Judiciary Act of 1789. Id.; Cunningham v. Hamilton Cnty., 527 U.S. 198, 203 (1999). Today, the final-judgment rule can be found at 28 U.S.C. S 1291, which vests the courts of appeals with jurisdiction to review "final decisions" of the district courts.
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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my wife:
fuck off it's for the kid
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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oh so NOW you want to roll back qualified immunity
Each violation would be worth at least $500,000 in any legal claim, according to the bill language. The bill would also sharply limit the way the government could resist such a claim, taking away any government claims of qualified or sovereign immunity to fight a lawsuit over the issue.
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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(sigh)
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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lmao I don't think Gemini has a sycophancy problem
The pile-up of comma clauses at the end is usually something l'd avoid, but it feels like it works here, kind of like how Robert A. Caro will occasionally throw in a long, meandering, subclause-laden sentence. Or am I getting high on my own supply? Elite Law Clerk • Custom Gem You're getting high on your own supply.
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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lmao the honesty in this changelog
About This Feature This feature exists because: - Many iTerm2 features translate well to web browsing - It provides a unified terminal and browser experience - A former colleague suggested this idea in 2014 and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. - I am maybe having a midlife crisis and this is cheaper than a sports car. While not intended as a primary browser, iTerm2's web capabilities provide a useful tool for integrated terminal and web workflows.
November 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Copy-editing someone else’s tweets for showing insufficient sympathy has got to be some kind of blueskyism Achievement Unlocked
My problem was with the phrase "should have to suffer," which I would replace with "has to suffer," which shows sympathy for the undeserving victims. November 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
November 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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That’s right.
No matter what the new regulations purport to do, they cannot give the Department of Homeland Security more powers than Congress or the Constitution have granted, said Athul Acharya, executive director of the Portland-based nonprofit law firm Public Accountability. He said, "Whatever powers the Trump administration may have, or think it has, or tries to give itself, it can't authorize the use of excessive force, it can't stop people from exercising their right to free speech, and it can't stop reporters from reporting on what's happening at federal properties."
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Honestly if you haven't sent texts like these in the last 10 months I think that's disqualifying
In the text messages, Jones wrote that he would "piss on graves" of GOP opponents and mused about a fantasy hypothetical shooting of Republican Todd Gilbert, who was then speaker of the House of Delegates. In a statement to CBS News at the time, Jones said he took full responsibility for his actions and apologized for the texts.
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Critical support to this old lady though
October 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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October 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Pizza night. I call this one “Secret Blend of Herbs and, uh, Herbs.”
October 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war: • The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early- modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution - eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, 'perfect' solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that 'nothing lasts forever. So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn't work. Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure. In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it's 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it's something like the antichrist. There's Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ's crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation. Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month. jesse what the fuck are you talking about
October 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Great job Spotify
Thirtha Vitthala (ahir bhairav) • Nagaraj Rao Havaldar d Beetagaye Din Raina (multani) • Nagaraj Rao Havaldar d Bisaragaye Mero Haar (kedar) • Nagaraj Rao Havaldar d Maili Chaadar (khammaj • Nagaraj Rao Havaldar d •l Jo Bhaje Hari Ko Sada (bhairavi) Nagaraj Rao Havaldar Recommended songs Based on the songs of this playlist Prison Sex
October 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Castro v. Guevara is an objectively hilarious name for a case
Supreme Court of the United States No. 25A376 SAMANTHA ESTEFANIA FRANCISCO CASTRO Applicant, JOSE LEONARDO BRITO GUEVARA
October 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Timeline cleanse—“draw me like one of your French girls”
October 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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PDX 2020 veterans rn
James Franco first time blank meme template
September 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Buzzed Helens so close I could practically touch it
September 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
September 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Damn get. her. ass.
Ilhan Omar& @||hanMN • Follow Would love to see you get the help you need next. You belong in rehab, not Congress. Nancy Mace • @NancyMace We would love to see you deported back to Somalia next. 8:33 AM • Sep 17, 2025
September 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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we’re in ur courts
protecting ur rights
September 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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omfg
September 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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The one thing you could say about The Atlantic was at least it had a consistent editorial line on Trump and MAGA: Against.

Well, nevermind!
Now the most recent incarnation of "techno-utopianism" as imagined by Abundance libs is explicitly a Democratic project. The notion of Thompson and Klein is something like, Well, we believe the government is broken, but it could and should be used for great things, while Republicans don't seem to believe in the concept of government at all. So were appealing to libs rather than right- wingers. Fair enough. Or, it would be fair enough if we pretended Donald Trump did not exist, and these past eight years of right-wing evolution were just an especially embarrassing daydream. But what I'm saying is, I hear you. I get it. We're banking on the openly violent left over MAGA moms who voted for Trump because their preschool teacher told little Sally she might be a man. Also, the eggs were really expensive.
September 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Kombucha girl meme reversed
September 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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