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JB Emmons
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Just a lawyer, I suppose. He/him.

🇨🇦=BC
🇺🇲=AL/MN

Nothing I do or say on Bluesky is an endorsement of anything, nor is it legal advice.
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My Bluesky timeline is cursed
Screenshot of Bluesky timeline; it depicts the parent post of this thread, but the image below is a Simpsons character saying "May I see it?"
September 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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What's that? RCMP officers joined in on this mess? You don't say.
A pastor led us in prayer and then the whole crowd launched into O Canada, just belting it out with everything we had. I even saw the RCMP join in the singing. Just typing this and remembering that moment makes the hair on my arms stand up. (Pictures from the Coutts border protest in 2022)
July 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Okay, I'll click to see this guy's deal.

(Two seconds later:) Looks like exactly what I expected
CBC News headline: I was proud to be Canadian. Now, I Support separatism for Alberta Subhead: I lost hope that Central Canada will change and believe Alberta must find its own way Picture of a white doofus in a blue polo shirt I've never felt more patriotic pride than when singing Canada with a crowd of hundreds at a protest shutting down the Coutts border crossing. It was February 2022. My wife had just lost her job after refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19. I worried I might be next, but took heart as the trucker convoy headed to Ottawa. We couldn't join them, so instead we drove south from Calgary to Coutts, Alta., for two days to show our support.
July 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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While the majority resorts to willfully blind application of distinguishable precedent, Judge Jordan sees the stakes.
If the majority opinion is right, and I do not think that it is, Florida can require that married female teachers use the last name of their husbands in the classroom even if they have chosen to keep their maiden names (because it declares as a matter of state policy that it does not like female teachers to appear to students to be independent of their husbands); it can demand that unmarried female teachers use “Mrs.” instead of “Ms.” in the classroom (because it declares as a matter of state policy that it wants students to think that their female teachers are all married or should aspire to be married); and it can require all teachers to call themselves “Teacher Smith” in the classroom instead of using their actual last names (because it declares as a matter of state policy that any pedagogic individuality is bad). If these possibilities sound “First Amendment crazy,” it is because they are.
July 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Jesse Singal Follower label never misses
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January 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM