Owen Barcala
@obarcala.bsky.social
I would prefer not to.
NM civil litigator. Trials, appeals, plaintiff, defense, you name it. Opinions are my own, not my firm's #USMC
NM civil litigator. Trials, appeals, plaintiff, defense, you name it. Opinions are my own, not my firm's #USMC
A friend of mine has a case where the NM Supreme Court granted cert more than a year ago, set argument for late November, and just quashed cert as improvidently granted. Brutal.
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
A friend of mine has a case where the NM Supreme Court granted cert more than a year ago, set argument for late November, and just quashed cert as improvidently granted. Brutal.
They know the numbers are so bad they can't even lie about them so they're just saying the Employment Numbers Machine is broken like it's a McFlurry mixer
Kevin Hassett on the October jobs report: "We'll maybe be able to concoct something, but we'll never actually know for sure what the unemployment rate was in October."
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
They know the numbers are so bad they can't even lie about them so they're just saying the Employment Numbers Machine is broken like it's a McFlurry mixer
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Just left Comey/James hearing on Halligan’s appointment. Judge Currie skeptical. Said AG Bondi could not have ratified what H did after reviewing grand jury minutes because Bondi didn’t even possess complete record at time. Ruling by Thanksgiving.
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Just left Comey/James hearing on Halligan’s appointment. Judge Currie skeptical. Said AG Bondi could not have ratified what H did after reviewing grand jury minutes because Bondi didn’t even possess complete record at time. Ruling by Thanksgiving.
Someone needs to check Megyn's emails
Oh, it's gonna happen.
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Someone needs to check Megyn's emails
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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I just remembered this from Glenn Kessler 3 months ago
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I just remembered this from Glenn Kessler 3 months ago
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The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
One thing is clear, the campaign to threaten and sue networks over their coverage definitely worked
"Trump has not been implicated in wrongdoing" -- CNN offers this dubious disclaimer in every interview they do about Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
One thing is clear, the campaign to threaten and sue networks over their coverage definitely worked
Yeesh
BNP's Barry Berke: We misunderstood your Nov 3 order
Judge Hellerstein: You didn't misunderstand. This is purposeful. You submitted nothing about this trial.
Berke: They said there was a witness, we didn't know how it was. And Mr. Baldo was not called
Judge Hellerstein: You didn't misunderstand. This is purposeful. You submitted nothing about this trial.
Berke: They said there was a witness, we didn't know how it was. And Mr. Baldo was not called
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Yeesh
Pro tip: If you have a hearing that goes much shorter than expected, you can just leave the "Hearing, Do Not Disturb" sign on the door and do other work without interruption
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Pro tip: If you have a hearing that goes much shorter than expected, you can just leave the "Hearing, Do Not Disturb" sign on the door and do other work without interruption
Les Miserables
"Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you."
"Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you."
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Les Miserables
"Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you."
"Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you."
the mystical spirits of the great beyond mixed up easements by estoppel and easements implied by prior use
the psychics provided a really messed definition of proximate cause
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
the mystical spirits of the great beyond mixed up easements by estoppel and easements implied by prior use
Loving the idea of going to psychics to assure you that you don't really need to study instead of just studying more
Kim Kardashian slams psychics who told her she'd pass the bar exam: 'All fucking full of shit'
Kim Kardashian slams psychics who told her she'd pass the bar exam: 'All f---ing full of s---'
'All f---ing full of s---': Kim Kardashian has some choice words for the psychics who predicted she'd pass the bar exam.
ew.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Loving the idea of going to psychics to assure you that you don't really need to study instead of just studying more
Getting caught cheating on my fiancée: "Honey, you need to understand, I've trained my whole life on the battlefield of crisis."
I don’t think any of us are fully prepared for the level of self-pity and absolution that’s going to be in Olivia Nuzzi’s (hilariously titled) “American Canto”
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Getting caught cheating on my fiancée: "Honey, you need to understand, I've trained my whole life on the battlefield of crisis."
They hired a writer who genuinely believes that James Bond has had seven face transplants, has grown and shrunk three inches, and has aged backwards and forwards without ever really growing older
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
They hired a writer who genuinely believes that James Bond has had seven face transplants, has grown and shrunk three inches, and has aged backwards and forwards without ever really growing older
Had a great drive to work today, no traffic, parking spot up close, and then I realized, Ah yes, I'm working on a holiday
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Had a great drive to work today, no traffic, parking spot up close, and then I realized, Ah yes, I'm working on a holiday
I think we can all agree that we'll be better off if we just forget that thing I did last weekend
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I think we can all agree that we'll be better off if we just forget that thing I did last weekend
Do I have a moral obligation to make pointless videos on Sora if it will speed up the collapse of OpenAI?
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Do I have a moral obligation to make pointless videos on Sora if it will speed up the collapse of OpenAI?
I'm a little surprised that Gorsuch was the primary justice arguing against a recovery in this case
This case has one of my favorite non-dispositive facts of all time - that the prisoner showed up to jail with a Fifth Circuit decision saying dreadlocks could not he cut, and the guards threw it out and shaved him anyway
At 10am, Supreme Court hears arguments in this religious rights case involving a Rastafarian prison inmate whose dreadlocks were cut off against his wishes:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I'm a little surprised that Gorsuch was the primary justice arguing against a recovery in this case
This makes it very clear that Trump believed the possibility of a shutdown continuing into the holidays would kill his approval numbers
Trump to air traffic controllers: "For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn’t step up to help the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK"
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This makes it very clear that Trump believed the possibility of a shutdown continuing into the holidays would kill his approval numbers
One big drawback to the era of remote hearings is that you start getting real nervous if it's a few minutes past the hearing time and you're still not let into the meeting
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
One big drawback to the era of remote hearings is that you start getting real nervous if it's a few minutes past the hearing time and you're still not let into the meeting
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This case has one of my favorite non-dispositive facts of all time - that the prisoner showed up to jail with a Fifth Circuit decision saying dreadlocks could not he cut, and the guards threw it out and shaved him anyway
At 10am, Supreme Court hears arguments in this religious rights case involving a Rastafarian prison inmate whose dreadlocks were cut off against his wishes:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Supreme Court weighs Rastafarian man's religious rights claim over shorn dreadlocks
Damon Landor is seeking damages after Louisiana prison officials cut off his dreadlocks in violation of his religious beliefs.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This case has one of my favorite non-dispositive facts of all time - that the prisoner showed up to jail with a Fifth Circuit decision saying dreadlocks could not he cut, and the guards threw it out and shaved him anyway
One of the fun things about doing business litigation is you get to see surprising ways that people make money. Apparently in New Mexico you can make an absolute killing by crushing rock into aggregate or developing mobile home parks.
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
One of the fun things about doing business litigation is you get to see surprising ways that people make money. Apparently in New Mexico you can make an absolute killing by crushing rock into aggregate or developing mobile home parks.
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Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"