Patrick Woods
@pwoodsny.bsky.social
Admin Law, procedure, state & US con. law, criminal justice, and appellate practice. Also permaculture, herbs, and oddness.
Opinions and typos mine. #appellatesky #lawsky
Opinions and typos mine. #appellatesky #lawsky
Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source.
August 9, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source.
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You are an odd man
August 8, 2024 at 12:39 AM
You are an odd man
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people online are upset that Walz required schools to put menstrual products in the men’s restrooms. but it’s no big deal to put something in the men’s room most men don’t use. they already do that with the hand soap
August 8, 2024 at 8:25 PM
people online are upset that Walz required schools to put menstrual products in the men’s restrooms. but it’s no big deal to put something in the men’s room most men don’t use. they already do that with the hand soap
Is Randy Rainbow over here yet? This has his name written all over it.
In a better world, Irving Berlin would already have composed “The Harris Waltz” and Vernon and Irene Castle would already have established it as an international dance craze.
August 8, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Is Randy Rainbow over here yet? This has his name written all over it.
If Biden had made the same mistake about the dates, NYT would have 5 columns tomorrow on how he's too old and must drop out.
NEW: Trump has agreed to take part in the previously scheduled ABC debate on Sept. 10, an ABC News spokesperson tells Brian Stelter. David Muir and Linsey Davis will moderate. Location TBA. Stelter says that Trump misspoke / mixed up the dates in his press conference
August 8, 2024 at 9:16 PM
If Biden had made the same mistake about the dates, NYT would have 5 columns tomorrow on how he's too old and must drop out.
We are going to see so much more of this. Walz, a white Midwestern guy, will make them have to try to attack him "on the merits."
The problem being that GOP policy is broadly unpopular when explained on the merits, especially when it comes to things like this.
The problem being that GOP policy is broadly unpopular when explained on the merits, especially when it comes to things like this.
Over on xitter #tampontim is trending because MAGA is insulting Tim Walz for...
making sure students had access to free period products
making sure students had access to free period products
August 7, 2024 at 12:18 PM
We are going to see so much more of this. Walz, a white Midwestern guy, will make them have to try to attack him "on the merits."
The problem being that GOP policy is broadly unpopular when explained on the merits, especially when it comes to things like this.
The problem being that GOP policy is broadly unpopular when explained on the merits, especially when it comes to things like this.
Dems in punctuation disarray! -NYT sometime this week.
Overheard:
Harris and Walz are about to enter apostrophe hell.
Harris and Walz are about to enter apostrophe hell.
August 7, 2024 at 10:53 AM
Dems in punctuation disarray! -NYT sometime this week.
What’s your favorite way Tim Walz will “unleash hell?” I’ll start:
Tim Walz will unleash hell by insisting that we all stop fighting back here right now or he is turning this car around.
Tim Walz will unleash hell by insisting that we all stop fighting back here right now or he is turning this car around.
The felon sent out a fundraising text claiming that Tim Walz will “unleash hell on earth.”
What’s your favorite way Tim Walz will “unleash hell?” I’ll start:
Tim Walz will unleash hell by insisting that everyone fasten their damn seatbelts.
What’s your favorite way Tim Walz will “unleash hell?” I’ll start:
Tim Walz will unleash hell by insisting that everyone fasten their damn seatbelts.
August 7, 2024 at 2:16 AM
What’s your favorite way Tim Walz will “unleash hell?” I’ll start:
Tim Walz will unleash hell by insisting that we all stop fighting back here right now or he is turning this car around.
Tim Walz will unleash hell by insisting that we all stop fighting back here right now or he is turning this car around.
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Tim Walz: "Oh, looks like I got a phone call there. Never mind, keep telling me about Pichaku, son."
August 6, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Tim Walz: "Oh, looks like I got a phone call there. Never mind, keep telling me about Pichaku, son."
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For my friends and family in Texas: Check your voter registration weekly up until you get to vote. The GOP is working overtime to purge voter rolls of anyone they think might vote against them. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
2.1 Million & Climbing Voter Suspension List In TX
From Raw Story per Dallas Morning News, haven’t seen it posted here yet apologies if it has been www.rawstory.com/… As the presidential contest draws nearer, Texas faces pivotal elections including a ...
www.dailykos.com
August 6, 2024 at 2:54 AM
For my friends and family in Texas: Check your voter registration weekly up until you get to vote. The GOP is working overtime to purge voter rolls of anyone they think might vote against them. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
I cannot agree with this thread more. I was already teaching Admin Law this way and will again if I return to teaching in the future.
I'm not saying go 100% Realist, argue something like "the written law is irrelevant. Norms are irrelevant. It's all 100% pure politics."
That's an overstatement.
But if we aren't teaching our students how formal law translates into law-on-the-ground, we're doing them a disservice. In every class.
That's an overstatement.
But if we aren't teaching our students how formal law translates into law-on-the-ground, we're doing them a disservice. In every class.
August 5, 2024 at 2:47 PM
I cannot agree with this thread more. I was already teaching Admin Law this way and will again if I return to teaching in the future.
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This piece. Read it.
And not just if you're a con law person. This passage is true for EVERY class.
The criminal code or caselaw isn't "the law" of crim, given cops don't have to make arrests (or can make flimsy claims), DAs don't have to charge (or can plea around bad police work), etc. etc.
And not just if you're a con law person. This passage is true for EVERY class.
The criminal code or caselaw isn't "the law" of crim, given cops don't have to make arrests (or can make flimsy claims), DAs don't have to charge (or can plea around bad police work), etc. etc.
August 5, 2024 at 2:14 PM
This piece. Read it.
And not just if you're a con law person. This passage is true for EVERY class.
The criminal code or caselaw isn't "the law" of crim, given cops don't have to make arrests (or can make flimsy claims), DAs don't have to charge (or can plea around bad police work), etc. etc.
And not just if you're a con law person. This passage is true for EVERY class.
The criminal code or caselaw isn't "the law" of crim, given cops don't have to make arrests (or can make flimsy claims), DAs don't have to charge (or can plea around bad police work), etc. etc.
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If you have friends wondering if they have Long Covid—or equally, GPs who are unclear on it—a great new resource.
The New England Journal of Medicine just published a summary of the new NASEM definition of Long Covid, in case that can help you figure it out! You don’t have to read the whole thing, if you scroll to “Box 1” (just below Figure 1), it has a good summary of the summary! Also great to share w/a GP.
Long Covid Defined | NEJM
Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine describe
the process and rationale for the development of the 2024 definition of persistent
Covid-19 symptoms (long Covid).
www.nejm.org
August 2, 2024 at 11:58 PM
If you have friends wondering if they have Long Covid—or equally, GPs who are unclear on it—a great new resource.
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🎵 the cat’s in the cradle & the silver spoon /
shut the hell up about pikachu 🎵
shut the hell up about pikachu 🎵
August 3, 2024 at 2:13 AM
🎵 the cat’s in the cradle & the silver spoon /
shut the hell up about pikachu 🎵
shut the hell up about pikachu 🎵
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Not mine but I can't find the original source.
August 2, 2024 at 11:06 PM
Not mine but I can't find the original source.
Five comfort watches, no order:
Harvey (Jimmy Stewart version)
The Incredibles
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Princess Mononoke
Star Wars: A New Hope
Harvey (Jimmy Stewart version)
The Incredibles
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Princess Mononoke
Star Wars: A New Hope
Five comfort watches, no order:
Fifth Element
Big Night
PeeWee's Big Adventure
The Man Who Would Be King (problematic)
Any LotR
Fifth Element
Big Night
PeeWee's Big Adventure
The Man Who Would Be King (problematic)
Any LotR
Five comfort watches, no order:
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Mallrats
Earth Girls Are Easy
PG: Psycho Goreman
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Mallrats
Earth Girls Are Easy
PG: Psycho Goreman
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
August 2, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Five comfort watches, no order:
Harvey (Jimmy Stewart version)
The Incredibles
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Princess Mononoke
Star Wars: A New Hope
Harvey (Jimmy Stewart version)
The Incredibles
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Princess Mononoke
Star Wars: A New Hope
Post a picture of you that's not actually a picture of you.
August 2, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Post a picture of you that's not actually a picture of you.
I just noticed that they went back and edited the credits on the first season of Umbrella Academy to reflect "Elliot Page" and it's awesome.
August 1, 2024 at 3:41 PM
I just noticed that they went back and edited the credits on the first season of Umbrella Academy to reflect "Elliot Page" and it's awesome.
This is so true.
My great-grandfather (Sicilian) and great-grandmother (Jewish) were each thrown out of their respective families for marrying each other. Most likely today the only issues would be what the service looks like and how the kids are raised.
My great-grandfather (Sicilian) and great-grandmother (Jewish) were each thrown out of their respective families for marrying each other. Most likely today the only issues would be what the service looks like and how the kids are raised.
August 1, 2024 at 3:05 AM
This is so true.
My great-grandfather (Sicilian) and great-grandmother (Jewish) were each thrown out of their respective families for marrying each other. Most likely today the only issues would be what the service looks like and how the kids are raised.
My great-grandfather (Sicilian) and great-grandmother (Jewish) were each thrown out of their respective families for marrying each other. Most likely today the only issues would be what the service looks like and how the kids are raised.
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Frederick Douglass on what happens when black people don’t fit racist stereotypes:
July 31, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Frederick Douglass on what happens when black people don’t fit racist stereotypes:
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This is dumb and weird. OK very online white people, your job now is to remind your normie friends that K. Harris grew up in Oakland and attended Howard University at 18. Trump's attack is designed to invalidate her and it cannot stand. But we're not going to see those attacks. So it's on you.
… This was not an accident. Trump wants a birther-style campaign against Harris, and it will now begin in earnest. Initial responses:
July 31, 2024 at 7:26 PM
This is dumb and weird. OK very online white people, your job now is to remind your normie friends that K. Harris grew up in Oakland and attended Howard University at 18. Trump's attack is designed to invalidate her and it cannot stand. But we're not going to see those attacks. So it's on you.
If Biden had said this there would have been dozens of calls for him to step down as too old.
"a lot of the journalists in this room are black," trump says to the national association of black journalists conference
July 31, 2024 at 6:52 PM
If Biden had said this there would have been dozens of calls for him to step down as too old.
I like to think I'm somewhere in the top right quadrant.
July 31, 2024 at 5:28 PM
I like to think I'm somewhere in the top right quadrant.
Time spent genuinely worrying about whether you are leaving the world a better place is one of the best signals that you are, in fact, doing so.
On the dark days when I worry that I am leaving the world worse than I found it, I remind myself that librarians used my books to get a bunch of kids reading.
And also the many turtles I have helped across the road. When my heart is on the scales, really hoping the turtle weight makes up for it.
And also the many turtles I have helped across the road. When my heart is on the scales, really hoping the turtle weight makes up for it.
July 31, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Time spent genuinely worrying about whether you are leaving the world a better place is one of the best signals that you are, in fact, doing so.