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just a simple lawyer from a sleepy border town he/him
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I'm seeing double, 14 Avril Lavignes!
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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google's AI result—which is therefore absolutely, unimpeachably true—puts it at 300k to 500k worldwide (I have no particular reason to doubt this number; keep in mind a *lot* of people participated in WW2)
The worldwide total of living World War II veterans is an estimate that varies, but sources suggest the number is between 300,000 and 500,000 as of late 2024. While there is no exact worldwide count due to record-keeping differences between countries, estimates for the United States, which has one of the largest veteran populations, are fewer than 70,000 as of early 2025. Other nations, like the UK, have estimated under 8,000 surviving veterans, and Russia's numbers are also declining rapidly, notes History on the Net. Estimated worldwide total: Estimates from 2024 place the total between 300,000 and 500,000, but this is a difficult number to track globally. United States: As of early 2025, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimates fewer than 70,000 WWII veterans remain alive, a significant drop from previous years. United Kingdom: As of 2025, it is estimated that fewer than 8,000 British WWII veterans are still alive, says Blesma. Russia: The number is also declining sharply; an estimated 2.5 million in 2020 is projected to drop to just 300,000 by 2025. Reason for decline: The vast majority of WWII veterans are in their late 90s or older, so the number continues to decrease rapidly.
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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it's also mentioned in Bank's "A Few Notes on The Culture" essay
www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/...
An elaborate thought-code, self-administered in a trance-like state (or simply a consistent desire, even if not conscious) will lead, over the course of about a year, to what amounts to a viral change from one sex into the other. The convention - tradition, even - in the Culture during the time of the stories written so far is that each person should give birth to one child in their lives.
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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misread this at first as somehow being about San Diego High School
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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fwiw Catholics do explicitly believe Mary gave her consent at the Annunciation
www.vatican.va/content/cate...
969 "This motherhood of Mary in the order of grace continues uninterruptedly from the consent which she loyally gave at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross, until the eternal fulfilment of all the elect. Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation .... Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix."
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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you can see a different version of it from the trans-passport case from earlier this week; the admin made an emergency application to Justice Jackson, she set a briefing schedule,referred it to the whole court, and then she dissented from the court's risible order granting a stay
November 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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yes, they literally could actually have kept trying until they get the justice they want, per SCOTUS Rule 22 (apologies for the awkward highlighting on the complex sentence); having "circuit justices" in the first place is a holdover from the days before modern communication
Rule 22. Applications to Individual Justices 1. An application addressed to an individual Justice shall be fled with the Clerk, who will transmit it promptly to the Justice concerned if an individual Justice has authority to grant the sought relief. 2. The original and two copies of any application addressed to an individual Justice shall be prepared as required by Rule 33.2, and shall be accompanied by proof of service as required by Rule 29. 3. An application shall be addressed to the Justice allotted to the Circuit from which the case arises. An application arising from the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces shall be addressed to the Chief Justice. When the Circuit Justice is unavailable for any reason, the application addressed to that Justice will be distributed to the Justice then available who is next junior to the Circuit Justice; the turn of the Chief Justice follows that of the most junior Justice. 4. A Justice denying an application will note the denial thereon. Thereafter, unless action thereon is restricted by law to the Circuit Justice or is untimely under Rule 30.2, the party making an application, except in the case of an application for an extension of time, may renew it to any other Justice, subject to the provisions of this Rule. Except when the denial is without prejudice, a renewed application is not favored. Renewed application is made by a letter to the Clerk, designating the Justice to whom the application is to be directed, and accompanied by 10 copies of the original application and proof of service as required by Rule 29. 5. A Justice to whom an application for a stay or for bail is submitted may refer it to the Court for determination. 6. The Clerk will advise all parties concerned, by appropriately speedy means, of the disposition made of an application.
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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so incidentally the other year I sent a FOIA request to the USAF for a photo of a B-58 in flight *without* its weapons/fuel pod, and this is what they sent me back
November 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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cool cool how they refrained from publishing this before the election
This story is adapted from the forthcoming book by Leonnig and Davis, “Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department,” which will be published Nov. 4 by Penguin Press. 
November 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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ADDENDUM: It also had "Then get me his non-union Mexican equivalent!"
November 4, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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hell yeah
November 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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though our President seems to believe he's now beret-less
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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with a weird-ass generic roundel
November 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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okay, not *particularly* related, but I can't not be reminded of this
October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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at least they aren't literally castrated? lmao
Marshall Applewhite of Heaven's Gate
October 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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a consanguinity table makes this easy!
October 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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what solution are you proposing?
(I acknowledge you're recognizing the complexity of the problem and the need for compassion)
October 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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my trial was in a different courtroom, but they have *this* one there
the Mural Courtroom at the Santa Barbara Superior Court
October 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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so they're proudly advertising they can use AI to identify victims of sexual abuse/assault so plaintiff attorneys can directly market to them?
October 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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it's perpetually astounding how much these people sabotage themselves by their inability to keep their mouths shut
Third, a key Commission decisionmaker, Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson, spoke publicly while seeking the position of Commission Chair of his intent to target media groups and other actors in language that focuses on their viewpoints and the content of their speech. Opinion, at *19. In a “leaked memo” supporting his candidacy for Chair, then-Commissioner Ferguson stated that he would “stand[] up to * * * the radical left” and “[i]nvestigate * * * advertiser boycotts[.]” Opinion, at *4, *19 (emphasis added); Compl. ¶ 59. Then, just ten days before he was appointed to be the incoming Chair, Mr. Ferguson stated directly that “it’s really important that the FTC take investigative steps in the new administration” because “progressives” who are “fighting disinformation” are “not going to give up just because of the election[.]” Opinion, at *1, *4, *19–20; Compl. ¶ 61. The Demand issued in the early months of Chairman Ferguson’s tenure. Fourth, three individuals who had publicly criticized Media Matters’ reporting by name were involved with Chairman Ferguson or the Commission at the time the Demand issued. See, e.g., Opinion, at *5, *20 (Joe Simonson stating “Media Matters employed a number of stupid and resentful Democrats * * *”; Jon Schweppe stating Media Matters was “scum of the earth”; Jake Denton accusing “Media Matters” of being “an organization devoted to pressuring companies into silencing conservative voices”); Compl. ¶ 70. In the months leading up to the issuance of the Demand, Chairman Ferguson “brought in” those same three individuals as senior Commission staffers.
October 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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I don't think that's true; if you read the DOJ memo attached to the filing linked in OP, DOJ is keeping almost of all of the EOIR (i.e. immigration courts) at work claiming an emergency (they want to do this to keep deportations rolling)
October 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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its local rules; the basis is practical, with 29 active judgeships it's by far the largest circuit by number of judges (and geographic territory for that matter), and having 29 judges rule together would be absurdly unwieldy
CIRCUIT RULE 40-3. LIMITED EN BANC COURT The en banc Court, for each case or group of related cases taken en banc, shall consist of the Chief Judge of this circuit and 10 additional judges to be drawn by lot from the active judges and any eligible senior judges of the Court. In the absence of the Chief Judge, an 11th judge shall be drawn by lot, and the most senior active judge on the panel shall preside. (Rev. 1/1/06, 7/1/07) The drawing of the en banc Court will be performed by the Clerk or a deputy clerk of the Court in the presence of at least one judge. If a judge whose name is drawn for a particular en banc Court is disqualified, recused, or knows that he or she will be unable to sit at the time and place designated for the en banc case or cases, the judge will immediately notify the Chief Judge who will direct the Clerk to replace the judge. (Rev. 1/1/06; 12/1/24) In appropriate cases, the Court may order a rehearing by the full Court following a hearing or rehearing en banc.
October 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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conversely, back in the '90s Judge O'Scannlain complained in a dissent about how they never use it
Comment: Since the establishment of the limited en banc court procedure in 1980, the court has never granted rehearing before the full court. [See Compassion in Dying v. State of Wash., 85 F3d 1440, 1441 (9th Cir. 1996) (J. O'Scannlain dissent.opn.) (describing 3 failed attempts to obtain rehearing by full court)]
October 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM