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Lawyer, Oregon family law, Portland | Mom x3 grown | Word nerd |
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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 22d
Leo continues...
"Every single creature has a role to play. The contribution that each person can make is uniquely valuable, and the task of educational communities is to encourage and cherish that contribution... We are called to form people, so that they may shine like stars in their full dignity"
richraho.bsky.social Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 24d
Pope on All Saints: “Life shines brightly not because we are rich, beautiful or powerful. Instead, it shines when we discover within ourselves the truth that we are called by God, have a vocation, have a mission, that our lives serve something greater than ourselves.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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admirablewomen.bsky.social
#OTD in 1877, Anna Sewell's only novel, Black Beauty, was first published. >50MM copies sold making it one of the best-selling books of all time.

She began writing the book in 1871 at age 51, dictating much of it to her mother from her sickbed & died 5 months after its publication. #horses #fiction
Split image: Left – black-and-white Victorian three-quarter view portrait of Anna Sewell, a light-skinned woman with wavy hair parted in the middle, wearing a collared dark with a white collar. Right – modern book cover of Black Beauty featuring a dramatic black horse rearing up in a misty golden forest, with ornate gold title lettering and “Anna Sewell” in white at the bottom.
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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rutgerbregman.com
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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rorystolzenberg.bsky.social
Interesting question. I can see the rationale, and don't see any case law that explicitly addresses it, though "for any reason" could probably be construed to override that argument.

FWIW Comey's lawyers seem to think that § 3288 still applies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/disp...
Judge Currie asked McDowell about the government’s arguments about 18 U.S.C. § 3288 (which provides that if an indictment is dismissed after the statute of limitations has run, the government will ordinarily have six additional calendar months to seek a new indictment). McDowell said he understood the government to be arguing that somehow Bondi could invoke that provision on Oct. 31. But § 3288 applies only when an indictment is dismissed, he continued. On Oct. 31, the indictment was not dismissed. It’s still not. So § 3288 doesn’t come into play. That law would come into play only if the indictment is dismissed without prejudice, McDowell added, and we think it should be dismissed with prejudice. But it’s not before Your Honor right now.
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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rorystolzenberg.bsky.social
That was with regard to the situation on 10/31 when the purported ratification occurred, prior to this dismissal. But the dismissal triggers a new grace period under 3288, unrelated to tolling of the original SOL. That's supported by the footnote's citations.

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rorystolzenberg.bsky.social Rory Stolzenberg @rorystolzenberg.bsky.social · 20h
I'm not sure that's the right read. Gillespie specifically pertains to superseding indictments w/o dismissal (i.e. not relying on §3288). As the rest of the graf says, that precludes ratification because absent dismissal, the SOL had elapsed. But *now* 3288 can apply.

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As in Lytle, however, that is not the end of the story. In Lytle Section 3288 saved the later indictment, which had been returned more than five years after the commission of the acts that had been timely charged in the earlier invalid indictment. In an anomalous way, the same result cannot obtain here. Such cases as United States v. Grady, 544 F.2d 598, 601-02 (2d Cir.1976) and United States v. Friedman, 649 F.2d 199, 203-04 (3d Cir.1981) persuasively teach that Section 3288 applies only to new indictments brought after an earlier indictment has been dismissed because of flaws affecting the original grand jury. In this case, by contrast, the second indictment was truly a superseding indictment, brought before any such dismissal had been ordered.[8] Accordingly the United States cannot look to the tolling provision of Section 3288 to save Counts Three and Four of the March 20, 1987 indictment: Those counts were brought out of time, and no other statute or judicial authority operates to make the original invalid indictment toll the limitations period for the same charges included in that earlier indictment. That is the natural corollary of such decisions as Friedman, 649 F.2d at 203 (footnote omitted, emphasis in original except for this Court's added emphasis of the words "valid" and "validly"): But in this case, the Government does not rely on section 3288. Rather it relies on the doctrine that a valid indictment tolls the statute of limitations and that return of a superseding indictment prior to the dismissal of the original indictment does not violate the statute of limitations if the superseding indictment does not substantially alter the charge. The Government's position is that the bringing of the first indictment, which was timely, tolled the statute of limitations and that as long as it remained pending, the superseding indictment could be brought regardless of the statute of limitations, if the superseding indictment did not broaden the charges. The Government finds support for its position in United States v. Grady, 544 F.2d 598 (2d Cir.1976). As in this case, the Government in Grady had obtained a timely indictment, and, while the original indictment remained pending, had obtained *1141 a superseding indictment that otherwise would not have been timely. In response to a statute of limitations challenge to the superseding indictment, the court held: Once an indictment is brought, the statute of limitations is tolled as to the charges contained in that indictment.... Since the statute stops running with the bringing of the first indictment, a superseding indictment brought at any time while the first indictment is still validly pending, if and only if it does not broaden the charges made in the first indictment, cannot be barred by the statute of limitations. In short, the Grady-Friedman class of cases establishes a judicial rule that a valid indictment insulates from statute-of-limitations problems any refiling of the same charges during the pendency of that valid indictment (that is, the superseding of a valid indictment). But if the earlier indictment is void, there is no legitimate peg on which to hang such a judicial limitations-tolling result. 18 U.S.C. § 3288. “[B]y its own terms,” section 3288 “only applies where an indictment has previously been dismissed.” United States v. Crysopt Corp., 781 F. Supp. 375, 377 (D. Md. 1991). But on October 31, Mr. Comey’s indictment remained pending. Thus, the Attorney General could not have invoked section 3288 “at the time the ratification was made.” NRA Political Victory Fund, 513 U.S. at 98 (emphasis in original) (internal quotation marks omitted).
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Will the govt be able to bring a new indictment against Comey despite the statute of limitations having run?

Ordinarily yes, but Judge Currie argues no in this case, since Halligan's indictment was void from the start. This question will no doubt be litigated!
Footnote 21 in Judge Currie's opinion: Generally, "It]he return of an indictment tolls the statute of limitations on the charges contained in the indictment." United States v. Ojedokun, 16 F.4th 1091, 1109 (4th Cir. 2021). "An invalid indictment," however, "cannot serve to block the door of limitations as it swings closed." United States v. Crysopt Corp., 781 F. Supp. 375, 378 (D. Md. 1991) (emphasis in original); see also United States v. Gillespie, 666 F. Supp. 1137, 1141 (N.D. III. 1987) ("[A] valid indictment insulates from statute-of-limitations problems any refiling of the same charges during the pendency of that valid indictment (that is, the superseding of a valid indictment). But if the earlier dictment is void, there is no legitimate peg on which to hang such a judicial limitations-tolling result." (emphasis in original)). 18 U.S. Code § 3288 - Indictments and information dismissed after period of limitations Whenever an indictment or information charging a felony is dismissed for any reason after the period prescribed by the applicable statute of limitations has expired, a new indictment may be returned in the appropriate jurisdiction within six calendar months of the date of the dismissal of the indictment or information, or, in the event of an appeal, within 60 days of the date the dismissal of the indictment or information becomes final, or, if no regular grand jury is in session in the appropriate jurisdiction when the indictment or information is dismissed, within six calendar months of the date when the next regular grand jury is convened, which new indictment shall not be barred by any statute of limitations. This section does not permit the filing of a new indictment or information where the reason for the dismissal was the failure to file the indictment or information within the period prescribed by the applicable statute of limitations, or some other reason that would bar a new prosecution.
November 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
As for Comey, DOJ will be arguing that it can re-indict, despite the statute of limitations having since run, under 18 USC 3288.

From DOJ's opposition: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Zeroing in on the actual claim here—that the Attorney General could not lawfully invoke Section 546(a) to appoint Ms. Halligan—Comey comes nowhere close to showing “flagrant misbehavior,” “substantial prejudice,” or the unavailability of a “lesser sanction.” The Attorney General’s invocation of Section 546(a) rather than her many other appointment authorities is not “flagrant misconduct” akin to repeated Brady violations. Cf. United States v. Bundy, 968 F.3d 1019, 1029, 1037 (9th Cir. 2020). As explained above, Comey suffered no prejudice, much less substantial prejudice, from Ms. Halligan’s title when she entered the grand-jury room. And contrary to his assertion (at 25), the counterfactual where the Attorney General did not, in his words, “unlawfully appoint[] Ms. Halligan” is not a world where the government would have let the limitations period run. Instead, the Attorney General would have cited a different authority that would have unquestionably authorized Ms. Halligan to obtain the exact same indictment at the exact same time. If the Court deems the indictment invalid, any dismissal should be without prejudice to permit the government to swiftly seek reindictment under 18 U.S.C. § 3288. 18 U.S. Code § 3288 - Indictments and information dismissed after period of limitations U.S. Code Notes prev | next Whenever an indictment or information charging a felony is dismissed for any reason after the period prescribed by the applicable statute of limitations has expired, a new indictment may be returned in the appropriate jurisdiction within six calendar months of the date of the dismissal of the indictment or information, or, in the event of an appeal, within 60 days of the date the dismissal of the indictment or information becomes final, or, if no regular grand jury is in session in the appropriate jurisdiction when the indictment or information is dismissed, within six calendar months of the date when the next regular grand jury is convened, which new indictment shall not be barred by any statute of limitations. This section does not permit the filing of a new indictment or information where the reason for the dismissal was the failure to file the indictment or information within the period prescribed by the applicable statute of limitations, or some other reason that would bar a new prosecution. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 828; Pub. L. 88–139, § 2, Oct. 16, 1963, 77 Stat. 248; Pub. L. 88–520, § 1, Aug. 30, 1964, 78 Stat. 699; Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7081(a), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4407.)
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If we’d had a healthier and more robust regulatory apparatus and a proper tax system during the past 30 years, Elon Musk would be saying the same crap but nobody would care because he’s just another loser on 4chan.
sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 1d
It’s Sunday and the richest man in the world is on the social media platform he owns, along with many journalists and maybe your employer’s C-suite.

He’s posting normal things like:

-re: non-white immigration “decimating” demographics, “America must not fall”

- We should hang murderers in public
Elon Musk @elonmusk • 8h Murderers, where there is unequivocal evidence of guilt, should be hanged, as has been the case throughout history Daniel Con... V @TooWhit... • Nov 22 S ... The United States imports a Montana-sized population of almost entirely non-White foreigners EVERY SINGLE YEAR. This has been happening for decades, and hasn't changed under Donald Trump. The US is the blueprint for the demographic decimation of White populations. Elon Musk America must not fall
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Well that's a hell of a thing.

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November 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
I grow tired of rich people turning everything into a narrow monoculture that simply serves up the specific content they like. Washington Post, Twitter, and now CBS aren't even bothering to serve *any* market except management's personal preferences.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
When I think "where the vast majority of Americans actually are," I think about the millionaire lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein & Harvey Weinstein & Donald Trump who was recently in the news for threatening to sue a pierogi seller in Martha's Vineyard, where he has one of his homes.
thelincoln.bsky.social Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 11h
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"

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Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic” figures such as Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch who reflect “where the vast majority of Americans actually are.”
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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propublica.org
Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.

But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.

With @adn.com
Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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I am an anxiety ridden shit journalist and even I have better news judgement than Bari.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10h
The new editor of CBS News thinks that Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch debating the 2nd Amendment is “news.”

So, pour one out tonight for the actual journalists at CBS who have to listen to this drivel in the am news meeting

(She also says Dersh is “charismatic,” but that’s the lesser horror)
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November 25, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Seven years ago my wife and I brought some frozen tamales to Christmas Eve dinner. It ended with me going no-contact with my family.

I’ll tell the story in a moment.
clairewillett.bsky.social Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15h
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore

I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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My favorite holiday food story has to be @cryptidchicken.bsky.social’s Turkey Story www.tumblr.com/gallusrostro...
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💬 110  🔁 35625  ❤️ 38478 · The Turkey Story · So it’s 2001, and my family drives from fucking California and like three blizzards to get to Ohio for thanksgiving, becuase my grandparents are moving…
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November 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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My now-late MIL once found a recipe for a "tangy" pork loin. She smothered the whole thing in yellow mustard, turning the meat faintly green and the garlic cloves, roasted inside the pork, a pretty shade of blue.

I never did find the alleged recipe, but she was relieved of duty.
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Gifted a whole frozen Goose, in Union Square NYC 7pm day before holiday.
I put the goose in my backpack and go to Penn Station for 8pm Train.
Security was tight, Amtrak Police are sweeping with bomb sniffing dogs.
The cops pass, dog does a giant back flip.
Lays down at my bag and starts crying.
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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My ex's grandma's cooking was justly feared by all. At one grisly holiday feast her daughter-in-law whimpered, "Dorothy, how did you get the turkey to *taste* like that," and she beamed, "Well, I cook the turkey the night before, and I slice it and I leave it out overnight to dry."
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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I once made "tacos" for my Irish American FIL - PLAIN ground beef with shredded cheddar and iceberg lettuce in an Ortega shell. That's it. He never quite got over my attempt to serve him "spicy ethnic" food and that side of the family talked about it for years.
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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About twenty years ago my mother developed Religion. We'd never prayed at the table, but she decided Thanksgiving was the time to start. She began thanking God for the food and my uncle who drove 3 hours for his visit muttered "I'm the one who's been cooking since dawn, you ought to thank me."
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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kingbooooo.bsky.social
My uncle and grandfather (both shuffled off this mortal coil) used to get into huge arguments about which way to pass the food (clockwise or counterclockwise). Every year.

Yes, they were both engineers.
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
amwclark.bsky.social
Ok, I've laughed out loud enough times that I'm re-sharing this before reading them all.
clairewillett.bsky.social Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15h
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I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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maryrobinettekowal.com
I caused a minor ham explosion prepping for Christmas Eve dinner.

And there was a whoomph and a visible fireball that actually blew the oven door open.
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM