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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 9h

This is in my neighborhood.

The statute that he cites, 18 USC 111, only applies to people who “forcibly” interfere. He knows it, and every American who gets threatened like that should know it.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 9h

This is in my neighborhood.

The statute that he cites, 18 USC 111, only applies to people who “forcibly” interfere. He knows it, and every American who gets threatened like that should know it.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 9h

The statute that he cites, 18 USC 111, only applies to people who “forcibly” interfere. He knows it, and every American who gets threatened like that should know it.

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 12h

The “Wu-Tang album owned by a securities fraudster” of its day

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 2d

You see this in the lawyers pushing the cases, too. Shumate argued that Congress can't constitutionally authorize OSHA to set workplace safety standards (Allstates Refractory), and also that IEEPA lets the President set any tariffs he wants. Pure arguments of convenience.

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 3d

presiding judge / senior judge / sitting by designation

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 5d

GoFundMech

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 8d

Tár and Past Lives are the runaway leaders for me. Have yet to see OBAA.

Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 10d

Just what you want from a spreadsheet: 57.2% accuracy

The Verge @theverge.com · 12d

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.

buff.ly

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 11d

Winning VBWA will forever be my greatest (only?) LL achievement

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And oh my god, that was 48 seasons ago

LL58 MD9 Q2

The Greatest Trivia League in All the Land.

learnedleague.com

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 15d

Parrot and Olivier in America isn’t my favorite Peter Carey, but I often think about chapter describing the experience of being exiled to Australia as a convict

Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 17d

Been saving it until after an oral argument tomorrow. Should I be hyped or HYPED?

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 18d

The Contemptations

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 18d

A black-and-white photo of suffragettes, with their faces replaced by rat heads and their sign edited to say "VOTES FOR VERMIN"

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 19d

Oh thaaaaat’s why this joke hasn’t done numbers

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 19d

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 21d

$160: bag of Kerr's sour cream and onion potato chips
$50,000: Cava takeout bag
$90,000: frozen pie crust boxes

Other acceptable bribe conveyances:

$10: empty pack of Juicy Fruit
$10,000: 50-count bag of fun-size Snickers
$250,000: commemorative Nats cup (24-oz)
$700,000: Zaytinya doggie bag

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 20d

Right, this is the Google Zero problem publishers have been dreading for the past year:

digiday.com/marketing/wt...

WTF is 'Google Zero'?

Years of SEO strategy are now colliding with a system dishes to answer, not refer. The result: for many publishers traffic is slowing.

digiday.com

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 20d

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 21d

$160: bag of Kerr's sour cream and onion potato chips
$50,000: Cava takeout bag
$90,000: frozen pie crust boxes

Other acceptable bribe conveyances:

$10: empty pack of Juicy Fruit
$10,000: 50-count bag of fun-size Snickers
$250,000: commemorative Nats cup (24-oz)
$700,000: Zaytinya doggie bag

Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 21d

$160: bag of Kerr's sour cream and onion potato chips
$50,000: Cava takeout bag
$90,000: frozen pie crust boxes

Other acceptable bribe conveyances:

$10: empty pack of Juicy Fruit
$10,000: 50-count bag of fun-size Snickers
$250,000: commemorative Nats cup (24-oz)
$700,000: Zaytinya doggie bag

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 22d

Matinee! Now that is a deep cut.

Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 23d

I've been out of this field for a while, so I don't know what's been filed recently. There's definitely a huge gap in case filings between conduct and merger cases, but I'd be surprised if the settlement rates are that different. But my gut could certainly be wrong!

Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 23d

They're also more tenuous cases than conduct claims. It's a lot harder to convince a court that your predictions about what might happen in the future are definitely right than to prove past misconduct.

(Also I think the profitability piece is more about lack of damages than settlement incentives)

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 23d

This thread sums up my remedial concerns well

bsky.app/profile/kenw...

Maybe there’s a state-law equivalent that gets around the Bivens problem, but I don’t know enough about that to know

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23d

Can Jimmy Kimmel sue Brendan Carr, or other federal actors, for violating his First Amendment rights by coercing ABC to suspend his show, and maybe eventually to fire him?

To teal deer it, yes, but without an effective remedy.

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 23d

This one also not so helpful

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23d

Trump’s FCC chair stooge acting like a middle school bully confirming they were lying all along as they distanced themselves from what was always the playbook

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 23d

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23d

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