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Joe Dunman

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Asst. Prof @Louisville Law (torts, writing, religion, employment) Former: Mng. Attny @Ky. Comm. on Human Rights, prof @MoreheadState, and lawyer for KY plaintiffs in Obergefell. Scholarship: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2147917

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404 Media @404media.co · 19h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 6h

And the Avs won, too!

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Shams Charania Tweets @shamsbot.bsky.social · 7h

Loyola University Chicago's Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt has passed away at 106 years old. She was a Catholic nun, campus minister and official chaplain of the Ramblers men's basketball team. RIP.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 6h

a close up of a blue letter w on a white surface .

Alt: CUBS WIN

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 14h

Stop it!

Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 14h

A super cool thing about my job is that I get to write books with coauthors who were once my law school professors and are now my law school colleagues.

Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 14h

Watch out now, new bestseller about to drop!

Cover of a book:

Kentucky Labor and Employment Law
2026 Edition

by
Ariana R. Levinson
L. Joe Dunman
William A. Hilyerd

LexisNexis

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 16h

Traditionally, we’ve all been wrong about crime together. Now only some of us are wrong, which is good, but it’s solely due to partisan identity, which is bad.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17d

I mean, we are living in two different realities now, and this really hasn't always been the case.

Partisan views on "more crime": used to move fairly closely, but now radically different (90% say up for GOP, 29% for Dems).

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17d

I mean, we are living in two different realities now, and this really hasn't always been the case.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 16h

Duque Nuquem

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 17h

Hells to the yes, Judge Ellis is doing her job! Temporary injunction against all kinds of lawless behavior in the journalists getting tear gassed suit, including badge concealment

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

Cubs please don’t build up our hope just to let us down

Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

Juries are doing the democracy-preserving work they are meant to do. You love to see theory in action.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta watch that air vent, though.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

What do you want Louisville to be?

Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think that’s depressing at all.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

I think it reflects our reality well. We’re a border city with one foot in each.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

Can we get a journalist over here to confirm whether major cities are "burning to the ground"? Or it's just opinions.

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Trump has ordered Guard troops to Chicago and Portland, Oregon, following his earlier deployments to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. In each case, he has defied staunch opposition from Democratic
mayors and governors, who say Trump's claims of lawlessness and violence do not reflect reality.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose that’s possible but certainly not clear to me from the content of this note.

Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

What is this note? (Ironically from an ethics article in the KY bar magazine.) “AI commentary” from where? Why would you consult such a thing? And why doubt its wrongness? You checked the case yourself, you know it’s wrong!

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1 No. 2011-SC-0442-DG, 2013 Ky. Unpub. LEXIS 57, 2013 WL 5436257, at
4 (Ky. Sep. 26, 2013). I note that there is Al commentary that the Supreme Court in the case of Clark v. Burden, 917 S.W.2d 574, 577 (Ky. 1996) held:
"A settlement agreement, like any contract, is binding if there is a meeting of the minds as to all essential terms, even if the agreement is not reduced to writing." However, when I read the Clark case, I did not find this phrase in the body of the opinion, so, either I'm right and AI is hallucinating or vice-ver-sa. In any event, I am relying on the Court's comments in the unpublished opinion because I agree with it and this is an ethics opinion and not a legal opinion.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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