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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 2h

Trump DOJ officials remind me of some trial prosecutors who show up in court pulling a wagon of files, and then go through them one by one as each case js called.

Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 2h

Again, that’s based on my personal experience and what other similarly situated parents have said to me. But my perception is that the feeling is shared by many. The welcome from where my kid ended up is so dramatically different from what i perceived from Ohio State.

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 2h

A message to college admissions officials from my personal experience: If you want LGBTQ+ kids & their parents to feel comfortable w/ your school, step one is putting pronouns in your correspondence & in your names on Zoom calls. The absence is a message that LGBTQ+ students should go somewhere else

Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 5h

The administrators of Ohio State University seem to be fighting to be the strongest enemies of free speech and the most craven panderers to bigotry of any American university. Whatever you think about land acknowledgments before presentations, banning them is evil, cowardly, and petty.

www.nbc4i.com

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 3h

One sad part is that the school still has some good people doing what they can within a morally depraved structure. Some of them are friends. It’s sad—they’re good people in a morally depraved structure. Students should find someplace where there are good people within a morally sound structure.

Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 3h

People get the dignity of getting called what they want. Public bodies, nope. Omitting the the was intentional disrespect.

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 5h

State schools aren’t being pilloried for their cravenness to MAGA nearly enough. Maybe it’s just another sign of the coastal focus of national media.

Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 5h

The administrators of Ohio State University seem to be fighting to be the strongest enemies of free speech and the most craven panderers to bigotry of any American university. Whatever you think about land acknowledgments before presentations, banning them is evil, cowardly, and petty.

www.nbc4i.com

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 5h

…is now a bigoted cesspool.

Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 5h

OSU was a great place to get an education—until this year. It’s going down fast, and it’s going down hard.

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 5h

The administrators of Ohio State University seem to be fighting to be the strongest enemies of free speech and the most craven panderers to bigotry of any American university. Whatever you think about land acknowledgments before presentations, banning them is evil, cowardly, and petty.

www.nbc4i.com

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 6h

I’m not an east coast Jew, but I’m married to one.

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 6h

Toasted everything bagel with lox, capers, cream cheese and raw onion.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 8h

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 8h

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 7h

TIL that the new Alexa AI will refuse to draw a picture of a person in a smiling frog costume dancing in tear gas with police officers in military gear behind, but if you change “tear gas” to “white mist,” it’s fine with that.

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 7h

More for needless provocation.

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 7h

Even then, I don’t begrudge a small practitioner (who’s probably just trying to scrape up a living by serving clients) the marketing that I don’t need.

Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 7h

What if I pick the right bagel but eat it with a fork & a steak knife?

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 7h

Also, SCOTUS bar membership means more/deceives less than many of the fake credentials lawyers post on their website or hang on their office wall, like being a member of the National Trial Lawyers Top 100, which has told me I qualify for “exclusive” membership even though a I’ve never tried a case.

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 7h

If this is a big firm or a well-known solo/boutique, I’m OK with the criticism of the front-page touting of SCOTUS bar membership, but I can see how the credentialing could matter more to less well-known practitioners.

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 11h

Typical of us appellate lawyers. That’s we have trial lawyers—to sort out the end on remand.

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 16h

(Totally worth the risk because the Portland Protest Frogs are absolutely brilliant.)

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 16h

Great. Now I’m worried I’ll refer to opposing counsel at oral argument as “My friend from the other pond.”

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 16h

Ballot mailed. I’ll get a text when the BOE receives it & decides it will count (or decides there’s an issue I need to address, which has never happened).

For info on how to vote early in-person, absentee, or on Election Day in Ohio, go here: www.ohiosos.gov/elections/

Envelope marked “Absentee envelope” and addressed to the Franklin County Board of Elections being placed by had into US postal Service mail box with a collection time it 11:00 am this morning.

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 17h

On his “it goes to nowhere” point, well, if no one wants to go there, then no one will go there even with access. Problem solved.

“Problem solved” written below a graphic of Peg and the cat from Peg + cat

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 17h

The rich snot equates keeping unhoused people far from his property with reducing “homelessness.”

Increased public access along the lagoon is likely to compound existing problems with trespassing, homelessness and vandalism, he said.
Levy said the lagoon trail "goes nowhere," which struck a nerve with Commissioner Mike Wilson, who's also on the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors in Northern California.
"Sometimes nowhere is where you want to be," Wilson said. "This is actually a highly valued access point."
A short trail along the lagoon would benefit birdwatchers, hikers and anyone who wants a closer look at the wetlands, he said.

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 1d

Ballot received. Filled out. Ready to mail in. For info on how to vote early in-person, absentee, or on Election Day in Ohio, go here: www.ohiosos.gov/elections/
(That site also tells you how to become a poll worker here. Hint hint.)

Top portion of ballot covered by a return envelope from the Franklin County Board of Election, partially covered by the inside envelope that has my last name showing but with personal info redacted. The photo of the ballot doesn’t show any actually votes by me. The top of the ballot reads:

GENERAL ELECTION BALLOT
November 4, 2025
Prov/17 Y.O.
Franklin County
Instructions to Voter
• To vote, darken the oval (• ) to the left of your choice.
•Note the permitted number of choices directly below each office title.
•Do not mark the ballot for more choices than allowed. If you do, that contest or question will not be counted.
• To vote for a write-in candidate: darken the oval (•) to the left of the blank line and write in the candidate's name.
• Only votes cast for candidates who filed as write-in candidates can be counted.
• Do not write in a candidate's name if their name is already printed on the ballot for that same contest.
• If you make a mistake or want to change your vote, return your ballot to an election official and get a new ballot.
• You may ask for a new ballot up to two times.
FRANKLIN COUNTY
MUNICIPAL COURT
For Judge of Municipal Court (Full term commencing 1-1-2026)
COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
For Member of Board of Educatin-(Vote for not more than 3)
#5 Proposed P
City of r
(Vote for not more than 1)
Jodi Thomas
Mouni-•
For Judge of Municipal Court (Full term commencing 1-2-2026)
(Vote for not more than 1)
Jessin
COLUMBUS

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 1d

I stand by this: AI case hallucinations are a real problem, but you know what’s a bigger problem? Citing a case for something it doesn’t say. That said, I’ve changed my position on sanctions because I think there’s a better chance that sanctions will deter improper AI use.

Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 1d

Yo dog, I heard you like hallucinated citations, so we put hallucinated citations in your response regarding hallucinated citations so you can show cause while you show cause.
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...

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