Joseph McGhee
@radlegaltakes.bsky.social
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AuDHD Gen X’er with a passion for justice and a well-grinded axe. Relentlessly dedicated to government accountability and the rule of law. Currently chopping at #qualifiedimmunity and § 922(g)(3) in the Ninth Circuit. I like cats. Signal: @moroserabbit.34
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Many of you know me from #LawTwitter and #AppellateTwitter, but for those at #LawSky who do not, I am excited to connect!

Briefly, I’m the pro se plaintiff-appellant in a 9th Circuit appeal challenging the doctrines of § 1983 qualified & absolute immunity.

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I actually know people—more than one—who truly believe all they have to do is play their same numbers long enough and they’ll “eventually win.”

If you bought one Powerball ticket every day since your birth, on average you’d have to live for 8000 years before winning a jackpot.
Speaking of taxes: Lotteries are basically a tax on compulsive gamblers who really suck at math.
I have become tinnitus, distorter of words.
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If I was going to have a gravestone, I’d want a mistake on it. A flaw, a typo, space between letters off, a bit.

Something that says “somebody who lived made this about somebody who lived and all our shit is fallible, and that’s the point.”
#31daysofgraves Day 18: Mistake

The carving mistake on the N was likely because the carver normally used the Cyrillic alphabet
Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.
Well this certainly changes things.
What about “Still Spotting”?
I’d rather push a boulder up a mountain every single day.
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Some more photos plus a bonus photo of a woodpecker
All your base are something something…
Happy birthday, bro! Thanks for being on the good side.
Well, yeah: female psychopaths are somewhat rare.
“You’re my very favorite person.”
It sucks and no one in law should use it.
This article, which I read in its entirety, speaks only to the effects of secondary chemicals (in cigarette/e-cig vapor), not nicotine.

Importantly, nicotine (delivered transdermally or through oral mucosa) presents none of these hazards. Nicotine is in fact a potent anti-inflammatory compound.
Reconsideration (unsurprisingly, to me) granted.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
If courts don’t like when litigants threaten them with seeking mandamus review, then they simply shouldn’t do things they know are contrary to law and which provide a clear path to mandamus relief.

Do your job is literally all I ask from courts.

(The rest here:) drive.google.com/file/d/16uLN...
All of this, except the part after “anymore.”
That’s even more than is needed to time travel using a flux capacitor!
What an idiotic waste of electrons.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Speaker Mike Johnson have agreed to participate in a televised debate as the government shutdown enters its third week.
www.notus.org/congress/hak...
Jeffries and Johnson Agree to Debate on C-SPAN as Shutdown Drags on
The event is slated to air on the network’s new show “Ceasefire” at a yet-to-be-announced date.
www.notus.org