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30-something Jewish 🇺🇸 🇦🇹 dual-citizen biologist patent lawyer who grew up in South Jersey, Delaware, and Geneva 🇨🇭. Now in Northern Virginia
Proud dad to twin daughters 👶👶
Proud dad to twin daughters 👶👶
I’m not saying I have a finger on the pulse of how people broadly feel about AI technology, but it’s interesting that people under the age of 30 express by far the lowest support (and people over 65 express by far the highest support)
Gallup recently ran a comprehensive poll in the spring and there is rock bottom support for deregulation, and—interestingly—there is a very strong inverse correlation between age and support for AI
www.gallup.com/workplace/69...
www.gallup.com/analytics/69...
www.gallup.com/workplace/69...
www.gallup.com/analytics/69...
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I’m not saying I have a finger on the pulse of how people broadly feel about AI technology, but it’s interesting that people under the age of 30 express by far the lowest support (and people over 65 express by far the highest support)
Just a lil’ fun fact about US law that it is still fairly routine to calculate lost-income damages based on a similarly situated person of the victim‘s race—meaning black tort victims get less damages than white victims—and there’s no mandatory precedent saying this is unconstitutional
Race-based actuarial calculation of lost-income damages is fairly common
One of those “wait, what the f ck?” things still embedded under the hood in US legal systems
lawreview.unl.edu/sites/unl.ed...
One of those “wait, what the f ck?” things still embedded under the hood in US legal systems
lawreview.unl.edu/sites/unl.ed...
lawreview.unl.edu
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Just a lil’ fun fact about US law that it is still fairly routine to calculate lost-income damages based on a similarly situated person of the victim‘s race—meaning black tort victims get less damages than white victims—and there’s no mandatory precedent saying this is unconstitutional
I’m not saying I would trust Labour to carry this out, but basically this is based on independent recommendations of a review commission
(also fwiw most civil law jurisdictions like France have non-jury criminal process)
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
(also fwiw most civil law jurisdictions like France have non-jury criminal process)
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I’m not saying I would trust Labour to carry this out, but basically this is based on independent recommendations of a review commission
(also fwiw most civil law jurisdictions like France have non-jury criminal process)
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
(also fwiw most civil law jurisdictions like France have non-jury criminal process)
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Polling for 2008-cycle Democratic nominee preference, taken in 2005:
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Polling for 2008-cycle Democratic nominee preference, taken in 2005:
I cannot find one civilian case since 1969 charging 18 USC § 2387 (the intentionally urging insubordination charge that Hegseth is brandishing at Sen. Kelly), though it looks like a few courts-martial have charged it “assimilated” through Art. 92, UCMJ (disobeying orders) 👇
![UNITED STATES ARMY COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
Before
KERN, ALDYKIEWICZ, and MARTIN
Appellate Military Judges
UNITED STATES, Appellee
Specialist CHRISTOPHER L. MOYERS
United States Army, Appellant
ARMY 20110975
Headquarters, Fort Bliss
David H. Robertson, Military Judge
Colonel Francis P. King, Staff Judge Advocate
For Appellant: William E. Cassara, Esquire (argued); William E. Cassara, Esquire;
Captain John L. Schriver, JA (on brief); William E. Cassara, Esquire; Captain Brian
D. Andes, JA (on reply brief).
For Appellee: Captain T. Campbell Warner, JA (argued); Colonel John P. Carrell, JA; Lieutenant Colonel James L. Varley, JA; Major Catherine L. Brantley, JA;
Captain T. Campbell Warner, JA (on brief).
31 March 2014
MEMORANDUM OPINION
This opinion is issued as an unpublished opinion and, as such, does not serve as precedent.
KERN, Senior Judge:
A military judge sitting as a general court-martial convicted appellant, contrary to his pleas, of violating a lawful general regulation; knowingly becoming a member of, or affiliating with, a group which encouraged the violent overthrow or destruction of the United States Government; and advising, counseling and urging disloyalty and mutiny by members of the Armed Forces, in violation of Articles 92 and 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. $§ 892, 934 (2006) [hereinafter UCMJ].' The military judge sentenced appellant to a dishonorable
fn.1. The two Title 18 provisions assimilated under Clause 3 of Article 134, UCMJ, were 18 U.S.C. § 2385 and 18 U.S.C. § 2387.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreihtnunfsrqfflsvzh6llpyl3me7gmd7sorujhbl7ocpffzqd2sgze@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I cannot find one civilian case since 1969 charging 18 USC § 2387 (the intentionally urging insubordination charge that Hegseth is brandishing at Sen. Kelly), though it looks like a few courts-martial have charged it “assimilated” through Art. 92, UCMJ (disobeying orders) 👇
welp I have shingles lol
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
welp I have shingles lol
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There's a decision about a called up retiree. I've toyed with idea of post-Trump to do a recall and administrative separation.
Retired is a listed status, which makes one eligible for and entitled to retirement pay. It looks functionally like a pension (and gets discussed like one) but it's not.
Retired is a listed status, which makes one eligible for and entitled to retirement pay. It looks functionally like a pension (and gets discussed like one) but it's not.
Back in 2022, a divided D.C. Circuit panel *upheld* the military's constitutional power to court-martial retired servicemembers even for *post-retirement* offenses:
cases.justia.com/federal/appe...
I'm biased (I represented the appellee), but Judge Tatel's dissent seems clearly right to me.
Alas.
cases.justia.com/federal/appe...
I'm biased (I represented the appellee), but Judge Tatel's dissent seems clearly right to me.
Alas.
cases.justia.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
There's a decision about a called up retiree. I've toyed with idea of post-Trump to do a recall and administrative separation.
Retired is a listed status, which makes one eligible for and entitled to retirement pay. It looks functionally like a pension (and gets discussed like one) but it's not.
Retired is a listed status, which makes one eligible for and entitled to retirement pay. It looks functionally like a pension (and gets discussed like one) but it's not.
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Back in 2022, a divided D.C. Circuit panel *upheld* the military's constitutional power to court-martial retired servicemembers even for *post-retirement* offenses:
cases.justia.com/federal/appe...
I'm biased (I represented the appellee), but Judge Tatel's dissent seems clearly right to me.
Alas.
cases.justia.com/federal/appe...
I'm biased (I represented the appellee), but Judge Tatel's dissent seems clearly right to me.
Alas.
cases.justia.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Back in 2022, a divided D.C. Circuit panel *upheld* the military's constitutional power to court-martial retired servicemembers even for *post-retirement* offenses:
cases.justia.com/federal/appe...
I'm biased (I represented the appellee), but Judge Tatel's dissent seems clearly right to me.
Alas.
cases.justia.com/federal/appe...
I'm biased (I represented the appellee), but Judge Tatel's dissent seems clearly right to me.
Alas.
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Figures in a position of official power, contemplating imposition of official consequences on Donald Trump or a Trump Administration official:
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Figures in a position of official power, contemplating imposition of official consequences on Donald Trump or a Trump Administration official:
It shouldn’t be funny, but this thing about the leader rejecting germ theory and deciding to not wash her hands anymore reminded my of the Simpsons
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It shouldn’t be funny, but this thing about the leader rejecting germ theory and deciding to not wash her hands anymore reminded my of the Simpsons
whew, took me a few days to get through this ~9,000-word piece, and have a swirl of thoughts and emotions
First, the lede and the kicker are both absolutely harrowing. My god (honestly, content warning…),
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
First, the lede and the kicker are both absolutely harrowing. My god (honestly, content warning…),
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
whew, took me a few days to get through this ~9,000-word piece, and have a swirl of thoughts and emotions
First, the lede and the kicker are both absolutely harrowing. My god (honestly, content warning…),
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
First, the lede and the kicker are both absolutely harrowing. My god (honestly, content warning…),
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Starship doesn’t have enough launch fuel to escape low-earth-orbit, so SpaceX’s plan for Artemis III is to launch one, and then launch a bunch more Starships (at least 14!!) with a cargo of extra fuel, and gradually refuel the first one in orbit so it can get it the moon
That’s the actual plan
That’s the actual plan
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Starship doesn’t have enough launch fuel to escape low-earth-orbit, so SpaceX’s plan for Artemis III is to launch one, and then launch a bunch more Starships (at least 14!!) with a cargo of extra fuel, and gradually refuel the first one in orbit so it can get it the moon
That’s the actual plan
That’s the actual plan
Oo listening to the ‘Sapien’ episode of If Books Could Kill while walking the dog and I gotta be That Guy for a moment re Michael saying Napol Bonaparte deployed to Egypt in 1798 to take it from the British (it’s basically the opposite—the British then went to take it from France)
November 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Oo listening to the ‘Sapien’ episode of If Books Could Kill while walking the dog and I gotta be That Guy for a moment re Michael saying Napol Bonaparte deployed to Egypt in 1798 to take it from the British (it’s basically the opposite—the British then went to take it from France)
Starship doesn’t have enough launch fuel to escape low-earth-orbit, so SpaceX’s plan for Artemis III is to launch one, and then launch a bunch more Starships (at least 14!!) with a cargo of extra fuel, and gradually refuel the first one in orbit so it can get it the moon
That’s the actual plan
That’s the actual plan
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Starship doesn’t have enough launch fuel to escape low-earth-orbit, so SpaceX’s plan for Artemis III is to launch one, and then launch a bunch more Starships (at least 14!!) with a cargo of extra fuel, and gradually refuel the first one in orbit so it can get it the moon
That’s the actual plan
That’s the actual plan
Would you believe this midflight collision was caused by the negligence of a for-profit AI-centric weather forecasting tech company with a move-fast-break-shit ethos and which wants to displace & eliminate public weather forecasting
windbornesystems.com
data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen...
windbornesystems.com
data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen...
The NTSB today also released its preliminary report on the midair collision between a United Airlines 737-8 MAX and what is believed to be a WindBorne GSP weather balloon. www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Would you believe this midflight collision was caused by the negligence of a for-profit AI-centric weather forecasting tech company with a move-fast-break-shit ethos and which wants to displace & eliminate public weather forecasting
windbornesystems.com
data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen...
windbornesystems.com
data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen...
Trump’s power and political reach makes him objectively worse than Vance, but Vance’s public presence pushes my anger buttons
Every time he opens his mouth, it’s chin-stroking racist sludge
Every time he opens his mouth, it’s chin-stroking racist sludge
Trump goes straight for the id in his rhetoric (”they’re criminals who bring crime”) trying to short circuit voters’ higher faculties
Vance tries to reason through his hatreds and ends up sounding arrogant, contemptuous & repulsive
Vance tries to reason through his hatreds and ends up sounding arrogant, contemptuous & repulsive
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Trump’s power and political reach makes him objectively worse than Vance, but Vance’s public presence pushes my anger buttons
Every time he opens his mouth, it’s chin-stroking racist sludge
Every time he opens his mouth, it’s chin-stroking racist sludge
The State of Illinois should charge Agent Charles Exum with attempted murder
abcnews.go.com/US/doj-drops...
abcnews.go.com/US/doj-drops...
Judge dismisses charges against 2 people accused of ramming vehicle of federal agents conducting Chicago immigration sweeps
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed the indictment against two people accused last month of "ambushing" federal agents conducting an immigration sweep in Chicago.
abcnews.go.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The State of Illinois should charge Agent Charles Exum with attempted murder
abcnews.go.com/US/doj-drops...
abcnews.go.com/US/doj-drops...
The case of Wacky Judge got newsplay because it’s strikingly bizarre, but after reading, it seems Missouri’s disciplinary body generously crafted the punishment such that Judge Thornhill can hit 20 years active service and vest his retirement benefits,
and I would humbly suggest f ck that.
and I would humbly suggest f ck that.
First of all…wow.
Second, the discipline is a six-month suspension without pay (for the Elvis thing and two other frankly much more serious violations), followed by an 18-month return to the bench, followed by resignation—what kind of sense does that make??
Second, the discipline is a six-month suspension without pay (for the Elvis thing and two other frankly much more serious violations), followed by an 18-month return to the bench, followed by resignation—what kind of sense does that make??
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The case of Wacky Judge got newsplay because it’s strikingly bizarre, but after reading, it seems Missouri’s disciplinary body generously crafted the punishment such that Judge Thornhill can hit 20 years active service and vest his retirement benefits,
and I would humbly suggest f ck that.
and I would humbly suggest f ck that.
The execution in the Comey case is unusually, comically amateurish & flubbed, but non-lawyers may not appreciate how much leeway the law tends to give the gov’t to get away with screw ups,
It might be due time to reset “harmless error” expectations and hold the gov’t to an exacting standard
It might be due time to reset “harmless error” expectations and hold the gov’t to an exacting standard
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The execution in the Comey case is unusually, comically amateurish & flubbed, but non-lawyers may not appreciate how much leeway the law tends to give the gov’t to get away with screw ups,
It might be due time to reset “harmless error” expectations and hold the gov’t to an exacting standard
It might be due time to reset “harmless error” expectations and hold the gov’t to an exacting standard
First of all…wow.
Second, the discipline is a six-month suspension without pay (for the Elvis thing and two other frankly much more serious violations), followed by an 18-month return to the bench, followed by resignation—what kind of sense does that make??
Second, the discipline is a six-month suspension without pay (for the Elvis thing and two other frankly much more serious violations), followed by an 18-month return to the bench, followed by resignation—what kind of sense does that make??
November 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
First of all…wow.
Second, the discipline is a six-month suspension without pay (for the Elvis thing and two other frankly much more serious violations), followed by an 18-month return to the bench, followed by resignation—what kind of sense does that make??
Second, the discipline is a six-month suspension without pay (for the Elvis thing and two other frankly much more serious violations), followed by an 18-month return to the bench, followed by resignation—what kind of sense does that make??
Gaither, linked below, is an unbelievably long DC Circuit opinion (and thus *not* binding precedent in the 4th Circuit, where Comey is being tried) that goes at huge length discussing grand jury procedures,
but I think, if this trial court relies on Gaither, is likely to trigger *more discovery* 🤪
but I think, if this trial court relies on Gaither, is likely to trigger *more discovery* 🤪
Anyway, the facts are complicated, and the legal impact remains unclear.
To that end, the judge asked the parties to focus on a specific case when briefing the matter.
The case is called Gaither v. United States. It’s available here: law.justia.com/cases/federa...
To that end, the judge asked the parties to focus on a specific case when briefing the matter.
The case is called Gaither v. United States. It’s available here: law.justia.com/cases/federa...
Tyrone Gaither, Appellant, v. United States of America, Appellee.charles Tatum, Appellant, v. United States of America, Appellee, 413 F.2d 1061 (D.C. Cir. 1969)
Tyrone Gaither, Appellant, v. United States of America, Appellee.charles Tatum, Appellant, v. United States of America, Appellee, 413 F.2d 1061 (D.C. Cir. 1969) case opinion from the US Court of Appea...
law.justia.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Gaither, linked below, is an unbelievably long DC Circuit opinion (and thus *not* binding precedent in the 4th Circuit, where Comey is being tried) that goes at huge length discussing grand jury procedures,
but I think, if this trial court relies on Gaither, is likely to trigger *more discovery* 🤪
but I think, if this trial court relies on Gaither, is likely to trigger *more discovery* 🤪
Comey’s case now reasonably a case of—
•unlawful prosecutor appointment
•unlawful vindictive prosecution
•illegal search in ’19
•att’y-client privilege breach in ’19
•illegal search in ’25
•att’y-client privilege breach in ’25
•reversible error before grand jury
•prosecutor discovery misconduct
•unlawful prosecutor appointment
•unlawful vindictive prosecution
•illegal search in ’19
•att’y-client privilege breach in ’19
•illegal search in ’25
•att’y-client privilege breach in ’25
•reversible error before grand jury
•prosecutor discovery misconduct
BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Comey’s case now reasonably a case of—
•unlawful prosecutor appointment
•unlawful vindictive prosecution
•illegal search in ’19
•att’y-client privilege breach in ’19
•illegal search in ’25
•att’y-client privilege breach in ’25
•reversible error before grand jury
•prosecutor discovery misconduct
•unlawful prosecutor appointment
•unlawful vindictive prosecution
•illegal search in ’19
•att’y-client privilege breach in ’19
•illegal search in ’25
•att’y-client privilege breach in ’25
•reversible error before grand jury
•prosecutor discovery misconduct
Leo maybe taking the whole sports thing too far tbh
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Leo maybe taking the whole sports thing too far tbh