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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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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 7h

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

Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 8h

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 · 7h

Gotta watch that air vent, though.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 17h

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 · 13h

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 · 12h

What do you want Louisville to be?

Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 17h

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

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 18h

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

Reuters
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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 · 18h

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

Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 18h

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!

ENDNOTES
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 · 1d

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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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

Go Avs Go!

Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

From Wikipedia:

Charles I was accused of treason against
England by using his power to pursue his personal interest rather than the good of the country.
• 266) The charge stated that he was devising "a wicked design to erect and uphold in himself an unlimited and tyrannical power to rule according to his will, and to overthrow the rights and liberties of the people". In carrying this out he had "traitorously and maliciously
levied war against the present Parliament, and the people therein represented", and that the
"wicked designs, wars, and evil practices of him, the said Charles Stuart, have been, and are carried on for the advancement and upholding of a personal interest of will, power, and pretended prerogative to himself and his family, against the public interest, common right, liberty, justice, and peace of the people of this nation."[266]

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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 1d

Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon tells Christians they can "make Jesus smile" by joining ICE: "You literally can join ICE and be God's appointed avenger who seeks to carry out God's vengeance on the evildoer." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

A few decades ago there was a serious conservative backlash on the Court to so-called “taxpayer standing,” especially in First Amendment cases, because it interfered with democracy. Now the conservatives allow “generally annoyed by something” to satisfy standing requirements. Lol nothing matters.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 1d

Remember, O Lord, what thou hast wrought in us and not what we deserve

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

Precisely. So much of this charade is emboldened by the failure of simple follow ups. In journalism and in Congress.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

Watching these folks might make you think they swore a personal oath to one particular president rather than an oath to the country and constitution as public servants and stewards of public offices.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

It’s even more maddening to realize they’re spending trillions to build data centers on the false hope that they can avoid paying millions in wages to real people.

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

I also wonder if there is now such a general disconnect between thought and action that folks just don’t notice that they’re taking positions totally untethered from their own behaviors.

Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

Dean of the Law School, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Associate Dean of Students

Evangeline Warren @evangelinewarren.com · 2d

assistant professor, associate professor, grad student

the coach of the KC Chiefs, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. From left to right they are wearing (1) a very normal grey suit with red tie, (2) a newsboy cap in brown with a shirt that looks like a bad motel wallpaper, and (3) a barbie-esque italian table cloth vest

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RNS @rns.org · 1d

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed the Rev. Yehiel Curry as its first Black presiding bishop Saturday, a landmark moment for the predominantly white denomination.
religionnews.com/2025/10/06/l...

Largest US Lutheran denomination installs Yehiel Curry as its first Black presiding bishop

As leader of the largest American Lutheran Church body, Curry will face challenges common to other mainline Protestant denominations, which in recent years have weathered theological disputes over…

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

This can only end in cartoonish disaster.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."