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Kendyl Hanks

@kendylhanks.bsky.social

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Full time biglaw appellate lawyer, part time #FlyFishing angler, orchidophile, native Texan & erstwhile New Yorker, mom to furbabies Molly & Lady Bird. Speaking for me not my firm, not your lawyer. #AppellateSky ⚖️ #Orchids @LadyLawyerDiary

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 2h

It’s always been about erasing the reconstruction amendments

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3h

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

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Beaver Bones Darick @darickr.bsky.social · 1d

Before he was Dr.Suess, Ted Geisel was making these poignant cartoons

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 2d

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Big Sky Country by Chris Whitley on Apple Music

Song · 1991 · Duration 4:45

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

Paying respects to the late great LBJ

Home with a white picket fence and green shutters, LBJ’s boyhood home

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

I only know because I’ve been researching the invasion of Sicily and some other battles in which my grandfather flew C47s, dropping RAF gliders. He crash landed at Malta during the campaign. Op Husky and Faustian I think

Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

There are at Kew. I had a researcher pulling records about Malta and Sicily. There’s also some good books about the invasion of Sicily that draw on European records bc joint invasion, touch on Malta. I have a researcher contact at WWII history project if you want to know more

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

As one does on such weekends

Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

Hook em

a man in a suit and tie making a devil horns sign

Alt: a man in a suit and tie making a devil horns sign

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

Been there

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

So close!

Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

38 pages

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

a group of texas football players are celebrating

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

a man in a red jacket is giving the middle finger to a crowd of people in a stadium .

Alt: a man in a red jacket is giving the middle finger to a crowd of people in a stadium .

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

Just short 😂

Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

Once upon a time, I was married to someone who thought I was not as beautiful as I really was. I am now with someone who thinks I’m much more beautiful than I really am. I highly recommend the latter.

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

The Diane Keaton news is enough for me, time to shut it all down

Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 4d

King Joffrey is going to run TikTok this should be fun

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 4d

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Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd on Apple Music

Song · 1975 · Duration 5:38

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 4d

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Freedom! '90 by George Michael on Apple Music

Song · 1990 · Duration 6:30

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 4d

This is a terrific point. Public schools exist for students, not their parents.

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 4d

9 out of 10 US students -- roughly 50 million children -- attend public schools.

Despite RW efforts to frame their efforts as for parents ("parents' rights," "choice"), efforts to defund, deform. amd debilitate public schools is a broadscale attack on children and future generations.

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 4d

Breakfast in Fredericksburg

Jalapeño and cheese kolache with German mustard

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 4d

This is really happening? It’s not April fools or anything? Because the idea that we would allow ANY foreign country to establish a military airbase here is utterly unthinkable

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 4d

And FYI, before you think to yourself that you would know the difference between a drunk bird and an injured bird, keep in mind when you see them all caddywompus and lolling about, they look like they’re bleeding from the mouth

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 4d

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Age of Consent by New Order on Apple Music

Song · 1983 · Duration 5:15

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 4d

A++ trolling

Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 4d

Oooh, watch out for the scary antifa animal crossing in war ravaged Portland 😂

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