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@jjgass.bsky.social

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US lawyer living in England. Previously lived in 日本, NL, France. Motorbikes, cricket, opera, etc. He/him. Jew.

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 24d

A university student once, in my ex-wife’s presence, referred to Dutch as a “dialect of German.”

He’s lucky to be alive.

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 7h

I lived in NL when it didn’t have a government for about four months.

It was just fine.

Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 7h

To me, this photo screams, “Peace Prize”

Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 8h

Incredible photo from @chicago.suntimes.com ‘s Anthony Vazquez. Pointing what looks to be a teargas launcher at someone’s head at nearly point blank range is incredibly dangerous. This is why I prefer a ballistic helmet in the field.

Feds ram SUV in chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N on Chicago's East Side, resulting in dozens of residents showing up to protest the federal immigration agents.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 9h

We have the opposite of what the Belgians sometimes have: the political offices are all filled, but the civil service isn’t functioning (much).

Their version, where they have no cabinet & no PM, but the machinery of the state carries on, is preferable.

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 9h

See also (different judge in a different district—this is the Kilmar Abrego Garcia civil case)

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 10h

Whooooooo.

MR. KHOJASTEH: Your Honor, with respect, do you
doubt the fact that a retainer [sic] is in place in -- a
detainer is in place?
THE COURT: I absolutely doubt the fact until I see
it. Because you know what? You all have taken a position over
and over again that you have done things lawfully, and then a
witness gets on the stand yesterday and admits you haven't done
it lawfully.
MR. KHOJASTEH: What did the witness say yesterday
that was unlawfully?
THE COURT: I'm not here to answer your questions,
sir. You're here to answer mine.

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 9h

It’s fine to ask if you don’t understand what the judge is saying, or remember what she’s referring to, or if you need to clarify whether she’s implying what you think she’s implying.

But there’s a way to ask. And there’s especially a way to ask when you’ve already pissed her off.

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 9h

Great moments in DOJ lawyering

I would NEVER speak to a judge this way. But greatness will find a way to show itself.

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 10h

Whooooooo.

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Espy @esp1371.bsky.social · 11h

Hey, remember when it was bad to say mean things about your political opponents because that's why Charlie Kirk got shot? Apparently, saying your political opponents have the devil's ideology at a memorial FOR Charlie Kirk is just fine.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "They have the devil's ideology. They become violent on the left."

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 12h

See, I am figuring out y'all's customs

Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 12h

I can't see the justification in the Constitutional text or in any constitutional policy about the role of the judiciary.

But, as far as I know, this result could well be correct under current doctrine.

Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 12h

This exemplifies how bizarre standing doctrine is. Even if every step that got us here made sense, does anyone really think that, if the substantive law would provide relief to both groups, the Constitution forbids one group but not the other from suing in federal court?

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 12h

Did Magdalen win the house points contest over Gryffindor or something?

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 12h

This is actually pretty decent. My one edit would be to add "an assertion that wouldn't make the killings legal if it were true."

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13h

Breaking News: A U.S. military strike killed six people on a boat in international waters near Venezuela, President Trump said, asserting without evidence that they were drug smugglers for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

U.S. Military Kills 6 People in Another Attack on Boat, Trump Says

In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

nyti.ms

Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 12h

Mildly good news: at least in my experience, they keep it to themselves even when women are no longer in the vicinity. Sort of like how Trump's "locker room talk" doesn't resemble anything I've ever heard in any men's locker room I've been in.

Some shit *almost* everyone knows is out-of-bounds.

Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 12h

I REALLY try not to comment on the faces and bodies of people I oppose.

But these guys are making it extremely difficult.

Boobermenschen

Dammit!

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 13h

I swear to god the secret service would have to tackle me to the ground

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 12h

If Compagno really wants extra credit, though, she should go on Fox News and claim that the "outraged liberals" are being homophobic towards Weiss.

Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 13h

Antisemitism is the right's go-to these days.

As an empirical matter, she'd have been better off asserting that some criticism is sexist. Because, while I've not seen it, you *know* there's public criticism of Weiss that's dripping in misogyny. The world just sucks in that way.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 13h

uh using Bari Weiss’s Jewishness to insulate her against any and all criticism is antisemitic

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 13h

That bribe to Trump isn't going to pay for itself. They've got to go all-out on quality control.

Actually, come to think of it, that bribe *is* going to pay for itself.

Never mind.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

This is why he keeps a copy of the Declaration in that strange curtained shrine in the Oval Gilded Office:

It’s his to-do list! He’s aiming to check each and every offense off, and he’s off to a good start.

Trump’s strange be-curtained DofI wall hanging.

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 13h

Seriously, I'd imagine an AI could do this job. But that's because it's usually not all that complicated. Templates and models work fine. Train the AI on those, and it will spit out the same result you would have gotten by filling in the blanks.

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 14h

At least for London & the Southeast, it should suffice if you can use "innit" properly

Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 14h

Congress really needs to legislate about this. We're so far behind other wealthy economies on it.

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 14h

Yes, but it explains why shotguns are more prevalent in the UK than are rifles and handguns.

Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 14h

I think so. It's meant to be arbitration & ADR-specific.

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 14h

The posh can't shoot grouse without shotguns

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