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Joe Dudek
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Maryland attorney specializing in appeals and insurance coverage.
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REPORTER: What kind of concessions are the Germans going to have to make?

F.D.R.: The big concession is they stop fighting and don't take any more land.
Map of Germany’s occupation in April 1944
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Silly dog, that's not how you sit on a couch.
a white dog sleeping on a white couch
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Sure.
www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Does this help, @slotkin.senate.gov?
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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It is not a crime. It hasn't been a crime since December 13, 1920. In another post, he alludes to “many legal scholars” who agree with him. I dare him to name one. Turley doesn't count.
Trump: THE TRAITORS THAT TOLD THE MILITARY TO DISOBEY MY ORDERS SHOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW, NOT ROAMING THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS TRYING TO EXPLAIN THAT WHAT THEY SAID WAS OK. IT WASN'T, AND NEVER WILL BE! IT WAS SEDITION AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL, AND SEDITION IS A MAJOR CRIME. THERE CAN BE NO OTHER INTERPRETATION OF WHAT THEY SAID! 19 ReTruths 90 Likes 11/22/25, 8:17 PM
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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This is how interim U.S. attorneys are supposed to work:
an old-school computer and a banker's lamp at a desk in the woods. the text says, "i log in; i alter the vibe; i leave."
November 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Everybody reading the second Lizza essay:
November 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Sometimes, there are just no words that can adequately convey the misbehavior.
A judicial opinion: As Rev. Black stood calmly in the street, speaking into a megaphone, again without warning, agents deployed pepper spray indiscriminately, with one officer aiming pepper spray directly at Rev. Black’s head: Then there is a picture of the Reverend reeling back as an officer aims pepper spray at his face
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Some of Judge Ellis’s reliance on body-worn camera footage is just so damning for ICE. Here, she doesn't even bother to elaborate; she just shows you that basically nobody had shields or weapons.
Defendants claim that someone advised CBP personnel that agents in a marked vehicle could not exit the facility because a crowd blocked them. Doc. 173-2 ¶ 16. CBP SRT agents estimated over 200 people , with many of them in masks, gloves, helmets, and carrying improvised shields, gathered outside the facility. Id. However, BWC footage does not support this: Body-worn camera image of protestors in ordinary clothes just standing around Body-worn camera image of protestors in ordinary clothes just standing around
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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To be fair, as Julia Louis-Dreyfus noted, he is only a D.C. resident Mondays through Wednesdays.
As a great fan of the work of Mark Twain I was so sorry when I recently learned he was dead. My thoughts and prayers go out to the whole Twain family, especially the wonderful Shania. Unfortunately the President of the United States couldn't make it tonight either, even though he lives in the neighbourhood Mondays through Wednesdays.
November 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Not the point, but: The Sedition Act did not provide for capital punishment.
The Sedition Act of 1918 allowed for severe penalties, generally including heavy fines and imprisonment for up to 20 years. Additionally, the Postmaster General could refuse to deliver mail from those violating its provisions. See
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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It's hard to believe these two sentences are so close together.
"Purcell compels us to get the ruling out as soon as we possibly can." and "What indeed are they afraid of?"
November 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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At least she's consistent.
A pretend legal filing with the caption from James Comey's prosecution says: NOTICE The United States of America, by and through the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, hereby notifies this Court that everything the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia said at today’s hearing is off the record. You’re not a judge so it’s weird saying that but just letting you know.
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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1Ls everywhere put on some late-night TV to get a little separation from their legal-writing project, only to be sucked right back in:
Seth Meyers, describing Donald Trump's sentence "He was viewed last night in an uncontrollable rage ..." says "what's with the passive voice, my man?"
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Schmidt trying to figure out how long before an election the Supreme Court's "Purcell principle" kicks in:
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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On this World Toilet Day, I'm reflecting on how many people could have regular access to basic plumbing for the cost of one Lincoln Bedroom bathroom renovation.

www.un.org/en/observanc...
A picture of the new White House residence toilet. <img src="https://i.abcnewsfe.com/a/fd81b6a4-22c7-4967-9051-b676f1d59811/lincoln-wh-3-ht-gmh-251031_1761932346047_hpMain.jpg" alt="President Trump shows off White House&#39;s Lincoln Bathroom renovated entirely in marble - ABC News"/>
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Excluding Thomas Massie, who is routinely a sole dissenter in the House, it has been six years since a bill passed with only one “no” vote.
The three most recent instances of a bill passing in the House of Representatives with only one non-Massie "Nay" vote are: H.R. 4405, the Epstein Files Transparency Act (119th Congress, 2025), with Representative Clay Higgins (R-LA) casting the lone "Nay". H.R. 205, the Protect Medical Innovation Act (116th Congress, 2019), featuring Representative Justin Amash (R/L-MI) as the lone dissenter. H.R. 4983, the FENTANYL Sanctions Act (116th Congress, 2019), also featuring Representative Justin Amash (R/L-MI) as the lone dissenter.
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
The Black Album by Jay-Z
November 17, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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I don't know who Tony Perkins is; I now know that the person I was thinking of is David S. Pumpkins.
SNL’s David S. Pumpkins, a Ton Hanks Halloween character
November 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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SNL character Stefon says "New York's hottest club is Epstein"
November 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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"Now come" does not take a comma, @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/n...
U.S. Attorney Under Pressure After Order to Investigate Democrats Jay Clayton, who heads the Southern District of New York, has so far managed to keep clear of President Trump’s most politically charged directives. Now, come the hard choices.
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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That is why the body of the document is forced to describe a "[Department of War] policy" with the title "Department of Defense Instruction."
Here, DOW policy confirms that the Department may fulfill such requests “when they pro-mote the increased effectiveness of the U.S. Government” and conform to the requirements of the Economy Act. Dep’t of Defense Instruction 1000.17, para. 3(a)–(b) (Apr. 26, 2022) (“DoDI”).
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Still fascinated that these guys published a song called “Sharp-Dressed Man.”
ZZ Top playing furry purple guitars
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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What does it even mean to destroy diversity, equity, or inclusion?
Confusion began, at least at the public level, that night, when Governor Youngkin went onto Fox News to crow that “DEI is dead” at UVA. That was an exaggeration of the Board’s resolution. It was also a little hard to decipher, as it’s not clear even today what it means to kill DEI, and the Governor didn’t go much beyond the soundbite. For example, did it mean that we could no longer try to recruit qualified first-generation students from rural parts of Virginia, or offer financial aid, or even serve matzah in the dining halls during Passover, because each of those efforts would be advancing diversity, equity, and/or inclusion? Regardless, the Governor’s theatrics created a false impression in the public that the Board had resolved do something radical and sweeping as opposed to something tempered.
November 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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And kudos to the unstoppable @kyledcheney.bsky.social, who I'm pretty sure is actually three smaller reporters in a trench coat.
As stated in open court, this Court recently addressed the issue of whether Section 1226 or Section 1225 governs foreign nationals who are similarly situated to the foreign nationals who have been arrested in connection with Operation Midway Blitz. In that decision, this Court determined that the foreign nationals in question were subject to arrest and detention under Section 1226, and not under Section 1225. See Patel v. Crowley, No. 25-cv-11180, 2025 WL 2996787 (N.D.Ill. Oct. 24, 2025). The Court's holding to this effect is consistent with the decisions of every one of the 21 district judges in this District who have ruled on this issue as well as with the decisions of well over 100 other district judges from around the country. See, e.g., Berto Mendez v. Noem, No. 2:25-CV-02062-RFB-MDC, 2025 WL 3124285, at *2 (D.Nev. Nov. 7, 2025) (citing Kyle Cheney, More than 100 judges have ruled against the Trump admin's mandatory detention policy, Politico (Oct. 31, 2025 at 4:29 p.m. EDT) https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/31/trump-administration-mandatory-detention- deportation-00632086 (last visited November 12, 2025). This Court will stand by its ruling on
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM