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Max Rodriguez
@max-e-rodriguez.bsky.social
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law things @maxrodriguezlaw.bsky.social (whistleblowers, defamation, appeals). husband to 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 @osayko.bsky.social, dog dad, food and all-purpose nerd. צֶ֥דֶק צֶ֖דֶק תִּרְדֹּ֑ף. #LongCovid spouse.

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https://www.maxrodriguez.law/
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max-e-rodriguez.bsky.social
I’m a very infrequent football person, and I just got to watch one of the craziest things I’ve seen in sports. Holy mackerel.
cjzero.bsky.social CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 2d
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT
January 19, 2026 at 2:43 AM
max-e-rodriguez.bsky.social
Bills defense…holy mackerel.
January 18, 2026 at 1:11 AM
max-e-rodriguez.bsky.social
The problem is, the dodgers’ ownership wants to win. Everyone else’s ownership, including the Yankees, doesn’t care enough to compete that way as long as fans keep buying tickets. What ever happened to pride?
January 16, 2026 at 12:19 PM
max-e-rodriguez.bsky.social
The monkeys have received $100 million in early round funding from Oracle and Nvidia.
January 12, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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sarahkorse.bsky.social
A Polish farmer finds an old lamp while tilling his field. He rubs it and a genie pops out and grants him three wishes. The farmer thinks for a while and then says: "I want the Mongols to invade Poland."
🧵1/5
January 11, 2026 at 1:37 AM
max-e-rodriguez.bsky.social
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is a beautiful film. The biopic is not the focus. It’s an intimate story of someone struggling with acute depression, how pernicious and unexpected it can be, and the love someone can be wrapped in - not to fix it - but to stay afloat. Float and there’s hope.
January 5, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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thembo.bsky.social
I said chatgpt doesn't have a soul and got put on this list
@ai-rights.bsky.social has added you to the "AI Racists" moderation list
December 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Matt Taibbi is someone who deserves to get legal advice from Caitlin Flanagan.
keptsimple.bsky.social m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 22d
a lot of dumb dumbs at the Atlantic, but man, Caitlin Flanagan is on another level
flanagan suggesting to matt taibbi that eoin higgins has also "triggered additional kinds of liability" because "consumers are being misled" by a book title
December 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
max-e-rodriguez.bsky.social
Naming your alarm company after an eye that (1) only exists bc of prior failure caused by hubris, (2) can’t see everything, (3) is evil, and (4) is constantly distracted by its own megalomania leading to its own destruction, is certainly a choice.
December 29, 2025 at 3:22 AM
max-e-rodriguez.bsky.social
Episode 3 of the skywalker saga is the perfect example of George Lucas’s strengths and weaknesses. He builds an elaborate world, one where myth and religion become deeply intertwined with modern social and political divisions. It’s a rare feat.

But…🧵
December 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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tarjapk.bsky.social
Here’s to 2026
David Lynch in the filming set speaking in the megaphone. He says “Okay, let's try that again, but this time good.”
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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retrodes.net
Matt Taibbi says no one owns him.

Yet here is footage of @ninajankowicz.com owning him.
ninajankowicz.com Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 24d
Yep, I unfortunately had to share the witness table with him at this hearing. It didn’t go well for him
December 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
max-e-rodriguez.bsky.social
So heated rivalry is amazing, but one of the wildest parts of it is its determination to shove Canadian mid aughts indie music back into the zeitgeist. As an elderly millennial, this is public service.
December 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
max-e-rodriguez.bsky.social
Happy last night of Hanukkah! It has been a heavy one, but light casts best in the dark. We most need miracles, and each other, when things seem most broken.
A menorah with nine candles lit
December 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
max-e-rodriguez.bsky.social
Trying to relitigate constitutionality of the FCA based on a nonexistent version of the law is truly deranged. Policy preference (pro undetected fraud) masquerading as legal argument, which is what conservative luminaries often say "liberal" judges are doing.

Every accusation is a confession, etc.
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
The attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror. I mourn those who were murdered and will be keeping their families, the Jewish community, and the Chabad movement in my prayers. May the memories of all those killed be a blessing. While we are still waiting for all the facts to emerge, what we already know is devastating. At least 11 dead, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who held deep ties to Crown Heights. At least 29 injured. Another Jewish community plunged into mourning and loss, a holiday of light so painfully reduced to a day of darkness. This attack is merely the latest, most horrifying iteration in a growing pattern of violence targeted at Jewish people across the world. Too many no longer feel safe to be themselves, to express their faith publicly, to worship in their synagogues without armed security stationed outside. What happened at Bondi is what many Jewish people fear will happen in their communities too. On Bondi Beach today, as men with long guns targeted innocents, another man ran towards the gunfire and disarmed a shooter. Tonight, as Jewish New Yorkers light menorahs and usher in a first night of Hanukkah clouded by grief, let us look to his example and confront hatred with the urgency and action it demands. When I am Mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day. Let this be a purpose shared by every New Yorker, and let us banish this horrific violence to the past.
December 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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mileswgriffis.bsky.social
Glad to see this @wired.com guide on high quality masks! A KN95 can help protect you and your loved ones from COVID-19 and other airborne viruses, especially during this busy travel season. I only wish Wired wrote about the pandemic in the present tense 🙏😷

www.wired.com/story/best-d...
15 Good N95, KF94, and KN95 Face Masks to Buy Right Now
Flu season is here. These are the best disposable face coverings we’ve tested—and where you can find them.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
max-e-rodriguez.bsky.social
Finally got some enormous briefs filed and off my plate last night (after several others, after several others…it’s been a fall) so I’m treating myself to a Saturday night Jewish delicacy:

Going to my synagogue to respectfully argue about politics 🤣
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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ninajankowicz.com
Hang on, I seem to remember a campaign to villainize an effort to *create policy* for how to respond to “lies, smears, and AI deepfakes” at DHS. (I remember it because it endangers my family to this day.) Are they admitting that was a good thing now?

www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
DHS playing 'whack-a-mole' shooting down made-up ICE stories
The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up efforts to combat fake news, viral AI videos, and misinformation on ICE and Border Patrol.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM
max-e-rodriguez.bsky.social
This is *such* a great idea.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Nov 19
This is...sort of brilliant.
Six years ago, after watching my circle of friends surrender one too many evenings to insurance wrangling and doctor portals and DMV confusion, I emailed them a proposal: Come over next Tuesday. Grab a six pack. And bring your bills, your credit-card statements, your school forms, the streaming services you need to unsubscribe from, the airline miles you need to manage, the expenses app you need to figure out. I’d be throwing the lamest party ever. At the heart of this party was a truth that has gone under-acknowledged in recent years: We’re all sinking. We’re sinking into a quicksand of tiny, dumb administrative tasks. It is the most tedious quicksand imaginable. Tasks once accomplished with a quick phone call now require logging into a new website, which requires remembering yet another password. Disputing a charge means arguing with a chipper chatbot, or submitting to an hour of brain-melting hold music—call volume higher than expected!—only to be disconnected.
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
max-e-rodriguez.bsky.social
I need someone with more free time than me to make a clip of bugs bunny as the conductor set to Berghain.
a woman wearing sunglasses walks in front of a large group of musicians
Alt: a woman wearing sunglasses walks in front of a large group of musicians
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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akivamcohen.bsky.social
When your "I'm not antisemitic, it's just that ..." defense is "if we push back too hard on antisemitism I might have to eat dinner with some Jews and that would contradict my faith" ...

You're not beating the rap guys
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
We’re hiring!

Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.

Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
max-e-rodriguez.bsky.social
All I’m gonna say is the last time you said racist bullshit about New York, people threw beer bottles at you coming out of the bullpen in ‘96. A nice, respectful, New York fuck you to you, pal.
November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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menotti.bsky.social
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM