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Part time artist, occasional author, Life-long meddler, and friend to things that go bump in the night. (Pronouns: whatever yer most comfortable with)

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Nettlecake@nettlecake.bsky.social · 2d ago

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Nic Morton@nicmorton.bsky.social · 3d ago

Looking for some summer reading? My new book "The Crusader Storm" offers a history of the Crusades (1097-1187) from roughly ten different cultural perspectives. These include: Byzantine, Fatimid, Seljuk Turkish, Arab, Kurdish, Frankish, Jewish and Armenian points of view.

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Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4d ago

UPDATE: Judge Pitts denied DOJ's request for a stay in the Packard (Stanford) grand jury subpoena case. Patient records remain protected. Not only did Pitts deny the stay request, he also "conclude[d] that DOJ lacks evidence to support its claimed interest or to demonstrate irreparable harm ...."

In its motion for a stay, DOJ argues that grand jury secrecy requirements under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e) preclude it from offering any evidence to demonstrate its lawful and legitimate interest in provisional class members' sensitive medical information. But as the Court explained almost one month ago, "[t]hat is not quite true. It is within DOJ's authority to petition the Texas court for authorization to disclose grand jury matters in connection with this 2 Case 5:26-cv-04998-PCP Document 108 Filed 07/31/26 Page 3 of 4 proceeding." Id. at *21 (citing Fed. R. Crim. P. 6(e)(3)(E)(i)). The Court invited DOJ to seek such authorization and to "request that this Court review any materials in camera as needed to preserve grand jury secrecy." Id. More than four weeks later, DOJ appears to have taken no action. DOJ could have used its reply in support of its stay motion (if not the stay motion itself) to identify evidence of its legitimate interest in provisional class members' medical information or, at the least, to apprise the Court of its efforts to seek authorization to disclose such evidence. Instead, DOJ opted not to file any reply at all. The Court must therefore conclude that DOJ lacks evidence to support its claimed interest or to demonstrate irreparable harm to that interest as a result of the preliminary injunction.
David Forbes@davidforbes.bsky.social · 5d ago

After we published this interview the NYT went out of its way to try to smear us and bury it. And here we are, stronger than ever, about to hit our fundraising goal thanks to a wave of support. Trans journalism will never die. transnewsnetwork.networkforgood.com/projects/302...

A screenshot of TNN's fundraiser showing $14,274 of $15,000 met
Trans News Network@transnews.network · 6d ago

Reminder that we published an extensive interview with a former editor at The New York Times who laid out, in detail, how the paper's pushing of anti-trans bigotry was both very intentional and directed from the very top of the organization. The NYT plays a direct and major role in trans genocide:

christophermoskal.bsky.social@christophermoskal.bsky.social · last wk.

I don't think Covid was particularly bad for my own circumstances, my family survived and we were okay, but the realization of "Half the country is unwilling to do basic things or make the minimum sacrifice necessary to help other people" broke my faith in humanity in ways I'm still grappling with.