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Attorney (entertainment law, creative rights advocate & litigator), Parent (2 kids, 4 dogs), Nonprofit founder, Trustee, Music Enthousiast. Presently residing in the lower Hudson Valley. hobenlaw.com // tooyoungtowed.org // discogs.com/seller/Jackspeak
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No way I could have made it, but I’m heartbroken I missed it.

UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

The compositions have more breathing room here than on previous albums, and it really works in their favor. It’s a gem. faroutmagazine.co.uk/surprise-che...

When a mom alleged that Idaho was wrongfully keeping kids with dyslexia and other disabilities from special education, the Department of Education found she was right. Idaho was accepting students with specific disabilities at half the national rate. With @idahostatesman.com

"Pirro never served as a federal prosecutor, or in any role at all in the DOJ. She was the elected district attorney in Westchester County, New York, and served as a county judge for three years during the ‘90s, although she does not appear to have practiced law at all in the past two decades."

SCOOP: On Friday, the US Copyright Office released a blockbuster report on AI training. On Saturday, the USCO director was unceremoniously fired. Today, two men claiming to be Trump appointees—including a new acting USCO director—showed up at the office: www.wired.com/story/us-cop...

I absolutely hate that I’ve been right about where this was going. techcrunch.com/2025/05/11/t...

🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants. Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.

Makrohang, from Budapest, put out a self-titled album recently that deserves far more exposure than it's received. Post-rock vibes, influences are evident. Concurrently, they also put out a well-captured live set featuring many of the new tracks. Like this one... youtu.be/vh4jY3YDz9o?...

Indiana is set to join the handful of states running partisan school board elections after a squeaker of a final vote Thursday — pending a decision from Republican Gov. Mike Braun. via @indianacapitalchronicle.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/part...

The fact that Wilkinson wrote this is notable. He's a big name in conservative FedSoc circles...

Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

NEW: Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

First Florida altered child labor laws to allow minors to work nighttime shifts during weekdays. Now Florida is considering doing away with high school AP programs. www.wesh.com/article/flor...

The tenacity of my Gators.

Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head. He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison. Bring them back!

Hooo boy

TLDR: basically, the rule of law itself is at issue

Do not look away.

“My detention at Guantanamo changed me. The isolation, the deprivation… it broke us down.” A Venezuelan man who entered the US for a CBP One appointment on Jan. 19, 2025—and violated no laws—describes the horrors of Guantanamo detention aka imprisonment. ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul...

Trump just pardoned crypto firm BitMex for violating money laundering laws — making him potentially the first president in American history to pardon a corporation. It's truly a new Golden Age for corporate crime.

It is hard to express, without resorting to expletives, how utterly stupid it is to suggest that the United States, world's richest economy with a population of 334 million, should have a bilateral trade balance of zero (no trade surplus, no trade deficit) with every country in the world.

So good. 🤡 @brendanvduke.bsky.social

I want to note again how completely insane you have to be for your goal to be a “bilateral trade balance of zero” with every country. Just nutso.

NEW: ACLU tells Judge Boasberg that he should reject the government's invocation of the state-secrets privilege, saying that it is "unaware of *any* case in which [it] has been invoked to withhold evidence from a court seeking to enforce its own orders." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Remember this shit, I am pretty sure it’s still on his agenda

Saw a post on TikTok about Columbia taking away degrees backfiring, and it made me realize - taking Degrees is way as punishment demonstrates how these institutions believe that their mission is conferring privilege and not providing education.

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

Good question. Why DOES Pete Hegseth have a Russian phone number? 🤨

Capitalism unfettered, advances like The Nothing, swallowing all.

On the left: Hegseth's message. On the right: the applicable CENTCOM classification guide provisions. This is all very plainly classified at the SECRET level. They all lied. They should all lose their jobs.

A President who disregards Congressional appropriations unifying all federal payments under a single department run by his appointees alone would have total control of the federal purse, capable of punishing or rewarding individuals at will. "Anti-constitutional," as @jamellebouie.net says.

CNN put together a collection of clips of various Trump officials who were on the signal chat criticizing Hillary Clinton’s email server

ICYMI: Just coincidentally, I’m sure, Pam Bondi’s BigLaw partner brother is running to be President this year (of all years!) of the DC State Bar Association. DC-barred lawyers: VOTE FOR DIANE SELTZER! April 15-June 4. Make sure you get your email ballot.

It’s a long “memorandum,” but it’s essentially telling Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem to go after lawyers who challenge the federal government — which is many lawyer’s jobs. It’s basically a catch-all “let’s Paul Weiss whoever pisses us off” memo.

Gutting generations of copyright protections for the benefit of AI bots would have a chilling effect not just on news organizations but on all creative content creators, from novelists to playwrights to poets. www.bostonherald.com/2025/03/17/e...

This story is fucking bonkers

One suspects the entire point of Cerna's circle jerk here is to mock the rule of law. We don’t have evidence that they’re terrorists, but because we don’t have evidence, that itself proves they’re terrorists??? Kafka, eat your heart out.

UNREAL. ICE implies in a sworn declaration that MOST of the Venezuelans sentenced to hard labor in a brutal Central American prison without charge or trial or so much as a cursory hearing had never been convicted or even charged with ANY CRIME whatsoever, not even a trivial one, anywhere, ever!

Concepts of a plan.

I could write up why there’s no constitutional problem with the President using an auto-pen to sign official documents—or I could just post the 30-page 2005 opinion by George W. Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel that explains why in lots of detail. I choose the latter: www.justice.gov/file/494411/...

At least there's some good news out there.

Note here: a foreign head of state mocking and assisting defying the order of a US federal judge and then the Secretary of State amplifying the mockery.