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Air traffic controllers are required by law to retire at 56. It is a high-stress, high-intensity job that requires intense focus. The retirement rules are there to keep us all safe. This fucking guy has no clue what's he's doing.

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Pedro isn't just a zaddy — his gorgeous trans sister Lux has often been his plus-one on red carpets, where he beams proudly. he's a real one. ❤️

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Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

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The owners of the Doc Martens brand sue SHEIN for design patent infringement, among other things.: www.scribd.com/document/832... We'd have to see all the views (and the prior art) to know for sure whether this design patent is infringed. But this based on the images in the complaint, it may be.

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Just a sitting President of the United States applying to register the name of the President of the United States as a trademark for, among other things, "creating an on-line virtual environment for exchange of digital collectibles featuring images, sound, videos and texts of Donald J Trump"

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NEW: Fully leaked diplomatic cable directing the implementation of this policy at all US diplomatic and consular posts.

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Today in design patents: D1063332 issued for a shoe. Business in the front and party in the back? #DesignPatents

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Today in design patents: D1063363 issued for a sling bag. #DesignPatents

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Today in design patents: D1063408 issued for a fabric with a pattern. #DesignPatents

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Today in design patents: D1063520 issued for a coffee maker. #DesignPatents

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Today in design patents: D1063581 issued for a hammer. I was really hoping the handle was some cool color that could become distinctive for hammers over the life of this design patent, but alas. #DesignPatents

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Today in design patents: D1063639 issued for a wet towel bucket. #DesignPatents

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Today in design patents: D1063685 issued for a ring. #DesignPatents

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Today in design patents: D1063768 issued for an automotive wheel. #DesignPatents

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Today in design patents: D1063985 issued for a display screen or portion thereof with a graphical user interface. I just got back from Vegas and it was a trip seeing so many of the GUIs I look at weekly in the wild. #DesignPatents

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Today in design patents: D1064044 issued for glasses. #DesignPatents

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Today in design patents: D1064046 issued for sunglasses. #DesignPatents

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Today in design patents: D1064065 issued for a resume reference verification report. Note - this is not a GUI, but an actual tangible form. #DesignPatents

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Today in design patents: D1064069 issued for a vending machine. I'm sure this sells cards or something like that, but I'm going to imagine I can get a pocket monster from a vending machine now. #DesignPatents

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Today in design patents: D1064152 issued for a golf club head. #DesignPatents

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Today in design patents: D1064163 issued for a slip lawn water slide. #DesignPatents

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Today in design patents: D1064329 issued for a building material with surface pattern. #DesignPatents

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Today in design patents: D1064383 issued for a lamp with shade and a base. #DesignPatents I would say that looks sharp, but also the prickly parts of the cactus seem to be missing.

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Happy New Patent Tuesday! We have 1,200 new design patents today so let's get started with D1063294 for a three-dimensional candy. Now I want to see candy that ISN'T three-dimensional. #DesignPatents

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All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

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Skull Shaver files so many nonmeritorious design patent infringement claims. It's really getting ridiculous.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

The number of events at the USPTO that have been either canceled or indefinitely postponed doesn't paint a pretty picture

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will NOT allow the Trump admin to end birthright citizenship for certain children of immigrants.

submitted 7 days ago • 86 comments

The official White House account posted this.

submitted 7 days ago • 533 comments

Daaaaamn (laudatory)

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Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional. This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on! Huge win for trans people in MT!

submitted 8 days ago • 96 comments

This is just to say I have fired the bureaucrats throughout your government Even the ones that were probably keeping planes in the air Forgive me I am not very smart So efficiency Much savings

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

We are a full on Idiocracy

submitted 8 days ago • 61 comments

I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA. The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

submitted 9 days ago • 359 comments

"I don't have an answer for you."

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"special agents with homeland security investigations new orleans & the IP rights coordination center appeared at southern sun's warehouse & confiscated nearly 2,000 hats, alleging the fleur-de-lis design infringed on NFL trademarks"

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Reminder: there is nothing feminist about transphobia. There is no “protection” of women in demonizing our trans community. And there is no way forward for a society that pretends to care about one group by hating another.

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Today in design patents: D1062151 issued for an inflatable unicorn costume. #DesignPatents

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Today in design patents: D1062175 issued for a footwear midsole. The best footwear midsole IMO. I'll be wearing shoes with this midsole on Sunday if I can make it to Vegas. #DesignPatents

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