rumpole-brief.bsky.social
Old bankruptcy law guy in Missouri. Probably should be working.
@WendellSherk on that dying bird app.
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Is she Elon's Special-K friend?
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But you gotta admire a guy who has a formal portrait of himself where, I swear to god, he's nursing a shiner.
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Odds are that judges who respond this way would be the ones Pres Musk would like to have resign, of course.
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There are a couple other no-profile accounts on here today talking about the emails with this weird tone as well.
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26 followers and it looks like I previously blocked every single one of them. But I'm sure he's engaging in good faith.🙄
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Nate has...friends? Riiiight.
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If it is not done by a 20 year old racist incel with terminal acne who codes the flicker rate on Twitter for Elon, it's not really an "audit"....according to every MAGA this week.
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@chriswarcraft.bsky.social is on Blue Sky.
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73% are being too polite to express themselves properly.
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"Like German food got better after they conquered France! I'm on it, boss!"
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Yes! And I'd be serving iced sweet tea just to watch Brits pass out.
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We're bringing big industrial ice machines in our carry-on this time, dammit. No more lukewarm sodas in August.
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People make up bland excuses because the real reason they voted for him sounds bad: "he hates people I hate and I wanted to help hurt them."
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It sounds like the English language and yet....
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Almost no "criminal libel" laws can withstand constitutional scrutiny. Not that this would stop local govt from using such a dumb, blunt instrument to harass reporters.
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There's lawyer truism that you'll never know as much law as you do the day after the bar exam. It's true. I have 35 yrs experience in bankruptcy court. Ask me a divorce question, I will shrug. I aced family law and DID some divorces but now...LOL. Brain all full of specialist BK info I use daily.
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Wasn't it because the paper is based where the judge sits?
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There's a suggestion that the city govt may be touchy because it got called out for passing their own pay increases behind closed doors. Something like that is floating on the Bad Site anyway.
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Missouri's legislature refused to expand Medicaid until a ballot measure forced it. In the interim, most of our rural hospitals and clinics closed.
So telehealth is all the intensely-MAGA rural Missourians have for immediate answers w/o a multi-hour drive.
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His wife, Elizabeth Hatton, said at his funeral, "We shall never see his like again, thanks be to God."
Nice!
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He's gonna "dedicate" more of his golf course to cemetery/memorial use. I guess Ivana is lonely out there in Jersey.
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I dub thee, from thence onwards, Aaron D Phish.
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"We hope you enjoyed the new circus landing experience we offer on select Delta flights and, as our first guests to try the ride, we're offering a gratuity of $30k plus a free cocktail with the purchase of another on your next flight with us!"
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As with most trolling, it isn't actually a false statement of their desires.
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There are probably a dozen or so profs I might cite in bankruptcy but, yeah, I kind of agree. Bet most practitioners do.
The publish or perish ethos is so real, I can't blame them for playing the game. The legal academy just neuters itself this way. It's a lazy standard.
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But these are stepping stones to tenure.
The op-eds are stepping stones to political power.
The function is different and the response, as @questauthority.bsky.social suggests, should be different.
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This has been going on forever in the ivory tower of publishing in legal journals.
Every lawyer can point to a stack of ridiculous articles in their specialty, by...uh, academic tourists, that are so bad they aren't even wrong. But there is rarely any formal pushback at all.
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A couple of lawyers to chat with, if you want support. Joshua Cohen or Stanley Tate. Google them and "student loans."
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I can refer you to experts on SL options. The only safety valve for some folks will be an effort to get a hardship discharge under bankruptcy law.
Most places it is a forlorn hope but some judges are more willing than others. Right now, try to keep paying so you meet that part of the test.
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Sigh. *It IS a statutory drafting f-up.
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No, they did not. They pointed out several older plans that the statute specifically allows forgiveness and compared it to the SAVE plan language which did not have explicit forgiveness sections.
It's not a statutory language drafting f-up that we'll never be able to fix prolly.
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Some of the plans are built into the statutes so MOHELA can't complain about those old IBR structures.
And obviously Republicans wouldn't try to change those statutes. Right? RIGHT!?
[Bang head on desk .gif]
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For those of us who used to lug paper to court to be "filed" this is all so familiar! For folks who only knew electronic filing, it seems mysterious and arcane.
The eFile system never looks at the motion, reads it, then hands it back saying "You should do that over before a judge sees it, sonny."🥴
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My impression is that most of the most powerful techbros are in love with their rebel image and this is all quite deliberate. Elon is just the most childish of the Techbros and he's flaunting that "no rules apply to me."
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Even if you take that deacription at face value, the next question is: Which likely winner would be less likely yo ever listen to us and more likely to cater to the evil we are fighting?
It's kind of obvious they got their answer now. But maybe Trump Gaza will give them reservations.🤷♂️
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This is the techbro answer: It's like the Internet, it fucks up sometimes too.
Except WE HAVE THE INTERNET. This isn't AI. It is a moron summary machine to allow lazy people to NOT learn things.
It doesn't improve on the existing Net, except for VCs.
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Oh come on, Mark. Any profession will tell you there's a lot of GIGO in LLMs. Professionals know their art, amateurs do not.
You just suggeated folks "learn" by putting a bullet in a chamber and playing Russian roulette...some good answers, many bad ones...with no idea how to differentiate. STOP IT
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Baker is sitting in the newsroom playing these games out with other access reporters, making up stories out of their rambling. It's not like there's anything else to report on after all.🙄
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He's wearing his outdoor coat, a t-shirt, jeans plus the "My hair plugs are looking crappy" hat.
The boss doesn't have to comply with dress codes.
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The federal govt can set conditions on how federal elections are conducted by local officials - and has in the past used that leverage to make voting easier for disfavored groups...now, well...
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Trump is an oligarch groupie. There will be no blow up. He's beguiled by the payoffs and always was.
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OFFS, they did it in the past and will do it again, regardless of your appeasement.
You have no say in anything except your own complicity in this White House.
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This kinda sums it up.
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Is that a real f'ing headline!?
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Who else was going to bail out that POS?