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Zachary J. Smith

@vocabulist.bsky.social

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rap superfan, lawyer, animal lover, leftie, unpunished fiction writer


 Zachary J. Smith's avatar Zachary J. Smith @vocabulist.bsky.social
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You’re missing the point. Yes, it’s plausible that one time at that one hospital a Hamas rocket caused the damage and casualties. But IDF has almost completely destroyed the Gazan healthcare system since last October.

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How can anyone think peanut allergies are fake? Do they think that people pretend that their throats are swelling shut?

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Project 2025, page 455-456: a national abortion database that includes detailed medical information, including the person's state of residence to assist with criminal prosecution

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I know it’s hackneyed to bring up “The Handmaid’s Tale,” but, like, this proposal is getting closer.

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People may think the old prop computers were silly, but it’s still a TV and movie trope now for computers to make noises or have flashing messages that we know are not real.

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Mad at the world because it’s a Tuesday that feels like a Wednesday.

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Taking a two-day weekend off of work. Unfortunately, I already have options paralysis.

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I assume it’s a reference to Marcellus Williams, who has a different ludicrous case.

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Interesting idea. The mainstream Dems are too milquetoast to try anything like that.

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This suit is garbage, of course. It’s not even clear how Missouri would have standing. But I can envision Thomas and Alito saying, in effect, “let’s hear them out.”

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Support your local SRA chapter.

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Can’t Bigfoot just be real? Don’t we as a species deserve that?

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I’m starting to suspect that the police are never going to bring the Hamburglar to justice.

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Ryan Brazell's avatar Ryan Brazell @ryanbrazell.bsky.social
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146 of 151 breast reductions performed on minors in 2019 were on cisgender boys.

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[After the field test comes back as inconclusive]: “based on my training, education, and experience, I have probable cause to believe that this is fentanyl or heroin. And based on the gross weight I recommend charging trafficking.”

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You know that forced detox is gonna hit extra hard.

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Believe me, defense attorneys with brains will be quoting the “otherwise clause” stuff when we’re arguing statutory interpretation. I copied and pasted that before I left work yesterday.

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Where are the conservative free speech warriors?

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Uh, yeah if anyone wants to mansplain I Saw the TV Glow to me I wouldn’t get mad.

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I apologize if anyone heard me ranting earlier this afternoon. That’s the sound I make when I realize that someone has given false testimony to keep my client in jail while simultaneously knowing that this person will not be charged with perjury.

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I hope you do. That would show what the establishment clause is all about.

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Some people seem to think that Moses literally or literarily had one set list of ten clearly numbered commandments.

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Ignacio Gallup-Diaz's avatar Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social
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"Missouri woman’s murder conviction tossed after 43 years. Her lawyers say a police officer did it"

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It’s been nearly six calendar years!

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“They attacked in the middle of the day. People were going to the market. They gave no warning.”

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We have to do a lot of educated guesswork.

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The ‘80s, compared to the ‘70s and ‘90s, was a desert for music and cinema.

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Yeah, it’s not ideal, but we have to play the hand we’re dealt.

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You’re right about people often making illogical or irrational decisions, but my clients often have to put their faith in a panel of 12 strangers because the prosecution refuses to give them a fair shake. Sometimes they get it correct.

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There are also baffling acquittals. I have a colleague who said juries are essentially irrational. I can’t allow myself to believe that.

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I had a friend at the same who was tricked into thinking it was real before she watched it.

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Exclusive: A Post investigation has found that over the past two decades, hundreds of law enforcement officers have sexually abused children while officials at every level of the criminal justice system have failed to protect kids, punish abusers and prevent additional crimes. wapo.st/3VEtNBo

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If the @dallasmavs.bsky.social don’t pull off a rally they are cooked. This is a game they were favored to win. I know the @thebostonceltics.bsky.social had a weakened field in the East because of injuries that the Knicks had, plus Jimmy Butler and Giannis were out. But this is a dominant run.

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Ah, the excitement of a state office primary in June.

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Breaking News: The banana company Chiquita is liable for eight killings carried out by a paramilitary group that it helped finance during Colombia’s civil war, a jury in South Florida ruled.

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Wow. This is exceptionally dumb.

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You’re right: his pushes for card-check unionization, an increase in the federal minimum wage, and child care support have been astounding. And he really went after the architects of greedflation.

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Just trying my best over here.

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"Border fascism has for decades been a bipartisan commitment," writes Natasha Lennard.

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Michael 's avatar Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social
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the perfect cop car: one they can drive into a mass of left wing protestors and then blame faulty brakes/accelerator pedal/self-driving functionality

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UPDATE: Columbia Law Review Is Back Online After Students Threatened Work Stoppage Over Palestine Censorship

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