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“Very legal and very cool” is in mine

Ahh this is super helpful, thank you! There are some similar rules in gymnastics (max number of releases on uneven bars with a particular root skill, for example). I kinda figured it could not simply be that skaters are bad at improvising.

This is probably a dumb question but here it is anyway: when a skater misses a necessary element (like popping a triple into a double), why can’t/don’t they improvise and toss in another triple right before the end?

Also maybe a Justice Thomas dissent

Curling is super cool. But it should probably not be an Olympic sport any more than cornhole should be an Olympic sport.

Spencer continues to be a national treasure.

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Ok but I bet the judge is going to be super annoyed at the “February 31st” typo.

Outdone only by Montgomery County, Maryland, which has had no school for this entire week due to snow last Sunday.

Also the judge who made comments during law firm EO hearings in the Wilmerhale case the EOs were clearly retaliatory (and he was pretty surly about it).

Looking forward to more roam-bys by John in the years to come. Welcome back!

That type of clerkship-esque dynamic is one of the parts about our appellate group I love most. Every member of our group is always willing to have ideas bounced off of them, even on cases they're not working on. (I did this with Willy Jay this very afternoon, in fact!)

I had the chance to work with John on the very first Supreme Court case I ever worked on, Teva v. Sandoz. He was inclined to ponder things deeply, roam the halls, and drop by without notice to ask for your thoughts on the issue he was wondering.

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So it’s like my first word each day on Wordle: the chaos approach.

Yes, @andrewkim.bsky.social noticed the change in the panel orders as well. Would be interesting to know what, exactly, is the new format. Is it “motions panel for 4 motions, then switch”? Or “motions panel for 2 weeks”? Or “random motions panels set by the Chief Judge each day”?

Thanks Marin! I had not yet seen this, and agree it is a very good change.

The only thing saving my family is that I came down on NYE with some horrible bug that seems to have hit its apex today, so all I can do is half-heartedly admonition others to clean up while feeling exasperated and helpless.

I want to throw everything out. Like just take a giant dumpster to my entire first floor.

FOIA is such a critical tool for historians, political scientists, and national security scholars. Proud to help out, though Andrew most definitely did the legwork on this one!

The National Security Archive was originally told that simply completing declassification review would take 12 YEARS. (That is ... longer than FOIA contemplates, to put it mildly.)

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Parenting hack: I told my 10yo she could watch a movie or age-appropriate tv show if she wraps presents for me while she watches. So she watched a Youtube video about wrapping Christmas presents beautifully, and now she's doing all of my gift wrapping.

Before basically every email I send, I truly do go back through it for a punctuation check to make sure I'm not seeming either too cold/rude or too eager/informal. I usually delete exclamation points (and em dashes/parentheticals, tbh). I'm really curious how many of my male colleagues do that.

Ok I am informed that one of the rice cookers we gave away in favor of a larger one (after kids got bigger and mother in law moved in with us). So my apologies to Zojirushi for impugning the quality of their goods.

It’s probably my fault on the water boiler since I don’t do the lime cleaning often enough. It’s also possible that we could have fixed our rice cooker when we had problems rather than get a new one, but I was too lazy to figure that out.