@free.law Hey I’m using RSS feeds for new opinions from NJ Appellate and Supreme Courts, but I was wondering if there are any feeds that enclose or link directly to the PDFs, similar to this PA Superior Courts feed: www.pacourts.us/Rss/Opinions...
My boss at my first office job threw a lamp at a pregnant colleague.
A screenshot of the queue in dark mode from the iOS podcast app Overcast, showing three episodes of the podcast Roderick on the Line. The episodes—Ep. 618: "The Bishop of the Past," Ep. 619: "Dad Island," and Ep. 620: "Blown Glass Float"—each display a red warning icon with the message "PUBLISHER SERVER ERROR." The podcast artwork, featuring John Roderick and Merlin Mann in a futuristic cockpit setting, is visible to the left of each title. At the bottom, a status line reads "3 EPISODES."
For me, all recent episodes of Roderick on the Line fail to play in any podcast app, with a similar “server error.” I’ve tried disabling all ad blockers at all levels of my network stack but no joy. I can’t even get them to play or download on the website. Open to suggestions.
The fact that there is no statutory ban on the government commercially sourcing personal location data without a warrant is a mockery of the Fourth Amendment.
🔗 arstechnica.com
This ruling seems to be shocking parts of the tech web, but all the court did was apply the plain language of Apple’s developer agreement. The company has never needed cause to expel an app from the App Store.
🔗 arstechnica.com
CBS lawyers, per marching orders from FCC Chair Brendan Carr, tell Stephen Colbert not to air his interview with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico.
So here it is on YouTube.
youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
🔗Jay Willis in his Balls & Strikes newsletter:
"Although the force of the Republican Party’s response to Scalia’s death felt like a “shocker” to some, the reality is that the right had been quietly putting in the work–of building a judic... joeross.me/2026/02/14/jay-willis-in...
A screenshot of a Google search result for “olympics.com.” The main heading is a technical placeholder that reads “SEO_H1_DEFAULT.” Below the heading is the website URL “olympics.com › en › milano-cortina-2026…” and a description snippet that says, “Everything you need to know about Israel at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics (Feb 6 - 22, 2026). Join in as fans celebrate the top…
Olympic HTML flub
At $150 per ticket, a family of four will pay $600 for the 80-minute tour of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. The money grab is going to be prohibitive for a large swath of the very people most likely to appreciate and delight in the experience. 😠
🔗 henson.com
Kung Fu Panda 4, 2024 - ★★★★: https://joeross.me/2026/01/17/kung-fu-panda.html
Ne Zha 2, 2025 - ★★★★★: https://joeross.me/2026/01/17/ne-zha.html
Anora, 2024 - ★★★★: https://joeross.me/2026/01/13/anora.html
🔗 Jan. 6, 2021: NPR’s visual archive of the Capitol attack ➚
Harrigan the Shitbird is a lot of things, but America first is definitely not one of them.
The fact is that the only way for real actual patriots to feel about the U.S. right now is deep shame.
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
I will always link to something Bari Weiss doesn’t want people to read or watch or know. In this case, she spiked a 60 Minutes segment about one of Trump’s more egregious presidential crimes, the CECOT renditions, but it aired in Canada anyway, and made it onto the Internet Archive.
🔗 archive.org
Neurodivergence, masking, and mutual empathy: joeross.me/2025/12/21/neurodivergen...
Stuff like this fills a geek’s heart to bursting.
🔗 The RoboCop Statue Arrives In Detroit ➚
This is a sentiment I share. There are too many normies in the law.
🔗 i need more freaks in law ➚
“A never-before-seen 1996 interview of Steve Jobs”
🔗 Pixar: The Early Days ➚
Quote shot of ABC News article by Laura Romero and Emily Chang, published on November 20, 2025, showing the following passage from the article:&10;&10;"Mr. Cantu, when you say Costa Rica is not an option for removal ... where does that come from?" U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis interjected.&10;&10;"Counsel," Cantu said referring to the State Department attorney. &10;&10;"The point has been made that this witness knows zero information about the content of the declaration," Xinis said.
Mr. Cantu may need a pardon…
🔗 abcnews.go.com
I set up Alexa Plus on an old Echo Dot and—reputation aside—it’s impressive. I also enabled early access on the Google Home devices we use daily, but no Gemini yet. I’ve come to prefer Alexa Plus for silly questions and smart-home control, but that could change when I can compare it with Gemini.
This feels both more momentous and more silly than it should:
"The last penny was minted Wednesday afternoon at the US Mint in Philadelphia, overseen by US Treasurer Brandon Beach. […] The penny costs nearly four cents to mint, more than the coin’s worth."
🔗 cnn.com
I thought The Onion was supposed to be parody. Reporting the truth is outside its role…
Vladeck: Even if you accept the predicate that these drug cartels are foreign terrorist organizations, that still doesn’t get you anywhere close to legal authority to use military force. They’re trying to blur and sort of collapse the distinction between two regimes we have…
Trial in the morning! Or as I like to call it “carrying thousands of pages of paper to the car, driving it to court, hauling it into the courthouse in 50-year-old legal luggage, settling for pennies on the original demand, hauling it back to the car, and then to the office, and then going home.” 🤪
I imagine Sotomayor & Kagan sometimes ask Jackson to tone down her rhetoric & she replies “absolutely not, if the Republic must burn, let those who still love it see us defending it even as the flames climb our robes.” 🔥
🔗Supreme Court lets Noem end legal status for many Venezuelans in the U.S.
There are few greater recommendations of a piece of literature than its banning by fascists.
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Just a theory, but I could easily see Peter Thiel and Palantir having the right combination of funds, lack of scruples, and customer base to make lucrative use of NSO Group’s assets.
