Jeff Dubner

@dubner.bsky.social

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Public interest attorney. Formerly EEOC, Democracy Forward.

Jason Mendoza in The Good Place, saying "Anytime I had a problem and I conscripted millions of unwilling teenagers into hard labor, Boom! Right away, I had a different problem."
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
Bill Murray dressed as a weather reporter saying "Well it's Groundhog Day... again."
Andy Samberg and Cristin Miloti stare at each other in the time loop movie Palm Springs
Episode 1 of The Americans, Matthew Rhys about to maim a guy who creeped on his daughter
A case caption reading "UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. ARTICLES OF BANNED HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES CONSISTING OF AN UNDETERMINED NUMBER OF CANS OF RAINBOW FOAM PAINT, Defendant"
He's a guy on the Tigers He's their fielder in right Buy him up Before he goes to your rival Base to base, out in the heat Stealings tough, so is hitting They sit him down 'til he's cut from the team Still for .1 he's got the skill to survive
Foreground: Michael B. Jordan, son of Michael A. Jordan, holding his Academy Award at In & Out Burger and looking thrilled Background: The happiest fry cooks in history
The EEOC’s subpoena therefore seeks, among other things, (1) the names of employees who reported antisemitic harassment to Penn; (2) the Jewish-related organizations on campus and the private contact information (personal phone number, email address and mailing address) of the employee members in each organization; (3) the private contact information of employees in Penn’s Jewish Studies Program; (4) the private contact information of employees who participated in Penn’s March 2024 listening sessions on antisemitism; and (5) the private contact information of employees who received a Penn survey on antisemitism. (Subpoena No. PA 25-07 at 5–7.)
Image from Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Three adorably grimy gremlins are about to garrote film critic Leonard Maltin with a film reel.
Lucille Bluth, a fancy lady, saying "I won't hear it and I won't respond to it"
Still from "The Good Place": an academic looking shocked says "Oh, okay, sure. What I was saying, um, before, you know ... I saw the TIME KNIFE"
Isiah Whitlock in The Wire saying “I’ll take any motherfucker’s money if he givin’ it away”
A postcard to Madeline that says “Be proud of your Death Count! The more you die, the more you’re learning. Keep going!”
Image from the movie “Problemista”: a woman of color in a Bank of America uniform pointing a gun while crying and saying “I stand with Bank of America”
A manic and goateed Adam Sandler wearing earrings and simply the worst glasses, saying "I disagree" in Uncut Gems.
Promo image for Worlds Beyond Number’s “Hint,” using cards that look like they’re from the board game Clue. One of them depicts Lou Wilson as Professor Arnold Plumb.
The character Cyan, from Final Fantasy VI, in bead art for some reason
“In a wide-ranging interview, he also said… that his six-year-old son will never be better than an AI at academic work such as writing an essay or doing a maths exam.” (Math is spelled with an s because it’s an article from the Guardian, a British publication.)
Scene from Hot Fuzz: a supermarket employee says over the intercom "Mr. Skinner to the manager's office. Manager's office, Mr. Skinner"
An A+ exam result from Mount Holly Elementary for Erika Ishii
Screenshot from Mad Max: Fury Road: a horrifying demagogue saying “Do not, my friends, become addicted to water.”
September 4, 2025 skeets from Jeff Dubner: “I see it a little differently. The tariff case is the one place I think they’ll see their interests aligning in favor of an injunction. It’s the preference of the corporate wing Roberts and Gorsuch came from; it lets them seem independent from Trump; it saves Trump from himself; and it’s an opportunity to expand the erstwhile anti-regulatory project of the MQD/NDD. (And hoo boy is it illegal.) So I don’t read this one as much of a bellwether.”
Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny saying “No. It is a trick question.”
Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny saying “No. It is a trick question.”
A fiddler crab, with one small claw and one giant claw
The “are we the baddies” meme: an anxious man in a Nazi uniform, with the totenkopf skill on his cap.
A black-and-white photo of suffragettes, with their faces replaced by rat heads and their sign edited to say "VOTES FOR VERMIN"
a. Declaring, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2201, that Defendants have violated the NRA’s rights to free speech, due process, and equal protection under both the Federal and New York Constitutions; b. Granting a preliminary and permanent injunction, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1651 (a), 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and Rule 65 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, ordering DFS, its agents, representatives, employees and servants and all persons and entities in concert or participation with it, Cuomo (in his official capacity), and Vullo (in her official capacity): (1) to immediately cease and refrain from engaging in any conduct or activity which has the purpose or effect of interfering with the NRA’s exercise of the rights afforded to it under the First and Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and Section 8 to the New York Constitution; (2) to immediately cease and refrain from engaging in any conduct or activity which has the purpose or effect of interfering with, terminating, or diminishing any of the NRA’s contracts and/or business relationships with any organizations; (3) to immediately cease and refrain from further selective enforcement of the Insurance Laws to the NRA endorsed policies; and (4) to enjoin or preclude the enforcement of the provisions of the Lockton and Chubb Consent Orders purporting to prohibit Lockton and Chubb from doing business with the NRA;
A picture of the cartoon character Goofy saying “gawrsh!”
A grid of nine baseball players: Manny Declarmen, Hipolito Pichardo, Kelly Shoppach, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Kevin Millar, Paxton Crawford, Xander Bogaerts, Ryan Lavarnway, Hideki Okajima
To-Do list in a green typed font: Land a Triple Axel Solve the Poincaré conjecture Perform Il Dolce Suono from Lucia di Lammermoor at La Scala Burp the alphabet Become a master woodworker Learn how to repave a driveway Break Graham Gooch’s record of 456 runs in a single test Master conducting (orchestra) Master conducting (train) Beat NBA Jam on all-star Free solo the Colossus of Rhodes Fix the Jesus fresco that lady messed up The first five are crossed out
“The prevalence of the corporation in America has led men of this generation to act, at times, as if the privilege of doing business in corporate form were inherent in the citizen, and has led them to accept the evils attendant upon the free and unrestricted use of the corporate mechanism as if these evils were the inescapable price of civilized life, and, hence to be borne with resignation. Throughout the greater part of our history, a different view prevailed. Although the value of this instrumentality in commerce and industry was fully recognized, incorporation for business was commonly denied long after it had been freely granted for religious, educational, and charitable purposes. It was denied because of fear. Fear of encroachment upon the liberties and opportunities of the individual. Fear of the subjection of labor to capital. Fear of monopoly. Fear that the absorption of capital by corporations, and their perpetual life, might bring evils similar to those which attended mortmain.”
A screenshot from Google reporting that Sydney Sweeney is 5’3”
"many courts have held that organizations with associational standing may serve as class representatives, at least where the underlying purpose of the organization is to represent the interests of the class"
"states (and organizations like CASA) can't be class-action plaintiffs (the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure that authorizes class-wide relief requires the plaintiffs to be persons)"