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A cat with her eyes closed and her head nestled in the crook of an arm snores.
A cat on a lap lies on her side and curls around a left arm.
A cat lying belly up on a lap with a hand between her forelegs.
A selfie taken looking up from below my knee with a cat sitting on my right shoulder and one on my lap.
Selfie of me with a cat in a backpack staring over my right shoulder while a large, blurry cat face presumably on my lap fills the lower right quarter of the image.
[Two pages of an opened book] [Left page] How are your conversation skills? Now is the time to hone up on how to have an engaging and non-combative dialogue with your guests. Be sure to always greet everyone with an effortless smile, as if you are delighted to see them, but are also somewhat aloof and mysterious. Take time in your hostess duties to move around the room, spotting anyone needing some attention and even direct people to engage with each other. Before the party, spend some time writing down fun facts about your guests, so that you can share these to spur topics of conversation. Dan likes to take strolls by the moonlight. Cynthia always wears a locket that her grandmother gave her when she was seven, and she says will haunt her if she removes it. Robert says he sold his soul to the devil to play the guitar like a master. Amanda like to paint dead animals still life oil painting. Matthew is afraid of the dark and has to sleep with a nightlight, You know, interesting personal tidbits that make people special, but also might prompt an exchange about other's interests, superstitions or fears. Don't forget to play matchmaker, both for yourself and the other single people that attend. Now is the time to connect with one another, and when there is enough alcohol, people let down their guards and become more uninhibited, which is where the real fun happens. [right page] The Perfect Toast Say the following: As I look around this room at friends old and [obscured] always time to change the course of history [obscured] To new beginnings!
Shows logging in to Amazon with a passkey on iOS when the user has cookies from previous logins and wants to use the same account, allowing a "one-click" use of a passkey to login. This is the dream (preferably with the ability to select a different account) and should be possible to do every time as far as I know, but it very rarely is and the inconsistencies make it difficult for non-techies to adopt when they already have a password they're used to.
Shows logging in to Amazon with a passkey on iOS, where the user has to select a passkey and then do 2FA.
Shows logging in to Amazon with a passkey on macOS, where the user has to enter a username, enter the passkey, and then do 2FA, penalizing the user of passkeys by adding a step to the typical password manager workflow.
Video of the attacker at the WHCA dinner running through a security checkpoint.
The Supreme Court vacated the district court’s order because it was premised on a legal error and the plaintiffs’ suit was brought in the wrong court. Nonetheless, the district court threatened to hold government officials in criminal contempt unless they complied with the now-vacated order by, for instance, taking back custody of the plaintiffs. We issued a writ of mandamus vacating the court’s first contempt order. Undeterred, the district court is proceeding with criminal contempt for the government’s decision to transfer the plaintiffs to the custody of El Salvador. To cooperate, the government identified then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem as the official responsible for the transfer decision. The district court previously said this was the only information it required to make a referral for prosecution. But the district court has now expanded its inquest and ordered hearings to extract more information from government counsel about exactly what happened last March. The government petitions for mandamus.
The standard for reconsideration is a demanding one: the movant must show that there has been an intervening change in controlling law, new evidence, or a need to correct clear error or prevent manifest injustice. United States v. Ballenger, 811 F. Supp. 3d 123, 127 (D.D.C. 2025). **Yet the Court need not hide behind that standard to dispose of this Motion.** The Government’s arguments do not come close to convincing the Court that a different outcome is warranted.
The setup line doing the work before the pun lands is very Horatio. Yours is solid though — "skill issue" delivered CSI-style is genuinely funny.
12 Cantú is the sixth witness whom the Court directed Respondents to prepare for either deposition or in-court testimony concerning this case. See, e.g., Abrego I, ECF Nos. 117 & 146 (collecting testimony of three deponents); ECF No. 234 at 36:23–39:9 (Giles testimony); see also ECF No. 52 at 108:3–17 (Schultz testimony); ECF No. 107 at 42:2–25 (Cantú testimony). Each witness was either unprepared or defiant in their refusal to answer questions. The Court will consider the entire course of conduct when it reaches the motions pending in Abrego I.
12 Cantú is the sixth witness whom the Court directed Respondents to prepare for either deposition or in-court testimony concerning this case. See, e.g., Abrego I, ECF Nos. 117 & 146 (collecting testimony of three deponents); ECF No. 234 at 36:23–39:9 (Giles testimony); see also ECF No. 52 at 108:3–17 (Schultz testimony); ECF No. 107 at 42:2–25 (Cantú testimony). Each witness was either unprepared or defiant in their refusal to answer questions. The Court will consider the entire course of conduct when it reaches the motions pending in Abrego I.
Then at the hearing, Respondents showcased Cantú’s ignorance about the content of his Declaration pertaining to Costa Rica. As the pointed questions of Respondents’ counsel made clear, Cantú’s lack of knowledge was planned and purposeful. Counsel: So paragraph 4, final sentence [of the Cantú Declaration], do you see where it says the word—the words “certain understandings”? Cantú: I found it. Yes, I do. I see it. Counsel: What are the certain understandings referenced in the last sentence? Cantú: I don’t know . . .
From a filing in UNITED STATES v. KILMAR ARMANDO ABREGO GARCIA: On November 17, 2025, Judge Xinis ordered the government to produce Mr. Cantú at an evidentiary hearing scheduled for November 20 and instructed that he be prepared to testify as to the subject matter of his declaration based on his personal knowledge or knowledge obtained from others. Abrego Garcia, No. 8:25-cv-2780 (D. Md. Nov. 17, 2025), Dkt. 90. In so ordering, Judge Xinis chastised the government for its “strategy…present since day one” of repeatedly bringing witnesses who were unprepared to testify about the subject matter of the testimony requested by the court “in defiance” of the court’s orders. Abrego Garcia, No. 8:25-cv-2780 (D. Md. Nov. 19, 2025), Dkt. 92 at 6, 11-12. But once again the government defied Judge Xinis’s order. At the evidentiary hearing on Thursday in Maryland, Mr. Cantú testified, in substance, that a State Department attorney told him what to put in his declaration on a five-minute Teams call and email on November 7, and that he did not know whether the Department of State had even been in contact with Costa Rica. And then a highlighted part of the filing: Judge Xinis again excoriated the government for putting on a witness who had “zero information” for the court—Mr. Cantú was “the worst” of the witnesses the government had put on the stand thus far—and he “knew nothing” and “didn’t know the meaning of the words in his own affidavit.”
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From the Abrego Garcia indictment: "[MS-13] also paid him for his transportation services."
Highlights fields in the Abrego Garcia indictment. "Is the defendant in custody? Yes [X] No [X]" "Was the defendant arrested on the complaint? Yes [X]" "If [search warrant issued]: Name of the Magistrate Judge: [blank]"