Alan Plotzker, MD
Neurologist, pun enthusiast, die-hard Eagles fan. Husband of @mcknightwrites.bsky.social Opinions are my own
Philly area native now in Pittsburgh
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- Here's the complaint against Kyle Wagner. They've charged him for literally, nothing more than doxing. And then lied about it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- Well this is a nice surprise. And the material will be well treated by someone who has spent lots of time playing the games (BG3 and D&D in general). deadline.com/2026/02/bald...
- It's been 150 days of Kavanaugh stops in America, and it just keeps getting worse, so I checked in with the justice to ask him if he's had second thoughts. My request for comment did not elicit a response. The third in a once-every-50-days Law Dork series:
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- ”My girlfriend is going to be SO mad at me”
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- Hey, so, I don’t do civil litigation, is it generally considered good when the judge does this? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- UPDATE: Tonight, DOJ filed a notice that it is appealing Monday's Haiti TPS decision to the DC Circuit and requested — storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... — that Judge Reyes stay her order pending appeal (allowing Haiti TPS to end during the appeal, so she will almost certainly deny that).
- BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
- Of course they did. It doesn’t matter that he’s a five-year-old boy; what matters is that public awareness of his plight has called Donald Trump’s glory into question, and now the boy and his family have to be destroyed to soothe that man’s fragile ego.
- I don't know how they keep finding new ways to be pure evil, but they're doing it
- You have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.
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- ”Provocative” is like “intellectual.” If other people use it to describe you, maybe you are. If you use it to describe yourself, you’re more likely just an asshole.
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View full thread/3 So: if we are going to have moral debates about socializing with convicted child rapists, the best form of the debate would be “here’s exactly what they say to the child rapist, in writing, unguarded,” and the worst would be “I hear they socialized and are friends.”
- /4 I continue to think that the constant theme is elite pundits being hostile to trends or discussions that criticize or hold accountable other elites.
- /2 2 Also: one virtue of the Epstein files is that they provide a lot of primary evidence: actual direct written communications between individuals and Epstein. People’s own emails — what they say in writing — are the opposite of smears or rumors. They are compelling evidence.
- Hey Ed! www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/p...
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- Another batch of Trump's judicial nominees refused in their confirmation hearings today to publicly acknowledge that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, which annoyed Sen. Richard Blumenthal enough for him to call them "monkeys" and "puppets"
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- I am running out of ways to convey how disconnected from reality Trump's judicial nominees are. They can't say that Trump lost the 2020 election, they won't say that the January 6 insurrection happened, they don't acknowledge any fact about anything if Trump hasn't authorized them to believe it
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- I can't speak to whether it is actually bortac and whether it is actually mortar launchers but I mentioned in my piece yesterday that I had witnessed tear gas being launched in the air in an arc over people's heads. This video I found on IG shows what I described
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View full threadWitnesses described that arching trajectory, I watched a video that also showed a similar arc, then I personally witnessed the arc about 2 hours later at the same site. They did this to kids.
- I know this seems like a really trivial detail to get stuck on but this degree of escalation of force combined with zero warning is something I've never seen. For that to get unleashed on normies just moving along in broad daylight? Christ.
- I also can't speak to what's being launched in the video but the munitions launched over me were definitely tear gas.
- As of yesterday there is an injunction that stops the use of tear gas etc (except when a fed thinks they're in imminent harm etc). Even if the injunction is followed, this merits an investigation. It's outrageous that they shot tear gas like this at anyone, let alone a family-friendly march
- Read this whole astonishing document. it should be taught as an object lesson in what volunteering to assist a fascist government does to your mind, body, and soul.
- If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
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View full threadThis is bad lawyering because it is impossible to do good lawyering under these conditions and she is trying to do it, against all the evidence that she should not be doing it.
- She should quit. Immediately. Now.
- I just checked Pacer. Julie Le entered appearance in 28 cases that have filing dates of Jan 27 or later. I don't have words for that one, someone else is gonna have to fill in those details.
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- Not you, specifically. My tolerance for this place is at all-time lows overall, so I'm not handling stuff that's both tangential to my point and even slightly argumentative-sounding as well as I'd like.
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- But the judges of the district are not fine with that.
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