Notices by Enia (eniatitova@sfba.social)

just enrolled in COBRA to cover the gap between old job and new job: $719 just for me.

I love American healthcare, who could possibly want to reform it?

@kingrat I figured it’s worse out there in the private market so I didn’t even bother checking. You didn’t get COBRA with your severance package?

@skinnylatte very specific and appropriate. whenever I shop for anything at Target, I set my store to the one near my sister in rural Ohio where prices are a lot lower. Then I switch to pick up at the last moment once everything is in my cart. That way I get the Ohio price at the store in San Francisco.

@jeridansky I hadn’t! Thank you for sharing that with me. I guess we’ll see what happens at the hearing tomorrow…

did we make it in time for #caturday?

#LilOrangeAnnie #CatsOfMastodon

@jeridansky apparently it emits methyl mercaptan which is what they add to gas to give it that distinctive odor. So we were not insane, and not the first ones to report it as a gas leak. happens all the time all over the world.

Last night we called 911 because 7 adults living in this building confirmed smelling gas.

and it turned out that the remaining 2 adults were harboring the remnants of a ripe durian in their trash.

A ladder and an engine came out. With a command vehicle! They took the durian with them when they left. Laughing.

as of 3 am last night, 10 weeks into the year, I completed my annual reading goal: 12 books

https://sfba.club/user/eniatea/goal/2026

in all of last year, I read 8: https://sfba.club/user/eniatea/goal/2025

that's how much scrolling addiction was stealing from actual things I wanted to be doing. one day at a time.

sunspotting

#LilOrangeAnnie #CatsOfMastodon

@jeridansky wow they look like peonies almost

@inthehands I’m saving this thread to explain why legalese is different from ambiguous language. And the same people who keep insisting that AI can do legal work unassisted are missing this very same point.

@APBBlue @skinnylatte I hate to tell you but as I discovered, we all need to be working on our pelvic floor.

Richard Zitrin’s Op-Ed re the travesty of Mary Fong Lau’s sentencing. Richard is a Professor Emeritus of Ethics at UC Law San Francisco.

(Gift link)

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/west-portal-crash-mary-fong-lau-judge-jail-time-21362924.php

I guess some folks filed a proposal to put Sunset Dunes reopening back on the ballot.

I have no idea who this guy is but Facebook wanted me to learn about it, I guess.

@kingrat to be fair we don’t even have a refund process as part of that decision. so we won’t see it ourselves for a while, if ever. getting money out of this admin is going to be impossible.

This is why migraine sufferers are paranoid. As soon as a treatment starts working, as soon as you think “ooof. finally.” Haha! Joke’s on you, it doesn’t.

I made the mistake of bragging to a friend last week. I started a new medication a few months back, and it had the incredible unintended side effect of eliminating my migraines almost entirely.

Until last week when this string of storms started pounding the Bay Area. My migraines are triggered by barometric pressure changes. And.. well. I’ve had a migraine for over a week. Clearly I jinxed myself. Never tell anyone you’re feeling good.

@jeridansky it’s just an outrage. I showed it to a friend of mine who is a former judicial clerk and much more conservative than me, and she agreed it’s worth sending.

I maybe wrote a letter to Judge Bruce E. Chan as a member of the Bar re Mary Fong Lau's sentencing.

I don't know if it's going to do fucking anything, but I'm dropping it off at the Hall of Justice first thing Tuesday morning.

I’m seeing people start to take interest in ICE subpoenas. They are understandably new to many of you. But I used to respond to subpoenas in my old job, and would occasionally receive an ICE subpoena.

The first time I got one, I remember thinking “huh. I didn’t realize DHS had an independent subpoena power.” So I went and looked up the enacting statute. *Like any lawyer in my position is supposed to do!*

and I figured out pretty quickly that the subpoenas requested information that was waaaaay beyond the scope of enacting statute which permits them to be used *only* to obtain information “relating to the privilege of any person to enter, reenter, reside in, or pass through the United States or concerning any matter which is material and relevant to the enforcement of this chapter.” 8 U.S. Code § 1225(d).

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and as many people have pointed out already, ICE subpoenas are not self-executing: if you refuse to answer, they have to go ask the local AUSA or US district court judge to issue a second subpoena, which then can be opposed and objected to in court. 8 CFR § 287.4(d). and we’ve all seen how well they do when they have to show up in an actual grown up court.

so when I would get one, I would call back the requesting agent, (politely) point this out to him and send him packing to go talk to his AUSA. and then I would never hear from him again.

now… I know they’re being way more aggressive now. But if you tell me that Meta, Google, and Reddit don’t have resources to oppose them in court, when I, a single litigation attorney working for a small company, did… well, that’s less about “can’t” and more about “don’t want to.”

https://gizmodo.com/reddit-meta-and-google-voluntarily-gave-dhs-info-of-anti-ice-users-report-says-2000722279

(None of this has been legal advice and I am not your lawyer.)

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