And why confusing the two costs you leverage One of the most common mistakes people make is treating a Public Records Request (PRR) like it’s discovery-lite. It isn’t. Discovery is a court-controlled process. Public records is a constitutional obligation. That distinction is not academic. It’s structural. And it determines who has leverage. Discovery: answers on their terms Discovery happens after …
Jersey City’s Flagpole Is a Trap Door: Satan or Silence Jersey City has a flag program that’s basically a public microphone bolted to City Hall. It works great until someone says something the City doesn’t “love.” Now the City is stalling a Christian flag request while historically allowing all kinds of secular and cause-based flags. That’s not “caution.” That’s viewpoint …
How to Break a City’s Flag Policy (Legally) Using FOI A Case Study from New Britain, Connecticut Cities love free speech—until it gets uncomfortable. New Britain raised a Christian flag over City Hall. When I requested to raise a different flag, the city didn’t debate theology or law. It reached for bureaucracy: resident-only rules, “no controversial flags”, and public safety …
How I Sued a Florida Politician While Dying (and Why You Should Too) I Filed Before the Game Changed This started under Knight v. Trump—when courts still believed the First Amendment applied to Twitter like it did to a town square. Then I got sick. ICU. Tubes. Exit music queued. While I hung on by a nose-hair, SCOTUS dropped Lindke …
Most people file public records requests like they’re ordering a pizza. “Any and all emails about X.” “Anything you have on Y.” Congrats. You just handed the agency a stall button. FOI isn’t about learning stuff. FOI is about making an institution account for itself in writing. And that’s where it gets interesting. Process Beats Protest Protest is noise. Process …
TL;DR Cities are throwing legal and procedural “error codes.” I function like an OBD-II scanner: I stress-test meeting rules (public comment, invocations, viewpoint neutrality), pull the diagnostics, and flag risk early—quietly, with city attorneys—before it becomes litigation or public spectacle. Most cities don’t fail because of bad intentions.They fail because no one stress-tests the system before it’s put under pressure. …
MAOS is back with a new approach to First Amendment systems engineering. I shut My Acts of Sedition down because I was busy breaking other systems I broke Florida’s book-ban law hard enough that Ron DeSantis rewrote it. I stress-tested school districts until they folded. I forced cities to choose between constitutional neutrality and shutting the whole damn thing down. …
If You’re Issuing ESA Letters in 10 Minutes, You’re Not Offering Therapy—You’re Playing with Fire. Ocean Psychology Group P: (305) 200-3921 F: (844) 440-2381 www.oceanpsychologygroup.com To Whom It May Concern, I contacted your office posing as someone in need of an Emotional Support Animal (ESA) letter. I disclosed I had autism spectrum disorder and generalized anxiety. I expressed concern about …
June 23, 2025 Dr. Katia Tikhonravova, Ph.D. Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) Florida Approved Supervisor 2101 North Federal Highway, D111 Pompano Beach, FL, 33062 (954) 253-2720 Dear Dr. Khan, Ten minutes. That’s the amount of time you were willing to reserve for what appeared to be a clinical evaluation that could result in a federally protected emotional support animal …
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