Mitchell Epner

May I introduce you to cryptocurrency.

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO D'Angelo - Brown Sugar

Song for the Day: Brown Sugar - D'Angelo

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Diminish a song and a band.

"Radar Like" - Silver Earing

Opinion: Is Dartmouth standing firm on academic freedom? - Concord Monitor Dartmouth College rejects Trump administration's proposed Compact for Academic Excellence, defending academic freedom and institutional independence.

Dartmouth has joined MIT in rejecting Trump's so-called "Compact."
www.concordmonitor.com/2025/10/11/m...

A link to his bio:

www.taylordykema.com/edward

He appears to be cultivating the Stephen Miller look.

I think that people outside of NY underestimate the extent to which Andrew Cuomo, Bill deBlasio and Curtis Sliwa hate each other for reasons that transcend ideology.

Watching the Yankee game last night on FS1, there was a very unpersuasive Cuomo ad that was immediately followed by the Sliwa ad featuring Donna Johnson. As a longtime political activist, I felt like Cuomo was floored with roundhouse right counterpunch after a tepid jab.

YouTube video by M. Sliwa Public Relations Andrew Cuomo’s Deadly Leadership: Meet Donna Johnson

Curtis Sliwa (the GOP nominee for NYC mayor) has launched a devastating ad against Andrew Cuomo (still running as an independent) featuring Donna Johnson, who claims that Cuomo's COVID policies regarding nursing homes killed both of her parents.

This hits home with Cuomo's prime demographic.

Ex-FBI chief James Comey in court today for arraignment — here's what to expect Former FBI Director James Comey, a longtime foe of President Trump, will appear in Virginia for an arraignment, in his first court appearance since being criminally charged.

Proud to be quoted by Joe Walsh of @cbsnewsconfirmed.bsky.social on today’s arraignment of James Comey.

Life’s been good to me so far.

www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-jam...

The hair in your thumbnail is a big hint.

here is my first rendering of the bread scale of triviality (any suggestions welcome; I love thinking about bread)

My daughter @madepn.bsky.social has invented a great scale for the triviality - importance spectrum. It goes from “nothing burger” to “everything bagel”.

I doff my hat in tribute to genius.

Except that courts enforce arbitration awards from, and arbitration clauses requiring adjudication by, a Beth Din (enforcing Talmudic Judaism) regularly in NY(where I practice).

That is a better way of expressing what I was trying to say.

Cuba comes to mind, but the Cuban-American community has always been anti-Castro.

Until very recently, being pro-Israeli government(no matter which party was leading Israel) was common ground for the overwhelming majority of American Jews.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs taught us to go straight, prisoners tell judge The music mogul received glowing references from cellmates he tutored in business but could face anything from 20 years to instant freedom when sentenced

I’m quoted in The Times (London) looking forward to tomorrow’s sentencing of Sean Combs. TL/dr: this is the widest disparity in recommendations that I have in 30+ years as a criminal trial attorney.

www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

Stop Making Us Defend James Comey Podcast Episode · Serious Trouble · 09/27/2025 · 22m

Ken White @kenwhite.bsky.social gives a great description of the doctrine of “vindictive prosecution” in this free preview of Serious Trouble.

He also discusses my concerns about Comey’s public statement after the indictment.

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Trump’s comments on James Fields may have created a legal headache for prosecutors At his Tuesday press conference, President Trump was asked whether the attack on Heather Heyer was “terrorism.” His response may make it more difficult for Virginia to prosecute James F…

In 2017, I wrote an op-ed in the Daily News when Trump commented similarly on the killing of Heather Heyer at "Unite The Right" Charlottesville march.

Trump's comments then did not stand in the way of conviction, but DOJ endorsement of Trump's comments about Mangione may preclude death penalty.

SDNY District Court Judge Margaret Garnett, who is presiding over the Luigi Mangione federal case, orders the DOJ to answer for violations of Local Rule 23.1 forbidding "release of an opinion [that] will interfere with a fair trial".

Several DOJ employees endorsed Trump's attacks on Mangione.

Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice.

Ketanji Brown Jackson Five.

I am dipping my toe back into BlueSky with a link to a collection of beaded garments on Salvage Renaissance, my family's vintage/upcycling e-commerce store. There is a wide assortment of price points:

salvage-renaissance.com/collections/...

I'm avoiding weightier topics for now.

Taking a social media break.

Bob Marley demands that you get the meter right:

I threw the sandwich
But I didn’t throw no panini, no no no.

Judge Subramanian has denied Sean Combs bail pending sentencing.

The judge specifically found “that Cassie Ventura and Jane were
beaten, coerced, threatened, lied to, and victimized by Combs as part of their participation” in the freak offs.

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In 2008, when Justice Scalia (joined by Thomas, Alito, Roberts & Kennedy) overturned a century of Second Amendment jurisprudence in Heller, holding that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an “individual right” not a “militia right”, I warned he would have blood on his hands.

Yesterday was the latest.

Ghislaine Maxwell asks U.S. Supreme Court to overturn her conviction NPR's A Martinez speaks with former federal prosecutor Mitchell Epner about convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal to the Supreme Court to overturn her conviction.

My appearance on NPR’s Morning Edition to discuss Ghislaine Maxwell’s application to the Supreme Court to overturn her conviction on the basis of immunity conferred by Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 plea agreement.

www.npr.org/2025/07/29/n...

Trump says he hasn't thought about pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell Jeffrey Epstein's convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, had another sit-down with the deputy attorney general on Friday. CBS News Department of Justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane has more. Then...

I appeared on CBS News (The Takedown with Major Garrett) to discuss DAG Todd Blanche's highly unusual interviews of Ghislaine Maxwell. Nothing about this process falls within standard operating procedure for the DOJ.

www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-...

It’s a long list.

I know.

My post was not directed at you.

It was directed at the people who urged others to withhold their votes in the general election from Biden (and later Harris). You were not one of those people.