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• On the post: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: CARAMENTRAN

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2026 @ 07:08am

  whoops - thanks for catching that, it's fixed now!

• On the post: Last Chance! Get The First Techdirt Commemorative Coin By Supporting Us Today

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2026 @ 09:16am

  Hi John - sorry if there was any confusion in the checkout process, but you definitely don't need to create a PayPal account! In your cart you should see two checkout buttons, the second one is for PayPal but the first one (the regular checkout button) will allow you to proceed without creating any kind of account

• On the post: Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2025 @ 09:34am

  Yup, still available!

• On the post: This Week In Techdirt History: November 9th – 15th

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2025 @ 11:49am

  can't move it I'm afraid - though I can delete it if you like and you can repost! In the mean time, I'll link to where I assume it was supposed to go: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/14/nut-huggers-apparel-plans-to-battle-back-against-bullshit-buc-ees-bullying/

• On the post: Trump Administration Still Trying To Send Kilmar Abrego Garcia To Anywhere But Where He Wants To Go

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2025 @ 07:33am

  Fixed that too, thanks

• On the post: We Deserve Better: A New Social Media Bill of Rights

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2025 @ 07:24am

  yeah sorry about that - fixed now!

• On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 424: Reclaiming The Internet

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2025 @ 09:29am

  whoops, there was an error in the link - fixed now! thanks

• On the post: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Honorable Mentions

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 11 May, 2025 @ 11:39am

  Yeah we were blown away by the quality of so many entries this year!

• On the post: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: A Warning

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2025 @ 11:51am

  whoops, correct, thanks! fixed

• On the post: Trump Admits US Can Get Abrego Garcia Back From Torture Camp He Was Accidentally Sent To; But DOJ Makes Clear It Won’t Even Ask

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2025 @ 11:44am

  I don't think this is because he "can't admit he made a mistake" - I think it is because this is exactly what he wants, and he wants everyone to know that he will do it to anyone he pleases.

• On the post: Court Allows Government To Continue Stalling While Abrego Garcia Remains In Hell

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2025 @ 10:19am

  Though it's a broad rhetorical stroke and not really comparable to the acute diagnosis of these specific government actions as kidnapping, I don't actually have much problem with calling taxation theft if that's really what you want to do - knock yourself out But while there are many hopeful visions of a stateless future that I will happily or even eagerly entertain, I strongly suspect that they don't line up very well with yours Stephan

• On the post: Court Allows Government To Continue Stalling While Abrego Garcia Remains In Hell

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2025 @ 10:15am

  The administration's position is that as soon as these men first arrived at CECOT, America washed its hands of the whole thing and it no longer has anything to do with them. The purpose of demanding a statement from someone with personal knowledge of Garcia's current whereabouts is to establish whether and to what degree the DHS has in fact continued any active monitoring of these people, and to find individual officials who can be held responsible for fulfilling the court order to facilitate their return The purpose of evading that demand is to avoid answering that question, and avoid giving the court anyone to hold responsible But we do know that many of these men made it to CECOT (as there are photos of several of them being held there), and El Salvador says it is proudly holding all 238 of them, and at the moment there's just no particular reason to believe this isn't the case.

• On the post: Court Allows Government To Continue Stalling While Abrego Garcia Remains In Hell

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2025 @ 03:47pm

  At the moment, there is every reason to believe all 238 of these men are being held in CECOT in El Salvador

• On the post: Court Allows Government To Continue Stalling While Abrego Garcia Remains In Hell

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2025 @ 03:29pm

  It's not uncommon for the court to give the government lawyers leeway - but nothing about this situation is common. I think at the very least she could have done what Garcia's lawyers asked: order an official with personal knowledge of his whereabouts to appear before the court. And if it were up to me, order that to happen today.

• On the post: Court Allows Government To Continue Stalling While Abrego Garcia Remains In Hell

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2025 @ 01:35pm

  And all of this happening just after they openly defied her order this morning when they missed the deadline for their response by half an hour

• On the post: Court Allows Government To Continue Stalling While Abrego Garcia Remains In Hell

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2025 @ 01:29pm

  I don't think this administration is actually hellbent on saving money. I think they are hellbent on allocating money and spending any extra money required to finish their project of transforming America into an outright fascist state.

• On the post: Even The Supreme Court Says Human Trafficking People by Accident Goes Too Far, Less Sure What To Do About It

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2025 @ 09:30am

  I am not optimistic at all, but this is a real human's life we're talking about - a human being with family that is fighting for his return. You don't get to just flatly declare him as as-good-as-dead.

• On the post: Germany, Ukraine Start Ramping Up Use Of European Starlink Alternative

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2025 @ 09:24am

  Noted. Bye forever! 👋

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2025 @ 02:04pm

  It's still coming at some point, just been very busy

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  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2025 @ 02:04pm

  Traffic has been high, which means both more comments and more people voting on them!

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