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Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking here. Thanks! Is everyone ready for Thanksgiving? We’re staying local, going to my parents’ place in Bergen County, 45 minutes to the north. I expect to do some writing over the next few days, but given the upcoming holiday and shortened week, it might be lighter than usual (and I might skip next weekend’s Judicial Notice).

You think you know a person...and then you start reading the galley of Sara B. Franklin’s THE EDITOR and realize just how much you still have to learn about her subject (and one of my heroes), Judith Jones. The word “legend” is often attached to Jones, and she deserves it. She’s perhaps remembered most for two things. She retrieved a copy of The Diary of a Young Girl (published in the Netherlands in 1947) from a reject pile while working in the Paris office of Doubleday.

Grab your best headphones, kick back, and watch this understated, mesmerizing tour de force.  This was a wholly AI based discovery, so hats off to Skynet I guess. YouTube suggested a twenty-minute, five-song suite by an artist I’d never heard of named Vicent Fenton and called FKJ for his moniker French Kiwi Juice. The backstory is that his dad’s a New Zealand Kiwi and his mom is French, and France is where he grew up.

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Jumping worms, and the publicity about them, are spreading. Debbie Flower (America’s Favorite Retired College Horticulture Professor) and I talked about this in August of 2021 in Episode 126 of the Garden Basics with Farmer Fred podcast. We provided an update on Episode 217 in August of 2022 (listen to that chat in today’s newsletter podcast). Jumping worms have been in the United States for more than a half century.

The Washington Post generated a loss of $77 million in 2023 and also lost half its readers. The Post needs to emulate the New York Times and create a community with common interests. If the paper does not change, it will die.  On the paper’s problems the Wall Street Journal opines:  It’s likely that the Post agonists hope to pressure Mr. Bezos into sell… ncG1vNJzZmiqn5yur3rSrpmsrJGYuG%2BvzqZmqWeaqrumeZFvZG1xYnTCtbm%2BrKauqpOairG%2Bzp%2BgpZ1WqsGuq8yem6KtnXK%2Fpq3Dnqlr

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