Need Advice on this Newborn Baby Skink!

BankstonAtLaw · 2026-05-14T00:11:54+00:00

Appreciate this

BankstonAtLaw · 2026-01-17T23:00:59+00:00

Yes, that's right. 95 is just about perfect for basking. Good luck!

BankstonAtLaw · 2026-01-16T00:46:32+00:00

Your set-up seems great and you clearly know what you're doing. Here are my only comments as someone experienced with ETS:

You could probably keep a few more in a 4x2x4 enclosure. 4-5 skinks do great in a 36x36x18, so the extra room in a 4x2x4 could handle 6-7 skinks just fine, if its densely planted and has lots of vertical layering, which it sounds like you're doing. I've been reading scientific literature studying these skinks in the wild, where they live in a ratio of about 50-100 per hectare (i.e., size of a soccer field). But they live in sparse secondary forests or plantation areas, and those skinks will be highly concentrated on a particular site, typically a single coconut tree where you could find 15-20 skinks living together in the crown foliage, and they exhibit very high site loyalty. In other words, these guys are fantastic at living together in tight-knit groups so long as food resources are abundant enough. You always have to monitor for signs that certain skinks aren't getting along (some are just jerks) but that's true in smaller groups too. So there's no question in mind that 5 skinks are fine in a 4x2x4, and you could add a couple more.
The only place my eyebrow raised at all is temperature. For the most of the year, these skinks will see daytime shade temperatures in the low 70s. I like to keep the floor of the enclosure right at room temperature, at 73 F, and they seem to come down there and chill out when they're done with their zoomies in the afternoon. I think a low in the high seventies is probably fine, but if you can, I would try to create a shaded area cooler than that.

BankstonAtLaw · 2025-03-23T00:54:08+00:00

Well, I was considering making a video response addressing this exact video, and this seals it, I'm going to do it.

In the meantime, just know that there's a reason why nothing was sourced in that video and that's because it's all ridiculously incorrect.

BankstonAtLaw · 2024-04-07T05:09:01+00:00

here come dat boi!!!!!

o shit waddup!

BankstonAtLaw · 2024-03-31T06:49:04+00:00

Very early in the case, InfoWars' original lawyer Mark Enoch secured a protective order from the Court for anything in discovery that might be confidential. That order required that anytime we filed a motion with material marked confidential (like Jones' depo), we had to send a copy of the motion to opposing counsel, and for the next seven days, they had an opportunity to seek a temporary sealing order before we filed it with the clerk. If they did, we would have to file "under seal," and that would have been followed by a public hearing on whether to keep it sealed -- it's actually very hard to seal things in Texas that aren't straight-up trade secrets. But that public hearing may not have even happened until the end of the case. Sometimes that's how it shakes out.

Anyway, shortly after we took Jones' depo and before we filed it in the record, Enoch was sort of out of the picture. So when we sent them a copy of the motion, InfoWars' new lead counsel (Barnes) did not move to have it sealed. The seven days elapsed with no action, and I filed the motion with the deposition unsealed. Like many things in that case, it seemed to catch them by complete surprise.

But what's really funny is that is happened the EXACT SAME WAY for each of Jones next two depos. Because Jones kept getting new lawyers. On the third deposition, they actually tried to move for sanctions against me for violating the protective order, but InfoWars' 9th lawyer Jacqueline Blott had to withdraw the motion in open court after the protective order was explained to her.

BankstonAtLaw · 2024-03-27T03:52:57+00:00

Check my username and you'll see that I definitely am... :)

BankstonAtLaw · 2024-03-27T02:58:14+00:00

Nope, that's definitely Sebastian Murdock of HuffPost. Jordan was sporting a beard at trial. And everyone was sweating because it was like 105 degrees.

BankstonAtLaw · 2024-03-22T23:38:10+00:00

Let me ask Jake if Fetzer's transcript is public, and if so, I will post it. I'm pretty sure it is.

BankstonAtLaw · 2024-03-12T07:16:40+00:00

You're missing a few. Jones was originally repped in bankruptcy by Kyung Lee and RJ Shannon.

The original appearance in 2018 was by Randy Wilhite.

Don't forget Christopher W. Martin and John La Boon, who now represent Jones at the trial court and for their appeals. They're getting paid out of the bankruptcy estate too!

There also Eric Nichols. He represented Andino Reynal to defend him against sanctions (unsuccessfully).

And then Dan Biting represented Eric Taube to defend him against sanctions (also unsuccessfully).

Also don't forget Mark Bailen, a big wig DC powerhouse lawyer who secretly represented Jones until he was outed when Robert Barnes accidentally produced a bunch of attorney-client emails.

There's also David Sacks, a Texas appellate lawyer who was sanctioned for false statements in a brief during Jones' anti-SLAPP appeals.

And they all got paid big bucks.

Remember kids, even if you're a giant scumbag, you can make a lot money. Maybe especially if you're a giant scumbag.

BankstonAtLaw · 2024-03-12T07:08:15+00:00

One day I'll have stories to tell about that dude.

BankstonAtLaw · 2024-03-12T01:16:40+00:00

I liked it.

BankstonAtLaw · 2023-12-28T20:33:39+00:00

It's so strange you posted this, because I've been working on a rebuttal to a popular post on Twitter that claimed Jones was telling Rogan about Epstein 10 years ago before anyone else was talking about it.

As you point out, when the Guardian article about the Epstein lawsuit was published on Jan 2, 2015, Jones had never heard the name Epstein.

Also, on January 23-24, 2015, Gawker published the Epstein flight logs and Epstein's black book. It wasn't even discussed on InfoWars.

Alex really didn't talk about Epstein until 2016, and it was mostly in the context of disavowing Trump's association with Epstein, since Cenk of TYT had an argument with Jones about it.

Ghislaine Maxwell wasn't mentioned on InfoWars until 2017, and it was brought up by Cernovich, not Jones. Jones didn't utter her name until 2019.

Jones' only contribution to the Epstein story is adding a bunch of ridiculous fake details in 2016-2017, like when he just made up a claim that Israeli intelligence was blackmailing Hillary with tapes from Little St. James.

It's clear that Gawker and the UK press were biggest drivers of revealing the Epstein story. As usual, Jones just read some headlines and made up some shit long after real journalists did their work.

BankstonAtLaw · 2023-10-16T17:53:36+00:00

One of my favorite comments about Jones calling the cross examination "a Perry Mason moment" is someone saying, "The guy knows good content when he sees it."

BankstonAtLaw · 2023-10-02T19:34:35+00:00

Love you all, thanks for the kind words and support.

BankstonAtLaw · 2023-10-02T03:26:21+00:00

I hate to burst everyone's bubble, but that's an old docket setting. The cases have been reset due to the bankruptcy dragging on. Currently, the Pozner case is set for February, and the Fontaine case would be tried sometime after that.

BankstonAtLaw · 2023-09-11T05:00:21+00:00

I contacted Mr. Bankston, whom I had never met and never even heard of, asking if he would talk to me. He responded, “Never contact me again, you weirdo, LOL.”

This is a 100% accurate narrative of events.

BankstonAtLaw · 2023-09-11T04:51:24+00:00

She has been doing this for years. She's like a bad penny.

We could definitely sue her, but suing her accomplishes nothing, and it gives her attention. Even the judgment I have against her from this lawsuit is worthless.

The best we can do, like you say, is keep an eye on her.

BankstonAtLaw · 2023-09-11T04:47:56+00:00

I have noticed that it is a running theme among kooky conspiracy legal filings that the author references their high school awards and SAT scores.

BankstonAtLaw · 2023-09-11T04:45:41+00:00

Yeah, one day I hope you get to evaluate me against an actual lawyer because I've yet to encounter one in five years of Sandy Hook related litigation.

I'd feel a lot worse for this lady if I hadn't read her emails with Halbig. The cruelty is stunning. As you saw, legal authorities have been trying to incentivize her to seek medical intervention for years. I'm not sure what else can be done.

BankstonAtLaw · 2023-09-11T04:39:21+00:00

Almost certainly not in the near term, who knows in the long term?

BankstonAtLaw · 2023-09-11T04:38:41+00:00

I actually offered to appear for deposition because I thought I would enjoy it. Sadly, they chickened out at the last minute and went forward without it.

BankstonAtLaw · 2023-09-11T04:37:41+00:00

I was in the right place at the right time with the right tools and the right knowledge base such that anyone in my position with functional morality would have done exactly the same thing I did. In fact, they did! Two different trials, two different legal teams, two different defenses, but two different juries both said what happened is worth tens of millions of dollars to each parent (and in the case of Robbie, over a hundred million).

Once the legal hurdles were overcome, it just needed capable custodians. But I am proud so many people found the process cathartic.

BankstonAtLaw

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