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I write about courts, democracy, media, and the three raccoons who live in a tree behind my house. Bluesky’s ONLY fantasy football guru. EIC @ballsandstrikes.org, more writing at jaywillis.net.
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non-zero chance he's listened imo
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Hey there’s no need to be bringing me up like this
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Amanda can we compare notes
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Everyone who joined Space Force staring at their phones yelping HEY NOT FAIR
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if you didn’t leave a stable, lucrative profession to post, how do you even know you’re alive
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Have you seen the pictures of the national guard guys trying to sleep on concrete floors? Moon Troop got his detail at the best possible time
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Staring at that FaceTime button like Denzel Washington staring down the minifridge at the end of ‘Flight’
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Was incurring six figures worth of student debt to join a profession I quickly abandoned worth it for this exact moment a decade later? Who can say? Also yes
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Yeah he graduated in the same Yale Law class as JD Vance and Vivek Ramaswamy, which I will go out on a limb and say probably has something to do with how he got his current job
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We’re talking in Yale Law student adjusted terms
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Deleted last post because of a typo but yes absolutely lol
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He was pretty normal as far as I could tell! He went to Yale Law and had a summer gig on Hill that he hated. Halfway through the summer Alex Kozinski called him and offered him a half-summer clerkship for a sitting in, IIRC, Guantanamo Bay. He quit and flew out that Friday and I never saw him again.
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Not sure @ericrsilverman.bsky.social deserves this slander
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Honestly it was a strike at the cleats and right in front of the bag, but the guy beat the throw, respect to both of them
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I’m either not invited back anymore or getting invited every time they have a game here from now on, and there’s no in between
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No idea why you’re talking like we disagree about this
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It should not be "political" to talk about the fact that a Supreme Court decision got thousands of people killed. Judges are responsible for the consequences of their actions. These kids are no less dead just because Antonin Scalia says he was just "doing law." ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
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Law professors and legal pundits usually don't talk about the real-world impact of Supreme Court decisions. They should. The fact that Antonin Scalia is not the sole cause of the preventable deaths of 7,398 children would probably be of little comfort to the families who buried them.
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God I would love this job. Just getting paid an ungodly amount of money to be wrong in public. Unlike now where I am only paid to be right.
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She published this six months ago
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In my experience, when a post has a note that’s like “a version of this first appeared on X,” that’s a signal that someone at the publication thought the idea was so good and important that they reached out to the author to ask for permission to re-run it. Make of this info what you will!
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They’re calling him the Isaac Chotiner of middle reliever aficionados
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hate myself for understanding, thank you though
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can you tell just me, so I can get upset
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It doesn't appear in the excerpt—you're gonna have to read the book for that—but the end of the chapter on Roger Gose's fight to build a new hospital in his small Wyoming town, when he reflects on his life and career and duty to his community, got me real good www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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On LinkedIn, Brad says he's "disgusted by how rabid partisans lurched this election into the political gutter." He's turned off comments on the post, but you can still react with the cry-laughing emoji, if you're so inclined www.linkedin.com/posts/bradbo...
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You don't get to talk about the threat Trump poses to the rule of law if you can't be bothered to show up and ask a few questions of these right-wing culture warriors before Senate Republicans confirm them to life-tenured positions. Do your fucking jobs. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/senate-dem...
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I'll take that bet
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Honestly she was ahead of her time with this
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“A platform where they had considerable influence,” all due respect but what the fuck are you talking about
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It’s really something to see everyday people putting their bodies on the line for their neighbors in LA when multiple Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee had somewhere else to be during Whitney Hermandorfer’s confirmation hearing this week