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Houston, Texas appellate attorney with side interests in progressive politics and making the world a better place
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Dear Manager: This week, I 1. Pulled up the sky when you were waddling yea high, 2. When the nights got cold, stole you fire from down below, 3. Lassoed the sun to stretch your days and being you fun, 4. Harnessed the breeze to fill your sails and shake your trees. You're welcome,

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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Alright, #appellatesky, let's get cooking on this Saturday night

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I think it's very funny that Perrier felt the need to pretend to be hardcore with a line of drinks.

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Five years ago, this news would be a 5-alarm fire for me...

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Lololol Give the public an ownership stake, and then we'll talk

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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

submitted 4 days ago • 114 comments

Perfect opportunity for this Gif.

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So here's a thing I am very uncertain of right now: which is safer for medium-short distance transport, a bus or a small regional plane?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Pot calling the kettle black again, I see.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to

submitted 10 days ago • 466 comments

Sigh. It has begun.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This is Blackjack. He was throwing a bit of a puppy tantrum. But just like a toddler, he immediately calmed down when his favorite show came on. 12/10

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I will be calling my Democratic congressman because of this. Wtf.

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Whoa, this is a huge potential development in Texas appellate practice.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

man oh man I am so ready for the techbros' AI arbitration that is going to happen one day. (And hopefully it ends there. Normal businesses aren't that reckless...right...?)

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Just chatting with someone about an important part of appellate practice: telling your senior lawyer of the "hidden potholes" in your brief. Like, hey, this case we cite is problematic for X reason. We deal with it in Y way. Here is the problematic part of the opinion. 1/

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I see this was apparently planned. But. It's nuts to be the sitting president and attend the Superbowl. It is more nuts to attend and not stay the whole time. This is a frivolous complaint about the president. But let me have a fun little complaint to distract from all the serious ones.

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I remember when some conservatives, including some conservative judges, wanted the judiciary to tell the military how to conduct its military operations with regard to COVID vaccines.

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So, what's the reporting on whether Elon, DOGE, and the Trump Administration are complying with all these injunctions and TROs coming out?

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

So are talking filibusters still a a thing that's possible in the Senate and if they are why haven't we seen one yet?

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So was Joe Biden Isildur? How far does this analogy go

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coastal libs: "texas should secede, we're well rid of it" actual texas reps: "what if we tried to impeach this fascist mf for being a genocidal fucko" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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