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Law student, writer, progressive Christian, Oxford comma enjoyer. he/him
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I used to be a pediatric oncology nurse. Something to know about childhood leukemia is that there is a 95% survival rate, but it requires a couple years of very regimented chemo. If this kid declines, it’s entirely because he didn’t get the care he needs, NOT because of the cancer.

submitted 17 hours ago • 25 comments

this is just an observation but one way to think of the civil war is that it WAS about states rights, but the right in question was the right of free states to stay free

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

I still can’t understand the subset of people in the political world who lie as naturally as they breathe - but - who wear these giant crosses, constantly cite Scripture, demand that the Ten Commandments be displayed and find every opportunity possible to talk about “the Bible,” God or praying.

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

Trump says he gave Iran permission to bomb US airbase. Any other president would have been impeached before sunset www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/ju...

submitted 3 days ago • 385 comments

The “messaging” in this case was “pointing out the language of the law.”

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

the republican two-step: 1. pass huge, regressive tax cut that explodes the deficit 2. start complaining about the deficit the second a democrat takes office, demand spending cuts, get portrayed as Serious Deficit Hawks

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? The US Constitution failed in 1861 and was fundamentally rewritten in 1865-1868, so focusing on the "framers" to understand the Constitution is nonsense. (Kind of obvious but it does seems like nobody actually knows this.)

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Just to put it in perspective: Trump’s birthday parade drew about 8,600 people. Meanwhile, Connecticut held 30 rallies, and over 10,000 showed up in Hartford alone. Donald Trump got ratioed by Hartford, Connecticut. On his birthday.

submitted 14 days ago • 32 comments

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

submitted 14 days ago • 92 comments

You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work. You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules. Get your lies straight.

submitted 18 days ago • 736 comments

Why are we celebrating traitors that fired upon US soldiers in a bid to keep people enslaved?

submitted 18 days ago • 130 comments

real contender for the defining quote of american christianity here

submitted 19 days ago • 22 comments

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

submitted 19 days ago • 327 comments

Let’s talk for a moment about some of the more subtle ways that the press acts as a mouthpiece for law enforcement. Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime. /1

submitted 25 days ago • 93 comments

so gun control works is what i’m hearing

submitted 26 days ago • 15 comments

It is incredibly jarring to be in law school, be taught every day about the importance of professionalism generally and respect for judges specifically, and then see… this.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments