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rlheppner.bsky.social

Law Prof at Duquesne Kline Law (Civ Pro, Fed Courts) • Former Appellate Attorney • English PhD (Modernism) • Overeducated, overtired, underwhelmed. Posts too infrequently to have a brand. he/him

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Grammar Movies: Apostrophes Now Pluperfect Storm The Bourne Subjunctive Back to the Future Tense Enemy of the Stet Bracketman Pulp Diction Grammar Mia! The Preposition Gerund Brockovich Meet the Parentheses

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

Are there BlueSky historians like we had on Twitter? I want to know who this Chinese Communist Party official is talking to my dad in 1978. He invited my dad “and his family” and we spent 6 weeks in the PRC. It was incredible. But I was 15 and don’t remember this kind of detail

submitted 21 hours ago • 9 comments

Use #cleanedup

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is really important both symbolically and substantively. Tell our international students who are now on campus: we have your back, and we will make sure you can complete the degree you started. Obviously this can be harder with some degree programs than others, but in many cases it's doable.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Who drinks soup?

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students

submitted 9 days ago • 251 comments

So, the budget bill that passed the House would likely cripple access to law school, medical school, and other unfunded graduate school opportunities by eliminating Grad Plus loans. Students would be forced to use high-interest private loans that lack public service repayment.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

submitted 11 days ago • 352 comments

I mean…

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

“Massive explosion from a bomb…. investigating whether terrorism played a role” 🤔

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

This (Jacqueline’s experience) was my experience in grad school, and then (the other student’s) in law school. The latter approach was so much better. Also, anonymous law school exams mean it doesn’t even matter if you look dumb in class (which you don’t, but even if you did)!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The “flying palace” is another obvious example of this phenomenon. But I’d argue the military parade is too: a gaudy, surface display, aspiring to signal real power.