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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · 14d

Anyways, phone banking is fun, you should do it. www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · 14d

the world had to know!!

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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · 14d

-"I make minimum wage and it's not great...I can't say I'm never tempted...there's like $250k directly in front of me"

At this point I had to hang up because I had been on for five minutes without being able to ask a single question (all of this was completely unprompted!) and Boris was yelling.

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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · 14d

-apologizes for it being loud because "there's just a lot of cash floating around here."
-man with heavy russian accent come in and yells several times to "count faster."
-I'm told that that is Boris, the supervisor, and they work at a casino counting cash from the tables.

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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · 14d

So as a result of this post I decided to do some NJ phonebanking today and had what was genuinely the weirdest phone call of my life, and I answered the phone in a congressional office for two years.

Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 20d

since this clearly has some interest on here I'm instituting a new rule for myself: every time I doom about NJ-Gov on here I have to throw $5 into the pot here and re-up the link. keep me accountable secure.actblue.com/donate/save-...

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · Aug 14

Twentysomething libs whose entire lives are based on politics seeing the easiest Instagram story of their lives dropped on their doorstep:

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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · Aug 14

Yeah a lot of confusing "angry screed" with "fluent writer." And even if he was the world's best writer, he was still a naked bigot who no one should be taught to idolize for any reason.

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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · Aug 14

Scalia is a terrible writer, I will die on this hill.

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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · Aug 14

Just a fun selection of Bloomberg newsletter headlines from this week.

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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · Aug 14

Dem administrations' failure to staff up from the plaintiff's bar is baffling, they know where the bodies are buried! And also they have hate in their hearts!

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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · Aug 14

I regret to tell you that most faxes just go to an email now, rather than being physically printed, and at one point when I worked on the hill we just mass deleted that inbox because it was all out of district people. If you want to fuck you and don't want a phone call, physical mail is the way.

Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · Aug 8

And actually extremely useful thing for JPKIII, genuinely excellent ally to the trans community, to do would be to endorse Beth.

Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · Aug 8

you heard it here, Seth Moulton is an asshole to bartenders. give to @beth4ma.bsky.social

Sauerz 🇺🇸 @sauerz.bsky.social · Aug 8

9/10 Moulton is the source for "Democrats questioning trans issue" agitprop

plus he's an asshole to bartenders

Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · Aug 7

Also, let us never forget that they made their name opposing Title IX sexual assault procedures. A lot of their work follows the prevailing wind of whatever the contrarian position of the day is.

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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · Aug 4

Yes, this person does exist, but they’re a plaintiff-side consumer protection lawyer in their 30s (obsessed with niche details, out of blood) who isn’t on any lists because they didn’t play the clerkship game and they’re practicing rather than in the party.

Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · Jul 31

It also has nothing to say about aggressively enforcing all of this against those who are tearing the country apart. A law without enforcement is just another word for norm, and that's how we got here in the first place. People have got to go to jail.

Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · Jul 31

There's no point in weathering the politics if you don't get an actual durable majority that is fine throwing illegitimate precedents out with the same fervor the current majority had towards legitimate ones.

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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · Jul 31

There also also other aspects, such as jurisdiction stripping, that have to be seriously considered. Also, I would not stop at six seats. Kagan is entirely too squishy to be counted on and Sotomayor is older. If you're doing it, go for at least eight.

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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · Jul 31

The issue with this is that it presumes that there is a point to legislative reforms without court reforms. As the current court has shown us, there absolutely is not because they will shred or not apply and law they don't like. Court reform is not optional, it is the precondition to everything.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · Jul 31

There's a long tradition at @prospect.org of discussing remedy rather than just criticism and complaint. In that spirit, co-founder Paul Starr lays out an agenda for changes in the law, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution that Trump has shown we need. It's today's featured story.

The Premature Guide to Post-Trump Reform

American history offers three general strategies of repair and renewal.

prospect.org

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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · Jul 31

(perhaps helpful context, he was an academic physicist.)

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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · Jul 31

But it did work, I loved reading them, and was always welcome to participate in adults discussions as an equal if I'd done the homework. 100% going to do the same (child appropriate version) for our nephew.

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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · Jul 31

When my grandfather died and I was cancelling his subscriptions I realized that he had been paying for my family's New Yorker, Economist, Foreign Affairs, and National Geographic. I think so he could basically run seminars on them and have something to talk about with us?

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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · Jul 31

And they were doing a structural gut renovation and had gotten literally not a single permit. Baltimore!

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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · Jul 31

Oh also, I forgot, I got the cellphone number of our councilmember from a friend to ensure that the housing inspectors would get sent out the same day I called in the complaint and catch them in the act.

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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · Jul 31

The first time I told this story to my coworker he told me that I had gone dead behind the eyes while telling it and he now understood why I was a lawyer. I bring a real "I will ruin your whole entire life" energy to fights.

Meg! @megmm.bsky.social · Jul 29

So she reported them to the city, resulting in a stop work order. She then proceeded to call in violations every time they attempted to begin work again for the rest of the year. I'm pretty sure this means she is a super-extra lawyer now. Or that the bar was experimenting with a hands-on approach.

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Abigail @abigailb.bsky.social · Jul 31

Two of my favorite books this year I discovered via bsky and have recommended to several others! ( @timclare.bsky.social 's book on games and @mauricejcasey.com 's on Hotel Lux.)

Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social · Jul 31

Is there *any* evidence that presence on bsky contributes in any way to book sales? I’ll take anecdotes! Who here has bought a book bc they heard about it on bsky *alone*? Because I’m ready to bounce.

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