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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6h

First Wives Club “You Don’t Own Me” is circling in my brain always. youtu.be/dRLdtDYoVX8?...

RIP, to a legend and style icon.

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Cain Norris @cainnorris.net · 1d

Dude, if bottle deposit would sink you, your finances are already shit. Grow up.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 1d

every political reporter knows that the jay jones text are on the tame end of how politicians talk in private, not to mention tamer than how trump and his associates talk in public

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 1d

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 3d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Cain Norris @cainnorris.net · 1d

HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS AMAZING PIECE OF GGSS LORE??

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Cain Norris @cainnorris.net · 1d

It Is An EnTiRe LiTeRaTuReeeeeee (forthcoming on SSRN)

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 3d

I just realized that the Portland Antifascist Frog has singlehandedly reclaimed amphibians from the “alt right”. Yet another way he is a Great American.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 4d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 1d

Larry’s blog is indispensable for keeping up with legal scholarship. He’s also a great person.

Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 2d

Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.

Legal Theory Blog

Discover our latest articles and updates. Stay informed with recent posts that cover a variety of topics you care about!

legaltheoryblog.com

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 18d

So scary! youtu.be/TE_ju8eWTS8?...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26d

November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

MANKATO, Minnesota (AP) - Charlie Kirk stood 80 miles from where George Floyd was murdered, faced an overwhelmingly white audience, and declared he was going to say things "no one dares say out loud."
What followed was an avalanche of aspersions and debunked claims about Floyd, the Black man whose death at the hands of a
Minneapolis police officer set off a global reckoning over racial injustice and broad calls for change. But the white conservative agitator had a counter view: Floyd was a "scumbag," he said, unworthy of the attention.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 26d

Just saw someone post "Democracy Dies in Whiteness."

Amazing truth. Encapsulates America.

Should be @washingtonpost.com new motto.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · Sep 2

Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed.

There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.

Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.

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Cain Norris @cainnorris.net · Aug 28

"simulate it until you simulacreate it." with apologies to Baudrillard

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Aug 26

But the anti-woke moderate Dem consultant class absolutely loves the idea that black and brown voters are moving to the GOP, because they think it validates their idea that racism is no big deal. It's all about their personal resentment of activists, as always.

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Cain Norris @cainnorris.net · Aug 26

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social did it and survived. But then, he's not evil.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Aug 25

Truly hilarious to watch Mamdani breaking their brains in real time.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani • @zohrankmamdani.osky.social
Thank you New York City for making the #ZcavengerHunt a reality

Zohran with a bag of Herr's Sour Cream chips

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I'm sure a scavenger hunt was fun for the people with nothing better to do.
Ask our working families trying to do whatever they can to survive if they participated. Ask the people worried about making rent if they thought it was worth it. Mamdani is trying to turn our city into the Squid Games.

a Squid Games girl model on a model of NYC (is this AI slop?)

Andrew Cuomo @andrewcuomo • Aug 23
Defund the police but great scavenger hunts
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Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz • Aug 23
This should be the main job of a mayor. Coming up with fun games and challenges for their constituents x.com/ZohranKMamdani...
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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · Aug 24

A national corporation changing its branding is actually a secret message to me mocking my values stop laughing I am not “crazy”

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Cain Norris @cainnorris.net · Aug 23

When and why did we start referring to Third Way as Democratic when its very name states that it isn't and has never meant to be?

Cain Norris @cainnorris.net · Aug 22

The new Cracker Barrel logo is totally banal. It barely even counts as a rebrand. It's pretty traditional, too; there are even serifs! The discourse is so, so dumb.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · Aug 22

“Jackson’s diagnosis cuts deeper than just this case. She’s identifying a systemic problem: a Court that has abandoned legal reasoning in favor of reaching predetermined outcomes, then wrapping those outcomes in enough procedural complexity that nobody can pin down what the rules actually are.”

Justice Jackson Correctly Defines The John Roberts Supreme Court As The Calvinball Court

In theory, the nice thing about having a Supreme Court is that it provides some level of legal certainty. You know how the system works: lower courts make decisions based on law and precedent, part…

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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · Aug 22

I appreciate this framing much more than other outlets. Others are framing it as if Justice Jackson is breaking some sort of important norm rather than rightly calling out her colleagues for their hypocrisy and making a mockery of the law and the norms/precedents the Court, itself, has established.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · Aug 22

Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire

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Ketanji Brown Jackson Stops Just Short of Saying the Supreme Court Is Breathtakingly Full of Shit

“Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Aug 22

ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified

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