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Robert Black

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Constitutional scholar, general law nerd, Izzet mage, bear lover, Mets fan. Trans rights are constitutional rights! Uphold Yang Wenli Thought He/him https://www.eveningconstitutional.net

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · Jun 3

I have an announcement!!

Introducing a new project at The Evening Constitutional: Constitutional Perspectives!

This is a series of explanatory essays aiming to be of use for readers with any level of prior knowledge of constitutional law

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Introducing: Constitutional Perspectives!

Announcing a new project here at The Evening Constitutional! As I wrote shortly after last November's election, one of my ambitions for this site is to create a library of materials explaining Americ...

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 11h

Yyyyyeah.

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h

He had the play at first still. Seems like he forgot how many outs there were???

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 14h

Anyway you can see why MLB doesn't want games like that during the regular season. Fans might like them! Can't have that.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h

Well, that was the craziest fucking thing I've ever seen

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 16h

A thought I keep having about this modern managing style is like..... you gotta leave room for things to go better than you expected

You were hoping to get six innings out of Glasnow? Great, how about seven? That's even better!

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 16h

Among other things, pretending otherwise will affect our tactical choices! "Oh but if we do that it would break things" sorry my dude, things are already broken!

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17h

Call yourselves revolutionary socialists? I thought putting capitalist pigs against walls was like, the whole point

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17h

Look I mean, I would love to believe that you're right about this. Alas, I fear that what convinces you won't be me, it'll be the course of events.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17h

I mean, ICE shot that priest

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17h

The Union is controlled by literal Nazis. That's, like, arguably just per se a state of civil conflict already!!

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17h

The talk's not going over well would be great if it meant the military would refuse to do the things he wants

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17h

No it's not some talk, he's the president, there's no such thing as "just some talk" when you're the president. He said he was going to make war on American cities, and now he's doing just that!

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17h

Both sides deprecate war, would you say?

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17h

But like

I dunno man, Trump's Quantico speech, and everything that's happened after it... I'm not at all sure it ain't Fort Sumter O'Clock

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17h

Oh yeah absolutely. Talk to a GOOD psychiatrist haha. (Easier said than done, I know...)

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17h

Finally, vindication for the guy who wrote this xkcd.com/1979

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17h

Yessssssssssssssssss

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17h

If the question of whether to, ahem, "resign from existence" has EVER crossed your mind, go talk to a psychiatrist. No mercy for suicidal ideation.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17h

It would be funny though

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17h

My official position is that we currently have Big 1859 Energy (it was 1857 not long ago)

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17h

The CF camera angles have been awful all postseason

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17h

Like, the threshold for "if this is you, talk to somebody" is a loooooong way short of this

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17h

Is he related to Sir Walter Raleigh??

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 18h

Lol you make a good point

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 18h

If tyranny is archaic then so is freedom

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah I'm being deliberately old fashioned, but like, the concept is eternal! He means to rule over us like a king! He's a (would-be) tyrant!

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 18h

So maybe it's just tyranny, not civil war?

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 18h

I am, and I do. States are invading other states! It's really bad!

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 19h

In... Virginia?? Why is it in Virginia?

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 19h

Look I KNOW people accused him of being a closet monarchist but actually when you read the Federalist Papers you see that...

Oh, wait. Wrong Hamilton.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 21h

Hamilton: “The president’s power is unreviewable.”

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