Billy Joyner
@billyjoyner.bsky.social
Trial lawyer, former politico, unhealthy relationship with Dawgs, Braves, and Birds #KreweofGodesses he/him
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Billy Joyner
@billyjoyner.bsky.social
· Apr 19
Make America Anti-Concentration Camp Again
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Whether it's an obscure adjunct professor posting that Charlie Kirk did some bad things or it's the president of the United States celebrating Rob Reiner's death, there's plenty of incivility on both sides.
December 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Whether it's an obscure adjunct professor posting that Charlie Kirk did some bad things or it's the president of the United States celebrating Rob Reiner's death, there's plenty of incivility on both sides.
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If you read one U.S. president's remembrance of Rob Reiner today...
December 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If you read one U.S. president's remembrance of Rob Reiner today...
well this has been a shit day of a shit week of a shit month of a shit year. Happy hour might have to start at lunch.
December 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
well this has been a shit day of a shit week of a shit month of a shit year. Happy hour might have to start at lunch.
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If Morris is on the sideline next season it’s also a brutal win for Atlanta
Man that’s a brutal loss for Tampa
December 12, 2025 at 4:38 AM
If Morris is on the sideline next season it’s also a brutal win for Atlanta
This is an expert on chemical weapons talking about condiments
I'm going to reproduce a saucy thread I did some years ago in the other place. It is divisive and produces many odd statements and flushes out parochial opinions.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This is an expert on chemical weapons talking about condiments
Yes, there are unreasonable barriers to entry to the profession. The profession also has many unqualified, unethical members. The barriers are a feature, not a bug.
Also, it's not that hard.. CA has a high fail rate because of volume and high number of non-native English speakers taking it.
Also, it's not that hard.. CA has a high fail rate because of volume and high number of non-native English speakers taking it.
“It’s easy to laugh at Kim Kardashian, who recently announced that she failed the California bar exam,” Max Raskin writes.
“But Kardashian’s failure is not a knock on her — it’s an indictment of the bar.”
“But Kardashian’s failure is not a knock on her — it’s an indictment of the bar.”
Opinion | Actually, the bar exam failed Kim Kardashian
The test is not about quality control for lawyers, it’s about quantity control.
wapo.st
December 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Yes, there are unreasonable barriers to entry to the profession. The profession also has many unqualified, unethical members. The barriers are a feature, not a bug.
Also, it's not that hard.. CA has a high fail rate because of volume and high number of non-native English speakers taking it.
Also, it's not that hard.. CA has a high fail rate because of volume and high number of non-native English speakers taking it.
Anyone have any ideas on places to watch the SEC championship in Amsterdam?
December 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Anyone have any ideas on places to watch the SEC championship in Amsterdam?
I would like to apologize to the world for what the Falcons and Jets are doing right now to modern professional football
November 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I would like to apologize to the world for what the Falcons and Jets are doing right now to modern professional football
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What annoys me about all the talk of the icc is that these are americans committing crimes under the american legal system, so we need to charge them under the american legal system at the earliest chance. We shouldnt offload the responsibilities of trying these criminals to the rest of the world
Pipe dreams don't change things. I've said point-blank that I think what happened in the boat strikes is a war crime, but I don't think "let's hand over US officers to foreign courts" is a winning Dem message, even if it makes people on Bluesky feel brave and virtuous and good about themselves.
Part of the reason to speak out, even if it’s a pipe dream, is that Americans generally aren’t keen on letting a pundit class euphemize international accountability for war crimes as some kind of nebulous international control of U.S. military personnel generally.
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
What annoys me about all the talk of the icc is that these are americans committing crimes under the american legal system, so we need to charge them under the american legal system at the earliest chance. We shouldnt offload the responsibilities of trying these criminals to the rest of the world
This is horrific (and audio super illegal)
Exclusive: Hegseth ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water in a mission led by SEAL Team 6. Ordering no quarter could legally perilous www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This is horrific (and audio super illegal)
what could go wrong?
"We have a 2000s housing bubble level of financial engineering on top of a 1920s level of private unregulated lending on top of something bigger than a 1990s internet (or 1870s railroad) level of technology and infrastructure build-out." prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think - The American Prospect
It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.
prospect.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
what could go wrong?
In my 40ish years on this planet I cannot recall a time that the mayor of New York City had any relevance whatsoever to the current state or direction of the entire Democratic Party
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
In my 40ish years on this planet I cannot recall a time that the mayor of New York City had any relevance whatsoever to the current state or direction of the entire Democratic Party
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From the Guardian.
Cartoonist Ella Baron.
Cartoonist Ella Baron.
November 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
From the Guardian.
Cartoonist Ella Baron.
Cartoonist Ella Baron.
Wtf is the deal with SEC refs this season?
November 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Wtf is the deal with SEC refs this season?
I'm worried we're playing too well
November 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I'm worried we're playing too well
I don't know but it's not crazy to start at feeding hungry people
“If you do this for SNAP, what about early learning programs? What about TSA agents? What about the military, the National Guard? Where does this end?” #gapol
www.ajc.com/politics/202...
www.ajc.com/politics/202...
‘Where does this end?’ Why Kemp opposes state bailout of food stamp program
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp rejects calls to tap state funds to keep food assistance flowing as federal government shutdown enters its fourth week.
www.ajc.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I don't know but it's not crazy to start at feeding hungry people
Once again, connections today is bullshit @nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Once again, connections today is bullshit @nytimes.com
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as a georgia fan, i think only RINOs dont want trump to pick the next LSU head football coach.
WATCH: #Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry on who will 'not' be selecting the next coach of #LSUfootball #lagov #lalege #LouisianaFirstNews
October 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
as a georgia fan, i think only RINOs dont want trump to pick the next LSU head football coach.
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I confidently predict that people who profess to be outraged by, say, the removal or destruction of statues honouring slavers and other racists because "history something tradition something something" will be completely silent about this abomination.
October 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I confidently predict that people who profess to be outraged by, say, the removal or destruction of statues honouring slavers and other racists because "history something tradition something something" will be completely silent about this abomination.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.