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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 7h

please, I’m having a hard time

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 7h

if you’re setting up a joke where you send me Neil Gorsuch’s book I’m gonna fistfight you

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 7h

okay so this ISN’T you with a beard?

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 9h

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 9h

okay so we are 100 percent sure this is NOT you?

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 9h

Absolute legend

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 9h

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13h

SCOTUS signaled at its hearings today it may strike down Colorado's ban on conversion therapy

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The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 16h

The conservative Supreme Court justices sincerely believe that discrimiantion against Christians is the most urgent civil rights crisis of our time, and they are going out of their way to take and decide cases that allow them to correct these injustices

The Story of This Supreme Court Term Is Already On YouTube

How conservative activists are building a shared cultural understanding about who deserves the law’s protections, and who does not.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 18h

Hey Siri show me the desktop of someone who despises himself

my desktop which has copies of the recent dogshit books of Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, and Amy coney Barrett

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 19h

The easiest way to tell how a culture war Supreme Court case will go is to ask how much of *themselves* the conservative justices see in the person asking for the law’s protections

The Story of This Supreme Court Term Is Already On YouTube

How conservative activists are building a shared cultural understanding about who deserves the law’s protections, and who does not.

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Peter Berkes @peterberkes.bsky.social · 1d

We cannot let the Jags and Seahawks play each other. This is a national security issue.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1d

how your email finds me

Benjamin Solak @benjaminsolak.bsky.social · 1d

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

the beautiful game

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Okay moving might not be sufficient, death may be the correct answer here

Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 1d

I think you should also know - you are often still audible to the person who put you on hold on most call center systems. From experience, you can get some pretty wild pickups on the other end - mute is key lol

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Anyway I am changing my name and starting a new life in a foreign country, goodbye everyone

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Airline customer service rep told me I’d be on hold for 5-10 minutes, so I figured it was safe to go pee. She came back 90 seconds later right as the toilet was audibly flushing. I could hear her barely suppressing a laugh as she told me she’d successfully updated my account mailing address.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Yes this was a joke about what a loser Dan is, and I think it’s telling that it’s even a little bit hard to tell

Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, did that actually happen? You're joking with me, right? Please tell me it's a joke, Jay.

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 1d

i wrote about The Life of a Showgirl

Defector @defector.com · 1d

No good art comes from greed: defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

I wouldn't know, I checked out right after he used a question for Barrett about "how hard Supreme Court justices work" to mention to her that he's "been working out a lot lately," and people have "really been noticing it"

JRGrif @jrkanji1.bsky.social · 1d

Anything of interest in that interview? And you have my sympathies for reading it

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Not to get too armchair psychologist, but my guess is that Barrett had spent most of her adult life getting chatted up by fawning conservative men who look like thumbs, and an hour of Dan McLaughlin workshopping his worst one-liners sounds like a fucking nightmare

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett did a big sit-down interview with Baseball Crank over at the National Review, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, but she actually has my sympathies for having to force a laugh after Crank opened their conversation with this

A Conversation with Justice Barrett
By DAN MCLAUGHLIN
October 3, 2025 6:30 AM

What follows, edited slightly for print, is the first half of my conversation with her. (The second half can be found here.)
NR: So I have to say, as a child of the '70s, it's a little weird to me to be interviewing a Supreme Court justice who's younger than I
am.
JUSTICE BARRETT: [Laughs]

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

I've spent a decent amount of time on this website arguing that Anthony Kennedy is a simpleton who is worthy only of your scorn, so I appreciate him filling his new memoir with stories like this one, which demonstrate that I was even more correct than I imagined

Here Is Anthony Kennedy’s Heartwarming Story About the Time Antonin Scalia Humiliated Him In Public

Even the highest-profile victims of Scalia’s rage are doing credulous hagiography about him.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 2d

Thrilled to learn that Kaley Chiles, who is the face of the ADF's challenge to Colorado's ban on the pseudoscience of "gay conversion therapy," offers her clients "loose-leaf tea" in her "tranquil bungalow," just terrific stuff www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

Can Conversion Therapy Be Banned? Colorado Faces Speech Test at the Supreme Court.
Colorado and more than 20 other states restrict therapists from trying to change the gender identity or sexual orientation of clients under age 18.

Ann E. Marimow
By Ann E. Marimow
Reporting from Colorado Springs, Colo.
Oct. 5, 2025
When Kaley Chiles welcomes therapy clients to her tranquil bungalow of an office, she offers loose-leaf tea and asks what brings them to counseling, what’s causing distress and how she can help them meet their goals.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 2d

Last week, I wrote about the impact of the Alliance Defending Freedom's aggressive PR campaigns humanizing its anti-LGBTQ clients, so I appreciate the New York Times illustrating my point by immediately running a credulous, soft-focus profile of an anti-LGBTQ Alliance Defending Freedom client

The Story of This Supreme Court Term Is Already On YouTube

How conservative activists are building a shared cultural understanding about who deserves the law’s protections, and who does not.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 3d

me starting rico dowdle in the flex tomorrow

Scott Eaton @scottjeaton.bsky.social · 3d

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