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25 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
CSPAN Caller: "Do you believe our rights comer from God?"
Me: "No."
CSPAN Caller: "Life begins at conception."
Me: "Does citizenship?"
CSPAN Caller: "Can you tell where IN the constitution it protects the right to kill babies?"
Me: "They're not babies. But anyway: 4th, 14th, 9th, and if you don't like all those than the 13th."
CSPAN Caller: "I believe that the spirit transcends the flesh."
Me: "Cool story bro. ...But that's not a legal argument."
So... here's half an hour of me fighting about abortion rights, in case anybody is interested.

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21 Oct
Since telling truths to white data bros is apparently my thing here today, here are some more:
* Calling your thing "Popularism" while centering the whole discussion around what's popular with non college whites is bullcrap black people notice.
* Columbusing the problem of non-college educated hostility to racial justice is bullcrap black people notice.
* Having exclusively white faces push the so-called "solution" to that old and well understood problem, is bullcrap black people notice.
* Having that "solution" be (again) ignoring calls for racial justice is bullcrap black people notice.
* Trying to avoid criticism of the policy prescriptions those white solutions functionally require with a "just talking about messaging" euphemism is just straight bullcrap.
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14 Oct
So I'm cited in the footnotes in this court commission report in the Size of the Court section. But not for my many, *many* articles on Court reform, but support the notion that calls for court packing have intensified because of political (in my case, abortion) reasons.
It kind of shows you how this commission has decided to play it, if they're going to use me, of all people, as a person who only wants expansion to win a political argument, while ignoring ALL OF MY OTHER reform based arguments for expansion.
But hey, thanks for reading, folks. Maybe one day Biden will put an actual court reformer on his court reform commission and I can make some of these arguments in person. :)
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14 Oct
The key difference between an "influencer" and a columnist is that columnists have to show their thought process while influencers just have to show their conclusions.
Also most of us columnists are uglier. :(
If I was prettier I'd have a shampoo sponsorship :)
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13 Oct
This is the most awful map in the history of map making and also somehow explains why this country is so messed up and also WTF TENNESSEE and also I SEE YOU FORMER CONFEDERACY I KNOW WHAT YOU PEOPLE ARE ABOUT
Also WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, MICHIGAN??

Also: REALLY CONNNECTICUT??? REALLY???
In fact... ALL OF NEW ENGLAND IS GODDAMN DISGUSTING
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7 Oct
Sometimes wish I could go back to, like, 2004 and not give my "independent" friends (you know who you are) quite so much shit
Like, I was right. I've ALWAYS BEEN RIGHT about the GOP. Tolerating the both sides bullcrap was ALWAYS wrong. But... sorry where was I going with this?
Oh yeah, but my friends who were not actually *Republican* but just didn't see as clearly as I did the dangers in playing nice with Republicans were, upon reflection, not demonstrably worse than many of my "officially Democratic" friends.
Like, circa Bush v. Gore I made a brightline distinction between "Dems" and "others" and really the distinction should have been "people who will fight Republicans" and "those who won't."
That should have been the line.
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6 Oct
I hate Stephen Breyer's self-serving pamphlet dressed up like a book masquerading as a philosophy and now need something to cleanse my palate at... oh God what time is it?
It's amazing to me that Breyer has decided to rebrand himself from "Forgettable inoffensive left-of-center pragmatist" to "concern-trolling narcissist cloying for attention" ostensibly all so he could justify hanging onto a job he's had for 27 years for a 28th.
Like, people have literally made better life decision in pursuit of one more vial of crack than Breyer has in pursuit of one more year on the bench.
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