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Mar 4 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I tell my law school students every time I teach that I couldn't have gotten into @Harvard_Law or wherever I am teaching. They all think I am joking. I am not. The LSAT is one reason. That @TuckerCarlson is making an issue of KBJ's LSAT scores is racist, yes. But there's also
a different issue here. It's the role we allow that test to play in the legal profession. It has a huge impact. @Gladwell did an excellent series on this a while back on his podcast. People should listen to it.
I'm not complaining. The impact on my life of not going to graduate school of any kind was entirely positive. And by the way, fear of standardized tests was only one component of the reason I never considered grad school. (Hating school was a bigger component.)
But it's not a positive for everyone. And we should think about why we make such a fetish of these exams.

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Okay, @EvansRyan202, that's a serious issue. Let me try to be as clear as possible: (1) I believe Putin needs to go, (2) I believe a lot of brave Russians are working on that at great risk to themselves, (3) I believe the world has put in place an infrastructure of ....
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For the benefit of anyone who is actually confused, rather than shilling for Putin, I do not believe in US military involvement in the conflict in Ukraine and have never advocated anything of the kind—much less for the US engaging in forcible regime change in Russia.
The tweet in question came in the context of a long series of tweets I have been assembling over the past several days of Russian and Belorussian protests opposing the war and demanding change.
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It is remarkable how Putin apologists don’t like my tweet suggesting that he should not be president of Russia any more.
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A blessing be upon them.
May the gods keep them safe.
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The US intelligence community should get a Pulitzer this year for its predictive work on Russian intentions and actions.
We rightly bash them when they get things wrong. But wow, have they performed well in this period! They’ve gotten every major aspect of Russian behavior correct a few weeks in advance, allowing policymakers to think through responses and act quickly when things happen.
Their accuracy has also allowed President Biden wholly to deprive Putin of the element of surprise or trickery.
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