If you're getting ready for Yom Kippur with the posture of, "THOSE Jews need to repent!" you need to get your eyes back on your own blue book. We ALL have been harmed, we ALL are bystanders to harm, and we ALL cause harm. Tonight and tomorrow is about your work. Agitate again later.

I can't imagine something being farther from my mind when I was in the ER with my son earlier this year than the immigration status of the other patients. (My son was fine; really a minor scare in the grand scheme of things.)

In the UK, are there people who drink coffee when they meet up for tea, like I drink tea when I meet people here for coffee?

And part of the problem is, if you accurately describe what is happening to our country to certain fellow countrymen, you STILL sound like a maniac.

I promise if I ever become a judge I would never even imagine citing ChatGPT in this way in an opinion. I think I would get yelled at by a judge if I did this in a brief.

Man, my Astros are truly collapsing. Arch Manning better be ready to turn it up a few notches.

It's amazing how holiday times inevitably bring about extra stress as an adult, which was just not something I ever imagined as a kid. (This is a Rosh Hashanah / Yom Kippur skeet.)

I came to the firm as a mid-level associate after dreaming of appellate work and following Raffi on Twitter. Anyway, now I'm a partner, and I do appellate work (at least in the broad sense of that term!) basically every day.

Our firm is recruiting again! We’re hiring appellate associates at Wright Close Barger & Guzman at all levels. If you love writing, briefing, and arguing appeals, let’s talk. You can reach out to me directly at my email address on the firm website.

The facts of this case make this an especially heartbreaking loss for the Barnes family, and that cutesy intro doesn't help.

What I hope our future holds: the ultimate "it is much harder to build than to break" dilemma.

Poland's recent experience is a rich case study. This article about the "post-illiberal trilemma" is excellent www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/dem...

"Napoleon conquered all that land because he didn't have enough friends to hang out with"

Slightly diminish a book A Scrimmage of Thrones

Raffi is an influencer. (I have been influenced)

Yikes Sotomayor, yikes.

My New One at @slate.com on the Supreme Court Potentially Killing the Remaining Pillar of the Voting Rights Act: “The Supreme Court Just Signaled Something Deeply Disturbing About the Next Term” slate.com/news-and-pol...

So. Yelp thinks I'm normally not fun. Thanks, algorithm.

Traveling as a single adult: "ugh, so many kids on this flight!" Traveling with a child: "oh good, there are other kids on this flight!"

Adeel Mangi >>> Emil Bove

Never again means never again. chuffed.org/project/1132...

Just listened to a bit of the Texas House redistricting committee hearing. Based on questions from Rep. Spiller, there seems to be serious confusion about what the 5th Circuit’s Petteway decision means. I’ll explain 🧵 #txlege

If you are an influencer wanting to visit houston, the thing to do is get a cushy job at an oil company and then spend your Fridays off at an ice-house with a couple of tacos before going to strip mall china town and karoake, and thus you will get the charm, as it is, of our strange place.

This is the maybe the most callous and anti-life statement I've seen out of this Administration outside of the immigration context (and it's competitive with some of that, too). Emergency action to save lives costs six figures or more literally every day and is perfectly reasonable???

Man, I forgot about Greg Abbott vetoing an emergency-warning infrastructure bill. And in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, too. www.yahoo.com/news/bill-ve...

parents seem to talk about this all the time but it's not one of the things they tell non-parents because I didn't realize this truth until a year or two ago.

Nothing leads to procrastination more than trying to catch up on hours on a Friday.

Thanks, I hate it

Things to make me angry on a Friday night

Absolutely harrowing and heart-crushing, yet I'm also so glad I read it. (CW: child loss).

I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump

Yikes I missed this earlier. They're really going to try to blow up coalition districts under the VRA. Yikes yikes yikes. (Also, Abbott is messing with my representation. He already delayed long enough to call a special election in TX-18 that I'll be without a House rep for almost a year!)

The Central TX flood death toll is going to match or exceed the Hurricane Harvey death toll. Just unimaginable tragedy. I'm not sure there's a good way to process losses like this.

Based on some of the reactions and comments I am absorbing by average people and elected officials, I think there needs to be a serious explanation and lesson on what the limits of predictability are for floods like the one in Texas.

Hey people watching or listening to the Meidas Touch network, or following this guy, maybe don't support this asshole.

Altuve has hit multiple homers against the Dodgers tonight and I got to watch fireworks from my bedroom window. Patriotism returned.

The run-of-the-mill fiscal stuff was wild enough, but the ICE funding is the type of stuff that I don't think anyone will fully appreciate until it's implemented. It's wild. bsky.app/profile/aoc....

Don't be silly, this will be the rare instance where SCOTUS decides a national injunction is necessary to protect the plaintiffs.

1. This is amazing. 2. Has a court ever held that it no longer exists????

Man, I have followed politics for my entire adult life & yet I am having trouble putting into perspective the badness of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" that passed the Senate today. Maybe both worse than anything Congress has passed in my lifetime but also not near the worst thing from this term?

Houston next please. Bring back the Comets!

Some of the conservative Christian advocates celebrating today's school religious-liberty opinion are the same ones who think their preferred version of the Ten Commandments should be on the wall in every classroom.

For states with voucher or other school-choice programs, will schools be able to maintain their curriculum and say they don't have to change anything under Mahmoud because the parents can just take their child out of the school and do another educational option?

Future case: what if a child wants to learn about X, but the parent says that X goes against their religious belief? Does the parent's religious freedom trump the child's religious freedom?

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don't love it.

Random news happening basically only of interest to a bunch of lawyers, but...the Texas Legislature passed a bill that, among other things, would've created a bunch of new trial courts throughout the state. Tonight, for whatever reason, Greg Abbott vetoed that bill. capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/H...

I've spent the last decade+ caring more about other issues, but the Iraq War was the reason I became a Democrat. I was 13 when it started, and I vividly remember staring in shock at a non-flatscreen tv as our country reigned terror on others for no good reason. Anyway, we're doing that again, huh?

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time