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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don't like coffee, but I still drink caffeine. It is sometimes a struggle to find alternative canned/bottled caffeinated drinks that don't have large amounts of sugar or other sweeteners in it, especially if I'm just in some random store!

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have a new example to use next time I need to do my rant about how signature matching is woo-woo pseudoscience that has no good place in how we run elections.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The whole Astros playoff series is on Peacock? This feels like punishment for making the playoffs without a winning record.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

LOLOL the Astros did it. AL West Champions. Worst record in baseball to ever make the playoffs in a regular-length season, but at least they don't have a losing record. Onward!

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Weird, I can't find Bluey on that NYT list of the 100 best tv shows of the 21st century.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm boring; I'd probably just complain about how neither of my Senate candidates have talked about how they would evaluate judicial nominees, particularly recommendations they send to the president.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

!!! A 5-4 vote from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (supreme court for crimes) that the petition appealing the reversal of her conviction was improvidently granted. Big deal, and I'm so happy for Crystal Mason and voting rights generally.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Kind of wild that the Democratic candidate for Governor of Texas, who currently represents arguably the most left-leaning legislative district in the state, just came out with an ad featuring a Jan. 6er supporting her.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We're watching HBO's The Gilded Age right now in my household, and S2 features an opera storyline. So it's very funny to imagine all those characters reacting to this.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Man, the chance that the winner of the AL West will have a losing record is now pretty damn high. A good chance it's the Rangers or Astros, meaning either my team or the team a handful of friends root for... So, uh, how much does one root for their team in the playoffs if they are so undeserving?

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Non-Christian holidays on Mondays are no fun. My inbox is so full after Yom Kippur

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When your three-year-old shouts across the house "Daddy I need to cuddle!", you have no choice but to oblige.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's sad because the new kid actors don't deserve this, and in an alternate universe I could imagine myself pretty pumped for an HBO remake. But nope, not gonna do it.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One side of this war has an elected legislature but it doesn't really have any power compared to the supreme leader and the council of guardian jurists, and the other is Iran.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Big local election opinion out of the Texas today. Galveston County attempted to redistrict its county commissioner court seats over the summer - after the primary. The Texas Supreme Court just directed Galveston County to use its maps that it used during the primary. txcourts.gov/media/146331...

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Appellate emergencies are rare, but when they happen they are really intense.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Do courts still use @scotusplaces.bsky.social's "cleaned up" parenthetical? I feel like it was trendy for a few years but I don't really see it much with new opinions. I was just reading a 2018 case and saw the parenthetical - it looked like a relic.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If I didn't vaguely remember Quibi in the back of my mind I would think this is AI Slop.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My latest on yesterday’s order in the mail-in ballot/voter list case is up! sherrilyn.substack.com/p/conservati...

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Conservative Majority Shows Its Hand Again in Mail-In Ballot Case

Civil Rights & American Democracy

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Typical family today: watching Frozen or K-Pop Demon Hunters over and over again. My family today: putting on My Neighbor Totoro got the 5th time in 4 days.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My kid is sick and also asked to go to the playground while it is 102° with a "feels like" 111° read in the weather app. 🙃

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I have spent more time in the airport for a flight delay than I spent at the courthouse for the hearing I flew here for.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

To be honest I have had no strong opinions here; I've watched the WI returns more like one watching a big time but wild sports match for which they don't have a rooting interest. I mean, I dislike their opponent in the next round, so I want the winner to survive injury-free, etc., but otherwise...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/08/2026

"no one will be normal about AOC if she runs for president" is both true and a bad reason for her not to run. you could run the most milquetoast middle of the road clean cut straight white man alive and the right is still going to act like the deranged freaks they are

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Peggy Flanagan, tonight's biggest winner for progressives vs. moderates, seems more emblematic of the likely future of the Democratic Party and even its left flank than Abdul El Sayad or Francesca Hong or Graham Platner ... and yet she has gotten a fraction of the coverage.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Has everyone forgotten what it means to try and persuade people? If the Democratic Party does this, it actually will have left many Jews behind.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Help me I was sitting in the airport too long and went on a political rant on Facebook

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"Too Many Open Tabs" is going on the board for potential titles of the autobiography I will never write.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

They asked about the main purpose of the US Constitution without giving a single possible choice that is how the US Constitution would answer the question in its very Preamble.

To the best of your knowledge, what is the main purpose of the U.S. Constitution?

To establish and limit the powers of government - 929 - 41%
To declare independence from Great Britain - 393 - 17%
To create the presidency, Congress, and Supreme Court - 274 - 12%
To list all federal laws - 157 - 7%
To create the two major political parties - 95 - 4%
Not sure - 404 - 18%

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It seemed like Trump's speech yesterday was a load of nothing, but it turns out it was the starting gun for his administration to get going on election maneuvers. Mullin's statement is worse than anything in the speech. Our local US Attorney put out a statement about election stuff. Hold on tight.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Doing the first campaign finance report after you lose an election is no fun

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026

An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas.

No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers.

At her side, a pink rolling bag.

Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot and yanked from a car he’d been driving. Now, he lay handcuffed in the street, where he would remain for five hours.

“You took her dad, you took her dad!” a woman nearby yelled, according to Cecelia Humiston, 22, who witnessed the interaction in Biddeford on Monday morning.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

As I am scanning (!) some line edits to a brief to email off tonight, a random office related thought: Office printers are more evil than home printers, but home scanners are more evil than office scanners.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Of course ICE was lying about the circumstances of it killing a man, yet again. Of course. It's infuriating as ever, but there's an extra burst of rage as ICE's destruction hist my own city.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

“When he moved here from Mexico, the Oilers still played in the Astrodome. Beltway 8 hadn’t been completed. The population of the Houston metro was a little over half what it is today. As a construction worker, Lorenzo helped build that booming metropolis …”

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I am accidentally going to be in Seattle during the USMNT's Round of 16 game.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The claim that deaths in Africa decreased after USAID was cut (and implicitly BECAUSE of the cuts) is similar to the claim I saw the other day that Gaza's population has increased since Oct. 7, 2023. Crazy pills everywhere, I see.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/07/2026

the use of “performative” as an insult here is why these people are losing their primaries. yes, voters want you to perform their anger and disgust! they want representatives to represent their symbolic interests! the idea that good representation is necessarily quiet and unobtrusive is wrong!

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I have seen (and been a part of) legal disputes about domicile that tie up unrelated litigation for years. Thankfully, we are not about to embark on that for people's basic citizenship.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

KBJ provides a useful, though non-exhaustive, hitlist of the cases we must overrule to fully vindicate the 14th Amendment's promise of an "anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation."

I suspect, though, that JUSTICE THOMAS and I disagree about when
and how that promise has been denied by this Court. My list is long (and
sadly only getting longer). For a sampling, consider: Civil Rights Cases,
109 U. S. 3 (1883); Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U. S. 537 (1896); De Lima v.
Bidwell, 182 U. S. 1 (1901) (otherwise known as the Insular Cases);
Downes v. Bidwell, 182 U. S. 244 (1901) (same); Korematsu v. United
States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944); Milliken v. Bradley, 418 U. S. 717 (1974);
McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U. S. 279 (1987); Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. No. 1, 551 U. S. 701 (2007); Shelby
County v. Holder, 570 U. S. 529 (2013); Students for Fair Admissions,
Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, 600 U. S. 181 (2023)
(SFFA); Louisiana v. Callais, 608 U. S. ___ (2026).

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This upsets me more than the the bad legal analysis of the 4 losing justices. We have at least 4 justices who have a truly grotesque regressive and repressive belief on what America is at its core. True, no one else joined Alito's dissent, but their votes tell the story.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

When was the last time there was this direct of an argument for living constitutionalism in the US Reporter? Has it even been in my lifetime?

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Gotta make Nina a guest this week.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Hot take: Alito retiring now increases the likelihood of SCOTUS expansion in 2029.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Man, another sigh of relief on birthright citizenship. But only 5-4 on the constitutional question? So ominous. So dangerous. And after a large spate of 6-3 conservative decisions, too. That cohort cannot be allowed to keep so much power in perpetuity.

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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The funny thing is that, to me, it really is not clear why Congress apparently needs to allow the President any say in firings.

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