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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 25/09/2026

“A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms… What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? [grabs a baseball bat] Baseball!“

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Andy Trask @andytrask.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Never would have qualified for the internship, but can confirm that Brianne is great to work with.

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Andy Trask @andytrask.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Includes WOLF’S HOLE, so good.

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There is no good writing only good rewriting exhibit 7,835

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Andy Trask @andytrask.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Ellen Aim and the Attackers will not be opening for Ed Sheeran. This tour is going nowhere fast.

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Andy Trask @andytrask.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Daily cool thing: JOHNNY HAMLET (1968), a Spaghetti Western version of the Shakespeare play that includes a cemetery in a cave, a gold heist, a sinister homerotic Rosencranz and Guildenstern, and a hardened Sheriff Polonius who literally crucifies Johnny on a big X for dumping Ophelia.

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Andy Trask @andytrask.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Cool thing of the day: SHE IS A HAUNTING, by Trang Thanh Tran. My daughter recommended this haunted-house YA novel to me. Genuinely creepy, with a strong sense of teenage angst, Vietnamese history, and ghost-story tropes. It took on complex topics, but kept zagging when I thought it would zig.

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Andy Trask @andytrask.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This feels like something we should have expected somehow.

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Liz Hand @elizabethhand.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My new book is out next month, 3+ years in the writing. Was it worth it??? Now’s your chance to let me know! So far it’s got raves from PW, Kirkus, and Booklisr, whew. It’s on pre-order at 25% off today through Friday.

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Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is a cousin of one of the most frequent and consequential errors in separation of powers conversations--emphatically including lawyers and law profs. It's not Congress vs the President. It's *the law* vs the President.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What was so heartbreaking? The Yankees lost. It was awesome. I'm sure most Americans outside of your little bubble felt the same way

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/09/2026

a remarkably effective life hack: just be nice to people it's incredible how much goodwill people will extend to you if you're pleasant to them

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Andy Trask @andytrask.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Son’s reaction: “No, Ghostface stab …”

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M. A. Gaylor @mamagaylor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Here’s to all the unsung workhorse litigators and their work product: Hot docs binders, chrons and deposition outlines. Where would we be without them?

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Cheers James Stewart

Alt: James Stewart raising his glass in a toast.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/08/2026

Now the kids will get the U of C education I got BACK IN THE DAY

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Andy Trask @andytrask.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Based on difference in Letterboxd ratings, looks like SOUND OF MUSIC. I will freely concede this may be because of the numbers of times I was forced to watch it as a child.

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Andy Trask @andytrask.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is either writing amateur history while America burns or a sub rosa justification for the last ten years. Either way, it shows how colossally out of touch this man is with the actual problems facing the American legal system and Constitution.

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Andy Trask @andytrask.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My wife says: you play in an Irish punk band: the game is Poguelike.

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Andy Trask @andytrask.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

You play as an itinerant Oklahoman farm worker: the game is Joadlike.

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Andy Trask @andytrask.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Just added a bunch of stuff to my watchlist.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Not enough discussion of the performative cruelty of the bar exam mentions its racist and classist history, and it's always good to see an article that does!

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Doing something ok now than something perfect later is almost always better, is my version.

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Andy Trask @andytrask.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Overheard in LA coffee shop: “All of this stupid stuff is so competitive in LA, like where you get your hair cut.”

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Headstone for Eugene Williams, whose murder was the first in a wave of racialized violence in Chicago in the summer of 1919. 102 years after his death, a group of people determined to see him remembered & honored were successful in getting his grave marked.

Color photo taken in Lincoln Cemetery in Blue Island of the grave marker placed for Eugene Williams, a child who accidentally floated over an invisible border at a segregated Chicago beach and was murdered for it, touching off days of racialized violence in 1919. The marker is extremely shiny in this shot and has a lot of difficult to transcribe text, but the dates alone remind us of just how young he was at the time of his death:

EUGENE WILLIAMS
MARCH 10, 1902 - JULY 27, 1919

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Andy Trask @andytrask.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Love the Reinhardt shout out on this one …

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Mathieu Carpentier @mathieucarpentier.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

*Day 3* A deeply disturbing modern-day adaptation of Hobbes’ treatise. Matter, Forme and Power: it’s got it all. #LegalPhilosoFlicks

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Andy Trask @andytrask.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This thread is brilliant. (I may have pitched a screenplay for at least one of these once …)

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The entire credibility of judicial review rests on the fact that there's a reasoning behind orders that can be applied going forward. Otherwise it's just arbitrary rule by ayatollahs, which happens to be what the Supreme Court is right now.

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Andy Trask @andytrask.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I don’t agree with every one of these, but MI:2 gets a nod, and there are a few other fun watches on here as well.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Sam Neil has so many great performances that it feels almost reductive to focus on one scene. Except it's one of the most iconic scenes in movie history and all of it, The groundbreaking CGI, the sweeping John Williams score *doesn't* work without the authentic joy and wonder of Neill's performance

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I’ve said I think this should be the first step in public middle and high schools, I did not think U of C would go all the way here.

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Danny Miller @danielmilleresq.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is so powerful. Inspired by the March of a Thousand Robes in Poland, retired and sitting judges in the United States walked down the streets of Columbus, Ohio to stand up for the Rule of Law. #JusticeinMotion

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