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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Genuinely think people are taking their eye off the ball here. Trump doesn't care about the slush fund. He wants immunity from the IRS.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

My gut is the tea party was not just racial and anti-establishment but generational as well. The GOP got younger as a result. The Dems are so old right now but you don't push out old insiders with young insiders. It takes outsiders.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

LinkedIn: Are you looking for a job? Me: No. LinkedIn: Here are 12 job postings you might find interesting.

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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

“I have nothing to hide. Absolutely nothing,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a Senate committee yesterday. Perhaps that’s true—but given his recent history, don’t bet on it. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

theatlantic.com

Howard Lutnick’s Epstein Story Doesn’t Make Any Sense

The commerce secretary has no answer for his misleading statements about his dealings with the sex offender.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 07/01/2026

Can't believe Goldman took a break from LITERALLY PALLING AROUND WITH DON JR. while praising Trump's Israel policy to fucking lie about @bradlander.bsky.social defending our neighbors.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

This guy cried tears of joy when Trump won his first turn. He's been a GOP operative his entire life. Looking forward to NYC voters rejecting him completely.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

This feels like damaging testimony. Storm has always insisted that he merely wrote code but this seems to go beyond that.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Opening statements in the trial of Roman Storm. The crypto people tell you he's an innocent software developer but the facts may say otherwise.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Endorse this. New Yorkers are often too cynical about politics. We elect smarmy insiders, thinking they will be good leaders. It is time to start valuing basic decency in our political leaders.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Musk spent $275 million helping Trump get elected and now he's opposing Trump's signature legislation.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Georgetown come get your boy. He's at it again.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

My take on the "unique historical tradition" nonsense is that it prevents Congress from restructuring every agency to match the Fed's structure.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Absolutely ridiculous. You could see it with your own eyes and you could hear it with your own ears. This is such an incredible cop out. People like Jake forever failing upwards.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

He had sex with a dead body but the prosecution can't admit that because the sexual assault statute requires an assault against a "person."

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Did not expect to be rereading Ex Parte McCardle but here we are.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

These potential charges against James are similar to the charges NY brought against Trump in several respects: 1. Purely technical infractions; 2. No party had any damages; 3. Normie wouldn't be charged.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

First Canada and then Australia and now the Vatican.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The arguments against televising SCOTUS proceedings are incredibly weak especially when compared to the of government transparency but it still won't happen. Even Kagan is against televising proceedings.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Tired: racing to the courthouse Wired: racing to the airport

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Impressed that judge Howell understands Shakespeare was making fun of Dick the Butcher. Often misinterpreted.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Nice write-up. In religion cases you can always tell which way justices are leaning based on how much they talk about free exercise versus how much they talk about no establishment.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I thought this was the place we tried to get things right man why don't you fix your math?

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 24/04/2025

New: We analyzed Trump's meme coin - At least 27 crypto wallets have picked up $100 million worth of $TRUMP coins since his team said the top holders would join him for an "intimate private dinner." Huge profit for Trump; "the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done" wapo.st/4iAatO1

washingtonpost.com

How Trump team turned a dinner invite into a crypto boon worth millions

iNearly two dozen crypto wallets acquired more than 100,000 $TRUMP meme coins, worth roughly $100 million, after the team said top buyers could join the president for dinner.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

PSA: Pretrial detainees have not been convicted of anything and are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

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Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

DOGE's cuts for NIH are 40% of its budget. DOGE's cuts for NASA are 1.7% of its budget.* (* – also, in millions of dollars, the number DOGE came up with for NASA cuts is Elon's favorite number, 420... letting us know that even when they're just trimming they're having fun)

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

At 111 PE ratio this would make Tesla worth around 45 billion it's currently valued at almost 750 billion.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Free exercise jurisprudence has been screwed up since Scalia authored Smith 30 years ago. What was meant to be a shield has been transformed into a sword. Genuinely interested in how this case comes out.

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Looks real. I believe it.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

This is a good piece. Alito's dissent was proven incorrect the minute those buses turned around.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Local man about to discover David Mayhew.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

This is an opinion I should probably not share on Bluesky but SCOTUS chose those words because they do not have the votes to do anything stronger and the Trump White House knows it.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Police kill disabled man who represented no threat at all.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The libertarian vision is so grim

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The very next words he says: "it's going to be automated." There's plenty to dislike about these policies without intentional distortion. I continue to hate Bluesky.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I do not understand being an originalist and then getting your panties in a wad that people are doing bad history. If top legal scholars can easily manipulate historical analysis in order to keep con law jurisprudence in line with contemporary political winds, your methodology never really worked.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I'm reading this as four votes for holding the Impoundment Control Act unconstitutional.

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Thread: In fall 2023, Rutgers Law School and the Cornell Law Review jointly hosted a symposium celebrating the life and work of Sherry F. Colb, who spent most of her extraordinary but too-short academic career as a faculty member at Rutgers and Cornell.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This formulation is quite wrong and no one is correcting JB even though he is followed by lots of legal scholars. The only conclusion is that this Bluesky place is an echo chamber and not for me. I'm sure JB is happy not to have Baseball Crank pointing out all his errors lol. Enjoy folks! I'm out.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

DOJ could not release the report because of these cases and now a week later the cases is dropped and the report won't be released. Everyone foresaw this and yet Garland seemed paralyzed. Incredibly odd. Feels like he didn't want the report released.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I do not remember this level of consensus around the disqualification issue. Plenty of liberal jurists discounted the idea of disqualification from the very beginning.

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Benjamin Adams @benadamso-o.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This is a redux of Trump's original Muslim ban: handing his opponents an easy win in court.

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Laura Rozen @lkrozen.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Thanks to @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social for featuring me at his excellent journo-related substack, *Your first byline (*corrected) yourfirstbyline.substack.com/p/my-first-b...

yourfirstbyline.substack.com

My First Byline: Laura Rozen

Creator and writer, Diplomatic

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