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They think they can avoid the shame by implicating as many others as possible in their shamefulness—that there will be no one *left* to shame them, because everyone will be either complicit or dead. This is a fantasy, and they will fail.

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 16h

To an extent it’s right to say that these people have no shame (I’ve said it myself). But in some ways it’s more that they have an overpowering fear of shame—the abyssal shame they know they deserve to feel. The performative cruelty is whistling in the dark.

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe the occasional anodyne tribute to an astronaut or something. That’s it!

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 16h

This has a *lot* of explanatory power in the second Trump administration, from those first photos of CECOT to the live-streaming of a state-sponsored murder

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 17h

Second, the whole point of the lynching spectacle was to indict and implicate the white community involved the lynching. It tied them together; it implicated them; it bound them to each other in guilt and shame.

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Omg, you’re right! He’s so dapper 😍

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This review moves at an Airaesque pace: every paragraph is a new idea that doesn’t so much build on the previous one as bounce it into a different region of the electron cloud. When the whirl stops, you find yourself unexpectedly moved. Read it! And, of course, read my man César!

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(In the manner of someone who made one good cake and is now thinking about opening a bakery) Should I become a pet photographer? Probably, right?

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Obviously there’s been lots of resistance to this administration in many forms, but some things have definitely been Normalized in the past decade, and one is that an elected official can openly say that he thinks anyone who opposes him deserves to die

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don’t want to be dramatic but it’s really pretty weird that Americans have just sort of accepted that the president wants most of them dead

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My only worry is that he might enjoy it

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We must impeach Alito so that Christopher Sánchez can get the World Series win he so richly deserves

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I appreciate that the CBS Alito interview starts by reminding us that he’s a Phillies fan, because it highlights the fact that the team will be cursed as long as he remains on the Court

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“The moon laughs knowingly The moon laughs The moon The” You wouldn’t believe how often I think about this

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Somehow I can’t find it on YouTube (?!) but it’s gotta be Three for the Moon

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

How your email finds me (Got a new telephoto lens, so I hope you’re ready for a lot of pictures of birds)

A little brown sparrow sits on a white railing looking pensive. It’s a close enough shot that you can see, e.g., the scruffy feathers on the bird’s tummy

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Me realizing that Alito has a book coming out next week and I’m probably going to read it with my one mortal brain

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Brave Merida's Frustration

Alt: Merida from Brave slumping over in despair

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Christine Nangle @nanglish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not sure who made this but yes

Homer Simpson wearing Phillies gear backing into hedges and coming out wearing sixers gear

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This groundhog is now a regular guest—I think he might live in or under the shed? He likes to survey the yard from his little garden table, which, you have to admit, is nicely groundhog-sized

Photo of the back of a yard: a thicket of trees and a shed. But wait—what’s that on the little garden table? Zoom in …

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This very dumb post has been rattling around in my head for literal days. It’s your problem now

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Season of mists AND mellow fruitfulness? In this economy?!

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There’s something about early-morning insomnia that’s conducive to Schemes. I’ve been awake for almost 4 hours (involuntarily) and find myself hatching the kind of plans that, by the time normal people wake up, will seem to have come out of nowhere

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But yesterday’s decision combined this bloodthirstiness with another Roberts Court trend: disdain for lower courts. Here, the 6th Circuit had issued a stay to give itself time to assess a challenging, novel procedural issue. The Supreme Court threw their work in the trash without explaining why.

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Presiding over botched, rushed executions has been something of a Roberts Court specialty. Last year, e.g., they allowed Alabama to asphyxiate Anthony Boyd with nitrogen gas, rejecting Boyd’s request for an alternative method of execution. Boyd visibly suffered for more than 30 mins before he died.

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Alabama Execution Witnesses Report “Violent Thrashing” of Prisoner and More Than 225 “Agonized Breaths” in Nitrogen Gas Execution | Death Penalty Information Center

The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the state botched the execution attempt, trying to kill Christa Pike for two hours before she was taken to the hospital. This happens more often than you might think; in fact, Tennessee had botched the previous execution it attempted to carry out back in May.

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Tennessee’s Botched Execution of Tony Carruthers Raises Questions About Medical Qualifications Among Concerns with Innocence and Due Process | Death Penalty Information Center

Tennessee’s attempt to execute Tony Carruthers on May 21, 2026, failed after execution team members could not establish an intravenous line...

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You should read all of @chrisgeidner.bsky.social’s coverage of what happened last night. Here’s the short version: the 6 conservatives on the Court overturned an appellate court’s stay of execution, without explanation, solely so that Tennessee could execute a woman *right away.* Then,

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Jamie Gillespie @jggillespie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sanchez did a great job for the Phillies today.

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Working hard in one window, keeping an eye on the Phillies in another

Selfie of a white woman in a button-down shirt and brown cardigan sitting in front of a bookshelf. She’s wearing a blue “city connect” Phillies cap and has a small stuffed Phanatic perched on her shoulder

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(Yes, I know burden is a merits question distinct from injury in fact, but the idea of offense-as-burden—which is arguably percolating in FE doctrine right now—seems at least genealogically related to the notion that offense can generate standing for *certain* kinds of issues)

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is coming to mind because I’m listening to an 8th Circuit oral argument where one of the panel judges is literally asking: this text says “thou shalt not kill”! Are you telling me your clients object to THAT?! 😏

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Particularly because “opt-outs” don’t exist under the Arkansas statute? It seems like “offended observer” standing *does* survive when the observer is a religious believer; it’s just slotted under Free Exercise now

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The best I can come up with is the idea that the law doesn’t require teachers to instruct students on the 10 Commandments or otherwise engage with them. Which, it’s true, is a factual difference. But wouldn’t a poster advocating LGBTQ+ inclusion impose a very similar “burden” on the Mahmoud parents?

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What is the best argument for why a Ten Commandments law like the Arkansas one does *not* run afoul of Mahmoud’s reading of the Free Exercise Clause? (I think it obviously does, but I’m curious how this plays out in a world where the Establishment Clause is all but a dead letter)

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And a bonus, from yesterday: a very happy pup in the dog park

Lucy the black and tan mini poodle mix is flopped on the freshly mown grass in the dog park, grinning next to a chewed-up tennis ball. The sky is bright blue with fluffy cumulus clouds

Closer, portrait-style shot of Lucy with the tennis ball between her front paws, looking at the camera with an alert, happy expression

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Some photos from today (a thread)

A forest canopy from below with leaves of changing colors—some yellowish, some reddish-orange, some still green—filtering the sunlight

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