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Joe Paulson

@joepaulson2.bsky.social
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I am from NYC and like to read and engage about a range of subjects, including history, the Supreme Court, politics, and the Mets. Let's see how this goes. Pronouns: He/Him. I have much content online including at Joe's Substack and Teach N Thrive.

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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This doesn't engage with my actual comment. I also don't support his execution. I won't be satisfied or relieved. I won't "enjoy" it. That's a cheap shot. I'm going to block you now.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That isn't my neighborbood but I have been there multiple times. Thuggish behavior.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
you had TWO chances to make your home fans happy, guys. TWO. SMH. #MLB
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's time to go. This is depressing.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"livestreamed execution is just a lynching" A lynching was when people took the law into their own hands and murdered people, often before an arrest or trial. There are ways to voice disgust without misusing language.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I understand the move here but she was in prison for thirty years. They botched her execution. LWOP is ridiculous.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The South Carolina Democrat running for Senate ... depressing. I deleted some comments. She's better than Darlene Graham, but yes, what a mess.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I have been to the Target mentioned in the article.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It is particularly misguided here, where the person -- according to some accounts -- wants to be a martyr.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I doubt this will move the needle much. For one thing, "everyone" isn't going to see and experience it. It will also seem artificial and removed. Like some television or film, where violence often appears more graphic. Some will root on the shooters, of course.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
An ICE officer shot and wounded a man today around 4:00 in Manhattan. Exact details are still coming in. I'm not seeing any further information other than that the man is at a hospital now.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you have executions, the firing squad might be the best way to do it. I gather Hegseth likes the symbolism.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This will make him more of a martyr. That may be more than anything else is why it is so wrong.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"He's not going to lose even a hint of power" Come on. The Republican Congress did things to increase his power. He can't rely on that with even a divided Congress. Even Republicans, now and then, put a "hint" of restraint. Democrats will do more. Let's not exaggerate in either directions.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yes. A Trump/Vance/Hegseth regime should not have access to nuclear weapons. #VoteBlue
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The idea that protecting same-sex marriage is a threat to "religious liberty" is b.s. It might threaten the religious liberty of some to deny religious liberty to others. Conservative Catholics have a position on divorce. Divorce is allowed. Why is SSM a problem?
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Justice Samuel Alito released So Ordered, his addition to the Supreme Court’s library of vanity books written by justices who decided that their $306,600 salaries are not enough." Money is not the main reason for these "vanity" books. Surely not his. #SCOTUS
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
John Fea, an evangelical himself, spoke about a dissident anti-Trump 19% among evangelicals.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Religion and mixing church and state, to be clear, are not the same thing. Jefferson's famous letter about the separation of church and state was written to Baptists. "Religion" is also such an open-ended thing. "Comfort with religion" includes atheists, for crying out loud. Check Unitarians.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I commented on having empathy for trans people & it triggered someone who thinks trans people don't exist and that it's our duty to bluntly say so. Does that work with belief in God?
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Do you mean the shadow docket?
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Let's go Brewers!
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm fine with concern for a single neutral rule. It could have avoided an unnecessary point of controversy. Bottom line, it looks like there was a good reason to suspend her. The conservative outrage is overheated.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The "original vision" wasn't a body that large. A larger House? Yes, that would make sense.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Being an originalist doesn’t mean you can stop thinking; it just means that you have to start thinking in the right place" right-wing? One person said that "originalism" meant the constitutional meaning stayed the same. #Pablum #SCOTUS ringsideatthereckoning.substack.com/p/q-whats-th...
ringsideatthereckoning.substack.com
Q: What’s the right way to interpret the Constitution?
A: By adhering to what the Framers understood it to mean, not what you or I or some judge thinks it ought to mean.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Scalia is a squish, according to some conservatives these days. See,e.g., Oregon v. Smith.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
" Above all, we remember with gratitude that the triumph of freedom and the glory of our Republic are the fruits of his faith and unrelenting devotion." (Trump honoring Christopher Columbus) Sure, Jan. religionclause.blogspot.com/2026/10/trum...
religionclause.blogspot.com
Trump's Columbus Day Proclamation Includes References to Religious Faith
Yesterday, President Trump issued a Proclamation ( full text ) declaring October 12 as Columbus Day. The Proclamation contains several relig...
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh. No tie. And the Yanks are swept. White Sox have two shots at facing the Rays. #MLB
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I can see why they voted for Tommy Tuberville. reason.com/volokh/2026/...
reason.com
Alabama Public University Professors Must Now Call Gulf of Mexico “Gulf of America” (Except When Speaking on “Historical” Questions)
From HB2, which was enacted last month: Beginning October 1, 2026, all state and local entities and their employees shall...
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Well, if Sotomayor, in her heart of hearts, wanted to stay the execution, she should have said so publicly. I'm just going to assume she didn't.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Okay. We are back to people not surviving executions. That's good. Let's leave that to horror movies and such. #DeathPenalty apnews.com/article/texa...
apnews.com
Texas carries out nation’s first execution since Christa Pike’s failed lethal injection
A Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk in 2000 has been executed, a week after a failed lethal injection in Tennessee.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Are they? Did they really figure they have a chance?
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As compared to playing the victim while not trying to sell books. #SCOTUS
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Diaz can still blow the save. #MLB #Mets
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Dumb And Dumber: Lloyd's 'There's a Chance'
Alt: Dumb And Dumber: Lloyd's 'There's a Chance'
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
David Rose likes all types of wine. You know. It's a metaphor.
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Correct David Rose from Schitt's Creek
Alt: Correct David Rose from Schitt's Creek
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Once Jackson waited until the next day, after the execution, to explain.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
supremecourt.gov
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And Sotomayor and Kagan should have joined her. Sheesh.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Justice Jackson would stay the execution scheduled for today in Texas. WHY? Tell us why! Someone just survived a botched execution. Tell us why! #SCOTUS
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Maintains consistent grocery replenishment cycle"
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
so that was apparently inevitable #MLB
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Another somewhat sick final capital appeal watch as we wait for a final decision at #SCOTUS while a state preps someone to die. #DeathPenalty (it is approaching 7 P.M. in Texas)
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Do any of these people blog at Volokh Conspiracy?
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Some Dodgers fans: It's unfair that the Braves are making us work for it. #MLB
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They apply conservative doctrine. If they were Protestants, they would do the same thing. William Brennan was a Catholic. He supported abortion rights.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Braves with two more errors. What are they, the Yankees? #MLB Meanwhile, a White Sox sweep would have been nice, but yes, it would be a bit greedy.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
His execution is scheduled tonight in Texas.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Jamaal Howard final order has still not been handed down at #SCOTUS
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't necessarily think Republicans doing it for state courts means it should be done for #SCOTUS. But the horror from Republicans does come off as a tad phony.
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Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thanks. That word is in the screengrab. Maybe that is not enough for muting purposes.
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