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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In related news, Could Monkeys Fly Out of My Butt?

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Or... they don't have any effect and Bron tears Joel a new one?

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

How about if Bron pulls a reverse-Aspiration, and takes the veteran minimum from a team that contributes $50+M to actual charity? No cap hit, so they can build the team appropriately. But he still shows how much he's worth.

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It is flawed, and it shouldn't be 5-4 as often as it is. But that's why we keep fighting.

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The best aspects of our identity have always focused on people building a nation of ideals, not royalty. The worst aspects have largely focused on ancestry and race.

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

My thoughts on this are evolving and emerging, but I think the symbolism of the Birthright Citizenship decision coming on the eve of our nation's 250th birthday is powerful.

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

To be clear: The 25-year-old was nearly $1000. I couldn't even fathom what the 50-year-old would cost. So I googled it. Lowest price I saw was $55k.

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

By the time I turned 50, that bottle was nearly $1000. So... no.

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Roberts writing for the majority (including Barrett), Jackson with Sotomayor concurring, Kavanaugh concurring in the judgment, and Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissenting.

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Held: Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizen ship Clause. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Whenever I start to feel sorry for myself these days, one thought perks me up: At least I'm not a ConLaw professor.

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Lukewarm(?) take: Pick swaps may be more valuable in the flattened-lottery-odds era than they were before.

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Noted. And I know I'm an outlier in not letting it lapse for a moment. When he mortgaged the team for Melo in 2011, I finally switched allegiances, at age 42, from my hometown of birth to my adopted hometown. Although there was only a glimmer at the time, it was a good time to become a Dubs fan.

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Can't agree with this: "Even Knicks owner James Dolan—who was known mostly for being impetuous, petty, and thin-skinned—just earned a momentary image makeover." The best thing about winning on the road was that Oak could be there. Otherwise, no notes.

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

What are the odds of a "Let's Go Brandon" moment at tonight's game? And where would one place such a bet? Polymarket? AFAF.

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

...easier than the Heat-Celtics series a few years back.

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

If it hasn't yet made the transition to computer typography and needs to be cut anew, perhaps call it Philanderer, in honor of the former SoS and the current Commander-in-Chief? end/8

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

And although I don't recognize the typeface used in the printed version of this 1912 speech by the delightfully-named then-SoS, Philander C. Knox, I would personally love to see it used for State Department pubs. 7/8

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

They do appear to include Times variants, but a 1981 (Reagan-era) publication, appears to use Century Schoolbook, which I've always found both readable and authoritative. 6/8

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

If you really want to return to the past, maybe look at State Department publications that predate the desktop publishing era. You'll find a diverse... er, I mean, varied set of faces. 5/8

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Times New Roman does have the benefit of familiarity born of ubiquity. But that's recent. 4/8

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

And even though, in the abstract, it is not a readable face (especially in the versions in common use today, which suffer from compromises to maintain backwards compatibility with the versions that Apple put on the first LaserWriters four decades ago), 3/8

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

To be fair, all else being equal, serif faces tend to be more readable than sans. 2/8

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Ummmm... WHAT? Readability is "woke"? 1/8

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Of course, that kind of begs the question: Why *DO* you live in Florida?

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

But the only surprise was the lack of backbone. Which, in retrospect, maybe shouldn't have been much of a surprise. 7/end

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I was deeply ambivalent about the shutdown. I thought tying it to the subsidies was probably good policy but bad politics. And once the course was set, if Trump had fought back with something unexpected, I could understand reevaluating. 6/7

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

To my mind, that means that there would have been no excuse for caving without the condition being met - even if this week's elections hadn't moved the window. 5/

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

When the Democratic leadership was deciding whether to insist on a condition for voting yes on the funding bill, those known knowns were presumably priced in. 4/

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

But this was a battle in which the only weapons he used were known knowns. As far as I can tell, his only unanticipated acts were ineffective at best, or (like the extravagant parties and the timing of the East Wing demolition) self-inflicted wounds. 3/

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Trump is often unpredictable, in part because (to be polite) he doesn't hew to established norms. So you go into battle with him facing a lot of what someone once described as unknown knowns and unknown unknowns. 2/

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Here's the thing that really gets me: There were no surprises. 1/

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I'm old enough to remember when making the point that genocide is bad suggested the opposite.

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Jesus. They're kids. Even assuming that they were uniformly privileged, that wasn't their choice.

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Has anyone ever referred to anyone as "a spring chicken," or is spring-chickenhood defined entirely in the negative?

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Stephan Miller simultaneously puts the "creep" in "creeping fascism" and excludes the "slow moving" meaning of the word.

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Is there any society without megalomaniacal men who perpetrate demonic acts in their name? Seems like either no nation is truly free (in which case the concept has no utility) or we need to recognize the difference between degree and kind.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Incredible to get so many people on *Harvard’s* side, what’re they gonna do to get us all rooting for Duke basketball somehow

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The bare fucking minimum *and only when he was personally attacked*.

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Get it while there's still a Bill of Rights!

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

"You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here."

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Josh Masur @joshmasur.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Congratulations to my friend and colleague Brian Beck for obtaining terminating sanctions against a plaintiff who committed perjury and obtained his copyright registrations through fraud on the Copyright Office! drive.google.com/file/d/1f4vB...

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03-27-2025 - 0124 - MEMORANDUM Opinion and Order Signed by the Honorable Georgia N Alexakis on 32725.pdf

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