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this was her whole vibe during the primary, on top of not actually putting together any sort of operation to help down ballot candidates. And it was frustrating to listen to people test out PhD dissertations about why people were supporting whom that were totally divorced from facts on the ground.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“Died with not from” measles, these assholes are really gonna run that one back

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

literally the only person in american life beloved by "both sides."

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Advice to all you future colonoscopees: ASK FOR THE PILLS

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

proud to be a submission in 2010 FAR

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

getting into law school is insane these days. UT numbers this year:

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

this article is laced with absurd extrapolation about the academy BUT i'm **grossed out** by people calling austin harper TEMU chatterton williams because (1) TAH is much much much smarter and capable of more than one idea; and (2) there's an obvious racial iceberg there that folks should avoid.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

He's making them literal canon fodder and reporters'll still gleefully throw him a party at the the next WHC dinner.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

this is the most axios thing that axios has ever axiosed. not actual literacy, but coverage of what literacy might look like

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

There's a lot of awful shit in academia, but one of the virtues is that if you walked into a room and tried to defend a paper with an idea this dumb you would rightfully leave in tears and with a reputation in shambles

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

do any austin people know of a good chess coach for a kid - dm me plz

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

FWIW I *do* think he's quite smart, but I watched his brain pickle on twitter in real time, which is evident in his inability to consider that his experience at Bates and on socials is not all that representative of higher ed generally.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I read the comments attacking Barb here and I have to say people have lost their fucking minds.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

kid asked family whether we'd rather live without foot or without internet and i can't believe only 2 out of 4 voted foot.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is cathartic for uber-online/educated people to read & ALSO captures exactly the problem with how DSA folks talk about policy. It's right on substance, but punctuated w/ sneering erudition that alienates most. "Here's my theory of economic value and I'm sorry you're stupid" is not effective.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Really? Doesn’t Murk’s declared opposition just tell us they have the votes or is this something different than every other time?

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I did a lot of my early career work on GTMO detention, which involved a lot of research into and litigation around what it means to be an alien enemy. These are citizens of nations with which the US is in a declared state of war and they are not outside the duty of protection anyways. FFS grow up.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

People on tv act like seeing the future is some big fucking deal but i can see the future my kids won’t have their shoes on they will argue about bullshit and forget their fucking water bottles. There done.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Given that (1) one of my two primary fields (habeas) is notoriously complicated and (2) I often rely on generative AI as a search engine for both articles and cases, I can say rather unequivocally: At least w/r/t habeas, it cannot write a good law review article. It's confused about everything.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Happy 102 to the best American writer, full stop

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"Zipporah" is named after his wife Zipporah Wiseman, a longtime law professor at ... the University of Texas.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

dude just fries my cultural circuitboard like we are 2 clicks from "pope leo's banksy collab"

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

guys, on the ground in TX, i cannot tell you how many times a day i get hit with Talarico communication. it's annoying AF but it def feels like T flooding the zone. makes this result make sense. def feels like R attack strategy just isn't working at all. www.texastribune.org/2026/07/28/t...

texastribune.org

Talarico leads Paxton by 5 points in new Texas Senate poll

The poll found the Austin Democrat with a commanding lead among independents and a surprising edge with non-college-educated voters, who have consistently favored Republicans.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I left Ulysses as the only book in our bathroom after college in our shitty walk up

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I started writing on this topic recently, and I've learned a ton from work that Frank has done one this subject.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

can I hate on this for a minute? look, fuck rfjk jr. but ffs, people with substance abuse issues in their past have accomplished amazing things, and honestly you probably know several - even if you don't know about the abuse. so cut the "junkie" shit off.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

do i have to watch "for all mankind" to enjoy "star city"

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

OK I declare myself ready to talk about the last season of Le Bureau. I agree that it's really two separate things, but I mostly (but not entirely) enjoyed Audiard’s magical-realist-epilogue episodes. I don't think he "betrayed" characters or anything that dramatic.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

There is a certain type of bluesky person who thinks "the dems made a deal" is more likely than "this is in the interest of democrats under the rules"

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I don't think I'm spoiling much here when I say there's this amazing scene in last week's House of the Dragon where Larys Strong, a sort of Steward of King Aegon II gets fed up with Aegon and tells him he's a terrible king but an even worse man. I think about that a lot.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I am of the opinion that the justification for who gets interviewed is newsworthiness, and media figures close to power should themselves have to sit for brutal fucking interviews because they are newsworthy figures too.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

because literally ANYBODY who knows ANYTHING about drugs or crime knows you don't have little baggies of meth on the dashboard, that's the dumbest fucking thing i've ever heard.

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