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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I always get them in the same arm at the same time. Flu shot hurts more going in, but no other issues aside from a very temporary sore left arm.

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Very first - the flying monkeys on The Wizard of Oz. A little later - the TV show Dark Shadows and especially the character Barnabas Collins. Hard to believe that show was a weekday afternoon soap opera!

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Was about to say this! Absolute terror.

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sorry, I do not know her. I grew up in the Northern Panhandle and I don't recall it as being as coal-focused as the rest of the state, at least not back then. (I haven't lived in WV since graduating from WVU many years ago - though 2 of my sisters still live there.)

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

2/2 well enough that Arch spoke at his funeral. My grandfather didn't defend Nixon but it was painful for him, as was Moore's later incarceration. (In an "only in WV" scenario, Arch had defeated my Dem paternal grandfather in a WV congressional race in the late '50s by about 700 votes.)

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I was 10-11 yrs old during the Watergate years & watched the hearings with my paternal granny, who hated Nixon & thus was glued to them. My maternal granddad had been our state's GOP chair, a delegate to several conventions, attended Nixon's 1st inauguration, & knew Arch Moore (this punk's grandad)

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is enraging. My late uncle contracted polio at age 15 not long before the vaccine was available. He spent much of his freshman year of HS in quarantine. He'd been a promising athlete, but ended up in tremendous pain for the rest of his life with one leg several inches shorter than the other.

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Absolutely insane 5 minutes of testimony. Unimaginable in any other administration.

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Loved this show - my favorite pandemic-era series!

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m reading it now in paperback. Very, um, illuminating.

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This guy deserves all the roasting he’s getting. And WVU, as others have noted, is going down a bad path (e.g., the waste of money that is the Washington Center for Civics, Culture & Statesmanship). But I have to stick up for the excellent professors I had in the WVU English Dept.

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“Colleague who” - typo above!

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

He was talking about Brooks for the most part, but later he mentions a recently departed collywho accused the left of McCarthyism and that is a reference to Douthat.

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

One of Pittsburgh's finest.

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Looks like the smoke has cleared!

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Thank you, Ron, for this context. I absolutely would not run it live.

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I took Con Law from Susan Koniak when she was a visiting professor at my law school in the early 90s. She was very animated. One class she ripped up a $20 bill while lecturing - can’t remember exactly what the point was (I think legal fictions) but I do remember the action!

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I remember my kindergarten teacher coming into our class the day after MLK's assassination crying and then explaining in terms we could understand that a great man had died. That was in a smallish town in WV - she would probably be fired if she did that today.

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

New Orleans. Can’t explain it, but to me, it’s the most American city.

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Welcome to Pittsburgh on this sweltering holiday! Anthrocon is a Pittsburgh tradition and Pittsburgh treats them well. Saw a bunch of the attendees (in their suits and otherwise) while heading to the Strip District a few hours ago. It always seems to land on the hottest days of the year.

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I know 3-4 people among my immediate family/friends who got it in their late 30's; 2 of them were so bad they had to be hospitalized. i had a mild case when I was abt 50. Got the 2-dose vaccine last year & probably delayed more than I should have because I'd heard it was so painful. It wasn't!

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

You're right. Hemingway's closed earlier this year after over 40 years on Forbes!

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

That was a favorite when we lived on the South Side. Paul does so much with that tiny space!

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Altius on the other side of Grandview is a good choice, too.

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I don’t remember exactly when it closed, but long enough that the restaurant that replaced it just closed! (It was still in full swing when I was in law school across the street in the early 90s!)

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I just recommended it, too - along with Dish.

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

For dinner, Dish on the South Side or Fig & Ash on the North Side (You can do better than Primanti’s even though a lot of people will recommend it!)

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It’s been gone for years!

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

When I first moved to Pittsburgh from Virginia, that’s exactly how I thought it was pronounced. In Allegheny County, the Prothonotary’s office looked exactly how you’d expect it to look - like it hadn’t been updated since the 1920s or 30s. Haven’t been there in years, though.

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Cheese (really any dairy except ice cream, yogurt and half&half for my coffee)

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Read it years ago and the The Great Fire which was equally good!

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Just impossible to find one person in this administration who doesn’t have a major conflict of interest.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

i hope media executives are taking note of the tens of thousands of people who for several hours on a friday night have stayed glued to livestreams of scaffolding being built just so they could witness his name getting knocked off a building

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

My answer is Primanti’s. Runner-up: Oakmont Bakery

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Ask me all about it. Signed, a Pirates fan who will never get over the 1992 NLCS series against the hated Braves.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

When a regime clearly holds the rule of law in contempt, and views itself as completely above the law, it and its agents don’t have any moral argument for the protections of the rule of law.

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The vote I regret the most.

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Moments of peace after a couple of hard weeks.

Sunset on Lake Erie against dark orange sky.

Cloudy evening before sunset on Lake Erie

Bright orange sunset with reflection in the lake

Post-sunset showing layers of blue sky, grey clouds, orange sky, and blue-green lake

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Yes; if you had told 2L or 3L me that DOJ would one day have to stoop to this, I wouldn’t have believed you. I have many lawyer friends who would have loved to work there, both in early career & after gaining excellent law firm experience. It’s shameful but this admin seems immune to shame.

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

As a Pittsburgher who remembers the Kordell years and the Jimmy Carter years well, I think you’re on to something!

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

In SW PA, I’ve seen no TV ads for PA-17 or other local Cong. races, just social media; though my rep, Chris DeLuzio, is very visible at local events. The most frequent (& grating) TV ads are for a Washington Cty State Senator, Camera Bartolotta, who’s hitched her wagon firmly to Trump.

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Better Call Saul Better Things Call My Agent (favorite pandemic watch) Freaks & Geeks Homicide: Life on the Street Late Night with David Letterman Saturday Night Live Six Feet Under Somebody Somewhere The Carol Burnett Show The Larry Sanders Show The Pitt The Sopranos The Wire Veep

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Thank you! (I'm a lowly corporate lawyer so have never had to set foot in a federal courthouse since I was sworn in!)

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Without even looking at any news stories, I know it has to be the Fifth Circuit . . .

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I've always wanted to attend a naturalization ceremony in my area. Is there a protocol for going to one if you don't have a connection to any of the new citizens?

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I went to Univ. of Pittsburgh Law School and some of the best students in my class had philosophy degrees - including a few from Pitt. Best wishes to your son!

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PSJ @pssjohnson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The Warmth of Other Suns (Isabelle Wilkerson) How the Word is Passed (Clint Smith) Say Nothing (Patrick Radden Keefe) Common Ground (J. Anthony Lukas) Most recent - When the Clock Broke (John Ganz); The Second Founding (Eric Foner) There should be a separate category for memoirs - many favorites!

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