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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 6h

First Monday in October. The Supreme Court returns.

Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 23h

Once again, I appreciate how you do this with totally normal, as-good-as-they-ever look photos, not with particularly bad ones.

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Maybe? A case could be made for moving outside of the rock genre and including hip-hop. (See the famous 9/24/91 releases.)

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s a weird Texas way of saying, basically, “the plaintiff lost entirely” or “case was dismissed”: the case was poured out by the trial court. (As far as I can tell.)

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Kris Wilson @kriswilson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You know what almost never works? “Update tonight.”

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(by which I mean, Top Gun needs more trench coats, and The Big Sleep needs more volleyball)

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is essentially the message of the Coyote v. ACME movie.

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think maybe we stop asking people if they think the economy is doing well. Ask them about how happy they are in a bunch of other ways, then address those.

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah. That’s the big question, of course. I think you look for other indicators (both qualitative and quantitative) to which people may be responding. I don’t know what those are (fractured media landscape? income inequality? climate anxiety?).

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I agree with that. I think I'm making a different argument. I don't, and we shouldn't, care so much about whether people are correct about objective economic conditions. When people say the economy is bad, they are saying they are subjectively worried/unhappy, and that's what we should care about.

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is something that a lot of pundits and economists (but not a lot of politicians) tend to forget: The purpose of the economy is to encourage human flourishing. If some economic indicators are increasing while human happiness is decreasing, then those indicators don't mean what you think they do.

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026

Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1

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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Having never heard it, I’m going to assume it’s a song advocating for abortion rights in Texas.

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

(No, I don’t want to hear how many of them know “Choosin’ Texas.” It certainly isn’t the case that I’m the one out of touch with the zeitgeist.)

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In a world where a sizable number of my students in a U.S. law school have never seen The Simpsons, we should really just retire the idea of a monoculture.

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Indeed. “Friends” era was probably the last time you could call bullshit on that kind of pretension and have even a pretty good chance of being right.

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“most popular song in history” factoid actualy [sic] just statistical error. average person has never heard it. Choosin’ ’Texas Georg, who lives in cave & streams over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn [sic] should not have been counted

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s also really not true. There’s some really basic rules about vampires, and eventually an overarching mythos. But mostly it was like “whatever the writers come up with they can make it work.”

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I grew up in Pittsburgh. My parents called Washington, PA “Little Washington” to differentiate it from DC.

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Agreed! I saw Coyote v. ACME today too, and it was great fun. It would be a lot of fun for law students too!

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/09/2026

A Post analysis found that immigration judges have ordered more than 440,000 asylum seekers removed during President Trump’s first 19 months back in office — more than during the previous eight years combined. wapo.st/4yZlKjy

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yes, I am just publicly demanding that someone make a joke-making machine for us. But, in true BlueSky fashion, I’m also going to act like it’s a matter of principle that I won’t go do it myself using AI.

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So, is it that psychopaths are into AI, or is it that AI makes people psychopaths? You’re not going to believe it, but both!

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 25/09/2026

I guess that the best argument, for me, against AI is that everyone advocating it seems to be a psychopath.

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Someone should make a little web tool/template for making these.

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sep 24th 1975 - After being allowed back on the air for a final farewell, Howard Beale launches into a rant about life being "bullshit", causing the ratings to spike. 📽️📅 Network (1976)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Network" (1976): First, a newsroom control room filled with men at monitors and staff watching intently as a broadcast goes live, with the subtitle reading “Good evening. Today is Wednesday, September the 24th…”. Second, an older news anchor in a suit sits at a desk under studio lights, leaning forward with a grave expression as the subtitle reads “…and this is my last broadcast.” Third, a man in a suit speaks urgently into a phone in the control room as people move in the background, with the subtitle reading “He’s saying that life is bullshit and it is. What are you screaming about?”.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

True story: I read it in grad school, and then again in a reading group in law school. I don’t think I have my notes anymore. 😢

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“CAPITAL looks like a long text. Would you like me to summarize it for you?”

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So, you know how people think AI works well in areas where they are not knowledgeable and can’t check the results…

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tenure Committee Member: "But I don't think he really addressed my particular interest. Room for improvement on scholarship."

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is a really good list. That's all it needs to justify itself.

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I would go so far as to say that interfering with legal representation is the whole point of the new policy.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ICE's new policy is unprecedented. People who have detained for months are suddenly disappearing from the locator system — even if they haven't been moved. And people newly arrested are not showing up at all, their location now hidden from view. This will severely interfere with legal access.

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I do miss having easy examples/references for class/jokes. But even more, I miss having a shared culture for us to draw from. We’re still dealing with the fragmentation of culture that started (in my life) with otherwise great things like obliterating the canon, and the rise of the Internet.

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is gobbledygook. I don’t think I want to be plugged into whatever discourse this is.

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