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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

unfortunate that McElwee was who he was, but such an undefeated tweet

Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

genuinely curious how someone could MAKE SURE that such a sound didn't cross into a neighbor's property. there are layers to the horror.

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i just want you to know that i really hated reading this

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NEW: State courts remain a powerful bulwark for democracy when Donald Trump, Republicans, and the federal courts seek to undermine fair elections, civil rights, and the rule of law. We detailed 8 states with key supreme court elections to watch next month: www.the-downballot.com/p/how-voters...

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

what are we even doing here???

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

we are not doing originalist pronouns; shut the FUCK up

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the joke here is that Amy Acton is a drunk, and that allegation is a main line of attack against her, but to many Ohioans, I wonder if this doesn't just sound like Amy Acton is a cool person who goes to bars sometimes

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

he's not pro-law enforcement enough

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the violence was backed up by the formal legal mechanisms that were required for an ostensibly "democratic" transition of power. in 1876, gubernatorial elections in FL, LA, and SC saw Democrats "win" as the result of pressuring eligible voters not to vote and corrupt election contests where needed.

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I genuinely respect the pettiness of a landowner who says: “The city won’t approve my development plans for this fucking downtown parking lot and keeps jerking me around because it’s filled with NIMBY assholes? Fine! Then no more parking is allowed at the parking lot.”

lansingstatejournal.com

Owner closes downtown East Lansing parking lot, upsetting businesses

Bob Metzger followed through on threats to close a large portion of a downtown East Lansing parking lot because of a thwarted high-rise development.

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don’t think any have that exact setup!

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

one of the biggest selling points of AI is that it will help you do the things you don't want to do more quickly and efficiently. whether these people realize it or not, what they *don't want to do* is remarkably revealing of their souls. basically the plot of the 2006 Adam Sandler movie "Click"

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

it's time to share (again) one of the weirdest things I've ever seen: at the 2019 Burton Awards reception at the Library of Congress, Ken Paxton participated in a magic trick with magician Shin Lim in which he held a card in his mouth, while Jane Sullivan Roberts was also on stage as a volunteer

Ken Paxton standing on stage with a playing card in his mouth while magician Shin Lim talks and Jane Sullivan Roberts stands to the side

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

oh my god!! I'm so sorry. I'm glad that you're okay, but that's terrible!!

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the mailers attacking @wewill2026.bsky.social are increasingly unhinged. but please, Tom, keep wasting money sending me these mailers!

mailer reading:

Now that's what I call socialism: William Lawrence's greatest hits:
Tax hikes on middle class
Release violent criminals
Abolish the police
Bail for domestic terrorists
Reparations
Trans surgeries for kids

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

oh I’m sooooo sorry that the massive tech monopoly is inadequately monitoring your personal life

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

when I was in Montana, I think people thought I was just messing with them when I said how much I loved the Montana Constitution and the Montana Supreme Court but like it's REAL

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

NEW: Montana Supreme Court unanimously strikes down several provisions of a 2023 state law that significantly impaired the citizen initiative process—most significantly by imposing a $3,700 filing fee and prohibiting the resubmission of any failed measure. Link here: courts.mt.gov/external/ord...

Justice Beth Baker delivered the Opinion of the Court. ¶1 Mae Nan Ellingson, Jerome Leondorf, Arlyne Reichert, Hal Harper, Bob Brown, Evan Barrett, C.B. Pearson, Carole Mackin, Mark Mackin, and Jonathan Motl (collectively, “Ellingson” or “the Ellingson Plaintiffs”) sued the State of Montana, Governor Greg Gianforte, Attorney General Austin Knudsen, and Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen (collectively, “State”) in the First Judicial District Court to invalidate new laws governing the statewide initiative process. Ellingson alleged that several provisions of Senate Bill 93, 2023 Mont. Laws ch. 647 (“SB 93”), unconstitutionally diminished the people’s reserved power of direct democracy by imposing qualifications and procedural steps not contemplated by the Montana Constitution. In two rulings on separate motions, the District Court granted the Ellingson Plaintiffs summary judgment on four of their claims and denied relief on seven others. The parties stipulated to dismiss without prejudice all claims not resolved in Ellingson’s favor. Following entry of judgment, the District Court denied Ellingson’s motion for attorney fees. ¶2 The State appeals three of the District Court’s summary judgment rulings. The Ellingson Plaintiffs cross-appeal the denial of their request for fees. Restated, we consider the following issues on appeal: 1. What standard governs a Montana court’s review of a constitutional challenge to laws regulating the initiative and referendum process? 2. Does § 13-27-221, MCA, prohibiting resubmission of a statewide ballot measure for four years after defeat of a substantially similar measure, violate the Montana Constitution?

3. Does § 13-27-228, MCA, authorizing legislative interim committees to vote on proposed ballot measures and place the result of the vote on the face of the petition, violate the Montana Constitution? 4. Does § 13-27-215, MCA, imposing a $3,700 filing fee on all proposed ballot measures, violate the Montana Constitution even though it authorizes the Secretary of State to waive the fee for hardship? 5. Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it denied Ellingson’s motion for attorney fees under the private attorney general doctrine? We affirm on all issues.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, that is certainly a way of picking a law school dean that will produce a result.

University of Austin (UATX) & -3h
Who will be dean of UATX Law? The search has begun.
Search committee: Judge James C. Ho, Judge Andrew S. Oldham, Judge Amul R.
Thapar, and co-chairs Claire Brickman and Adam Biggs.
Applications reviewed beginni Show

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“if” doing Herculean work here

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is just so, so deeply cruel, stupid, outrageous, offensive, blood-curdling, idk, from beginning to end. it is a pathology unto itself. it is the disgusting bigotry of a tried-and-true bigot whose brain is increasingly broken by old age. it is, to say the obvious, intolerable in our society.

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don’t even understand this one!

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

good news, says the AI minister! he asked the AI models, and it turns out, AI is good.

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

my "I'm definitely voting for my adulterous estranged husband, though I won't mention him by name, and I think that you should, too" advertisement has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my advertisement

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

as a lib, I have been checkmated :(

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

and that it cannot yield an **empirically correct** answer even where there is clear evidence! endlessly frustrating that the tenor of their attitude is literally "there is but one true way to answer this complex question of interpretation, it is this way, and the answer is unequivocally this"

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: The 2026 elections in most states will decide which party runs elections heading into 2028 (see map). We detail how Democrats could hold or gain this power in 14 potentially competitive states—and form a bulwark against MAGA subverting the 2028 elections www.the-downballot.com/p/voters-can...

Map of the United States titled "2026 Elections That Will Decide Which Party Runs Elections," with the subtitle "Includes secretaries of state and other elected offices where relevant." Source: The Downballot. States are colored by incumbent party.

Democratic (blue), 14 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Republican (red), 18 states: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.

Bipartisan (yellow), 4 states: Hawaii, Illinois, New York, and Wisconsin.
Not up in 2026 (gray), 14 states: Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia.

Footnotes: Illinois and Wisconsin have Democratic secretaries of state who do not run elections. Pennsylvania's Democratic governor appointed a Republican who typically aligns with Democrats.

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

a meet not-cute if ever I've heard one

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

texting Tom Cotton "why does your neck look like that?," "dude what's up with that neck?," "eaten any good tree leaves on the savannah lately?," and so forth every few minutes

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fox's polling is pretty consistently showing that kind of divide, and no one else is. Ultimately, it's good that they're showing this! If they're wrong, that sucks for them, but at least they were putting out what they thought was right. If right, it's a less favorable environment than anticipated.

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I didn't realize before reading this opinion that the defense attorney here *DIDN'T OBJECT* to the use of the AI video

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Arizona Court of Appeals reverses sentencing of defendant where the state presented an AI video of the deceased addressing the court, and lawyers everywhere breathe a sigh of relief Here is the opinion - coa1.azcourts.gov/Portals/1/Op... apnews.com/article/ariz...

apnews.com

Sentence tossed in Arizona case where deceased victim was depicted speaking in AI-generated video

An Arizona man’s 10-year manslaughter sentence has been tossed in a case where a video generated by artificial intelligence portrayed the deceased victim addressing a judge before the punishment was i...

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'd say Lisa Murkowski in 2004. having a widow succeed their husband was pretty common historically. I'm not sure that Missourians thought badly of Jean Carnahan; it was just a bad year in a swing state. but appointing a daughter or a sibling is a lot more uncommon, and reeks a bit more of nepotism.

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wish that judges would stop writing like this

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here is tortured tautology Keeperman offers for why Desi college kids — wearing cowboy hats, throwing up the "Hook 'em Horns" hand sign, cheering the Longhorns — are not "assimilated": because he said so talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am skeptical of this poll, too, but to refer to Lake as a "pollster no one has ever heard of" is absolutely untrue

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

you passed the bar! that's what's happening

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

in 2029, I look forward to a per curiam opinion enjoining President Ossoff from purchasing Goo Gone at Staples

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

concerning that a criminal defense lawyer doesn't understand that "due process" is a legal concept!!

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

when I was in NYC two years ago, I saw someone who looked SO MUCH like Nathan Fielder wearing a neon yellow hat and pushing a child in a stroller. there was no reason for it to be him—but when is there ever reason for it to be him?—and I'm curious if the Elizabeth Holmes doc shows him doing that

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For me it’s a question of whether false negatives (i.e., someone isn’t impeached/suspended/removed who ought be) or false positives are worse. And it’s a tough question.

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

not YET anyway. but this does concern me.

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