Relapsed lawyer. Pão de queijo fanatic. Prettier than Napoleon. There is no arc.
berkeley, ca
Joined June 2008
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Apart from creating the appearance of bias, this is just bizarre. I feel comfortable saying right now, as a blanket statement, there is no situation in which I would like to hug a judge following the close of a trial.
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Recently I learned about a man who has trained 1,000+ people to block wind and solar projects.
I read through all his training materials, presentations, and seminars.
Here's what I learned about him and how his students plan to "win the war on clean energy."
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Amber Abbasi retweeted
Fiona Apple has a story for you. And it’s incredible. Asked me to share.
She's become an avid, trained Court Watcher. Her observations helped people jailed pretrial file a civil rights lawsuit. Then came the retaliation. Shut off her access to court.
A video story in 8 parts:
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At this point, for people who live in Portland, the van abductions feel like a bad memory, a piece of weird local news lost in the mists of the terrible year that was 2020.
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Amber Abbasi retweeted
Sometimes there’s just no legal remedy for garbage people doing trashy things.
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Republican officials in Louisiana are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to set a narrower definition of "Black" for redistricting that excludes some Black people and could minimize their voting power. n.pr/3s4D5Hu
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We are recruiting 30 - yes, that's right, 30! - Chancellor's Fellows to prestigious, tenure-track, research-intensive early/mid-career roles at the University of Edinburgh. Please spread the word!
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I have just made a FANTASTIC discovery which other writers of a certain flavor of fantasy (or, y'know, Regency romance) might find useful to know 👀👀👀
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Evangelicals love to go on Twitter and casually assert something that if written in 500 AD would've led to two Church Councils, a dozen dueling encyclicals, a major schism, three new heresies, and a religious war that lasted for centuries and cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
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Amber Abbasi retweeted
i feel like the secret service coordinating with a white supremacist militia to overthrow the government should be a bigger story
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That is a gigantic gap
ALT In the last 30 days, how often, if at all, have you worn a protective mask indoors in public places? The "every time" response was for 18% of white people and 61% of black people
Amber Abbasi retweeted
Epic of Gilgamesh is 4,000 years old and dropped a new chapter before Winds of Winter how sad
A new chapter of the “Epic of Gilgamesh”is revealed when the fragment of TABLET V was finally recovered. It was written in Standard Babylonian and dates back to Neo-Babylonian period (626-538 BC), according to researchers.
#archaeohistories
