Brendan S. Maher
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Brendan S. Maher
@brendansmaher.bsky.social
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Professor of Law, Texas A&M. Liverpool/USMNT/Cowboys fan. Breakfast burrito enthusiast. Regulatory theorist (sometimes health-related, sometimes retirement-related, sometimes general, always boring).
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1—I think ERISA-governed group insurance (by far the most common form of health ins. in the US) is going to mostly go away. Just like pensions were slowly replaced by retirement accounts, ERISA ins. will be slowly replaced by individual insurance.
The Coming Health Insurance Transition
For decades, the dominant form of private health insurance in the United States—by far—has been employment-based group health insurance. Somewhere in the range
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excellent, I can’t even remember the last time we needed doctors who specialized in diseases
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
bravo, everybody hates medical research that helps children
Some people say America is unrecognizable but the Jets are horrendous so at least some things haven’t changed
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📢 Join Harvard Law Review & @tamu.bsky.social's Center on the Structural Constitution in person or online Oct. 10 for the symposium "Judicial Review in Jeopardy?" Featuring Justice Breyer, Chief Judge Sutton & panels of leading constitutional scholars. Register 👇
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I was thrilled when Poch was hired to manage the USMNT. But his tenure has been deeply troubling. The World Cup is nine months away and we look awful.
How A Fumble By His Running Back And Several Drops By His Top Receiver Show Dak Is Not Elite

by OnlineMoron
Today is what the scientists tell us is the official beginning of autumn: NFL Opening Day!

I look forward to the Cowboys‘ pending championship season.
Ah yes, August 1.

Happy Flustered Professors’ Day to all who celebrate!
The information transmission rate in podcasts (& news videos found on traditional news outlets) is so low that I can’t get into them.

People speak much slower than I can read, plus podcasts have no editors to trim the fat.

I’m an old man shouting at clouds, but you gotta be true to yourself.
IMPORTANT PSA:

Kraft’s Devour brand offers a Basil Pesto Ravioli with Spicy Italian Sausage for which (1) the sausage is literally less spicy that a saltine and (2) the sauce tastes nothing like either basil or pesto.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!
is there an option for uninterested persons
with apologies to Treach:

Bri, drop a load on 'em

OBBB, how can I explain it?
I'll take it frame by frame it
To have y'all jumpin', shoutin', hatin' it
Excellent. If there’s one thing that’s been totally worthless in improving society, it’s science. Better that we all be delusional ignoramuses stumbling around in the dark.
This might be the most important story for the U.S. since WW2.

We are obliterating our research enterprise.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...
Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows
www.nytimes.com
they pointedly said nothing but egg rolls so message received
look nerds, just give me my antibiotics and stop telling me how to live my life
was he auditioning to be a Disney villain when this picture was taken
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An ugly provision in Senate GOP version of the Big Beautiful Bill poses grave threat to fed courts' power to protect constitutional rights. My post highlights critique by Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick (previously a prominent public interest litigator):
reason.com/volokh/2025/...
GOP Senate Version of the Big Beautiful Bill Includes an Ugly Attack on Courts' Ability to Protect Constitutional Rights
A provision inserted into the Senate GOP version of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" would, if enacted, pose a serious threat to federal courts' ability to
reason.com
It is difficult to explain how bad this provision is. It functionally destroys the ability of the courts to stop federal government illegality until months or years after the illegal act has occurred.
The Senate bill aims to effectively end all civil rights lawsuits against the federal government except by entities rich enough to potentially pay million/billions in fees.

I am not making this up.
is there any way we can deploy the marines against people who chew with their mouths open
this is fun game

“winning football clubs like the Cleveland Browns”
leftist police departments like the LAPD