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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃

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FKA IronMikeGallego. I wrote a few things you might’ve read but then I had kids. Cancer-hater. Gold Star Family. Recovering A’s fan. Combat sports wunderkind. Anti-Stratfordian. Lawyer IRL. https://deadspin.com/the-trouble-with-floyd-mayweather-1605217498

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · Jul 15

Apologies in advance for what might look like a rambling diatribe going nowhere. But the one thing I know really well - better than almost anyone else - is boxing. And there’s a really valuable lesson from boxing that the Democratic Party needs to learn in a hurry.

Let’s start with the boxing bit.

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 1h

“Ain’t nothing wrong with my leg, I’m just b-boy limpin’”

Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 18h

Chuck Schumer looks awful.

Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 18h

There’s a better way…

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Mr Show - Larry Kleist: Rapist

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Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 19h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 21h

Adam, this will all make sense when plague masks come back into vogue.

Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 22h

When you factor in the free drinks and subsidized cigarettes, it arrives pretty quickly for some people.

Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you

Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 22h

“Might as well do meth” is just a great substitute for the overused ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ guy.

Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 22h

My brother died of cancer last year. He got it from toxic burn pits in Iraq, just like Beau Biden.
When my brother was fighting cancer, Joe FaceTimed him and gave him pep talks before chemo. When he died, he wrote our family a beautiful letter. And my brother was nobody. Joe did it because he cared.

JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 1d

“We’ve known for months that he’s been sick, but the words radiation and treatment hit differently. They landed in a place I didn’t expect. Because it feels like more than just one man enduring.
It feels like a reflection of all of us.”
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The Only Way Out Is Through

What Joe Biden’s endurance teaches us about America’s own capacity to heal.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 22h

If you work at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and have been RIF'd, I'd love to speak to you. My Signal is emgarcia.85. I will need to verify your identity, but will conceal and protect your identity.

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 22h

Jake Paul is better qualified to run a news division.

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 1d

I clerked for a liberal and a conservative federal judge, and came away with tremendous respect for both and how they arrived at their opinions. Even though you could guess how they were likely to rule on an issue, it never felt like an outcome drove their reasoning.
This Court is an embarrassment.

Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 1d

I wasn’t suggesting otherwise. I was pointing out that the statistic they’re flogging is as artificial as saying something like 90% of excess calories come from pizza if pizza is just a small part of someone’s diet.

Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a hugely misleading statistic. If you deleted that entire segment of the economy, and didn’t replace it with anything else, we’d have basically flat GDP. But that’s not how the world works. All those people working on data center deals would have been selling something else.

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 1d

My brother died of lung cancer last year (40 years old, non smoker, exposed to toxic burn pits serving in Iraq and Afghanistan).

His medication was $17,000 a month. 650% off means they’d pay us $110,000 a month. Sounds believable.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 2d

If you look closely, you can see signs of GOP lawmakers fearing the long-term political consequences of paying more attention to Trump's demands than to the voices of their own constituents - or consciences.

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 2d

There’s one way they can get more popular and that’s to die.

JFK had mediocre approval ratings a week before his assassination. They were at 80% a week later.

I’m just asking: how badly does Trump want to be loved?

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 2d

important to remember that no matter how unpopular you think the regime is currently, this is actually the most popular they will ever be between today and any dat you pick in the future

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 2d

If it’s “merging at the last possible second into the front of a long line of cars patiently waiting their turn,” I will convert to Catholicism on the spot.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 3d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 2d

They’re at least throwing sand into the gears. Don’t underestimate how important it is just to slow these assholes down. Yes, it would be great if SCOTUS wasn’t completely in the tank for Trump, but they can’t hear every case, and the district judges are doing their part to throw the brakes on.

Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t get me wrong, writing appellate opinions is tremendously fun, and the work product is consistently excellent, but it’s basically the difference between storming Omaha Beach and writing an academic article about the impact of storms on Omaha Beach.

Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 2d

The district court docket is so much more challenging than appellate work. At any given time, you’ve got 500 active matters with a dozen substantive civil motions on calendar every week, not to mention criminal trials and sentencing.

Appellate judges hear a dozen cases every few months.

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 2d

I’m biased because I clerked in the district court, but federal district judges as a group are the most consistently excellent group of lawyers in the country.

I worked for an appellate judge, too, and there are many great ones, but also a huge contingent of ivory tower arrogant tools.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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