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Jess Booshain 👻

@profjessblankshain.bsky.social

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Associate professor, mom, triathlete, dog person, Swiftie. US foreign policy, civil-military relations, & bureaucratic politics. Personal views only. Posts before 9/23/23 are imports from the other place.

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 3h

Watching Boots is making me realize how much I normally rely on hairstyles to tell characters apart

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 1d

Just realized that Hop Little Bunnies is basically training my toddler to do burpees. This feels unwise.

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 2d

Toddler asked me to do three different floor puzzles so she could take them apart and put them back in the box. I went along with it because it's less destructive than some of her other activities.

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 2d

The thing I most often yell at the TV while watching any version of The Traitors is "chill out no one is really dead!"

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 2d

As I said, some of us were more worried about beating the rain than others 🤣

A screen shot of half marathon race results with an overall time of 2:24:08 and pace splits of 10:20 min/mile through 5K, 10:33 through 10K, 10:47 through 10 miles, and 11:00 at the finish

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 2d

Furlough can't keep us from morning PT! @theomilo.bsky.social and I beat the nor'easter at the Newport Half Marathon this morning (one of us by a somewhat more comfortable margin)

Two people in running gear stand on the beach early in the morning

The same two people (one now holding a toddler) sit on a cement wall in front of the ocean holding up medals with ribbons for me that say 13.1

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 4d

Been playing a lot of "is that marker or blood? lately

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 4d

I'm so sorry. It is always too soon for us even when it isn't for them.

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 4d

Did not account for the headphones allowing the (old man not at all sneaky) dog to sneak up on me

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 4d

Figured out how to play my vinyls on my giant over ear Bluetooth headphones. My constant dancing around the house lip syncing is about to get even more annoying!

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 4d

Some days just opening the draft document and writing a few sentences of word vomit feels like a major accomplishment.

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 5d

TFW you have a migraine and your children have turned on every light and sound emitting device in the house

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 8d

Furlough Day 4 (we're not counting weekends) soccer snacks

A kitchen counter with a white ghost shaped snackle box filled with fruit, cheese, pirates booty, harvest peas, and chocolate oat bars. The transparent ghost face lid hangs off the side.

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 9d

And also: bsky.app/profile/stev...

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10d

Here’s the longer version of this thread:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/181-courts...

181. Courts and Domestic Use of the Military

In response to adverse judicial rulings, the President's advisers and supporters are claiming courts lack the power to halt domestic use of the military. A critical early precedent is to the contrary.

www.stevevladeck.com

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 9d

See also:

The U.S. president has broad discretion on military matters.

The president-elect's proposed uses of the military on U.S. soil could draw the armed forces into partisan disputes.

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 9d

I'm seeing a) assertions that no one has been thinking about the issues raised by these NG deployments and b) confident assertions about complicated legal issues. So a friendly reminder that we do have experts on domestic use of the U.S. military, and even they don't have clear answers! ⬇️

Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social · 9d

Folks we are watching the adjudication of some of the most important constitutional issues of federalism, executive discretion, and judicial review since the 19th c

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon

Judge asked federal government lawyer: 'Do you believe this is an appropriate way to deal with a judge’s order that you disagree with?'

www.oregonlive.com

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 10d

Has TLOAS made anyone else want to rewatch Bunheads or just me?

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 10d

After a dozen times through TLOAS, Spotify has finally given up and started looping the album instead of trying to auto play a different Taylor song at the end

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 10d

My current annoyance is that the tracks can all sound the same or not be coherent but they can't be both!

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 12d

In my mind "keep it 💯 on the land, the sea, the sky" is an ode to Goldwater-Nichols

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 12d

I truly was not expecting to like this album this much on first listen. I love Taylor but I also hate change.

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 12d

Also it's such a relief to only have 12 songs to learn

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 12d

I truly was not expecting to like this album this much on first listen. I love Taylor but I also hate change.

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 12d

So nice of Congress to look out for the Swiftie feds with the shutdown timing!

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 12d

I might need a nap first but yes! I probably would have even if I had work in the morning but will have fewer regrets now. You?

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 12d

Furlough Day 2

A shelf with LEGO interactive Mario, Luigi, and Peach sets

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