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Lich Lord Heppner 💀

@rlheppner.bsky.social

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Law Prof at Duquesne Kline Law (Civ Pro, Fed Courts) • Former Appellate Attorney • English PhD (Modernism) • Posts too infrequently to have a brand. • Overeducated, overtired, underwhelmed. • see also id. @ 🐘, 🧵 • he/him

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Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 3h

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Pittsburgh International will not show Kristi Noem's DHS video blaming Dems for shutdown

Pittsburgh International has joined the list of major airports around the country that will not show Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s...

www.post-gazette.com

Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 6h

They tested a bunch, but not all. (No Costco / Kirkland.)

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 7h

Not really funny “ha ha.” More like funny “I mourn for our nation.”

Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 1d

Ah well, of course no I didn’t! (yet) I’m off to class so I’ll have to read it later.

Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 1d

How much do you think the book is written with a specific audience of 6 in mind (who consider themselves originalists and experts on the nation’s history and tradition)?

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Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, contingent partisan evaluation is a real phenomenon. But also, the actual conduct of a lot of agencies has changed a lot with this administration.

Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 2d

What kind of stupid question is this?

And why phrase your headline as a question and immediately answer it in the subhead?

New York Times story:

Headline: What Happened to Campus Activism Against the War in Gaza?

Subhead: Protests swept campuses after the war began. But tough discipline, pushed by Republicans, curbed a student movement that was one of the largest since the Vietnam War.

Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah. I’m not holding my breath. But it’s better to have people making these arguments than not. It makes the SCOTUS majority’s job a smidge harder.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 3d

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, so could some please ELI5 why the tariff announcement would predictably cause Bitcoin to go down?

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Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 4d

of which 65-year-old

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 5d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 7d

Is BlueSky search broken? I get no results for most searches.

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Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 12d

That’s true. And a question framed around “why do you consume media?” would be equally useless.

Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 12d

There’s just no way this statistic is true.

Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 12d

It seems like the term “social media” has lost its usefulness if it includes everything from Twitter and BlueSky to Facebook to WhatsApp to Instagram and TikTok and YouTube. Those each have different uses.

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Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 12d

Wait, the new judge had commented on whether the recusing judge should retire?

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 13d

In case you were wondering whether May Mailman and the DOJ give two shits about students affording college, let me enlighten you.

They do not. Their goal is to DEFUND universities, especially the humanities and social sciences, and this compact is part of that project, not college affordability.

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Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 13d

Ah. I genuinely didn’t know what was meant. I thought those with their backs to the wall were the powerless ones whose hands were being forced by the other side. But I get it, in that “being forced” is presumably the threat of being blamed. I’m just not be DC-brained enough to intuit that.

Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 13d

How does “backs to the wall” correspond (or not) to who gets blamed?

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Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 13d

So basically whether they (must) work for money or whether they own the means of production…

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 13d

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

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Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 13d

That seems bonkers. Among other things, are the AI bots somehow watching the trial and taking in how lawyers and witnesses act?

Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 13d

This. The American Rule comes as such a surprise to most people!

Lich Lord Heppner 💀 @rlheppner.bsky.social · 13d