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Hannah Walser
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Thinking about people thinking about other people. First Amendment, interpretive methodologies, criminal law, law & philosophy. PhD (English) —> JD —> Furman Fellowship at NYU Law. Philly homer; mayor of the quiet car. she/her. hwalser.wordpress.com
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We toasted with champagne and Lucy didn’t understand why she was not included

(please don’t judge my giant plastic wine glasses)
A wine glass with a little champagne in it is sitting on a table. A black-and-tan miniature poodle mix sits on someone’s lap gazing up at the glass with her tongue slightly sticking out
November 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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A panel from the comic strip Peanuts: Snoopy is standing next to a birthday cake with a big smile, looking like he’s about to burst into happy tears. He’s thinking: “Well, I’ll be a brown-eyed beagle!”
November 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Poppy and I saw you from across the bar & we dig your vibe
A stout beagle leans on a white woman’s shoulder, staring at the camera intensely. The woman, who is wearing a blue sweater over a blue button-down and a silver necklace shaped like a flower with a blue topaz in the center, is looking sideways out of frame. Behind them are a couple of Snoopy toys
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Best in show
An elderly miniature poodle mix sits sideways in a chair, resting his chin on the wooden armrest. He looks sleepy and content. Behind him is a light green bookshelf crammed with books
November 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Holidays are for catching up on back issues of the NYRB. (I swear I didn’t pose him like this)
An elderly miniature poodle mix sits on a couch with a folded copy of the New York Review of Books between his paws
November 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Good morning from the snuggle bunch
Two miniature poodles snuggling. The older, gray one rests his chin on the younger, black and tan one. The younger one looks up at the camera
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Google “corrected” my search to a nonsensical phrase and then confabulated a meaning for that phrase
A Google search for “legal realisms holbo”. Google returns “results for legal realism holbox.” Its “AI Overview” says: "Legal realism holbox" is likely a phrase joining the legal philosophy of legal realism with the Mexican island of Holbox, rather than a recognized legal or academic concept. The term "Holbox" appears to refer exclusively to the geographical location in the search results.
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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they promptly let the individual go
Another man, a Little Village resident in his early 20s, also said he was stopped last month by federal agents while walking with his father to the neighborhood's La Chiquita grocery store. They wanted to buy carne asada and beans for lunch with their family. The son is a U.S. citizen. The father is not. But federal agents arrested both men and took them to the ICE facility in west suburban Broadview. The son was released later but said he remembers trying to reason with agents that his younger brother has epilepsy and needs their father. He requested anonymity for fear that his father would be retaliated against in ICE detention, where he is currently being held out of state. "I told them I'm a U.S. citizen, I know my rights," he said. "All they said was, I don't (expletive) care." Not surprisingly given those extraordinary numbers, U.S. immigration officers have prioritized immigration enforcement in the Los Angeles area. The Government sometimes makes brief investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture, or car washes that often do not require paperwork and are therefore attractive to illegal immigrants; and who do not speak much if any English. If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go. If the individual is illegally in the United States, the officers may arrest the individual and initiate the process for removal.
November 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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they promptly let the individual go
Agents also last month arrested Omar Huerta Cisneros, a green card holder who has lived in the U.S. since he was a child, while he was on his way to a grocery store in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood. A witness said they zip-tied his hands and drove away in a red minivan. It marked the start of a desperate 10-day search by Huerta's family. The 54-year-old has schizophrenia, a mental illness that often leaves him disoriented and unable to independently care for himself when he isn't medicated. Huerta's family only learned that he had been arrested Oct. 15 because of a video Edgar Manzo, who was shopping with his wife at the time, posted to Facebook. "He seemed a little confused but just followed orders," Manzo said. "He didn't Not surprisingly given those extraordinary numbers, U.S. immigration officers have prioritized immigration enforcement in the Los Angeles area. The Government sometimes makes brief investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture, or car washes that often do not require paperwork and are therefore attractive to illegal immigrants; and who do not speak much if any English. If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go. If the individual is illegally in the United States, the officers may arrest the individual and initiate the process for removal.
November 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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they promptly let the individual go
Among them, a landscaper in Evanston was handcuffed until he proved he's an American citizen. House painters and laborers in the northwest suburbs were asked to show proof of citizenship. A woman finishing her shift at a downtown bar zip-tied and questioned for an hour because she "doesn't look like" her last name. Under Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino, agents' focus has largely been on Latinos, but the government has also stereotyped working people from other backgrounds without papers, including Polish and Ukrainian handymen in ethnic areas along the city's bungalow belt and an Illinois Department of Transportation employee, who is Indian, questioned if he's aware of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at a resurfacing project in Park Ridge. Not surprisingly given those extraordinary numbers, U.S. immigration officers have prioritized immigration enforcement in the Los Angeles area. The Government sometimes makes brief investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture, or car washes that often do not require paperwork and are therefore attractive to illegal immigrants; and who do not speak much if any English. If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go. If the individual is illegally in the United States, the officers may arrest the individual and initiate the process for removal.
November 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Lucy says: ”it’s like looking into a mirror 🫨”
A black and tan mini poodle sits on an orange blanket grinning at the camera with her tongue out
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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This is called power sitting
Black and tan miniature poodle on the wet pavement surrounded by yellow leaves, sitting primly but with an expression of great intensity
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Turning on the charm in pursuit of a taste of lemon cake
A black and tan miniature poodle stands on wet pavement surrounded by yellow leaves, looking at the camera with her eyebrows raised imploringly An elderly miniature poodle mix fills the frame, grinning with his tongue out and turning the full power of his cuteness upon the viewer
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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This is it! We’ve finally found the thing that will turn me into the Joker!
During the call, which took place with a Block Club reporter present, the anonymous representative, told a group of faith leaders and activists that "There is no more prayer in front of building or inside the building because this is the state and it's not [of al religious background."
November 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Did somebody say Malbec
Selfie of a white lady with a kind of smug smile toasting with a glass of Malbec. She doesn’t have kids but she’s definitely wine mom age
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Polls are open till 8, Philly, get out there #noexcuses
A flyer from the Philly 2nd Ward Dems with a great illustration of an intense squirrel saying “NO EXCUSES” Selfie of a white lady with red lipstick wearing a blue sweater over a blue button-down. She has an “I voted!” sticker
November 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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A nice thing to find in one’s pocket
Ahand holding a quarter in an open palm. The back of the quarter commemorates the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, with an image of her face and her famous line: “Hope is a song in a weary throat”
November 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Henri Rousseau critters at the Barnes Foundation: topiary (+ human) edition
A large, dark green topiary sculpture of a panther-like creature is centered in the frame. It sits on a gravel path flanked by trees with yellowing leaves. A plaque on its chest says it was created for the Henri Rousseau exhibit. A white woman in a blue sweater, gray skirt, and cowboy boots stands next to the panther topiary, smiling (and blinking). She’s about the height of one of the panther’s front legs View of the topiary panther’s imposing head from below, against yellow leaves and blue sky
November 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Henri Rousseau critters at the Barnes Foundation: wild animal edition
Detail of a Rousseau painting. A monkey with orange fur is looking sideways. It sits on a rock with its feet in a stream. It’s surrounded by huge ferns, with some bright yellow-orange flowers mixed in Detail of a Rousseau painting: A shy deer or antelope glances over its shoulder. More large ferns and grass plants, with some bright red leaves in the foreground Detail of a Rousseau painting: a tiger devouring a water buffalo. Both the tiger and the buffalo have very blasé, “it’s a living” type expressions. Lots of bananas and orange fruits dangling from the surrounding trees
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Henri Rousseau critters at the Barnes Foundation: domestic animal edition
Close-up of a tiny, crazy-eyed cat in the corner of a Rousseau portrait. It’s playing with a ball of yarn amid some pansies A black dog (???) in a Rousseau wedding portrait—its eyes are bulging yellow orbs and it has a strange mustache (?). The rest of its face is indistinct but it has cute little knobby paws A dignified dog standing under a carriage in a Rousseau painting A gray and white rabbit sitting in front of a brick wall in what appears to be a little garden. Its front and hind paws rest on pieces of carrot and there’s a lettuce leaf nearby. The exhibit text said that this rabbit looked well cared for and may have been a family pet
November 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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A really good piece. I especially appreciated this paragraph, on how the maudlin discourse around LLM art repackages clichés as universals
The Didionesque logic of "We tell ourselves stories in order to live" becomes "We ask LLMs to tell us what we want to hear in order to live." And the formulaic is recast as reflecting human nature, the way individuals across time and space are drawn to the same patterns, as opposed to a feature of algorithmically generated content that usefully serves to shrink audiences' horizons and harden their tastes, thereby making it easier to predict what they will or won't consume next.
November 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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She’s so small
A black and tan miniature poodle curled up in the lap of a woman wearing orange pants and a dark blue cardigan. The poodle rests her chin on the woman’s arm; her whole body looks only a little bigger than the woman’s hand
October 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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The view from the train is nice this time of year
A scene illuminated by golden late afternoon sunlight: the entrance to the Rutgers campus, framed by a wrought-iron sign, as seen from a train car. In the foreground is a low wall/barrier covered in graffiti
October 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Enkidu sends hugs and/or ear scritches, according to your preference
An elderly miniature poodle mix snuggled among some blankets, smiling sleepily as a hand scritches under his ear
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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BREAKING: Lucy is pretty
A black and tan miniature poodle with “phantom” coloring standing next to a river in front of an evening sky. The peachy color of the clouds is reflected in the water. The poodle looks pensive The poodle standing by the same river, now looking at the camera with a curious expression. She’s directly illuminated by the setting sun
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM