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10+ year civil public defender on lawyer hiatus. Nashvillian by way of Ohio > Boston > NYC. I'm left-handed but sword fight with my right to surprise and lay waste to my enemies. https://substack.com/@adamshoop

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Bill Paxton doing ACTING in all capital letters

Bill Paxton doing ACTING in all capital letters

19.07.2025 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The internet’s watering hole x dot com is not a phrase I was expecting

18.07.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: Pregnant Woman in Tennessee Denied Care for Being Unmarried The 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act allows physicians to deny care to patients whose "lifestyles" they disagree with

This is bananas. @rachelwells1.bsky.social reporting on a doctor refusing to provide pre-natal care based on marital status, under the recently enacted Medical Ethics Defense Act open.substack.com/pub/wellsrac...

18.07.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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lol

18.07.2025 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1434    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 89    πŸ“Œ 28

Hey @eastnashtivists.bsky.social it’s been zero days since Gavin Newsom was joining a MAGA podcast to peddle transphobic conspiracies. Maybe spend a little more time reading @erininthemorning.com and a little less time taking selfies with this dipshit and passing it off as β€œvoter education”

17.07.2025 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As a Tennessean, I’m wincing. Her record is far more alarming than the highlights in most of the coverage I’ve seen (birthright citizenship case, defending abortion ban, she clerked for 3 current justices, &c.)

15.07.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You’ll never believe the answer

15.07.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Truly πŸ«₯

15.07.2025 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just in the Substack comment section. My DM (after the invitation to speak further) has gone unanswered

15.07.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fresh transphobia for ya

15.07.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Usually my Substack pieces are too long, so I refrained from including all of @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social’s shit posts about Gavin but there are many good ones such as this bsky.app/profile/ruem...

10.07.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wrote a thing about Gavin Newsom’s surprise guest appearance at a Nashville β€˜progressive’ org’s meeting yesterday open.substack.com/pub/adamshoo...

10.07.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Consent manufacturers not sending their best bsky.app/profile/edro...

09.07.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 148    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Further evidence of what a weirdo Ted Nugent is from a newspaper clipping about a visit he paid to Ohio to promote gun ownership and killing your own meat. From the bed of a pickup truck he told the audience: β€œTofuβ€”I don't know
that is. That will make you gay."

Further evidence of what a weirdo Ted Nugent is from a newspaper clipping about a visit he paid to Ohio to promote gun ownership and killing your own meat. From the bed of a pickup truck he told the audience: β€œTofuβ€”I don't know that is. That will make you gay."

Clipped from my local paper when I was a teen

28.06.2025 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep bsky.app/profile/nytp...

26.06.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About SCOTUS’s Transgender Ruling The Skrmetti decision to uphold a state ban on gender-affirming care for minors was not as sweeping as it seemsβ€”nor is the trans rights movement to blame for it.

It’s telling how the Christian right’s role in getting Skrmetti to SCOTUS is being erasedβ€”and by those seemingly desperate to blame trans people for asking for β€œtoo much.” So I spoke with legal historian @kredburn.bsky.social and ACLU attorney @chasestrangio.bsky.social, who argued the case:

26.06.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 806    πŸ” 340    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 31
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Honey I shrunk the president

26.06.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a Mighty Good Mam

Zoolanderish Zohran united New York’s salt and pepa, and this hunky hip-hop fan makes me want to shoop.

by Maureen Dowd

26.06.2025 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 736    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 4

+1 to the I should move back to NYC column

25.06.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I hope he’s having a nice night

25.06.2025 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1017    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 16

Food Bazaar is the underdog to root for

24.06.2025 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Whenever I think it would be easier to find standard recipes if I still had access to NYT Cooking they remind me why I will not give them any money

24.06.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s essentially Obamaism, but with zero rhetorical talent because he’s a boring cis white guy who self identifies as a β€œwonk” jacobin.com/2024/08/bara...

24.06.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nashville’s Mayor Would Rather Not Be Tangled in an Immigration Fight

That @freddieoconnell.bsky.social thinks saying or doing anything about immigration enforcement in Nashville is akin to β€œa series of rhetorical check boxes” is telling. It isn’t even saving him from accusations of β€˜embracing sanctuary lawlessness’ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

24.06.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The first consequential decision of my just-old-enough-to-vote adult life was Bush v Gore. On the other hand, that term they struck down Nebraska abortion restrictions under the Roe β€œundue burden” test. Didn’t realize that stealing an election but not overturning Roe yet was as good as it gets

24.06.2025 02:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

An accessible explainer on the Supreme Court ruling allowing deportations to countries other than the person’s own, without due process

23.06.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Suit Challenges Tennessee Law Against β€˜Harboring’ Undocumented Immigrants Complaint calls legislation unconstitutional, says it criminalizes broad array of everyday activities

A team of lawyers from legal and immigrant advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit challenging a Tennessee law that criminalizes providing β€œharbor” to undocumented immigrants.

23.06.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The USDA filed a sworn declaration in the litigation that they have not and will not collect data pursuant to the May 6 letter unless/until they comply with relevant privacy laws. The plaintiffs withdrew their motion for a TRO as a result www.defendstudents.org/news/body/20...

23.06.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
ABC News report that the Biden administration practiced this exact series of strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities a year ago with the Israeli military.

ABC News report that the Biden administration practiced this exact series of strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities a year ago with the Israeli military.

We were never going to get a say in this.

22.06.2025 04:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1740    πŸ” 532    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 77
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Lawmakers and Pundits Speed Run Iraq WMDs-Level Lies About Iran The US intelligence consensus is that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. Why does our media and political class keep implyingβ€”and explicitly sayingβ€”otherwise?

During these critical moments following the US bombing of Iran, key lawmakers and pundits are circulating a lie on par with Iraq WMD falsehoods: that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. US intel consensus is they do not. Does it matter? By me and @ahjohnson.bsky.social

22.06.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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