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Hobie Webster

@hobiewebster.bsky.social

Lawyer, Capitol Hill alum, preacher’s kid, Pitt sports fanatic.

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Latest posts by hobiewebster.bsky.social on Bluesky

Every CFP game so far has been a bad, boring game. There are rarely 4 championship caliber teams, there will never be 12. Go back to 4 playoff teams.

21.12.2024 23:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines Most Americans, including doctors, have no memory of the devastating diseases that routinely threatened children until the 1960s.

Questions today about vaccines might just be a product of their success. Here’s what people should know about six once-common illnesses that vaccines have contained for decades.

13.12.2024 17:36 — 👍 741    🔁 281    💬 52    📌 23

I want a behind the scenes documentary on how Drake came to think suing over losing a battle was a good idea.

26.11.2024 01:40 — 👍 2006    🔁 137    💬 70    📌 15

Remember this when your family asks for legal advice at the thanksgiving dinner table:

1) if they need a litigator, you’re a transactional attorney

2) if they need a transactional attorney, you’re a litigator

3) if they need a generalist, you’re an accountant

24.11.2024 16:54 — 👍 51    🔁 6    💬 5    📌 1
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This is what demographic panic looks like. When people are this uninformed, democracy faces serious headwinds.

from @jvl.bsky.social

24.11.2024 20:41 — 👍 4214    🔁 1035    💬 301    📌 101

Bluesky is less of a “liberal” echo chamber than a, “I’m sick of being screamed at by Nazis” echo chamber.

23.11.2024 22:26 — 👍 4887    🔁 544    💬 89    📌 32

The constantly changing and arbitrary court decisions is why I don’t vote by mail.

19.11.2024 01:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Verge Editor-In-Chief Nilay Patel breathes fire on Elon Musk and Donald Trump's Big Tech enablers "All of these men are now hopelessly trapped in a problem their own platforms and algorithms created."

"I don’t think there’s a trend towards actual conservatism in the Valley — there’s a trend towards monopoly and corruption, and that’s led a bunch of VCs directly to Trump." www.status.news/p/nilay-pate...

18.11.2024 18:19 — 👍 2509    🔁 675    💬 61    📌 70

the thing about being a political junkie is you have extremely difficult time conceptualizing how someone could be totally ignorant of politics but i would strongly encourage you to imagine the kind of person who googled “did biden drop out?” on november 4th and then cast a ballot on november 5th

18.11.2024 15:08 — 👍 13377    🔁 1672    💬 472    📌 220

jury duty is a wild concept. whenever the government wants, they can just be like “call off work bestie, we need you to solve a murder 🥰 here’s fifteen dollars.”

06.07.2023 19:29 — 👍 2390    🔁 448    💬 50    📌 28

what’s the billing code for treason

02.08.2023 11:49 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

You guys remember that sea shanty phase of the pandemic? That was wild.

03.08.2023 01:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Finally a fortune cookie that understands me.

31.07.2023 00:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Electronic baby toys and casino slot machines make remarkably similar sounds.

29.07.2023 14:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What does it say that the only nonpartisan Congressional hearing in years was the one about UFOs and aliens this week?

28.07.2023 11:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s almost like he thinks if it’s obvious/public it’s no longer a crime.

28.07.2023 00:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tried to log on to my Twitter @ and found it’s been deleted. Weak.

27.07.2023 23:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m not a lawyer, but this seems bad.

27.07.2023 23:32 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Twitter isn’t a place, it’s a people

27.07.2023 16:37 — 👍 1935    🔁 477    💬 12    📌 14

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