Emily Conte

Some are mad because people are on SNAP and not working.

I’m mad because people are on SNAP even though they are working.

The pharmacist said my husband and I qualified as caregivers to our medically-fragile child. Our medically-fragile child was turned away by that same pharmacist on his first try and had to get a prescription called in for it. Fortunately, he has an incredible pediatrician and we got it done.

Just mailed ten!

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Three authors that I have discovered this summer and really enjoyed their work: John Scalzi @scalzi.com (Starter Villain and When the Moon Hits Your Eye), Anthony Marra (Mercury Pictures Presents), and Helen Simonson (Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand). #BookSky

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Satellite data gave us the heads up that #Erin was undergoing explosive rapid intensification.

Hurricane hunter aircraft flew into Erin and captured the actual data to confirm what we suspected.

Investment in NOAA. Investment in NASA. Investment in the USGS. Investment in science.

It matters.

The key to good legal writing is clarity. Exceptional clarity persuades. Unclarity sows doubt.

Not key? Originality. Humor. Cleverness. A distinctive voice. Torrents of peripheral legal authority. Demonstrations of opposing counsel’s stupidity and bad faith.

Edit for clarity.

We as a country have no idea how bad things used to be here, and the kind of sustained, concerted, coordinated labor it took to make it better.

(Malaria killed millions of Americans in the 19th century, for instance. As far north as Minnesota.)

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100% agree. I live in Mobile, AL, and am worried about hurricane season—both forecasting and competent responses.

Please remember that natural disasters are apolitical. We are all vulnerable. Let’s not shrug off the immense suffering of others or blame them because of politics. Help or shut up.

Think of treaties as like vaccines -- more effective than quack cures but deeply unpopular among the stupidest people on earth.

I passed this on to my husband who has oral arguments for the first time in front of the Eleventh Circuit in a few weeks. He said it was helpful. Thank you for posting.

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Judge: But that's not where we live (in a monarchy). We live in *response* to a monarchy.

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That’s a beautiful photo! Welcome!

Fun Tariff Facts: during the depression the US lost access to many imported paper products. They were replaced with an unusually tough paper stock made of hemp from the Philippines (then a US colony, and tariff exempt).

Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders /
envelopes.

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

Two tabby kittens curled up together sleeping on a chair.

These two are my current fosters, Ember and Flame. They were rescued by firefighters in a house fire and the group I foster for took them. They had some serious health issues but are doing well now and almost ready for adoption. They are the sweetest kitties!

move slowly and build things

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

Mosquito Supper Club is expensive and check with them about the kids but I highly recommend their communal table. It’s a fun dining experience.

Someone already mentioned Parkway. The line is long but moves fast. Best poboy in the city.

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