Ben Schu
@benschu.bsky.social
Lawyer, musician, gadabout, generally confused much of the time.
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Ben Schu
@benschu.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Ok not sure anyone will see this but might as well introduce myself.
I’m a BigLaw securities and corporate governance litigator and trial lawyer in Baltimore with two kids and an awesome wife.
In a former life, I was an opera singer and composer, and part-time rock star. Also fairly witchy. Hi!
I’m a BigLaw securities and corporate governance litigator and trial lawyer in Baltimore with two kids and an awesome wife.
In a former life, I was an opera singer and composer, and part-time rock star. Also fairly witchy. Hi!
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Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day! Don’t forget to smash your clocks!
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day! Don’t forget to smash your clocks!
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Is this in question? The entire existence of ICE can be attributed to Cheney’s influence over GWB after 9/11 that led to the creation of DHS.
Moderates can try and launder Dick Cheney all they want, but he was a murderous war criminal who laid the tracks for Trump and overt fascism.
We live in Cheney’s America, god help us, and it’s on us to dishonor him by undoing the damage he caused.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-author...
We live in Cheney’s America, god help us, and it’s on us to dishonor him by undoing the damage he caused.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-author...
The Authoritarian Architect: Dick Cheney and the Dystopian World He Built
We live in Dick Cheney's America. God help us.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Is this in question? The entire existence of ICE can be attributed to Cheney’s influence over GWB after 9/11 that led to the creation of DHS.
Never pass up a history lesson from Derek Guy. When Republicans talk about bringing back coal jobs, they want to benefit the bosses, not the workers.
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Never pass up a history lesson from Derek Guy. When Republicans talk about bringing back coal jobs, they want to benefit the bosses, not the workers.
I'm having flashbacks to 2002, when many of us were saying "Homeland Security? I'm not sure that's a great idea..."
Yes, this is a real post made by the Department of Homeland Security.
None of this is normal.
None of this is normal.
October 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I'm having flashbacks to 2002, when many of us were saying "Homeland Security? I'm not sure that's a great idea..."
Un-fucking-believable.
DOJ puts 2 federal prosecutors on leave after they described 'mob of rioters' on Jan. 6
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
DOJ puts 2 federal prosecutors on leave after they described 'mob of rioters' on Jan. 6
The language was used in a sentencing memo for Taylor Taranto, a Jan. 6 defendant who was separately convicted of weapons charges after he showed up near Barack Obama’s home in 2023.
www.nbcnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Un-fucking-believable.
What five pieces of media (books, TV, movies, music, etc.) were most responsible for forming your personality? Not your favorites per se, but the ones that most influenced who you are now. (I know @deaconblues1979.bsky.social will have a good answer to this one.)
October 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
What five pieces of media (books, TV, movies, music, etc.) were most responsible for forming your personality? Not your favorites per se, but the ones that most influenced who you are now. (I know @deaconblues1979.bsky.social will have a good answer to this one.)
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Is @merkley.senate.gov doing what @booker.senate.gov did and we’re only paying a small amount of attention?????
Also, Merkley has been training for something for the past three months and he said it was a race to save the Senate but now I’m wondering if it was for this
Also, Merkley has been training for something for the past three months and he said it was a race to save the Senate but now I’m wondering if it was for this
October 22, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Is @merkley.senate.gov doing what @booker.senate.gov did and we’re only paying a small amount of attention?????
Also, Merkley has been training for something for the past three months and he said it was a race to save the Senate but now I’m wondering if it was for this
Also, Merkley has been training for something for the past three months and he said it was a race to save the Senate but now I’m wondering if it was for this
What a really beautiful and chaste-looking mouth!
September 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Live your life in such a way that millions of people are not disappointed to learn that you are neither dead nor incapacitated.
September 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Live your life in such a way that millions of people are not disappointed to learn that you are neither dead nor incapacitated.
@ariellaelm.bsky.social is doing amazing work cataloging Democratic efforts to fight what is going on. So before you say Democrats aren’t doing anything/enough, read this whole thread and then follow her.
Yeah, I did watch it. For starters you didn’t acknowledge that Wall Street Journal wrote an article about how successful Schumer is with blocking Trump’s judicial nominees.
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August 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
@ariellaelm.bsky.social is doing amazing work cataloging Democratic efforts to fight what is going on. So before you say Democrats aren’t doing anything/enough, read this whole thread and then follow her.
This news may have broken me.
August 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This news may have broken me.
Indeed, let us join them. @anyuse.bsky.social @1dgrn.bsky.social
Here, now, are two great whales, laying their heads together; let us join them
August 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Indeed, let us join them. @anyuse.bsky.social @1dgrn.bsky.social
Not a drag queen; not a trans person.
August 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Not a drag queen; not a trans person.
Furthest I’ve been:
N: Aarhus, Denmark
E: Dresden, Germany
S: St. Maarten
W: Muir Woods, California
N: Aarhus, Denmark
E: Dresden, Germany
S: St. Maarten
W: Muir Woods, California
Furthest I've been:
N: Fairbanks, Alaska
E: Ilomantsi, Finland
S: Playa del Carmen, Mexico
W: Anchor Point, Alaska
N: Fairbanks, Alaska
E: Ilomantsi, Finland
S: Playa del Carmen, Mexico
W: Anchor Point, Alaska
Furthest I've been:
N: London, England
E: Tokyo, Japan
S: Lusaka, Zambia
W: Kailua, Hawaii
N: London, England
E: Tokyo, Japan
S: Lusaka, Zambia
W: Kailua, Hawaii
August 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Furthest I’ve been:
N: Aarhus, Denmark
E: Dresden, Germany
S: St. Maarten
W: Muir Woods, California
N: Aarhus, Denmark
E: Dresden, Germany
S: St. Maarten
W: Muir Woods, California
Ahem.
I wonder what the old man wants with this lump of foul lard
August 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Ahem.
The party of “merit” has confirmed someone whose only prior experience is being a local county judge and district attorney and who hasn’t practiced in a courtroom in 20 years. My only consolation is that she will hate having to work for a living for a fraction of what she made at Fox.
The former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, whose false statements about the 2020 election were part of a lawsuit against the network, was confirmed as the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., on Saturday.
Senate Confirms Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for D.C.
The former Fox News host, whose false statements about the 2020 election were part of a lawsuit against the network, had been serving in the role on a temporary basis.
nyti.ms
August 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The party of “merit” has confirmed someone whose only prior experience is being a local county judge and district attorney and who hasn’t practiced in a courtroom in 20 years. My only consolation is that she will hate having to work for a living for a fraction of what she made at Fox.
And yet they complain that the Postal Service and the NIH don’t turn a profit.
Just in: Trump Media reported a $20 million loss on $883,000 in sales for quarter ending June 30.
www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch...
www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch...
August 2, 2025 at 4:17 AM
And yet they complain that the Postal Service and the NIH don’t turn a profit.
Didn’t he literally JUST criticize Powell for the Fed building renovations? I know we can’t expect consistency but come on.
Trump announces that he’s having a 90,000 sq ft event space added to the White House
July 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Didn’t he literally JUST criticize Powell for the Fed building renovations? I know we can’t expect consistency but come on.
Aside from the fact that this is infuriating because Vought doesn’t know a damn thing about what NIH does, but also I just discovered that Vought is *younger* than me. Evil really ages you.
TAPPER: 14 Republicans say you're risking undermining critical research by holding up NIH funding
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
July 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Aside from the fact that this is infuriating because Vought doesn’t know a damn thing about what NIH does, but also I just discovered that Vought is *younger* than me. Evil really ages you.
This really stupid thing is that Garrett and Allegheny County, where the floods were, is Trump Country. Gov. Moore should go out there and explain exactly what their hero thinks of them.
July 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This really stupid thing is that Garrett and Allegheny County, where the floods were, is Trump Country. Gov. Moore should go out there and explain exactly what their hero thinks of them.
When I was in middle school, I created a text-based baseball computer game in BASIC (yes I was a nerd). But there was something wrong with the programming that I could never solve - the game would cycle through like 9 strikes before it ever called a batter out.
This is what AI reminds me of.
This is what AI reminds me of.
Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'
July 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
When I was in middle school, I created a text-based baseball computer game in BASIC (yes I was a nerd). But there was something wrong with the programming that I could never solve - the game would cycle through like 9 strikes before it ever called a batter out.
This is what AI reminds me of.
This is what AI reminds me of.
I received an answering machine from Ray Bradbury. In the late 90s, I wrote him a letter seeking the rights to compose an opera of Fahrenheit 451. Rather than write back, he called me personally and politely turned me down over the phone. I saved that message for years.
July 20, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I received an answering machine from Ray Bradbury. In the late 90s, I wrote him a letter seeking the rights to compose an opera of Fahrenheit 451. Rather than write back, he called me personally and politely turned me down over the phone. I saved that message for years.
Every single one of these stories needs to be hung around the necks of those in power.
July 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Every single one of these stories needs to be hung around the necks of those in power.