Richard Heppner 🤷🏼♂️
@rlheppner.bsky.social
Law Prof at Duquesne Kline Law (Civ Pro, Fed Courts) • Former Appellate Attorney • English PhD (Modernism) • Posts too infrequently to have a brand. • Overeducated, overtired, underwhelmed. • see also id. @ 🐘, 🧵 • he/him
No way this would ever be directly addressed by politics. What’ll happen is meat will just get more and more expensive, thanks either to climate- or regulatory-change.
i'm convinced if we ever tried to touch the rail of meat politics in America (something that's going to eventually need to happen in order to reduce CO2 emissions), it would lead to a huge right-wing shock
remembering the time a random catholic priest got mad at me about a hypothetical about the government restricting meat production on the other site
meat politics is going to be insane for the next Dem administration which takes climate change seriously, imo
meat politics is going to be insane for the next Dem administration which takes climate change seriously, imo
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
No way this would ever be directly addressed by politics. What’ll happen is meat will just get more and more expensive, thanks either to climate- or regulatory-change.
There's a current Mac ad that starts by zooming in on an onscreen cursor, while the voiceover says "Everything you love began as nothing, just a flicker on a screen, asking a simple question: what do you see?"
And I'm not sure if it's obtuse or is deliberately saying everything we love is digital.
And I'm not sure if it's obtuse or is deliberately saying everything we love is digital.
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
There's a current Mac ad that starts by zooming in on an onscreen cursor, while the voiceover says "Everything you love began as nothing, just a flicker on a screen, asking a simple question: what do you see?"
And I'm not sure if it's obtuse or is deliberately saying everything we love is digital.
And I'm not sure if it's obtuse or is deliberately saying everything we love is digital.
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BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Sure. As everyone knows, it's a fake economy if the bottom is subsidized by the top, and it's a real economy if the top is subsidized by the bottom.
Comer: "This is a fake economy. You can't have 1/3 of America receiving some type of free government healthcare and then have another 1/3 that's getting a subsidized rate. That falls on the final 1/3 that's having to pay increased premiums."
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Sure. As everyone knows, it's a fake economy if the bottom is subsidized by the top, and it's a real economy if the top is subsidized by the bottom.
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For some reason, I just thought of this scene.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 AM
For some reason, I just thought of this scene.
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On the blog: In approving Trump's transphobic policy of listing sex assigned at birth on passports, SCOTUS said govt was "merely attesting to a historical fact," thus echoing the obtuseness of Plessy v Ferguson's statement that Black folks were only choosing to see segregation as white supremacy. 👇
SCOTUS Echoes Plessy v Ferguson in Greenlighting Trump's Transphobic Passport Policy
Repeating a pattern that has become all too familiar, late last week the Roberts Court issued a per curiam order staying a lower court rulin...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
On the blog: In approving Trump's transphobic policy of listing sex assigned at birth on passports, SCOTUS said govt was "merely attesting to a historical fact," thus echoing the obtuseness of Plessy v Ferguson's statement that Black folks were only choosing to see segregation as white supremacy. 👇
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The I.R.S. is shutting down its free online system for filing tax returns, a program that the Biden administration introduced last year and that users gave high marks.
via @tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
I.R.S. Halts Free Online Offering for Filing Taxes Directly
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The I.R.S. is shutting down its free online system for filing tax returns, a program that the Biden administration introduced last year and that users gave high marks.
via @tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
via @tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
For some reason, I just thought of this scene.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 AM
For some reason, I just thought of this scene.
Some Senate Dems are grossly overestimating how politically advantageous it will be to point at Republicans' votes against an ACA bill in December.
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Some Senate Dems are grossly overestimating how politically advantageous it will be to point at Republicans' votes against an ACA bill in December.
Gee, this still seems relevant.
We're not looking for a show vote from Republicans.
We're looking for meaningful help so that people can afford medical care.
We're looking for meaningful help so that people can afford medical care.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Gee, this still seems relevant.
Awesome piece. Read it. Then, let me add something to it.
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 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Awesome piece. Read it. Then, let me add something to it.
Huh.
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Huh.
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
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November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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So you’re saying the jury is deliberating the defendant’s deli-berating.
i mean, I’m still workshopping it…
i mean, I’m still workshopping it…
November 6, 2025 at 4:59 AM
So you’re saying the jury is deliberating the defendant’s deli-berating.
i mean, I’m still workshopping it…
i mean, I’m still workshopping it…
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I mean, yes, I know. I know. But how hilarious would it be if they came to D.C. and then gave it to someone else?
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award at the draw for the World Cup on Dec. 5 in Washington. https://to.pbs.org/47LyluB
FIFA to award new peace prize at World Cup draw in Washington
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award for the first time at the World Cup draw on Dec. 5 in Washington.
www.pbs.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I mean, yes, I know. I know. But how hilarious would it be if they came to D.C. and then gave it to someone else?
They’re really putting the “deli” in “deliberate.”
or something
or something
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November 6, 2025 at 4:49 AM
They’re really putting the “deli” in “deliberate.”
or something
or something
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No Noise November. everybody shut up
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
No Noise November. everybody shut up
I mean, yes, I know. I know. But how hilarious would it be if they came to D.C. and then gave it to someone else?
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award at the draw for the World Cup on Dec. 5 in Washington. https://to.pbs.org/47LyluB
FIFA to award new peace prize at World Cup draw in Washington
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award for the first time at the World Cup draw on Dec. 5 in Washington.
www.pbs.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I mean, yes, I know. I know. But how hilarious would it be if they came to D.C. and then gave it to someone else?
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“Be you ever so high, the law is above you.”
(Thomas Fuller, quoted by Lord Denning in Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers [1978] AC 435.)
The one-line answer to “Don’t you know who I am?” #RuleOfLaw #appellatesky
(Thomas Fuller, quoted by Lord Denning in Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers [1978] AC 435.)
The one-line answer to “Don’t you know who I am?” #RuleOfLaw #appellatesky
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
“Be you ever so high, the law is above you.”
(Thomas Fuller, quoted by Lord Denning in Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers [1978] AC 435.)
The one-line answer to “Don’t you know who I am?” #RuleOfLaw #appellatesky
(Thomas Fuller, quoted by Lord Denning in Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers [1978] AC 435.)
The one-line answer to “Don’t you know who I am?” #RuleOfLaw #appellatesky
I voted n’at.
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I voted n’at.