Adam Bonin
@adambonin.bsky.social
Philadelphia-based 91st Most Powerful Lawyer in Pennsylvania (City and State PA, 2023) specializing in political law. Opinions are mine alone.
Via @sports-reference.com @stathead.com, here's all the NFL games in the past 20 seasons with scoreless first halves.
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Via @sports-reference.com @stathead.com, here's all the NFL games in the past 20 seasons with scoreless first halves.
Let's be clear: Giuliani lost his Bar licenses because he lied in court and other official settings about the integrity of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania, not because of anything having to do with the electors.
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Let's be clear: Giuliani lost his Bar licenses because he lied in court and other official settings about the integrity of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania, not because of anything having to do with the electors.
I'm going to ask non-watchers of GBBO to guess which one here was graded poorly.
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm going to ask non-watchers of GBBO to guess which one here was graded poorly.
SCOTUS has granted certiorari in a case asking whether states can still choose to accept and count mail-in ballots which are postmarked by Election Day, as long as they are received soon thereafter, or whether federal law mandates E-Day receipt in federal races. www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
SCOTUS has granted certiorari in a case asking whether states can still choose to accept and count mail-in ballots which are postmarked by Election Day, as long as they are received soon thereafter, or whether federal law mandates E-Day receipt in federal races. www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...
HT to @dansuitor.bsky.social; the DOJ indictment against Clase and Ortiz has been unsealed. Not only were they rigging pitches for outside bettors based on Ball/Strike and pitch speed over/unders; they were sometimes betting on their own rigged pitches.
www.justice.gov/usao-edny/me...
www.justice.gov/usao-edny/me...
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
HT to @dansuitor.bsky.social; the DOJ indictment against Clase and Ortiz has been unsealed. Not only were they rigging pitches for outside bettors based on Ball/Strike and pitch speed over/unders; they were sometimes betting on their own rigged pitches.
www.justice.gov/usao-edny/me...
www.justice.gov/usao-edny/me...
Chappell Roan is an inspired choice to induct Cyndi Lauper into the #rockhall, and has dressed appropriately for the occasion. She's talking about singing "True Colors" at a school talent show growing up.
Incidentally, for inexplicable reasons, Lauper is not yet in the WWE Hall of Fame.
Incidentally, for inexplicable reasons, Lauper is not yet in the WWE Hall of Fame.
November 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Chappell Roan is an inspired choice to induct Cyndi Lauper into the #rockhall, and has dressed appropriately for the occasion. She's talking about singing "True Colors" at a school talent show growing up.
Incidentally, for inexplicable reasons, Lauper is not yet in the WWE Hall of Fame.
Incidentally, for inexplicable reasons, Lauper is not yet in the WWE Hall of Fame.
Yikes, there's more. Kraft Mac & Cheese should not have "flavor drops." It should be a constant.
But what would really send me to the barricades is if they ever messed with Stouffer's Mac & Cheese.
www.kraftheinz.com/kraft-mac-an...
But what would really send me to the barricades is if they ever messed with Stouffer's Mac & Cheese.
www.kraftheinz.com/kraft-mac-an...
November 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Yikes, there's more. Kraft Mac & Cheese should not have "flavor drops." It should be a constant.
But what would really send me to the barricades is if they ever messed with Stouffer's Mac & Cheese.
www.kraftheinz.com/kraft-mac-an...
But what would really send me to the barricades is if they ever messed with Stouffer's Mac & Cheese.
www.kraftheinz.com/kraft-mac-an...
Pretty much every Philadelphian following this feed knows where @leecarpenter.bsky.social and I (and our wives) are right now without having to look at the top line of the specials.
November 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Pretty much every Philadelphian following this feed knows where @leecarpenter.bsky.social and I (and our wives) are right now without having to look at the top line of the specials.
And as @stevevladeck.bsky.social noted, leapfrogging over a Justice who hadn't yet ruled on an administrative stay has already happened once this year. KBJ's order tonight prevented worse things from happening. www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
November 8, 2025 at 3:49 AM
And as @stevevladeck.bsky.social noted, leapfrogging over a Justice who hadn't yet ruled on an administrative stay has already happened once this year. KBJ's order tonight prevented worse things from happening. www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
I am pretty sure under Rule 22 that DOJ could have approached any other Justice had Justice Jackson denied the stay.
November 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I am pretty sure under Rule 22 that DOJ could have approached any other Justice had Justice Jackson denied the stay.
In case anyone wonders why it was Justice Jackson who made this temporary, administrative ruling, each of the Justices is responsible for the first take on emergency requests from at least one of the 13 courts of appeals. She has the 1st (MA, ME, NH, PR, RI.)
www.supremecourt.gov/about/circui...
www.supremecourt.gov/about/circui...
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
In case anyone wonders why it was Justice Jackson who made this temporary, administrative ruling, each of the Justices is responsible for the first take on emergency requests from at least one of the 13 courts of appeals. She has the 1st (MA, ME, NH, PR, RI.)
www.supremecourt.gov/about/circui...
www.supremecourt.gov/about/circui...
"So you had hand-cranked espresso grinders in your classrooms?"
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"So you had hand-cranked espresso grinders in your classrooms?"
This may be the greatest grouping of nominees in a single category in Grammys history: for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording, the nominees include the Hon. Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Dalai Lama, Trevor Noah, and one of the dudes from Milli Vanilli.
November 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This may be the greatest grouping of nominees in a single category in Grammys history: for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording, the nominees include the Hon. Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Dalai Lama, Trevor Noah, and one of the dudes from Milli Vanilli.
Want to know what a sea change looks like? Via @inquirer.com, here's a map showing the 16 PA counties which voted for Trump in 2024, and flipped blue to vote to retain the three Dem supreme court justices in 2025.
GOP state legislators in those 16 counties . . .
www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...
GOP state legislators in those 16 counties . . .
www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...
November 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Want to know what a sea change looks like? Via @inquirer.com, here's a map showing the 16 PA counties which voted for Trump in 2024, and flipped blue to vote to retain the three Dem supreme court justices in 2025.
GOP state legislators in those 16 counties . . .
www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...
GOP state legislators in those 16 counties . . .
www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...
An insult to the real Bushwhackers.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
An insult to the real Bushwhackers.
Five yrs ago today in my role as head of Voter Protection for Biden-Harris in Phila, at right about this moment, I was reaching out to our team to figure out who could sneak into a hastily-called press conference by Rudy Giuliani at the Four Seasons Hotel ... and then, what, it's going to be where??
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Five yrs ago today in my role as head of Voter Protection for Biden-Harris in Phila, at right about this moment, I was reaching out to our team to figure out who could sneak into a hastily-called press conference by Rudy Giuliani at the Four Seasons Hotel ... and then, what, it's going to be where??
I took this photo outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center five years ago this morning, on my way in while city workers were toiling around the clock, under a large security presence and amid rigid COVID protocols, to ensure every vote was counted.
We can stop him. We can defeat him. Don't stop.
We can stop him. We can defeat him. Don't stop.
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I took this photo outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center five years ago this morning, on my way in while city workers were toiling around the clock, under a large security presence and amid rigid COVID protocols, to ensure every vote was counted.
We can stop him. We can defeat him. Don't stop.
We can stop him. We can defeat him. Don't stop.
I have believed in that Schmitt mantra ever since I first saw it in 2004, and remember how well it applied to [Redacted]'s emphasis on poverty and Two Americas the next time around.
web.archive.org/web/20040916...
web.archive.org/web/20040916...
November 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I have believed in that Schmitt mantra ever since I first saw it in 2004, and remember how well it applied to [Redacted]'s emphasis on poverty and Two Americas the next time around.
web.archive.org/web/20040916...
web.archive.org/web/20040916...
For the record, this is not Arjun's first electoral victory. In 2009, he was a Reader's Choice Winner in The Hill's annual 50 Most Beautiful People list. cc: @lauraclawson.bsky.social @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social
thehill.com/capital-livi...
thehill.com/capital-livi...
November 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
For the record, this is not Arjun's first electoral victory. In 2009, he was a Reader's Choice Winner in The Hill's annual 50 Most Beautiful People list. cc: @lauraclawson.bsky.social @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social
thehill.com/capital-livi...
thehill.com/capital-livi...
Not sure what aspect of Pat Dugan's loss to Larry Krasner is most impressive: that he did worse than the guy 4 yrs ago who had to explain the dead woman in his bathtub; that he did worse than he did against Krasner in the closed Dem primary; or that his Forward Party endorsement wasn't decisive.
November 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Not sure what aspect of Pat Dugan's loss to Larry Krasner is most impressive: that he did worse than the guy 4 yrs ago who had to explain the dead woman in his bathtub; that he did worse than he did against Krasner in the closed Dem primary; or that his Forward Party endorsement wasn't decisive.
Remember that nutball theory about alleged 2024 vote fraud in Rockland County, NY, centered around a Ramapo precinct showing 0 votes for Kamala Harris while Gillibrand won? And we said it was just Hasidic bloc voting?
Last night's results? The same bloc voting. Don't drink the BlueAnon Flavor Aid™.
Last night's results? The same bloc voting. Don't drink the BlueAnon Flavor Aid™.
November 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Remember that nutball theory about alleged 2024 vote fraud in Rockland County, NY, centered around a Ramapo precinct showing 0 votes for Kamala Harris while Gillibrand won? And we said it was just Hasidic bloc voting?
Last night's results? The same bloc voting. Don't drink the BlueAnon Flavor Aid™.
Last night's results? The same bloc voting. Don't drink the BlueAnon Flavor Aid™.
People of the world today, are you looking for more good news? We were worried about nasty election results in the local judicial elections in Monroe County, PA, but Democratic voters were in control and everything's alright.
(And Judge-elect Best was our voter protection counsel there for years!)
(And Judge-elect Best was our voter protection counsel there for years!)
November 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
People of the world today, are you looking for more good news? We were worried about nasty election results in the local judicial elections in Monroe County, PA, but Democratic voters were in control and everything's alright.
(And Judge-elect Best was our voter protection counsel there for years!)
(And Judge-elect Best was our voter protection counsel there for years!)
Larry Krasner has won his third term tonight against D->R former judge Pat Dugan by a larger percentage (50% > 44%), and by far a larger vote margin (168K > 95K), than he won four years ago against the criminal defense lawyer who had a section on his campaign website titled "The Girl In My Bathtub."
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Larry Krasner has won his third term tonight against D->R former judge Pat Dugan by a larger percentage (50% > 44%), and by far a larger vote margin (168K > 95K), than he won four years ago against the criminal defense lawyer who had a section on his campaign website titled "The Girl In My Bathtub."
Twelve years ago, Democrats flipped Abington (Montco) PA's township government when first-time candidate Jimmy DiPlacido won his open seat election, 517-517 (winning the lot-drawing tiebreaker). threadreaderapp.com/thread/15952...
Tonight, he was elected to a fourth term by a 1,046-350 margin.
Tonight, he was elected to a fourth term by a 1,046-350 margin.
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Twelve years ago, Democrats flipped Abington (Montco) PA's township government when first-time candidate Jimmy DiPlacido won his open seat election, 517-517 (winning the lot-drawing tiebreaker). threadreaderapp.com/thread/15952...
Tonight, he was elected to a fourth term by a 1,046-350 margin.
Tonight, he was elected to a fourth term by a 1,046-350 margin.