Hobie Webster
@hobiewebster.bsky.social
Lawyer, Capitol Hill alum, preacher’s kid, Pitt sports fanatic.
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.
December 21, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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.
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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.
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.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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.
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I want a behind the scenes documentary on how Drake came to think suing over losing a battle was a good idea.
November 26, 2024 at 1:40 AM
I want a behind the scenes documentary on how Drake came to think suing over losing a battle was a good idea.
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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
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
November 24, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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
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
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This is what demographic panic looks like. When people are this uninformed, democracy faces serious headwinds.
from @jvl.bsky.social
from @jvl.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 8:41 PM
This is what demographic panic looks like. When people are this uninformed, democracy faces serious headwinds.
from @jvl.bsky.social
from @jvl.bsky.social
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Bluesky is less of a “liberal” echo chamber than a, “I’m sick of being screamed at by Nazis” echo chamber.
November 23, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Bluesky is less of a “liberal” echo chamber than a, “I’m sick of being screamed at by Nazis” echo chamber.
The constantly changing and arbitrary court decisions is why I don’t vote by mail.
NEWS: Timely arriving mail-in ballots without a dated signature will NOT be counted, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ordered. Some county election boards had moved to segregate and count these ballots, citing mixed messages from earlier state court rulings. www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...
www.pacourts.us
November 19, 2024 at 1:25 AM
The constantly changing and arbitrary court decisions is why I don’t vote by mail.
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"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...
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."
www.status.news
November 18, 2024 at 6:19 PM
"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...
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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
November 18, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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
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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.”
July 6, 2023 at 7:29 PM
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.”
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what’s the billing code for treason
August 2, 2023 at 11:49 AM
what’s the billing code for treason
You guys remember that sea shanty phase of the pandemic? That was wild.
August 3, 2023 at 1:12 AM
You guys remember that sea shanty phase of the pandemic? That was wild.
Finally a fortune cookie that understands me.
July 31, 2023 at 12:39 AM
Finally a fortune cookie that understands me.
Electronic baby toys and casino slot machines make remarkably similar sounds.
July 29, 2023 at 2:45 PM
Electronic baby toys and casino slot machines make remarkably similar sounds.
What does it say that the only nonpartisan Congressional hearing in years was the one about UFOs and aliens this week?
July 28, 2023 at 11:01 AM
What does it say that the only nonpartisan Congressional hearing in years was the one about UFOs and aliens this week?
Tried to log on to my Twitter @ and found it’s been deleted. Weak.
July 27, 2023 at 11:44 PM
Tried to log on to my Twitter @ and found it’s been deleted. Weak.
I’m not a lawyer, but this seems bad.
July 27, 2023 at 11:32 PM
I’m not a lawyer, but this seems bad.
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Twitter isn’t a place, it’s a people
July 27, 2023 at 4:37 PM
Twitter isn’t a place, it’s a people