Scott Abeles
@scottabeles.bsky.social
Attorney, DC, antitrust and administrative law
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Breaking on True Crime: The conviction of Justin Wolfe for murder-for-hire in 2001, a high profile murder in Prince William County, is heading back to court even though he pleaded guilty and submitted a handwritten confession in 2016:
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Justin Wolfe, who confessed to 2001 murder for hire, could get new trial
The key witness in the case said Prince William prosecutors pressured him into not testifying for Wolfe. An appeals court said that made Wolfe’s plea involuntary.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Breaking on True Crime: The conviction of Justin Wolfe for murder-for-hire in 2001, a high profile murder in Prince William County, is heading back to court even though he pleaded guilty and submitted a handwritten confession in 2016:
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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For my Top 10 list of 2024, I cast my lot on the side of movies and all the art forms they incorporate (literature, drama, painting, photography, music). If we're about to head into a world where culture is even more imperiled, let it be known that I'm with the arts, bitch. slate.com/culture/2024...
The 10 Best Movies of 2024
The films that showed me that cinema is as relevant as it’s ever been.
slate.com
December 10, 2024 at 6:10 PM
For my Top 10 list of 2024, I cast my lot on the side of movies and all the art forms they incorporate (literature, drama, painting, photography, music). If we're about to head into a world where culture is even more imperiled, let it be known that I'm with the arts, bitch. slate.com/culture/2024...
@thehighsign.bsky.social Happy New Year, Dana Stevens 😊 Thought Steve's Grandmaster Flash story was Apex-Steve. Is he on here?
January 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
@thehighsign.bsky.social Happy New Year, Dana Stevens 😊 Thought Steve's Grandmaster Flash story was Apex-Steve. Is he on here?
For administrative law/con law/Supreme Court nerds, I posted an article on the two new non-delegation doctrine cases just taken up by the Court. Move over, Loper Bright: www.carltonfields.com/insights/pub...
Move Over Loper Bright — Nondelegation Doctrine Is Administrative State’s New Battleground
Last term’s opinion in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo was a landmark in the U.S. Supreme Court’s administrative law jurisprudence, overturning 40 years of Chevron deference.
www.carltonfields.com
December 3, 2024 at 10:07 PM
For administrative law/con law/Supreme Court nerds, I posted an article on the two new non-delegation doctrine cases just taken up by the Court. Move over, Loper Bright: www.carltonfields.com/insights/pub...
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MOAR PARDONS, JOE
December 2, 2024 at 12:37 AM
MOAR PARDONS, JOE
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it's a big club, and you ain't in it
December 2, 2024 at 12:52 AM
it's a big club, and you ain't in it
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The Last Pitcher: defector.com/the-last-pit...
The Last Pitcher | Defector
Defector has partnered with Baseball Prospectus to bring you a taste of their work. They write good shit that we think you’ll like. If you do like it, we encourage you to check out their site and subs...
defector.com
November 29, 2024 at 5:26 PM
The Last Pitcher: defector.com/the-last-pit...
@davidjroth.bsky.social of @defector.bsky.social is the best writer around on multiple subjects.
"The ball is handed to the strongest and fastest guy on the field, and he runs away from everyone trying to stop him more or less in the same way a sports car might pull away from a bunch of very young children on bikes." defector.com/everything-i...
Everything Is Working For Saquon Barkley | Defector
For everything astonishing about the average Saquon Barkley touchdown run, the most uncanny is how natural it all looks. It is not, of course; on the merits, and even by the absurd standards for this ...
defector.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:26 PM
@davidjroth.bsky.social of @defector.bsky.social is the best writer around on multiple subjects.
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![Rich Auntie Skeleton @Bowsnonk • 5h [Beck voice] in the time of NFTs they stole my monkey
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Georgetown, DC, USA
November 27, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Georgetown, DC, USA
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The grift that keeps on giving
As contempt for cancel culture and self-censorship on college campuses continues to drive a political divide across the country, Jon Wertheim reports on a new start-up university, the University of Austin. Sunday on 60 Minutes ⏱️
November 24, 2024 at 10:32 PM
The grift that keeps on giving
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Bari Weiss should be the subject of a 60 Minutes expose, not of a puff piece
As contempt for cancel culture and self-censorship on college campuses continues to drive a political divide across the country, Jon Wertheim reports on a new start-up university, the University of Austin. Sunday on 60 Minutes ⏱️
November 24, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Bari Weiss should be the subject of a 60 Minutes expose, not of a puff piece
"In summary, I have been successfully irritated off the platform. The whole site smells so strongly of Musk’s desperation to be adored that it’s activated my natural tendency to be withholding from people I consider pathetic."
Quite a piece.
Quite a piece.
I briefly put principles and values aside to make a saltier, crankier case for leaving X: Elon Musk is uniquely insufferable holapapi.substack.com/p/x-out
X Out
A salty, cranky case for letting Twitter die
holapapi.substack.com
November 23, 2024 at 4:36 PM
"In summary, I have been successfully irritated off the platform. The whole site smells so strongly of Musk’s desperation to be adored that it’s activated my natural tendency to be withholding from people I consider pathetic."
Quite a piece.
Quite a piece.
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Musk putting his companies out of business by kneecapping programs that are responsible for a subsidizing a majority of their revenues because the funding program sounds "woke and gay" would be a fitting coda for one of the dumbest men alive
@iamtherog.bsky.social already pointed this out on twitter but I am horrified to learn that elon musk is so fucking stupid he thinks "climate diversification" is a DEI measure
November 21, 2024 at 12:42 AM
Musk putting his companies out of business by kneecapping programs that are responsible for a subsidizing a majority of their revenues because the funding program sounds "woke and gay" would be a fitting coda for one of the dumbest men alive
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Our billionaires are the most boring billionaires possible
If i was the richest guy in the world i would just do stuff like give the decemberists 100 million dollars to write a concept album about the hardy boys
November 19, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Our billionaires are the most boring billionaires possible
If coolness was a factor he'd be first ballot.
2025 Classic Baseball Era Committee Candidate: Dave Parker
2025 Classic Baseball Era Committee Candidate: Dave Parker
For a time, the Pirates’ slugger was the game’s best, but injuries and drugs took their toll, and have continued to weigh down his Hall of Fame case.
blogs.fangraphs.com
November 19, 2024 at 9:21 PM
If coolness was a factor he'd be first ballot.
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i mean. can we just call them tweets
November 18, 2024 at 6:21 AM
i mean. can we just call them tweets
One more for the block lists.
I’m sure BlueSky contains myriads and is not just the caricature of a left wing version of Truth where lefties just suck each other off in an echo chamber BUT it is funny that the first post I saw just now when I opened it up was this
November 17, 2024 at 4:51 AM
One more for the block lists.
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YANKEE DOODLE: *sticks feather in his cap* This is
called macaroni
YANKEE DOODLE'S FRIEND: Ok, cool. Listen man,
everybody's worried about u
called macaroni
YANKEE DOODLE'S FRIEND: Ok, cool. Listen man,
everybody's worried about u
You can steal classic tweets and post them here as your own watch this:
You’re telling me a shrimp fried this rice?
You’re telling me a shrimp fried this rice?
November 15, 2024 at 5:19 AM
YANKEE DOODLE: *sticks feather in his cap* This is
called macaroni
YANKEE DOODLE'S FRIEND: Ok, cool. Listen man,
everybody's worried about u
called macaroni
YANKEE DOODLE'S FRIEND: Ok, cool. Listen man,
everybody's worried about u
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