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@badvandelay

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donating to people fleeing gaza is a better use of your dollars than donating to kamala harris please take an action beyond voting once every four years

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@badvandelay

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Hi @NYGovCuomo , @NYCMayor , @MTA , @NYPDNews . This is what arresting someone for fare evasion looks like. Shame on you. #BlackLivesMatter

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My dad almost died in 9/11 while standing like a deer in the headlights two blocks from the towers. A Muslim guy ran past him, slapped him on the chest and said "run!" and that's why he's alive. Today I'm thinking about that man and all that we owe to the Muslim community.

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@AOC @RashidaTlaib If only we realized how lucky we are to have someone like @RashidaTlaib who is willing to patiently educate Americans on the subtler forms of racism, even though she doesn't have to.

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@badvandelay

4 years

Why is it always “punch nazis” but never “punch confederate supporters”?

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5 years

Joaquin Phoenix is feeling the Bern

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i reached a public defender milestone of no longer saying "your honor" and now exclusively saying "judge"

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@badvandelay

4 years

I read @prisonculture 's op-ed out loud to my liberal grandma who used to spend quite some time telling me we shouldn't abolish the police. She said "I agree with every word of it." Anyway I strongly recommend reading abolitionist texts out loud to your white grandparents.

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@badvandelay

2 years

Nobody: Literally nobody: No one at all: The IFC Center today:

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@badvandelay

5 years

@rachsyme I'd watch an HBO GO version of The Mueller Report

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@badvandelay

4 years

i got the gig :)

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@badvandelay

4 years

Law school grading is fake actually

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@badvandelay

4 years

Just got two undecided Missouri voters who didn't know today was election day to commit to vote for @BernieSanders while doing my homework. Get on the dialer y'all!!

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4 years

Crying lol

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@badvandelay

4 years

“vulnerable communities” is not language i will keep using bc the vulnerability is produced by ppl outside those communities

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@badvandelay

4 years

Leftists: we should defund the police. Democrats: we hear you but that’s too radical. Republicans: *actually defunds USPS* Democrats: let’s invite a bunch of republicans to speak at our giant party next week

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@badvandelay

4 years

if we lose veselka i’m gonna lose it

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@badvandelay

5 years

Today is monumental. @DECRIMNY is hands-down doing the work of angels today. Sex workers are organizing to reignite a national conversation, They're getting bills passed, They're going to change this state and this country.

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@badvandelay

4 years

I officially won my election for “senator” within my law school’s student government! Looking forward to introducing my first bill to strip the Federalist Society of all student funding.

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@badvandelay

5 years

@AOC Elijah Cummings is pure class, style and wisdom.

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4 years

In zoom class today an attorney for big oil/gas gave a guest presentation on environmental enforcement actions and how to defend against them in front of a zoom background of apocalyptic red skies in California.

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@badvandelay

5 years

Why are we still letting democratic candidates for president in 2019 get away with this?

Pete Buttigieg hires former Goldman Sachs executive as national policy director

Sonal Shah worked at Goldman Sachs from 2004 to 2007 as a vice president, according to her LinkedIn page. She then worked for Google as its head of global development initiatives from 2007 to 2009.

www.cnbc.com

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@badvandelay

5 years

Calling the cops on a black trans woman inside the Stonewall Inn so that you can celebrate the anniversary of *checks notes* an uprising of black trans women against the cops. That is something else.

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@badvandelay

5 years

Today was my last day with @bradhoylman before heading to law school & I honestly couldn't have asked to work for someone more inspiring. His dedicated hard work this year is a shining light in a scary time. I'm so grateful to him & the whole team to be part of it. Thank you <3

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@badvandelay

6 years

@AOC This tweet probably took some serious self-restraint.

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@badvandelay

5 years

Just got my law school schedule. Looks like I'lll be studying - Democratic Socialism & The Law - Litigative Pathways To Social Justice - How to Abolish Bad Things and Make Good Things Free - Environmental Justice jk I'm taking contracts, torts, criminal law, and civil procedure

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@badvandelay

4 years

My two cents is that I exhausted every official option of contacting my council member’s office and nobody once picked up the phone or responded to my emails. @aaronnarraph sharing their cell numbers was literally the only effective way I could contact my rep.

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@badvandelay

4 years

It’s pretty awful that New York hasn’t passed the New York Health Act

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@badvandelay

4 years

holy shit i just got my first A+ in my life i honestly had no idea those exist I’m crying

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@badvandelay

4 years

Incarcerated people haven’t “paid a debt to society” but are OWED a debt by society which can never be repaid. The doublespeak is disturbing.

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@badvandelay

5 years

Please do something @BilldeBlasio . People are dying: Ernest Askew Robyn Hightman Mohammed Abdullah Yisroel Schwartz Kenichi Nakagawa Victor Ang Pedro Tepozteco Robert Spencer Aurilla Lawrence Joseph Chiam Susan Moses Fernando Trejo Hector Ayala Hugo Alexander Sinto Garcia

Good Idea Dave

@DaveCoIon

5 years

So now we're up to 15 dead cyclists, as a 70-year-old man riding his bike was killed in Bushwick

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@badvandelay

6 years

@Ocasio2018 Watching them twist themselves into a pretzel trying to find something bad about you has been wonderful. Keep going @Ocasio2018

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@badvandelay

4 years

GUYS THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR DC IS RELEASING HIM!!! I'M CRYING.

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@badvandelay

4 years

I just got my first ever client. It’s a compassionate release case in D.C. and I can’t think of anything I’d rather be doing than helping someone get out of prison after 50 years of incarceration.

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@badvandelay

4 years

I think if you want to go to law school so you can change the world you should do it. Law students and lawyers are too quick to discourage people from applying to law schools which is its own form of gate keeping imo

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@badvandelay

5 years

Damn. Today I'm incredibly inspired by the sex workers, trafficking survivors, immigrants and TGNC folks fighting for the decriminalization of sex work with @DecrimNY while enduring transphobia and sexual assault. They are going to end both criminalization and sex trafficking.

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@badvandelay

5 years

@AyannaPressley @AOC You and she are doing the people's work. Thank you

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@badvandelay

5 years

@alexkotch So what you're saying is @MeetMckayla can win this race?

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@badvandelay

2 years

My first day arguing in court as a family defense attorney is tomorrow. Wish me luck friends

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@badvandelay

5 years

Wow the more I read and listen to sex workers the more obvious it is that the Nordic model is a seriously terrible idea and that any politician who advocates for it is simply not listening to the people it would harm.

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@badvandelay

1 year

Thought it'd be good to share some professional news: I had my first victory in family court earlier this month! Helping reunite my client with her children after a traumatic separation by ACS is more rewarding than anything I've experienced.

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@badvandelay

4 years

The country's prisons are going to turn into death camps unless elected officials get them out NOW. @NYCMayor , @NYGovCuomo and the people who work for them need to #FreeThemAll or it'll be a genocide full stop.

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@badvandelay

5 years

@mekosoff We were at an a cappella retreat and our group's director ate so many edibles he turned green and we started laughing at him and then he threw up in the Arby's and we were asked to leave

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@badvandelay

4 years

DNC should let joe and bernie each bring one aide on stage with them to debate, bernie can bring david sirota and joe can bring anita dunn

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@badvandelay

5 years

@NYGovCuomo @NYCMayor @MTA @NYPDnews Folks. If you want REAL CHANGE, pls sign these two petitions. One in support of Elected Civilian Review Board: @cc : ECRBforNYC And PLEASE sign this petition to hold NYPD accountable for #EricGarner 's murder: cc: @changethenypd

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@badvandelay

4 years

Might fuck around and primary my entrenched district leader on the upper west side

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@badvandelay

5 years

Two days into law school and so far I've learned from my peers that: - Private property is a divine right. - There is no duty to rescue. - Cyclists belong in the same lane as cars. Good night!

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@badvandelay

4 years

An unmarked police car ran through BLM protestors tonight. Every single night, somewhere in america, the police are trying to kill black people demanding the right to life

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@badvandelay

4 years

Anyone else feel so overwhelmed by the election that they’re disengaging/dissociating?

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@badvandelay

4 years

In the ensuing election chaos I missed this. So rare for a headline to make me smile.

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@badvandelay

2 years

family court fit? i’m having fun at my job y’all

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@badvandelay

4 years

Yeah I'm a PROSECUTOR P - piece of shit R - O - S - E - C - U - T - O - R -

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@badvandelay

5 years

How are cars still legal?

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@badvandelay

5 years

1. Decarbonize economy by 2030 2. Democratize control over major energy systems 3. Center working class 4. Decommodify survival 5. Reinvest in communities to serve ppl & 🌎 6. Demilitarize, decolonize & international solidarity 7. Redistribute resources from worst polluters #GND

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@badvandelay

10 months

my face before i smoke a bowl and vote for Shahana Hanif

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@badvandelay

4 years

Incredible. Cuomo getting tapped as Secretary of State will start a chain reaction leading to my appointment as the Commissioner of the State Liquor Authority

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@badvandelay

5 years

George Washington Law School Class of 2022 baby!

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@badvandelay

4 years

Learned that my mom in Long Island has coronavirus and that I was probably exposed over 2 weeks ago. I've let those I've interacted with know so they can self-isolate. Her symptoms are moderate and slowly diminishing and I've felt healthy. PLEASE stay home if you can.

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@badvandelay

2 years

I passed the NY bar exam! Now let’s get rid of this damn thing.

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@badvandelay

4 years

I got an internship interview with one of the top public defenders in the country 👀🥴

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@badvandelay

4 years

I am once again asking you to wish David Lynch a happy birthday

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@badvandelay

5 years

Last year @UChicago police shot a mentally ill student b/c he vandalized some parked cars. And now, the UCPD helped CPD needlessly kill a mentally ill man barricaded indoors. Lethal force remains their go-to option. Rest in Power Myles Frazier.

Police fatally shoot armed man inside home near University of Chicago

Officers shot Myles Frazier during an armed confrontation inside the residence, authorities said.

chicago.suntimes.com

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@badvandelay

4 years

fuck i just got another gig, i’ll be doing public defense work this spring with new york county defender services 🥺

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@badvandelay

5 years

Sex Workers Say Decriminalization Makes Them Safer. It's Time to Listen to Them.

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@badvandelay

5 years

Big Bernie endorsements from @jessicaramos @SenGianaris and @LuisSepulvedaNY who transformed NY's farm and labor laws, gave undocumented people the ability to get driver's licenses, and kept Amazon out of our state. Imagine that kind of vision across the country. #Bernie2020

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@badvandelay

4 years

I just got my first ever client. It’s a compassionate release case in D.C. and I can’t think of anything I’d rather be doing than helping someone get out of prison after 50 years of incarceration.

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@badvandelay

4 years

Finally some good news: incarcerated people are now eligible to receive $1200 in stimulus checks if they file by October 15.

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@badvandelay

2 years

Couldn’t be prouder of my best friend @jake_bittle today

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@badvandelay

5 years

Far stranger things have happened in the last 24 hours than @MikeGravel making it to the next round of debates and bullying BdB and Gillibrand into protecting the 14th street busway on live TV

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@badvandelay

4 years

i for one think it’s pretty fucking amazing/inspiring to see how @J__Velasquez uses her journalism powers to shape public policy

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@badvandelay

4 years

If NY decriminalized sex work (not the nordic model) that would take a lot of power away from the police, but liberals aint ready for that conversation

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@badvandelay

4 years

Should I join a community board or is that misguided?

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@badvandelay

4 years

Really disappointed that @janosmarton dropped out of the race. It’s a wake up call that without publicly funded DA campaigns, the best candidates are at a disadvantage. Looking forward to seeing your next steps.

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@badvandelay

4 years

Reminder to potential law school applicants: you absolutely do not need to be a paralegal to get into law school. Do what interests you instead.

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@badvandelay

4 years

I’ll never forget the time I was in physics class at horace mann in 2008 and a girl left in the middle of class crying because it was the day after the stock market crash and her dad got bumped from the Forbes richest people list

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@badvandelay

5 years

I very strongly urge everyone to listen to @CeciliaGentili and @rontkim discuss the movement to decriminalize sex work. They speak with deep intelligence, compassion, and clarity about an issue that is frequently obfuscated by cynical fear-mongering.

WNYC 🎙

@WNYC

5 years

Decriminalizing sex work is one of the issues featured in @CabanForQueens ’ campaign in the Queens DA primary. As we approach the final count, NY State Assembly Member @rontkim and @CeciliaGentili of @DecrimNY joined @cynrod on @BrianLehrer to discuss.

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@badvandelay

4 years

NY if @CynthiaNixon were governor

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@alittleleader also thank goodness for this reporting

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@badvandelay

5 years

@AOC No one else is like this. Thank you.

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@badvandelay

5 years

Taken in 1931 Germany. Found hidden in the former home of a rabbi's family, it had written on its reverse side: "Our candles will burn far longer than their flag will fly."

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@badvandelay

4 years

The way Danny Dromm is a perennial reply guy on @aaronnarraph ’s tweets kills me

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@badvandelay

10 months

The union’s statement did nothing to discount the humanity of Israelis, it actually asked for humanity from their and our government. What the statement below does is deny Palestinians’ humanity. This is gross.

The Bronx Defenders

@BronxDefenders

10 months

The Bronx Defenders responds to its union's October 20 statement. Read the full statement here:

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@badvandelay

4 years

Never wanted to say this but I’m phone banking for Biden now. Who else?

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@badvandelay

4 years

Your boy just finished his first year of law school

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@badvandelay

5 years

@NYGovCuomo @NYCMayor @MTA @NYPDnews So not only did he not resist the officers for a moment (watch the video), but the person being tackled actually had a friend pay the fare for him. The @MTA lost no money here. Shame on @NYGovCuomo for urging this "fare evasion crackdown".

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@badvandelay

4 years

I already said this but it’s worth repeating. The man in this photograph has been standing on this exact corner for over three years. This entire faux outrage is a fabricated load of BS.

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@badvandelay

4 years

I could start studying for my criminal procedure final or I could finish the next three seasons of How to Get Away with Murder but I can’t do both.

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@badvandelay

5 years

@mekosoff needless to say, someone was singing or beatboxing throughout the duration of the episode

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@badvandelay

4 years

Proud to share that I received a grade of "Credit" in Constitutional Law.

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@badvandelay

5 years

Do you ever just straight up forget that NYC has a mayor?

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@badvandelay

4 years

Has the nyc left considered utilizing theo chino?

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@badvandelay

4 years

What if we paid people to stay home for 6-8 weeks and then got on with our fucking lives?

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@badvandelay

6 years

@saikatc A trick I like to remember is that David Brooks is always wrong.

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@badvandelay

5 years

Trans women of color do not have an economy that works for them. While they navigate discrimination in employment, housing and elsewhere, the least we could do is stop criminalizing them for trying to pay the bills.

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@badvandelay

1 year

Your boy gets sworn in as a lawyer today 💪🏻

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@badvandelay

4 years

this little guy’s name is Mango

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@badvandelay

4 years

Chrissy Teigen is not your friend. Chrissy Teigen is not your friend. Chrissy Teigen is not your friend. Chrissy Teigen is not your friend. Chrissy Teigen is not your friend. Chrissy Teigen is not your friend. Chrissy Teigen is not your friend. Chrissy Teigen is not your friend.

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@badvandelay

4 years

Going over my law prfoessor’s criminal procedure syllabus and seeing @prisonculture ’s “Yes We Mean Literally Abolish the Police” as required reading gives me a flicker of optimism for the semester ahead

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@badvandelay

5 years

@samraskinz I don't have a driver's license so i get into bars with my passport

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4 years

Every law school faculty: Adjunct writing prof. Full prof.

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