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@waqarvick

public defender in philly; defender of bicylces over cars; listener of 90s hip-hop; extremely avid runner; futbol fan (fc barcelona has my heart)

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Jury finds D.C. ‘sandwich guy’ not guilty of assaulting officer Sean C. Dunn admitted he flung the hoagie at a federal agent. His attorneys called it a “harmless gesture” of protest as Trump commandeered D.C. police.

Long live the jury trial in America.

06.11.2025 19:52 👍 3018 🔁 503 💬 98 📌 41

My office. ❤️

01.11.2025 20:50 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.

(15 in Manhattan btw)

09.08.2025 16:47 👍 10477 🔁 1244 💬 635 📌 622

Asking with sincerity: Have Heather Cox Richardson and Jamelle Bouie ever dedicated a full piece on the devastation in Gaza? I generally like their politics (Bouie’s much more so than Richardson’s) but have they ever?

27.07.2025 12:13 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It has been hard to breathe under the weight of despair about the genocide in Gaza and my complicity as a citizen and taxpayer in the USA. I gave, and hope others will, also.

26.07.2025 12:23 👍 168 🔁 41 💬 1 📌 4
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10 pages in, let’s do this…

28.06.2025 21:54 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Zohran: Imagine living in a city where you can afford your rent, your groceries and even a meal at a restaurant now and then without much stress

Eric Adams: Imagine a platypus so powerful that it could destroy the city. We need more cops

27.06.2025 05:04 👍 25078 🔁 4205 💬 268 📌 145
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IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid ***

"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..."

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

27.06.2025 11:20 👍 2832 🔁 1638 💬 154 📌 217

lol

21.06.2025 14:46 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Taking up time to take a second photo at the DMV is maniacal

17.06.2025 15:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Watching the leftist discourse on Zohran Mamdani ever since he's been a major contender, I've started to note that there seems to be an acceptance amongst some leftists that running a campaign requires moderation of some messaging.

15.06.2025 19:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I genuinely thought that this kind of sign was over after 2017/2018. But apparently not…

15.06.2025 13:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Andrew Cuomo is the kind of person who, if he received an email from Zohran Mamdani, an email that has Mamdani's name properly spelled in the inbox as well as in the signature line, would reply, "Hi Mr. Zoran Madanee..."

13.06.2025 13:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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From Mosab Abu Toha’s recent New Yorker piece on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza:

12.06.2025 15:35 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Might be the most unpopular time to say this but I still think Raphinha should win the Ballon d’Or.

01.06.2025 08:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A high-speed train ticket in Italy will inform you of how much CO2 emission would’ve been spent if you did thr trip by car or plane.

30.05.2025 17:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Florence, Italy:

30.05.2025 14:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Go Phils from Rome

27.05.2025 17:27 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

International transaction fees are evil.

25.05.2025 12:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Missed a flight…

25.05.2025 07:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In Montserrat in Catalunya, Spain.

24.05.2025 15:14 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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En banc Fifth Circuit overrules decades of precedent and holds that there is no First Amendment right to receive information in a public library.

23.05.2025 14:35 👍 1906 🔁 872 💬 154 📌 249
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Very specific messaging found in Gerona, Spain:

22.05.2025 15:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Visited the Picasso museum in Barcelona yesterday.

22.05.2025 08:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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From Tibidabo in Barcelona…

21.05.2025 21:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dove Tuah

21.05.2025 15:52 👍 977 🔁 87 💬 12 📌 5

Can you imagine a law student who’s in Con Law being cold-called by the law professor to explain what habeas corpus is and the student gives this answer?

The eyerolls would be unparalleled.

21.05.2025 14:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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This headline and story speaks volumes about competing priorities that seem to have grown farther apart these days…

21.05.2025 10:25 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Democrats don’t need a Joe Rogan…they need to stop getting in the way of the candidacies of (truly) progressive candidates and of the enactment of (truly) progressive legislation.

21.05.2025 10:01 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Notice how she frames students' opinions as the way they "feel."

Not the way they "think." The way they "feel." A common tactic in oppressive hierarchies that's familiar to students of gender and race inequality.

20.05.2025 15:54 👍 92 🔁 29 💬 4 📌 1