Assistant Professor of Political Science @UTKnoxville; vegan 🌱; regulation, law, business & politics; free inquiry and free expression
Knoxville, TN
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Since we’re all sharing our fav 30 Rock jokes, mine is this one about ordering Craigslist massages under heavy sedation
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Delighted to share that I’ve accepted a faculty position in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tennessee (@UTKnoxville) beginning Fall 2023.
Very excited to join this dynamic academic community, live in Knoxville, and hike the Smokies 🟧⬜️🟧⬜️
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The proud new owners of this 125 year old house in beautiful Oakwood/Lincoln Park in North Knoxville. Hope there aren’t any ghosts! 🏡👻
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This expert in strategic communication willfully misreading your original post is on brand for the entire operation!
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Lol. That, or Olivia is paid in the only currency many of them care about: proximity and access to power (as in the main character syndrome tweet below)
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Went to see Cocaine Bear and the experience was enhanced dramatically by the man who loudly exclaimed “There’s the bear” at the beginning of every scene the bear appeared in
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So first, Marco Rubio wore a USF (University of Sioux Falls, NOT South Florida) shirt while getting his Covid vaccine and now he has MORE Sioux Falls gear on. Is it possible (1) this is an elaborate, low-level gag; or (2) he’s sincerely unaware this isn’t the South Florida logo?
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Lol. Yeah if you can find ANYBODY who believes your initial inquiry was genuine (that this person w a demonstrated commitment to left causes opposes fair compensation for workers), rather than an attempt to obscure criticism of the Harris campaign, I’ve got a bridge to sell them!
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Accompanying my grandmother-who’s 90!-on a trip to see family in LA. She hasn’t flown in 10 years & her main reaction is outrage at the suspension of alcohol service onboard. I said it’s illegal even if you bring it yourself & her reply was “What if you drink it in the bathroom?”
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They come from Kamala’s own (admittedly hilarious) speech. Y’all need to get a better barometer for what’s “offensive”
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Very happy to share that my article "Implementing Equality" will receive @APSAtweets @sexualitypolsci's Cynthia Weber Best Conference Paper award! In the article, I contrast state-level compliance outcomes after judicial revisions to gay rights in Lawrence and Obergefell (1/3)
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Very cool waking up to a world where @DonnaDeegan is the Mayor-Elect of Jacksonville 🌟🌟 sincerely impressed by her indefatigable optimism for my hometown’s future and her results-oriented policy agenda!
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If I know one thing about Blue MAGA it’s that if you breathe one word of criticism about this administration, there’s gonna be a cartoon lecturing you five minutes later 💀
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Taking some time out from APSA to check out the gum wall, as well as a used bookstore whose proprietors have used punctuation to lob an epistemic grenade at the social sciences
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Celebrating that I finally fulfill all the constitutional requisites to become president of the United States #thisis35
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Manifesting Extremely Happy Fifteenth Birthday Wishes for Brian, my best bud who’s been by my side (and/or sleeping on me) from my first year of law school right up through today’s birthday nap seen below 🐈⬛🎉🎂 As I tell him daily, he is handsome, charming, and brilliant!
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Happy to join the @UNCPoliSci American Politics Research Group in Chapel Hill today to present work in development w/ @NicholasNapolio on the political legacy of Sherman’s March to the Sea. Received great feedback from an engaged group of faculty & students!
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Very excited to share that my article "The Walking Dead: How the Criminal Regulation of Sodomy Survived Lawrence v. Texas" will appear in Vol. 86 of the @MoLRev! This new research considers the conditions under which an unconstitutional law can endure beyond its own "death" (1/n)
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how to run 9 miles without music
1) wake up to run
2) find AirPods
3) realize no AirPods in AirPods case
4) think you left them on podium after class
5) run to campus
6) can’t get in classroom
7) run home
8) realize cats removed AirPods from their case, they were on the floor
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Growing up with a cabin in Gatlinburg, vacation afterglow & youthful rebellion led me to attend UT-UF games in UT gear (even in Gainesville!) to the chagrin of family & friends. Tipping my hat, then, to my adolescent self, who’d be thrilled by my #FDOC as faculty at @UTKnoxville!
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Today would’ve been my mom’s seventieth birthday. We lost her in 2019, way too early, but memories of her humor, good nature, and fierce grit endure. As Proust wrote, once someone we love is forever cast into the past, we feel them revive and take their rightful place beside us.
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Very happy to share that my article coauthored w/ @NicholasNapolio, "Regulatory Productivity in Federal Administration," will appear in @RutgersLRev later this year (1/3)
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Discovered today that @carrieunderwood’s new album Denim & Rhinestones fuses the sounds of women-driven ‘90s country that provided the theme music of my adolescence with a cool synth vibe, both of which are catnip for me, and it hits the mark as the models would predict
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Being a supportive partner for my fav Notre Dame alumnus @wzcmarsh (I am colder than I’ve ever been in my life) 🥶
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I think you may have enough followers that the national party chair won’t ridicule your follower count in reply to this (although wonders never cease). Elite status.
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When he’s been listening to me sing “When You’re Good to Mama” from Chicago for roughly 24 hours
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Because some of you skip this EVERYTIME and you’re in a relationship
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Dispatch from @TCU new faculty orientation: gratitude to the Koehler Center who, in covering all their bases, prepared two name tags for me - an important component of my everlasting campaign to disambiguate myself from the bombastic Canadian who shares two thirds of my name
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Since there's no major news today, I'm happy to fill that vacuum by sharing that my research w/ Thora Giallouri & Elli Menounou on the influence of Sup Ct Justices' personal finances on their decisions in economic litigation is forthcoming at the Journal of Legal Studies! (1/3)
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Beautiful day on Rocky Top for the LDOC of my first year at @UTKnoxville! Very grateful for a place in the Vol community working with so many talented scholars and students 🍊
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First day of Zoom Criminal Procedure: Brandy decided to grace everyone with her presence by standing on the tower behind me, when Brian, not to be outdone, began pacing back and forth directly in front of the camera until I let him sit in my lap for the final 30 minutes of class
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First, history notwithstanding, it’s not irrelevant that Albright was an active Episcopalian. Second, it probably has something to do with Albright’s cavalier attitude toward Iraqi civilian deaths as a result of 1990s sanctions.
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Twitter has recently made me aware I’m not permitted to complain about the New Years resolution people in the gym anymore so let me just say I want everybody to exercise but preferably not at the same time as me no matter what season it is and leave it at that
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To compound all these points I especially enjoy how the primary framework Olivia has for receiving criticism is “y’all must be jealous of me.” Really fine portrait of narcissism there
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Lost my mom a little over three years ago, but sending some Mother’s Day vibes out into the world for her memory and for the sake of moms everywhere 💐 She loved motherhood even more than two of her other foremost passions, Michelob Ultra and Gator football 🍻🐊
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Grateful to this person bc I’m going to use their argument that wishing someone a blessed night qualifies as “Christian nationalism” to illustrate concept stretching for my students in the future
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Reserving my vote in the 2028 Democratic primaries for a candidate who can manage to say the names of southern states without looking like he’s choking back vomit from pure disdain
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Officially heralding the start of my late 30s with a morning hike up House Mountain #thisis38 🥳
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Yellowstone, had fun even though it was not at all like the TV show and I saw exactly zero (0) of the mating bison I was promised 🦬
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Happy to share my article "Implementing Equality: State (Non)Compliance with Judicial Revisions to Public Policy on Gay Rights" is forthcoming in Law & Policy. In the article, I contrast implementation of two Sup Ct holdings central to the construction of sexual equality (1/n)
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For @UTKnoxville fall break we hiked up to Clingmans Dome, the highest point in Tennessee ⛰️
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Just walked out of the gym and opened my car door only to see a person’s terrified face sitting in the driver’s seat with the engine running. Because it turns out I opened the door to THEIR car, and mine-the same make, model, and color-was two spots down in the same aisle 💀
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Is it too late for the government of the State of Florida to withdraw all those legal actions predicated on the assumption that FSU belonged in the playoff or— #OrangeBowl
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Underappreciated thing about being 35 is it’s the one year of your life you’re the default age on the treadmill, so there’s that
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Out of our wits after working at home for sixteen months, @NicholasNapolio and I rented a WeWork office in the Salesforce Tower for the day and so far my work has involved taking photos and tweeting about renting the office
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Out and about for the first time in a year so decided to behave like tourists by going to the Getty Villa and eating lunch across from the Santa Monica pier
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Brought a book about the 1796 election to the gym this morning and just learned John Adams called himself “Daddy Vice,” unsure what to do with this information
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Happy 14th birthday to Brian, the stunning creature with whom I’ve gone through life since my first year of law school 🎂🐈⬛ In the immortal words of Jamie Lee Curtis, his birthday will be joyous, celebratory, sisterly, hot, spicy
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Accidentally packed myself a cooler float for the Ichetucknee instead of an inner tube but made it work (by riding in it) 🌊
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Ran up Sharp’s Ridge this morning - a 156-acre urban wilderness just a few miles from downtown Knoxville and maintained by @KnoxvilleParks, with miles of running trails and great views of the city and surrounding mountains from the peak, the highest point in @CityKnoxvilleTN 🌳
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Excited to share this sneak preview of an article @NicholasNapolio and I hope to have a full draft of later this week - we are happy to circulate to anyone who may be interested! (1/2)
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Showing @wzcmarsh around @NCState / @NCStateSPIA in anticipation of his talk tomorrow and realized in the process he’s already a local celebrity
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Unironically the coolest part of making a sarcastic joke about Kamala Harris on Twitter is that the KHive dredges up a photo you posted two months ago which allows you to be part of the cultural #Barbie moment 💁🏼♂️
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Fêting the only day on which I’ll ever be able to claim I’ve been an adult exactly half my life #thisis36 🥳
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Happy 12th birthday to Brian, absolute genius, loaf extraordinaire, daily architect of chaos in the dead of night, and all-around legend 🐈⬛ 🎉
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Excited to present some research in development using case studies of state responses to Lawrence & Obergefell to examine variation in the implementation of judicially constructed public policy related to LGBT rights at #APSA2022 this morning (in Palais 525B for those on site)
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Agreed to accompany @wzcmarsh to a wedding in Atlanta before even learning the reception is at President Snow’s mansion from the Hunger Games
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