Jason Edwards

Dad. Husband. Attorney. All views are my own.

[Jason Edwards @JE1988]

@theNickBerk Can you explain how to do that or point me to a source?

[Jason Edwards @JE1988]

@neetu_arnold At some point, we just have to be honest and say that the issues kids are having are because of parenting and the lack of it. Everything starts at home. The school is just left to deal with the aftermath unfortunately.

[Anand Sanwal @asanwal]

3rd grader reading scores in the USA from 2015 to 2025 are an absolute disaster show

We are going very fast in the wrong direction

h/t @jean_twenge

[Jason Edwards @JE1988]

@JillFilipovic My daughter who is in K in a close by district was given an iPad as was my son who is in 2 & they use it once a week in computer science. I agree 100% screen time for kids is a huge issue but as always some of this dialogue is exaggerated to some extent.

[Zack Shapiro @zackbshapiro]

https://t.co/xEuhtKzskV

[Jason Edwards @JE1988]

Until robots can be licensed to practice law, I feel very confident that I will have a job, and many clients, for the foreseeable future. Sure, AI will do a lot of day to day task and the billing structure will have to change, but there will still be a need for lawyers.

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

With claims like this flying around, what is it like to be finishing your first year of law school right now?

[Jason Edwards @JE1988]

@speechboy71 I think there are many, but none that have the gravitas or popularity

[friendscallmeJay @Jaypotta]

Today as the Dead faithful celebrated the life of Bob Weir, John Mayer delivered perhaps the only “Ripple” that’s ever made me smile-cry… Highly suggest.😔

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The “We” Generation, The “Me” Generation, And Saying Goodbye To Bob Weir https://t.co/QjsH7f8jRO

[Steven Hyden @Steven_Hyden]

For @ringer I wrote about the extraordinary American life (and sure to be afterlife) of Bob Weir.
https://t.co/wjLKlWT4o7

[Saving Country Music @KyleCoroneos]

He wasn’t “The Other One.” He was “Ace."

A remembrance of The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir, dead at 78.
https://t.co/I7eXSs10NV

[SPANE 🇪🇸 @SperrysandNikes]

In the darkest hour of my life, when everything felt stripped of color and consequence, the Grateful Dead found me.

I didn’t go looking for them. I wasn’t searching for enlightenment or salvation. I was just trying to get through the days without feeling the weight of everything pressing down on my chest. Life had narrowed into something small and joyless, a routine of endurance rather than living. And then, almost by accident, I heard them, not as background music, but as an invitation.

The Grateful Dead didn’t offer easy answers or tidy resolutions. What they offered was permission. Permission to feel everything at once, grief and gratitude, longing and laughter, confusion and wonder. Their music wandered the way I felt inside, unpolished, exploratory, unafraid of getting lost. In those long, meandering jams, I realized that being lost wasn’t a failure. Sometimes it was the point.

There was something deeply human in the way they played. Notes bent and frayed, songs dissolved and reassembled themselves, mistakes became moments of grace. It reminded me that life didn’t need to be perfect to be meaningful. It just needed to be honest. When Jerry sang about broken dreams and strange highways, it felt less like a performance and more like someone sitting beside me, saying, I’ve been here too.

Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the world began to open back up. Their songs taught me to listen again, to sunsets, to strangers, to the quiet hope hiding inside even the hardest days. Beauty, I learned, isn’t always loud or triumphant. Sometimes it’s subtle, fleeting, and fragile, like a melody that only exists once and is never played the same way again.

The Grateful Dead showed me that life is less about control and more about surrendering to the flow. You don’t dominate the current. You ride it. You trust that even when the path bends unexpectedly, it’s still taking you somewhere worth going. That realization didn’t fix everything, but it gave me something better, perspective.

In my darkest hour, they didn’t pull me out of the darkness. They taught me how to see in it. They showed me that joy can coexist with pain, that meaning can be found in the mess, and that there is profound beauty in simply being here, still listening, still moving forward.

Once in a while, you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

Thank you for everything, Bob.

[Jason Edwards @JE1988]

@steve_vladeck any response?

[Josh Blackman @JoshMBlackman]

J.D. Vance to Chief Justice Roberts: The Judiciary Must Check Its Own Excesses. Did Roberts really think he could lob bombs at the elected branches and face nothing in return? https://t.co/62eqYSmrs9

[Jason Edwards @JE1988]

@MyGolfSpy Vice are in mine.

[Jason Edwards @JE1988]

@jasonwhitlock I didn’t understand a single word of anything Kendrick said in any of his songs

[Jason Edwards @JE1988]

@VivekGRamaswamy It is done daily at my wife’s school and kids’ school. Generalized statements like this don’t move any agenda forward.

[Jason Edwards @JE1988]

FAFOnomics: How Chaos Became America's Economic Strategy, by @kylascan https://t.co/32sOEF3e3J

[Byron Tau @ByronTau]

I looked at these contracts and I have my own fun fact. This is occurring because agencies (not just USAID) are buying subscriptions to Politico's Pro editorial product, not because Politico is getting grants or other federal funding.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

Just FYI: Politico Pro does not = Politico the news website you guys read. Politico Pro is a collection of trade publications + also a dashboard used to track legislation, lobbying, elections, etc. It is very valuable, which is why Politico was bought for $1 billion.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

Politico is not being funneled cash by USAID.

Politico has a very expensive pro subscription that is an entire platform for tracking legislation, votes, lawsuits, reporting, and elite legislative analysis.

These subscriptions cost north of $10,000. Private sector CEOs and lobbyists pay for them. As do government workers. I’ve subscribed and use them before. They are amazing tools for keeping an eye on the government.

Politico sells these premium trade pubs to agencies. Duh. Govt agencies (like the private sector) want to work on the best info available. They (meaning CEOs and private corporations and the govt) wouldn’t pay if Politico wasn’t providing value.

Forcing the cancellation of these subscriptions is anti capitalist nonsense that is gonna make our government dumber, not smarter.

But more importantly - it isn’t some massive corrupt scheme. Politico does invaluable reporting in these trade pubs, so people pay.

A bunch of people looked at these expenses and thought they uncovered a massive scandal of “donations” or “funding” when really they discovered a success 10+ year old trade publication.

A bunch of conservative writers who work at subscription based publications are claiming this is some conflict of interest, yet they all write articles every day about people who subscribe to their work. I do this too at Tangle - it’s not a conflict of interest to write about people who pay to access your writing!

Please just spend 30 seconds thinking critically before swallowing all this stuff whole.