Riley Compton

Penn State ‘20 | Notre Dame Law ‘23

[Riley Compton @RileyCompton1]

He is such a loser

[Brett McMurphy @Brett_McMurphy]

Virginia Tech's James Franklin: "Early in my career, we always had to do more with less. And then you get to a place like Virginia Tech, you gotta understand how to do more with more"

[Mike Fragoso @mike_frags]

Channeling my inner @AlisonSomin and going back to the well. See this from my review of ACB’s book and the current immoral panic perhaps makes more sense:

And there is a fundamentally political subtext to the book, although surely Barrett did not intend it. When I was working on her confirmation process in the fall of 2020, the line I frequently got from my wife, family friends, and even a number of judges was “we need Barrett on the Court.” Some of that was politics of representation, as expressed at the time by Chairman Lindsey Graham, but more of it was that they thought it would be good for the country to have a brilliant, but kind and thoughtful, conservative woman on the highest court. When I asked one (retired) judge to help out with the process, he responded to the effect, “my wife would kill me if I didn’t because she thinks we need Amy there more than ever.”

There is a largely forgotten vein of modern conservative politics that relied on the support of suburban women. Phyllis Schlafly gets most of the credit, but you see it elsewhere, too. The late, great Robert Novak recounts in his memoir, The Prince of Darkness, that one day he woke up and noticed his largely apolitical but pro-life wife had become an active volunteer with the GOP. The judge whom Barrett replaced on the Seventh Circuit, Dan Manion, has a fascinating “oral history” where he recounts his path to the bench—largely through Indiana Republican politics. He recalls a political campaign in 1978, saying, “One thing I realized was that most of the people working on campaigns are women. They do the tedious and necessary work.” He went on, “eighty percent of the people working on my campaign were women.” It is a history that has echoes in Barrett’s retelling of the life of Abigail Adams—who did the tedious and necessary work of the Adams household to support her husband’s brilliant career as a statesman.

If history is a foreign country, this history is Timbuktu to someone who follows contemporary Republican politics. In the last decade of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Dobbs, and the podcast “manosphere,” so-called “establishment” conservatives from Mitch McConnell to Bill Barr have fretted considerably over the steady erosion of the GOP’s formerly reliable base of suburban women. If the mainstream media’s 2024 post-mortems are to be believed, the 2024 Trump campaign decided that a “gender gap” with women was manageable as long as Trump generated his own sufficiently large gender gap with men. Luckily it worked, but the McConnells and Barrs would be right to worry about how these relative gender gaps play out in, say, a low-turnout midterm, or a future presidential ticket without Donald Trump. (Barrett is clear in her book that you only get two terms as president.)

Who knows if these political trends can be reversed—indeed it is up to the people whose job it is to actually win elections to decide whether they need to be. But if they are, it is going to be figures like Barrett who help do it. Her message of pluralistic constitutionalism, respectful disagreement, and love of the Constitution is what the fleeing suburban base should hear.

[Riley Compton @RileyCompton1]

Make America Great Again

[Phill @MeekPhill_]

I know it’s getting lost to history with each passing year but it’s insane how there was a 13 year stretch where the All Star Game determined Home Field Advantage in THE WORLD SERIES

[Riley Compton @RileyCompton1]

One of these nominees needs to just state the obvious about what is going on here.

It’s not a job interview anymore. Ossoff is not going to vote for Clayton no matter what he says, since Ossoff wants to win a democratic presidential primary. That should be made explicit.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: Who won the 2020 election?

Clayton: I’m not going to get into that with you.

Ossoff: Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this question, to have to indulge the president's delusions?

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

As a longtime consumer/critic of sports punditry, politics people need to understand that "we just need to fight harder" is usually cope. Not only is it not a plan, it signals the absence of a plan, and the unwillingness of an organization to ask real questions of itself.

[Philadelphia Phillies @Phillies]

Welcome to All-Star Week in the City of Brotherly Love.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

God Bless America

[Stoolies Clubhouse 🏴‍☠️ @StooliesClub]

I can’t stop watching/posting these videos! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

For 250 years, America has been the greatest nation on Earth — and with God’s grace, it will be for 250 more.

Happy Independence Day!

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

America is exceptional because the people who bitch about it the loudest refuse to leave

[greg @gandalf_thegreg]

obsessed with all the team USA hype videos 🇺🇸🦅

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

Playing Country Roads/Elvis/Freebird/Sweet Home Alabama is A+. So much American exceptionalism. Imagine not being us? Would suck!

[Charles Fain Lehman @CharlesFLehman]

Mamdani explicitly believes all the stuff that these people do. That’s why he endorsed them. The idea that he has a different “vibe” is baffling.

[The Philadelphia Inquirer @PhillyInquirer]

Philadelphia’s former top lawyer, now a corporate defender, says national companies need Philly lawyers https://t.co/suhgZaIH3v

[AdImpact Politics @AdImpact_Pol]

#MEPol: "I respect Graham Platner's service, but he doesn't respect ours...Platner blames his Nazi tattoo on military culture. That's insulting."

Pine Tree Results PAC is up with a new #MESen ad.

Future reservations by party:
🔴$65.9M 🔵$25.9M

[Swift @SwiftYouTube_]

If team USA had an elite ping pong team I swear the country would support them 😭

Country loves sports and winners

[Travis Yost @travisyost]

United States really should’ve put all of the knockout round games in SEC towns.

“Oh you wanna beat America in the round of sixteen? Great. You’ll do it in Tuscaloosa.”

[Xanny DeVito @trevorstweetss]

We’re in the worst possible timeline I’d rather be a factory worker in the Great Depression than see Knicks fans happy

[Gabor Gurbacs @gaborgurbacs]

If you took $1 Trillion from Elon (assuming it was cash), it would run the U.S. government for 49 days. Not even 2 months.

The U.S. doesn't have a billionaire/trillionaire problem, it has a spending problem.