Chase Haller

Consumer protection attorney. Advocate for fair housing opportunities for all Hoosiers. All opinions expressed here are my own and not those of my employer.

[Ronnie Evans @RonnieAEvans]

He was the right kind of weird

Cared deeply about teaching people to love themselves. Staunch mental health advocate. Toured the world fighting against beauty standards $ tying self worth to them

A total goofball

Still torn up about it

RIP Oliver Tree

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.

I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.

In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.

"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.

"Honey, that's what it looks like."

The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."

I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.

I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.

It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.

"Well?" the waitress asked.

"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."

"Everybody does, hon."

Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.

Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.

I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.

It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.

The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.

The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.

Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.

"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.

It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.

"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.

I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.

In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.

And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.

You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.

The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.

I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.

Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.

"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.

Discipline is a journey.

[Chase Haller @hallerchase]

@AMandoSch

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark reportedly warned new recruits to “get hobbies that aren’t computers,” saying the company is building a “superhuman coder with nation-state hacking capabilities.”

[Chase Haller @hallerchase]

@AMandoSch So cynical on a Monday I’m here for it

[Chase Haller @hallerchase]

@HicksCBER @GovBraun Not to mention leading the country in foreclosure starts

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Spencer Deery @SpencerDeery]

Defending the Constitution is not defending Sharia law. It's our defense against it. You and I both took an oath to defend the Indiana and U.S. Constitutions. Have you read it recently? https://t.co/oOIdHfZdqI

[Jim Hayes @RegionalTVCat]

Velázquez three run shot in his first Cardinal AB. Gets the chain and a curtain call.

[Chase Haller @hallerchase]

@jamesonhaslam For me for the best for the price it’s Woodford Double Oaked or Old Forester Statesman. Similar price point around $65.

[Chase Haller @hallerchase]

@RileeDHarrison This post reminds me of the time I got a call from OC “uh, are you aware that your client is filing things with the Court with references to the September 11th attacks?”

[Chase Haller @hallerchase]

@SMB_Attorney @RobertFreundLaw Couple long weekends?

[Chase Haller @hallerchase]

@RileeDHarrison Looks fantastic

[Chase Haller @hallerchase]

@AMandoSch I’m 40 does it get better

[Chase Haller @hallerchase]

@AMandoSch Sir this is an Arby’s

[Chase Haller @hallerchase]

@AMandoSch Sir this is an Arby’s

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

I fucking love Slow Horses. I love it. I never thought I’d have such a close relationship with this show when I started- a few friends kept hounding me to give this a shot & my love for Gary Oldman helped. But man, this show is both interesting & comforting at the same exact time

[Chase Haller @hallerchase]

@elonmusk Sir this is an Arbys

[Courtney Finnicum @courtney883]

Munetaka Murakami. That’s all that needs to be said. 13th home run. 413 feet in that glorious ballpark. Incredible.