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Law Prof @RutgersLaw | Civ Pro / Admin / Fed Courts Some boys are tryin’ too hard. I don’t try at all, though. ⚖️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏃🏼 #firstgen

Philadelphia, PA
Joined September 2009
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Adam Crews
4 years
My best friend (a Catholic priest) just told me about a real, honest-to-god exorcism he had to participate in this week. Him: The diocesan exorcist said I had to be there because it’s my parish, and demons really care about jurisdiction. Me: Demons and I have that in common.
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1 year
Me, taunting all of my DOJ friends after a big win today:
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8 months
When I was in private practice, I worked down the hall from Eric Holder. One day, Neal Katyal came to visit Eric. When Neal passed me in the hall, he hit me with his umbrella. He did not apologize. I’m a petty man. I hold my grudges dearly. I’m glad that karma has caught him.
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Oh wow I get to do one of those fun 🚨‼️professional news‼️🚨 posts that all the cool kids are doing. I’m excited to announce that this fall I’ll make the jump from being exclusively #AppellateTwitter to being part of #LawProfTwitter when I join @RutgersLaw . (boring 🧵 below)
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Rutgers Law ⚖️
1 year
We are excited to welcome @adamgcrews who joins #RutgersLaw this fall as assistant professor. Adam is an attorney in the @FCC Office of the General Counsel, Litigation Division (Appellate Section) and @ABAesq Prospective Administrative Law Scholar. #lawschool #rutgers #NewJersey
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7 months
Me usually: “Law professors teach you *how* to think, not *what* to think.” Me today: “I’m about to recruit 48 new soldiers to the war on Erie.”
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6 years
Update: My first appellate brief just became my first appellate win. Thanks in no small part, I’m sure, to the many tips and tricks I’ve picked up from being an #AppellateTwitter lurker.
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6 years
Just filed my very first appellate brief. Irrationally excited that I can now claim membership in #AppellateTwitter .
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5 months
Today was my last class of my first semester teaching, and I’ve gotten several emails from students saying that Civ Pro was their favorite class. I made Civ Pro enjoyable 🥲🥲🥲
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9 months
I have officially professed law for the first time.
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8 months
Ever since I was a 1L, I have been easily worked into a fury when discussing Exxon Mobil v. Allapattah, the seminal case interpreting supplemental jurisdiction under 28 USC 1367. Today I get to teach it to a captive audience 😌
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Adam Crews
8 months
My old job talk paper has found a home in the @ArizStLJ 😌 In “The Executive Power of the Federal Courts,” I argue that sometimes courts are just glorified agencies and direct judicial review of agency rulemaking uses executive—not judicial—power. Link 👇🏻
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9 months
Because I’m bored/procrastinating writing a syllabus while listening to Taylor Swift, I present: 🧵Taylor Swift’s Eras as Administrative Law Doctrines/Cases🧵 First up! Debut = Substantial Evidence Early work. A classic. A building block of everything else to come.
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Contemporaneous receipt:
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10 months
A fun thing about teaching Civ Pro at Rutgers is getting to tell people that “I have Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s old job.”
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10 months
Thanks to @UVALaw for including me in this article—and for highlighting my love of international pop sensation Taylor Alison Swift.
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UVA Law School
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Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a law professor? Three of the newest #UVALaw graduates to join the tenure track share their stories.
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6 years
Just filed my very first appellate brief. Irrationally excited that I can now claim membership in #AppellateTwitter .
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8 months
Want to be an administrative law professor, but don’t want to leave your cool/cushy GS-15 job to do a full-time fellowship? Same! So do this instead! 👇🏻 Lovely senior scholars will coach/mentor you on academic writing and hiring in your free time. It worked for me! 🤷🏼‍♂️
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Emily S. Bremer
8 months
The @ABAAdLaw Section is now accepting applications for the ABA Administrative Law Fellowship for Prospective Legal Academics. If you're interested in moving from practice to academia, this one is for you! Details @YaleJREG :
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2 years
Very pleased that a half-baked idea I had in the shower last June will be given a gloss of legitimacy by appearing in the @ConnLRev . This paper is near and dear to my contrarian heart because I just say that everyone is wrong about everything.
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Adam Crews
6 years
Re: Kozinski clerks quitting. Rumor was Kozinski only had 3 paid positions, so he could afford a second judicial assistant. If true, all 4 may have quit, but the 4th was working off the books.
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Adam Crews
1 year
The view from the roof deck of the house I just bought 😍
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2 years
Spent the evening celebrating my first judge’s 35th anniversary of judicial service. His intellect, wisdom, and work ethic still blow my mind. Looking forward to the next 35!
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8 months
There needs to be more warning provided about how, once you become a law professor, random insane people will just cc you on random insane emails that they send complaining about random insane stuff that they think is illegal.
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Adam Crews
3 years
My electricity has been out since 2:00, so I’m currently prepping for an oral argument by candlelight, as though I were embarking on a treacherous journey to NYC by horse to fight about the validity of the Bank of the United States or something.
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Adam Crews
3 years
@JoeDudekJD SCOTUS has expressly held this question open for about 10 years. I remember something similar to this as far back as Reichle v. Howards in 2012.
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Adam Crews
10 months
In 2021, I used this list to fire off ~20 applications to some random schools. I didn’t get a TT job that year (because I had no idea what I was doing lol), but I got 2 callbacks and the confidence to try ~for real~ in 2022. This list matters, and you should contribute to it!
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Sarah Lawsky
10 months
Share information about law school entry-level hiring committees and hiring plans so that all candidates can have as much information as possible.
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Adam Crews
1 year
Officially a Philadelphia homeowner! But still domiciled in DC through the end of June, so continue to prepare your lawsuits accordingly. And by “prepare,” I mean don’t sleep on what could be my last chance to litigate whether Tidewater Transfer should be overruled.
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1 year
By any and all objective measures, I was unreasonably excited to receive my official .edu email address today.
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1 year
Mad props to my real estate agent, who did not bat an eye when I casually said that I liked a bright blue front door “because it complements my eyes” as if that were a perfectly normal and not at all unhinged thing to say.
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1 year
Just converted an entire section of my job talk paper into a 675-word, 4-paragraph footnote. Is this what accomplishment feels like in academia?
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Adam Crews
1 year
Clerk’s office: “Ok and what exactly is your conflict with the oral argument date?” Me: “Well, I’m seeing Taylor Swift that next weekend, and I’d like to save my voice so I can scream HE LOOKS UP GRINNING LIKE A DEVIL with the intensity it deserves when she sings Cruel Summer.”
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10 months
Took my abs for a shirtless run through my rural hometown because there are no greater joys in life than being hotter than everyone else and scandalizing the locals.
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Adam Crews
1 year
Anyway, now that I’m going to be a fancy academic I probably need to tweet more about admin law, civ pro, and fed courts, and less about unhinged gay stuff. The Taylor Swift content stays, though.
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1 year
Helping my dad wrap his Christmas presents for the family, all of which are from the gift shop at the university where I will be a professor come this fall, and the whole thing is very sweet.
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Adam Crews
3 years
My three favorite things to talk about are federal jurisdiction, remedies, and the law of judgments. This morning, I got to talk about those things in the Second Circuit on behalf of the greatest nation on earth. Today was a good day.
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Adam Crews
3 years
I get it. No one cares abut the history and theory of statutory interpretation. Nevertheless, I'm pleased to announce that I've duped Northwestern into publishing my essay "The So-Called Series-Qualifier Canon." @SSRN
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Adam Crews
1 year
This is such a cool opportunity for a #firstgen college kid like me. Higher ed wasn’t in the cards for my parents. My dad’s mom was literally educated in a one-room schoolhouse in rural Missouri. My mom’s mom was pulled from school at 14 and sent to work at a shoe factory.
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2 years
@LawyerCat_ Thurgood Marshall US Courthouse
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8 months
embarking on my latest project
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10 months
Left my house, walked past some neighbors (a straight couple), and heard the wife whisper to her husband OH THE NEW GUY IS ANOTHER GAY. 💀☠️😵 What gave it away?!?! The barely buttoned shirt? The 5” shorts? The Wildest Dreams friendship bracelet? My brisk homosexual pace?
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Adam Crews
1 year
Sometimes two federal agencies can sue each other. That’s weird! But is it unconstitutional? In @ConnLRev , I explain why the answer is “no.” Come for hot takes on Hayburn’s Case; stay for a preview of the crackpot theory from my job talk paper.
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4 years
One of the perks of having smart friends who clerk for SCOTUS is sometimes they get you really cool stuff like this:
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1 year
I’m a recovering consumer class action attorney, and this Southwest debacle may be what pushes me back into the game 🫠
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1 year
“We’ve had a weird and incredibly mundane issue come up, so we figured it’d be perfect for you.” My brand is strong.
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1 year
Lover meets evermore at MetLife Night 2. #ErasTourMetLife #ErasTour
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3 years
Susan Collins, who apparently lives right down the street (and has great taste), just lit up when she saw me with my “Gay for Gorsuch” tank, and I am here to tell you that this interaction was far more iconic than Kirsten Gillibrand’s screaming “gay rights” apropos of nothing.
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8 months
Exciting news for any new lawyers who want to be part of a historic implosion in agency job satisfaction!
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Lina Khan
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We're launching an Honors Attorney Program for new and recent law graduates to join the @FTC ! Honors attorneys will work on both antitrust and consumer protection matters. To join the program starting in August 2024, apply by 9/26/23:
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2 years
According to this random letter I just got from the federal government—i.e., my employer—some records system somewhere is convinced that I am senior counsel to the Smithsonian Institution. This is news to me. But it sounds cool. So … no taksies backsies.
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10 months
DO THEY NEED A LAW PROFESSOR TO PARTICIPATE!?!?!?
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The Swift Society
10 months
📰| An Academic Conference about @TaylorSwift13 will be held at the Indiana University. — It will trace Swift's industry impact, as a businesswoman and her genius.
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1 year
Very happy that my school understands and supports that Taylor Swift content is my shtick.
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Rutgers Law ⚖️
1 year
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1 year
My parents’ American dream for me was to go to the local community college. Pulling off four-year college and then law school was, like, a HUGE DEAL for my family. But to be a professor!? It’s wild. No one in my family could ever have dreamed of something like this.
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1 year
As I read Politico’s DC etiquette guide and found myself nodding along and sometimes uttering “duh,” I realized that this city has in fact broken me beyond repair, and I am likely forever a DC weirdo.
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4 years
The small hole in the wall bar in my parents’ town just gave me control of the playlist, so say hello to a fuck ton of Third Eye Blind and Justin Timberlake, drunks of rural Missouri.
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3 years
As a gay FCC attorney with a receding hairline, it was hard not to feel personally attacked by today’s NYT mini crossword.
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1 year
Through the ABA’s fellowship, I was fortunate to meet so many amazing scholars, including two who very generously went to bat for me as recommenders (Kevin Stack and @mjblawrence ). (And thanks also to my good friend and former co-clerk @joeljohnson13 who also vouched for me.)
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1 year
Increasingly convinced that the Civ Pro piece of my research agenda is just going to be a bunch of articles that are like “One Simple Trick to Solve [Literally Any Problem]: Overrule Erie.”
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Adam Crews
6 years
Is anyone else still v upset that Vanessa James and Morgan Ciprès didn’t win the bronze, or that is just a me thing? #Olympics2018
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Adam Crews
2 years
The Constitution does not necessarily require that the thing we identify as the Supreme Court today remain the Supreme Court tomorrow. A new Court could be made Supreme. Thus, I urge Congress and the President to act quickly to make Dolly Parton into America’s new Supreme Court.
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Adam Crews
2 years
Update: Grandma just dropped the 2021 grandchild rankings. “All my grandchildren are special. But Adam is the most special; then Derrick; then Isabella; then Allison; then the rest of you.” Thirty-one-year reigning champion 😊
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Adam Crews
2 years
Grandmother has entrusted me to make the cranberry sauce for Christmas dinner. She’s perched on a chair watching me like a hawk as I embark on this culinary journey. This is the make-or-break moment for continuing my status as most favored grandchild.
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Getting here wouldn’t have happened without the help of far too many people to thank. But I definitely need to give a shout out to the ABA’s Prospective Administrative Law Scholars fellowship, which made the jump directly from practice to academia possible.
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1 year
My toxic trait is walking past a bookstore and deciding that I actually don’t need any money and can spend it all on books that will likely just disappoint me.
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1 year
Only five days until I get to have the absolute most unhinged stuff imaginable screamed at me by this chaotic queen. 😍
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2 years
You spent the early pandemic making delicious sourdough bread. I wrote 60,000 words that no one—no one!—will ever read. We are not the same. (hurray for finally getting print copies tho; this year’s stocking stuffers at the Crews household will be ~lit~)
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Adam Crews
4 years
@crousselle Bananas aren’t fruit; they are technically the world’s largest herbs.
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1 year
Nothing has made me want a live-in boyfriend more than looking at houses *just* outside my budget and realizing the life I could live with a slight boost from a second income.
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Adam Crews
3 years
I swear when I just walked into West Hollywood, iced coffee in hand, my abs pulsated with righteous gay energy.
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Adam Crews
1 year
The appellate gods have blessed me with a June oral argument in ~Miami~ as a farewell gift before my departure to academia. 🥳
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Adam Crews
4 years
Despite the best efforts of every DC moron who had apparently never walked on a sidewalk before today, I managed to finish my virtual NYC marathon in 2:54:11, my first sub-3:00 since LA 2017. It’s amazing what leaving BigLaw can do for the body 💁🏼‍♂️
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@JoeDudekJD Not that I’m super eager to rush to his defense, but (1) his question doesn’t suggest “ordinarily,” but instead seems limited to how Steele was written, and (2) some opinions in fact cut right to the chase.
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3 years
I am deeply upset that I have already hit the point at which all of the worst people I went to law school with have begun running for public office.
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Adam Crews
2 years
Ten months after my first oral argument for the government, the Second Circuit gave us a win this morning. Is there any topic more interesting than the arcane rules of federal jurisdiction and remedies under the Hobbs Act? No, there is not.
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7 months
“You date like someone who lived in DC a long time.” - the man with whom I am currently on a date
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Adam Crews
1 year
One of the stupidest rituals of modern life is when, once per year, the NYT pretends like it’s going to raise my subscription fee, so I pretend like I’m going to cancel, and then we both pretend like we didn’t plan all along to agree to just keep it at $1 per week.
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11 months
It’s 6pm on Saturday and I think it *just* dawned on me that this is really my last weekend in DC.
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9 months
How I feel sunbathing on my roof in a pink bedazzled ball cap with Taylor Swift bops blasting as I write my Civ Pro syllabus.
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1 year
Three Justices sat out the original Chevron case, so I think it’s only fair that two more should go join KBJ in the recusal box this go around. The precedent is clear: Major administrative law doctrine can only be set by a 6-member court.
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1 year
Instead of saying that I’m “moving to Philadelphia,” I’ve started telling people that I’m “wrapping up my storylines in DC.”
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Adam Crews
3 years
Last night’s attempt at a cute gay uncle* pic went great, as you can see. * niece is borrowed
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2 years
My grandmother’s dogs are named Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and if you wonder why I abandoned banking law, well here ya go …
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Adam Crews
2 years
The straightest and whitest thing I will probably ever do in my entire life will be when I absolutely lose my shit during a live performance of Mr. Brightside in approximately 9 hours.
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Adam Crews
3 years
I regret to inform you that tourists have returned to DC and are as committed as ever to being in everyone’s goddam way.
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2 years
70 degrees on February 23! Dare I fasten only three buttons on my shirt this evening?
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Adam Crews
1 year
My real estate lender: “This is the only time in your life that you’re going to throw down this much money this quickly.” Me: “Honey, I went law school. I’ve been pissing away six figures at a time since I was 22.”
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11 months
Overhearing a first date between two people in their late 20s in Philadelphia. The man is bragging about having a BA, and the woman seems genuinely impressed. I am not in DC anymore.
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Adam Crews
1 year
Someone on the metro is trying to explain the concept of a “circuit split” and doing a terrible job and all I can do is tweet about it.
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Adam Crews
12 years
Let's all write in Mel Carnahan. Nothing says "fuck this nonsense" like electing the same dead guy twice. #mosen
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Adam Crews
3 years
Parents of Southeast DC: I promise you, from the depths of my soul, that you are the only person who thinks that your terrible little kid is cute when it pushes a miniature grocery cart in a way that obstructs every single adult in the vicinity.
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Adam Crews
2 years
I choose to believe that the Queen woke up feeling fine this morning and just decided to do something a bit cheeky for the lolz.
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6 years
First full-marathon length run of 2018 is in the books. I’m a bit behind schedule ( #18in18 ), but dear Lord it feels good to feel thin again. #shallowgaytweets
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Adam Crews
1 year
Some people in my hometown bought an old funeral home and turned it into a cafe / general store called “Swallow’s Nest” that sells (1) vaguely sexual home decor and (2) a variety of fruit wines. I am from Schitt’s Creek.
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Adam Crews
3 years
If anyone needs a break from 9/11 coverage, feel free to read my latest in @NwULRev . About 150 years ago, a British aristocrat made a passing comment about farm animals, and now 8 members of the Supreme Court think that tells us what an “autodialer” is.
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Adam Crews
6 years
@seanmdav @alangura Isn’t the alternative to throw up Barrett and ask voters to “Do it for Amy?” I’d stake my Senate majority on Amy’s driving the vote.
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Adam Crews
1 year
My two lowest grades in law school were Contracts and Property, so going through this home buying process is great because I’m approaching it like a normal, non-law person: just sign what’s handed to me and hope for the best!
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9 months
Heading to DC for the first time since the move so I can go see my good friend Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter 😍 (and also my real friends i guess 🙄)
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Adam Crews
6 years
This might be the wine and several hours of Will & Grace reruns talking, but I think my 2018 resolution is to be less Will Truman and more Karen Walker.
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Adam Crews
6 months
Just finished an 8 hour second date with a guy who reminds me of my trash ex Nate in both the best and worst possible ways. Can’t wait for this to blow up in my face!!!! 🙃
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Adam Crews
3 years
To the middle aged woman in Santa Monica who just commented on my ass: I hear you. I appreciate you. You have great taste.
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11 months
Discussing interior paint colors with my mother: “I just don’t think you’re going to end up liking that.” “Well, you didn’t think I was going to end up liking men, either.” 🤷🏼‍♂️
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10 months
It’s me. Hi, I’m the problem. It’s me.
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10 months
The absolute gay chaos in KC for Taylor right now …
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1 year
Honestly why would anyone want to be friends with me?
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