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Legal Editor, @BuzzFeedNews. SCOTUS Correspondent. Nat Sec Team, covering Trump & Mueller. Sober. Gay. Buckeye. Law Dork. DMs open. chris.geidner@buzzfeed.com

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    1. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

      So ... it’s that time again — for an annual story time.

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    2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

      Eight years ago tonight, I arrived in DC.pic.twitter.com/xbYkDnbgTI

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      Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

      I showed up with borrowed money, on a flight bought by a friend, to stay with friends in their spare room. Oh, and I had no job.

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        2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          I had been a practicing lawyer, & I was blogging at Law Dork—the blog I started in law school and had restarted in early 2009—but that’s it.

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        3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          So, that next morning, I did what I do. ... I was applying for jobs, writing, and trying to figure out what my ~new life~ would be.pic.twitter.com/SsL2r5XHsT

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        4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          Then, I found out what I'd be doing on the next day:pic.twitter.com/7qenpk3Ey8

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        5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          Here is what I wrote that second day in DC: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/10/-the-legacy-of-a-legacy/29254/ … ... I didn't know it then, but I knew it then. I'd become a journalist.

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        6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          My bio from the article that day makes me chuckle — and remember how much I have to thank the early blogosphere for my career today:pic.twitter.com/accUKRd3Kg

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        7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          Within a month, I met @seanbugg and @RandyShulman ... and they gave me freelance work at @metroweekly. Within months, that became my job.

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        8. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          In February 2010, I wrote my first cover story — on the start of what became the end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.pic.twitter.com/mbc2pYRm8U

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        9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          In the next two-and-a-half years, I covered the end of DADT, the LGBT movement, the beginnings of the end of DOMA, marriage—and the theater!pic.twitter.com/gLsT8tos8H

          Metro Weekly
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        10. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          I also, in 2011, wrote my four-part series on the history of DOMA. Here was part 1: http://www.metroweekly.com/2011/05/domestic-disturbance/ …pic.twitter.com/EFy2hHMqoN

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        11. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          During this time, I also decided (long after others urged it) that it was time for me to get sober. So, in June 2010, I stopped drinking.

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        12. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          Then, in June 2012, @BuzzFeedBen asked me to come to @BuzzFeed. ... Who knew?!

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        13. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          I covered the end of DOMA, the end of Prop 8, the “Utah Marriage Christmas” (as my family thinks of it), all the way ... to June 26, 2015.pic.twitter.com/n4OATl2ykq

          Jim Obergefell
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        14. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          After DOMA was struck down in 2013, we expanded my role and I was covering more of the Supreme Court’s docket and more as legal editor.

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        15. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          So, I also was doing that—and added a focus on the death penalty. Then, Justice Scalia died unexpectedly—and there was a vacancy to cover.

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        16. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          I ran a half-marathon, we got a SCOTUS nominee, I interviewed AG Lynch on a flight back from Alabama, and ... I interviewed President Obama.pic.twitter.com/SG5SIL5Epk

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        17. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          Like, what the hell? This was not the life I imagined. Not in my wildest dreams.

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        18. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          As the year progressed, of course, Trump won the election — and my job took on a whole new level of ... whatever this has been.

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        19. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          In addition to covering the Supreme Court and Trump’s new nominee, I also was covering all the travel ban litigation right from the start.

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        20. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          As folks know, I then got Hepatitis A this fall and was out of commission for a few weeks.

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        21. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          There was no better way of me understanding how much my life has changed since I moved here than that.

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        22. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          There also was no better way of showing me how much I love my job — and my friends, family, sobriety, &, honestly, all of you — than that.

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        23. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          So, here I am, eight years later, working on a long, wild constitutional story with my editor, loving my life, and eager to keep this going.

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        24. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          Also, how wild is this? I ran my fastest 5K time ever this evening. (That made me damn happy, given I could only run a mile 3 weeks ago.)pic.twitter.com/Qr255XJwSL

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        25. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          I thank everyone. My friends who helped me move here and live here and find work here, the friends who helped me get sober, my family ...

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        26. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          ... my co-workers/friends who put up with me at my me-est, everyone who’s been a source or a subject or an expert or anything, and ...

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        27. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          ... of course, all of you—people who read, follow, RT, comment, criticize, make me think ... & have been such great friends over the years.

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        28. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          I never, not for a second, imagined when my plane landed 8 years ago in this city that I would be spending my days at the Supreme Court.pic.twitter.com/AkscA19dQ2

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        29. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          But here we are. I am so constantly grateful for the opportunity to do so and humbled by it. I try my best each day; that’s all I can do.

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        30. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 26 Oct 2017

          Here’s to whatever comes next. I only know I have no clue what it will be. ... Night, all, and let us be good to one another—and ourselves.

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