Chris Geidner
Role at the time: Legal journalist and publisher of Law Dork, replying on his personal Bluesky account
Statement summary
Legal journalist Chris Geidner replied to Parker Molloy's thread about the "Pronouns" ad, which attached a still from the spot, calling the ad trash and saying it was completely unnecessary.
“yeah, this is trash — and completely unnecessary!”
A short reply within Parker Molloy's thread, which attached a still from the "Pronouns" ad; the referent of "this" is that ad. The post had about 97 likes by September 17. Because the quotation is brief, the surrounding thread is what fixes its target, and the Molloy source record is retained alongside it. Verified in a logged-in browser session.
Why we used this label
The case asks whether the closing line of Hinojosa's September 9 "Pronouns" ad — "My pronouns are Mom, Texan, and soon to be: Governor" — mocked transgender Texans; that line is the fixed reference point, not Abbott's attacks on her record. Geidner rejects the ad outright and adds that it served no purpose, which is an express condemnation of the conduct at issue. The quotation is short, so the thread it replies to is what fixes its target: Molloy's post attached a still from the ad and named it. The closest competing label is that this is not a position event at all, on the ground that a four-word reaction is too thin to classify. That loses because the referent is unambiguous in the reply context and the evaluation is explicit, but the brevity is recorded here so a reviewer can weigh it.