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Published: May 29, 2025 22:56

"HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon said the report has been updated to correct "'minor citation and formatting errors.'" We all know how scientific research operates. You come to a conclusion. Then you find citations to support it. If those citations don't exist…

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Published: May 29, 2025 21:20

Meh. Let's wait and see how she reacts if he actually follows through. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 29, 2025 19:20

Remember when MOOCs were so much the "next big thing" that UVA's board fired its president for not tying the uni's future to them?

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Published: May 29, 2025 18:55

Weird to call the "coverup" of Biden's decline 'worse than Watergate' as: • It's clearly bulls*** to keep attention on the book • There are actual precedents, e.g. coverups of a) RR's worsening senility towards the end of his 2nd term, b) Wilson's…

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Published: May 28, 2025 20:37

Trump & the Trump campaign repeatedly lied to the American electorate about his policies. They deliberately sent inconsistent & incompatible signals about their intentions, including on deportations. So, yes, voters *should* have known what they were…

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Published: May 28, 2025 16:56

This of gibberish is why we CANNOT and MUST NOT cede "western civilization" to the far right. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 28, 2025 16:21

Nor "killed sick children," "spread HIV," "will ultimately be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands" [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 27, 2025 22:41

This is the effect. But I’m not convinced it’s the intent. Rather, Trump’s a crook. He has bespoke immunity from SCOTUS and can’t be impeached. So why should he do more than the bare minimum to maintain plausible deniability? [contains quote post or other…

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Published: May 27, 2025 22:31

This feels like an end-run around the obvious unconstitutionality of targeting Harvard. And this has the “bonus” of hurting every other college and university in the U.S. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 27, 2025 22:02

TIL that not only does Mearsheimer *just happen* to choose 200 years "prior" to 1792 as the timeframe in which there were no "attempted naval invasions of a great power in Europe" (the Spanish Armada was in 1588), but that he's apparently unaware that…

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Published: May 27, 2025 16:14

Can't wait for the Trump administration to deny Olmert a visa.

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Published: May 27, 2025 16:14

Thanks, SCOTUS. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/trump-pardon-paul-walczak-tax-crimes.html

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Published: May 27, 2025 07:04

"Burden Sharing?" FFS [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 27, 2025 00:59

When the Constitution says "sole executive power," it means that Congress can't.... pass laws... to govern and regulate a federal civil service. Because the Constitution makes POTUS Commander-and-Chief and it *explicitly* denies Congress the power to... …

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Published: May 27, 2025 00:54

You're so vain, I bet you think criticism of bullying on Bluesky is about you.

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Published: May 27, 2025 00:29

You see, Article I says "herein granted shall be vested in" but Article II just says "vested in" so that must mean that the executive has vast unenumerated powers, which we'll show by cobbling together borderline readings of Locke &c. Thus, the framers…

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Published: May 27, 2025 00:15

Welcome to authoritarianism, where the laws are enforced against out-groups and political opponents, but waived for in-groups and supporters. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 27, 2025 00:13

When I was in grad school, I took a Locke course with Julian Franklin. It was an amazing class; I regret never finishing the paper for it. One week, he assigned an article that claimed, IIRC, to identify a heretofore unrecognized stage in Locke's account…

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Published: May 26, 2025 16:13

If only X/Twitter had transparent statistics we might be able to do some comparative analysis. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 26, 2025 15:45

half-baked thoughts: I think it's a bit more complicated than @jamellebouie.net or @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social imply. This is true. But it's also true that a replacement-level GOP candidate might have done significantly better in 2016, 2020, and 2024. [1/3] …

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Published: May 25, 2025 15:45

Listening to Amicus about Kagan's dissent. Kagan has finally started to articulate what's been obvious for years: the Roberts court has already destroyed the rule of law. And the way it does so has produced a five-alarm fire under Trump [1/3]

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Published: May 25, 2025 14:29

Pretty cool how the MSM is consumed with hand-wringing about their 'failure' to report on Biden's decline in mental acuity. Meanwhile....…

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Published: May 25, 2025 13:12

Years ago, @sherrillstroschein.bsky.social warned me that the UK was a leading indicator for the U.S. re: higher education. And here we are, taking one of the sectors in which we still enjoy global leadership -- & trashing it out of a combo of…

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Published: May 25, 2025 13:07

Any account of the damage Trump has done to not just the country, but the world, would be long and varied. But somewhere on it: actively making Americans dumber. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 24, 2025 04:36

The natural sciences might be screwed, but maybe this will be the development that finally ends the publications arms race in my field. Thoughts #IR people? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 23, 2025 20:25

The Republic as we knew it is over. We are living through a culmination of a) an 80-year movement to undo the New Deal's reconstruction of the United States as a modern state, b) a 60-year movement to reverse the Second Reconstruction, and c) a 50-year…

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Published: May 22, 2025 22:10

ICYMI, the specific agency in question was the… *checks notes*… NLRB. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 22, 2025 22:08

If there’s one thing the Framer’s agreed upon, it was the Constitutional inviolability of central-bank independence. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 22, 2025 21:56

Remember when Roberts, Alito, and Thomas joined an opinion that it was unconstitutional for the president to make *recess appointments* to federal agencies?

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Published: May 22, 2025 21:47

Apropos of nothing, I’m impressed by ACB’s ability to compartmentalize.

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Published: May 22, 2025 21:40

The presidency is a precious, fragile flower. If we don't extent it powers that it has never previously enjoyed, it will shrivel up and die. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 22, 2025 21:36

"The Originalists" [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 22, 2025 21:34

It's cute that everyone thinks Trump will *wait* for any of these systems, like he gives a shit about OPSEC and INFOSEC. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 22, 2025 21:32

🧵 I agree with the argument, but [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 22, 2025 19:57

By cohesion he means in-group ethnic homogeneity consolidated via unending demonization of out-groups. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 22, 2025 19:42

Trump is terrified of a Democratic congress, presumably because he's worried about impeachment. So yeah it's entirely possible they simply invalidate it. But we already know '26 isn't going to be "free and fair" ... they're *already* going after political…

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Published: May 22, 2025 16:01

Do they understand the concept of releasing votes? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 22, 2025 15:45

Rich right-wing drunk is upset that long-term Republican war on the civil service means she can’t get free distilled water. [contains quote post or other embedded content]