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Phil Lindsey @phillindsey.bsky.social · 23h

What an amazing album. I was hoping for a follow-up. RIP D'Angelo 😔

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 4h

It has been rough here in Milwaukee.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 1d

Saying that you will only fund universities based on your weird, made-up criteria as opposed to the actual statutory criteria enacted by Congress is a self-own. And sending that letter to everyone is low stakes spam and should be treated as such.

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 1d

This is a sign of immense weakness. It’s like a mobster asking others if they’d be interested in a shakedown because their first targets didn’t cooperate.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 2d

I hated Marbury by the end of it; but now I want to go back and change my student evaluations.

Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, Yes, Yes. Turns out that was the appropriate amount of time to understand that a judicial opinion is what legitimizes the democratic judge.

Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 2d

The fact the Unitary Executive Theory was factually, textually and historically wrong was never complicated at all.

I hated Con Law with William Van Alystyne with the fires of a burning hell, but it goes to show that students have no idea when they are learning embedded normative frameworks.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

obviously john roberts and the trump majority aren't going a little thing like "history" or "the written text of the constitution" get in the way of their ideological drive to remake the (republican) presidency as an elected dictatorship.

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 2d

The Bill of Rights provides all sorts of advice right now: petition Congress for redress, don’t allow soldiers to quarter in your home, don’t allow officers in your home, even bear arms (gulp), and even provides additional powers that are not listed.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 2d

@joshtpm.bsky.social has had an important insight about this the sovereignty of the statutes providing an alternative power center during this crisis, but you have to understand that the Bill of Rights provides an equally important backstop: the sovereignty of the People.

thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 2d

I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 2d

I am a college professor, and boy can I tell you, every semester, I learn in my evaluations, how little control I exercise on their poli-cultural views. Culture is weird; I always appreciated the NEA and NIH because they treat supporting art as supporting the people who create it on the ground.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot tell you how weird it is to read Rufo, Vought, Yarvin et. al., and their translations of Marx, Gramsci, et. al., on how culture and politics works as indoctrination, when many times, it is a shy Mexican-American kid into Manga and frogs, who decides to start twerking in front of ICE.

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 3d

My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 2d

The Brewers did invade Chicago and win last night. Brew-yah!

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 2d

And he probably really doesn’t know what open season looks like because he is on Congress’s sweet, sweet healthcare.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Johson literally said this week that “he was going to solve this in November or December.” It is on my feed because I mocked him for not knowing how tell healthcare time. I guess an aide showed my skeets. Change in action, guys.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

BREAM: Open enrollments starts in November. People are already getting notices about what they may pay. I mean, that's gotta be resolved.

MIKE JOHNSON: Yes, and they're eating up the clock in the month of October

(Johnson canceled the House in August to avoid taking votes on Epstein)

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, that should be “way”!

Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 3d

A: I believe in patents b/c modern patents are disclosed and are examined in an open manner as opposed to previous systems which would award patents arbitrarily.
B: I have written-lots-on how the modern patent law bakes inequality and how it should be reformed to address why you have identified.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 3d

Again, I am not sure anyone outside of Chicago knows how much being a White Sox fan radicalizes you: you literally saw a miracle in 2005 undertaken by a downtrodden baseball team haunted by an original sin.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

The new pope is quoting Hannah Arendt. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 3d

I just remember how much of my life was spent being very excited about Yo, MTV Raps and 120 Minutes because it was genuine counter-programming.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 3d

It was genuinely surprising to me how many people had not known that there was a separate Black National Anthem until 2018 when Beyonce sang it at Beychella. Indeed, as I have stated before Beyonce has engaged in serious counter-public theory for awhile now.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 3d

I see him as the culmination of the John Birch Society, just the weird crank state administrative law part of the Republican Revolution, who hate LBJ way more than normal.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 3d

This feeling arises from the fact as I have said before, much of American cultural production since the 1990s, has relied on making what was once an “alternative” cultural space mainstream: comedy, rap, even women songwriters, was outside the mainstream. MTV playing MJ and Prince was a battle.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 3d

This is why President Trump is obsessed with cultural takeover: the Kennedy Center, the Garden of Heroes, the weird architecture obsession. But I mean if you want to takeover culture, again, it has to be appealing. The one thing they did right in 2024 was to build on the manosphere culture.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 3d

I supported the first shutdown in March b/c I knew Russell Vought yet to be appointed and he would be way, way worse than DOGE. He holds much of the populace in contempt for needing any governmental support and for reasons unknown to me, hates the modern innovative state. Like who hates patents?

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

Russell Vought embodies the radicalization of the conservative movement; his example captures how far removed from democratic politics the Trumpist Right is. Vought is convinced to be fighting a noble war against a vast leftist conspiracy that has supposedly taken over the country.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 3d

That should be an et. al cite!

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 3d

Heyo! And @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social etcreated a database folks:

The Contours of American Congressional Petitioning, 1789-1949: A New Database | Daniel Carpenter

dcarpenter.scholars.harvard.edu

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! 👏🏽

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