Austin Kidwell
austinkidwell.bsky.social
Austin Kidwell
@austinkidwell.bsky.social
history, politics, economics, sac kings, colorado buffaloes

I am a leftist. Jean Jaures forever

Sacramento CA
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I'd also note they already invalidated Section 3 that says that you can't hold federal office if you engaged in insurrection against the United States. These are not judges impartially applying the law. They are racist despots who despise American progress. (3/3)
December 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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That this SCOTUS used it to justify striking affirmative action bc it discriminated against WHITE people and now thinks their might be a colorable argument about the birthright part shows only that they are confused about whether the good team won the Civil War. (2/3)
December 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Should be turbo illegal
December 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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The Americans and their Internet have created a single world civilisation, but, with typical American extravagance, they have created two of them
December 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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I think it’s more that US hegemony is so complete from the 90s that their culture is turned into world culture, which means when they enter a culture civil war it also becomes global
December 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Lesson 6: If you have a theory of the Supreme Court that does not include political ideology, its going to be wrong. During the Biden administration it was all major questions because they did not like his policies, and during Trump it is mostly unitary executive, because they do.
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM