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one of the most baffling parts of this. I spent the last decade or so prepping to make the "first they came for ethnic studies" version of the Niemoller point to libs. while they did (see the CRT offensive and book bans) I absolutely did not think children's cancer researchers would be next in line
Someone really needs to point out to Bret Stephens types that burning down the entire university to get to the ethnic studies department is unlikely to work, because lots of people who would otherwise throw them to the wolves now see themselves as de facto on the same side as them.
March 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
one of the most baffling parts of this. I spent the last decade or so prepping to make the "first they came for ethnic studies" version of the Niemoller point to libs. while they did (see the CRT offensive and book bans) I absolutely did not think children's cancer researchers would be next in line
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You should read the whole thing, but some of the worst snippets are here. Just clearly someone whose brain has been broken by elite discourse and no longer has a sense of things that don't exist on the front page of The Atlantic.
![You said some nice things about Secretary of State Marco Rubio. What has your reading been of him?
As a senator, he had a very strong track record on fighting antisemitism. I know there are many people, including Democrats in Florida, who appreciated his stance. What’s happening now is, I think, you know, I can’t judge, you know, but let me put it this way: I would hope that he would continue to maintain the strong stance he took while he was a senator.
You can judge him about, say, tweeting happily about people being sent to a horrific prison in El Salvador, right?
Look, there’s no reason . . . Look, when you take someone off the street who’s not supposed to be taken off the street, and you deport them, you make a mistake. I come from a tradition and a personal belief that when you make a mistake, you say, I made a mistake, and we’re gonna fix it. And that’s disturbing.
They may not care that they made a mistake. That’s the issue.
Off the record and not for quotation: [Goes off record.]
Is there a reason you don’t want to say that on the record?
Yeah, I don’t, because I’m still, you know . . . I don’t want to give people the chance. You know, there’s some people I know, including good friends of mine, who suffer from what the Republicans would call, what is it, “Trump Derangement Syndrome”? You know, anything he does is bad. Look, he moved the Embassy to Jerusalem. So I give him credit for that. I do give him credit for that. I’m not gonna say just because it’s the Trump Administration it’s bad.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpc7nm4rtcchhdq5sfxyrujl/bafkreihxrneustfzxgtik2fcy7ckstq76z6qsjxsoelvro2waxxp7er544@jpeg)
April 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
You should read the whole thing, but some of the worst snippets are here. Just clearly someone whose brain has been broken by elite discourse and no longer has a sense of things that don't exist on the front page of The Atlantic.
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this is some unbelievable cowardly shit, they're going to try to strangle medicaid, and they're going to blame it on the states. call your reps and call your senators and tell them you can see what they're doing.
Austin Scott previews how House Rs plan to cut Medicaid: "The federal govt is paying 90% of the Medicaid expansion. What we've talked about is moving that 90% level of the expansion back... nobody would be kicked off Medicaid as long as governors decided they wanted to continue to fund the program"
April 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
this is some unbelievable cowardly shit, they're going to try to strangle medicaid, and they're going to blame it on the states. call your reps and call your senators and tell them you can see what they're doing.
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Eliminating due process in order to imprison and deport people based on ethnic background and political views: famously good for Jews
BASH: What is the ADL doing to pressure the White House to give students who are being arrested due process?
GREENBLATT: We're not sort of public defenders for some of the Hamasniks on these college campuses, and I don't want to be
GREENBLATT: We're not sort of public defenders for some of the Hamasniks on these college campuses, and I don't want to be
April 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Eliminating due process in order to imprison and deport people based on ethnic background and political views: famously good for Jews
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It’s a sort of wild time to be someone who’s skeptical of a lot of the baseline assumptions that underpin how we talk about American economic power in geopolitics because the people you’re supposed to be arguing with don’t seem to understand anything about the nature of American power to begin with
April 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
It’s a sort of wild time to be someone who’s skeptical of a lot of the baseline assumptions that underpin how we talk about American economic power in geopolitics because the people you’re supposed to be arguing with don’t seem to understand anything about the nature of American power to begin with
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My colleagues have a really sobering & disturbing dispatch on Gaza. "Israeli security officials have confirmed to The Economist that the plan is to empty permanently the Rafah area, in Gaza’s south, which represents around 20% of the entire territory" www.economist.com/middle-east-...
Israel is intent on destroying Gaza
Without pressure from America, it is hard to see anything stopping it
www.economist.com
April 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
My colleagues have a really sobering & disturbing dispatch on Gaza. "Israeli security officials have confirmed to The Economist that the plan is to empty permanently the Rafah area, in Gaza’s south, which represents around 20% of the entire territory" www.economist.com/middle-east-...
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just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
February 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
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This is the closest America may ever come to fulfilling the checklist of conditions Theda Skocpol charted out for a social revolution a la 1917 Russia, just sayin'
just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
April 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the closest America may ever come to fulfilling the checklist of conditions Theda Skocpol charted out for a social revolution a la 1917 Russia, just sayin'
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Important caveat www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/n...
April 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Important caveat www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/n...
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Stipulating that this math is going to be wrong, we have upended the government's ability to function for... at most... and probably much less than... 2.2% of the overall federal budget.
April 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Stipulating that this math is going to be wrong, we have upended the government's ability to function for... at most... and probably much less than... 2.2% of the overall federal budget.
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I would say more broadly that as policy you really shouldn’t allow government officials to accuse people of *terrorism* anonymously.
You’re not supposed to grant anonymity to liars. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
April 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I would say more broadly that as policy you really shouldn’t allow government officials to accuse people of *terrorism* anonymously.
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“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.
April 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.
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#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov
April 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Genuinely do not understand the degree to which democrats insist on moderating on extremely popular issues. Same thing with the whole "moderate on abortion" schtick (that evaporated the moment Dobbs happened, fortunately)
April 7, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Genuinely do not understand the degree to which democrats insist on moderating on extremely popular issues. Same thing with the whole "moderate on abortion" schtick (that evaporated the moment Dobbs happened, fortunately)
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hi, political scientist here! this is not funny, pod save guys only do this when Democratic Party elites aren’t standing up to fascism
April 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
hi, political scientist here! this is not funny, pod save guys only do this when Democratic Party elites aren’t standing up to fascism
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One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months.
I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
April 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months.
I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
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i think this is true and i also think even if they reverse course, they'd do it in a way that probably only increases uncertainty (punting the effective dates) because Trump genuinely believes in this shit and i don't think he'll really give it up
I’m gonna lay down a marker and say that this crash, contingent on not reversing course within a week, takes durable authoritarian consolidation off the table. No, pendants, this is not “nothing bad will happen to anyone!”. But I do think this kiboshes actually becoming Hungary.
April 7, 2025 at 4:06 AM
i think this is true and i also think even if they reverse course, they'd do it in a way that probably only increases uncertainty (punting the effective dates) because Trump genuinely believes in this shit and i don't think he'll really give it up
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April 7, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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My research on civil rights movement found nonviolent protests were generally more effective for growing coalition but, in absence of police and vigilante repression, many news outlets deemed peaceful protests not newsworthy.
Same challenge remains. frontpages.freedomforum.org/gallery?regi...
Same challenge remains. frontpages.freedomforum.org/gallery?regi...
April 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
My research on civil rights movement found nonviolent protests were generally more effective for growing coalition but, in absence of police and vigilante repression, many news outlets deemed peaceful protests not newsworthy.
Same challenge remains. frontpages.freedomforum.org/gallery?regi...
Same challenge remains. frontpages.freedomforum.org/gallery?regi...
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*president crashes the stock market*
Hassett: oh so it’s illegal for guys to have hobbies now?
Hassett: oh so it’s illegal for guys to have hobbies now?
STEPHANOPOULOS: The president retweeted a post that said the market drop was part of a deliberate strategy. Is that the president's strategy?
HASSETT: Heh ha. The bottom line is the president has been talking about tariffs for 40 years. He's allowed to have an opinion.
S: So that is his strategy.
HASSETT: Heh ha. The bottom line is the president has been talking about tariffs for 40 years. He's allowed to have an opinion.
S: So that is his strategy.
April 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
*president crashes the stock market*
Hassett: oh so it’s illegal for guys to have hobbies now?
Hassett: oh so it’s illegal for guys to have hobbies now?
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When history of 2025 is written, the early & easy compliance a lot of institutions & people who claim to represent humanities (incl. some museum administrators, people at federal-adjacent-but-not-quite orgs, & of course univs) will loom large. Those who show different choices are possible are why.
Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
When history of 2025 is written, the early & easy compliance a lot of institutions & people who claim to represent humanities (incl. some museum administrators, people at federal-adjacent-but-not-quite orgs, & of course univs) will loom large. Those who show different choices are possible are why.