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Lily Mason
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Political scientist at Johns Hopkins, author of Uncivil Agreement and co-author of Radical American Partisanship
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I have only once wished for the plane I was on to crash, and it was when I was traveling with 2 toddlers and we all had bad colds.
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
This is the kind of negotiating insurance companies do when they work well. There is no way an individual is going to be able to say "how about I pay you $6,000 less than that?" and get away with it.
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
This is what the article says:
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Women are dying of sepsis after being denied abortions. A conservative sect that wants to repeal women’s voting rights is growing and gaining national attention. *This* is the NYT’s contribution to conversations about women?
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"Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the West"

Two words: algorithms and incentives. Mostly incentives. Until we modify or eliminate incentives, all we can do is watch as the fabric of society is pulled apart, strand by strand. www.ft.com/content/5060...
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
This short film is worth 20 minutes of your time today.
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Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
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There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command.

If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

It’s trials w real punishments.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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This is the kind of thing that should get a product recalled. I'm not joking. This should stop a thing being sold till it's tested fully.
Whenever secret police kidnap and disappear people, atrocities are happening behind the scenes.
Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.
Academic tip: sometimes you have to write "Importantly," to get a sentence started and then you can go back and delete it.
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The govt defense counsel is incredible. “The Feds’ coercive action was meted out by compliance before the fact by the university. Therefore, you can’t sue the Feds; you must instead sue the university.”

NB: the UCLA FA did sue UCLA.
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as a thought exercise for everyone reading ross douthat's latest missive in the NYT, i want you to think about sending an email to your entire company with the subject line "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", then think about the over/under on the number of minutes/hours you would still be employed
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I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.
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We’ve shifted to a focus group first, survey last approach, because folks are out there believing some wild things.
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I talked about this with my students. I think that basically very few people in NYC had latent attitudes on free buses but Mamdani puts it on the agenda, links it to other things people care about and makes it an issue. Candidates can shape opinion (which is why popularism makes me nuts)
Generally, when a party is trying to appeal to a new cohort of voters, they don’t send masked men to publicly kidnap and disappear thousands of members of that cohort.
Latinos in VA also moved hard back to the left from last year
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"The results, then, are a marked contrast to the accommodation, capitulation and outright surrender of prominent individuals and institutions in the face of Trump’s demands."

@jamellebouie.net this morning:

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Opinion | Trump Is an Albatross
www.nytimes.com