@angiemaxwell.bsky.social really good read & it cites The Long Southern Strategy.

Omg! I just bought @angiemaxwell.bsky.social ‘s book today! And I wrote a paper on Phyllis Schlafly, comparing her & her paleoconservative ideology to todays “Moms for Liberty”

Oh, PLEASE! There's such a thing as both/and. Here's me on the Long Southern Strategy w/ top expert @angiemaxwell.bsky.social : www.salon.com/2019/07/01/t...

Who else around here was taught D'Nealian in elementary school? #GenX #GenDNealian

'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)

That’s the quote. I was looking for it. And here it is. Hannah Arendt on the Matt Gaetz as AG announcement

The House Ethics Committee was set to vote this week on releasing a report about Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), who resigned from Congress on Wednesday after being picked as President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general, according to four people familiar with the matter.

Who institutions memorialize has nothing to do with the people being memorialized and everything to do with the need of the institution to seem human. The institution is, however, inhuman. Only we can memorialize those people even as we abhor the cynicism of the institution.

RT @blfraga:

"1 in 14 judges confirmed during Trump’s presidency were confirmed after he lost his reelection bid. Perhaps the best known of those judges is U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon. " Will Biden/Schumer/Durbin show any sense of urgency in pushing to confirm judges?

Breaking News: The Onion, the satirical publication, said it won a bankruptcy auction to buy Infowars, a website run by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

This War will not be Cold. thehill.com/policy/natio...

The majority of white women are raised to compete with each other. Missing is any sense—whether in moments of triumph or eras of suffering—of the collective.

New prison in Arkansas. arkansasadvocate.com/briefs/arkan...

I wrote about Bluesky's big week and the post-election realignment in social networks www.platformer.news/bluesky-thre...

My latest, 𝘚𝘦𝘹 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘢, is now available on SSRN! The essay looks at the first abortion campaign in Georgia, uncovering new historical evidence, and examining how the politics of Redemption influenced Southern thinking on reproductive choice. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

looks like the cable news anchors are finally asking minor questions like “what does a mass deportation actually look like” and “are you going to deport citizen children?”

VP Kamala Harris outperformed Bernie in Vermont.

A new prison in the works in AR. Voted through this morning. Franklin County this time.

In prison news, Arkansas governor announced a new 3,000 bed prison with news of a land purchase, which came as a complete surprise to the local elected officials and legislators for the area as they learned about from the media. To the surprise of no one, all the locals are pissed.

The southern strategy with @angiemaxwell.bsky.social www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/the-southern...

🧵"The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics" by @angiemaxwell.bsky.social & Todd Shields explains how race, gender & religion all played an identity-shaping role in reshaping US politics. But there was also a cognitive dimension as laid out here:

Political science will be fun, they said.