This tracks. People need to understand that Harris actually ran a good campaign in tough circumstances.

Trump just keep giving quotes for D attack ads.

How is it that the Cornell president still has his job? Even if what he says were absolutely true--that the protestors were blocking his car and banging on the windows--that still doesn't give him the right to bump into them with his car.

That must be good, right?

I've always said, every campaign is a sh*t show, but one them has to win.

Amen

How about letting the president appoint a new Justice for every Justice over 70 who doesn’t retire, up to a total of 15 Justices? Call the FDR Was Right Act.

Least South Carolina thing ever

“Will ultimately force” = “Please God, Trump can’t be that stupid, can he?”

He’s losing it

It seems to me that reform of the Court is necessary for any democratic renewal in the US. And for that to happen the 3 liberal justices need to speak out and insist that the current Court majority is partisan and corrupt. I also think that the odds of that happening are close to zero.

Slightly increase a band: ABAA

Wrong grease and loose nuts sums up Elon Musk’s problems.

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

We are as far removed from the year Raiders of the Lost Ark was released (2026 - 1981 = 45 years) as the movie's release was from the year it was set in (1981 - 1936 =45 years)

I’m starting to suspect that the GOP might not have been 100% sincere in their support for balanced budgets.

Warrior Culture

MAHA: Make America Hemorrhage Again

What’s amazing is that Dersh thinks he’s actually helping himself

LOL reminds me of the Harvey Mansfield interview in the Chronicle of Higher Ed

Here’s an unpopular opinion. Caro’s LBJ books are a bloated mess. He gives LBJ way too much credit for civil rights and he cherry picks evidence to support his thesis. That said I will buy this book the day it comes out and read it in one sitting.

If your kid was at this event with Trump, please reach out to the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. They are going to need all the help they can get. www.nctsn.org/resources

I’ll go further. Many higher Ed admins now embrace the idea of elite impunity that pervades the ultra wealthy who make up most university trustees.

From Axios this AM, more signs of a healthy economy.

The movies are meh at best.

This Harvey Mansfield interview in the Chronicle of Higher Ed is really something. I love how he gets all pissy when pushed on his plan for affirmative action for conservative professors. www.chronicle.com/article/harv...

Light posting tonight while I'm at the Met Gala.

Gee, I wonder what Brett Stephens is up to these days.

Slightly diminish a book This Side of a Really Nice Airbnb

Associate Professor

If this was Claudine Gay when she was president of Harvard, the NYT would have had team of reporters analyzing every pixel of the footage.

It’s not about the money. It’s about power and status

When we wrote this over 25 yrs ago, so many people (libs and cons) claimed that we were alarmist, that we failed to see all of the changes that would prevent the kind of retrogression we are now seeing. I’ve never been more depressed about being proven correct. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I’ll go further. The Supreme Court is fundamentally incompatible with democracy. This is what happens when you give 9 life-tenured lawyers near absolute power.

I feel like his skills could have been put to better use at that specific point in time

Lifeguard in 1978. Made minimum wage of $2.65/hour. That would be $14/hour today or nearly twice the current minimum wage of $7.25

Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character(s). Wrong answers only.

“In the end the Party would announce that 2 + 2 = 5, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.” —George Orwell “1984”

The only reason to come to MPSA

It’s like a Robert Palmer video.

She’s good.

I love Portland but where I come from we don’t need a sign telling us not to drink from the toilet

AOC is channeling Scalia’s famous vaffanculo moment.

MAGA Math!

This is pretty much the message I use when a student wants an extension on their paper.

Given that Trump's approval average is in the mid to high 30s, there's a decent chance we'll soon get poll or two with him in the 20s. When that happens, I predict that Trump will threaten to sue the pollster.

Floor mats are extra.