This is exactly what we need scholars and think tanks to be doing right now. We need to be able to hit the ground running with well-thought out ideas on how to strengthen every hole trump has used to gut our govt, our economy, foreign relations, military, judiciary (SCOTUS), Constitution, etc.

Assaults on US Academic Freedom: Acquiescence and Resistance

A leftist and a far-right candidate grabbed the top 2 spots in Chilean election today, but the eliminated candidates were rallying around the latter: www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Chile's presidential race heads to runoff between communist and hard-right candidates

Watching Chilean election results come in and once again thinking about this tweet

I’ve now aged out of this but navigating the pestering attention of older men in my field—which varied from manipulative flattery when they were trying to sleep with you to contemptuous retaliation when they realized they couldn’t—was an exhausting and demoralizing tax of my early professional life.

This is, from a poli sci and social movement perspective, critical and true, supported by volumes of empirical evidence. Whether it’s Iran or Chile, creating and exploiting divisions between soft- and hard-liners is indispensable for any transition (back) to democracy!

“It would be much better to educate [our students] here in the country where they are going to live, and with whose progress they must inevitably be concerned. But we do not yet have the necessary machinery…I don’t want to turn the Persian into a bad copy of a European.”

Gendarmerie. They re-invented the gendarmerie. Ask Turks or Iranians how that works out.

happy slightly belated 22nd birthday to one of the best movies ever made

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

Oh no. Not Bill Clinton. Oh no. What will I do now with my Clinton Crypto, Clinton Bible, Clinton Hat, Clinton Vodka, Clinton University diploma, Clinton Tower lease? I am nothing without those

If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.

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“It would be much better to educate [our students] here in the country where they are going to live, and with whose progress they must inevitably be concerned. But we do not yet have the necessary machinery…I don’t want to turn the Persian into a bad copy of a European.”

Inside Politics does a detailed analysis of the new Texas map and concludes that, no, nothing about it looks like a dummymander. Dems there could do better than the GOP expected, but even then the map would have shielded GOP from more losses. Important to be realistic:

polisci and conlaw professors standing round the coffee machine asking what level of functional decline makes congress legally dead for constitutional purposes

Terrific read, important context for shifts in polling (gradual and internally negotiated on the part of respondents), specifically the softening of Dear Leader’s grip on power

Absolutely correct. So much of the discourse around restoring trust in the institutions is focused on decorum and civility theater. But why would anyone trust the institutions if, after the horror show that we are suffering through, they yet again fail to impose some measure of real accountability?

Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely

Yes! Understand this, you’ll understand 99% more than many Iran “experts!”

I’ve heard that, when it’s full, you can actually see Dear Leader’s visage in the moon

It’s pretty amazing to me that during this time the NYT had a reporter (Thomas left in Jan 2019) who had this material from Epstein on Trump — the sitting president! — and a clear willingness to provide more. And he just let them write these major Epstein stories without mention of that or pursuit?

heard an npr interview of a former gop consultant this morning, for whom the last straw was seeing masked goons on the street—and immediately thought of @brianbeutler.bsky.social‘s column. if 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 are responding to news this way, it’s not just ‘kitchen-table’ stuff, it’s everything.

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

“The secretary’s pencil suddenly stopped scratching on the paper” Arthur Koestler, “Darkness at Noon”

A nazi employed by a pedophile

Yes! Understand this, you’ll understand 99% more than many Iran “experts!”

At the same time the New York Times was running nonstop stories on Hillary's email server, they were sitting on this emails (and photos of Trump with Epstein victims, apparently). bsky.app/profile/data...

Exactly. As I've argued, polling that asks, "should illegal immigrants be deported, yes or no," tends to get a "yes" answer because it codes as "should the law be enforced, yes or no." (NYT does this and it's absurd). Once pollsters ask *who* should get deported, Trump's agenda is roundly rejected.

Might be time to pull out that old Lenin quote about decades and happenings

Yes, this! No mention on my feed other than here about Acosta’s role in this sordid affair

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This new version of the political game requires a very different response than the ordinary one of waiting for thermostatic backlash to return power to you, & you simply hold onto it. If Democrats have power returned to them, they'll have to dismantle the Trumpian presidency & refound democracy.

The only thing that can save Trump now is the illiteracy of these messages.

Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

I admire Don Knuth for many things. But perhaps the most admirable is quitting email before I was even born. From cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/email...

Might be time to pull out that old Lenin quote about decades and happenings

This isn't Epstein, but this story is pretty appalling. How evil can people be? They should all be named and punished www.bbc.com/news/article...

I have lost track of how many times I’ve seen a prominent journalist (eg at NY Times) defend against media criticism with something like “but that wouldn’t have changed many votes” or “but Trump supporters wouldn’t have cared.” So? You’re in the truth business. Or at least you’re supposed to be.

The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.

i am the parent of a child in pre-K and it is literally impossible for me to imagine speaking to my kid like this OR being so checked out as a parent that you don’t care about your kid‘s social skills

first it's pensions, then it's healthcare, then vacation, finally it's the wages, pretty soon you're just going to one box to work all day for no money and going to another to get the rest of snap to eat, which sounds a lot like how they described the soviet union to me in the 80s but what do i know

This is my class identity

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This is really something. Trump/GOP efforts to rig midterms running into serious trouble