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Claire Bond Potter
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So true. They need to make a decision and give the rest of us time to get behind it.
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Opinion writer, reviewer & essayist | Emeritus History prof | Host of Why Now? podcast | clairepotter.substack.com | NYC & Northampton, MA | Repped by Roz Foster, Francis Goldin Literary Agency
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Claire Bond Potter
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So true. They need to make a decision and give the rest of us time to get behind it.
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Claire Bond Potter
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If the French center, liberal, and left could pull itself together in a successful joint effort to defeat Marine LePen’s fascist National Rally in a matter of days there is no reason why the Democrats could not pull off a Harris presidency.
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Claire Bond Potter
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This year’s presidential race has sparked debate about bringing back mandatory retirement. But here’s the paradox. we also celebrate elderly Americans when they have qualities that we associate with aging well.
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Marc Elias
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🚨BREAKING: Wisconsin Supreme Court OVERTURNS ban on ballot drop boxes. Congratulations to our client Priorities USA and the voters of Wisconsin.
We are not done fighting for free and fair elections and we are not done winning! www.democracydocket.com/cases/wiscon...
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Claire Bond Potter
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Right?
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Claire Bond Potter
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Todays Substack: "If it is impossible to persuade me that he is fit, not just for the job, but for a fall campaign, it is impossible to persuade anyone."
clairepotter.substack.com/p/my-god-joe
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Luke’s American Revolution
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A brilliant must read for all involved
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Claire Bond Potter
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My friend Peter Dreier guest posted today at Political Junkie!
"Clearly, Bowman was already walking on thin ice, even before this year’s primary campaign."
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Claire Bond Potter
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My friends Regina Kunzel and Marybeth Hamilton shared this episode as a bonus episode for my own podcast, "Why Now?"
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Claire Bond Potter
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"Today we celebrate freedom, but unlike July 4, June 19 asks us to contemplate why the United States was built, and thrived, on unfreedom; and the heroism and spiritual commitment that it required for a people to survive generations of violence." #Juneteenth
clairepotter.substack.com/p/juneteenth
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Claire Bond Potter
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Is there beer?
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Claire Bond Potter
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Lots of Trumpers, people who played key roles in his only electoral victory, have gone to jail or are on what we might call the “legally disabled list.”
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Claire Bond Potter
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One of the things I love about Trump's legal woes is how everyone on social media is a lawyer and speaks with such confidence about the statutes under which he was prosecuted, the appeals process, and the verdict. Carry on.
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Luke’s American Revolution
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This great post by Prof Potter reminds me that #BoringCentrism would quadruple funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Claire Bond Potter
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If you have one of those "Buy Nothing" Facebooks, I guarantee there is someone who wants them.
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Claire Bond Potter
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My latest drop on Substack:
Republicans believe that eliminating funding for the CPB is not only fiscally and ideologically conservative but good politics for an increasingly polarized country.
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Claire Bond Potter
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Maybe convicted felon is a new gender.
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Claire Bond Potter
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OK—did I call it, or did I call it?
I asked you to trust the jury, and they came through. Thirty-four counts: thirty-four verdicts of guilty, making Donald John Trump the first President of the United States to be convicted of a felony.
clairepotter.substack.com/p/guilty-gui...
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Claire Bond Potter
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"As I understand it, the neighbor’s sign said “F*ck Trump,” and as the quarrel played out, the neighbor said to Martha-Ann: “See you next Tuesday!” And then Martha-Ann beetled home and put the flag up."
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Claire Bond Potter
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The Phillies are so boss this year.
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Claire Bond Potter
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The sensational testimony, much of which we have heard before, also makes the trial confusing, even though the prosecution is knitting it together in a story that is not about sex, tabloids, or payoffs. clairepotter.substack.com/p/hush-money...
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Claire Bond Potter
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The New York Intellectuals had another project: inventing a virile intellectual style and agenda that was distinctively Jewish and secular, and imagining how they would get their ideas to the public." @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @dissentmag.bsky.social
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Claire Bond Potter
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Some very clever troll is signing me up for porn sites, entering user names that include the word “c*nt.” Which basically means I get verification emails calling me a c*nt. Sad, angry little people do these things.
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Claire Bond Potter
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Yale historian Paul Sabin: "Nader was a proponent of government and a critic of government. What he was really interested in was holding agencies accountable, and creating systems that could rein in and oversee federal interventions in the public realm."
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Claire Bond Potter
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I'm not saying--but I'm saying.
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Claire Bond Potter
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It’s Kentucky Derby day—and here’s a 2022 interview I did with historian Emily Bingham about why “My Old Kentucky Home” is a form of Southern nostalgia—for slavery.
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Claire Bond Potter
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This morning I was drinking coffee in my Greenwich Village apartment when I heard the helicopters overhead.
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Claire Bond Potter
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While the big shift has been among Republicans and “Republican leaners”—from 38% to 68% since Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021—47% of Democrats also think crime should be a priority.
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Claire Bond Potter
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Nell Painter returns to my podcast! This curated collection of essays is beautifully illustrated with the questions, visual observations, and imaginative renderings that scholarship alone cannot properly address.
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Claire Bond Potter
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Donald Trump is, as my father used to put it, a “gasbag,” a person who is almost physically unable to enter a public space without dominating it verbally.
clairepotter.substack.com/p/gasbag
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Claire Bond Potter
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Ron needs to remember that one reason voters didn't like him is that finger-waggy thing.
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Claire Bond Potter
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In which I launch a new feature: answering questions from readers. It's subscriber only, but potential new subscribers can take a one-time peek behind the paywall.
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Claire Bond Potter
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I greeted him as “Mr. MacNeil,” and he said in a baritone familiar to all of us who watched him on what is now The News Hour, “My friends call me Robin.” This was, of course, perfect, since—although we had never met—I already thought of MacNeil as my friend.
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Claire Bond Potter
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The suburbs have never been more important to our political life than they will be in 2024: 69% of Americans now live in an area defined as suburban, and every policy has its greatest impact on suburban citizens.
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Michael Hobbes
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Thousands of cisgender kids are prescribed blockers every year to delay precocious puberty. When they stop using them, puberty proceeds normally and they live the rest of their lives. The reversibility is the entire point!
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The White House will send emails Friday to 277,000 borrowers informing them their debts — $7.4 billion in total — are being canceled. As Election Day nears, the Biden administration has ramped up efforts to tout the president’s record on wiping clear the education debts of millions of Americans.
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Claire Bond Potter
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If you are at #OAH24 do me a favor: go to the Basic Books booth and just *ask* for Claire Potter’s Political Junkies. Bonus offer: order it from them, send me a copy of the order, and I will give you a free paid subscription to my newsletter for one year.
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Claire Bond Potter
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I know, right?
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Claire Bond Potter
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"As the eclipse began, and photographers and journalists assembled down below yelled “Don’t look at it!” Trump did the only thing he wasn’t supposed to do--look straight into the sun without anything to protect his eyes."
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Claire Bond Potter
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Tomorrow I’m just going to hang in Washington Square Park and what happens happens
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Claire Bond Potter
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He is just completely on top of the bridge disaster, saying all the right things that should shame Republicans if they don't get on board with funding the bridge, and clearly has a detailed knowledge of what the road back entails.
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Claire Bond Potter
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Can I just say how unbelievably impressive Governor Wes Moore is?
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Claire Bond Potter
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Happy to honor it. But seriously, the Coors boycott began decades ago and has never ended.
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Claire Bond Potter
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Seriously? The Coors boycott has been going on for almost fifty years.
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Claire Bond Potter
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Who better to turn to for answers, at a time when the Donald Trump MAGA myth machine promotes the worst aspects of American history as virtues, than American Studies scholar Richard Slotkin? @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @zachschonfeld.bsky.social
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Claire Bond Potter
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All professions awards prizes. Why is this terrible?
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Claire Bond Potter
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But let’s be clear: they are also not being targeted for being a hate group. They are being targeted for potential misuse of charitable donations and violations of their nonprofit status.
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Claire Bond Potter
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That’s such a good question. I think one issue is that nervous parents want their kids to not just have cellphones but smartphones—so they can track them—and once they do that it’s game over
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Learned something new today. Thank you, @clairepotter01.bsky.social.
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Claire Bond Potter
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Your ancestors must have been the Dares who stayed in England and took a later boat
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