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Preeti Chhibber
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apropos of uhhhhhhh everything, reposting this again
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Desiree Weber@desireeweber.bsky.social |
133 followers 247 following 47 posts
Political theorist at the College of Wooster — books, bikes, hikes and kittens — observing whatever it is that we make of this here world
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Preeti Chhibber
@runwithskizzers.bsky.social
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apropos of uhhhhhhh everything, reposting this again
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Ed Burmila
@edburmila.bsky.social
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Things are going very well when we've reached the "Don't worry, the military won't obey orders to kill civilians" stage of democratic backsliding. It's the sweet spot, where good things happen. Right where we want to be.
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Official act. Immune.
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.
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maura quint
@mauraquint.bsky.social
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when I was a child, I thought smart people were in charge. when I got older, I realized you didn't have to be smart to be in charge. but the piece that was hardest to learn is that no one is really in charge at all. no one's going to fix it beyond us.
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Jerry Chen
@jcsalterego.bsky.social
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starting to think this isn't about the Constitution, like, at all
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Desiree Weber
@desireeweber.bsky.social
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Hell of a test case, that’s for sure
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Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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The institutions of US democracy are hanging by a thread, and the Supreme Court just frayed it. I cannot emphasize this enough: the 2024 election is effectively an up-or-down vote on Constitutional democracy. All else is secondary, because democracy and rule of law are how we address other issues.
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Josh Gondelman
@joshgondelman.bsky.social
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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.
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Julia Azari
@juliaazari.bsky.social
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in practice, presidents have been enjoying a lot of immunity. This codifies it in a way that's quite alarming in the abstract, but even more alarming in the case considered. The decision references Trump's discussions with Pence about trying to interfere with the EC vote counting as "official"
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Desiree Weber
@desireeweber.bsky.social
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Doubly ironic, given that this mistake is in a decision the undermines *listening to subject-matter experts* And also because it’s no laughing matter at all
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Gautham FC
@gauthamrao.bsky.social
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However, the Court’s GOP majority did not issue a test for “official” v. “Unofficial” acts so that it can remain the ultimate arbiter of what can or cannot be prosecuted
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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This Originalist™ court has effectively immunized both the president and all federal law enforcement officers from any meaningful accountability. Because if there are two things the Founders cherished, it's the power of a king-like executive and armed agents of the government to act with impunity.
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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What you would do when authoritarianism comes to America is what you're doing right now
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Desiree Weber
@desireeweber.bsky.social
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You’d think a whole Supreme Court decision would have been spell-checked more thoroughly for the mix-up between “immunity” and “impunity”…
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Political Science Department at Northwestern University
@polisciatnu.bsky.social
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*CFP* Contesting Narratives: Myth, Memory, and Histories | 31 Oct - 1 Nov 2024 | Hosted by the Northwestern Graduate Political Theory Workshop
Keynote: Prof. Linda Zerilli (UChicago)
Abstract Deadline: 5 Aug 2024
More here: sites.northwestern.edu/politicalthe...
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executive editor, barbell quarterly
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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less than a single person's life has passed since we started making anything approaching a serious attempt at this and these mewling mediocrities will be quite content to end it all rather than simply come to grips with being no more or less valuable than any other citizen
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executive editor, barbell quarterly
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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i have so much boundless contempt for these pathetic white men, who were blessed enough to be born in one of the few attempts at multiracial democracy in the world, and who panic at being no more valued than anyone else to the extent that they'd blow it all up and go back to divine right of kings
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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The president is himself forever immune from prosecution for crimes committed using his official power, and he can pardon anyone for helping him to commit federal crimes, explicitly including an actions in furtherance of a coup to illegally hold onto the office of the presidency. That’s the upshot.
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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My first read: If a president commits crimes unrelated to him being the most powerful person in the world, he can be prosecuted. But if explicitly uses his powers to commit crimes, he is at least presumptively, and probably absolutely immune from prosecution. I mean, holy shit.
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Kevin Reuning
@reuning.bsky.social
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The ole Republican two step. Senators argue you shouldn't impeach but should use the courts, SCOTUS says you can't use the courts.
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Desiree Weber
@desireeweber.bsky.social
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Most seeming right-wing “hypocrisy” can be made sense of by realizing both points align with their ultimate ends: more power for them, fewer checks and balances for anyone else
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Kevin Elliott
@kjephd.bsky.social
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It's always 'heads I win, tails you lose' with the imperial GOP Supreme Court
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Seth Masket
@smotus.bsky.social
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The Circuit Court ruled that Trump is not immune from persecution in Feb 2024. SCOTUS could have just declined to touch that. Instead they waited five months to say "Trump is immune on some things, not others, y'all should figure out which," and it's very clear what they're doing
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.
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Kevin Reuning
@reuning.bsky.social
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Sotomayor's dissent: "Today’s decision to grant former Presidents criminal immunity reshapes the institution of the Presidency. It makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law...
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Desiree Weber
@desireeweber.bsky.social
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“With fear for our democracy, I dissent.” — Sotomayor Co-signed.
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Nicholas Wallace
@wallace.bsky.social
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Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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Well at least we get to watch Democrats continue to operate under the rules that no longer exist until November, that'll be a nice note to go out on
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Joe Dunman
@joedunman.bsky.social
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We have the technology to find precisely what existing thing you’re looking for on the Internet but instead here’s technology that finds nothing at all and makes up nonsense instead. That will be $100 billion and all the electricity please.
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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The Palestinian exception to academic freedom, a continuing series.
jewishinsider.com/2024/06/univ...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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absolutely this. republicans thrive on decline! republican policies bring economic decline which brings outmigration of young people and professionals, which strengthens the republican hold on government which brings even more conservative policies which brings greater decline, etc.
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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The richest man in the world with the biggest megaphone in the world is just asking questions about why people don't like neo-Nazis. And he's turned his website into one where thousands of people reply to him that the AfD is totes cool and so is he.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
@nkalamb.bsky.social
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Burlington, VT police subjected high school students to a simulated shooting with no warning whatsoever.
Absolutely unhinged.
m.sevendaysvt.com/news/burling...
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ProPublica
@propublica.bsky.social
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Multiple witnesses in the criminal cases against Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, and a grant of shares from Trump’s media company.
www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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John Yoo, on making the case for Trump prosecuting his political enemies.
Lesson might be that treating the torture memo guy as a legitimate source of legal advice information is a sign of a deeply broken movement.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/u...
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Dr. Holly Walters
@manigarm.bsky.social
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It's that time again!
CashCourse: Rainbow Capitalism and the Moral Investment in Pink Money.
Another #PrideMonth Thread (A Long One)
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Nails Nathan
@chadstanton.bsky.social
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“Despite calls from advocates and immigration experts to espouse an openly pro-immigrant agenda and underscore a fundamental contrast between Biden and Trump, the administration and Democrats have instead gradually ceded ground to the right.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Ian Petrie
@icpetrie.bsky.social
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JOB: Open rank tenured/TT position, Indigenous Histories of the Americas and Surrounding Waters, Simon Fraser University
Preference for Pacific Northwest focus
Review begins 8/15
universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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We have been living inside this slow-rolling right wing authoritarian takeover for almost a decade now and the generally dangerous direction it was heading was apparent from the start to anyone with a basic grasp of political history.
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Tony Corsentino
@notalegalrecord.net
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A chatbot’s outputs aren’t “about” things “out in the world.” Its outputs are “about” nothing except its own training data. Every output should be understood as “this is what my training data tells me is the likeliest string to be produced following your prompt”
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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$90 million dollars for CopCity while Atlanta is literally under a city-wide boil water advisory due to a water system that has been known to be failing and in need of complete overhaul for at Least 30 years.
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Pookleblinky
@pookleblinky.bsky.social
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It says something about techbros that they created a machine that does nothing but endlessly bullshit and gaslight and spew biases and instantly thought "wow this thing is so intelligent, just like me."
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The New York Times
@nytimes.com
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Here’s a surprising bit of good news: Global carbon dioxide emissions may have peaked last year. This means emissions that are responsible for climate change are starting to fall, according to new data.
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Desiree Weber
@desireeweber.bsky.social
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My department at the College of Wooster is hiring a two-year VAP in US politics to start this fall! Come join my department!
Full details here: apply.interfolio.com/146695
We'll review applications on a rolling basis until June 25. Please retweet and pass along to folks that migh be interested!
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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A good example of some of the quiet work happening across the country to divest from cops: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BXU... - communities are experimenting.
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Desiree Weber
@desireeweber.bsky.social
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Please help spread the word! We're hiring in US politics for this fall!
@apsa.bsky.social @mpsa.bsky.social @mpsalatino.bsky.social @polisciatnu.bsky.social
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Desiree Weber
@desireeweber.bsky.social
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My department at the College of Wooster is hiring a two-year VAP in US politics to start this fall! Come join my department!
Full details here: apply.interfolio.com/146695
We'll review applications on a rolling basis until June 25. Please retweet and pass along to folks that migh be interested!
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Climate Analytics
@climateanalytics.bsky.social
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Climate Action Tracker BLOG: Since the 2019 EU elections, the EU has significantly improved its climate performance through the Green Deal, and its emissions are now on a path consistent with warming a little above 2˚C, a more than 1˚C improvement from 2019.
climateactiontracker.org/blog/eus-gre...
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