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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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12, 14, and 16 is going to fuck me up for a bit
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.bsky.social |
2079 followers 119 following 4341 posts
writer and game designer. liberal, progressive liberal, neonliberal. associate editor at liberal currents. she/her.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
@sjshancoxli.bsky.social
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12, 14, and 16 is going to fuck me up for a bit
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Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social
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Now up: my thoughts on Trump v. U.S. In my view the Court majority went much too far in creating a zone of formal and practical presidential immunity from criminal prosecution. "This is not what the Framers wanted. It is not what we should want either." www.cato.org/blog/court-w...
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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learn to read
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Silly B Man
@lawnerd.bsky.social
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Sherman was Right
web.archive.org/web/20200120...
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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more dumb shit said by traitors in 1860
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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we are a peaceful people--but an earnest one too.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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Stephen Webb
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like "how can we measure this correlation?" "well, first we conduct another phone poll of the people who didn't respond to our phone polls"
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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"yeah totally we're abolishing the house, not the senate. just imagine it: a unicameral legislature with six year terms, proportional representation, and decisions made by simple majority. you can accept that--right, senator?"
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The Onion
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The largely silent ad, which will reportedly air in battleground states across the country, features a sequence of headshots depicting politicians, former Trump White House officials, journalists, and seemingly random average Americans with big red X’s over their faces.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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what left and the right both understand is that we are approaching a moment of constitutional rupture. what the right understands and the left does not is that extraconstitutional violence is not some magic "i win" button. rather the rupture will proceed through the forms and orders of american law.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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this is literally exactly how the fucking traitors thought in 1860
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Sharon Kuruvilla
@sharonk.bsky.social
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people are going to hate this but Kamala Harris is the most dialectical candidate in 2024
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Kevin Collins
@kwcollins.bsky.social
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The answer to political anxiety is political organizing.
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Ned Resnikoff
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If I were a self-described liberal or leftist beating the drum over local control of zoning, I would take a moment to consider who my bedfellows are on this issue.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
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Following up that I mentioned 3 big political projects for the next 3 cycles (including this year)
2024: the ERA
2026: End the Electoral College
2028: Expand the House
I’m ok with compressing them, if we can do it. But we need to pitch it, or it won’t work. www.patreon.com/posts/104795...
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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yeah a lot depends on whether we're talking about a blue trifecta in ordinary times or a new constitutional convention in extraordinary times
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Coffeemancer Vanvidum
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We need a new constitution at some point, but there's no way to produce one through currently existing means that wouldn't be subject to minoritarian right-wing capture. Only way to deal with that is through existing institutions for the moment.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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in brief, this.
bsky.app/profile/thew...
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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the same question before us as was before the generation of '76 and every generation hence: whether we are fit to govern ourselves--or not.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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as liberals it's time we woke the fuck up. it is not certain but it is certainly possible that we are approaching a moment of constitutional rupture. it's time we began to articulate our plans for resisting that rupture and restoring America to what it was meant to be
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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these are not serious plans for dealing with a reactionary autogolpe.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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contrast this with the insipid plans of the left for a constitutional rupture:
"go to therapy"
"found a community garden"
"build a guillotine"
"throw a protest and let the riot sort it out"
e.g.:
ijeomaoluo.substack.com/p/how-we-get...
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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there is a reason they have spent so much time *articulating a vision* of why their extra-constitutional measures are nevertheless "within the spirit" of the idea that is america. there is a reason their judges and lawyers have written so much bullshit about why their rupture will actually be legal!
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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this is why the republicans are not *right now* out there committing purges and murders and deportations. they can't, not until *donald trump wins the election.*
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
@sjshancoxli.bsky.social
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what left and the right both understand is that we are approaching a moment of constitutional rupture. what the right understands and the left does not is that extraconstitutional violence is not some magic "i win" button. rather the rupture will proceed through the forms and orders of american law.
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K. Chen
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They figure that well, Trump will go away at some point but future generations will have a properly virtuous King who can rule us properly. It's an extraordinary betrayal of America.
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K. Chen
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A few people have pointed out the incoherence of overturning Chevron and giving the executive absolute immunity and it may really be as simple as encouraging the Presidency as personalist rule.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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honestly *if* biden steps down i would think the right move would be to resign the presidency and then inaugurate President Harris with all due spectacle
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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just one example in a long list of how lawless these people are--even, especially, the Respectable™️ ones like Roberts
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Silly B Man
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Roberts doesn’t even square his disapproval of korematsu with his disapproval of korematsu. Korematsu specifically disavowed the thing Roberts said was korematsu’s holding when he disavowed it.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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okay so a literal ratfucker then
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April Daniels
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"If the left allows it to be" is a code phrase that means "If we get fed up and start murdering you, it's your fault." There is no amount of submission and supplication they will accept as sufficient to meet their bar. The Heritage Foundation wants to murder Americans.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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Gabe Ortíz
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“Taraji P. Henson made Project 2025 the talk of the BET Awards.
The host of this year's BET Awards warned viewers on multiple occasions about the far-right plan to dismantle and remake the government in Trump's image.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...
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Spencer M Ross
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Cards are out, hand is shown, no mysteries.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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so much of the power and the terror of the Republican party comes from the sclerotic, antidemocratic features of the American system trump has always lost the popular vote! if that meant he *actually* lost we'd be living in a different world!
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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really cannot emphasize enough how plainly all this proves that the first priority of the next Democratic administration needs to be democracy reform --filibuster --electoral college --court reform --dc and pr statehood --new voting rights act --gerrymandering
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Peter
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the worst dudes online are the guys who are like “the time for electoral politics is over, it’s time for guillotines.” yeah bud i’m sure you’ll stop posting and get the ball rolling on the guillotines any minute now.
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Iron Spike
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Respectfully: If you're on Bluesky right now screaming that Pride Month will be abolished, Trump will be declared king, America is forever ruined: Log off. You are entitled to your feelings, and it's better to let them out than not. But *Do Not Do Death Magic On The Emotional Contagion App.*
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Iron Spike
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Doomer shit is un-American as fuck. Sorry. Factual. This country didn't even consider me a fucking person for half its existence, and the Supreme Court declared Black ppl didn't qualify as US citizens TWICE.
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David Avallone
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When people say “it’s never been this bad” I can tell their understanding of American history goes back 20 years, max.
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Liberal Currents
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We need you. www.patreon.com/liberalcurre...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Back in late 2020 I advocated for expelling all the members of Congress who voted against certifying, then using the rump majorities you'd gain after to pass court reform (who'd ratify the legality of this maneuver). Radical proposal! but the alternatives of doing nothing were more radical
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
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Not to be rude to Michael whom I respect very much, but in 2012 Hillary Clinton was the most popular politician in the country and had a viral meme. In 2020, numerous people said that Biden was so great he should have run in 2016. The weaknesses of these candidates pale to the weakness in us.
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
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ive said it many times but it's truly amazing that america is so calvinist that we've created marxism-calvinism
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Adam Serwer
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Nytimes politics desk is just overtly pro Trump at this point. bsky.app/profile/jaco...
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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well that's sort of the thing, biopessimism is core to terf ideology and the early terfs recognized that these kids are just walking down the path not knowing it was already laid out for them
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Adam Gurri
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Today @hurricanexyz.bsky.social defends the importance of judicial review in a liberal democracy and insists we keep that in mind when thinking about the necessary goal of reforming the Court
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