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Kevin Collins
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The answer to political anxiety is political organizing.
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Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social |
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Political science professor. Has thoughts about that thing someone said. substack.com/@juliaazari
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Kevin Collins
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The answer to political anxiety is political organizing.
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Adam Serwer
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I do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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Julia Azari
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i wrote a bit about Brown on May 24, around the anniversary, which might be helpful. notably, Eisenhower's defense of it was about rule of law, not morals and civil rights. But Southern victimhood and federalism provided a broader ideological framework for Brown resistance.
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Julia Azari
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"i can't stress enough how much a random acquaintance didn't want to have a weird conversation about other people's sex lives with me"
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Julia Azari
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i've been thinking about this a lot. They weren't held accountable for what they did with Dobbs - there are no real consequences for countermajoritarian behavior.
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Julia Azari
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because it is about a pretty specific situation and not the sitting president. and one that's running. it's all very bizarre. like the court made some broad exec power rulings in the bush years, but bush was still president then.
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Julia Azari
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i'm not sure a president has ever said that (but haven't done a keyword search). W criticized courts for being unelected and approving same-sex marriage; Obama criticized Citizens United; FDR obviously fought with the court over the New Deal. this is a weird prez power case...
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Julia Azari
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Let me know when you find out
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Eric Rauchway
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I wrote a quick note about the time Roosevelt prepared a speech in which he proposed to fight a Supreme Court ruling. đď¸
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Julia Azari
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www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Julia Azari
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I welcome emails from you!
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Julia Azari
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Just got a weird email from a man I don't know so I guess my Politico take is up
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Julia Azari
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want to clarify here that i'm not on team "calm down"- I'm on team "breathe and then find the thing you can do" because panicking people drown.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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robertsâ reasoning is fundamentally (lower-case ârâ) anti-republican. i know we dunk on the framers here but roberts has issued a rebuke of the revolutionary assumption that concentrated, unaccountable power is a fundamental threat to liberty.
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Julia Azari
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stepping away to do some work and some knitting and to eat (i forgot to eat. i don't have the body of someone who forgets to eat, but evidently i do have the brain of one). meanwhile, do logic and facts, don't spiral, don't exhaust yourself or others around you.
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Julia Azari
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this is a great thread, but i wanted to highlight this.
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Faine Greenwood
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I really have lost my former tolerance for "we're doomed/fucked/it's all over/they've won" takes at this point, in that they're the most dangerous attitudes one could possibly have when confronted with a truly existential political threat (which we still DO have levers to address).
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Julia Azari
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yes. the subtext and coup context are the real problem here. the imperial presidency stuff is bad but in a way I'm used to.
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Julia Azari
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also: panicking is going to wear us out. it's like drowning. step 1: what groups are working on court reform already?
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Julia Azari
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i keep re-reading this to make sure i didn't hallucinate
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Julia Azari
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i have to say that everyone wore down my "please explain everything" resources on thursday night. this is why we need to take breaths (but see the thread i just did)
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Hunter Walker
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We probably ought to have a conversation about a partisan court declaring Trump above the rule of law that is at least as intense as the one we've had about Joe Biden being very old.
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Julia Azari
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i would def read a blog post about the last sentence there, becuase that's not really how i was trained to think and it seems useful. but i'm in the same place.
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Julia Azari
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i guess the advantage i have over everyone else is that i was already planning to spend the day reading about Richard Nixon.
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Julia Azari
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basically making a coup legal as long as you discuss it with your vice president. moreover, this way of argumentation that ignores obvious context and treats all reasoning like we're in a law school seminar is just straight-up gaslighting.
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Julia Azari
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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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Julia Azari
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couple of observations from reading the decision: 1. this is really bad. 2. in practice, the status quo has also been bad, and i'm honestly unsure how much of a departure this is from the status quo. i'm still mad about the lack of accountability for Nixon, George W. Bush etc. ...
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Julia Azari
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important points here.
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Gautham FC
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However, the Courtâs GOP majority did not issue a test for âofficialâ v. âUnofficialâ acts so that it can remain the ultimate arbiter of what can or cannot be prosecuted
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Charles Louis Richter
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supreme court rules that fighting a whole-ass war about not being ruled by a king is overturned
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Nicholas Wallace
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If the lower court understood the present moment, this would be its response: "The court is surprised this needs to be said, but anything related to a coup attempt is not an official act. That includes all of the conduct in the indictment. Trial begins September 1st."
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Kevin Reuning
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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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Julia Azari
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waiting for 9 unaccountable people to announce their decrees feels super-democratic. or republican, if you prefer.
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Julia Azari
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millions on consultants. canceled a course-embedded peer tutoring program that produced great results for all invovled
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Regretting canceling my subscription to the New York Times on a morning when theyâre bringing me an oped from Bill Maher AND an interview with Steve Bannon. What a tantalizing feast for the mind, sadly beyond my reach now
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Julia Azari
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on the one hand, i feel slightly ridiculous even discussing this. on the other, it's not nearly as ridiculous as much of the discourse, so here we go open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...
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Julia Azari
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ok, but i just don't like Hillary Clinton's voice
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Julia Azari
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did not have 1968 fanfic on my 2024 bingo card.
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Nicholas Grossman
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Big hat tip to @jbouie.bsky.social for treating uncertainties as uncertain, with both downside and upside potential, rather than what many pundits are doing: imagine a positive scenario and act as if things will smoothly go that way if only people try it.
Doesn't seem like a high bar. And yet...
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Julia Azari
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Extremely good point
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Julia Azari
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Sydney, furious with me for not remedying the fact that a dog is barking outside.
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Jamison Foser
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perhaps I missed the recent New York Times editorial calling for Donald Trump to step aside for the good of the country in the wake of his 34 felony convictions. could you share a link here please?
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Julia Azari
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Me: I am done with this damn debate forever Also me:
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David_j_roth
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.
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Bradford Vivian
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So, basically, if I understand correctly: we donât have national political journalists so much as national Energy and Appearance Monitors.
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Julia Azari
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Julia Azari
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i recommend a fun hobby. we're all so scarred from 2016. i think at a certain point, news consumption takes us into the headspace of seeing the election result as written in the stars. fact is there's lots to do to improve our society (not that i'm sure writing my book or knitting is really that)
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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller
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PERFORMATIVE DESPAIR IS NOT A POLITICAL STRATEGY. Do not conjure your own imagined demise. In particular, don't do it collectively, on a communication system meant to amplify emotional contagion. (simpler/more esoteric: don't do death magic at collective scale on your own minds, for fuck's sake)
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Greg Sargent
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CNN let down the country with their awful debate format. The no-fact-checking ended up making Trump's endless lies sound plausible.
Two things can be true: This was a total disaster from a journalistic point of view, and Biden blew a big opportunity.
newrepublic.com/article/1832...
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Julia Azari
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i knit, read novels, exercise, and spend time with people who don't live and breathe this stuff. i don't see how we survive otherwise. frankly, 2020 was so so dark because i had so little else to do.
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