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Mark Stout@markstout.bsky.social |
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Intelligence historian, former intelligence officer. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. University educator. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea.
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Stephen Schwartz
@atomicanalyst.bsky.social
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This afternoon or evening, Keir Starmer, the United Kingdom’s newest prime minister, will be briefed on its nuclear war plans and then pen a new “Letter of Last Resort” to the commander of each of its four Vanguard-class SSBNs, to be opened and read only if a nuclear war destroys the country.
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Boston Tom Levenson
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Hey! Historians of American higher ed.: got any use for a visiting graduate student's notes for classes in American history taught at Harvard in 1949-50? I'm going through my mother's papers; she took courses from Schlesinger, Morrison, Albion & others. Took detailed lecture notes. Of interest?
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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To be clear, there are political leaders out there who could use more of what Biden is going thru
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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David S. Bernstein
@dbernstein.bsky.social
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The ramped-up hits on Project 2025 must be landing — Trump just shoved it right in front of the bus
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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We really should be hiring people to follow Trump around everywhere with big banners about how he’s a child-molesting rapist felon.
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Vanda Wilcox
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I am v excited that First World War Studies has published this excellent article on Eritrea #fwwhist - also of interest to Italianists
perspectives like this on the Horn of Africa can really enrich how we think about what a global history of war actually means
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Mark Stout
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Thanks very much.
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Hadas Weiss
@hadas.bsky.social
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we saw you from across the bar and were wondering if you'd contribute to our edited volume
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Mark Stout
@markstout.bsky.social
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Arlington County, Virginia is also under a boil water advisory as of the evening of July 3.
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Meredith Hindley
@mhindley.bsky.social
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DC folks, there is a boil water advisory for the whole city! Plus the Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery and Reagan National Airport. www.dcwater.com/about-dc-wat...
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Miles Grant
@milesgrant.bsky.social
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AP story waits until paragraph 16 to mention police & prosecutors are accused of conspiring to protect the cop who's apparently the real killer, until then making him seem like a lone wolf
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Faine Greenwood
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The Heritage Foundation is absolutely making overt terrorist threats and everyone you know needs to be aware of this.
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Anna O Law
@unlawfulentries.bsky.social
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We live in interesting times. I like boring. Boring is very underrated.
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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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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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if there is one survival skill I would REALLY like everyone opposed to the fascist GOP to learn right now, it's "do not say things on the public internet that will provide authorities with useful pretenses for coming after you."
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Hans E. Offerdal
@hofferdal.bsky.social
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A clear-cut analysis by @masaocvirk.bsky.social at @thewilsoncenter.bsky.social on Hungary's #EU Presidency.
Ocvirk suggests that Hungary might "use this spotlight to undermine the unity of the EU" and to "empower the far-right and nationalist voices" across Europe.
Indeed an important warning!
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David Schraub
@schraubd.bsky.social
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It's also true even if you *credit* Roberts' own self-conceptualization as an "institutionalist". On that metric -- preserving and maintaining the perception and dignity of the Court as a dispassionate citadel of law -- it is hard to imagine someone who has failed as spectacularly as he has.
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Amanda Marcotte
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In the wake of the "immunity" decision, the shocked press focused on how this hurts Jack Smith's case.
But it's much worse. The Supreme Court just blessed Trump's desire to be a dictator.
And they found a way to give that power only to Republicans.
www.salon.com/2024/07/02/t...
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)
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America is having a heart attack. But the people with enormous power to do something about it right now are counseling us to take an aspirin and see if we feel better in the morning. We need to get to the ER immediately. We can't vote our way out of this forever. We need major institutional fixes.
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Popehat
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.
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Holly Brewer
@earlymodjustice.bsky.social
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My article for @newrepublic
“The Supreme Court has effectively ruled that 250 years of U.S. history under a republic is enough.”
newrepublic.com/article/1833...
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Living under authoritarian regimes is both relatively boring and normal AND incredibly corrosive to the human soul. These things can absolutely co-exist. This is why everyone needs to resist authoritarians, even people who privately assume they’ll be just fine.
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Brendan Nyhan
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Mark Chadbourn
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Mark Stout
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I wonder if SCOTUS chose to release the decision on a Monday because people have to go to work tomorrow. Perhaps they feared demonstrations if they released it on Friday when it was due.
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Faine Greenwood
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This election season, I suggest doing everything you can to convince the people in your life that no, really, The GOP Wants to Kill Us.
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Corey Rayburn Yung
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International and comparative folks, does any other democracy have presidential (or toward a similar office) immunity from criminal law like SCOTUS just authorized? If so, is that based on statute, rule, or the nation's constitution?
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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do not use Telegram, use Signal
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Lawfare
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Join us live at 2:00 p.m. EDT as @AnnaBower, @qjurecic, @lee_kovarsky, @nkorpett, @rparloff, and Benjamin Wittes break down today’s SCOTUS immunity decision in Trump v. United States:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Gr...
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Mark Stout
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I bet there will be some interesting classroom discussions at West Point next fall regarding civil-military relations and military law.
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Mark Stout
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This is modestly encouraging. That speaks to something I'd been wondering/worrying about.
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won
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Mark Stout
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I bet the Secret Service is psyched to have to consider the possibility that one of their protectees might legally try to assassinate another protectee. Even if they calculate this is unlikely, it would something that they would Not Want To Screw Up. Low probability-high impact scenario.
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Adam Bonin
@adambonin.bsky.social
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Justice Jackson: the next time a President wants to fire his attorney general, he has options.
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Mark Stout
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Good point.
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Mark Stout
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Thank heavens. Something good this AM. I love @bythebywater.bsky.social.
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Faine Greenwood
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The thing to do probably *isn't* running around the Internet dispiriting others by saying that we're doomed and there's no use in doing anything
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Gary Legum
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Turns out Reagan didn't need to hide his arming the contras from Congress.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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and for average citizens, what we can do is refuse to shut up about the utterly gigantic stakes of this election to everyone we know.
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Mark Stout
@markstout.bsky.social
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That's a very good observation.
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Mark Stout
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Boy, I phrased that elegantly. 🙄
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🏳️🌈
@nuclearanthro.bsky.social
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Do something. Protest. Organize a protest. Join/organize a group. Do door to door canvassing. Do phone banking. Donate to bail funds & groups. Write congresscritters. Express your values to friends & coworkers & family. Search the internet for ideas if you have to.
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Mark Stout
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I so want to disagree with you. I can't.
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Mark Stout
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I believe the phrase was that the American Protective League was "organized with the approval and operating under the direction of the United States Department of Justice." It numbered 250,000 at its peak.
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Mark Stout
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IANAL, but they'd not be official forces so it'd presumably be a different analysis. But I don't know? And what if they get somehow deputized? I'm thinking here of the American Protective League during World War I. It was a volunteer organization but operated under the imprimatur of Justice.
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Mark Stout
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Any lawyers, including those who do military law have thoughts on this thought? POTUS is commander-in-chief of the military, commanding the military is clearly a core constitutional duty. So, can POTUS give an illegal order?
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Mark Stout
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Ugh. IANAL, but that sounds persuasive.
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Daniel S. Goldberg
@profgoldberg.bsky.social
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The US continues its slide into outright authoritarianism. You don’t have to be a scholar of fascism to know how much courts have aided and abetted autogolpes and the like. Terrifying beyond measure. There are no safe places.
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Mark Stout
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I wonder what considerations would play into that determination. I mean POTUS is commander-in-chief of the military. And what if he could say that he has double-plus secret intelligence that says the opponent is a saboteur, a wrecker, a Trotskyite, a counter-revolutionary, and a spy. Ugh.
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