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Michael Yarbrough@mwyarbrough.bsky.social |
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Law & Society @JohnJayCollege & Sociology @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. Coedited After Marriage series and Handbook on Law Movements & Social Change. Writing on marriage in South Africa.
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Moira Donegan
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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸
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ApocalypticaNow
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Today I learned
naacp.org/articles/dor...
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JW Mason
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Now this is one rule I would love to see people think about for the US. While partisan gerrymandering is a serious problem, another big problem is that with arbitrary, frequently redrawn districts people simply don't know what district they are in, or who their representatives are.
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JW Mason
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This is extremely interesting. A nice reminder of how little, like probably most Americans, I know about other countries' electoral systems.
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Sarah J. Jackson
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(1/?) “It would be naïve to depend on the Supreme Court to defend the rights of poor people, women, people of color, dissenters of all kinds. Those rights only come alive when citizens organize, protest, demonstrate, strike, boycott, rebel, and violate the law in order to uphold justice.”
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Popehat
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/2 There were absolutely no guarantees that everything would be all right. Terrible things were happening and more terrible things were a distinct possibility. But they got through it, relying on the fundamental things they cared about.
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Michael Yarbrough
@mwyarbrough.bsky.social
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And gives her more room to chart how her admin will differ.
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Nate Schenkkan
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I think it is wise and productive for people to take seriously the idea we are in a constitutional crisis in America. I don’t think it is wise or productive to assume what happens next is like what happens in semi consolidated or consolidated authoritarian systems.
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James Fallows
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When reading the piece below, about how bad the SupCt has been ( theatlantic.com/politics/arc... ) ,
can't help thinking of same author's ringing endorsement of Brett Kavanaugh. "A superb nominee," etc.
(This is prof Akhil Reed Amar of Yale Law. )
www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/o...
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Michael Yarbrough
@mwyarbrough.bsky.social
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But will Biden actually run against them instead of just sort of sauntering against them?
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Seth Cotlar
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Last spring the Heritage Foundation sponsored a Leadership Summit by the "Bull Moose Project." Here's the leader of that project talking about his racist and homophobic, "blood and soil" version of what America should be about.
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Michael Yarbrough
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And this is the biggest problem for the upcoming election IMO. Biden and the Democrats aren't proposing ANYTHING that won't bring us right back here in 2028 even if they do sweep the board. Not a damn thing.
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Adam Gurri
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This should have been the priority of the 2021 Trifecta. They did not take the threat seriously and now here we all are again
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Michael Yarbrough
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This is why Biden needs to step down, provided Harris will approach it differently.
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paul johnson
@rhetoricpj.bsky.social
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new constitution by my old age is sort of the goal now tbh
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Michael Yarbrough
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Absolutely. And the problem is he's afraid to say that because he thinks it will turn establishment R's off from voting for him. His strategy is all wrong for the nature of the challenge.
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Anna O Law
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6. De-fund the courts. No clerks/staff, electricity, supplies.
7. Reinstitute circuit riding since SCOTUS so out of touch.
Of these, #2 requires a constitutional amendment. #s 1, 6, 7 can be done without amendment but would require Dem majority in Senate + House. # 3, 4 requires Dem Prez as well.
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Michael Yarbrough
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If he gets two Dem houses of Congress, there are a number of legislative possibilities. But he could *propose* them now and say vote for me and other Dems to get it done!
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David Kaib
@davidkaib.bsky.social
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Thinking a lot about how the bipartisan project of police immunity to law helped set the stage for this.
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Aaron Bady
@zunguzungu.bsky.social
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It is legal for the Executive Branch to do crimes however it is illegal for the Executive Branch to do governing.
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Chicken Puppet
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The last time people went to go protest a Supreme Court decision there was an immediate, bipartsan effort to use tax player dollars to put snipers on Samuel Alito's roof while our favorite pundits went "Brett Kavanaugh has a family :( :(. His daughter must be so scared :( :("
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Michael Yarbrough
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Totally. And there's something to be said for sticking to moral principles in uncertain times. But one should also have the ability to read the times.
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Michael Yarbrough
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Oh crap I forgot about the line of succession
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Dan Nexon
@dhnexon.bsky.social
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The counterfactual this implies is that a robust debate performance might have helped him. I don’t think he’s going to step down. I think the only scenario for doing so that doesn’t make things worse is resigning for Harris (but keep in mind that makes Johnson next in line).
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Michael Yarbrough
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Oops, failure to *understand. But somehow the mistake feels appropriate.
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Michael Yarbrough
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This worries me much more than his age, his continuing failure to misunderstand what the moment requires.
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Michael Yarbrough
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I always forget that any flight to South Africa from the US is thronged by safari makers wearing camo and missionaries wearing self-righteousness
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Emma Evans
@trance.bsky.social
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It's important to note that Trump tried to order this at least twice we know of during his regime.
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Popehat
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1
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Anil Kalhan
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"Q: You referred to the Dred Scott decision. That was followed by the Civil War and by at least two amendments to the Constitution. "THE PRESIDENT: Well, the reason for that, of course, was the fact that the generation of 1856 did not take action during the next four years."
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Anna O Law
@unlawfulentries.bsky.social
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Just out in an order. More useful than shitposting and doomscrolling. Importantly this introvert doesn’t have to talk to anyone.
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Rachel Shelden
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I say this to my history students every semester. Lawyers do not have a monopoly on law, courts, & especially the Constitution--despite how often they are told otherwise. It may be in the best interest of lawyers to claim that unique authority; it's in everyone else's best interest not to let them.
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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
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Things are bad but all the more reason for optimism of the will and rejection of doomerism and nihilism. Only way out is through.
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Stephen Webb
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i'm getting so, so tired of the doomerism on here, and the press loves covering shit like a horse race instead of explaining fundamentals and what's at play, a job that seems to fall to @golikehellmachine.com on here.
so here's a thread about why i'd rather be biden — yes, biden — right now
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Roxane Gay
@roxanegay.bsky.social
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The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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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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Taniel
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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."
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We Put the FBI Man Into the Medicine Lodge
@2facedjanus7927.bsky.social
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-This is not the end of days. Even Trump winning, as horrible as that will be, will not be the end of days. For the sake of those who came before us, those alongside us, and those who live after us, we must continue to live, breathe, and fight for that which is good in the world.
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Julia Azari
@juliaazari.bsky.social
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this is a great thread, but i wanted to highlight this.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.
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Lydia Polgreen
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No matter what, the Biden campaign has every reason to get Kamala Harris out there and showcase her in the best possible light. For Biden to stay in an win they need Americans to be comfortable with her taking over should he not survive his full term. This is a crucial task post-debate.
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Hunter Walker
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Also - and you obviously alluded to this in your piece - Trump has unique issues dealing with women of color. He loses it and I think it allows people to see an ugly side of him. I have seen this play out both with Tish James and my colleagues in the WH press corps.
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Lydia Polgreen
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Yep. I am not saying she is the perfect candidate in the abstract, just that she is the most likely and legitimate alternative, and has some real strengths that could lead to unexpected upside in this particular race.
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Quinta Jurecic
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it feels like the whiteness of big political media spaces right now is having a big effect on how people are thinking about the debate. eg I have seen relatively little discussion of trump's "black jobs" comment, which immediately exploded on black twitter
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Daniel Drezner
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This is one of those columns that comes about because I am sick of having the same conversation with family and friends for the past 36 hours. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-choice...
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Michael Yarbrough
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This is a good representation of what I've seen among friends as well as pundits: white folks just completely disregarding what Black folks are saying about how Black voters will react. There's a racist undertone to the whole discourse.
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Michael Yarbrough
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I'm struck by the total difference I'm seeing between what most white pundits and friends are saying and what 100% of the Black folks I've read are saying. A lot of white folks out there just straight-up ignoring Black voters, which seems like a winning strategy.
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Michael Yarbrough
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I'm struck by the total difference I'm seeing between what most white pundits and friends are saying and what 100% of the Black folks I've read are saying. A lot of white folks out there just straight-up ignoring Black voters, which seems like a winning strategy.
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Michael Yarbrough
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I'm talking about my friends more than people trying to get traction. I think it's mostly people working out their anxieties by performing certainty.
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Michael Yarbrough
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One of the biggest mysteries of this moment for me is how so many people manage to feel so much certainty about so many things.
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