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Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social |
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Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. sethcotlar.substack.com/
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Lydia Polgreen
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?
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Josh Gondelman
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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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Nicholas Grossman
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Holy shit, the Supreme Court actually wrote that Trump telling Pence to claim the wildly unconstitutional power to single-handedly reject certified Electoral College votes, thereby overthrowing Constitutional democracy, can't be illegal because POTUS and VP talking about it makes it an official act.
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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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Seth Cotlar
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Joel is especially popular with the far right folks in Southern Oregon.
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Seth Cotlar
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We didn't do any executing last time, because you know, you have to be gentle and nice and follow the stupid old rules that made us so weak, just a pathetic excuse for a country. But now the Supreme Court has freed the President up to really execute and this is going to be a great thing, just watch.
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Seth Cotlar
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The executive branch. What a beautiful thing. It means you can execute things, did you know that? Not a lot of people know that. We're going to do a lot of executing [chants of "Let's Go Brandon" fill the hall]. Our founding fathers called it the executing branch for a reason!
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Seth Cotlar
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Guys, hear me out. "The Originalist Case for Monarchy."
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Seth Cotlar
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I think it's cute that John Roberts doesn't think Trump will use threats of prosecuting Thomas and Alito for corruption in order to extract whatever future ruling he wants from the SCOTUS in the off chance that court every tries to constrain him in the future.
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Seth Cotlar
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Apologies if this is "too soon," but it's only a matter of time before GOP messaging becomes "now that SCOTUS has said Presidents have immunity for their actions in office, can you really trust dangerous criminal leftists like Joe Biden to occupy that office?"
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John Pfaff
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Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.
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Seth Cotlar
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On the subject of gaslighting, one of the current SCOTUS justices ruled for Bush in the 2000 Bush v. Gore case (Thomas) while an additional three (Roberts, Barrett, and Kavanaugh) worked on the Bush team for that case. Just calling balls and strikes, folks, balls and strikes.
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Seth Cotlar
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In all seriousness tho, when this video came out in the mid-2000s I thought it was a brilliant satire on the authoritarian dimensions of the US's "patriotic" culture of founder worship. Little did I know SCOTUS would codify that authoritarianism into law 20 years later to please Donald F-ing Trump.
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Seth Cotlar
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As a historian of early America, I can say confidently, based on this primary source, that George Washington ate his opponents brains, engaged in killing for fun, and once held a woman's hand in a jar of acid at a party...so obviously Trump must have legal immunity too. youtu.be/sbRom1Rz8OA?...
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Seth Cotlar
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So would holding televised military tribunals to try Liz Cheney for treason be considered an "official act?" Asking for the person who held the #3 position in the GOP House leadership three years ago and is the daughter of a former Republican Vice President.
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Seth Cotlar
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2016's "Lock her up!" and "The Second Amendment people might be able to stop her" seem positively quaint at this point.
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Seth Cotlar
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Broke: Lock her up! Woke: Subject her to a televised military tribunal! Bespoke: TBD
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Seth Cotlar
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Anyway, as the ultra-MAGA chair of the Marion County (OR) Republican Party can tell you because they're an expert on these things, rule by experts is Communism but calling for televised military tribunals of your enemies is definitely NOT communism. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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Seth Cotlar
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Contributing to the Democrat un-select committee that made up so many lies you wouldn't even believe it about the 2020 election and Trump's efforts to overturn it.
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Rocky N. Bullwinkle
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NYT: "Trump's recent post troubles some left-leaning experts"
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Seth Cotlar
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For real...there is not a single story on the New York Times page that I could find mentioning the fact that the GOP nominee for president has advocated for the daughter of a former GOP Vice President to be subjected to a televised military tribunal.
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Seth Cotlar
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Trump: I would like to see televised military tribunals in which my enemies like Liz Cheney are tried for treason and then put to death. New York Times Politics page 18 hours later: Democrats are in disarray!!!
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Seth Cotlar
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Trump "re-truthed" this meme yesterday. But look, whatever you do, don't call it fascism.
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Seth Cotlar
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Here's a thread on that *relatively* less extreme, 100% Ultra-MAGA faction that's been under assault by a more extreme 100% Ultra-MAGA faction. The "establishment" faction believes that their antagonists inside the OR GOP are ackshually Democrat/CCP plants. Not kidding.
bsky.app/profile/seth...
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Seth Cotlar
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Interesting! I haven't seen that. I'll have to keep my eyes open for that one.
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Seth Cotlar
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It's definitely a Mormon thing...but it's also a broader US right thing too. But folks raised in Mormon families or communities are far more likely to know who Skousen is.
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Seth Cotlar
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Both factions in the OR GOP are getting behind this guy for Secretary of State (the office that runs our elections). The OR GOP has brought in a raft of Mike Lindell's "election integrity experts" to train folks on how to identify all of the non-existent fraud in our system. bsky.app/profile/bolt...
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Seth Cotlar
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Being an expert businessman who tells other people what to do in the pursuit of making money is fine. Being an expert who makes rules to further the public good that in any way constrain the will of expert businessmen like Trump is communism.
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Seth Cotlar
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There's something important I failed to mention when I skeeted this last night. The Oregon GOP is currently undergoing a factional battle in which the person who wrote that tweet is on the side that is *less* consiracy-addled, *more* reality-based, and *more* institutionalist. How about them apples?
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Andrew Paul
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money allocated to local firefighting departments? you better believe that's a communism
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Philip Bump
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Everyone in Busytown is trying to find the guy who did this.
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Seth Cotlar
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You know who else loves Skousen? Ben Carson. This article is from 2015, but just the other day I saw Carson promote Skousen’s book as a brilliant expose on how Communism worms its way into the minds of America’s youth. www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
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Seth Cotlar
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The person who wrote that tweet is a huge fan of Cleon Skousen, a guy who identified a bunch of stuff right wingers didn’t like in the 1950s and then wrote a book falsely claiming he had evidence that all of those things were part of the Commies’ written plans. open.substack.com/pub/sethcotl...
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Seth Cotlar
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You heard it here first folks. When engineers say what the radius of a highway curve should be, that’s communism. Public health rules for safe drinking water? Communism.
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Seth Cotlar
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Scene: Two thin, slightly different European pancakes in a Waffle House kitchen holding microphones and swaying to the brooding 90s music playing in the background. I'm a crepe I'm a lefse What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here
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Seth Cotlar
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Possibly? I didn’t catch the name.
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Seth Cotlar
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Back in the 90s I lived near Clark and Greenleaf. Love that neighborhood.
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Deeks 🫶
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I’m the only person who's naked at this gender reveal party
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Seth Cotlar
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At the Portland Timbers match last night the Star Spangled Banner was sung by a local drag queen. You know what the audience did? They cheered like crazy because it was a killer rendition of the song. Anyway, happy last day of Pride month.
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Seth Cotlar
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I agree with your first sentence. I genuinely do not know what to think about the rest of it, and I'm not sure anyone has enough information or foresight to know what the best course of action is. Either way it's a gamble, but I don't think Biden's chances are zero.
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Seth Cotlar
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Good point. I've been wondering about that too. A lack of clarity around what the rules are or how they might change makes it hard on the businesses being regulated. That said, if the entire regulatory system just gets blown up or sabotaged, then...
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Aubrey Gilleran
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That “Black jobs” seems to be the main thing from the debate to go actually viral on social media should give certain columnists some pause about their pulse on the campaign.
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Seth Cotlar
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The biggest obstacle that stands in the way of this project to dismantle the administrative state is that when you actually ask citizens what they think about individual features of it, they usually like them and think they makes sense. Hence the need for so much blanket, anti-gov't propaganda.
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Larry Glickman
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My book FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY offers some context on the origins and first four decades of the war against the New Deal state, a war that the conservative wing of the Supreme Court is becoming increasingly explicit about fighting.
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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Seth Cotlar
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There's a ton of good historical work on this anti-New Deal long game of the US right. This is a good introduction if you're interested. www.google.com/books/editio...
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Seth Cotlar
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Here's a link to the full conversation. It's depressing as hell, but still very much worth your time. What the right wing SCOTUS has been up to over the past few years is the latest iteration of a very long, anti-New-Deal-State project that's been at work since the 1930s. slate.com/podcasts/ami...
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Seth Cotlar
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This is a marvelously succinct articulation of the stakes of the 2024 election. It's by @mjsdc.bsky.social and it was how he summed up the implications of the most recent SCOTUS decisions. The theater criticism about which candidate performed better on Thursday obscures these massive stakes.
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Seth Cotlar
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I didn't really need to bring back nails or hammers or light bulbs from France, but I had to buy something. So I bought this amazing contraptions that keeps your stinky cheese from stinking up the entire house.
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Seth Cotlar
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In Marseille there's this amazing old hardware store called Maison Empereur. I spent about an hour browsing when I was visiting France last month. Highly recommend if you happen to find yourself there.
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Seth Cotlar
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Perfection!
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