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Calvin Elison

@calvinelison.bsky.social
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Aspiring political theorist and staff member at American U’s School of Int. Service. American U MA '23. PhD hopeful TBD. 🇺🇸🇩🇪 Nationalism/internationalism & ideology in NA+Eurasia, statebuilding, capitalism and revolutions. All views are my own.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/12/2025
it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/12/2025
a thought about trump v. slaughter. it is largely unspoken, but the assertion that there is an unlimited presidential removal power and that independent agencies functionally cannot exist is an assertion of presidential sovereignty.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/12/2025
gorsuch in particular is just monstrously arrogant. the portrait of a fart sniffer.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/12/2025
conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
It's been a miserable 2025, but I'm going to take a moment to celebrate a legitimately good thing that happened. My friend and colleague, Kimberly Cowell-Meyers, and I published a book! 1/
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Building a Green Wall
Building a Green Wall - Irish America’s Resurgence Post-Brexit; Brexit deepened tensions in Northern Ireland and created rifts between Ireland and the UK. Drawing on interviews in Washington, Belfast,...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/11/2025
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews. Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
As long as the far right shapes public opinion, and mainstream parties follow public opinion, the far right dominates politics, whether in government or not.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/08/2025
one question to ask the editorial board is whether there is a minimum bar for what constitutes "american democracy." if most people in most states are gerrymandered out of effective political representation, is that democracy?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/08/2025
it is genuinely maddening to see pundits and reporters say things like “well trump has an advantage on crime” while the public consistently says “we think this guy sucks on crime”
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Allies of the fascist regime are referring to the residents of our capital city as “cockroaches.” This is explicitly neo-Nazi language used in service of making Jeffrey Epstein‘s best friend into dictator for life.
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Calvin Elison @calvinelison.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
And by becoming, I mean it is eroding what little credibly it still had. If @jamellebouie.net leaves, it might as well toss itself in the trash.
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Calvin Elison @calvinelison.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
(Gift Link) - Douthat was never a serious thinker, but the NYTs is becoming a deeply unserious publication by platforming this “conversation”
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Opinion | The YouTube Host Defining Conservative Christianity
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Under “normal” circumstances, writing and platforming the 500th rage piece against the “excesses” of radical woke transgender ideology makes you look silly. Doing it in the midst of the regime’s relentless assault on the fundamental rights of an extremely vulnerable minority makes you complicit.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/06/2025
one of the projects of the court is to expand the ability of states to pursue reactionary ends and constrain the ability of the federal government to set minimum standards *or* of democratic-led states to expand upon existing rights
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
In the political literature this is known as donating for access. It’s very common. Campaign donations should be interpreted as strategic manifestations of political goals, not expressions of true preference.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
It is frightening that the defense of basic rights and democratic self-government against the authoritarian onslaught depends so much on people who are evidently unable and/or unwilling to grasp who and what we are facing and instead just cling to signaling “bipartisanship” and upholding “unity.”
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2025
very easy to see what is happening. trump will run for a third term, he’ll try to bring the dispute to federal courts, where his election denying judges will rewrite the 22nd amendment to mean it only refers to “consecutive” terms.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
he's right and he's right to say it
screenshot of a Facebook post by Corey Robin, which says: "By the way, did you all notice how Zohran made affordability a central issue of his campaign without selling out trans kids or shitting on immigrants? Might be some lessons there. Just a thought."
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
America's superrich emerged in two phases: predatory finance followed by quasi-monoplies based on network effects paulkrugman.substack.com/p/inequality...
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Inequality, Part IV: Oligarchs
The rise of mega-fortunes
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/06/2025
the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
one huge problem with institutions like the NYT or the Democratic Party is that most of the people who succeed in these places are overly deferential to authority and wedded their personal success to American exceptionalism and thus can’t see the collapse of the US around them
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025
he’s just completely vacuous. he talks in television sound-bytes and clearly does not think about a word coming out of his mouth
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Pathetically incompetent journalism
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
the insinuation here that Levitsky’s politics might influence his scholarship has the causation exactly backwards
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The New York Times headline writers now call groups like the AMA and the College of Physicians and Surgeons "pro-vaccine groups." They get more preposterous with each passing day.
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Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
All the people I still know in LA laugh and laugh when they hear that "Los Angeles is burning." I made a couple of maps to show just how tiny and localized the protests are. GOPers are working really hard to make an excuse for declaring martial law. People should be very wary of that.
A map of Los Angeles with a tiny red dot where the protests against ICE are happening.A map of the tiny section of LA where the federal building is and where the protests are happening. There is a small square around the building where the national guard is deployed and lines showing that there are only 7 roadblocks around the area.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The idea that the progressive left used the internet to bully institutions into accepting unpopular, far-left positions is the exact opposite of what has actually happened. The alt-right used the internet for ideological capture and they are now in the White House bragging about it daily
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025
i think southern baptists should probably consider a ban on being led by child predators
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/06/2025
Right now, Dems are hiding in their offices, scrolling their phones fearfully, wondering "how are voters going to feel about the National Guard being deployed?" The right, meanwhile, is vigorously *attempting to shape* how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
We have won both the academic and public debate on the effects of immigration, yet we're losing politically because the propaganda from one political party is so powerful, and the response from the other side is to hide. It's unbelievable.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
A crucial point. I’ll add: The paranoid accusations gain plausibility on the Right not because of empirical evidence, but because they adhere to the “Higher Truth” that governs rightwing politics: “Real” America is under siege from a fundamentally illegitimate coalition of leftist and alien enemies.
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The New York Times insists on treating Christopher Rufo not as a far-right activist who has been successfully pushing an ideologically defined rightwing agenda, but as a respectable conservative voice and a serious interlocutor on key political issues. That is an active, deliberate choice.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
This is the kind of thing that would happen if the Secretary of Defense was a neo-Nazi (the secretary of defense is a neo-Nazi).
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Laia Balcells @laiabalcells.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Sitting at ICC's lounge, at Georgetown University, I see this 😍:
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
“Office of Repatriation” Quite the reminder that the U.S. government is in the hands of people who are aggressively siding with the German Neo-Nazi party and the European far right more broadly - because they share the same enemy: pluralistic democracy.
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The American Government Sides with the Party of German Neo-Nazis
The MAGA-AfD alliance of extremists is not surprising, but it remains outrageous. If democracy is to prevail, America needs to establish a robust anti-fascist consensus
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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The regime's goal is clear--kneecap universities. But, the mid-level strategy seems to be throw sh*t at the wall and see what sticks in court. This is why refusing to bend the knee (the "see you in court" approach Maine's governor adopted) makes sense. A lot of stuff doesn't stick to the wall.
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I don’t think it’s too much to expect people with power to have reasonably thought out justifications for their decisions. And yet.
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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Conflict negotiation at its finest 1. Recognize where the enemy is coming from (land of "orchestrated spectacles") 2. Speak their language ("come at me, bro") 3. Set boundaries (Do NOT "deport my co-conspirator in writing the weekly Shabbat joke newsletter") 4. Make an offer ("see you on the mat!")
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Come At Me, Bro | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
I propose an alternate strategy: I shall fight Secretary of Education Linda E. McMahon in a televised cage match, the winner of which gets $2.7 billion in federal grants and the power to uphold or des...
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Radical Reports @radicalreports.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Extremists Links: The number of White Nationalist groups decreased as 'their proponents feel their beliefs have become normalized in government and mainstreamed,' according to a SPLC report.
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Extremists Links: White Nationalist Groups Decrease as Extremists Views are Mainstreamed
The number of White Nationalist groups decreased as 'their proponents feel their beliefs have become normalized in government and mainstreamed,' according to a SPLC report.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New data finds Americans are more likely to support labor unions over Big Business than at any time in the past 60 years. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power.  If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
"On Tyranny" will be #2 on the NYT paperback and #13 in the combined e-book and paperback this week. I am glad it’s useful. New hardback is just out. And free posters to use and share are here. timothysnyder.org/resources/
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Resources from On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
From Bluesky to the Guardian! In my new op-Ed, I argue that the “male glaze” of media and politics is empirically, normative, and politically wrong and that progressives should focus more on the left turn of young women.
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The real story isn’t young men supposedly voting far right. It’s what young women are up to | Cas Mudde
There is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics, says political scientist Cas Mudde
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
WTF. I know we’re all somewhat numb to the ridiculousness and the outrageousness of it all. But this is absolutely astonishing. The level of idiocy, ignorance, and authoritarian impulse that is on display here is breathtaking. This is so embarrassing for this country. And so dangerous.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/05/2025
i like how roberts even looks a bit like tim robinson in the hot dog sketch www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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Rule of law is ‘endangered,’ chief justice says
Speaking at Georgetown Law, Chief Justice John Roberts denounced “ad hominem” criticism of the justices.
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