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Christopher Robichaud @cjrobichaud.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I’m locked out of my FB account because of a two -step authentication process that went amiss. I could spend a lot of energy trying to recover it, or…take it as a sign and just walk away. Leave it as is for posterity. Whatevs. But be free of it. I’m leaning towards freedom.

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Christopher Robichaud @cjrobichaud.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Trump is buying a Tesla, which means owning one will soon become right-coded rather than left coded. Who knew that all it would take to get the right to become more environmentally conscious in their purchases was to have a clown president throw his weight behind a Nazi sympathizer?

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

On Trumpian patrimonialism: Jonathan Rauch: @jonrauch.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... Stephen Hanson and Jeff Kopstein @jeffkopstein.bsky.social : www.persuasion.community/p/sins-of-th...

persuasion.community

Sins of the Father

The United States is joining the ranks of patrimonial states. It’s nothing short of a revolution.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2025

MEUSER: You've got Trudeau saying how the president is making a dumb move. That's bad diplomacy. SANCHEZ: I'm not sure how it's good diplomacy to say that a neighboring country should be the 51st state and that you're gonna impose economic hardship to achieve that goal.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Don’t tell me democracy is at risk and a constitutional crisis is unfolding and the best you got is a modified ping pong paddle.

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Lots of folks are asking what they can do to be helpful in this moment. I like the short list of action items that @choosedemocracy.bsky.social lists on their site. Democratic civil society is about being stronger together. Any effective strategy flows from that. choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

choosedemocracy.us

What can I do to fight this coup?

If you look, there are people resisting at every level. Blockades of freeways. American Bar Association urging an end to...

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Christopher Robichaud @cjrobichaud.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Hegseth is no longer recruiting for an American military. He's recruiting for Trump's military. The former swears allegiance to the Constitution. The latter to Trump. It's that military that will be unleashed on us civilians, when the time is deemed right.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

“All I know is that it was, apparently, possible to maintain a sense of facts and values — not only not to obey in advance but not to obey at all. If that was possible in the Soviet Union half a century ago, then it is certainly possible in the United States today.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | To Obey Trump or Not to Obey

The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Always grateful for the fact that I get to be on the planet at the same time as @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. Take a look at her new newsletter, with today’s column featuring an interview with yours truly.

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Coalitional psychology and game theory are rarely discussed together. In this post, I combine an introduction to both topics for anyone interested in understanding how we navigate the complex web of social interactions. www.optimallyirrational.com/p/coalitions...

optimallyirrational.com

Coalitions are everywhere

Introduction to the psychology and game theory of coalitions

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Perhaps we should not be so surprised by the recent electoral results in many Western democracies. A key insight from game theory is that political coalitions may be less stable in the long term than we often assume. 👇

optimallyirrational.com

Why elections have surprised us in recent years

On the instability of political coalitions

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Christopher Robichaud @cjrobichaud.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

With Trump taking over the Kennedy Center, I hear his first effort will be a remake of Triumph of the Will, directed by Elon Musk.

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Christopher Robichaud @cjrobichaud.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Victoria is really excited to jump into this Daredevil run. I am too.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

YES! Chuck, where do you live? Can you call your Senator?

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Musk and his allies are ransacking the federal treasury, gaining access to closely guarded payment systems that disburse trillions of dollars and hold massive amounts of incredibly sensitive information—including Social Security numbers. Just a terrifying development. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system late on Friday, according to three people familiar with the change, handing Elon Musk and the team he is leading a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.

The new authority follows a standoff this week with a top Treasury official who had resisted allowing Mr. Musk’s lieutenants into the department’s payment system, which sends out money on behalf of the entire federal government. The official, a career civil servant named David Lebryk, was put on leave and then suddenly retired on Friday after the dispute, according to people familiar with his exit.

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Christopher Robichaud @cjrobichaud.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The Democrats are by their nature institutionalists. At least these days. They’ve long forgotten how to be rascals and rogues, how to gum up the system, how to start with an emphatic NO and stay there for a good long while. They need to relearn this. Fast.

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Christopher Robichaud @cjrobichaud.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

After teaching ethics to master's students in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School for the better part of twenty years, this is the first year that my core ethics course will have students reading a comic book--the first twelve issues of Ta-Nehisi Coates's Black Panther run.

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Christopher Robichaud @cjrobichaud.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

DEI killed the dinosaurs, invented cancer, and is the reason for each and every problem in your life, past, present and future.

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Christopher Robichaud @cjrobichaud.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Trump blames DEI for the plane crash, which is fucking insane. Might as well tell us to go inject bleach. A fraud and a fool.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Dems can: -oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrawn -deny unanimous consent to slow senate proceedings -vote no on all cloture -force quorum calls at every chance It’s a constitutional crisis. There is absolutely no reason the Senate should be connecting business as usual.

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Christopher Robichaud @cjrobichaud.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

And I have a new menu item I would like to recommend to McDonald’s.

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Christopher Robichaud @cjrobichaud.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Me and my mimic, ready to start the spring semester.

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

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Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf

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Christopher Robichaud @cjrobichaud.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Although I stick by my criticisms of the Substance, I'm delighted it's secured so many Oscar nominations. "Elevated" horror films have been the norm for years now, so I'm delighted the Academy is starting to take the genre seriously as a place for award-worthy filmmaking.

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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 22/01/2025

Trump’s new patrimonialism—hollow-out state institutions, staff the government through nepotism and loyalism, and govern based on patronage and arbitrary rule—was telegraphed in Heritage’s Project 2025. @aselrod.bsky.social

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The Patrimonial Style in American Politics Could Spread Under Trump

The corrupt “constitutional” sheriff movement might get a big boost

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Christopher Robichaud @cjrobichaud.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

It turns out it's really easy to navigate the world in way where your words and gestures don't leave people sincerely wondering whether you're a Nazi. It's, like, super easy to do, if you want.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The marginal details of the David Lynch memorial at the Burbank Bob’s Big Boy are what make it.

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Christopher Robichaud @cjrobichaud.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The Dodgers rotation was already something else and now it's really something else. Welcome Sasaki!!

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.

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Christopher Robichaud @cjrobichaud.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I had the pleasure this J-term to co-teach a new course, Being Human, at the Harvard Kennedy School with my friend and colleague, one of the legends of organizing, Marshall Ganz. A student snapped this polaroid (!!!) of us as we wrapped things up and it's my new favorite photo.

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Christopher Robichaud @cjrobichaud.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I had this edition as a child and still own the copy. The art in it really is something else.

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Robert Talisse @roberttalisse.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Pleased to announce that Cheryl Misak and I will be giving the Chris Hookway Memorial Lecture at Sheffield on June 2nd. Our talk is titled "Pragmatism, Truth and Politics"; it draws from the book Cheryl and I are currently writing together. www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/events/...

sheffield.ac.uk

The Chris Hookway Memorial Lecture

This memorial lecture is in honour of Emeritus Professor Chris Hookway, who sadly died in October 2024, see https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/news/chris-hookway-1949-2024.

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