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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I know these “interviews” with Justice Barrett are carefully scripted. But if she’s going to keeping urging Americans to “read the opinions,” and not just commentary, it sure would be nice if someone would ask her what we should do when—as is so often the case these days—there’s no opinion to read…

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

1. We do not know the motive of the shooter. The man who shot at Trump was after attention. 2. The man who murdered MN legislators WAS motivated by politics, and I didn’t hear any Dems calling for reprisals against all Repubs. 3. It’s easy to start a cycle of violence. Not easy to end one.

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Mike Salamone @enomalas.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Padilla received more six times as many votes in the last general election than Noem has in every general election she’s run in combined.

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OuterBoroPrincess @outerbororoyal.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The Democratic Party is actually pretty effective under strict institutional norms and rules. They whip votes and submit to leaders despite a big tent and diverse base When the norms and rules don’t apply (like now), the Democratic Party is a deer in the headlights

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

David Brooks, who holds no advance degrees but has nevertheless served as a visiting professor at both Duke and Yale -- solely on the basis of his conservative ideas -- thinks that universities are deeply unfair to conservative thinkers.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 05/04/2025

We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.

[text from the Declaration of Independence]

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It's 1828. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons. It's 1929. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons. It's 2025. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the ce

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump
Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump).
• Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges.
• Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side.
• A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush.
• The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Morally, Roberts deserves every ounce of dunking he gets several hundred times over. But practically, if democracy is going to be saved it's going to require many people like Roberts saying many things like this.

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Mike Salamone @enomalas.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Imagine going back in time like 10 years and trying to explain to people that Ted Cruz said the coolest thing he’s ever seen is an electric car and then having to explain that this actually indicative of how very bad things are.

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Mike Salamone @enomalas.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

STUDENT: This is my last semester, and I have to say, you are the best dressed professor I’ve had here. ME: Have you had @profjslewis.bsky.social? STUDENT: Yes.

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Derek Johnson @derekjesq.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

"Have you said thank you even once?"

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

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Mike Salamone @enomalas.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Seriously thinking of making my judicial process students respond this on the final exam.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

He really struggles with the concept of a constitutional republic with judicial review.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I see they started with the copyeditors.

Screenshot of a Trump EO, white text on a dark blue background, which reads “PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS: COMMENCING THE REDUCTION OF THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY
ECEXUTIVE [sic] ORDER
February 19, 2025

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.”
• The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives.
• The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000.

Each point represents a federal agency:
• Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs.
• Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs.

Key Observations:
• Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates.
• Notable targeted agencies include:
• HHS (Health & Human Services)
• EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
• NIH (National Institutes of Health)
• CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
• Dept. of Education
• USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development)
• The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies.
• A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size.

Takeaway:

The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology.

Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Hey Intro Government students, can you grade the below student's government exam? In response to a question about whether courts have authority, she says, "District court judges...are abusing their power to unilaterally block President Trump's basic executive authority." Is she right?

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Mike Salamone @enomalas.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

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Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Here's the acting head of FEMA just unliterally deciding that Article I is fake earlier today. The Constitution is not in effect.

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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The American right has turned to Hungary to learn how authoritarians consolidate power. The American left should look to Poland to see how a big-tent coalition can defeat authoritarianism. It involves multiple parties appealing to different voters.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Just spitballing, but things that could happen today: *Court injunction protecting USAID *Dems demand hearings on Musk's role *Someone introduce articles of impeachment *Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers *Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/02/2025

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/01/2025

is it really so hard to say something like, "trump is ripping up your constitution, arresting your neighbors, helping cancer win its war on people and oh, also, eggs are fucking expensive"

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

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Mike Salamone @enomalas.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This is Freedom Fries on steroids.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

There is no mandate for this shitstorm of authoritarian action. Let me explain. 🧵 1/7

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Mike Salamone @enomalas.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The President, who took office in violation of section 3 of the 14th Amendment, issued an executive order to violate section 1 of the 14th Amendment.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This is not the end. But it is *an* end. Things will get worse. (Much worse.) We will endure. (Not all of us. The losses will be profound.) And we will, one day, build something better. (I hope.)

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Mike Salamone @enomalas.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The fact that this was so easy to piece together says a lot about how the next four years are going to go.

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Al Petterson @eyelessgame.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

well I sure hope so, or I made this for nothing

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

For the first time in over 30 years of public opinion polling, Americans’ views of the U.S. Supreme Court were more negative than positive, a July 2023 survey found. A narrow majority (54%) had an unfavorable view of the high court, while fewer than half (44%) expressed a favorable one.

Chart shows favorable views of Supreme Court at lowest point in more than three decades of public opinion polling.

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Mike Salamone @enomalas.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Me: [reading news on my phone] My 13-year-old: [looking over my shoulder] Who is that guy? Me: Elon Musk. 13yo: Oh. He does not look good.

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Mike Salamone @enomalas.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

If you see this, post a vampire.

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Pearlmania500 @pearlmania500.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

“We’re gonna invade Mexico.” Ghost of James K Polk: yay! “And we’re gonna raise tariffs. Ghost of James K Polk: Boo! “And we’re gonna end the Fed!” Ghosts of James K Polk: WHAT THE FUCK?!!

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