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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...

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Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All

Is Kansas just the beginning?

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Jeff Tulis @jktulis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This book has the potential to reshape the terms of debate on a vital topic in political science, the legal academy, and in the real world of American politics. I am delighted to be one of the contributors. www.pennpress.org/978151282958...

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Beyond Checks and Balances – Penn Press

An argument for understanding the separation of powers as a political arrangement designed to pursue the common democratic goodBeyond Checks and Balances see...

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Jeff Tulis @jktulis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The non-profit Protect Democracy is thinking beyond electoral politics to the restoration of constitutional democracy--if the nation can avoid its impending collapse. I am pleased to be among the 500 scholars signing an Open Letter supporting their effort. medium.com/@scholars-re...

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Letter to Congress: End the Redistricting Wars by Adopting Proportional Representation

Gerrymandering persists because single-member districts allow it.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Celebrate Juneteenth. Annoy MAGA. "Millions of Americans will commemorate Juneteenth, in local and civic celebrations across the country even as Trump and Vance ignore the holiday...Celebrating freedom can be a step on the road to freeing ourselves from Trumpism." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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MAGA Hates This Holiday

In their version of our history, everything was always perfect.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Congress should not accept Pulte in the position. It has funding and other levers to exercise to get him out. Should be a top priority for Democrats in Congress.

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Jeff Tulis @jktulis.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Friend of the Court brief challenging the President's claim to unilateral authority regarding tariffs. democracyforward.org/updates/prom...

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Prominent Scholars Highlight Congressional Authority on Tariffs in Supreme Court Brief - Democracy Forward

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

People are constantly asking me — what can I do? Here are five, practical next steps you can take to make a difference. youtu.be/8W-lVRQQGtI?feature=shared

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Five Ways to Fight Trump's Fascism

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error. President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

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Jeff Tulis @jktulis.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Exceptionally well done and important. Trump is not thinking big, he is thinking bad. He is not changing governing policy, he is destroying governing capacity. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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Ungoverning America

The logic behind Trump’s assault on the administrative state.

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Jeff Tulis @jktulis.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

“Trump is different from other authoritarian leaders. Most don’t want to appear authoritarian. This is a government that is advertising its authoritarianism,” says Steven Levitsky. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...

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Armed troops in US streets? For many, Trump makes that seem normal.

Armed troops patrol streets in the nation’s capital, and many residents shrug their shoulders. President Trump’s ability to normalize such dramatic actions is at play – but isn’t the end of the story.

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

“He said, ‘We’ll notify next of kin if she dies.’ And at that moment, I knew that I was no longer dealing with humans.” “I knew I was dealing with someone that is sick in the head, and this was the person who made the decision to incarcerate her, Rosa said.”

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This is the key point in Sotomayor’s dissent in the majority decision in Trump v CASA: “No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.”

Passage from
Justice Sotomayor’s dissent in TRUMP v CASA.” p. 56 of decision.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Headline at left, from 'Independent' in UK. Headline at right, from "most prestigious" news org in US. -Hard to believe they're about same event. -All too easy to believe that NYT again went with sane-washing.

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Jeff Tulis @jktulis.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

"America has been flung into a constitutional crisis in the most massive and fundamental way imaginable, ruled by a regime which is not merely doing unconstitutional things but is anti-constitutional at its very core." www.theunpopulist.net/p/there-is-n...

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There Is No Piecing Back Our Badly Shattered Constitutional Order

We are past the point of crisis and have entered an era when our political disputes will be settled by the raw exercise of power, not the law

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Jeff Tulis @jktulis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This deserves your attention and wide circulation to break through normalization. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...

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Opinion | We Study Fascism. And We’re Leaving the U.S.

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Jeff Tulis @jktulis.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Recently gave this talk at Dartmouth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F2i...

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Normalizing Trump

YouTube video by Dartmouth

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Jeff Tulis @jktulis.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Compelling, important and vital.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Hey NBC and Seth Meyers, y’all need to book the largest possible venue in D.C. on April 26th and do a competing fundraiser and comedy show that actually celebrates the First Amendment. Televise it. Make Amber Ruffin the central act. Send a message that free speech is non-negotiable.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The asshole who talked about putting USAID "into the woodchipper," and childishly grinned when prancing around with his chainsaw, is now having hurt feelings because Tim Walz made fun of him. Even Trump is going to recognize pretty soon that this is a "brand-image minus" for him.

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Jeff Tulis @jktulis.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Making some good trouble in Vermont

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Jeff Tulis @jktulis.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

More than one thousand political scientists, whose personal views span the partisan political spectrum, have signed this petition describing what is perilous and anti-constitutional about the current political moment in the United States. drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...

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Political science statement.pdf

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

We all need to start using the word "coup." They're well past the point where Hitler starts dictates his Enabling Act. I talk to Very Serious People who actually believe courts telling Trump that they he is breaking the law will stop this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

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Vance Says ‘Judges Aren’t Allowed to Control’ Trump’s ‘Legitimate Power’

The declaration by the vice president came as court orders have temporarily blocked parts of the Trump administration’s agenda.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Trump did a Friday Night Massacre, firing 15 inspectors general, completely ignoring the law that prevents him from doing this, essentially asserting monarchical authority over the government. Total contempt for democracy. Here is how the Times is covering it

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Jeff Tulis @jktulis.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Excellent analysis of Trump's dangerous rhetorical instinct.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Trump now has his brownshirts.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

If you’re feeling despair today, I understand. But Trump’s second term will expose a reality that's been hidden from many Americans: the raw, stinking power of the American oligarchy. I’m hopeful that America will see this reality for what it is and respond to it. youtu.be/bepjl3orz1A?...

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HOPE in Spite of Trump | Robert Reich

YouTube video by Robert Reich

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Jeff Tulis @jktulis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Fearless and truthful in the face of Orwellian distortion.

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Jack Goldsmith @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

An important guide to the coming “structural deregulation,” which “targets an agency’s core capacities” by attacking its “staffing, leadership, resource base, expertise, and reputation,” by @jodyfreeman.bsky.social and Sharon Jacobs. harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

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Structural Deregulation

Modern critics of the administrative state portray agencies as omnipotent behemoths, invested with vast delegated powers and largely unaccountable to the political branches of government. This

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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

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Jeff Tulis @jktulis.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

"Paradoxically, it is the fact that most Americans do not recognize the president as a potential source of real-world bodily harm that causes them to place insufficient weight on Donald Trump’s words." blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

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Why it’s important to take Donald Trump’s statements about state violence literally

During the 2024 presidential election campaign, the now president-elect, Donald Trump, made many statements that many Americans found problematic, including ignoring the US Constitution and racist …

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Jeff Tulis @jktulis.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This article came out two weeks ago. Has not gotten the attention it deserves, which is further evidence of the problems it describes. A must read piece. newrepublic.com/article/1883...

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Trump 2.0: Here Comes the Night

Well, reality must be faced now. But many courageous Americans are ready to fight.

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Jeff Tulis @jktulis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

“But when evils have been overcome so successfully, we no longer actively remember them. We can’t even see that in fact they lurk just on the other side of the liberal horizon. We no longer feel the need for gratitude for our own accomplishments…” www.theunpopulist.net/p/thanksgivi...

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Thanksgiving Is a Time to Re-Count the Blessings of Liberalism

Our political system’s very success makes us forget its spectacular accomplishments

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Jeff Tulis @jktulis.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

"The election of 2024 was a regime demise election — the moment when the frailties of constitutional democracy in the United States are laid bare and exposed so clearly that the potential death of the republic comes into view." democracyseminar.newschool.org/essays/why-w...

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Why We Should Be Alarmed - Democracy Seminar

As the evidence that Donald J. Trump poses a mortal threat to constitutional democracy in America became stronger the political and electoral power against him became weaker. Indeed, when the prospect...

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Yes, X is "bigger" than Bluesky. But only if what you are posting advances Musk's ideological agenda. Other information is suppressed, no matter who you are. Major breaking news from the NYT, with 55 MILLION FOLLOWERS, gets almost no engagement.

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Cartoon: David Sipress

Two dinosaurs looking at a meteorite headed for earth. One says, "Maybe it won't be so bad."

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