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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz.bsky.social
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Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh… Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/97803002483…

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 3h
Just heard something totally new to me and absolutely revelatory: a jazz quartet fronted by a guzheng. Absolutely amazing!
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✧𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭✧ @altaudge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
fish are friends
Stop using anti-fish language
Instead of: this seems fishy
Try saying:
this seems like a situation in which we should consult the wisdom and grace of the European seabass, a species with which i would entrust my entire life and personal safety
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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 3h
that's like $15k a MC. Seems fine to me tbqh
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 3h
Just heard something totally new to me and absolutely revelatory: a jazz quartet fronted by a guzheng. Absolutely amazing!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h
Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
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Hegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academies
Military academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.”
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 7h
Youth pastor voice
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 23h
just laser focused on what voters care about
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GO ASTROS, BEAT THE PAPAL TEAM
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 23h
so you’re saying Kennedy was right
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GO ASTROS, BEAT THE PAPAL TEAM
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Someone in DC, adopt this adorable pup! Stubbs is available for play dates ...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is one of the most maddening thigns about this court: Not just the substantive rulings, but how they think about “irreperable harm.” If the Most Special Boy has to wait a month to do a thing he REALLY wants to, that’s irreperable harm. Actual large-scale human suffering? Meh.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Am I the only one who can’t hear Ozzie Albies without automatically finishing “oi, oi, oi!”?
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another way of making this point: The wheels may be coming off the Trump administration and the authoritarian movement energizing it. But a large tractor-trailer barreling down a highway at full speed whose wheels come loose is very dangerous to innocent people in the vicinity.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Saving his energy for the Astros game
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This seems plausible, but ... imagine you do this and the LLM tells you it's found something juicy and your boss is gonna make it the basis of his entire questioning strategy at the hearing ... don't you, ya know, verify what the machine spat out before you let your boss run with it?
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chuck Schumer calls the Jon Husted-led Ratepayer Protection Act “a toothless messaging bill” that Republicans know will fail, telegraphing Dems will block it. He calls it an “ineffectual participation trophy” that makes data center cost policies optional, says Ds want mandatory.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/09/2026
It's remarkable (in a very good way) to see an elected member of the Democratic Party saying this. For decades, the Party has treated public higher education as a jobs training program, not a site for cultivating democratic habits of mind. I deeply hope that things are changing.
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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
don't know if it was a hawk, but a very large bird just picked up the corpse of a staffer
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Paul Blumenthal @paulblumenthal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When you're a former Senate chief of staff witnessing one of the great staff fuck-ups of all time
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh my god Oooof @dialhforhagai.bsky.social did a work of art
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Brian Schaffner @bfschaffner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
we’re hiring an assistant professor in American politics 🐘 apply.interfolio.com/194599
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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're hiring! Assistant professor in American Politics, specialization in Judicial Politics. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
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Assistant Professor in American Politics - Texas Tech University - Job Details
Job Details: The Department of Political Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas Tech University invites appli
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amazing stuff here
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Is it accurate to say that the Big Beautiful Bill on average made the poorest people in America even poorer and the richest people in America even richer, when looking at total household resources? One word answer only, please.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this might be the best possible outcome. at least I would much rather see CBP money frittered away on vanity ad campaigns rather than spent on torturing more immigrants
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
shoving all my work aside to report out what led to this sign
a sign that reads DO NOT OUT NOODLES IN THE WATER FOUNTAIN!!
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Senate projection at @fiftyplusone.news now has the odds of Republicans getting to 50 as roughly the same as the odds of Democrats getting to 54 ... fiftyplusone.news/forecast/sen...
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I try to do a policy 1080 every few years, just to keep things interesting
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TabbieWolf @tabbiewolf.bluestripedboxers.com · 29/09/2026
Hell yeah it’s another book birthday! Time to dive into @seananmcguire.bsky.social’s latest October Daye book :)
The cover of Seanan McGuire’s “A Divided Duty” featuring October Daye walking through a forest as orange leaves fall. Toby is covered in blood, as per usual.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excellent, as usual, @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social piece today on where things stand electorally and, more importantly, why. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/whats-gone...
goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com
What’s Gone Wrong For the GOP
And some speculation about why.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today, Marist's midnight poll drop is from Ohio: Sherrod Brown leads Sen. Husted 51% to 43%. Amy Acton leads Vivek Ramaswamy 50% to 44%. A key stat: 50% *strongly disapprove* of Trump, in Ohio. maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/midter...
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
why are the rest of us not dressed this way on an early autumnal evening?
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The fact that OAN is reporting this … (a) damn!, and also (b) this sort of thing is very good for democracy because it prepares the most partisan Republicans to understand and (maybe) accept election results that go against them
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Which DuPont Cirlce is your favorite? I personally like DuPont Circle. Though I admit it that, as a Marylander, I was always jealous that only Arlington got an Arlington National Cemetery, so it's nice to now have one of our own.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I live off the map, just a little northeast of Borton Park (which also does not exist)
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also important to note that it's not completely surprising to see a poll with Collins +3 if the race is really Jackson +3(ish), that's how polling and the distribution of errors works.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
if trump thought he'd rigged the midterms, he'd be saying things like, "we have rigged the midterms" because he pretty much can't shut up about it when he thinks he's done something clever.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I told Stubbs he could teach the campaign finance cases today and this was his reaction
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm thrilled to share that my new book about #SCOTUS, "The Court We Need: What's Really Wrong With the Supreme Court—and How to Fix It," is now available for pre-orders: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/812983... The book is set to be published by @vikingbooks.bsky.social on May 4, 2027.
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The Court We Need by Stephen Vladeck: 9798217061815 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A brilliant and bracing account of the Supreme Court’s rise, its unraveling, and what it will take to save it, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow Docket Richard Nixon turned...
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If it's Monday early afternoon, it must be time for me to be furiously demanding to know who thought it was a good idea for me to teach a class that meets from 5:45 to 8:50 PM.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#earlyvote midday update 9/28: at least 383,781 people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026
I think students should read full books.
Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech," from "The Four Freedoms," 1943
https://prints.nrm.org/detail/260937/rockwell-freedom-of-speech-1943?srsltid=AU7gw4V4FH-u5tF-MWC6kxNw8lDeOazTP-7MNiQoCo3kEiIMRLgK7l7-
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The masculinity politics beat continues to be very necessary. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican...
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
either Exit, pursued by a motherfucking bear or Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your fuckin’ ears
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Tillis: "Folks, this was stupid on stilts ... to have a Russian oligarch who's actually traveled in a delegation to Beijing fund some sort of island wedding for a very wealthy family that also happens to be related to the president? Come on, guys, this is this is amateur hour"
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Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After further reporting by @nataliaecm.bsky.social, we now know this error affected at least 200,000 should-be Texas voters. What a mess.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
California is weaning itself off fossil gas, fast. Gas-fired electricity generation in California fell by 26% in the first half of 2026, as utility-scale solar, batteries and the new SunZia wind project feed power in via a dedicated transmission line. buff.ly/QWQoLPc #ShareGoodNewsToo
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How California Is Kicking Its Natural Gas Habit - Inside Climate News
Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity.
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