Sign in

Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz.bsky.social
149K followers 1.1K following 9.1K posts

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…

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 53m
I remember a decade-long panic about undergraduates, activists, or Tumblr pages declaring new language rules and denouncing people for violating them.
post from Trump on Truth Social declaring that anyone who uses the term "Artificial Intelligence" is THE ENEMY!
720038
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h
National Republicans just pulled nearly $2 million of spending out of the Georgia Senate race, per Dem source who shared ad-tracking data with me. The source believes some of it might get redeployed to South Carolina. Another sign of the times.
19583127
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 50m
#earlyvote midday update 10/8: at least 2.2 million people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...
election.lab.ufl.edu
UF Election Lab: 2026 General Election Early Vote Statistics
Live national and state-by-state early voting statistics for the 2026 general election.
52812
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1h
Theories that Trump and Mike Johnson will somehow bar Democrats who win Congressional elections from sitting, thereby successfully killing off the remaining vestiges of US democracy, require candidates who just won to accept that they won’t get a seat, and for the Dem caucus to say OK to that too.
2028554
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3h
For the first time on record, a majority of Americans have not much/no confidence in the government to ensure food safety. news.gallup.com/poll/715430/...
16298103
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Bryan Based International Order 🇨🇦 @bryanpeeler.bsky.social · 5h
Goin' in the Intro IR slide deck
0356
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 4h
612184226
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 4h
"Opinion Fruit"
1130
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 5h
Overall trend. Touching grass is winning. Combined use of social media, gaming, and streaming is down by more than 1.5 hours a day for this class compared to 2024. Netflix & HBO Max taking big hits.
36011
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 6h
Good pts from Kyle. Many indicators are significantly more Dem than 2018, including POTUS approval and the generic ballot, but the big diff is Democrats are polling about 6 points better on average in red-state Senate seats
518742
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 6h
👀 fiftyplusone.news/polls/govern...
1319225
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A wild figure from the Kansas Senate campaign. In the last FEC reported donation cycle, Roger Marshall took contributions from 77 donors within the state of Kansas. Adam Hamilton took 3,000
521551
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Sam Lloyd @llamsoyd.bsky.social · 15h
great bit by major league baseball that the 19th, 24th, 28th, and 30th highest payroll teams are going to be four of the five squads still standing tomorrow, given that the whole sport will shut down for 2027 because owners have brainwashed everyone into believing teams like them don’t have a chance
29033
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 22h
BREAKING NEWS: Look at this otter. He's sleeping!
A close-up color photograph of Steve the baby otter peacefully sleeping on a soft towel in a warm, softly lit setting.  
There is no text embedded in the image.
131092117
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 23h
So, did the @yalepress.bsky.social website get hacked, or ... ?
110
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The election is now.
1225
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He did. You only know about the few that he missed.
2100
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
See also David Strauss chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/journal_arti...
chicagounbound.uchicago.edu
The Irrelevance of Constitutional Amendments
Article V of the Constitution specifies how the Constitution may be amended. Notwithstanding all the attention that constitutional amendments receive, however, our constitutional order would look litt...
180
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Feels like this isn’t even about the expanded map; it’s about Trump wanting to do a rally somewhere he can fill a venue.
159311
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I keep waiting for more coverage of this. Affirmative action for men is out of control. The silence from the “merit first” types on this really undercuts their integrity
28314
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A surprising number of people on here don't actually want to see Democrats win, or even Republicans lose, they just want to have an outlet for weird conspiracy theories and fatalism about the human condition. I may have to start muting/blocking for this behavior, it has no value.
910818
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I guess not?
000
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Shamelessly reposting my favorite thing I've ever written, which is about being trans and a Texas A&M alum, in light of that excellent Arkansas Times piece about being Black and gay at University of Arkansas: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
chron.com
Texas A&M helped me thrive as a transgender person. Now, it's complicated.
A mostly good college experience is hard to square with the school that exists now.
27010
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
today, the fuel clock for diesel hit $50 billion- businesses and consumers have since March spent $50 billion more on diesel compared to the same time last year. adding gasoline's $78.46 billion, the tally is $128.6 billion more spent on fuel vs a year ago.
8228102
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Today!
2163
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Today!
2163
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
smdh Jackson has just alienated the ENTIRE road-salt-eating community
1922229
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yamamoto in the playoffs is … just like some kind of heretofore unknown magical creature
2273
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I hate Musk as much as the next Bluskysian, but I have to say, Starlink WiFi on a flight is so much better than the other in-flight WiFi options that there’s just no comparison.
14191
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”
19369941096
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
luigivercotti.bsky.social @luigivercotti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
12847
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bakker, Harris, Hastert. Three is a trend; I don’t make the rules.
1310
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This has been quite the week for the “oh yeah, THAT guy!” obituaries www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
nytimes.com
One of Patty Hearst’s Kidnappers Has Died
Bill Harris was a disillusioned Vietnam veteran looking for purpose when he joined a revolutionary group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army.
2325
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Look, this is bad. Yes. But the Trump admin sent six (6) people to Maricopa and Pima. Where, by my count, there are 404 polling places, spread across 18,000 square miles (each county is ~9k sq mi). What they want is the FEAR to discourage the voting they can't actually prevent.
231253411
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you're gonna be in Madison, WI this Wednesday afternoon, come on out! law.wisc.edu/calendar/?tr...
law.wisc.edu
Events | University of Wisconsin Law School
0255
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
SimpsonsQOTD @simpsonsqotd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Sorry I'm late, everyone. Somebody tampered with my brakes." "Well, then, you should have been early."
Season 9 / Episode 22
419331
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cook Political report changes ratings: #KSSen from Lean R to Toss-up #NCSen from Lean D to Likely D #NHSen from Toss-up to Lean D Kansas is in play www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/sen...
cookpolitical.com
A Senate Majority is Squarely in Democrats’ Sights as Kansas Moves to Toss Up; Two Other Races Shift Left
Four weeks out from Election Day, the Senate map is shifting further in Democrats’ favor — and with it, their odds of winning back the majority.While Republicans continue to have a financial edge in a...
815335
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 06/10/2026
Even if you "don't believe" the polls, the behavior of parties should tell you where the races are.
39918
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Neat interactive model of state legislative results. Dems realistically could gain majorities in AZ, MI, MN, NH, PA, and WI, while a few more upsets are possible if the wave becomes a tsunami. Dems would be well-positioned to flip GA, NC, and TX too if they had fair maps instead of GOP gerrymanders
23811
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Bill Scher @billscher.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“The Republican Plan to Buy the Election Got Too Expensive” — my @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social latest on how Republican ad dollars aren’t going as far Democratic dollars because they’re too reliant on super PACs washingtonmonthly.com/2026/10/06/t...
washingtonmonthly.com
The Republican Plan to Buy the Election Got Too Expensive
New data shows the GOP’s money advantage has narrowed because it relies too heavily on super PACs, which pay more for broadcast ads.
12316
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026
Restorative justice doesn't mean "nothing bad ever happens to you." It means, "in determining what happens from here on out, we center the needs of your victim to repair what happened to them over your own needs."
1691170
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A fun detail: Poirot repeatedly describes the Macho Jesus his leetle grey cells dreamed up as like a “Mustang.” You might think this is merely weird and homoerotic, but it’s actually linked to a bit of misinformation evangelicals like to use to retcon Jesus as a high-T alpha male.
2132792
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I hate English department Halloween. What do you mean, you're the hermeneutics of suspicion
730158
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026
From Physics Today (physicsworld.com/a/francis-ha...): ‘When asked what he will do for the rest of today, Halzen replied “I’m working on a proposal. I hope this prize will help get it approved.”’
540585
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Stubbs’s managing philosophy is “iron snoozle covered by velvet ears”
010
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 06/10/2026
This is actually Aaron Boone managing
5473
Reposted by Josh Chafetz
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump's crass incivility gets a scolding from one of the icons of the South Carolina GOP.
34741164
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
but iirc, he underperformed the party in winning his senate seat. so he’s a negative even in oh!
0131
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Like, where would he be a good draw? This way he feels useful, while being kept as useless as possible.
3120
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
prevents him from going anywhere else for a longer time?
2241