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Steven L. Taylor

@sltaylor.bsky.social
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Professor Emeritus of PoliSci and former Dean of Arts & Sciences. My research is focused on comparative democratic institutions.🖖🤘 I write about politics at www.outsidethebeltway.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h
These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 4h
It is becoming impossible to think of members of SCOTUS as "Justices." outsidethebeltway.com/scotus-cruel...
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SCOTUS: Cruelty Without Due Process to Continue
The shadow docket strikes again, as the NYT reports: Supreme Court Allows Rapid Third-Country Deportations, for Now. The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave President Trump a temporary victory on a centr…
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 5h
I guess they don't even use basic AI tools to proof their documents. Or do they?
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 5h
It's important to note that this is a real thing that is actually happening. You are not having a dream or in a coma.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 18h
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Senator Schmitt and the absurdity of it all. outsidethebeltway.com/deeply-unser...
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Deeply Unserious People
Senator Schmitt and the case of the basketball mascots.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 18h
Amazing video of Republican Senator Katie Britt as the Hawks/Hawkeyes mistake is revealed. This should be viewed with Curb Your Enthusiasm music. www.thedailybeast.com/maga-senator...
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MAGA Senator Caught on Camera Watching Colleague Self-Combust
No one appeared more mortified by Sen. Eric Schmitt’s humiliating blunder than Katie Britt.
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Tony W @tonywrocks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Quote of the day - referring to Trump's stupid and illegal TV ads over the weekend: "Leni Riefenstahl must be looking up from Hell and shaking her fists in anger over what she could have done with today’s tech." - @sltaylor.bsky.social
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Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 20h
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seattle
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Paid for By the US Government
Last week, James Joyner noted that the US government was paying for pro-Trump ads on television, in what is clearly a violation of federal law. Over the weekend, another spot dropped. There have be…
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Harrison Lee @harrisoncklee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What's a good way to visualize how the AI boom/bubble is propping up the economy? Ah, thanks.
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gotta show that loyalty!
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Kenny Smith @kennysmith.org · 26/09/2026
The strait is open. We control the strait. They’ve offered a deal to open the strait (which we control and is open). I’m rejecting a deal where they’ve offered to open the straight (which we control and is open.) We have before us a class of people who can’t keep it straight question-to-question.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You're in charge of a war that you're losing, the Houthi are on the march to Riyadh, you've run the Navy ragged, you've lost almost all your bases in the Middle East, you're out of missiles (mostly) that you need in case China steals a march on Taiwan...and you're at a fucking football game.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As regular readers will know I am a seasoned Norwood-hater and think nobody should give it free PR but this is hilariously shit
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
👇👇👇
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Who could have predicted putting someone with no TV experience in charge would go poorly? It’s baffling!!
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I mean, who are you going to believe, the Speaker or your lyin' gasoline and grocery bills?
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Crisis averted (for now). outsidethebeltway.com/alito-and-th...
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Alito and Thomas are Authoritarian Hacks (and Kavanaugh is Close Behind)
Crisis averted (for now).
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
One reason (among many) to support and subscribe to @liberalcurrents.com is that we are genuinely committed to pluralism. We believe in core liberal rights and values. And we oppose Trump and all other authoritarianism. But within that, we’re made up of a great variety of ideas and orientations.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"It has nothing to do with skin color. We're just saying, uh, that people watching college football is not consistent with the Texan way of life"
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The suspicion that peoples cannot be trusted to follow a set of rules and procedures to manage their own elections without men with guns on hand does not suggest a mindset that is deeply receptive to democracy.
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Grotesque and authoritarian. outsidethebeltway.com/meanwhile-in...
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Meanwhile, in North Korea…
Trump’s pledge.
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
But just imagine what he could do with his Green Lantern powers on the Emerald Isle!
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
When people keep telling you who they are, believe them. outsidethebeltway.com/we-keep-find...
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We Keep Finding People Who Like Nazis in the Grand Old Party
Another GOP staffer does a Nazi oopsie.
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lies and narcissism, instead of national unity and commemoration. (Par for the course, sadly). outsidethebeltway.com/trump-and-9-...
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Trump and 9/11
A clear illustration of how the media treat Trump.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I Study Projects that Select on the Dependent Variable. They Have One Habit in Common.
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Opinion | I Study Successful People. They Have One Habit in Common.
Being a successful self-starter doesn’t mean pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is the Empire from Star Wars with a little extra Nazi thrown in.
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Trump administration's foreign policy reads like the plot of a novel about how we ended up in WWIII. It certainly is an ingredient list for a far more dangerous world order. outsidethebeltway.com/ingredients-...
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Ingredients for a Dangerous Stew
Trump’s foreign and national defense choices are making the world less safe.
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Well deserved.
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Indeed
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This Trump administration official is either disqualifyingly ignorant or knowingly lying. You decide. Evergreen post, I know.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If the media is going to insist that politicians denounce their supporters who make extremist statements, I have a suggestion for someone a bit more important than a Twitch streamer.
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Denouncing Extremists
One of the media's favorite activities is demanding that Democratic politicians denounce individuals on their side who have made extreme statements. This is a pattern that stretches back to the 1992 ...
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Hasan Piker discourse would be a lot different if he was a White South-African billionaire
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New from me: The academic summer discourse was dominated by the Arday case. Defenders of his accuser cited academic freedom. The Trump administration agreed, even as it and red state governments dismantle academic freedom at home in much more profound ways.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/which-stor...
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Which stories about academia matter?
The Arday affair got more attention than systematic assaults on academic freedom
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
JD Vance’s public position, core to his vision for the country, is that JD Vance’s wife and kids aren’t real Americans, that they are by definition lesser than any white “heritage American,” and the govt should treat them and anyone like them as second class. Why wouldn’t that be a campaign issue?
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 02/09/2026
omg someone just sent me this
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
They are trying to make it so awful for Haitians to be there that enough of them pack up and leave on their own, so no: it’s not an exaggeration to say what occurred was intended policy by the trump administration. It’s just that this particular Haitian left mortally instead of geographically
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 02/09/2026
The first of the Trump admin's lethal, illegal boat strikes happened 1 year ago today. They're still happening. The death toll has spiraled to at least 227. See WOLA's running tally: www.wola.org/2025/11/us-m... See our July 24 report, "Killing Spree": www.wola.org/analysis/kil...
227 reported people killed (including 23 unrecovered survivors).
65 reported attack events.
69 reported boats struck.
3 reported survivors recovered.
45 reported events in the Eastern Pacific. 18 reported events in the Caribbean. 2 reported events in unspecified locations.
32 events ordered by Southern Command Commander Gen. Francis Donovan (101 reported killed). 19 events ordered by President Donald Trump (76 reported killed). 14 events ordered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (50 reported killed).
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I went back to Umberto Eco's "Ur-Fascism" and its unfortunately apt application to contemporary US politics. outsidethebeltway.com/defining-and...
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Defining and Discussing Fascism Part III: Re-reading Eco
A continued effort to put our present politics into perspective.
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What does this even mean? Does he understand nothing about basic commerce? (Yes, I know.)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
you see, no one has standing when it comes time to sue the president because he is a very special birthday boy
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