Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannJustin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026It’s going to supercharge the gerrymandering wars. For _both_ Democrats and Republicans. (derogatory) And it’s going to turn the worst race-baiting campaigns into savvy legal strategy. (extremely derogatory) 0123 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannJustin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Callais is disingenuous statutory interpretation stuffed in willful mock naivete rolled up in ahistorical blather with a light glaze of facilitating racism. As both judicial reasoning and real-world policy, it’s a turducken of putrid. 515238 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Commencement speakers are often inclined to play it safe. With our democracy on the line, I think that's the wrong approach. My latest screed in the @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social: 032 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026From my oldest pal @eisenwrites.bsky.social, a great piece of reporting on how Collins has gone AWOL on climate issues. 020 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannRajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Farewell to this legend who represented Palo Alto and Asian-Americans on a global stage; he'll be a success in whatever he chooses to do next www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/31/f...mercurynews.comFormer NBA star, Asian American trailblazer Jeremy Lin retiresOn the verge of being out of the league, Lin saved his NBA career over a two-week stretch during the 2011-12 season with the New York Knicks. 221 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 26/07/2025“The only way to change the power structures in those states is to organize people,” Mr. Kennedy said. “That’s not a short fix. But what else can you do?” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/u...nytimes.comA Kennedy Toils in Mississippi, Tracing His Grandfather’s Path 130 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Just 15 years ago, we had: 🐘Democratic governors in WV, WY, and OK. 🐘Democrats representing SD and IN in the U.S. Senate. 🐘Dem control of the AK and MS statehouses. Majority Democrats is how we get back to winning all across the country. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...nytimes.comThese Younger Democrats Are Sick of Their Party’s Status Quo 062 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Sometimes calls for prayer are sincere and sometimes they are an argument: a claim that this is God’s fault and our choices and policies have nothing to do with it. 46954161001 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 25/06/2025media.tenor.coma bald man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a sign that says operation war feedALT: a bald man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a sign that says operation war feed 030 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November. Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 830346283773 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23/06/2025On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park. New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets. 268145662522 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Happy Birthday to my favorite Skee-ball expert, best-selling author, dog dad, fixer of dolls and bikes and dinners, and amazing parent to our kids. What a year it’s been, @chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social - and here’s to the adventures yet to come! 53918749881 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-Neumannerinscafe @erinscafe.bsky.social · 22/06/2025the embarrassment of the first Trump term combined with the shame of the second Bush term is a helluva place to be 1339 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian freedom fighter and Nobel Peace Prize winner, sends a message to President Trump. Narges has spent around 13 years in the Islamic Republic’s most notorious prisons over the last 15 years. 624452 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannIndivisible Twin Cities @indivistwincities.bsky.social · 14/06/2025The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible 299218975271 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Trump’s go-to line about every foreign policy crisis and war - from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to October 7th, to the Israel’s devastation of Gaza - was “It would never have happened if I was president.” Welp. 21985731366 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11/06/2025This is a superb speech by @governor.ca.gov just now. Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump. This is how you want a leader to talk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...youtube.com'Weakness masquerading as strength': Hear Newsom's blistering speech on Trump as LA protests persistYouTube video by CNN 9535241073 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Interested in speechwriting? Love hearing about the State Department clearance process? Don’t absolutely hate the sound of my voice? Check out the podcast I did with Caitlin Dallaire and the Public Service Project: open.spotify.com/episode/5cFD...open.spotify.comOn Research and Writing with Zev Karlin-NeumannThe Public Service Project · Episode 020 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025“According to LinkedIn, the bulk of Fugate’s leadership experience comes from having served as secretary general of a Model United Nations club.” This would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous. www.propublica.org/article/trum...propublica.org“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism PreventionOne year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v... 000 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannKumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 05/06/2025The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight 404312985066 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/06/2025It’s my birthday on Sunday but you really shouldn’t have, this is just too much, I don’t deserve it 87282990 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Hassett has now taken to forecasting what going to happen last week, and he’s still wrong. 1223200433 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 02/06/2025“At a recent luncheon at Cipriani in Midtown Manhattan, a top lawyer for Citadel delivered a message to leaders of some of the country’s biggest law firms. Brooke Cucinella told them that the hedge-fund company likes to work with law firms that aren’t afraid of a fight.” www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...wsj.comThe Law Firms That Appeased Trump—and Angered Their ClientsAfter firms struck deals to avoid punitive executive orders, some big clients decided to take their business elsewhere. 000 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 01/06/2025“They told us Putin would take all of Ukraine if we didn’t send weapons so we sent tons of weapons and he never even took all of Ukraine.” 🤔🤔🤔 020 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannLarry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Hey Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Kash Patel & the rest of the MAGA goons & bullies Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) has a message for you: Go f***k yourself." 🔥 6334111 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 31/05/2025“Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death 000 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025“Forget Russia’s torture and killing of Ukrainians, let’s focus on the real threat like U.K.’s laws against hate speech,” one of the department officials noted wryly. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...politico.comRubio outlines plans to drastically cut human rights offices in StateThe cuts are part of a Trump administration plan to overhaul State, outlined in internal documents. 000 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025“For Buttigieg, the answer to populist despair is policy imagination. Big, functional, future-oriented ideas. Not just to fight Trump, but to build something worth fighting for. There’s something there. Maybe everything.” demwinsmedia.substack.com/p/pete-butti...demwinsmedia.substack.comPete Buttigieg’s Theory of EverythingHow the former mayor, transportation secretary, and unlikely culture whisperer is piecing together a Democratic response to the chaos of Trumpism – and everything that comes after. 0278 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025“I voted for Donald Trump, and so did practically everyone here… But no one voted to deport moms. We were all under the impression we were just getting rid of the gangs, the people who came here in droves.” She paused. “This is Carol.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...nytimes.comA Missouri Town Was Solidly Behind Trump. Then Carol Was Detained. 000 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-Neumannjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/05/2025if your grand approach to politics is bloodless poll-testing so that you're always aligned with wherever public opinion happens to be, you've already lost 249191492452 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/05/2025This should be seen as evidence of the crisis: federal judges fear that Trump will order U.S. Marshals to stand down on securing the safety of judges whose decision they don’t like. This is just devastating. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/... 12047071672 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 23/05/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Sarah Milgrim’s Death Was a Tragedy. Distorting Her Legacy Would Be Another. 19559117 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 20/05/2025“I’ve always wondered,” he said, “when pressed, would rich liberal lawyers choose to stay rich or liberal? Now we know.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...nytimes.comThe Website Where Lawyers Mock ‘Yellow-Bellied’ Firms Bowing to Trump 000 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 20/05/2025“Leaders on the call seemed surprised that Trump seemed relatively content with what he heard from Putin, and presented it as a new development, even though the Russian leader did not seem to have changed his position at all.” President Deals! www.axios.com/2025/05/20/t...axios.comTrump's deference to Putin stunned European leaders on call"Some of the leaders on the call were shocked." 000 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 17/05/2025OUT: Eating the cats and dogs IN: Eating tariffs 020 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 16/05/2025“Carpenter thought it ‘almost providential’ that an original Magna Carta would show up at Harvard, as the university battles with the Trump administration over its refusal to submit to the government’s demands.” Not very subtle by this season’s writers! www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...washingtonpost.comIn Harvard’s archives, British scholars find a lost Magna CartaAt a moment when Harvard is battling the Trump administration, a scholar who helped discover the charter said it was an “almost providential” find. 000 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannApoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA 580153945022 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/05/2025In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”nytimes.comOpinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action. 769137464897 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025“He’s got the guts to go on Fox News, to go into the manosphere, to go into these places,” O’Bryon gushed. “And he’s so smart, and he’s just — you can’t stump him.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comButtigieg, eyeing a presidential run, says ‘maybe’ Biden hurt DemocratsThe former Biden administration official was in Iowa, where he warned in his highest-profile public appearance since leaving government not to ‘hang back’ against President Donald Trump. 150 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Creating a problem and then demanding praise for fixing it. A pattern. 29773204 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannPaul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 10/05/2025So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street 9763958911253 0
Reposted by Zev Karlin-NeumannPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 07/05/2025To be effective, our opposition to today's abuses must run alongside a clear picture of what we are actually for - and how everyday life could be better with different leadership. 700221865001 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025“In a Hollywood disaster movie, when the big one arrives, the characters don’t have to waste time debating whether it’s happening... In the real world, though, the cataclysm can come in on little cat feet.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comIs the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy?Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are. 000 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 07/05/2025If they come for Bluey, enraged parents will make January 6th look like a picnic. For real life. 000 0
Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025"The record of failure after a hundred days is, at once, astonishing and predictable." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comOne Hundred Days of IneptitudeNow we know that Donald Trump’s first term, his initial attempt at authoritarian primacy, was amateur hour, a fitful rehearsal. 000 0