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chancephillips.bsky.social
A student in the economics PhD program at UMass Amherst. Bylines in @alreporter.com and @liberalcurrents.com Substack: someconvenienttree.com
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CUOMOCESSION

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theonion.com/this-war-wil...

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I was inspired by @grayathena.bsky.social’s latest Substack to write about how Jackson is the key to understanding our moment. Both Jackson & Trump believe reelection granted them extraconstitutional power and the executive branch is an extension of themselves someconvenienttree.com/p/andrew-jac...

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now i’m no law professor but

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Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the opportunity to write this piece (drawing on my recent @studiesapd.bsky.social article) about the connection between conflicts over affirmative action and the unitary executive theory in the Reagan administration. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-reagan...

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Many thanks to the great folks who talked to me as I worked on this piece attempting to summarize the downsides of the OBBBA! (@kedseconomist.com, @docadams.bsky.social, and Liz Hipple!) www.alreporter.com/2025/06/20/b...

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"If the Senate’s budget is signed into law, the state of Alabama will still be stuck with the bill."

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“he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed”

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I agree with Sen. Tuberville that states could not pay the hundreds of millions of dollars the One Big Beautiful Bill Act would charge them to keep SNAP running. But I’m a tad curious... When exactly did Tuberville start thinking spending money on SNAP was okay? www.alreporter.com/2025/06/18/o...

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Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is now here calling for the release of Lander (his fellow mayoral candidate)

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