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joshchafetz.bsky.social

Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/ Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300248334/

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Brand-new polling from YouGov out this AM finds Trump's actions re: LA underwater. Double-digit disapproval on sending in Marines. This should be a reality check for those people arguing the protests inherently help Trump bc his immigration approval # is positive. today.yougov.com/topics/polit...

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Am stealthy

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In the spirit of this great oped, journalists (inc. Goldberg) must recognize that one of Trump’s patterns is: 1. Do something wildly illegal 2. Identify the name of a law 3. Proceed to ignore every limit in that law The pattern is tricking papers into writing “Trump is invoking a rarely used law.”

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Me trying to convince my spouse to watch the new librarians show

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Am stealthy

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Okay. Money is no object, but also you’re not looking to go somewhere just because it’s expensive. You just want the best meal. Where do you go in Seoul?

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Folks, Trader Joe’s moved the tinned fish, and I am shook …

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The great thing about today being round 12,786 in the Is Bluesky a horrible echo chamber or not? debate is that I can log off and do some real work secure in the knowledge that I will not miss anything of consequence today.

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what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

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The expression is not “the proof is in the pudding”! It’s “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”—which, unlike the bastardized version, actually makes sense!

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Stubbs just wanted to play. The cat was unmoved.

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Please no not another round of smug 'isn't this platform the greatest'

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Stubbs just wanted to play. The cat was unmoved.

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Yes. I have heard this from both liberal and conservative people with sources inside the agency. It’s not just the pushback, it’s also that many officers want to believe they’re targeting the “bad guys” and this admin is telling them “screw you, grab families.” Genuinely, morale is way down.

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I was off social media for a few yrs, but decided that it's time to come back after last night. I'm an asst. prof. at Uni of Houston Law Center and before that was an attorney at DoD OGC, where my portfolio included domestic military deployments. This continues to be a core part of my research.

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There's actually an extremely large scholarly literature about this. With some regularity, dictators order their troops to shoot protestors, the troops are like "wtf no," and then the dictator falls. I'll dig ho and dump some cites below in a second

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People on the left who love books and reading and writing and teaching and learning need to push it. Right now, too much is right wing classical education vs neoliberal ROI education.

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sitting in a government reeducation camp talking about how much this fucking sucks some random asshole: and you’re SURPRISED?

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This guy really knows how to weekend

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So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be the story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

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Here’s the joint statement from @mayorbowser.bsky.social and the National Park Service on Dupont Circle reopening to the public today. As I tweeted earlier, a smaller fence will be placed around the fountain, but the circle will be fully open.

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ah, yes, the ol' quickly developed spacecraft play ...

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If these tanks can spend ~ a month going to and from an exercise whose sole points are to (a) flatter the ego of a wannabe authoritarian, and (b) destroy DC streets ... then maybe we have too many tanks?

Brand-new polling from YouGov out this AM finds Trump's actions re: LA underwater. Double-digit disapproval on sending in Marines. This should be a reality check for those people arguing the protests inherently help Trump bc his immigration approval # is positive. today.yougov.com/topics/polit...

Am stealthy

Me trying to convince my spouse to watch the new librarians show

Am stealthy

Okay. Money is no object, but also you’re not looking to go somewhere just because it’s expensive. You just want the best meal. Where do you go in Seoul?

Folks, Trader Joe’s moved the tinned fish, and I am shook …

The great thing about today being round 12,786 in the Is Bluesky a horrible echo chamber or not? debate is that I can log off and do some real work secure in the knowledge that I will not miss anything of consequence today.

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

The expression is not “the proof is in the pudding”! It’s “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”—which, unlike the bastardized version, actually makes sense!

Stubbs just wanted to play. The cat was unmoved.

Please no not another round of smug 'isn't this platform the greatest'

Stubbs just wanted to play. The cat was unmoved.

I was off social media for a few yrs, but decided that it's time to come back after last night. I'm an asst. prof. at Uni of Houston Law Center and before that was an attorney at DoD OGC, where my portfolio included domestic military deployments. This continues to be a core part of my research.

There's actually an extremely large scholarly literature about this. With some regularity, dictators order their troops to shoot protestors, the troops are like "wtf no," and then the dictator falls. I'll dig ho and dump some cites below in a second

People on the left who love books and reading and writing and teaching and learning need to push it. Right now, too much is right wing classical education vs neoliberal ROI education.

sitting in a government reeducation camp talking about how much this fucking sucks some random asshole: and you’re SURPRISED?

This guy really knows how to weekend

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be the story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

Here’s the joint statement from @mayorbowser.bsky.social and the National Park Service on Dupont Circle reopening to the public today. As I tweeted earlier, a smaller fence will be placed around the fountain, but the circle will be fully open.

ah, yes, the ol' quickly developed spacecraft play ...

If these tanks can spend ~ a month going to and from an exercise whose sole points are to (a) flatter the ego of a wannabe authoritarian, and (b) destroy DC streets ... then maybe we have too many tanks?

If you’re not watching Gauff-Sabalenka right now, you’re missing out

If you’re not watching Gauff-Sabalenka right now, you’re missing out