matthewspecter.bsky.social
Historian of political ideas, Sr Fellow@UC Berkeley’s Institute European Studies;
lecturer @Santa Clara U; editor at HISTORY & THEORY; author, THE ATLANTIC REALISTS (Stanford 2022), write on IR theory, 20th cent. Germany, transatlantic intellectual history
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That’s why I think the meeting is the catalyst for what’s happened over the last three weeks; why the volume suddenly went up.
The administration has decided to hit the gas pedal on deportations, and they openly welcome the unrest that this choice has generated, believing they’ll win the fight.
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Photojournalist Nick Stern was standing near some people waving a Mexican flags when he was shot in the thigh. He later had emergency surgery. “I thought it was a live round because of the sheer intensity of the pain,” he told the AP. “Then I passed out from the pain.”
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and if he DID invoke it, he has to let everyone know www.lawfaremedia.org/article/can-...
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Ooo…that’s a tough one!
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2/ a slew of criminal laws. And he tired of it when his antics started running existential risks for his companies. There's no morality tale here about Washington being a harder beast to tame or whatever other bullshit. He's a destructive crook and he needs to be held accountable.
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Aw….
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I think they're thrilled to kill these little blue islands in red districts/states. I don' know if it's methodical but it is effective: targeting provisional voting, freezing grants and eliminating whole areas of study/admin (DEI), now foreign students.
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🤘🤣