pdwschmidt.bsky.social
Political scientist @MacalesterCollege: American law, comparative and historical constitutionalism, architecture, and...just curious about everything. Moot Court coach. Rarely refuses an opportunity for a dad joke.
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If only someone had data on criminality among sub-populations, data on how much taxes are collected, and what immigrants contribute to the economy! Someone might then have told us that campaigns based on populist hatred are not only evil, they're stupid.
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We haven't yet reached peak 1960s types of "extraordinary". A lot can change.
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Corollary: If you go to college (itself likely to change your relationship odds), Psychology classes are often 90% women. The catch is: You'll have to think and talk about...you know, psychology, which I get it, would be hard for right-wing men.
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Judoon.
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There's a forest among all these trees. Keep looking and one day you may see it.
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Listening to it felt like an act of resistance.
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I got a radio as a kid and listened in bed at night. I especially remember loving the Dr. Demento show.
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Another data point: It's very common here in Minnesota to see people flying Scandinavian flags, both at home and at their lake cabins. Celebrating our diverse ancestry is very American!
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This is the way it works, again and again! If anyone needs help resetting their baseline, I highly recommend the chapters on protest and police violence by @glendagilmore.bsky.social and @elizabethkai.bsky.social, respectively, in "Myth America" (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social @zelizer.bsky.social, eds.).
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*Be
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The Revolution Will Not Hungry.
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People need to be more kind to our people in uniform by giving them some heads to smash. Even just a target for the "less lethal rounds" and tear gas would be generous.
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She's only a good politician for a different moment. In this moment, she has not shown an ability to perceive the changing nature of the conflict and to stake out resonant principles. She's a squishy centrist in ways that have served her well politically thus far, but she's useless in this crisis.
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Cool! Your name vaguely rang a bell. Even though the time has always been right for tutorials, it's "righter than ever" with AI.
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(I have used tutorials for 25 years since learning them in the UK and participated in a funded project re: tutorial assessment that included Wms faculty. I learned something about how they teach.)
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That Garfield quote continues to inspire me, even though I have no connections to Williams whatsoever.
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And all the overheated rhetoric about Putin and Russia is driving Ukraine to endanger the lives of Russian soldiers.
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So the position is, "we'll comply with the law, but we don't want anyone else on our side to know what the law is"? No sense of duty to the law?
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No more than the deputy director shouldn't be telling his sob stories on chat shows.
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Who can tell anymore?
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(Trying to get my head around this)...Reduced to absurdity, could the DOJ bring anyone--non-lawyers, Stephen Miller even--as advocates, and argue that a court's rules on admission to practice unconstitutionally constrains the unitary executive's ability to hire the representatives that they choose?
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In short, this drama would not have risen to this level if the Supreme Court and Congress hadn't set the stage, prop by prop, by concentrating authority and discretion in the White House.
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#1: Individuals shouldn't be able to buy their way to positions of influence.
#2: Limitations on the removal power of the President are necessary for stability in administration.
#3: The civil service needs protection against discretionary power.
#4: Agencies exist by the will of the Legislature.
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There are a bunch of recent "refugees" from South Africa who may be resting a bit uneasy tonight, too.
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The Supreme Court has appeared to confirm that the President can order a Seal Team 6 hit against a domestic enemy, and it is protected as an official act. So, watch your back, Elon.
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For Musk's sake, it's good that popping pills and being sleep deprived helps one's self-restraint, because otherwise he might say or do something rash and damage important relationships. And he's always been so good at not going nuclear on social media anyway.
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I am experiencing some kind of sadness right now. One of the two kinds, both of which are aspects of joy. But not sadsad, because that's a type of anger, except not the type of anger that is a kind of fear.
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He's no dummy, and the fact that his best answer is woefully, laughably poor is why the Trump Administration just lost 96% of the time before district courts.
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What really rocks are the cuts to US Geological Survey earthquake monitoring.
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What could possibly go wrong?
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Are you sure you didn't mean to write, "of Montreal, Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend"? I mean, who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?
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So, I could have a cool car or I could eat meals out of a can? That's the choice they're offering Russian men?
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Under Humphrey's, getting the right balance of independence and accountability in every case was for *us* to make--negotiated by the branches. By and large it made sense. As @nikobowie.bsky.social and Renan showed (YLJ 2002), a court-centered formalistic SOP was always just a choice.
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Choosing Heuristics in Management Involves Customs & Habits Above the New Government's Actual Skillset
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BURRITO: Bargaining Under Reasonable Restraints Is Trump's Opposite.
GORDITA: Grasping Opportunities Requires Deftly Immunizing Trump's Administration
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Ah, but TAMALES: Trump Always Makes A Losing Estimation of Strength.
and POZOLE: Presidents Offering Zero-Sum Options Lose Empathizers.