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where we are as a country

submitted 15 days ago • 21 comments

It is the first legal hurdle thrown up to the Trump administration as it seeks to send thousands of migrants to a detention facility on the naval base near Cuba.

submitted 15 days ago • 42 comments

A thing to understand here is that Wired + Teen Vogue is Condé Nast — this is the Newhouse family being basically the only good billionaire publishers. Other than them, it’s the indies of the new alt media and stalwarts like ProPublica and then basically crickets.

submitted 17 days ago • 100 comments

NOW: a federal judge has temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s DOGE employees from being granted access to sensitive financial information in the Treasury Department. Any records they already obtained need to be destroyed.

submitted 17 days ago • 29 comments

"Musk’s political project with DOGE is actually quite straightforward: The world’s richest man appears to be indiscriminately dismantling the government with an eye toward consolidating power and punishing his political enemies." “This is a rapid unscheduled disassembly of government services.”

submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments

Rubio, the most reasonable and accomplished of Trumps Cabinet picks, choosing a white nationalist for State and an insurrectionist to run an agency that Elon Musk is illegally dismantling. If this isn't a constitutional crisis, nothing is.

submitted 21 days ago • 25 comments

BREAKING Mexican authorities did not allow a US military plane, filled with deportees, to land in Mexico today.

submitted 31 days ago • 43 comments

Painfully obvious point (since I wrote a book on Hurricane Katrina, where the initial lack of federal response was devastating): FEMA exists because states and localities are easily overwhelmed by disasters – which are only growing in scale and intensity. Are we just going to rerun 2005 now?

submitted 31 days ago • 16 comments

This will cause great devastation to many people around the world, and to U.S. interests. State Department memo: "For existing foreign assistance awards, contracting officers and grant officers shall immediately issue stop-work orders." via @alterigoe.bsky.social www.devex.com/news/exclusi...

submitted 31 days ago • 47 comments

When I clerked on the Ninth Circuit, I worked on some notable cases over which Judge Coughenour presided. He was very solidly conservative. This just isn't a close question by any mainstream constitutional analysis.

submitted 33 days ago • 15 comments

State and local prosecutors have the tools at their disposal to send many newly freed Jan. 6 defendants back to prison—including the most violent and unrepentant offenders. And Trump can't do anything about it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

NEW: Here is Judge Coughenour's temporary restraining order against Trump's birthright citizenship EO. It appears to apply nationwide. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

A Reagan-appointed judge blocked Trump's birthright citizenship order and more or less said "I award you no points, may God have mercy on your soul" www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I need to start using this more. For as much as I hate Twitter not enough of the political and academic communities I follow have made the jump to allow for easy dissemination of information and analysis.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The ruling bars U.S. agencies from implementing the order to end birthright citizenship for children born to migrants in the U.S. temporarily or without legal status while the case is under review.

submitted 32 days ago • 53 comments

This is perfect explanation

submitted 33 days ago • 1246 comments

Breaking: DOJ freezes all cases in civil rights division. "It’s unprecedented. We’ve never seen this before at this scale with any transfer of power, regardless of the ideology of any incoming president or administration." Story w/ @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 33 days ago • 191 comments

Although consensus exists that amending the Constitution to deny birthright citizenship is nearly impossible, it’s also recognized that if the case reaches the Supreme Court, there is a conservative majority substantially aligned with Trump, Maribel Hastings warns: americasvoice.org/comunicados/...

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

ABC News' settlement was catastrophically awful, but if the DM Register settles on this one that will pretty much end political polling as an industry. If you can be sued for an outlier there's no reason to trust those numbers.

submitted 71 days ago • 153 comments

‘No, Secretary Kennedy, cocaine and bear meat will not be part of the school lunch program…I don’t care who your uncle was, Sir…’

submitted 102 days ago • 5 comments

absolutely nothing was normal about trump's presidential campaign and yet biden and the centrists cannot help but cling to norms. this gives democrats nothing to hold onto for the next four years. it's modeling acquiescence.

submitted 104 days ago • 98 comments

Same playbook, new acronyms. I wonder if the mainstream press will fall for it again?

submitted 500 days ago • 146 comments

1/13 A🧵for educators: talk to your students about what is happening in Palestine! It may be scary (and for some, it may be impossible) but if you have the space, the security, and the platform, please use it. We are so often silenced by those who tell us we don't know enough...

submitted 501 days ago • 2 comments

Sure, Kevin McCarthy may have humiliated himself for Trump. Yes, it took him 15 tries to become Speaker. And, of course, he had to beg the dumbest, most racist people in Congress to vote for him. But on the bright side, he ended up with absolutely nothing.

submitted 510 days ago • 55 comments

Colleagues in political science, please share this opportunity for a full-time position at @ucrpolisci.bsky.social for a recent graduate who will support the NSF-funded MSIRA program. Will be especially beneficial for someone considering a PhD in political science!

submitted 511 days ago • 1 comment

Polisci Jobs List! https://www.politicalsciencejobs.org/jobs-listing

submitted 563 days ago • 0 comments

the howard hughes comparisons are grossly unfair to howard hughes

submitted 581 days ago • 7 comments

I am hoping there will be more social media sites coming - so I can join all of them and post on all of them. Maybe copy and paste the same message on all of them. #allofthem

submitted 592 days ago • 3 comments

For one, brief moment my feeds across the internet are just one big celebration of organized labor. I fucking love it

submitted 592 days ago • 3 comments

i honestly don't think anyone has biffed it as hard as the DGA in labor history

submitted 592 days ago • 5 comments

NEW from @tusk81.bsky.social: Massachusetts and Rhode Island open driver’s licenses to eligible undocumented residents https://bit.ly/43gqHnV

submitted 599 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks to efforts led by the UFW, California banned the short handled hoe ‘el cortito’ in 1975. Today’s workers use a longer handled hoe to weed crops these sweet potato in Livingston CA. They are paid minimum wage in extreme temps - 107° last weekend - so our work's not done.

submitted 599 days ago • 1 comment

Flipping through 3 apps that functionally do the same exact thing hoping for 5 likes between them

submitted 600 days ago • 3 comments

I warned all of you that supporting the “Barbie” movie would lead to another war between Vietnam and China, but you didn’t listen

submitted 602 days ago • 0 comments

calling all in Political Science & International Relations! I'm creating a test PoliSci & IR feed now that we're getting a critical mass. It's horribly incomplete-who am I missing? Reply to add and tips, and if link works! https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:y5ztqgvtielksqz6rqtsnzlu/feed/aaabqo2hlzeow

submitted 603 days ago • 15 comments

Very worth a read for those mourning the loss of twitter, like me. I’m now on over half dozen social apps and the death of twitter has fractured my social networks. It’s extremely inconvenient, and probably very bad for my research, networks, and livelihood.

submitted 604 days ago • 2 comments

When the twitter mutual doesn't follow you back here

submitted 604 days ago • 116 comments

Todays Twitter mess.

submitted 604 days ago • 0 comments

I like that the three working theories for why Twitter broke are: 1.) Twitter is DDoSing itself because Elon is an idiot. 2.) Twitter is losing servers after the company ignored bills because Elon is an idiot. 3.) Twitter hopes to force people to pay because Elon is an idiot.

submitted 605 days ago • 78 comments