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Good news!

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My best match would be the Greens, by a small margin (with many disagreements). No surprise.

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Next big protest from #50501 et al is on March 4

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This is true for academics too. (Or rather, ought to be true: many of us publish things we should discard.)

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In this thread, I'll be sharing California YIMBY's 2025 legislative package. We are supporting an excellent group in legislators in running one of the most ambitious pro-housing agendas in California history—and this is only the beginning.

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

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stares in historian

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Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

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I’ve realized that my posting lately has amounted to turning up the water pressure on a fire hose. I’ll continue to read and take action, but won’t be posting about politics for a while. (Don’t clap too hard.)

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Deputy AG having to show up to personally represent the United States because he literally couldn't find anybody else willing to do it would normally be the most insane thing to happen in American government in several years, rather than maybe the third or fourth most insane thing on a Wednesday.

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youtu.be/z75DN5r_6H4

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“They have been fooled by history, and they have become the fools of history”—Arendt, On Revolution, on Russian revolutionaries fatalistically assuming their revolution had to be just like the French. Agreed: we shouldn’t do this. We have agency.

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“No more kings” From Schoolhouse Rock

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Of course this is just a few characters, but still it's comedy gold...

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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s response: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. The MTA has initiated legal proceedings in the Southern District of New York to preserve this critical program. We’ll see you in court.”

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Wait is this from today, and they're citing a 12 day old poll that came in unusually high? Trump remains the least popular president ever a month in (except for Trump 2017), and his 538 average sits at +3.3, pending the addition of a Gallup that at least in raw numbers came in awful for him. C'mon.

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We have a cultural tendency to conflate “natural” with “healthy” or morally “good” but ebola, cyanide, and radiation are all natural, while art, music, religion, and our entire culture are invented or “artificial”.

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In a sense, this is a good sign: that Trump calls Zelensky a dictator shows that he’s actually a democratic leader. (If he were actually a dictator, Trump would praise him and call him strong.)

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Frankly, faculty unions, or non-union advocacy organizations, bear some of the blame for this false belief. They love portraying endowments as huge pots of money that universities could spend on higher salaries if only they weren’t so evil. (A few of their leaders may even believe it.)

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Talking Points Memo used “purports to fire” for an illegal Trump action a couple of weeks ago. I’d love to see the “purports” frame become common.

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Link in next post.

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Me too. If you have a political science PhD, you can sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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With Trump declaring himself above the law and Musk calling for jailing journos, there's a big risk voters get acclimated to this kind of authoritarian talk and come to see it as normal. Another reason Dems must step up now. My exchange w/Steve Levitsky on this: newrepublic.com/article/1916...

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This is a concerning milestone. Bringing new investigations and prosecutions is different than just dismissing cases against allies.

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Whole thread is good. I sometimes am surprised by fellow faculty who don’t understand a university’s “endowment” (big total) is really thousands of smaller funds often with donor strings allowing only specific uses. We learned this during 2020-21 when university budgets got kneecapped by COVID.

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I've seen some folks snarkily dismiss the AUSAs who resigned as part of the problem, because they'd clerked for conservative judges. I don't understand this approach. I don't understand how people think we combat what's happening without precisely folks like them taking a stand

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Great 🧵 on who is resisting or not and why/how—but point (1) here on media is esp. underestimated, I think.

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I keep hearing G.K. Chesterton as I observe the Trump administration: "Brave men are all vertebrates. They have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. But these modern cowards are all crustaceans; their hardness is all on the cover, and their softness is inside."

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When it is a medieval time, and you wake in the middle of the black night, having slept well, but there is no candle to light by your bed… No wick for the rested. (Not apologizing. I like this one!)

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A famous American Politics scholar (no, I won’t say who) once argued to me that this (1) was totally true re. how parties work (people pick 1-2 issues and get socialized into the rest) (2) was good for democracy since people lack time & can use those 1-2 issues as a shortcut. I wasn’t convinced.

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Good piece on the penny: it should probably go, but (as with most of Trump’s unconstitutional attempted decrees) the real issue is that it’s beyond the President’s authority to decide. In other words: Trump is trying to throw us off the cent.

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What a disgrace. Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them. This is how democracy dies.

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This is the way! Meet government threats with laughter and courage. (Re. a Slovakian political activist accused of plotting a fictitious “coup” against that country’s pro-Russian leader.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/w...

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