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Ast. Prof. of Gov't, Claremont McKenna College. Interested in political reform, public policy process, public administration, electoral institutions, and political behavior. Polling at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government.
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Shockingly, the law firms that bent the knee & pledged a billion dollar legal lush fund are now finding out Trump owns them & he’s thinking of new terrible things they need to do. When the bully demands your lunch money, you don’t give it to him. You say no. Otherwise he just comes back for more.

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This is it, folks. Far larger than Harvard itself, as large as Harvard is. Every nonprofit from the center leftward is on notice for potential destruction.

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Honestly I'm glad they picked Harvard to try out this novel "we're mad" legal theory of revoking tax-exempt status, given its infinite resources, deep network of powerful alumni, and law school attended by 142 sitting federal judges. Good luck! 🫡

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WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government may not use federal benefits or funds to coerce parties to surrender their constitutional rights. This is what the Administration is doing ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

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This is why you cannot negotiate with Trump on anything, ever: he only takes making an agreement as a sign of weakness, and thus cause for renegotiating. You can never escape. So you might as well fight from the beginning. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

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🚨BREAKING: Judge finds flying migrants to El Salvador after orders not to "demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt." Visit www.democracydocket.com for full details and analysis.

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1) He wasn't deported. He was sent directly to a gulag, at our instruction, to be imprisoned without trial. 2) In court, DOJ admitted he was in the US legally and was arrested by mistake. 3) The Supreme Court 9-0 has ordered him returned, and the President is refusing. It's kind of a big deal.

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Bonkers chart from Canadian election polling.

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Don't let this sort of thing become normalized. No criminal record. Married with a child. Complying with immigration bureaucracy. Agents wait outside his home. Smash his window while he calls his lawyer. Take him to an undisclosed location. This is Soviet secret police stuff. youtu.be/Bnlj-wSI4Bg

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I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.

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Just a reminder how classic what we're seeing is: 1. redefine a group as a threat to civilization 2. reduce legal protections that they enjoy 3. abuse, threaten, harm, and/or relocate them 4. dismiss/ignore concerns about abuses and harms from the process 5. repeat steps 2-4, escalating each time

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Confession that due process is or should be optional according to the vice president

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A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump issued a sharp rebuke tonight of his administration’s sweeping spending cuts — and a defense of the judiciary’s obligation to ensure the executive branch follows the law. “Here, the government failed to do so.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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networks made of voluntary & sustained relationships among Members of Congress foster greater cross-party cooperation, but the substantive effects of these connections are too modest to offset partisan polarization. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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The student paper at the college at which I teach reports a "tsunami of takedown requests" from international students terrified of being targeted for innocuous, legitimate op-eds & opinions.. Many ask in person--leave no trace in writing. Reminds me of my father's account of studying in the USSR.

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Rereading old notes from the Penn. Abolition Society papers, and was reminded of this 1795 case: "Information being received that a woman named Eulilia and a Black man named Julian are in Newcastle Prison in order to be shipped off to the West Indies, as slaves - [they] contend they are free..."

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There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

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This!

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We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

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Stanford’s president and provost release a statement supporting Harvard. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...

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There’s a word for this, and it’s called bribery.

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I would not have us accept these kinds of conditions at any cost. No college/university should. “For it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.” - Winston Churchill, 1940

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Bone chilling. A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0. 1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.

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Trump is collapsing under the crappiness of his authoritarian incompetence. Keep pushing back until he's gone.

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Is there no one else?

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Considering some of the RWD t-shirts popular with folks associated with the administration, this hits differently.

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MIT following Harvard's lead here

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This was just… so predictable.

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I was interviewed today re: the relevance of the Declaration of Independence People think "When in the Course of Human Events" is the imp't part. The preamble. But the meat is the long list of sins the King committed vs the colonists. They believed their rights were being violated by a tyrant.

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What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.

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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

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Harvard says no to Trump.

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This threatens the rights of all Americans.

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Watching this Trump-Bukele meeting with chime-ins from Miller, Bondi and Rubio. There's just no question about the game they're playing. A stream of lies and escalations and absolute nonsense that any sane person can see through instantly. Astonishing that so many don't.

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It's not being talked about enough that the Trump administration is actively committing hundred of counts of crimes against humanity and bragging about it on television

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Smallpox inoculation certificates for the Brown family, 1776. The long history of inoculation and vaccination and the clear understanding of why/ how this innovation in healthcare was so important. @jcblibrary.bsky.social ofc.

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donmoynihan.substack.com/p/no-univers...

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Trump's moves are already imposing immense costs on the United States and on the world via lost scientific progress on preventing Alzheimer's, curing cancer, etc.

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It still cracks me up that they named their company Palantir. Did they not actually read The Lord of the Rings? The stones help to drive both Saruman and Denethor to despair and folly. 1/2

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The audiobook version of my 2022 book, Political Choice in a Polarized America is half off until May 11th www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

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