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jasonlabau.bsky.social
HS/MS History Teacher; Special interests in US politics and race; PhD; LDS; D&D; Opinions my own. he/him.
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I feel like this should fall under the "you break it, you buy it" principle. If they don't want courts telling them how to "conduct foreign policy" they shouldn't illegally deport people. Very simple: Don't break the law, then we won't have to limit your exercise of power.

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There are more than 10x as many people each year at the American Historical Association's conference! What if major news orgs covered that and similar events? Can you imagine how much better informed our country might be about its own history, institutions, and social structure? Instead, this.

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The language at the end of the paragraph here is so crucial. No "public interest" is served by unlawfulness, while there is a significant "public interest" in *the rule of law.* Trump is not the embodiment of the public, certainly not more than laws duly authorized by Congress.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

He's on the wrong side of all of this and his payouts are illegal. But our whole system of government should not hinge on such points. We should have a democratic system so robust that it's not decided by gerrymandering. That does not come down to a handful of votes in a handful of states.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

So far, the president claims he can ignore the Constitutional actions of Congress (appropriations), judges (legal rulings on immigration), and presidents (Biden's pardons). Will someone point to the parts of the Constitution that do still apply?

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

@pomonacollege.bsky.social: I hope you will appropriately resist this. If they have a specific case, let them make it in court and cooperate. Otherwise, fight this illegitimate pressure on academic freedom.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

We have a president who fundamentally does not care about people. Not one bit. He sees a humanitarian crisis, thinks "What if all those people were just gone?", and then salivates over the development opportunity, with himself at the center. Lacking all human empathy.

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Happy Birthday to W.E.B. Du Bois. He'd be 157 today, which means that his long life (95.5 years!) was still longer than the time since he died (61.5 years ago). He continues to inspire me in my historical work and political understanding.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

This seems useful right now. That 1/5 figure is astounding to think of. What happens to your local school funding if the state suddenly has 1/5 of it's budget frozen? School lunch for your kid? Salary for your teacher? Maintenance on the buildings? usafacts.org/articles/whi...

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Some Republicans have been talking for decades about destroying the federal government. It appears that they've finally found a president willing to pull down the house around him. Tomorrow they take a step toward unilaterally cutting up to $3T, subordinating it to their own political principles.

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

"The time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity." - MLK

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

If nothing else, studying history should help you learn not to look like a fool. I'm no Jefferson expert and I would know enough to be suspicious of this prayer. A quick google search would then clear the matter up.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

This is fantastic.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

A Trump loss may have spelled the end of the GOP as a stable, majority party. What if a Trump win spells the end of the Dems, with a new opposition party emerging? Like the Whigs who buckled against the Dems when it came to slavery, maybe we're ready for a new populist anti-authoritatian party?

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

An Onion headline that lives in my head rent-free.

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

The Dakotas are the rotten boroughs of the U.S. Each have fewer than a million people and their governors were just nominated for major federal offices. Meanwhile, Puerto Rico's 3.2m people get nothing.

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

The election results have again reminded me of Du Bois's statement on Robert E. Lee: "People do not go to war for abstract theories of government. They fight for property and privilege." It seems clear that people did not vote on democracy but on property and privilege.

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments