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"Let's go back to the period when the nation retreated from democracy and equal rights and suffered two massive, crushing depressions because tariffs"

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University administrators

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not a clue what this means.

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I guess the next step in owning the libs will be to wear white robes and hoods, with the smirking explanation "AckShuaLLy, I'm dressed up as a crusader!"

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hey! me & @lollardfish.bsky.social wrote this piece for @slate.bsky.social about what's hot in 2025, because it's the Middle Ages! we see a retreat to the medieval as a (tacit) act of resistance against techbro authoritarianism. find out why... please read and share #medievalsky

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NYT headline: "Simple White Fabric Holds Complex and Contested Meanings"

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I guess the next step in owning the libs will be to wear white robes and hoods, with the smirking explanation "AckShuaLLy, I'm dressed up as a crusader!"

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Is it, though?

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White robe and pointy hood spark questions answered by white robe and pointy hood

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living (embodiment) constitutionalism

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If only he worked for the executive branch and could be restrained by it.

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A great piece on what repealing the 1973 Home Rule Act would mean - both for democracy in DC and the practical administration of local affairs. But in the end, the Lee-Ogles bill seems less like a genuine effort to restructure local gov't and more like another chance to beat up on the District.

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A great piece on what repealing the 1973 Home Rule Act would mean - both for democracy in DC and the practical administration of local affairs. But in the end, the Lee-Ogles bill seems less like a genuine effort to restructure local gov't and more like another chance to beat up on the District.

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As Trump continues his threats to "takeover" D.C, we break down what federal control of the city could actually look like, using history as our guide.

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Spending $44 billion "to buy freedom of expression" is 👨‍🍳💋

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10/10 to the photo editor, no notes

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Making the spoils system great again!

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I Wanna Be Your DOGE Elon’s got a lot of lust for life, but his teenage stooges’ rampage through the government has been no fun for this passenger. by Maureen Dowd

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Always with the bragging

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What kills me is this attack on the Presidio looks to dismantle the most successful CONSERVATIVE vision of an urban national park you could ever ask for. This administration is just a mob of arsonists.

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Just begging people to apply the "would you want to have a beer with him?" test

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Complying with the Trump regime's executive order, PBS deletes LGBTQ history videos. New York City's Education Department has since decided to host the videos on their own website. 1/2 🗃️ 🏳️‍🌈 🍎 🗺️ #sschat www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

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Hey y'all, @jgienapp.bsky.social made it here. Don't know about you but I've been sharing his great little piece w/ non-academics even more than usual lately, on historical methodology & why originalism (esp in its current form) is so far from that practice 🗃️: www.processhistory.org/gienapp-know...

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Shorter Donald Trump: We should abolish democracy for DC because get off my lawn apnews.com/article/trum...

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Shorter Donald Trump: We should abolish democracy for DC because get off my lawn apnews.com/article/trum...

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Alright. I came.

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With nobody to sell tickets, JFK presidential library reopens for free Cuts ordered by the Trump administration forced the museum honoring the 35th president to shut down. On Wednesday, its remaining staff opened the doors with determination — and questions

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hmmm

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The Fundamental Flaws in the Barnett/Wurman Defense of Trump’s #Birthright Citizenship Executive Order by @adambcox.bsky.social, Pamela Karlan, @martylederman.bsky.social, @twmorrison.bsky.social, and Cristina Rodríguez www.justsecurity.org/108070/funda...

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"Why aren't people nicer to me as I give faux scholarly cover to a political movement to strip children of their American citizenship?" There's a total lack of awareness about the gravity of what they're doing, besides the sloppy work.

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D360,249 - issued in 1995 for a design for a "soundproof device for a person to scream into."

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Kennedy Center ‘Abruptly’ Cancels Gay Men’s Chorus Concert operawire.com/kennedy-cent... - per Francisco Salazar / Opera Wire

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A great 🧵 about the complicated relationship between the presidential libraries and the National Archives. 🗃️

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We're not done hearing about cuts to NARA. But here's why we won't see this kind of story about each presidential library: The governing and operating structures for the 13 (yes, 13, despite what others claim) federal presidential library-museums are a mix of "public-private partnerships." 🧵

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I want to highlight just how closely the Wurman-Barnett arguments in 2025 parallel those made by the United States against Wong Kim Ark’s citizenship in 1898. And rejected. I do not think this can be coincidence. Here’s a summary of the US’s arguments, via @jnovkov.bsky.social

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The birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment leaves Native Americans outside of its coverage out of respect for Indigenous sovereignty Native citizenship. That story is very complex. Please listen & read Native history scholars! cc @kevinkenny.bsky.social @evanbernick.bsky.social

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The Trumpian trinity * Bigly * Like a dog * Better than Lincoln, some are saying

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Constitution Day and Citizenship Day 2025 is going to be a banger

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EO: "restablishes the longstanding norm that only the Prez or AG can speak for the US when stating an opinion as to what the law is" I'm a constitutional scholar. This is not how it work. Fuck you.

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Failing grade for paraphrase and use of quotation marks - please come see me L: headline of White House article R: ABC report it purports to summarize

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