Polisci prof at U of Denver. She/her. American politics and law, American political development, gender & politics, state politics. Opinions represent myself only.
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👀 "more black voters (41 percent) now identify the Supreme Court as the top threat to their community than the Trump presidency (39 percent). In June 2024, just 26 percent said the Court was the top threat."
The word is getting out re John Roberts MAGA #SCOTUS.
"Both proposed plants would feed data centers that have yet to be built, and the funding pales in comparison to the cost of new plants." The forces that drove coal's decline are larger than the president can control, but that doesn't stop him from trying:
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The callous brutality of it all is stunning
My read on this is that, if there's anything at all to read into this (and I'm not sure there is), it's that the responses to this survey are *entirely* performative. "Conservative" profs saying they feel way more self-censored under Trump is because they feel they need to play the victim...
“Congress's top bathroom sheriff Nancy Mace is on the ballot, and while not all of the votes have been counted yet, she is in a respectful fifth place,” Sarah McBride just said. “I don't like punching down and I believe in the politics of grace. So all I will say is happy Pride, Nancy.”
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Bari Weiss somehow manages to be one of the most repellent people in an age dense with such filth
"A big problem with people with Nazi tattoos is that they tend to have other issues besides just Nazi tattoos." -- @smotus.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act unleashed a wave of redistricting. Did it unleash a wave of voter anger too?
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed.
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They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
As expressed on the pod with @mbkplus.bsky.social, I have missed feelings about FIRE. They do some genuinely important work. But their surveys are unscientific and agenda-driven. This one of law faculty had a 6% response rate, with no apparent testing for non-response bias.
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
Sara Chatfield
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
A new survey of nearly 2,000 faculty members at U.S. law schools concludes that law professors strongly support free speech but often struggle to put it into practice on campus.
www.reuters.com
Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:
Jameel Jaffer
Trish Greenhalgh
Milan Markovic
Eliot Higgins
"The bigger problem, Lulu, frankly, is not any kind of political influence. The problem was the incompetence.."
Scott Pelley talked to @lulugn.bsky.social about "the Bari Weiss era and his last days at 60 Minutes:" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
