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"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)
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Andrew Rudalevige
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Bowdoin College professor of political science; affiliated with UCL's Centre on US Politics and UVa's Miller Center. Feed includes posts on presidential power, bureaucratic politics, and carping about Boston sports and European football
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"UNPOPULAR OPINION: NAPOLEON WOULD HAVE WON THIS WAR IF NOT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF WINTER AND DISTANCE" x.com/nikicaga/sta...
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The latest CNN poll shows that only 2% of Americans say economic conditions in the US are "very good," while 77% say they're somewhat or very poor.
Aaron RuparBessent: "President Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton could not have imagined the economy that we would have created. It is the envy of the world."
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Senate Republicans are all in for Trump's $1.8 bn Treasury embezzlement plan after all. www.politico.com/live-updates...
Finance Republicans kill bid to stop Trump IRS audit-immunity dealSen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a vocal critic of the immunity plan, sided against a Democratic amendment to block it outright.www.politico.com
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The easiest possible layup for a President at war with another country would be to explain that they are attacking us. Trump won't do that because he views Minnesota as a bigger enemy than Iran.
Aaron RuparTrump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."
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Via @pressherald.com (gift link) Elon Musk planning to throw financial support behind Susan Collins’ U.S. Senate bid Collins "had friendly meetings with Musk in the past while also saying last year she was “very concerned” about some of DOGE’s moves" www.pressherald.com?p=7697086&uu...
Elon Musk planning to throw financial support behind Susan Collins’ U.S. Senate bidMusk's America PAC reportedly intends to spend $100 million to $120 million to help Republicans in Senate races in Maine and several other states.www.pressherald.com
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I remember seeing someone (very reasonably) complaining here a few days ago that there seems to be next to no visible thinking on left and center about how to join the dots on administration and democracy. This is the beginnings of an answer to that complaint donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...
Rebuilding Democracy Requires Rebalancing PowerWhat does a power-shifting agenda look like?donmoynihan.substack.com
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Nancy Reagan warned us about the dangers of hallucinogenic drugs.
Aaron RuparRep. John McGuire: "I don't know if you heard about the BLT sandwich -- using human fetus baby parts in the vaccine when they could've used ivermectin"
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Reminder that on his last day of his first term, Trump awarded a commendation to Dr Fauci "in recognition of his exceptional effort on Operation Warp Speed"
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If you have type-O positive blood and you can manage it, please consider donating blood *as soon as possible* - this is a very bad situation.
public health guyyikes
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The Washington University Law Review is pleased to publish The Crisis of Appropriations Law by Samuel R. Bagenstos in the symposium issue, Volume 103, Issue 6. The Article examines the foundations of appropriations law. Read: wustllawreview.org/2026/07/26/t...
The Crisis of Appropriations Law – Washington University Law ReviewAppropriations law is a unique body of federal law. Appropriations law imposes its own somewhat baroque set of statutory interpretation rules, approves of very broad delegations to the Executive Branc...wustllawreview.org
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Trump admin has quietly drafted new rules governing the census expected to recategorize millions of immigrants (both unauthorized and legal) as not actually living here in the United States This would allow the GOP to steal congressional seats & redirect hundreds of billions of federal dollars
Inside Trump’s Stealth Trick to Rig the Census—and CongressThe administration’s latest power grab is disguised as boring technical guidance.www.thebulwark.com⟳ Репост от Andrew Rudalevige
The logistical brilliance of Pete Hegseth: firing $4 mn missiles to take down a $10k drone. “In late April, The New York Times reported that the Pentagon had used more than 1,200 Patriot interceptor missiles in the war, at more than $4 million apiece.”
Trump Holds Off on Major War Escalation Against Iran as Advisers Raise ConcernsAmong the worries is that expanded hostilities could dangerously drain the diminished stockpile of air defense munitions in the Middle East.www.nytimes.com⟳ Репост от Andrew Rudalevige
@philiprocco.bsky.social did a deep dive on the rules and enforcement powers on govt propaganda. The underlying take away is that while the US says it opposes such actions, it simply has not enforced the rules. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-federa...
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Sobering reminder that the trillionaire who owns Twitter is an angry, impotent white supremacist.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
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One good way to confirm that the president is, in fact, a narcissist is if a top military official is sacked for calling him a narcissist.
cliffdubyaIt’s like living in Nazi Germany.
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Supreme Court Historical Fact-Check #5: The Nonsense Appointments Clause Claim with No Evidence Explaining Roberts’s and unitary theorists’ serious misuses of historical sources - which Ilan Wurman dodged in our podcast: open.substack.com/pub/jedshuge...
Daily Supreme Court Historical Fact-Check #5: The Nonsense Appointments Clause Claim with No EvidenceNeither Roberts nor unitary theorists could cite one Founding-era source who agreed with their conclusion, but zero evidence won't stop pseudo-originalists. Control-F Around and Find Out!open.substack.com
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Elon will post things like “buy this cardboard box full of urine, it will achieve nuclear epic anti-woke self-driving AI sentience by next Thursday” and people are perpetually shocked when the urine leaks out of the box
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