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Michael Evans
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I teach & conduct political science research, seeking a healthier democracy.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 12d
In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law.

The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:

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Screenshot of TruthSocial post by President Trump complaining that Mayor Frey won't enforce federal immigration law, and calling it a "very serious violation of the Law."

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 12d
Within 4 hours of ICE (actually CBP) killing Alex Pretti, the data suggested that the right wing spin machine was having trouble gaining traction, even on their home turf over on X.

Here's a Substack I wrote analyzing X data from that time. katestarbird.substack.com/p/another-mu...
Another Killing on ICE
The right wing propaganda machine can’t spin the killing of Alex Pretti
katestarbird.substack.com

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Rebecca Solnit, Steve Peers , and 17 more

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 14d
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:

- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Jack N. Rakove, Michael Evans , and 2 more

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 14d
"Don't forget to add the bit about people only having rights if they agree with what the government is doing."

Reposted by David Rothschild, David R. Miller, Michael Evans

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14d
Oh my God, what an incredibly real and incredibly terrifying story. These grown men were locked inside a restaurant? Wow.

It's hard to say where that ranks next to the state-sanctioned murders and the kidnapping of children, but gosh, they were briefly locked inside a restaurant? Heaven forfend.

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 14d
On the weakness of state terror: once ppl internalize the regime's lawless brutality, that they are no safer in their homes than in the streets (& vice versa), and that their unwavering defiance is what confounds & disempowers the regime, they also realize they have nothing to lose but their fear.
dmbmeg.bsky.social Dumb Megan @dmbmeg.bsky.social · 15d
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 16d
This week in the USA:

* Trump is first prez not to acknowledge MLK holiday
* Revealed Trump made at least $1.4B in 2025
* Speaker of the House endorses impeaching judges
* Fed regulators threaten free speech of TV talk shows
* US announces departure from WHO w unpaid bill

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Brendan Nyhan, Michael Kevane , and 4 more

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 18d
I do not understand why Dems (or someone) are not broadcasting wall to wall montages of ICE thugs abusing our neighbors, abducting children, terrorizing US citizens, invading homes w no warrant, or murdering mothers. This should be a massive exercise in ISSUE SALIENCE driven by Dem elites.

Reposted by Mark D. White, Diane Ravitch, Robert C. Richards , and 3 more

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 18d
A five-year-old boy seized on his way home in Minnesota and now locked up in Texas. His family didn't know where he was for 24 hours.
joealv.bsky.social Joe @joealv.bsky.social · 18d
Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Michael A. Clemens, Mary Feeney , and 7 more

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19d
Last year a whistleblower said DOGE had illegally accessed a Social Security database. SSA now acknowledges it's true—& that DOGE employees had secret agreement w/ unidentified political advocacy group to use SocSec data to help overturn election results. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Michael Evans @mevanspolisci.bsky.social · 20d
Pull yourself together.

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Michael Evans @mevanspolisci.bsky.social · 20d
If I recall correctly, he said he found much to agree with in Locke and a little to agree with in Marx, but both erred in being insufficiently grounded in Christianity. Perhaps he was like Daniel Bell described himself: socialist on economics, conservative on culture, liberal on politics.

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Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social · 21d
Populist grand strategy at work.

Personalistic autocrats engage in extortionist revisionism - grandiose, coercive, civilizationalist gambits on the world stage - for material gain, while also enabling the leader to claim greatness back home to try to secure durability.
politico.eu POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 21d
For many European governments, Donald Trump’s threat of punitive tariffs against anyone who tries to stop him taking Greenland was the final straw in their failing relationship with the U.S.

Divorce, they believe, is now inevitable.
Trump’s Greenland threats push Europe toward divorcing America
With NATO thrown into question, some officials see the “coalition of the willing” as the basis for a new alliance without the U.S. 
www.politico.eu

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 22d
it's more or less impossible to find issues that poll this badly and he's decided to make it a major, public priority www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 22d
Not just here, but all over the world, people have actual problems to take care of and lives to lead, and they end up spending so much time and energy just dealing with the damage Trump needlessly causes every day. It's exhausting.
claesdevreese.bsky.social Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 23d
Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now.

Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations.

Source: dr.dk

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22d
NEW: President Donald Trump’s redistricting arms race is wreaking havoc across the country, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.

But in Missouri, the fight has grown into something that threatens to cut democracy to the bone. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/in-...
In battling a GOP gerrymander, Missouri voters are fighting for American democracy
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
www.democracydocket.com

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 23d
I would like to think the Mad King proclaiming “I will continue to illegally raise taxes on the American people until the NATO alliance collapses” would be the type of statement to cause Congress to act, but I’m not sure there’s any red line the GOP Congress has anymore.
twseal.bsky.social Thomas Seal @twseal.bsky.social · 23d
Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23d
Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
profsaunders.bsky.social Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 23d
French troops deploying to Greenland because the United States might try to take it over.

Today in 2026 sentences.
militarynewsua.bsky.social 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 23d
❗️An initial group of 🇫🇷French mountain troops has arrived in 🇬🇱Greenland to prepare for the reception and deployment of the main contingent. French authorities have stated that additional land, aviation, and naval units will be dispatched in the coming days.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 23d
Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now.

Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations.

Source: dr.dk

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 23d
I’ve serious new evidence from London archives on birthright subjecthood— and it’ll make some of these nonsense arguments look even more foolish.

It will take me weeks to think on and process before I include it in what I’ve been working on for a year. But that doesn’t get retweets from the DOJ.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 23d
Was just on w/ @chrislhayes.bsky.social talking about the impact ICE is having on public opinion toward immigration and Trump’s second term in general. The bottom line is that people hate the violence against Americans, and this is moving a significant number of people against Trump in a new way

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23d
I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23d
He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24d
So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away.

Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.

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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 24d
If all you're willing to do is say "We're cooked" on a social media site, maybe it is all over.

If you're willing to struggle alongside your friends and neighbors for democracy, then we've got a chance.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25d
the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?
ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 25d
Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 25d
That is what was relayed

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 25d
As always I am 100% in agreement with @machete.gay that the existential struggle for humanity is for those of us who believe in society and civilization and the barbarians who do not and seek to destroy it.

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 25d
It's funny how many quotes there are out there about how men who act recklessly for the sake of power to tear down norms and institutions they perceive as weak and shackling are actually all just barbarous criminals.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 26d
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.

You could be next.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 26d
It's wild to watch people like Joe Rogan come to grips that voting for the "mass deportations now" candidate meant voter for a literal war against your non-White neighbors. The entire discussion around the 2024 campaign was so fundamentally unserious it might as well have happened in a fever dream.
ericumansky.bsky.social Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 26d
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.

A citizen.

Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.

"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.

Agents took and sold his phone

And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.