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Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 14h

Challenge Schumer since he has failed again as Majority Leader.

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, this is the problem. You have to do bipartisanship with a president who won by 10% and won every state but one---you need a lot of his voters going forward. Even at the Democratic nadir Trump only got 49.9% and now he's in the high 30s. You can tell him to fuck off.

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 1d

Primary Schumer.

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 1d

This is a terrible mistake and hands a victory to Trump right after Virginia voters handed him a massive defeat. You are doing nothing to protect health care, and as for Federal workers, why did put them through 40 days of hell to just surrender for nothing?

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 1d

7 million people marched in the streets. Voters handed Democrats smashing victories last Tuesday. Trump was on the ropes, and now a bunch of idiots hand him a victory and screw the ACA just so they don't have to suffer delays on their short flights back to New Hampshire.

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 1d

Do not surrender to Trumps deal then.

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 1d

Heritage is A-okay hanging out with Nazis in the present, but not okay honoring Black soldiers who fought the Nazis in the past.

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 1d

Unsurprising that the HeritageFoundation has since been unmasked as full of actual Nazis.

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 2d

Seems like a classic case of SF brain rot….real armies can’t and don’t operate like a SEAL team.

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 2d

Not to mention that the invasion of Africa with a 16000 man consular army was a massive campaign that took a full year of preparation, three years hard fighting and a final battle against a superior force which Scipio almost lost! Not a *raid*

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 4d

Need that copy of Soldiers and Silver?

Now is a great time to buy: use the code UTXGIFTS to get 40% off the print version or 50% off the Ebook when you buy direct from the Press.

More soldiers for less silver....can't beat that!

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Soldiers and Silver

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Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 6d

A gladius hispaniensis

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 6d

Post Halloween experimental archaeology

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 6d

Lots of elections today! I voted early in local elections here in Upstate New York... not as exciting as NJ, VA or NYC, but wherever your are...exercise your suffragium!

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 7d

Now I feel bad about the zero words I wrote today for a project that is going far more slowly!

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 7d

Very serious people told me that Donald the Dove was the peace president.

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 7d

Wait, so now we're going to war with Venezuela and Nigeria and Mexico, and bombing anyone who breaths the same air as a terrorist or drug trafficker.....

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 8d

I reflect on this grimly: if we are lucky, RFK Jr. will be the cabinet secretary that kills the most Americans by his malice, whereas if we are unlucky, it will be Hegseth who does it by his incompetence.

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 8d

Anyone who lives on the same planet as a terrorist or drug trafficker can be killed with impunity it seems.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 8d

Embrace the healing power of 'and' - GWOT-era targeting, especially for drone strikes, was often excessively permissive AND it is the case that current Venezuelan boat strikes would, so far as I can tell, not have been permitted under that framework (not the least because there's no valid AUMF).

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 8d

Embrace the healing power of 'and' - GWOT-era targeting, especially for drone strikes, was often excessively permissive AND it is the case that current Venezuelan boat strikes would, so far as I can tell, not have been permitted under that framework (not the least because there's no valid AUMF).

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 9d

I suspect the goal of many rw shops to juice the polling averages, which do inform a great deal of mainstream political coverage.

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 10d

Z.3

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 10d

Great book, with ominous implications.

David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 11d

The book to read is James Tan’s Power and Public Finance in Rome. Which argues (among other things) that Roman taxpayers had real leverage over elites due to being taxpayers. Turning point: by 167 the empire was so profitable that direct taxation ended. Which ended that leverage.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11d

Using his powers to extract tribute from foreign countries, "donors," etc. and then using those extraconstitutional slush funds to bypass the Constitution and the rule of law. Literally the opposite of originalism and a profound threat to the continuation of constitutional democracy in this country.

David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 11d

The book to read is James Tan’s Power and Public Finance in Rome. Which argues (among other things) that Roman taxpayers had real leverage over elites due to being taxpayers. Turning point: by 167 the empire was so profitable that direct taxation ended. Which ended that leverage.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11d

Using his powers to extract tribute from foreign countries, "donors," etc. and then using those extraconstitutional slush funds to bypass the Constitution and the rule of law. Literally the opposite of originalism and a profound threat to the continuation of constitutional democracy in this country.

Scott Levy @scott-levy.bsky.social · 11d

$550 billion in Japanese funding.
Directed by the President.
Outside Congress’s control.

My new @justsecurity.org piece explains how the agreement bypasses the Appropriations Clause and violates the laws that safeguard Congress’s power of the purse.

www.justsecurity.org/123478/trump...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

JD Vance: "The suffering is going to get a lot worse."

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 11d

Not really strewn....just one big honkin' insurmountable obstacle of the US Constitution.

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 13d

Retired U.S. Army Major General Randy Manner: "The deployments we’re currently seeing inside American cities…are not only un-American and wrong, they’re being done at the expense of our young men and women in uniform."

newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/i-helped-l...

I helped lead the National Guard. Troops don’t belong in our cities.

We must not permit this gross misuse of the military to be normalized.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 14d

What's particularly insane is the Dem demand is basically "don't sabotage health care in a way that makes it far more likely the GOP loses the House badly"

The failure of ACA repeal is a major reason Trump is president again---voters could say, "well, at least no one really got hurt."

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 16d

At 1600 Avenue did DJT
A stately bribery-dome decree....

Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 17d

Also for most classically training scholars with only Greek and Latin, a terrific introduction into various Achaemenid dossiers.

A must read for anyone interested in not only the Achaemenid empire, but for the project of comparative imperialism.

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