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Steven L. Taylor

@sltaylor.bsky.social

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Professor Emeritus of PoliSci and former Dean of Arts & Sciences. My research is focused on comparative democratic institutions.🖖🤘

I write about politics at www.outsidethebeltway.com

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 23h

Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino is having fun posting this morning.

Rep. Ilhan Omar & 4 @Ilhan•3h
Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating in Minnesota and beyond! Wishing you a holiday filled with love, joy, and warmth.
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Commander Op At Large CA... &•27m S ...
Merry Christmas, Minnesota, you are doing better each day with massive deportations of illegal aliens. Ilan, more to come - Merry Christmas and God bless you on Christ's birthday. MERRY CHRISTMAS and may American exceptionalism continue!!!!

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Our gift to you, America.
Ensuring a safer nation for all. And for all, a good night.
#USBP #CBP #DHS #Christmas #Gift

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 4d

UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.

Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 4d

For it negatives, there are some ways in which the internet is an ongoing miracle.

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Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 5d

An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼

Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 5d

Love is thicker than water, dontcha know.

Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 6d

I trust Vince Gilligan. But I also genuinely like the show.

But we can agree on TOS and No Country for Old Men, and such as that.

Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 6d

I don’t think this show is as much about the mystery as Lost was. I think it is about characters and philosophical themes. But we shall see.

Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 6d

I am. And however many seasons after.

BTW: I don’t think this is Lost.

Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 6d

Clearly it is not for everyone. But I have to strenuously disagree. I think it has been excellent.

Substack

Thoughts on Blade Runner 2049

A sequel that does ultimatelty make a case for itself. A sequel that does ultimatelty make a case for itself.

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Ruminations on the Sunset

Visual thoughts inspired by Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. As we discussed on this week’s Ancient Geeks (get it wherever you get your podcasts!), one of the things about the film that really appeals to me is its visuals. I am hardly the first person to note the beauty of the film, but as we go through our podcast journey of revisiting classics from our youth, one of the joys is seeing how a work that you have …

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8d

Hegseth. Patel. Bongino. And now Bhattacharya ("too busy podcasting").

When you hire people based on their social media profiles, you get.... content creators.

But we need DOD, the FBI, and the NIH to *work*.

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 8d

And this will drive him *crazy*.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 8d

And this will drive him *crazy*.

But inside the agency, officials describe Bhattacharya as a largely ineffectual figurehead, often absent from leadership meetings, unresponsive to colleagues, and fixated more on cultivating his media image than on engaging with the turmoil at his own agency. "We don't really hear from or about Jay very much," one official told me.
(Most of the current and former NIH officials who spoke with me for this article requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation.) Many officials call Bhattacharya
"Podcast Jay" because of the amount of time that he has spent in his office recording himself talking. "Bhattacharya is too busy podcasting to do anything," one official told
me.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 11d

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.

All from his movies.

Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 11d

It is an especially poignant question for those who study institutional design!

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 11d

Allow me to simple give kudos to “No Country for Old Men.”

Thank you for your attention in this matter.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Trump on the shooting at Brown University: “Things can happen”

Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 13d

The spice must flow!

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 16d

"there's a new serif in town"

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16d

Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move

Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri

The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16d

Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move

Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri

The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

Marjorie Taylor Greene claims she shared with Trump death threat she received that he incited, and his response was "extremely unkind"

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20d

“In the heat of the moment, you’ve got to make a decision, and sometimes that decision is imperfect,” said Hegseth

Pete Hegseth Invokes ‘Fog Of War’ After Pissing In Break Room Refrigerator

ARLINGTON, VA—Describing the incident as a split-second operational judgment made under rapidly evolving conditions, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth invoked the “fog of war” Thursday to explain why he ...

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 21d

Did he think the South Park bit was a compliment?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21d

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.