Tom Clark

@tomsclark.bsky.social

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Political scientist at Stanford University studying law, courts, policing, public safety. www.tomclarkphd.com Go birds.

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · May 8

Well, look what just showed up! Advance copies are in, and you can pre-order yours now. It ships June 3. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 7h

This is really remarkable when you think about it.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 9h

This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.

And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?

Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Tom Clark, David R. Miller

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 9h

Because the provision is retroactive to 2022, it would appear to make eligible the eight lawmakers whose phone records were subpoenaed by investigators for Mr. Smith as he examined efforts by Donald J. Trump to obstruct the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Each violation would be worth at least $500,000 in any legal claim, according to the bill language. The bill would also sharply limit the way the government could resist such a claim, taking away any government claims of qualified or sovereign immunity to fight a lawsuit over the issue.

The Republican senators whose phone records were subpoenaed as part of the investigation were: Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming. Representative Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania also had his phone records subpoenaed but would not be eligible because he is a member of the House.

Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 1d

So the Democrats are heralding a soft commitment to comply with the law as a victory in their negotiations?

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

I want to thank a generation for bringing the expression “cringe” into the mainstream

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Just a little more gold and it will be perfect

Trump in the Oval Office of the White House with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The walls are decorated with tacky gold bullshit

https://flic.kr/p/2rE6s9j

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Tom Clark, Steven S. Smith , and 3 more Brendan Nyhan, Tom Clark, Steven S. Smith, Rosemary A. Joyce, David R. Miller, Simon Lester

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE."

I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over. In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the Filibuster!

Reposted by Tom Clark, Rosemary A. Joyce

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

Essential reading. Donald Trump dispatches as his ambassador to Copenhagen a man who has been established by Danish intelligence to be deeply engaged in secret plans financed privately by Peter Thiel for an American invasion and occupation of Greenland, writes Danish intel analyst Jacob Kaarsbo.

Intel Brief Greenland Special

Denmark now hosts a US ambassador who personally supports the idea of US takeover of a part of our Kingdom

open.substack.com

Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 3d

This seems like a practice that will lead to failures to maintain government records.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 3d

DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.

Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Hegseth: "We must wage an all-out campaign to streamline the Pentagon's process, to unshackle our people from unproductive work and to shift our resources from the bureaucracy to the battlefield. Our objection is simple: transform the entire acquisition system to operate on a wartime footing."

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Anna O. Law, Tom Clark , and 4 more Meredith Broussard, Anna O. Law, Tom Clark, Rosemary A. Joyce, Robert C. Richards, Rebecca Tushnet, Michael D. McDonald

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 3d

Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing to see here.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡

@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

Reposted by Tom Clark, Scott L. Greer, Brooke Harrington , and 3 more Tom Clark, Scott L. Greer, Brooke Harrington, Alexandra Filindra, Nathan P. Kalmoe, David Darmofal

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 4d

Ugh. I wish this point didn’t need to be made, but it does.

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 4d

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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Reposted by Michael E. Mann, Joshua S. Weitz, Tom Clark , and 3 more Michael E. Mann, Joshua S. Weitz, Tom Clark, John Horgan, Sanford F. Schram, Greg Linden

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 4d

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 4d

It'll be weird if Ted Cruz is drummed out of the GOP by a new faction, for being too moderate.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Nick Fuentes’s Rise Puts MAGA Movement in a ‘Time of Choosing’

www.nytimes.com

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 4d

The tush push has broken out of NFL containment. Can the spread be stopped?

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 4d

Mike Johnson won't want you to see this.

Reposted by Tom Clark, Mark D. White, Joseph Schafer , and 12 more Tom Clark, Mark D. White, Joseph Schafer, Mary Corcoran, Daniel W. Drezner, Rebecca Tushnet, Aaron Sojourner, Gerald Friedman, Stacy D. VanDeveer, James Goodwin, Dana R. Fisher, Ann Bartow, Nancy M. Wingfield, Timothy D. McBride, David Darmofal

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 4d

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Reposted by Tom Clark, Mark D. White, David R. Miller

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Dr Oz: "We've dropped the infertility drugs to make lots of Trump babies I'm hoping by the midterms."

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Marc Lynch, Lisa W. Fazio , and 6 more Anna O. Law, Marc Lynch, Lisa W. Fazio, Brendan Nyhan, Tom Clark, American Library Association, Mark Rice, Henry Jones, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 4d

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”