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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ
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"A very accessible, very interesting, non-bombastic political scientist." -Jonah Goldberg
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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 1h
Who knows how parties make decisions, says scholar of party decision-making

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 1h
Apparently tomorrow I have to start providing labor in exchange for my salary again

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 2h
STEPHANOPOULOS: Is the United States running Venezuela right now?

RUBIO: What we are running is the direction this is going to move moving forward.

Absolute soup

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 5h
web.archive.org/web/20230113...
Why Political Science Doesn't Like Term Limits
The political science literature on term limits is almost uniformly negative, finding that they increase polarization and make legislators weaker relative to governors and lobbyists.
web.archive.org

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Seth Masket, Stuart Shapiro

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social ยท 5h
17 states have legislative term limits, most for 30+ years. We have *mountains* of data on this. It all points in the same direction: term limits bad.

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 15h
But why didn't he say it was a distraction from eggs

Reposted by David R. Miller, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 15h
Waging an illegal and unconstitutional war and replacing a sovereign nation's government with a group of oilmen is actually quite sufficient to be concerned about without labeling it as a distraction.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com ยท 22h
Schumer: "It makes you think that maybe to Trump he wants to distract the American people, as he always does, from the skyrocketing costs they are facing, from the Epstein files."

Reposted by David R. Miller, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 18h
Schumer is either incredibly naive or wants us to believe he's incredibly naive and I'm not sure which is worse
maxberger.bsky.social Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social ยท 21h
The Trump regime repeatedly lied to Congress about their intention to pursue regime change in Venezuela. They didnโ€™t get Congressional approval for regime change, but did it anyway.

Demanding a briefing in response is both pathetic and nonsensical. Calling for impeachment is the obvious response.

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 18h
[Idris Elba rushed from WNBA game]

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social ยท 21h
The Trump regime repeatedly lied to Congress about their intention to pursue regime change in Venezuela. They didnโ€™t get Congressional approval for regime change, but did it anyway.

Demanding a briefing in response is both pathetic and nonsensical. Calling for impeachment is the obvious response.

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 22h
Key info for any President making instantaneous life-and-death decisions: How's it playing on Twitter?
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social ยท 1d
Several of the photos have Twitter up on a screen in the background but I canโ€™t make out what search term appears
Hegseth, Ratcliffe and Rubio near Trump in what appears to be a makeshift war room. A scene is behind them with Twitter up

Reposted by David R. Miller, Seth Masket, Simon Lester

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com ยท 22h
Schumer: "It makes you think that maybe to Trump he wants to distract the American people, as he always does, from the skyrocketing costs they are facing, from the Epstein files."

Reposted by Nathan P. Kalmoe

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 23h
Yeah, it's bad that Trump's secure war room is just some curtains at his golf club, but he was going to reveal anything classified at some upcoming podcast interview anyway
jacobbogage.bsky.social Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social ยท 1d
Theyโ€™ve got Twitter up on the big screens in Trumpโ€™s Mar-a-Lago makeshift โ€œsituation room.โ€

Photos from Trumpโ€™s Truth Social account.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 23h
New at Tusk: How Trumpโ€™s anti-war, anti-nation-building voters will find a way to support him through this
Don't expect Trump's anti-war supporters to abandon him on Venezuela
Yet another event that will just reinforce our partisan beliefs
open.substack.com

Reposted by Axel Bruns, Will Jennings, Michael Zimmer , and 1 more

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social ยท 1d
Several of the photos have Twitter up on a screen in the background but I canโ€™t make out what search term appears
Hegseth, Ratcliffe and Rubio near Trump in what appears to be a makeshift war room. A scene is behind them with Twitter up

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Efrรฉn O. Pรฉrez, Aaron Sojourner , and 4 more

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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social ยท 1d
Theyโ€™ve got Twitter up on the big screens in Trumpโ€™s Mar-a-Lago makeshift โ€œsituation room.โ€

Photos from Trumpโ€™s Truth Social account.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan, Steve Peers , and 8 more

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 1d
A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com ยท 1d
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 1d
Hell of a callback

Reposted by David R. Miller, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 1d
Trump very openly saying the US will be governing Venezuela with the support of US oil companies

Reposted by David R. Miller

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 1d
Any reporter at all: Ask him the author of the Monroe Doctrine

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Steve Peers, David Johnson , and 10 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com ยท 1d
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 1d
Itโ€™s quite literally about guys who got out of Vietnam War service because they had wealthy dads

Reposted by Will Jennings

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 1d
As I understand the timeline, Trump was administered a cognitive exam after authorizing the attack on Venezuela but before it was carried out

Reposted by David R. Miller

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 1d
What the actual fuck

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 1d
Ugh shit thatโ€™s sloppy work. Thanks for catching. Deleting my post.

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 2d
True socialism, as Marx taught us, is the commitment to both racial equality and inexpensive footwear

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 2d
โ€œYouโ€™re the best person who has ever lived. But youโ€™re usually a bit better by this point in the day.โ€
-Apple Watch every day

Reposted by Scott A. Imberman

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๐Ÿฆƒ Seth Masket ๐Ÿฆƒ @smotus.bsky.social ยท 2d
Just like your average American, the President started the New Year with yet another doctor-ordered cognitive exam just weeks after his last one
cbf.bsky.social Hadit Uptahere #NoKings @cbf.bsky.social ยท 2d
When your president is given multiple cognitive tests per year, and brags about that fact; regardless of the results stated, itโ€™s time to take his car keys away. (and the nuclear football I might add).

Reposted by Scott A. Imberman, Seth Masket

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Hadit Uptahere #NoKings @cbf.bsky.social ยท 2d
When your president is given multiple cognitive tests per year, and brags about that fact; regardless of the results stated, itโ€™s time to take his car keys away. (and the nuclear football I might add).

Reposted by Reece Jones, Elizabeth Saunders, James P. Collins , and 18 more

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social ยท 2d
Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
Cream colored book cover of Anna O. Law's Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship--African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants with a human figure behind an American flag