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Jon Green
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Assistant professor, Department of Political Science, Duke University
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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 4h
as articulated in the signature questions doctrine

Reposted by David R. Miller

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 4h
ah of course that little known clause in Article II that says the president gets one “get out of judicial review free” voucher they can turn in at any point during their term for something they really care about
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Bessent on tariffs: "This is one of President Trump's signature policies, and traditionally the Supreme Court does not interfere with a president's signature policy."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Bessent on tariffs: "This is one of President Trump's signature policies, and traditionally the Supreme Court does not interfere with a president's signature policy."

Reposted by Jon Green

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 7h
This is a very vague and consequently stupid headline, and the copy is a little too coy for the subject matter, but guys, this is an article mainly about how Epstein was able to manipulate his media connections and Manhattan power broker buds to maintain his public image. It’s not a eulogy

Reposted by Jon Green

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d
Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 2d
separate drivers license/road test requirements for pickups/SUVs above a certain height/length threshold. you want a vehicle 2x the size you need to get around town, you should have to prove to the state that you can navigate a parking garage in that thing
taliabhatt.itch.io Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 2d
"my least woke opinion is---"

That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.

Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 2d
this is combining like three different black mirror episodes into one bad idea, all the way down to a guy who looks vaguely like Domhnall Gleeson
cpaxton.bsky.social Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 3d
Nightmarish idea for a startup tbh

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 2d
this could also describe the greenwald/tracey clique, e.g.

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 2d
I like the idea that people in the attention business are "creations" of their audiences. if your thing is "I'm on the left but my main thing is criticizing Democrats" and that attracts a mainly Republican audience, guess what,,, www.cambridge.org/core/element...
The YouTube Apparatus
Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - The YouTube Apparatus
www.cambridge.org

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Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 2d
"my least woke opinion is---"

That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.

Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 3d
vibe shift

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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 3d
Nightmarish idea for a startup tbh

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 3d
memebrane is what you get when you go too long without touching grass
timdickinson.bsky.social Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

"skin as part of brain?"

This is that great intellect people talk about?

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 3d
"she's got daddy issues" no she doesn't, you're just twelve. grow up.

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 3d
like it's obviously much worse given the context, but even in the abstract this is just an extremely juvenile way to talk about someone you're interested in

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 3d
everyone is twelve
samthielman.com CHOAM shareholder (non-voting) @samthielman.com · 4d
what if, as a thought experiment, we imagine leadership class that isn't addicted to basement-tier incel whining
Jeffrey Epstein Fallout Updates Trump Mentioned in Emails EMAIL From: Jeffrey Epstein Date: 03/16/2019 at 3:19 PM To: Larry Summers On Mar 16, 2019, at 3:19 PM, Jeffrey Epstein wrote: shes smart. making you pay for past errors. ignore the daddy im going to go out with the motorcycle guy, you reacted well.. annoyed shows caring., no whining showed strentgh. On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 3:08 PM Larry Summers wrote: We talked on phone. Then "I can't talk later". Dint think I can talk tomorrow". I said what are you up to. She said "I'm busy". I said awfully coy u are. And then I said. Did u really rearrange the weekend we were going to be together because guy number 3 was coming" She said no his schedule changed after we changed our plans. I said ok I got to go call me when u feel like it. Tone was not of good feeling. I dint want to be in a gift giving competition while being the friend without benefits.

Reposted by Jon Green, Daniel Kuehn

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

"skin as part of brain?"

This is that great intellect people talk about?

Reposted by Jon Green, Jelena Subotić

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CHOAM shareholder (non-voting) @samthielman.com · 4d
what if, as a thought experiment, we imagine leadership class that isn't addicted to basement-tier incel whining
Jeffrey Epstein Fallout Updates Trump Mentioned in Emails EMAIL From: Jeffrey Epstein Date: 03/16/2019 at 3:19 PM To: Larry Summers On Mar 16, 2019, at 3:19 PM, Jeffrey Epstein wrote: shes smart. making you pay for past errors. ignore the daddy im going to go out with the motorcycle guy, you reacted well.. annoyed shows caring., no whining showed strentgh. On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 3:08 PM Larry Summers wrote: We talked on phone. Then "I can't talk later". Dint think I can talk tomorrow". I said what are you up to. She said "I'm busy". I said awfully coy u are. And then I said. Did u really rearrange the weekend we were going to be together because guy number 3 was coming" She said no his schedule changed after we changed our plans. I said ok I got to go call me when u feel like it. Tone was not of good feeling. I dint want to be in a gift giving competition while being the friend without benefits.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4d
pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 4d
conspiracy theory: epstein advised the Russians on how to deal with Trump (blackmail)
reality: epstein advised the Russians on how to deal with Trump (telling them not to overthink it because he's not that bright)
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 4d
I suspect that anyone who can be flipped now could have been flipped whenever it looked like Grijalva would actually get sworn in.
steventdennis.bsky.social Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 4d
Trump called Boebert re: her Epstein Files discharge petition signature, Annie Karni reports.

If she can be flipped ASAP, the delay in seating Grijalva will have again blocked the full release of the files.

Reposted by Jon Green

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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 4d
Trump called Boebert re: her Epstein Files discharge petition signature, Annie Karni reports.

If she can be flipped ASAP, the delay in seating Grijalva will have again blocked the full release of the files.

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 4d
This is a draft working paper. Please do not repeat this insight without consulting the authors.

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 4d
idk about scratch offs but I have some survey data that asked about sports betting and crypto ownership. both are younger, male, higher income, and more secular; no significant differences by race or education net of everything else

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 4d
as people pointed out at the time: the troops *do* have football teams, and they range from bad to okay in the FBS

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 4d
we’ve come full circle

(tbc in the audio Trump is pretty clearly joking)
@MLFootball on X: BREAKING NEWS: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SAYS THAT HE IS NOT OPPOSED TO HIRING FIVE #NFL HEAD COACHES AS US WAR GENERALS. “We get best 4-5 coaches, put in room. Like war, it’s strategy. Attack; angle of attack. Some coaches would make Great War generals” @youngcons on Twitter (2/2/2014): I can't be the only one who thinks if the troops wanted to they could put together a football team and dominate the NFL.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 5d
Over at the other place. It's long, these are just the opening paragraphs.

ISI is an old-line conservative organization— with a tradition, virtue, and religion orientation, not the fusionist/ libertarian version found in some other student-facing groups.

It wasn't Trumpist.
x.com/FrankChodoro...
An Open Letter to the Conservative Movement The battle for the heart and soul of the American Conservative Movement is being fought on many fronts, with the latest trench warfare occurring in the boardrooms of its long-standing and most influential foundations and think tanks. The recent controversy @Heritage points to how Conservatism’s venerable institutions have been infiltrated and quietly taken over by a tight-knit, fringe group of post-liberal thinkers who believe America has been “off the rails” since the Founding. In their minds, the Declaration and Constitution must take a backseat to usher in a new, post-democratic, post-capitalist economic system that advocates isolationism, an immigration ban, and a domestic policy that blurs distinctions between church and state. While often described as MAGA or populist, this group is more tightly aligned to the philosophy of media crank @TuckerCarlson than President Trump’s agenda. As longtime board members and leaders of @ISI , the oldest conservative campus organization in America, founded in 1953 by William F. Buckley Jr., we have fought to preserve ISI’s longstanding mission from falling victim to a post-liberal hijacking. That battle was lost at a board meeting held last Friday, at the conclusion of which we tendered our resignations.

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 5d
Read @daveweigel.bsky.social on the widespread societal consequences of Elon's link suppression:

talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/how-e...
How Elon Musk’s Changes to X Made Our Discourse Far Stupider
We don’t know the minute when X started throttling links to news,...
talkingpointsmemo.com

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 5d
if the business model of the news is “meet audience demand for new/true/useful information, sell the attention you have attracted to advertisers” then there is a strong economic case for standards. but the business model of the news has been political patronage before, and it can become that again
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk