Andrew Rudalevige

@rudalev.bsky.social

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Bowdoin College professor of political science; affiliated with UCL's Centre on US Politics and UVa's Miller Center. Feed includes posts on presidential power, bureaucratic politics, and carping about Boston sports and European football .. more

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Stephen Harrison @stephenharrison.com · 2d

Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”

Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.

They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.

Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 4d

Trump’s new envoy admits his goal is to steal territory from a NATO ally.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4d

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

Clueless US media understand Trump's shut down of Atlantic coast wind farms as just some vague national security thing about radar or as Trump's weird ideas about alternative energy. But in Denmark, this is immediately understood for what it is: a shakedown against two large Danish companies,

Danske vindaktier lukker i rødt efter amerikansk udmelding

Ørsteds og Vestas' aktier er kommet i modvind og dykker ved børsluk oven på nyhed om havvindparker i USA.

www.berlingske.dk

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 4d

LOL "Bari killed this meticulous story because it was unfavorable to the Trump administration" is literally the story they're giving to their stenographer

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5d

Trying to imagine what it’d be like for an experienced 60 Minutes producer or reporter, who’d spent many weeks preparing a detailed investigation of a notorious El Salvador prison, to be getting input from Bari Weiss or one of acolytes, just hours before airtime.

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Andrew Rudalevige @rudalev.bsky.social · 5d

One could almost say...
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 6d

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 6d

“Mr. Kennedy was also clear that he supports vaccines. He [said] I support the measles vaccine. I support the polio vaccine. I will do nothing as HHS secretary that makes it difficult or discourages people from taking either of those vaccines.’

-United States Senator John Barrasso, MD

Confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Make America Healthy Again - John Barrasso

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Andrew Rudalevige @rudalev.bsky.social · 7d

This argument is itself nothing but hyperbole given that it depends on these boats constituting a "lethal threat."

U.S. Naval Institute @usni.org · 7d

The President holds broad independent power and responsibility to defend the nation from lethal threats, even if Congress has been slow to act. usni.org/concerning-...

Concerning Kinetic Strikes on Drug Boats: Law, Not Hyperbole |

The President holds broad independent power and responsibility to defend the nation from lethal threats, even if Congress has been slow to act.

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U.S. Naval Institute @usni.org · 7d

The President holds broad independent power and responsibility to defend the nation from lethal threats, even if Congress has been slow to act. usni.org/concerning-...

Concerning Kinetic Strikes on Drug Boats: Law, Not Hyperbole |

The President holds broad independent power and responsibility to defend the nation from lethal threats, even if Congress has been slow to act.

www.usni.org

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, James Goodwin, Andrew Rudalevige , and 2 more Lesley A. Hall, James Goodwin, Andrew Rudalevige, Manisha Sinha, Farah Mendlesohn

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”

Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 7d

When the slightest bit of research shows he was consistently racist and a daddy issues Confederate fanboy.

People try to paint BIRTH OF A NATION as a masterpiece with some unfortunate racism. The whole movie is racist, the “masterpiece “ thing was backfilled to excuse it.

Andrew Rudalevige @rudalev.bsky.social · 8d

That's a tree of good and evil in the background of the photo... (pretty stunted, as is appropriate in that setting)

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 8d

on the bright side three years from now will be boom times for businesses that specialize in removing garish brass letters from buildings

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 8d

It gets even more pathetic—

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Rep. Joyce Beatty
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For the record. This was not unanimous. I was muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition to this move. Also for the record, this was not on the agenda.

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 8d

The Kennedy Center name is established by federal statute, and therefore may be repealed only by federal statute. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8d

ATTN MILITARY: That $1776 you’re getting? He’s taking it out of your already approved BHA and putting his name on it. www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as ‘warrior dividend’ bonus

More than $2.9 billion in reconciliation funds was allocated to beef up troop housing allowances. Now it’s being used for $1,776 checks.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 8d

… In terms of political effect, the best thing about that speech from the WH perspective is that probably nobody watched it

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 9d

All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending.

UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 9d

What a time to decide to learn less about the world.

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UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026

As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 9d

What a time to decide to learn less about the world.

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UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026

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Andrew Rudalevige @rudalev.bsky.social · 9d

Has the State Dining Room carving of John Adams’s hope for the White House — “May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof” — been spray-painted over with gold yet?

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 9d

Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 9d

Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9d

The world's leader in science is dismantling itself. For nothing.

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 10d

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado

The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 11d

On Dec. 4, DOJ labeled people who impede or "dox" ICE agents "domestic terrorists." I document how DHS believes following, recording, and protesting agents is "impeding," and has a policy of threatening & arresting ICE observers. That's unconstitutional. www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 11d

If courts' only recourse for government officials flagrantly disregarding their orders is to refer the contemptuous acts to those same officials to investigate prosecute, what real power do courts have to check the executive?

And why should the executive ever obey a court ruling against it?

Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 11d

JUST IN: DC Circuit asks for briefs on whether Boasberg has authority to investigate indirect contempt of court (outside judge's presence) or is just supposed to refer it for prosecution if he suspects it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Per Curiam Order Filed (Special Panel) – #01208805476 in In re: Donald Trump (D.C. Cir., 25-5452) – CourtListener.com

PER CURIAM ORDER [2150449] filed ORDERED, on the court’s own motion, that respondents file a response to the petition for a writ of mandamus [2150153-2] by December 29, 2025. Petitioners shall file a ...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11d

Unbelievable - you literally wire money to some unspecified account. I assume this is so Trump can treat it as a slush fund he can deploy unconstrained by Congress (in violation of the Constitution).

Andrew Rudalevige @rudalev.bsky.social · 12d

Pro tip for the Federalist 70 crowd -- you might want to read Federalist 69 first...

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12d

There is, obviously, no “Presidential Immunity Clause” in the Constitution. The conservative justices’ un-originalist efforts to imagine one into it cannot be supported by text or history. trib.al/euILrS8