@55cloudynowind.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science: presidency | parties | public opinion | race
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It's pretty cool how farming in the U.S. is a perfect hybrid of communism and crony capitalism. Market forces are largely irrelevant, the difference between massive profit and catastrophic loss is whether you have favor with the ruling party.
July 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
It's pretty cool how farming in the U.S. is a perfect hybrid of communism and crony capitalism. Market forces are largely irrelevant, the difference between massive profit and catastrophic loss is whether you have favor with the ruling party.
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Wow, the change in support for deporting people with not criminal records is almost ENTIRELY driven by Republicans shifting their views. Here’s GOP support in June vs. July:
June: 44% support, 37% oppose.
July: 65% support, 18% oppose.
Interestingly, independent support also rose from 22% to 28%.
June: 44% support, 37% oppose.
July: 65% support, 18% oppose.
Interestingly, independent support also rose from 22% to 28%.
A month later:
Should we deport illegal immigrants who have not committed any crimes while in the US? 32% yes, 54% no.
Should we should deport people as quickly as possible even if it means more mistakes, or do our best to make no mistakes even if it takes longer? Quickly 15%, Minimize Error 78%.
Should we deport illegal immigrants who have not committed any crimes while in the US? 32% yes, 54% no.
Should we should deport people as quickly as possible even if it means more mistakes, or do our best to make no mistakes even if it takes longer? Quickly 15%, Minimize Error 78%.
July 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Wow, the change in support for deporting people with not criminal records is almost ENTIRELY driven by Republicans shifting their views. Here’s GOP support in June vs. July:
June: 44% support, 37% oppose.
July: 65% support, 18% oppose.
Interestingly, independent support also rose from 22% to 28%.
June: 44% support, 37% oppose.
July: 65% support, 18% oppose.
Interestingly, independent support also rose from 22% to 28%.
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As the GOP prepares to enrich the mega rich by adding trillions to the debt and cruel budget cuts, it’s worth noting that a Democratic admin probably would have made them even richer through sound economic policy and by not by throwing the markets into a panic every few weeks.
July 3, 2025 at 2:57 AM
As the GOP prepares to enrich the mega rich by adding trillions to the debt and cruel budget cuts, it’s worth noting that a Democratic admin probably would have made them even richer through sound economic policy and by not by throwing the markets into a panic every few weeks.
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But at least everyone can say Merry Christmas again amirite? That should balance out the decrease in gifts under the tree!
Toy prices are rising at their fastest pace on record, the result of stiff new tariffs in an industry where 3 out of 4 items come from China.
Analysts say the toy industry offers clues into how higher costs could soon ripple through the economy.
Analysts say the toy industry offers clues into how higher costs could soon ripple through the economy.
Toys are getting pricier as tariffs kick in
Toy and game prices jumped by a record amount in May. The industry, which relies heavily on China, has been hit hard by new import taxes.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
But at least everyone can say Merry Christmas again amirite? That should balance out the decrease in gifts under the tree!
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CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news. But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest?
Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.
Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.
June 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news. But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest?
Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.
Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.
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I'm not really too hung up on whether the protests are peaceful or not. If armed masked men came into my neighborhood and started grabbing people off to where neither courts nor lawyers can find them, I might react pretty violently too.
It's the kind of thing our Founders fought a revolution over.
It's the kind of thing our Founders fought a revolution over.
June 9, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I'm not really too hung up on whether the protests are peaceful or not. If armed masked men came into my neighborhood and started grabbing people off to where neither courts nor lawyers can find them, I might react pretty violently too.
It's the kind of thing our Founders fought a revolution over.
It's the kind of thing our Founders fought a revolution over.
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When President Johnson activated the Nat'l Guard in Alabama in 1965 over Gov. Wallace's objection he did it to protect protesters advocating for voting rights for Black people who had previously met violence at the hands of state troopers. Very different situation.
June 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
When President Johnson activated the Nat'l Guard in Alabama in 1965 over Gov. Wallace's objection he did it to protect protesters advocating for voting rights for Black people who had previously met violence at the hands of state troopers. Very different situation.
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Using this to break ACAB down for anyone who still doesn’t understand.
Let’s agree the shooter is a bastard. The others should have prevented him from firing, and after he fired he should have immediately been taken out. He felt comfortable enough to fire because he knows he will get away with it.
Let’s agree the shooter is a bastard. The others should have prevented him from firing, and after he fired he should have immediately been taken out. He felt comfortable enough to fire because he knows he will get away with it.
June 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Using this to break ACAB down for anyone who still doesn’t understand.
Let’s agree the shooter is a bastard. The others should have prevented him from firing, and after he fired he should have immediately been taken out. He felt comfortable enough to fire because he knows he will get away with it.
Let’s agree the shooter is a bastard. The others should have prevented him from firing, and after he fired he should have immediately been taken out. He felt comfortable enough to fire because he knows he will get away with it.
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Police brutality captured on ABC7-- as the police chief gives a press conference.
A fire breaks out, then cops brutally assault a protestor. They run him over with a horse and hit him with batons several times, despite the fact he does not pose any threat to the officers.
Cops are rioting.
A fire breaks out, then cops brutally assault a protestor. They run him over with a horse and hit him with batons several times, despite the fact he does not pose any threat to the officers.
Cops are rioting.
June 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Police brutality captured on ABC7-- as the police chief gives a press conference.
A fire breaks out, then cops brutally assault a protestor. They run him over with a horse and hit him with batons several times, despite the fact he does not pose any threat to the officers.
Cops are rioting.
A fire breaks out, then cops brutally assault a protestor. They run him over with a horse and hit him with batons several times, despite the fact he does not pose any threat to the officers.
Cops are rioting.
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LAPD unlawfully issuing orders to press today ("MEDIA GO!"). California Penal Code 409.7 explicitly exempts journalists from dispersal orders. LAPD knows this and command staff has been trained on it.
LAPD closing off alameda and aliso. Specifically telling press to leave the area.
June 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
LAPD unlawfully issuing orders to press today ("MEDIA GO!"). California Penal Code 409.7 explicitly exempts journalists from dispersal orders. LAPD knows this and command staff has been trained on it.
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Erasing history helps no one.
"The numbers are staggering: in 1995, 1,400 immigrants were subject to nonjudicial removals, representing 3 percent of total deportations. By FY 2012 that number had sharply increased to 313,000 nonjudicial removals – an all-time high."
www.aclu.org/news/immigra...
"The numbers are staggering: in 1995, 1,400 immigrants were subject to nonjudicial removals, representing 3 percent of total deportations. By FY 2012 that number had sharply increased to 313,000 nonjudicial removals – an all-time high."
www.aclu.org/news/immigra...
June 9, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Erasing history helps no one.
"The numbers are staggering: in 1995, 1,400 immigrants were subject to nonjudicial removals, representing 3 percent of total deportations. By FY 2012 that number had sharply increased to 313,000 nonjudicial removals – an all-time high."
www.aclu.org/news/immigra...
"The numbers are staggering: in 1995, 1,400 immigrants were subject to nonjudicial removals, representing 3 percent of total deportations. By FY 2012 that number had sharply increased to 313,000 nonjudicial removals – an all-time high."
www.aclu.org/news/immigra...
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People ask why I was angry all the time when I was a imm atty. I had to quit immigration removal defense. The slow, legally sanctioned erosion of liberties combined with a bureaucracy designed to kill you by a thousand papercuts would got us here. He couldn’t have done this without all of us.
We can agree that Trump’s approach is 10x worse and appalling.
But civil rights groups and labor unions were calling out the erosion of due process for immigrants under Obama:
www.aclu.org/news/immigra...
But civil rights groups and labor unions were calling out the erosion of due process for immigrants under Obama:
www.aclu.org/news/immigra...
Speed Over Fairness: Deportation Under the Obama Administration | ACLU
www.aclu.org
June 9, 2025 at 5:05 AM
People ask why I was angry all the time when I was a imm atty. I had to quit immigration removal defense. The slow, legally sanctioned erosion of liberties combined with a bureaucracy designed to kill you by a thousand papercuts would got us here. He couldn’t have done this without all of us.
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🚨Another HUGE bit of news tonight; in collaboration with the Trump admin, Texas just kicked 20,000 undocumented college students — people who grew up in Texas and graduated from high school there — out of eligibility for in-state tuition.
This may force thousands to drop out.
This may force thousands to drop out.
Texas agrees with feds to end in-state tuition for undocumented students
Almost 20,000 undocumented college students in Texas will likely lose in-state tuition after this sudden policy reversal.
www.texastribune.org
June 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
🚨Another HUGE bit of news tonight; in collaboration with the Trump admin, Texas just kicked 20,000 undocumented college students — people who grew up in Texas and graduated from high school there — out of eligibility for in-state tuition.
This may force thousands to drop out.
This may force thousands to drop out.
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Huge opportunity for a political party that believes government can do good things. Public opinion is finally shifting after 50 years of right wing anti-government propaganda. This isn't the time for cowering and throat clearing www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...
June 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Huge opportunity for a political party that believes government can do good things. Public opinion is finally shifting after 50 years of right wing anti-government propaganda. This isn't the time for cowering and throat clearing www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...
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The most worrisome part of this story, for me, is ICE just flat ignored a judge’s order and arresting everyone in the courtroom anyway.
Vivid illustration of how even their Potemkin legal maneuvers (dismiss and arrest) are just for show, and not a show they find necessary.
Vivid illustration of how even their Potemkin legal maneuvers (dismiss and arrest) are just for show, and not a show they find necessary.
The Gestapo are pretending to dismiss immigration cases against people to get them to show up in court, then seizing them and disappearing (or perhaps deporting) them from courtrooms without the due process the law provides and in defiance of judicial orders.
hellgatenyc.com/immigration-...
hellgatenyc.com/immigration-...
‘Disbelief and Shock’: An Immigration Attorney Fighting ICE Disappearances in Lower Manhattan Speaks About What She’s Seen
And what New Yorkers can do to push back against ICE.
hellgatenyc.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The most worrisome part of this story, for me, is ICE just flat ignored a judge’s order and arresting everyone in the courtroom anyway.
Vivid illustration of how even their Potemkin legal maneuvers (dismiss and arrest) are just for show, and not a show they find necessary.
Vivid illustration of how even their Potemkin legal maneuvers (dismiss and arrest) are just for show, and not a show they find necessary.
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Oh.
This follows reporting from @jbendery.bsky.social that Divine expressed support for bringing back literacy tests for voting; although he acknowledged that these tests “were used as a form of discrimination” against Black people, he asserted that literacy tests were, by themselves, “not a bad thing.”
Trump Court Pick Once Called For Bringing Back Literacy Tests For Voters
Literacy tests were banned in the 1960s for being racially discriminatory, but such tests “are not a bad thing,” Josh Divine argued in a 2010 college opinion piece.
www.huffpost.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Oh.
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Medicaid cuts will harm Republican-heavy rural communities most
thehill.com/opinion/heal...
thehill.com/opinion/heal...
June 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Medicaid cuts will harm Republican-heavy rural communities most
thehill.com/opinion/heal...
thehill.com/opinion/heal...
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“There are only two kinds of society in which armed agents of the government routinely conceal their identities:
(1) Lawless failed states…
(2) Authoritarian states…
Stable democracies do not allow agents of the state to operate under cover of concealment.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-secret...
(1) Lawless failed states…
(2) Authoritarian states…
Stable democracies do not allow agents of the state to operate under cover of concealment.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-secret...
The Secret Police Are Here
Trump is losing on policy and the law. But he’s winning on power.
www.thebulwark.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
“There are only two kinds of society in which armed agents of the government routinely conceal their identities:
(1) Lawless failed states…
(2) Authoritarian states…
Stable democracies do not allow agents of the state to operate under cover of concealment.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-secret...
(1) Lawless failed states…
(2) Authoritarian states…
Stable democracies do not allow agents of the state to operate under cover of concealment.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-secret...
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NEWS: The Ninth Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, denied DOJ's request for a stay pending appeal of the injunction barring Trump-directed, wide-scale, mass firings (RIFs) across the government. In short, the order blocking RIFs remains in effect.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/-federal-j...
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/-federal-j...
May 31, 2025 at 3:01 AM
NEWS: The Ninth Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, denied DOJ's request for a stay pending appeal of the injunction barring Trump-directed, wide-scale, mass firings (RIFs) across the government. In short, the order blocking RIFs remains in effect.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/-federal-j...
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/-federal-j...
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An incredibly devastating decision which simply ignores the human costs and blesses the Trump admin's stripping of status of hundreds of thousands of people who entered the country legally — which the explicit stated goal of rapidly deporting those people without a court hearing.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to enforce its immigration parole grant terminations for around 500,000 people during litigation. Jackson writes a strong dissent, joined by — and only by — Sotomayor.
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 24A1079
KRISTI NOEM, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY v. SVITLANA DOE, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[May 30, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 15, 2025 order entered by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10495, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
JUSTICE JACKSON, with whom JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR joins, dissenting from the grant of the application for a stay.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreigment2ucq3yytchmiy6qn72suqlzpil32lejkccf5cqhbubt5wvq@jpeg)
May 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
An incredibly devastating decision which simply ignores the human costs and blesses the Trump admin's stripping of status of hundreds of thousands of people who entered the country legally — which the explicit stated goal of rapidly deporting those people without a court hearing.
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Democrats should introduce legislation to reinstate this purchase and make every Republican go on the record on it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...
U.S. Cancels Contract With Moderna to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Democrats should introduce legislation to reinstate this purchase and make every Republican go on the record on it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...
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“Musk leaves the government worse off than he found it. His tenure in Washington was a complete failure substantively and politically—and to his own reputation and companies,” says Chris Hayes.
‘Kicked him out of town’: Elon Musk ‘leaving in disgrace’ after 4 chaotic months
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM
“Musk leaves the government worse off than he found it. His tenure in Washington was a complete failure substantively and politically—and to his own reputation and companies,” says Chris Hayes.
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“Federal job applicants will soon be quizzed on their favorite Trump administration policy as part of the hiring process, according to the Office of Personnel Management’s new ‘merit hiring plan.’”
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
OPM ‘merit’ hiring plan includes bipartisan reforms, politicized new test
The federal government’s HR agency on Thursday instructed agencies to cease collecting data on the demographic makeup of their workforces.
www.govexec.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“Federal job applicants will soon be quizzed on their favorite Trump administration policy as part of the hiring process, according to the Office of Personnel Management’s new ‘merit hiring plan.’”
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
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Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2
Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1
Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7
Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1
Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7
Bessent: "We want the US to be more like Florida and less like New York"
May 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2
Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1
Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7
Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1
Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7