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Jonathan Connelly
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A liberal in illiberal times. Fervent supporter of reform to Congress, the courts, and the imperial presidency to save our democracy.

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"LMAO" said Gandalf. "Well it has."
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I am deadly serious when I say that any liberal Project 2028 people should be taking names of the civil servants who go way past their authority to do stuff like this.

That is very much not me saying that normal employees following bad orders should be fired. But there’s a line. This crosses it.
That should be a career ending act of corruption
December 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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You can also check out @ethanformd.com who is a young progressive dem running against both Trone and Delaney.
December 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Agreed! Is there not one charismatic, ambitious person in all of Frederick?? No state senator, delegate, councilperson anywhere between Gaithersburg and Cumberland who wants to hold this admin accountable? I see *one* other serious person running for this seat and I’ll donate $50 to them immediately
December 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
You know what, great. McClain Delaney has disappointed me immensely. God help me that I’d want Trone back in that seat, but maybe he’ll have a little more fight in him.
December 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
CCR’s Bad Moon Rising - “There’s a bathroom on the right”
December 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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If you want to tell me the plain language of the Constitution means something entirely different, you ought to have a heavy burden. But because we've allowed the public practices of folk constitutionalism to atrophy into lawyerly monopoly (see below), there's a brute appeal to authority available.
I gave the article a nice long 18th century-style title:

Folk Constitutionalism, or Why It Matters How Ordinary People Think about the Constitution

Here's the abstract, and a link to an ungated preprint: kevinjelliott.net/wp-content/u...
December 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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this is just rank cowardice, the student very obviously disregarded the instructions and the assignment to antagonize her peers and instructors and provoke this exact reaction, society simply can’t function when the people in charge scurry like kicked dogs every time some troll bully says boo
November 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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to SCOTUS: "we can prosecute the people he pardoned, or a future Democratic president can have them shot and then pardon the shooters. do you want that loop to start?"
November 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM