Kennedy Pivnick

Trump II, Day 4: Repeating History, Rewriting Reality January 23, 2025

Oh, and one thing I did not emphasize here but should have: This was the day Ogles put forth the bill to AMEND THE FUCKING CONSTITUTION to let a CRIMINAL eighty-year-old serve a THIRD TERM open.substack.com/pub/kennedyp...

Trump II, Day 1: Erasing Progress, Enshrining Revenge Trump II: The First 100 Days

Hey, I started a newsletter for the next 100 days! Pls subscribe to ensure we remember the damage our dictator—sorry, President—has done already. Don’t let him keep us distracted and forgetful.
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Kennedy Pivnick on X: "It's not alarmist––it's realistic. A week-ish ago, I drafted this letter addressed to ALL judges of the federal judiciary. It has since become more urgent. The author of the quoted tweet was in my law school section. I echo, and extend, his sentiment. https://t.co/42HD8hSq1N" / X It's not alarmist––it's realistic. A week-ish ago, I drafted this letter addressed to ALL judges of the federal judiciary. It has since become more urgent. The author of the quoted tweet was in my law school section. I echo, and extend, his sentiment. https://t.co/42HD8hSq1N

x.com/kennedypivni... if it can increase the odds that at some point in the next 24-48 hours a certain federal judge sees this, it’s probably worth double posting

I want New Jersey to be a state where we build things — better transit, housing people want to live in, and new clean energy that brings down utility bills. We’re just not doing that well enough right now, and we have to have honest conversations about why that is — and then fix it.

So close.

Trump is posting articles threatening judges who rule against him with treason charges. Can we say "constitutional crisis" yet?

He was a few months ahead of himself.

This cartoon was created so long ago and yet still…

This doesn’t exist and will literally save $0

This is informative. Thanks

Happy Monday

Where is this sign located?

Oh, so Trump has reached the “find out” stage

Our United Airlines pilot made sure to emphasize *Mexico* when he said we'd be flying over the Gulf of *Mexico* today.

It's the little things. Microdose hope.

Congress is under attack every bit as much as it was on January 6, 2021.

Law student in DC here very willing to mention this to every lawyer I know. May or may not get anywhere, but I think it’s more probable than not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Christian Nationalism Isn’t Coming—It’s Here As Senate confirmation hearings start, the Trump administration is clear they plan to decimate the wall that separates religion and state—we cannot let that happen

My write up on Hegseth: He is a Christian nationalist who wants to Christianize the military, is a credibly accused sexual predator, likely has a drinking problem, cheated on all of his wives, screams "Kill All Muslims," has 0 experience, & will get people killed.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/christian-...

Very hard to have lived in DC before this week and now see the Trumpets all over the place. Never before have I looked at a human’s clothing choice and immediately thought “get out of my city,” but here we are.

Update: life in DC is unpleasant this week. If I have to endure one more Musk-Trump hat in public I might begin to actively lecture people in public.

The realest sentiment I’ve seen anywhere on the internet

Pardoning Hunter is an act think people of reasonable morals can disagree as to the virtue of. That said, I’m glad he did it. His punishment was not in alignment with his crimes, and, honestly, his crimes were not unforgivable. Joe Biden deserves a retirement spent with his last living child.

I feel quite afraid of this

“Mandate.”

“Magically,” they say, as every relatively uninformed voter ever will, in a non-Presidential race, vote for whomever has a name their subconscious recognizes. Magically, every single one of those Senators-elect had already been in Congress.

"The menace of Adolf Hitler has been greatly exaggerated.... There is an innocence almost childish about the detailed fashion un which he sets out to be blood-curdling."
--New York Times, Sept. 27, 1930

Chinese state media is reportedly troubled by the latest exodus of X users flocking to Bluesky. State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform — including by buying ads, deploying bots, and hiring influencers — have recently seen their growth plateau. The growing popularity of Bluesky, which has a largely liberal base and harder-to-manipulate algorithm, has sparked “worried chatter within Chinese state media circles,” a former Xinhua and China Daily employee wrote in his newsletter. He predicted the accounts will migrate to Bluesky, though it may take time. For now, the sector’s focus has shifted back to domestic, Mandarin-language channels and platforms like Bilibili, WeChat, and Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.

lol China's state media is sad about Bluesky because it's not an easy propaganda distribution channel like X (and Facebook)

www.semafor.com/article/11/2...

Can you (or anyone) compare this to Biden, Trump 1, and Obama (adjusted to 2024 USD) please

It’s: “monocausal explanations for complex phenomena”