Kevin Elliott

The thing is, this shouldn't even be a discussion in a free country. If any member of the public says the government's orders are illegal and should be refused, that is clearly protected speech. The speech of members of congress is even more protected than that of the general public.

"Why fill in the hollow parties when you can do much the same thing outside of them?" Not quite sure I buy everything here, but a smart, meaty analysis of Mamdani campaign's civic roots and possibilities.

And, I might add, exactly what an author wants to see with a book out in the world.

Imagine getting this kind of material from SCOTUS

2026 CONFERENCE | New England Political Science Association Information about the 2026 Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association

The deadline to submit proposals for next year's New England Political Science Association conference in Burlington, VT is next week! I'm chairing the Politics & History section and would love to showcase your work! This is always one of my favorite conferences. www.newenglandpsa.org/nepsa2026?ut...

Huh, yeah, it never occurred to me how uniformly Lutheran Scandinavia is

Ah

What kind of bar has a Luther picture

Also: they could have praised its placement

RIP Sean Connery you would have loved saying this headline

The Furious Minds of MAGA (w/ Laura Field) Podcast Episode · Know Your Enemy · 11/24/2025 · 1h 10m

Great Know Your Enemy interview with @lkatfield.bsky.social on her new book.

Really captures the idealism of so many MAGA intellectuals. The love of high falutin critiques of liberal rights while rarely addressing just whose rights are getting chopped.

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This news comes after several Indiana Republican were targeted through swatting attempts within days of Trump calling for primary challenges against the holdouts

Person holds sign that says "There will be a day of reckoning"

Image from outside the Broadview, Illinois ICE detention center, taken September 26.

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Business card with the text: Know your rights! Interacting with Isaac Chotiner? - "Am I being profiled?" - "I exercise my right to be silent" - Refuse to sign any statements. - Do not offer express invitation to investigate further.

Every American should have this in their wallet:

YouTube video by Liberal Currents Gorilla Channel Governance

Something that definitely happened last year is that @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com got on CNN. It's true—we have video.

And, that happened because of an article she landed in a larger publication.

Big platforms lead to big audiences for liberal ideas. Build one: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...

The video of six is brilliant in the sense that it caused the Trump regime to overreact and help make its autocratic tendencies punctuate the media apathy and reach more normie voters.

As is tradition

In the nightmare mirror reality we live in with an enemy of the Constitution in charge of the government, my reaction to this possibility is fear that he'll put someone worse, because *capable*, in there

Just a reminder that as a speaker, you can ask who the other speakers are and not participate if there are no women

Trump loves a paralipsis.

This is what our elite institutions, the country's largest companies, and law enforcement are busy capitulating to. But inspiring to me that it is friends, neighbors, and normies in what look to be pajamas who stand up against fascism in ways our leaders don't. We must remember both of these facts.

It's so interesting how some Republicans immediately take a nonspecific comment about "bigots" & "racist behavior" personally

"Unusual" is a weird way to spell "communist"

Forced nationalization of private enterprise is literally Soviet-style communism. These days, we're more likely to call this "state capitalism" in the mold of China, but those firms weren't taken over by force or the implied threat thereof (afaik)

Another reason why Dem states doing their own redistricting can't let up, even if some Gop states are quitting the field.

when its definitely not a hostage situation

Here’s a link to the syllabus and the lectures/podcast that David Blight, Beverly Gage, and I are teaching this semester: America at 250: A History.

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Yo dawg, I heard you were worried about my illegal orders, so I issued illegal orders to investigate your complaints about my illegal orders

The interviews themselves are authoritarian intimidation

or at least fills with smoke

Someone who never watched the Great British Bake Off, obviously

But also: don't worry, they'll discover their mistake in considerably less time than that

The paradox of reform is a hell of a thing