Thomas M. Keck

I’m in. Trying to finish a book manuscript by March

My 17yo was sobbing during Heaven

Love this

I hear you, but "No Kings" isn't the name of a movement; it's just a hashtag for a couple high-profile days of protests. The groups that have organized those protests, both nationally & locally, are all engaged on multiple fronts--immigrant defense, electoral, town halls, etc.

And similar energy at the grassroots. Big tent for sure (my Indivisible group has a minority pro-Schumer camp), but lots of righteous anger. And the newly activated people skew, if anything, toward the more ambitious goals

Fair enough. But that was produced by coalition of 200(?) national organizations, obviously trying to appeal to big tent. Leadership of one of the key orgs (Indivisible) has been loudly calling on Schumer to step down all year, not to mention vocally pro-BLM, pro-Gaza protests, anti-ICE, etc.

I study courts, not protests, so take all this with a grain of salt. We need organizing against autocratization by people of all ages. But it's not a contest between generational cohorts, and on the ground, there is more cross-generational interaction than you might think

Given grassroots organizational dynamics, protests organized primarily by Indivisibles are always going to skew old. But Trump 1.0 witnessed lots of protests organized by Gen Z (March 4 Our Lives, BLM), as did Biden era (Gaza). Seems likely youth protests will emerge in Trump 2.0 as well

Rallies, town halls, etc. organized primarily by Indivisible groups skewed old and white during Trump 1.0, but at least here in CNY, these newly activated old, white women participated in droves in 2000 BLM protests and helped found immigrant defense networks

Normie resistance organizing by groups like Indivisible has mobilized millions of previously inactive Americans. These groups have skewed old, white, and female from the beginning, but they have repeatedly engaged with/supported parallel organizing by groups that are younger and less white

I know the headline isn't Nyhan's fault and I mostly agree with the piece, but I do think it misses a key development that I've witnessed countless times at the grassroots during both Trump 1.0 and 2.0

I think this misreads the vibes inside No Kings organizing. Both at the grassroots and nationally, No Kings folks are ready to burn shit down. Like full-on, righteous anger at the system, including the leadership of both major parties

Also this whole thread is Gen-X erasure lol

This is the more optimistic flip side of @brendannyhan.bsky.social’s op-ed: Why are old suburban white people protesting at historically high rates?

Really nice new paper from Schickler, offering a concise account of what the first year of Trump 2.0 has taught us about U.S. political institutions. I'm thinking of using it at the start of my grad seminar on American constitutional development in January academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...

I just used this quote in class today!

lol to citing Danny Boggs in Grutter in support of his airing of dirty laundry

Book cover for Dolly Alderton’s Good Material

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Read on my 17yo’s recommendation. Nice change of pace. Reminded me of High Fidelity. Much more interior than everything else I’ve been reading. Though it kept driving me crazy that Andy and Jen’s communication was so bad

I’ve read a lot of takes on the shutdown cave, but this one is really important

“DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT”

Yes but note they examine only placement at PhD granting institutions. There are lots of high quality tenure track jobs at other institutions. The job market is still terrible, but not as bad as it sounds in this piece

No idea, but KBJ makes it sound like it’ll be no more than a couple days. At which point the administration will then have 48 hours to bring it back to SCOTUS. At which point, G-d help us

Yeah but only temporarily bsky.app/profile/chri...

How many consecutive Trump administration requests for emergency relief has the Court granted, and will this one break the streak?

Opinion | The Ruling About Passports Isn’t About ID. It’s About Social Control.

Great @mashagessen.bsky.social on the true purpose of Trump's cruel passport gender marker rules: exerting social control. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

You know who else refused to swear in democratically elected members of congress?

Nicolas Maduro (2015)

Just saying…

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Me too! A couple of my students this semester had never seen one before

ffs

Could be anytime. Likely sooner than June

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