Julia Azari

Good warnings here about getting over our skis on the electability issue.

i hope my reply is understood not as the genre of "your post wasn't about me specifically" and instead understood in its proper and intended genre, "procrastinating on a review"

165K views · 3.4K reactions | You can have it all during March in Wisconsin. | Alex Wehrley You can have it all during March in Wisconsin.

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i'm not flipping you off from Wisconsin but i'm not, like, not flipping you off.

it occurs to me that i should write a brief piece about this sometime! adding to the to-do list

Hell Hath No Fury Like... FDR? Inside the President's Campaign to Punish Democrats In 1938 FDR tried to oust “disloyal” Democrats.

here's some more info. historynet.com/fdrs-1938-ca...

Fireside Chat on “Purging” the Democratic Party - Teaching American History Frustrated by the setbacks that his administration had encountered in its second term, President Roosevelt took the bold step of intervening in the 1938 Democratic primaries.

FDR tried to purge the Democratic Party by campaigning against Congressional Dems who had opposed him on various things (many of whom were southern, but not all). There was a LOT of pushback about presidential involvement in state affairs. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/fir...

this is so cool and no pressure but we're all counting on you guys

if you've ever studied FDR and the 1938 midterms this shit just seems wiiiild

(the topic was generational politics and baby boomers not exiting the stage)

i brought up that Bill Clinton (elected when I was in 7th grade) and Donald Trump, president while I'm a full professor with peers who have children in college, are the same age and my students really felt that.

When Compliance Becomes A Crime What Does Transgender Citizenship Mean after a New Kansas Law?

New from @isaacsederbaum.bsky.social & @paisleycurrah.com at Can We Still Govern:
Many trans people in Kansas just had the primary form of ID deemed illegal. It fits a pattern of criminalizing compliance with previous policies. 🧵https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-compliance-becomes-a-crime

it's very fun

totally rational decision

this is very exciting even though that staircase is stressing me out

thank you for this. this was an especially welcome comment as one more bureaucratic "process" at my university has reduced me to mid-day tears...

ICYMI

the real danger is that a college sophomore said something stupid once

all the violins

Lessons from the Iraq invasion for Trump's Iran war The parallels aren't perfect, but they tell us something about our domestic politics around war

Wrote a thing about the lessons of the 2003 Iraq invasion for the current situation. tl;dr, the world is a serious place and we're an increasingly unserious country goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...

heard great things about the Field one.

In the past, sometimes presidents have said it’s just a military operation or limited airstrikes to skirt Congress. Trump has unilaterally launched major combat operations, declaring war with the goal of regime change. A major violation of the U.S. Constitution, also illegal under international law

-Zero Congressional consultation or approval.
-Zero preparation of public for need/consequences of war.
-Zero evidence of thought about "OK, what might the other side do?" Next month. Next year.
-Zero mention of anti-nuke agreement Trump voided, or Trump claim last year that nukes "obliterated."

Read an expert, not hot takes 👇

i am actively trying to indoctrinate everyone into "have your parents' banking info handy in case you end up having to use power of attorney unexpectedly"

we actually have a lounge! it's named for a colleague who died suddenly in the 1990s. faculty do radical things like warm up their lunches and have conversations about classes, research and lately a lot of aging parent stuff. students are welcome to join and some of them do.

SO MUCH THIS. WE ARE JUST PEOPLE TRYING TO DO A JOB PLEASE STOP SCAPEGOATING US

greg.

The State of the Union as 1970s Variety Show For Trump, it's all about the special guest stars

New at Tusk: modern presidents use State of the Union guests to sell the speech. For Trump, the guests *are* the speech

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.