Susan Bernick

I wrote an encouraging reply to a white Boomer guy who confessed he was going to his first protest and didn't know how. I replied I could relate to his WASP-y discomfort with exuberance and assured him he would not have to dance. Suggested he simply enjoy it and smile a lot.

If the US military is deployed to blue cities and they fire on US citizens, would blue states have to secede from the United States and seek admission to NATO before they can expect Article 5 assistance to fight back? Why or why not? Discuss.

I turn google's AI option off and on with a Chrome extension. Q: Did Jackie Onassis know her grandson (he was 1 yo when she died)? I was sent down a rabbit hole that insisted Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg was Jack S's grandmother, not mother and his paternal g'ma was "unknown" (she was Mae Hirsch).

The download pdf icon @ the top works, but this embedded link does not
Bernick, Evan D., The Opinion in Yellow (April 30, 2025). Available at SSRN: ssrn.com/abstract=

How many people will eat the gray leftovers of processed foods without dyes to make them look "natural?" RFKJr is an idiot. It will take a lot of work and a shit ton of money to get real food in the hands of every American but it's a worthy goal. Michelle Obama was excoriated for trying. Think why.

Missing from iHeart show notes.

. @timmiller.bsky.social Loved your conversation with Jonathan Rauch. Lots to chew on. Suggestion: Add The Assault on the State, Stephen E. Hanson & Jeffrey S. Kopstein to the show notes. It's a/the source of Rauch's ideas about patrimonialism.

. @bradleywhitford.bsky.social Congrats, dude; way to go in Wisconsin.

If you experience a tragic miscarriage in the US
you too may be arrested. Or die.

I did this. Entirely personal message.

We need a DAILY press conference with the Dems best messengers (AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Pete Buttigieg, Jamie Raskin, etc) breaking down exactly how Trump and Musk are destroying our country and debunking their bullshit.

Stream it on every single platform. Every single day. For as long at it takes.

@kristenashleybooks.bsky.social
Followed you and all you follow. Saw your announcement on FB that you're here. Welcome (I'm new-ish, too), and Happy Skies!

The drop down menu only goes through Arkansas. I'm unable to scroll further or type to jump further in the alphabet. I'm in VA and want to send the pie chart to my GOP Rep.

I've been in convos w/ academic friends wrt whether this is or is not the fall of Rome. I'm obsessed w/ the dea[r]th of literacy, broadly understood. It's the same thing as the loss of intelligence and the deification of the trivial. The Celebration of the Stupid will be a chapter heading in 2150.

50 years ago, Biden was a mid-lib race-confused white guy. "Far right segregationist" isn't anywhere in his DNA, his voting history, his past or certainly his presidency. "Far right segregationist" is Thurman, Wallace, maybe Sessions. Please don't be stupid; we can't afford it.

The debate would not have mattered except that people with power to make it matter made it matter. I don't know if that was Harris folks, DNC folks, ancient regime Clinton folks -- don't know; don't care. 45 can't speak a complete sentence; don't tell me it was the debate.

You don't understand or are overlooking lame-duckness. Yes, he should have withdrawn earlier. But not stood by his "I'm just the placeholder/transition guy" bullshit from immediately after his win in 2020. None of his significant legislative achievements would have been possible with that.

In almost every respect, best Democratic president in your lifetime. We have to start putting blame where it belongs: the mostly R voters who elected him TWICE! Sick of the condescension that excuses, ignores, white and sanewashes Trump voters' xenophobia, hate, & Qstupidity. Biden didn't elect him.

#skystorians 🗃️. Need background for debate w/post-modernist literary type on how to characterize this New Era. I'm an analytic philosopher. Please rec. best survey/overview of end of Roman Era and beginning of what came next. //s ? decline of literacy, population (plagues)?

weaksauce. Trump and all those who voted *against* certification 1/6-7/2020 should have been arrested on 1/8. Too aggressive? How about appointing a special prosecutor 1/8. How about any kind of investigation AT ALL b/f Hutchinson made DOJ look like idiots and cover-ups? MG worst AG since Mitchell.

I cannot find this. Across the top I have only the items I selected (hist, books) plus a few Blue sky created ones (follow, discover). On my Chromebook there is no right margin anything. Left choices are as before with no mention of trending.

You do know Scalia isn't on the Court anymore, right? He died in 2016 and Obama nominated Garland to replace him. Trump nominated Gorsuch after the end of the Obama administration and Gorsuch was confirmed. It's Alito who, in addition to Thomas, should not just be impeached. They should be ARRESTED.

Especially when we realize the best & brightest still managed to get us stuck in Vietnam for 15+ years. Even granting the bestness and brains, results were at best mixed. Now with the worst and dumbest -- no argument there -- things can't go anywhere but downhill.

I'm saying family ties exist across generations; there's memory and knowledge there. The Archibalds who fled the rev for Nova Scotia were long dead. Their g'grandchildren, g'g'grandchildren and my mother and her cousin still were family to one another. Multiply this by a million US families.

I'm 69. My grandfather (b. 1895) lived until I was 30. One of his best friends was his wife's g'mother, who was a Civil War widow. Two 80 yo women laid back to back. It's all right here. My mother (b. 1925) was still in touch with Loyalist cousins who fled the Rev. War. We're still babies to hist.

The 14th says, "No person shall ... hold any office, ... who, having previously taken an oath, ... to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same." We have suspended whatever portions of the Constitution Republicans don't like.

. @clairecmc.bsky.social An alternative to your comments Monday on @datelinenbc.bsky.social. For your consideration. I didn't have the Lincoln ref. when I made this argument so I thank @civilwarmemory.bsky.social for the help.

I hope to participate.

It takes a superlative President to know when it's time to be a father and not an automaton of a man. Put another way, his term is so exemplary he's allowed to be, once, a father first.

You're right and Biden was not willing to sacrifice his only living son to that principle. I think that makes him an unremarkable father and a superlative President. What's your point, again?