"I had to punch that guy because I could tell he was going to hit me back once we jumped him" is just a description of jumping a guy
03.03.2026 23:31 β π 1214 π 266 π¬ 12 π 5@joshchafetz.bsky.social
Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/ Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248333/congresss-constitution/
"I had to punch that guy because I could tell he was going to hit me back once we jumped him" is just a description of jumping a guy
03.03.2026 23:31 β π 1214 π 266 π¬ 12 π 5Democratic state lawmakers in New York to back tax hike on rich
03.03.2026 21:27 β π 145 π 28 π¬ 5 π 4Gulf War: Tehran Drift
03.03.2026 21:18 β π 84 π 9 π¬ 9 π 1
Bexar was Harris +9.7 and so far partisan gap is Democratic +33.
Dems have gotten 37% of Harris's vote total in the county.
GOP has gotten 23% of Trump's vote total.
Seems consistent with early voting patterns?
the public tends to think that undermining parties is virtuous and good, but in fact it is the opposite and just creates chaos and harms voters.
03.03.2026 20:57 β π 36 π 7 π¬ 2 π 0
Here is the war powers resolution Rep. Gottheimer is pushing w/ Reps. Golden, Cuellar, Costa, Landsman and Panetta.
Unlike Khanna-Massie, it gives the admin 30 days to end hostilities w/ Iran and allows them to maintain troop presence in the region for "defensive purposes"
some favorites: marimba www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWhO...
03.03.2026 19:54 β π 42 π 4 π¬ 3 π 0NYC FTW. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
03.03.2026 19:28 β π 73 π 11 π¬ 1 π 1
The top-two βprimaryβ has been & will continue to be a problem every two years until itβs replaced.
Itβs one of Americaβs worst electoral systems in use today. It does little of what proponents claimed it would & often does the oppositeβlike parties playing favorites in primaries to avoid a shutout
wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"
03.03.2026 17:51 β π 22453 π 5895 π¬ 1252 π 729they really might have ridden the anti-woke train all the way to bankruptcy court, an all time brand fuckup that should be taught as a cautionary tale in business school for decades
03.03.2026 16:55 β π 4028 π 673 π¬ 69 π 36
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A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times, urging people to support "original reporting" wherever they find it.
www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/new-...
Top-two primaries are so dumb
03.03.2026 16:34 β π 33 π 6 π¬ 5 π 1I don't think this is the headline Trump expected to see today.
03.03.2026 15:57 β π 56 π 8 π¬ 0 π 1βThe U.S. Embassy is not in a positionβ―at this timeβ―to evacuate or directly assist Americans inβ―departingβ―Israel.β
03.03.2026 14:37 β π 470 π 172 π¬ 62 π 101
This week's YouGov survey gives Trump his worst approval rating (-21) since November 2017.
In our tracker, he's down to -19, lower than any point in his first term: www.economist.com/interactive/...
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been βinundatedβ with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesusβ¦
Oh look.
Residency applications took a dive across multiple specialties (OB/GYN, family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine) in states that banned abortion after Dobbs.
They made us all less healthy and less safe.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Pretty stable opinion on the Iran strikes. No rally around the flag bump for POTUS, and much less popular than previous wars when they started www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-trum...
02.03.2026 21:39 β π 450 π 158 π¬ 18 π 7epic ear architecture
03.03.2026 02:04 β π 328 π 15 π¬ 5 π 0now he nautilus
03.03.2026 02:26 β π 38 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Policies that benefit the Democratic Party are presumptively unconstitutional/unlawful.
Policies that benefit the Republican Party are presumptively constitutional/lawful.
Our displeased 10-year-old after the Supreme Courtβs evening news drop interrupted our post-dinner family hearts game:
βUGHH couldnβt dad have just been, like, an architect or something?!?!?β
epic ear architecture
03.03.2026 02:04 β π 328 π 15 π¬ 5 π 0Generally, but sometimes it goes 100% the other way
03.03.2026 01:36 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Perhaps, but I think thereβs something unique about devoting all your scholarly energy to a *person*, with all the messiness and contradictions and pettiness that come with us, that is different.
03.03.2026 01:26 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0So hard for biographers not to wind up either captured by or hating their subject.
03.03.2026 01:20 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0CNN: Three US fighter jets accidentally shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, military says By Haley Britzky , Helen Regan Helen Regan , Eyad Kourdi , Isaac Yee , Teele Rebane , Lucas Lilieholm Updated 13 hr ago
Reuters: Fire at US embassy complex in Riyadh after blast heard, sources say By Reuters March 2, 20266:23 PM CSTUpdated 13 mins ago
New York Times: U.S. military death toll rises to 6
CNN: State Dept urges US citizens to "DEPART NOW" from countries throughout Middle East
Two days into the war:
- three F-15s shot down
- U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia in flames
- six U.S. service members confirmed dead; more wounded
- State Department tells Americans to flee the entire Middle East
YouGov's state polling has been very good recently (nailed the NJ and VA gov races last year). Primaries are a different beast, but worth indexing on this new poll of TX. Has Talarico +13 and Paxton +4
yougovamerica.substack.com/p/polls-on-t...