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Sounds cool, I’ll give it a look! Thanks!

Great ideas! Rogers’ book is on my reading list. And was thinking of assigning some chapter of Shelby alongside some more historical text.

This time, I’m considering using a format of primary reading(s) by a historical figure paired together with a contemporary text. So bonus points if you have a suggested pairing.

Here’s the previous version in case you’re interested: drive.google.com/file/d/1PfK_...

I’ll be teaching a course on African American Political Thought again this coming semester, and I’m looking to revamp my syllabus. If you have suggestions for neglected texts that you think should get more attention, let me know! #philsky #poltheory

I'm delighted to see this article out in @govandopp.bsky.social! Jonas Wenker and I show that losing an election has a far stronger negative effect on populist voters than on non-populist ones. For populists, losing signals that the system is broken. 1/5 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland | Journal of Democracy Restoring liberalism after illiberalism is no easy task: Leaders face hard choices between acting quickly and effectively while maintaining a commitment to democratic procedure. Worse…

"A key legacy of illiberalism turns out to be a series of institutional traps that are difficult to counteract in the short term without resorting to the same methods that established them in the first place."

www.journalofdemocra...

U.S. may require visa applicants to post bond up to $15,000 to enter country The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States.

The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to enter the United States, a move that may make the process unaffordable for many.

Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon This is the first major agency effort by the interim NASA administrator, who is also the Transportation secretary and a former Fox News host.

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, his first major action as interim NASA administrator.

This is so insane.

🚨Pre-print alert🚨

Research shows citizens in many Western democracies are increasingly affectively polarized––they feel warm toward their own party but quite cold toward opposing parties.

But how does it feel to “feel warmly”?
@katharinalawall.bsky.social, @mtsakiris.bsky.social & I asked.
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World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Soon, the drug companies will be paying people hundreds of thousands of dollars to take their medication!

USAID was simultaneously a tool of realpolitik that gave the USA quite a lot of both soft and material power over various places and also, you know, straightforwardly saved lives - that was how it achieved the former, after all. Just turning it off DOGE did is both very stupid and very very evil.

Things getting crazier and crazier in Texas

More Than 60 Migrants Dead After Boat Capsizes Off the Coast of Yemen

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/w...

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Senate Confirms Election Denying Fox Host as DC US Attorney Senate Confirms Election Denying Fox Host as DC US Attorney

BREAKING: In a 50-45 vote, the Senate confirmed former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for D.C., despite her past statements denying the 2020 election results and supporting criminal charges for January 6 prosecutors.

From: @jimsaksa.com

Detention Reports Updated: New Data, Improved Search, and Growing Media Adoption Detention Reports now updated with latest ICE data covering 184 facilities. New features include state filtering and data quality notes based on user feedback.

Detention Reports Updated: New Data, Improved Search, and Growing Media Adoption

Detention Reports now updated with latest ICE data covering 184 facilities. New features include state filtering and data quality notes based on user feedback.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/detention-...

Looks great, thanks!

I’ll give it a look. It would be helpful for me to have a sense of what is mainstream.

Will do, thanks!

#philsky #poltheory

What is the best recent philosophical work published on the rule of law? Appropriately mourning its death in the United States requires appreciating what we've lost.

Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy This paper refines and defends the grassroots demand of reallocating powers and responsibilities from police to other institutions: what I call the unbundling proposal. I begin by presenting the propo...

Interesting article on unbundling and reallocating police powers by Lauren Lyons. www.jesp.org/index.php/je...

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 25-cv-872 (JMC) V. KRISTI NOEM, in her official capacity as jecretary of Homeland Security, et al Defendants. ORDER For the reasons stated in the accompanying memorandum opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that Plaintiffs' Motion for a Stay of Agency Action under 5 U.S.C. § 705, ECF 22, is GRANTED. It is further ORDERED that, to preserve status or rights pending conclusion of the review proceedings, the effective dates of implementation and enforcement of the January 23 Huffman Memorandum, February 18 ICE Directive, and March 25 Parole Termination Notice for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV) are immediately postponed and stayed insofar as they subject individuals who have previously been granted parole at ports of entry to expedited removal. SO ORDERED. Quall.Cot JIA M. COBB United States District Judge

NEW: a federal court in DC has barred DHS from using “expedited removal” to strip those people who entered the country legally through humanitarian parole of a right to a court hearing.

Full opinion here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Birthright Citizenship Under the U.S. Constitution The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.

As lawsuits challenging the president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship make their way through courts around the country, we explain what the 14th Amendment says about birthright citizenship and why it matters.
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Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

“The memo… speaks to the intent to use the military within the United States at a level not seen since Japanese internment,” Carrie Lee, senior fellow at GMF, told me… “We don’t want the military doing law enforcement. It absolutely undermines the rule of law.”

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‘Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.