Colin Woodard

Sorry, that’s for tomorrow night’s event. Tonight, no, though I can bring a Nations Apart tonight at Salve if you really want one!

Yes, I think Newport Historical is selling them. Nations Apart for sure.

Hey, remember how we let a nazi near-trillionaire annihilate the US state capacity? I know it was a whole year ago, but it turns out that this has consequences beyond "murdering 14 million people by ending USAID" (which apparently no one cared about).

By “persuadable non voters,” I mean the ones who don’t usually vote but can be persuaded to if they believe their party’s candidate will actually try to “do something.” Trump & Obama both did this for their side.

Half of Americans Don’t Vote. What Are They Thinking? Inside the largest ever survey of the politically disengaged.

The big picture: if everyone voted, the results would be about the same. But of most persuadable voting blocs, Dems have a numerical advantage. Key is persuading your persuadable non-voting people to turn out & your opponent’s most persuadable non-voters to stay home www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Trump Administration Abandons Efforts to Impose Orders on Law Firms

Again, when it's time to put up or shut up in court, the Trump Admin loses. This is a moment to commend the law firms that refused to appease a bullying president & shame those who capitulated.
 
History — and hopefully future clients — will remember who stood firm & who folded.

They also just did “War is Peace.”

Coming up today:

"Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America" with Colin Woodard - Newport Historical Society Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 The Colony House | Washington Square, Newport Admission $15 – $20 per person | *Student Discounts now available $10 with valid student ID 6pm to 7pm; doors …

Newport, Rhode Islanders: I'm presenting Nations Apart and the work of @pellcenter.bsky.social's Nationhood Lab Mar. 4 at (your incredible) Colony House, hosted by Newport Historical Society. Shovels optional, hopefully....

newporthistory.org/event/nation...

Yes, Iowa Still Matters It's the perfect thermometer for a deep current in American political culture.

I wrote about this in some detail here, btw (in 2015, when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth): www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

They are all failed celebrities who think the job is being a celebrity, exemplified by kash patel who thinks his job is having government jets fly him and his girlfriend from one event to another bsky.app/profile/jkar...

Violating sovereignty, you say.

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Etc.

Frankly, I expected better from a FIFA Peace prize winner

Congratulations to all the tools who supported Trump because he’d be a “peace president.”

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission.

Full statement from the band:

Yeah, I said the same in. my post about this. But the RGV Tejano swing voter is very much real, as we've seen in the past few election cycles.

One of those costs there’s probably no way to quantify but is obviously huge is just the huge deadweight loss of time and mental energy spent thinking and talking about Trump relative to a normalish president.

James Madison: "It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution."

Democrats: it's not a kitchen table issue.

911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.

‪Mike Hixenbaugh‬: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents. Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress. Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg.

Is Trump’s support faltering in every region save Greater Appalachia? Detailed approval estimates from G. Elliott Morris suggest Trump’s autocratic behavior suggest a sharp drop his support in the swing regions, Deep South, and exurban Yankeedom

I mean, who knows? But this inferential local Trump approval/disapproval by G Elliott Morris suggests Ohio isn't in motion and Texas is, with a major Demward swing underway in the El Norte section. www.nationhoodlab.org/is-trumps-su...

Based on the trends so far, I'm not sure Ohio and Indiana are going to flip, even in this climate. But Iowa and Arizona - sure. I wouldn't even call Texas impossible if trends continue.

That's, indeed, one of the great research sources on this.

In relative population terms -- and their effect on the regional distribution of federal representation -- I think that's correct. But, statistically speaking, the North>>South "movers" tend to be dissatisfied conservatives, so making Red states redder, Blue states bluer.

"Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America" with Colin Woodard - Newport Historical Society Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 The Colony House | Washington Square, Newport Admission $15 – $20 per person | *Student Discounts now available $10 with valid student ID 6pm to 7pm; doors …

Newport, Rhode Islanders: I'm presenting Nations Apart and the work of @pellcenter.bsky.social's Nationhood Lab Mar. 4 at (your incredible) Colony House, hosted by Newport Historical Society. Shovels optional, hopefully....

newporthistory.org/event/nation...

Columbia’s President licked the boots of the authoritarian thugs and they just kicked her institution in the face, as anyone who knows anything about authoritarian thugs was trying to tell her they would do.

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you know I would say her matching pink phone case really makes this, gives Goodwin a huge "sad loser man at the end of Legally Blonde" vibe

after failed military incursion, us government responds with economic sanctions