Elizabeth Duquette

Sordid Sortor A dust-up in Portland reveals the dangerous degree of Trump administration overlap with the right-wing marketplace

Good summation of the propaganda assault on Portland that is accompanying the Trump administration’s political/military assault on the city. open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

But what’s not missing is killer balance with that weight

The Pips line was especially unruly this week. Too many September birthday folks wanting their free donuts.

Pretending to be serious is so much easier. (I mean, come ON. CY’s statement is so profoundly dumb that it requires a whole new metric of dumbness to account for it.)

He needs to stop with the RC pol theorists at Nôtre Dame and Catholic, and spend some serious time with Augustine. If he wants to be a better Catholic. That this isn’t his aim is likely true.

Here for all the obscure Thomism. Esp any refs to obscure US Thomism!

I did not know that DC residents were making noise in solidarity at 8pm every evening. Armed soldiers in museums, parks, streets, metro. Gearing up to make some noise with (for) them from OR.

Plebiscites for all

So excited to watch!!!!!!!

I would have that movie on repeat in a flash!

Image of a nearly empty vial of insulin with text superimposed: "When the insulin runs out--a foray into insurance-induced rage."

From romcom to Shakespearean tragedy: my life on hold in the broken insurance loop: open.substack.com/pub/emdillon...

That’s great—thank you. The full citation is “The Tyrannical Style of American Politics,” American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon (Oxford UP, 2023), 69-104. Although my formatting is surely off some!

Love the hat

A few last minutes outside before drugs.

Pynchon’s Nixon, “‘There are always the whiners and complainers who’ll say, this is fascism. Well, fellow Americans, if it’s Fascism for Freedom? I….can….dig it!’ Tumultuous applause from a room full of supporters, some of them holding banners with the same phrase professionally letter on them”

Huge Wyden fan, but it’s time. Same for Markey.

Goya

FFS

Blue #4, by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1916, 📸 by Mitchell Leff

Anyway. Did you know that once, waiters didn’t want to serve sarah huckabee at a restaurant? That was a national crisis. This is fine though

Talking to other poster.

Why sadly?! PDX ftw

Whoa “took” not OK

This ok ours to the protest here in PDX

Chehalis Tribe Buys Billboard, Plans to Replace Messages with Accurate U.S. History NAPAVINE, WA — In a development historians are calling “chef’s kiss levels of poetic justice,” the infamous Uncle Sam billboard along I-5 near Chehalis has been purchased by the Confederated Tribes…

If you've driven on I-5 in southwest Washington, you've probably noticed the big billboard with the far-right JBS messages. That's about to change.

Chehalis Tribe Buys Billboard, Plans to Replace Messages with Accurate U.S. History

medium.com/@lewiscounty...

He can’t just order a roll, like a normal person?

I've just joined BlueSky and need help from friends to gather followers. So @uvalaw.bsky.social, and other faculty and students, please share/follow. I write about discrimination law and its philosophical foundations and about bribery and corruption. Am interested in all things law and philosophy.

New to Bluesky, and posting a new paper: "Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and Title VI: A Guide for the Perplexed" -- with @beidelson.bsky.social.

Forthcoming in Harv. L. Rev. Forum in June. (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....).

A thread follows.

The inability to extrapolate or imagine is what baffles me most about people who claim to be conservative.

People have clapped for my parking, but they live in Oregon and I was then a recent and reluctant NYC transplant. Manual transmission even. Parking cameras have taken away the fun