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@joshuamzeitz.bsky.social

Historian. Politico Magazine contributing writer. NYT best-selling author, including Building the Great Society and Lincoln’s Boys. Twitter refugee. This place is nicer, but I still block antisemites.

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I’d go a step more. Is their position that when a Democrat is in the WH, the Supreme Court is above all other branches, but when a Republican/Trump is in the WH, the executive is above all else? That seems to be their position.

05.10.2025 23:33 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In 2023, NY contributed $89 billion more to the federal government than we received. Undocumented immigrants in NYC contributed $3 billion. So in theory we could just stop giving Republicans federal subsidies and pay for that marginal $18 billion in infrastructure directly and have a big surplus.

05.10.2025 23:04 — 👍 436    🔁 110    💬 13    📌 8

BREAKING: Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” More billionaires bending the knee.

02.10.2025 22:30 — 👍 6895    🔁 2737    💬 437    📌 200
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Donald Trump Is Making a Mistake That Blew Up in Thomas Jefferson’s Face The indictment of Comey echoes a case that diminished the powers of the presidency.

ANALYSIS: Thomas Jefferson tried to prosecute a political foe and it backfired. Donald Trump is making the same mistake, writes historian @joshuamzeitz.bsky.social.

02.10.2025 16:23 — 👍 120    🔁 36    💬 11    📌 6
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Wishing all who observe Yom Kippur an easy and meaningful fast and a day full of reflection and peace.

02.10.2025 00:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So much wrong with this. But let’s just pull one thread. If they wanted a “post-racial nation,” maybe they could have cooled it with the long-form birth certificate shit. Idk. I’m just spitballing here.

29.09.2025 01:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

28.09.2025 02:40 — 👍 6923    🔁 4588    💬 78    📌 226

Democratic leadership is badly misreading the moment. I’m not a “let it all burn” type, but if he really intends to let it burn, it won’t be Democrats who catch the blame.

28.09.2025 12:35 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This feels like a massive self own. Voters like national parks. They get testy when the IRS doesn’t return calls about tax refunds. I imagine ICE agents will be none to keen to work for free. Who exactly would all of this benefit politically? Not Republicans.

28.09.2025 12:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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What a headline. It speaks to how much we’ve normalized this Supreme Court’s lawlessness. Imagine a world in which a Democratic president asked SCOTUS to void the Second Amendment and nullify citizens’ rights to own, say, hunting rifles. “Most experts say it’s legally dubious but…”

27.09.2025 23:25 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Bondi fires a Jewish lawyer while he was out of the office for Rosh Hashanah (and fires him for illegal reasons)

26.09.2025 15:29 — 👍 499    🔁 200    💬 16    📌 3

A couple weeks ago, these blowdried chucklefucks were "joking" about how they should reclaim the word Nazi and now they're "joking" about blowing up the UN or gassing the foreign leaders inside.

But they didn't say anything questionable about Charlie Kirk, so no big deal.

23.09.2025 23:49 — 👍 4950    🔁 1429    💬 211    📌 51

Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.

20.09.2025 01:34 — 👍 9580    🔁 3940    💬 1215    📌 322

We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away.

We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”

19.09.2025 10:57 — 👍 10401    🔁 3769    💬 433    📌 195

Say what you want about the man, but when Colbert made fun of George W Bush to his face, Bush took it in stride.

What a small sad man our current president is that comedians threaten his feelings

18.09.2025 23:15 — 👍 153    🔁 22    💬 10    📌 3
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Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

18.09.2025 14:10 — 👍 9831    🔁 2481    💬 235    📌 108
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New York Democratic Chairman Won’t Endorse Mamdani for Mayor

Then he should resign or be removed.

18.09.2025 23:57 — 👍 395    🔁 47    💬 20    📌 11

I’m three episodes in. It’s great!

14.09.2025 23:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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3 months ago, today, Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered by a Trump supporter.

They had kids, too.

14.09.2025 17:11 — 👍 2667    🔁 926    💬 34    📌 16
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Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

12.09.2025 20:42 — 👍 8240    🔁 2390    💬 384    📌 389

Alternative construction: do they want to be the deciding vote against the discharge petition? Because all 218 are until one flips.

11.09.2025 16:13 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

10.09.2025 21:26 — 👍 35311    🔁 5703    💬 2664    📌 747
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At least 2 students shot at a Denver-area high school, authorities say | CNN At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

10.09.2025 20:04 — 👍 7088    🔁 3371    💬 71    📌 167

I mean what on earth are district court judges supposed to do at this point other than get the message from SCOTUS to let Trump do whatever he wants to no matter what the law says.

08.09.2025 16:14 — 👍 7752    🔁 1599    💬 303    📌 120

I gave a talk in grad school before the entire History Dept (faculty, grad students) and 3 tenured professors skewered me for 45 mins. After, a senior member of the dept pulled me aside, said he had one more question, and with a wink: “why didn’t you write the paper *I* would have written?”

08.09.2025 14:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ll need to consult with my fellow political scientists next week at the APSA annual meeting.

But I do believe this is the coolest fucking campaign in history.

(Top 5, without a doubt.)

06.09.2025 00:11 — 👍 261    🔁 27    💬 12    📌 0

The story is not that he signed the order. It’s that the order isn’t legal, isn’t binding, is yet another effort to govern as a king rather that the president of a democratic republic, with two co-equal branches of government.

05.09.2025 11:07 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump to Sign Order Renaming the Defense Department as the Department of War

Corporate media proving again that it’s not suited to the moment. Congress created the Dept of Defense through the National Security Act Amendments of 1949, which Truman signed into law. Trump can no more undo this unilaterally than he can rename Mars Trump Word.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

05.09.2025 11:06 — 👍 18    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 2

Also why does he have an “advisor.” He’s a judge.

04.09.2025 12:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Converse (1964)

03.09.2025 19:21 — 👍 36    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 1

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