Rob Mickey
@robmickey.bsky.social
Political Science @umich. book: https://bit.ly/3YQWgEi. US Reconstruction & nation building w/ David Waldner; policing w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social + @dziblatt.bsky.social; race & democratic attitudes w/ V. Hutchings & @jardina.bsky.social.
“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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I remember seeing someone (very reasonably) complaining here a few days ago that there seems to be next to no visible thinking on left and center about how to join the dots on administration and democracy. This is the beginnings of an answer to that complaint donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...
Rebuilding Democracy Requires Rebalancing Power
What does a power-shifting agenda look like?
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Along similar thematic lines, I have a piece newly up on SSRN about what the Trump Administration might have to teach us about libertarianism, Reichian/Naderite liberalism, and abundance liberalism. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Empowering and Fearing Government: Democratic Countervailing Power and the Future of the Administrative State
This essay examines three competing responses to the crisis of the administrative state in the Trump Era: libertarianism; proceduralist liberalism drawing on Ch
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The DNC had to have a telethon in the early 1970s to raise money. It didn't own its own building. Not sure if we need to infer regime characteristics from a poorly-run party.
Darin Self@darinself.com · last wk.Not in a democracy. This would be more typical in an electoral authoritarian regime where the incumbent party is using state resources
Rubio’s State Department just published a 100-page report identifying Cuba as the locus of Communist infiltration in the US since the 1960s. Absolutely bonkers shit. www.state.gov/wp-content/u...
Trump's previous requests for state level co-operation involved him asking state officials to manufacture votes to overturn the results of the election.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoMullin says that election officials in states that don’t cooperate with the Trump administration may face jail time
So the number of noncitizen registered voters reported by Politico was fiction. Your integrity is the price of access journalism
Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social · 3w agoTrump claimed in speech DHS found 278,000 noncitizens registered to vote. Turns out that number was 10,716 based on report they just released. Even that # likely wildly inflated due to false positives & inaccuracies in SAVE database
this is excellent
Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 3w agoThiel sees tech entrepreneurialism and kingship as intimately bound together: acting outside the rules to build the future that no-one else has the long term vision to grasp. “There have to be CEOs and founders. Those people are expected to wear the crown.” www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-politi...
Lindsey Graham’s Will Orders Estate To Start War With Azerbaijan https://theonion.com/lindsey-grahams-will-orders-estate-to-start-war-with-azerbaijan/
In the words of CONMEBOL autocrat Getulio Vargas, “For my friend, everything; for my enemies, the law.”
Sandro@sandro.eurosky.social · 3w agoSo it’s by the book when it hurts Agentina’s opponents but discretionary when it helps Argentina. Got it. #VARgentina
Friends don't let friends continue to give exams and papers that are not adapted to the current AI landscape www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... (this is AFTER 27 bailed so the reality is even worse) PS Props to students 1, 22, and 31
"There’s simply no way any of us could have predicted a Nazi SS guy with his eyeballs dangling out of his sockets and the Staff of Ra broiled into his flesh like grill marks on a meat slab would be such a terrible candidate for Senate."
If Only There Had Been a Sign that the Face-Melting Nazi from Indiana Jones Wouldn’t Make a Good Senator
“There’s simply no way any of us could have predicted a Nazi SS guy with his eyeballs dangling out of his sockets and the Staff of Ra broiled into his flesh ...
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If there's a sphere of life I hope remains unsullied, I wouldn't start with FIFA.
Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · last mo.I would like just one aspect of our culture and our lives that this motherfucker doesn’t have to get his greasy, corrupt hands on. Just something somewhere that can be enjoyable and unsullied.
Andres Cantor's call of Calbral's wonder strike to tie it up at 2-2, which is how the score will finish in my memory.
Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) on X
Andrés Cantor has the Telemundo call of Sidny Lopes Cabral's unbelievable equalizer for Cape Verde. ⚽️💥🎙️ #WorldCup
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Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time
#ELB: “The Federal Election Commission After Slaughter” https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157015
Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America
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Joanna Schwartz@jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 2mo agoEgregious constitutional violations without meaningful accountability are a hallmark of this Trump administration but, of course, are nothing new. Fred Smith & I wrote about civil rights deserts in Mississippi & strategies to address them wherever they exist. harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
Liam Neeson tries to teach his teenager basic household courtesy in Would It Kill You
captain bleach@blainecapatch.bsky.social · 2mo agoLiam Neeson gets to the airport early in A Couple Hours to Kill
