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Tahir Duckett

@tahir.bsky.social

Executive Director + Adjunct Prof. Georgetown Law Center for Innovations in Community Safety. Policing, community safety, food. COYG. He/him.

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The labor librarian@laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 4d ago

What was that skeet going around a few months ago? Something like “being a leftist is being accused of fearmongering because you were right too soon.”

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d ago

"“We need to revisit the point of expanding the court to 13 justices like we have 13 district courts,” Harris said at the National Urban League’s annual conference...also calling for a review of the Electoral College and statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington, DC." www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/p...

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · last wk.

“Not vaccinating your kid is like saying, ‘I don’t want my car to have brakes,’” said Dr. Mark Roberts of the Public Health Dynamics Lab at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. “Because it’s other people that you can hit. It’s not just you in your car. It’s other people.”

There Are Already More US Measles Cases This Year Than in All of 2025

The number of measles cases in the U.S. has surpassed the record-breaking tally for all of 2025, with five more months of 2026 still to come.

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Tahir Duckett@tahir.bsky.social · last wk.

The boycott is on y'all. If DoorDash doesn't think DC deserves basic self-determination and democracy, they don't deserve your dollars. Delete your account.

Free DC@freedcproject.bsky.social · last wk.

DoorDash has been silent as its delivery drivers are hunted and killed by federal agents. Now, the company is backing #HR9720, a bill attacking DC Home Rule. We are calling on everyone to #DeleteDoordash. Let us know you've deleted your account and share your reasons why: deletedoordash.com

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2w ago

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · 2w ago

Thakur v Trump continues to deliver the goods. Recall that it was brought by faculty (not the University of California) and is the same case that got UCLA funding restored last year, before UC could sign a betrayal agreement with the Trump administration.

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's part of a major federal court case over those cancelations. Here's what the government admitted as part of a process meant to avoid discovery (and perhaps spare it from sharing more damaging records):

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2w ago

The entire anti-affirmative action case hinges on the idea that it’s an irreparable injury to deny even one white child access to these institutions, people swear no one believes in anymore.

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2w ago

A bunch of rich people just got caught bribing their way into having their children admitted into these places, and yet the constant drumbeat is that nobody trusts them, and they have to abandon any principles to survive. Sure.

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2w ago

The sleight of hand here is in portraying the obsessions of editors at elite publications and some think tanks as “the public,” especially considering the fact that, despite *decades* of anti-intellectual propaganda, the vast majority of students and parents *demand* access to higher education.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2w ago

No, Tyler. Im angry because I know you know that the lack of public trust in US universities is the result of DECADES of media and political efforts--of which your whole grift is part. Quite the gall to be part of destroying public trust and then turn around and point to the lack of public trust.

Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper · 5h What’s striking about the academics who are hysterically opposed to more ideological diversity in academia is that they have no plan for regaining public trust and don’t even seem to think they need it. Their only strategy is complaining that the media and right are mean to them. Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper · 5h I think increasing the representation of non-progressive ideas in academia is a necessary (though not sufficient) condition for regaining public trust. If you disagree, fine. But most of the people melting down have no alternative theory about how to regain public confidence. Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper In fact, the bulk of angry responses seem to tacitly turn on the idea that public trust isn’t something academics should have to lower themselves to care about. The public owes the Ivory Tower trust and money, but that same public should also have no say in what goes on there.
Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 3w ago

this is why "and you're surprised?" is one of the top 5 most infuriating online responses to sharing upsetting news. surprise is not the only emotion, and it's not the only factor that makes something worth drawing attention to. it's weird to pretend being blasé about horror equals moral superiority

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 3w ago

You can and should point out that police killing people daily is the "norm" in America. But that doesn't mean you *accept* the normalization of this violence and the way some people rush to smugly point these things out contributes to collective fatigue. Your horror has been stolen from you.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3w ago

the thing about this Yglesias take is that it’s load-bearing for his career. if politics is about persuasion, someone like Yglesias serves no real purpose, and in fact it might be counterproductive for politicians to listen to the opinions of an abrasive nerd

Jeff Lazarus@jlazarus.bsky.social · 3w ago

This paragraph gave me an epiphany about Matty Y. It's not that he doesn't understand how politics words. It's that fundamentally, he doesn't understand *what politics is.*

What I would ask of everyone at the table is simply that they respect the diversity of America and the wisdom of trying to compete effectively across this vast and varied land rather than trying to cancel each other. And I would urge people whose passion in life is shifting public opinion rather than responding to it to find a different line of work than electoral politics.
Tahir Duckett@tahir.bsky.social · 3w ago

The thing about takes like these is that if it's true, we might as well just give up and go home. There are exactly zero possible futures in which exactly zero Democratic primary candidates say something unpopular online. Howl at the moon all you want.

Sasho Todorov@sashotodorov.bsky.social · 3w ago

Regardless of where your district is, and who your voters are, your capacity to do things depends on getting to 218 and getting to 218 in modern nationalized politics means not having a party brand tainted by whatever some forever-PhD the DSA scrounged up for a primary is saying online.