Seeing the National Guard deployed across New Orleans while visiting for SPSA makes me realize that the mere presence of the troops is a visible symbol of the Trump Administration to voters - even when they aren't actively doing anything
Bowtie enthusiast, indeed.
When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.
My thoughts on the Charlie Kirk assassination:
Charleston, South Carolina, a city intensely vulnerable to the effects of climate change, is suing oil companies over global warming. President Trump says lawsuits like these threaten national security. The judge wants to hear what both sides think.
Today is Confederate Memorial Day, a state holiday in Alabama. Editor @brianlyman.bsky.social writes that men who died to uphold white supremacy deserve no honor. But their lives contain warnings for us in this dark political moment.
Fascinating that this is coming out as Trump and DeSantis get ready to engage in a proxy power struggle during the 2026 gubernatorial race. Looks like the Florida Republicans want to clear Casey DeSantis out of the race to make way for Byron Donalds.
NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy www.science.org/content/arti...
I have just learned that Indiana's state drink is water. Couldn't have guessed that based on the water quality in Valparaiso.
One of the ways that Andor may land differently this time is that lots of people have suddenly come to understand that dull seeming bureaucratic infrastructure is really, really important.
The EO limiting the powers of independent agencies actually seems to extend unitary executive theory to the president's subordinates in its preamble.
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Clinton interprets the act as unconstitutional and advisory in nature because it would direct the president in matters of foreign policy, despite his agreeing with the goal.
So there is some precedent for jealously guarding "foreign policy" that Trump could point to if he realizes it exists.
Secondly, presidents in the past *have* ignored the other branches when matters are technically in the realm of foreign policy. See President Clinton's signing statement on International Dolphin Conservation Program Act of 1997.
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/st...
A couple of thoughts on this. First, contempt hearings won't fix the non-implementation issue that the courts face when clashing with the president. But the media coverage of those hearings can be a signal to voters that the president is violating norms.
