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yep. “a democratic election victory is inherently illegitimate” is already republican party dogma and should biden/harris win by a similarly slim margins in 2024 republicans will simply refuse to certify

FALCON AND WINTER SOLDIER does that Marvel thing where it provides a spot-on critique of the whole premise of a character and then basically asks you to forget about it

There is no way to avoid the fact that the politics of redistributive policy in the United States is racialized. Studiously avoiding anti-racist language or mentions of race period does

got my COLLATERAL 4K blu ray on. this movie rules and i’m not sure if it or MIAMI VICE is Mann’s best of his post-2000 films. (yes i have the

.⁦@willwilkinson⁩ being brilliant as usualhttps://modelcitizen.substack.com/p/the-anti-majoritarian-mistake want to tattoo this on the back of everyone who has made founder worship and “constitutional conservatism” their personality

“It is the punishment of the South that its Robert Lees and Jefferson Davises will always be tall, handsome and well-born. That their courage will be physical and not moral.https://twitter.com/milhistnow/status/1380386993536897024

rewatched MICHAEL CLAYTON and boy, this movie. it’s perfect. flawless. and those last fifteen minutes? sublime. the crazy thing about it, upon this rewatch, is that in memory it feels

the congressional leadership strategy of running on health care did not work, AOC gave a constructive interview noting the ways in which moderate Democrats did not maximize their own advantages

a fun thing about conservative SCOTUS deference to state legislatures is these are the same justices that have permitted the kind of hyper-partisan gerrymandering that has allowed wisconsin republicans, for

we gotta expand the entire federal judiciaryhttps://twitter.com/leslieproll/status/1319283929820450816 only way to deal with the fact that trump, mcconnell and the republican party have given LIFETIME APPOINTMENTS to thirty-something right-

one basic takeaway i’ve had from reading, at this point, a couple thousand pages on the writing and ratification of the constitution is that those bamas didn’t even agree amongst

given that the constitution was effectively rewritten by the reconstruction amendments, it would be great to see a supreme court nominee say something like “I will interpret the Constitution as