The day after Thanksgiving, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals pulled yet another rug out from under Donald Trump’s serial attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Judge Stephanos Bibas rejected the claims made in the campaign’s brief as specious and excoriated ongoing attempts to exclude legitimate votes from Pennsylvania’s final tallies. “Voters, not … More Yes, Democracy Can Survive Trump
…we continue to speculate about the next one. Because of my paragraph about the 2010’s in this Politico feature (12.27.19), I got a ring from CBSN, and did this interview yesterday. And yes, I am doing it in my living room on Skype.
… and removed from office, so says this Fox News poll. This is up 9 points since July. The number of people who want Trump impeached but not removed from office has slipped from 5% to 4% — who are these people??? (H/T The Bulwark.) Is this what Lachlen Murdoch meant by the “post-Trump world,” a … More 51% of voters want Trump impeached…
…isn’t really a transcript. But go ahead and read it anyway: it’s like two bobblehead dolls talking to each other. This reminds me of a common experience college professors have: being given work that is plagiarized, but not being quite able to tell from what it is plagiarized. My sources say that we will soon … More When a White House transcript…
..was the culmination of contemptuous confrontations the Trump administration has been provoking with Congressional Democrats for almost three years. Something had to give. That something came later that night, in the form of a Washington Post scoop about a whistleblower complaint from a member of the U.S. intelligence community about a promise Trump had made to a … More The turning point to impeachment…
At Public Seminar, we are fortunate to have a documentary photographer. Political scientist, activist, attorney and photographer Jo Freeman goes to political events and takes wonderful pictures, which our managing editor, Dara Levendosky, produces. Are you all, “Wait — that Jo Freeman? `The Tyranny of Structurelessness’ (1970) Jo Freeman?” Yes, the very same. Now, aren’t … More More on Elizabeth Warren
…you might write for conservative publications too, just to troll her. Molly Jong-Fast, who described herself in 2011 as “a prude in a family of libertines” is writing for The Bulwark, which is now on my mid-day office reading list. Apparently this site is where the digital staff of The Weekly Standard fled: in other words, The … More If your Mom invented the zipless f*ck…
Is briefly featured on El Rushbo’s show today. In case you didn’t know it, “El Rushbo” is short for Chief Waga-Waga El Rushbo of the El Conservo Tribe, otherwise known as Professor of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. The professor in question from the leftist New School would be me.
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