Jason P. Steed

find me (profsteed) where skies are bluer

Pennies, plane crashes, and constitutional crises abound as Washington enters its Dark MAGA era. Antonia Hitchens chronicles month one of Donald Trump’s second term. nyer.cm/HbuFckB

A month after Trump’s inauguration, the honeymoon is over, @Yair_Rosenberg writes: “With every policy he implements and offhand remark he makes, Trump is falsifying the imaginary versions of himself that inspired many of his supporters.” Read more: theatln.tc/C1BtNGZt

find me (profsteed) where skies are bluer

Post-election, legal fights over the future of voting in America press ahead: Advocacy groups petition the full 5th Circuit to reconsider a panel's holding that it's unlawful for states to accept mail ballots after election day as a general rule. Prev: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"Petropoulos says that the smell of rotting corpses permeates the entire Gaza Strip. It emanates from the rubble, under which people were buried, and dogs run around with human remains in their mouths." haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Utah considers allowing law grads to choose apprenticeship rather than bar exam. ow.ly/jqC250U2xSC #barexam #legaleducation

“To be a fascist and to call someone else a fascist requires a cunning that is natural to Trump,” @TimothyDSnyder writes. “The magic lies in the daring it takes to declare a weaker group to be part of an overwhelming conspiracy.” nyer.cm/03vuWrK

someone on tiktok looked at the voting demographics and this is a map of if only women voted 😭

@K_NoiseWaterMD Happy birthday!

I turned 41 today and sparred for longer than I have since I was in my 20s. I got a lot of punches in the birthday face. But I was there. And they knew it. That's really all we can ask of life.

A rapist. Dishonest. Corrupt. Hateful. Racist. A convicted fraudster. Twice impeached. A fascist. I am sad for our country. And disappointed & bewildered that so many of the people I know & love would support this criminal & what he represents. The next 4yrs won’t be good.

Things like this—as well as the tangible benefits from many of Biden’s achievements—raise the question of how much technocratic solutions to improve people’s material conditions actually matter in an age of populist nationalism.

Federal judge rejects RNC challenge to absentee ballots in Georgia @SteveGarrisonPC courthousenews.com/federal-judge-…

RESULT: Pamela Goodwine wins Kentucky's supreme court race. Goodwine was the candidate backed by Dems in this nonpartisan race; she defeats the candidate backed by conservatives. (This was not statewide.) Retiring justice was conservative, so this takes the court a step left.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says the state is "on track to to break turnout records" today. "Michiganders are already voting in record numbers." "We've seen 3.3 million citizens vote before 7 a.m. today even hit."

@gokpkd Somersaults!

I’m not in Texas anymore but it would still be so great to see Ted Cruz lose

The day before the election, a bipartisan coalition of 51 attorneys general puts out a statement calling for a “peaceful transfer of power” + condemning “any acts of violence.” Notably absent: Texas AG Ken Paxton, along with AGs in Indiana and Montana. naag.org/press-releases…

This is a very useful document for keeping track of the circuits’ practices on livestreaming. #AppellateTwitter

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