Claire Bond Potter

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"Then I realized that it wasn’t Caitlyn Jenner. It was thrice-married @kimguilfoyle: attorney, television personality, and Donald Trump Jr.’s fiancée of four years." clairepotter.substack.com/p/kinder-kuc...

"The job market was terrible, and the possibility of being employed as a transwoman was vanishingly small in the early 1990s. So, San Francisco became Stryker’s laboratory." clairepotter.substack.com/p/episode-57...

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Check out an interview with Susan Stryker on the Political Junkie podcast with @clairepotter01.bsky.social. "When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader," edited by @mckenziewark.bsky.social is out now! clairepotter.substack.com/p/episode-57...

Episode 57: Waiting For the Academy To Catch Upclairepotter.substack.com A conversation with Susan Stryker about doing transgender history and her new collection of essays edited and introduced by McKenzie Wark, "When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader"

"Democracies bleed too, and this incident has intensified the metaphorical wounds to ours." clairepotter.substack.com/p/donalds-ear

If the French center, liberal, and left could pull itself together in a successful joint effort to defeat Marine LePen’s fascist National Rally in a matter of days there is no reason why the Democrats could not pull off a Harris presidency. clairepotter.substack.com/p/will-biden...

This year’s presidential race has sparked debate about bringing back mandatory retirement. But here’s the paradox. we also celebrate elderly Americans when they have qualities that we associate with aging well. clairepotter.substack.com/p/episode-56...

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🚨BREAKING: Wisconsin Supreme Court OVERTURNS ban on ballot drop boxes. Congratulations to our client Priorities USA and the voters of Wisconsin. We are not done fighting for free and fair elections and we are not done winning! www.democracydocket.com/cases/wiscon...

🚨 Voting Rights Victory in Wisconsinwww.democracydocket.com Read about the latest voting rights victory in Priorities USA v. Wisconsin Elections Commission.

Todays Substack: "If it is impossible to persuade me that he is fit, not just for the job, but for a fall campaign, it is impossible to persuade anyone." clairepotter.substack.com/p/my-god-joe

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A brilliant must read for all involved

My friend Peter Dreier guest posted today at Political Junkie! "Clearly, Bowman was already walking on thin ice, even before this year’s primary campaign." clairepotter.substack.com/p/is-new-yor...

My friends Regina Kunzel and Marybeth Hamilton shared this episode as a bonus episode for my own podcast, "Why Now?" clairepotter.substack.com/p/bonus-epis...

"Today we celebrate freedom, but unlike July 4, June 19 asks us to contemplate why the United States was built, and thrived, on unfreedom; and the heroism and spiritual commitment that it required for a people to survive generations of violence." #Juneteenth clairepotter.substack.com/p/juneteenth

Lots of Trumpers, people who played key roles in his only electoral victory, have gone to jail or are on what we might call the “legally disabled list.” clairepotter.substack.com/p/guess-whos...

Guess Who's Going To Prison?clairepotter.substack.com Trump supporters large and small will be on the legally disabled list for the 2024 election, sidelining experienced MAGA talent

One of the things I love about Trump's legal woes is how everyone on social media is a lawyer and speaks with such confidence about the statutes under which he was prosecuted, the appeals process, and the verdict. Carry on.

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This great post by Prof Potter reminds me that #BoringCentrism would quadruple funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

My latest drop on Substack: Republicans believe that eliminating funding for the CPB is not only fiscally and ideologically conservative but good politics for an increasingly polarized country. clairepotter.substack.com/p/in-trump-i...

OK—did I call it, or did I call it? I asked you to trust the jury, and they came through. Thirty-four counts: thirty-four verdicts of guilty, making Donald John Trump the first President of the United States to be convicted of a felony. clairepotter.substack.com/p/guilty-gui...

"As I understand it, the neighbor’s sign said “F*ck Trump,” and as the quarrel played out, the neighbor said to Martha-Ann: “See you next Tuesday!” And then Martha-Ann beetled home and put the flag up." clairepotter.substack.com/p/take-my-wi...

The Phillies are so boss this year.

The sensational testimony, much of which we have heard before, also makes the trial confusing, even though the prosecution is knitting it together in a story that is not about sex, tabloids, or payoffs. clairepotter.substack.com/p/hush-money...

The New York Intellectuals had another project: inventing a virile intellectual style and agenda that was distinctively Jewish and secular, and imagining how they would get their ideas to the public." @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @dissentmag.bsky.social clairepotter.substack.com/p/episode-54...

Some very clever troll is signing me up for porn sites, entering user names that include the word “c*nt.” Which basically means I get verification emails calling me a c*nt. Sad, angry little people do these things.

Yale historian Paul Sabin: "Nader was a proponent of government and a critic of government. What he was really interested in was holding agencies accountable, and creating systems that could rein in and oversee federal interventions in the public realm." clairepotter.substack.com/p/mr-nader-g...

I'm not saying--but I'm saying.

It’s Kentucky Derby day—and here’s a 2022 interview I did with historian Emily Bingham about why “My Old Kentucky Home” is a form of Southern nostalgia—for slavery. clairepotter.substack.com/p/singing-am...

Singing America’s Racial Historyclairepotter.substack.com A conversation with historian Emily Bingham about Stephen Foster’s “My Old Kentucky Home”

This morning I was drinking coffee in my Greenwich Village apartment when I heard the helicopters overhead. clairepotter.substack.com/p/report-fro...

While the big shift has been among Republicans and “Republican leaners”—from 38% to 68% since Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021—47% of Democrats also think crime should be a priority. clairepotter.substack.com/p/crime-is-n...

Nell Painter returns to my podcast! This curated collection of essays is beautifully illustrated with the questions, visual observations, and imaginative renderings that scholarship alone cannot properly address. clairepotter.substack.com/p/episode-53...

Donald Trump is, as my father used to put it, a “gasbag,” a person who is almost physically unable to enter a public space without dominating it verbally. clairepotter.substack.com/p/gasbag