Mark Healey

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Historian, Head of UConn History. Opinions expressed do not reflect the official position of my employer.

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I still believe the most functional definition for the modern Democratic Party is the party of anticipatory surrender.

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Another feature worth including in a new Judiciary Act would send Matthew Kacsmaryk, Aileen Cannon, and other judges of the like packing to a new circuit court of appeals that covers the Northern Marianas and the state of West Dakota.

Judge Cannon’s rationale for the postponement is that a large number of pretrial motions remain unresolved, a state of affairs that she has literally engineered by failing to resolve them.

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Last summer my friend Angelyn, who's heading up a project to revitalize the Eric Canal, shared her work with me, and I wrote about the canal's history, maintenance + potential revitalization for Scope of Work: www.scopeofwork.net/2023-07-31/?... Today, the BBC has a nice travel feature:

The Erie Canal: The manmade waterway that transformed the USwww.bbc.com Two hundred years ago, it helped spread people, ideas and goods across the US. Now, it's become a paddler's paradise with more than 700 miles of continuous, navigable waterways.

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Just a reminder: Trump inherited the lowest homicide rate of any president in 50 years. He was the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher homicide rate than when he entered. And the rate has dropped every year since he left. www.foxnews.com/video/635815...

RNC day 2 to focus on crime and safety as victims' families speak out | Fox News Videowww.foxnews.com Erin Rachwal, who lost her son to fentanyl poisoning and Sheri and Aaron Sparks, who lost their son in the Waukesha parade attack, on the need to hold criminals accountable and stop the influx of illi...

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Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

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what Bluesky looks like for the past day or so

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This skeet made me fall out of a coconut tree.

Yes - people's reactions to skeets on here aren't coming from nowhere. Angry skeets exist in the context of all in which they live and what came before them!

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Ride out onto the battlefield with my little burro, bearing the banner "Complicity Is A Prosecutor's Friend, Not Yours"

99% of the time someone uses the word “complicit”, they are trying to be rhetorically powerful, rather than analytically useful. The only way to be non-complicit is to obey their demand, and little room for for thought or response. It’s why prosecutors love using the framing.

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It’s so reassuring to be reminded that Trump isn’t the only entity effectively beyond the reach of the law. www.cnn.com/2024/07/13/b...

Analysis: How Boeing defrauded the United States and escaped with a ‘slap on the wrist’ | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com Boeing is facing an additional $243 million in fines as part of its anticipated guilty plea to a felony charge its employees defrauded the Federal Aviation Administration ahead of two fatal crashes of...

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We’ve all been begging the blue sky mods to add an “I won’t be weird to Jamelle Bouie click box” to the terms of service

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This is insane.

I learned at an engineering conference recently that one crypto mine in TX, 100s of MW, makes more money off ERCOT demand response markets than it does off crypto repeat: TX ratepayers pay them more to sometimes stop mining than they make by actual mining just bananas misuse of power markets 🔌💡

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Alternative framing: A presidential candidate who organized a coup on live TV is the odds-on favorite to return to office and carry out an explicitly authoritarian agenda, *80*% of Americans think his opponent is too old, and some people think that's not a reason to change course

There’s a presidential candidate who organized a coup on live TV and was recently convicted of dozens of felonies for something entirely separate, and the political system is demanding his opponent step down.

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A thing that is weird in this, the worst written timeline, is that Anne Gorsuch, the first woman to run the US Environmental Protection Agency, is responsible for the Chevron decision. Neil Gorsuch is her son. Dude chose compromising SCOTUS over family therapy.

Absolutamente épico

THIS GAME good heavens

The long ball to lonely Díaz counterstrike strategy does not seem likely to yield anything good.

Now *this* is a game, @albertsonb2.bsky.social (assorted injury shenanigans notwithstanding)

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headlines from when your campaign is going well

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As has been noted a million times before, if Joe Biden loses in November, a lot of the things he expended political capital on are not gonna be given another look at by future Democrats for awhile

They created an economic revival in the heartland, and nobody cared www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/they...

They created an economic revival in the heartland, and nobody cared - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com I’m not sure if anyone even pretends to believe the “economic anxiety” explanation for Trumpism anymore, but the success of industrial policy under the Biden administration and the fact that he’s gott...

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Centerpoint is the electric company currently failing Houstonians on a massive scale.

Chron reporter Josh Criswell captured this photo under I-10 after Hurricane Beryl. That about sums it up, honestly.

England is actually... playing well? May wonders never cease.

All the postgame trashing of the dreary, slogging, uninspired play of France under Deschamps *almost* redeems the Euro 24 coverage on Fox.

Me llama #esposa desde Catalunya para saber como va ESP-FRA, porque el barrio donde vive su madre es tan soberanista que *ignoran* el partido.

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Vote for the slightly older guy, not the crook. It’s important.

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The Secret Service is constantly at the White House. From this we can conclude that the President is a secret.

Chefs were seen at the White House at least once a day last month. From this we can only conclude the president is a steak.

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I think we can officially retire the heartbreaking meme now

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From “The Big Truck That Went By” (2013)

One of the biggest problems with how we talk about democracy in this country is that so much of it is simply centered on voting, as if the most minimum requirement for a democracy is also all that defines it.

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Good news, everyone. You can get out of admin roles by sending rude sarcastic messages about the content of meetings you're sitting through— which means, for a lot of people I know, just leaking the messages you've already sent. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/n...

Columbia Removes Three Deans, Saying Texts Touched on ‘Antisemitic Tropes’www.nytimes.com Nemat Shafik, the university president, called the sentiments in the text messages “unacceptable and deeply upsetting.”

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If Biden said something like this it would spell the end of not only his campaign but his current tenure. It's just one of countless examples of insane gibberish from Trump that the press & Democrats are choosing to treat as an immutable part of the electoral landscape rather than a story or issue.