Jamie Levine Daniel

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Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management and Public Service. Lifelong CLE fan. Co-founder of @GoodTroubleIN. she/her. All views are my own. Tweets? Threads? Posts? Whatever they are on here, they will probably have typos.

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The fun thing about racists who think Black people get handed jobs they don’t deserve is that they have almost always been handed jobs they don’t deserve

Lauren Boebert is a high school dropout. I don't say this to shame people who don't finish their education. But it helps underscore how all the chitter chatter about "DEI" has nothing to do with merit. It's just a racial slur. www.salon.com/2024/07/05/b...

Boebert's "DEI hire" remark towards Karine Jean-Pierre causes blowbackwww.salon.com The Colorado rep., who obtained a GED in 2020, called the Columbia grad and first Black press secretary a DEI hire.

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knowing that the white house just signed a massive parkinson’s bill in july changes the entire tone of this story so much that this makes it wildly, horrifically offensive

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

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Yes, it's entirely possible that the President is meeting w/a Parkinson's expert because he has exhibited signs. It's also entirely possible that the President is meeting w/a Parkinson's expert because he's signing a bill to try to ... end Parkinson's? When you're a hammer, everything's a nail

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"National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act" signed on July 2, 2024 (this is not mentioned in the NYT reporting)

I got this vaguely threatening email, spent ~20 min on hold to tell the BMV we moved out of state last yr. The response: Oh, those come from a third party. You don't have to worry. A minor inconvenience, but also an #AdministrativeBurden that adds unnecessary friction to citizen-gov interactions

This presumes every state has a mechanism for citizen-driven ballot initiatives/referenda. In fact, only 26 states provide for these measures. I didn't know this until I lived and did advocacy in Indiana. ballotpedia.org/States_with_...

Honest question: who is in charge of making sure abortion access is on the ballot in every single state? Who is running point on this?

States with initiative or referendumballotpedia.org Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics

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Not everyone has gotten that the piece I wrote below is satire. It is, intended to convey how the media would cover Biden denying connections with his closest aides. But the reality is that when Trump does it, it barely merits a mention. NYT front page is all Biden. Trump's lies not covered.

Trump said “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it.” But Project 2025 is run by Trump's closest aides, raising concerns about cognitive fitness for a candidate who seems unable to recall those around him. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...

Troubling Signs of Cognitive Decline as Trump Struggles to Recognize Closest Aidesdonmoynihan.substack.com "I know nothing about Project 2025" statement triggers new concerns about his fitness to serve

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Morning Joe has, all in all, been a lone voice of sanity in the media mob's rush to ride Biden out of town. Mika has been wonderful: a voice of calm and perspective and I suspect she had some words for Joe, who metered his tone from last week and urged taking time before rushing to judgment.

"The fact that we're going to hold Joe Biden to one standard and Donald Trump to another, which is really no standard at all." - @JoeNBC on The New York Times et al.

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it is very funny that two weeks ago vance was like “liberals are schmittian”

the conservative theory of law in one headline

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This from @atrupar.bsky.social on The Bad Place. However one feels about the ultimate question on the table, the pace and frenzy with which this discourse around whether a sitting president should step aside/down because of a singular event (that embodies a larger issue) is mind-blowing.

Oh #Polisky, I'd ask if y'all are ok but I know you are probably not. This auto-reply did make me laugh/cry though.

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Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.

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Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.

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Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.

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Must be nice to have choices

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*taps sign*

Advice | How College Leaders Can Stand Up for DEI Workers and Programswww.chronicle.com Some of the most vulnerable employees at institutions are being hung out to dry.

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More enthusiastic overcompliance with these anti-DEI laws. At this point, I can only conclude that many of the top "leaders" in these universities were simply waiting for an excuse to get rid of these student organizations, and now they have it.

At onset of anti-DEI law, Utah colleges close cultural centerswww.insidehighered.com As in Florida, Texas and other states that have passed anti-DEI legislation, Utah’s public institutions are applying the law with a broad brush.

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So who’s “us”?

Airports with lots of late night/red eye flights- why do so many of your restaurants/vendors close so early? I'm looking at you, Sea-Tac.

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Chenault is Black, unlike the overwhelming majority of big-company CEOs. So maybe, just maybe, he has a learned and lived perspective on abuses of establishment power that his White brethren don't.

Former American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault has been privately arguing to executives that stability and the rule of law matter. Notable: Chenault tells me some execs respond that they don't think 1/6 can happen again! Astonishing head-in-the-sand stuff. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/1831...

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Let’s be extremely clear about the effect of the Supreme Court punting on these cases: Minimal abortion controversy, and maybe even a false sense of security, before the November elections www.jezebel.com/these-are-no...

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When future historians periodize US history, 2013 will mark the end of the US's first era of officially consensual multiracial democracy. After Shelby County v Holder began a period of acute struggle over democracy in the states and eventually at the federal level. The denouement remains to be seen

Eleven years ago, SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act in #ShelbyCounty, arguing that "things have changed" since the 1960s. Today, we know that things have changed since this ruling: namely, that the turnout gap exploded in formerly-covered places 1/n www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Good thread

As I wrote in ONE NATION UNDER GOD, the drive for a school prayer constitutional amendment failed in the 1960s because so many religious leaders testified before Congress that they, in fact, did NOT want secular leaders writing and mandating prayers, because that was something they took seriously.

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it is the overt hostility to any part of civil society that doesn’t uphold his vision of what society ought to be that is the clearest evidence of desantis’s authoritarian disposition www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/a...

DeSantis Vetoes All Arts Grants in Floridawww.nytimes.com Gov. Ron DeSantis gave no explanation for zeroing out the $32 million in grants that were approved by state lawmakers.

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If "stealthy" means "in broad daylight for everyone to see", then sure.

Breaking News: An influential Israeli official said in a taped speech that the government was engaged in a stealthy effort to cement control over the West Bank.

Israeli Official Describes Secret Government Bid to Cement Control of West Banknyti.ms Israeli judges have long ruled that Israel’s control of the territory is a temporary military occupation and complies with international law. A powerful minister’s recent speech, caught on tape, sugge...

Love when the New York Times Spelling Bee does not recognize words seen elsewhere in its publication, as well as @dictionarycom.bsky.social and other dictionaries.

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Fun fact: the Rabbis removed the Ten Commandments out of our core liturgy (Shema &tc) bc the Jewish Christians were SOOPER into it & the Rabbis wanted to be clear that the 10 weren’t superior to the other 603 mitzvot in Torah. So we’re clear that this 👇 is Christian supremacy. & a 1A violation.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana becomes the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in public school classrooms.

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Divorce is part of Jewish law. There's a whole tractate of the Talmud about divorce.

Oklahoma introduced a bill to ban no-fault divorce. The Texas GOP added similar to its 2022/24 platform. U.S. House Speaker and others have spoken out against divorce. "If this sounds outlandish, it’s worth looking at how rhetorical attacks on abortion, birth control, and IVF have become reality."

The Christian right is coming for divorce nextwww.vox.com Some conservatives want to make it a lot harder to dissolve a marriage.

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Some reduce the 2024 campaign to a contest between two old men, but it's a choice of two slates of federal appointees who'll impact your life in a million ways. Biden has staffed executive agencies with excellent choices who are doing good work. Trump will empower an army of Stephen Millers.

Under current law, you really couldn’t do much better than Biden’s FTC and NRLB. New Deal shit.