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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 4h

On a related note www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 5h

Last night, I went on NBC to talk about Trump’s chances of winning the Nobel Prize. I’d been booked for a 7 a.m. segment as well, just in case. I didn’t set my alarm.

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Oslo Doesn't Do Collabs—But It’s Fallen for Four Presidents

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 5h

Why might Trump suddenly schedule a second “routine” physical?

Surely this White House — the one that calls itself the most transparent in history (except for, you know, Epstein 👀) — will tell us everything.

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 5h

Every president from Reagan through Biden stuck to the same pattern: one exam, one memo, one reassurance that all is well.

The exams are stagecraft, meant to show the president is steady, not to check if he is. They fend off questions about age or stamina.

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 5h

Trump heading to Walter Reed for a “semiannual physical.” The White House calls it a “routine annual checkup.”

His last one was in April.

No modern president has had two physicals in a year.

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Josh Pasek @joshpasek.com · 2d

How should university boards prepare?

- Strategize in advance (could happen here)
- Leverage internal expertise (strategize with political scientists, public policy scholars and law faculty)
- Respond collectively and support one another
-Stay true to the mission

This is the real fiduciary duty!

Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · 2d

@joshpasek.com, @umich.edu, provides boards of trustees a roadmap for responding to external pressue, like the so-called Educational Compact.

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Mike Duncan @mikeduncan.bsky.social · 3d

Hello friends! @alexiscoe.bsky.social and I are doing a live feed on her substack tonight. Come hang! open.substack.com/live-stream/...

LIVE SOON: Live with Alexis Coe

Starting Oct 7 at 8:00 PM EDT

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 4d

The thing about journalistic ethics and the constitution is that they aren’t temperature settings you adjust to your personal preference

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 4d

Expecting her to bring down the temperature is like expecting Donald Trump to be presidential

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 9d

Substack is messing with us, but we will triumph!

Let's eff em up next Tuesday--same time, same day, same disappointing place!

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 10d

After the event, free subscribers will get clips and paid subscribers will have access to the entire video.

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 10d

Tonight! Join me & @mikeduncan.bsky.social at 8pm. alexiscoe.substack.com/p/tonight-sm...

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 14d

Well then

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 14d

Join me + @mikeduncan.bsky.social on Tuesday, 8pm EST for what a respectable institution might blandly call a "wide-ranging conversation."

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LIVE SOON: Alexis Coe + Mike Duncan

Starting Sep 30 at 8:00 PM EDT

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 17d

Upcoming Event!

Tomorrow, on Study Marry Kill, 8:30pm: Me +
Dion Flynn, staff writer for "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon."

We first met as fellows at New America, where I immediately clocked him as Barack Obama. alexiscoe.substack.com

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For history cranks and fiends. Click to read Study Marry Kill, by Alexis Coe, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 21d

Good stuff from @alexiscoe.bsky.social

"Wars Are Not Won by Evacuations”: A Historian’s Action Plan

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 23d

I went off last year alexiscoe.substack.com/p/george-w-b...

George W. Bush's Silent Surrender: Moral Abdication in Democracy's Twilight

The apotheosized Founders risked the hangman's noose and utter destitution for eight brutal years but Bush won't even issue a statement on the Internet.

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 27d

hahahaha

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · Sep 10

In my defense, I have no respect for her www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | I testified at a congressional hearing on the JFK files — that was a mistake

As a historian invited to speak before Congress, I expected to converse with serious people. That's not what happened.

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · Sep 10

What she doesn't understand is everything

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · Sep 10

In her defense, she has none

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · Sep 10

Her grasp of logic could be outwitted by a coin toss x.com/RepLuna/stat...

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Linda Monk @lindarmonkjd.bsky.social · Sep 7

Punk Lincoln!! new meme from @alexiscoe.bsky.social
Swipe Left on the Great Emancipator
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Swipe Left on the Great Emancipator

I’m Alexis Coe, and this is the only campaign I’ll ever run.

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · Sep 6

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 6

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

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