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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you so much! I’ve come to team tie+OCBD under @orinkerr.bsky.social ‘s fearless leadership 🫡

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 11h

That feeling when your best friend/partner is on the road and can’t see your fit 😢

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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 13h

Legal Theory Blog is at legaltheoryblog.com. The Legal Theory Lexicon is at legaltheorylexicon.com. Thanks in advance for you help.

Legal Theory Blog

Discover our latest articles and updates. Stay informed with recent posts that cover a variety of topics you care about!

legaltheoryblog.com

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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 13h

Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.

Legal Theory Blog

Discover our latest articles and updates. Stay informed with recent posts that cover a variety of topics you care about!

legaltheoryblog.com

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 11h

He does a real service to the community with this thing, so please spread the word.

Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 13h

Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.

Legal Theory Blog

Discover our latest articles and updates. Stay informed with recent posts that cover a variety of topics you care about!

legaltheoryblog.com

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 11h

Most def! Especially the people who were there for the golden age of law twitter. The youth will never understand, and that might be for the best.

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 11h

It’s basically this and the menswear guy at the top of my list of good things to come out of social media.

Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 12h

When my second book came out, Alyssa Milano tweeted that she wanted to buy a copy for every member of Congress.

@yalepress.bsky.social saw the tweet even before I did and had the brilliant idea to cut the price of the book roughly in half.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Mark! Really appreciate the love!

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 1d

"If administrative law’s core mission is to curb unbridled political will, Trump has imperiled the field’s very existence. His vision would kill administrative law and replace it with administrative domination managed by a personalistic presidency."

excellent from @beaubaumann.bsky.social

Rebuilding State Authority In A Post-Trump America

In the ruins of the administrative state after Trump, many on the left see an opportunity to design a New Deal-type reconstruction agenda. But building state capacity requires a government that is…

lpeproject.org

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe the bridge here is that the effectiveness has to be tied to a legit relationship with different communities. I guess I don’t think it matters how good the EPA is if it isn’t seen as vindicating, eg, Black Americans in an intergenerational struggle against the effect of environmental racism.

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! You’re too kind!

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Timi @timi-iwayemi.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant!

Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI, I did a blog post today at @lpeproject.bsky.social that’s really about the death of a 20 c mode of liberal/progressive politics. It’s about the need, as a first-order objective, to relegitimize the state around a representational legitimacy.

Rebuilding State Authority In A Post-Trump America

In the ruins of the administrative state after Trump, many on the left see an opportunity to design a New Deal-type reconstruction agenda. But building state capacity requires a government that is…

lpeproject.org

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

even if the project hurts effectiveness. We need a stable admin state with rules and stability before we can worry about efficacy.

But if you think I’m exaggerating the extent of the problem, then these efficacy questions loom large indeed!

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

I think anybody who tells you that experiments along the lines I’m talking about won’t affect efficacy is selling you something, watch your wallet.

It’s all about the diagnosis of the problem. If you think the modern state needs political legitimacy for admin, then we need to get going . . .

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Alaina Kinol @alainakinol.bsky.social · 2d

I've been desperate to hear discussions of what building a US gov looks like after this admin and @beaubaumann.bsky.social 's piece was thought-provoking in a parallel direction. Genuinely though, can we do post-trump with current political parties? lpeproject.org/blog/rebuild...

Rebuilding State Authority In A Post-Trump America

In the ruins of the administrative state after Trump, many on the left see an opportunity to design a New Deal-type reconstruction agenda. But building state capacity requires a government that is…

lpeproject.org

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta gut the Democratic Party the same as Trump did with the GOP in 2016. That’s a necessary precondition for anything good. It needs to be a vanguard party.

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

Adios!

Reform UK Is Driving the Tory Party Out of Business

Just as Donald Trump’s MAGA movement carried out a hostile takeover of the US Republican Party a decade ago, the UK’s Conservatives are watching as the new firm next door pitches policies to voters th...

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 2d

Pushing “market logic” into higher education has made the wealthy schools richer and the poorly resourced schools poorer.

@lookheron.bsky.social builds on his arguments and findings in his recent report for @lpeblog.bsky.social.

lpeproject.org/blog/the-neo...

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 2d

Or alternatively you need to unsubmerge the state! But that’s an intergenerational undertaking and super hard. Thank you for interacting with my work!

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Ryan LaRochelle @rlarochelle.bsky.social · 2d

As @beaubaumann.bsky.social notes, "Good policy does not necessarily bring about favorable public opinion or political support for progressive initiatives. We can’t rely on effective governance to legitimize itself." I completely agree.

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James Brandt @jamesbrandt.bsky.social · 2d

"Opponents of MAGA have faltered, chanting 'expertise' like a spell that’s lost its magic. Knowledge-based authority was a historically contingent mode of governing authority that no longer resonates. This is evident in figures like RFK Jr., whose anti-vaccine stance rejects science outright."

Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI, I did a blog post today at @lpeproject.bsky.social that’s really about the death of a 20 c mode of liberal/progressive politics. It’s about the need, as a first-order objective, to relegitimize the state around a representational legitimacy.

Rebuilding State Authority In A Post-Trump America

In the ruins of the administrative state after Trump, many on the left see an opportunity to design a New Deal-type reconstruction agenda. But building state capacity requires a government that is…

lpeproject.org

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 2d

An interesting historical question for people to ponder! My guess is they’re probably endogenous + influenced my materialistic lived realities. But 🤷🏻‍♂️

Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 2d

Right. In a crisis of authority people gravitate towards mysticisms, faith, and magical thinking precisely because the universe seems more unruly. These interlocked phenomena.

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thepissedoldlady.bsky.social @thepissedoldlady.bsky.social · 2d

Good read!

Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI, I did a blog post today at @lpeproject.bsky.social that’s really about the death of a 20 c mode of liberal/progressive politics. It’s about the need, as a first-order objective, to relegitimize the state around a representational legitimacy.

Rebuilding State Authority In A Post-Trump America

In the ruins of the administrative state after Trump, many on the left see an opportunity to design a New Deal-type reconstruction agenda. But building state capacity requires a government that is…

lpeproject.org

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