Jacob T. Levy

@jacobtlevy.bsky.social

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Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Posts here speak only for myself.
Americo-Canadian; liberaltarian; aging geek.
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Jacob T. Levy is an American political theorist and Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory at McGill University. Levy is the Chair of the Department of Political Science at McGill, as well as the coordinator of McGill's Research Group on Constitutional Studies and the founding director of McGill's Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds. Levy is also a Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center and the Institute for Humane Studies. He is known for his expertise on multiculturalism, liberalism, and pluralism. .. more

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 4h

Every academic book is a conversation with the work of other scholars. Here are some of the works I cited & one I did not and how they influence me. Alison LaCroix's Interbellum Constitution was out before mine. She generously forwarded me her page proofs so I could learn from her book. 1/

cover of Alison L. LaCroix's The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms by Yale University Press. Painting of people on a waterfront admiring ships sailing.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 4h

so, you see the bernie or bust people were actually right because libs failed to persuade them

now, when we tried *that was also considered illegitimate* any argument they didn't like was considered 'vote shaming'

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 4h

Sure, Jan.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 4h

"resistance liberals can't have been that right about trump if they couldn't stop him"

-- the last gasp of people who've run out of arguments but don't want to admit it

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 7h

“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”

From Powerlessness to Power

We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 10h

I was a White House ethics lawyer.

I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.

I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d

Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.

Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.

They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 13h

University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
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‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini

In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20h

The shock of recognition in Stranger Things was very, very real.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 22h

Rule three of internet hygiene is “don’t publicly post the name of your childhood pet.”

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 22h

And your soul’s the cost

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 22h

You know, the richest man in history could afford to pay a real life Ed McMahon. He doesn’t have to pay people to program a chatbot to follow him around everywhere and tell him how great he is.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 22h

Our two pictures pretty much define the spectrum of haircuts for white boys back then.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 22h

“anyone… can do so” hasn’t been the policy for over a century.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 22h

I didn’t think they had invented side-eye back in the olden days.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 22h

Thread!

Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 23h

I feel these days warrant that I share my earliest, and probably probable most important teaching moments on academic shared-governance.
In the 2013-14 academic year I was an assistant professor at the University of Florida, Levine College of Law. We were searching for a new Dean...

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 22h

It’s a cthulhood

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 23h

The 70s, man.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 23h

This is who runs this account

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 23h

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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 1d

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. CBP’s misconduct scandal is so long-running that today it would be old enough to drink.

In total, according to CBP’s own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves, some multiple times. (In 2018 alone, a single CBP employee was arrested five times.) To put that number in perspective:

• The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.

• Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.

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jack @jackalltogether.bsky.social · 1d

this line of thinking first jumped out at me when we ordered the navy to fire on shipwrecked men. profanities abound

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: A foreign government official taking a major ownership stake in an incoming president's company -- how do you respond to those who say this is a serious conflict of interest?

BLANCHE (lying): The Biden family did the same thing

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Dr. Tre Samounts @cheatlines.co · 1d

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 1d

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...