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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Law 8%

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 5h

But “plenty” is pretty minor compared to Musk’s hate campaign about The Odyssey.

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guggenheim42.bsky.social @guggenheim42.bsky.social · 11h

It's only a betrayal of the source material if the new character appearance is non-white. Otherwise it's sparkling adaptation choices.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 13h

Weird how no one is making a big fuss out of the fact that this character is explicitly canonically not blonde. Has this director "lost all integrity"?

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 13h

www.cbc.ca/comedy/it-s-...

It's official! Punxsutawney Phil predicts "an eternity of darkness from which we will never escape" | CBC Comedy

The moment of truth has arrived!

www.cbc.ca

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May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 13h

"You don't seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me."

Rorschact from The Watchmen in the prison scene.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13h

CHOTINER: Have you ever seen a petard in person?

INTERVIEWEE: No, I haven't

CHOTINER: *reaches into bag on table*

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14h

CHOTINER: That's very interesting. It reminds me of this rope I have here. The rope is tied into a noose. Would you like to try it on? It might look good on you.

INTERVIEWEE: yes, I think that would suit me very well. Let me see how it fits around my neck.

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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 13h

RGCS PhD student Rhona Goodarzi (Law) and RGCS faculty member Catherine Lu (Political Science) were members of McGill's Advisory Panel on Campus Expression whose valuable and important final report was issued last week.

The Report is available here:

www.mcgill.ca/president/si...

www.mcgill.ca

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14h

Oh. My. God.

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 14h

From FB regarding Pizza Luce in Minnesota.

I like it when I can do something to help people displaced by ICE and then after I do that thing I get to eat a pizza.

I want to let you know about something that happened at Pizza Luce and encourage you to thank and patronize them. One of the drivers at Parkway Pizza who is a friend of mine told me tonight about something that happened at the downtown Mpls Pizza Lucé where his wife works.
A kitchen manager has been giving rides to workers afraid to take public transportation to work. Last week, two ICE SUVs pulled her over. There was a young Latina women in the car and ICE grabbed her. She is here legally, but apparently, if you are not white, you need to carry a passport or other documents with you.
Despite the fact that she is here legally, ICE flew her to their detention facility outside of El Paso, TX. Fortunately, the owner of the Pizza Lucé chain paid for a lawyer to expedite her release. Unfortunately, when ICE is forced to release people they have unlawfully detained and flown to Texas, they do not fly them back. They just dump them on the streets of El Paso. But again, fortunately, the owner of Pizza Lucé paid for a plane ticket to fly her home. So please thank the folks at Pizza Lucé if you have the chance.
Dozens of Minnesotans have not been so lucky as this woman and are trying to find their way back from Texas. Today's NY Times has a story about "Selamawit Mehari, an Eritrean single mother of three.... federal agents showed up at her apartment in St. Paul...(even though) her older daughter produced paperwork proving her mother was in the United States lawfully, the agents shackled Ms. Mehari and took her away." The story cites many like her who "were eventually released in Texas, leaving them to find their own way home."

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 17h

Absolutely brutal interview

Do you know-
Also, it was a great pleasure for me to work with Brett again, because I did movies years ago with Brett.
Well, he's been down on his luck a little bit lately, so that was nice of you to give him some help.
And I always felt that as you do a movie with somebody, you're very intimate with this person.
Brett Ratner, you are talking about?
Yeah. Not the intimacy level of when you go out with a girl. But, you're close. It's like a family. You live twenty-four hours with someone shooting a movie. So I know Brett very well, and I know he is a very good, generous soul.
Aw.
He's not an aggressive person.
I have read different things.
He is not an aggressive person, so I was very happy to see him being happy again, to be able to work, because he's been without work for a few years, which I think is kind of unjust. It makes no sense to me, knowing Brett very well.
I know you've said that Brett's been "frustrated" these past eight years, and there were all these accusations against him—that he forced women to perform sex acts, that he masturbated in front of women, all these things. So you didn't believe them, or you weren't concerned about them?
Well, I don't know. I was not present. What I can tell you is that Brett might have made some mistakes, but his character is very gentle—he is a very gentle, generous person, always kind to everybody in the crew, men or women, always very respectable. So that's why I wanted to go back and help him, because I felt that what happened to him was kind of unjust.

So is that because you don't believe the accusations, or because you think that it's time to move on?
I don't know. I'm not informed about the accusations. I wasn't there. I wasn't present, but I know his personality. I know his character. I can't tell because I wasn't there, and he might've made some mistakes, but he's a very good guy at heart. He's a very generous and human kind of person.
You told the Times that Brett "made some mistakes." Has he told you that he made mistakes?
No. No. No. Isaac, no. All I'm saying is that I worked with him twelve hours, fifteen hours, a day, and then everybody went their own way. Our age difference is wide. I could be his father.
I read that Roman Polanski is a father figure to him. So that role might already be filled. There are a lot of people who feel affection for Brett.
Yeah, yeah. Because he's a good kid. [In 2007's Paris-based "Rush Hour 3," Ratner gave a cameo to Polanski, who had fled to France after being accused of anally and vaginally raping a thirteen-year-old. He was later accused of sexually assaulting other teen-agers, which he denies. In the cameo, Polanski has a comic scene where he prepares to do an anal-cavity search of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. J
The Times has you saying that he made some mistakes. That's what I was curious about.
What I'm saying is, he might've made some mistakes. I don't know. It's not like 1 was with him when he was interviewing actresses to do a movie or that kind of activity.
It's the same with Trump. A lot of accusations have been made against him, but neither you nor I were in the room. So who's to say, really?
Yeah, exactly.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

Sure, Jan.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 18h

"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 · 21h

“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.

www.liberalcurrents.com

Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

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

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

And your soul’s the cost

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

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

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

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

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

Thread!

Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

It’s a cthulhood

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

The 70s, man.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

This is who runs this account

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 1d

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