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Jacob T. Levy
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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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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3h
White supremacist talking points.

No dog whistles.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 6h
ICE must be abolished in part because it is the place where Trumpism has been most institutionalized.

You cannot make it peaceable, liberal, and democratic because it is designed to be the opposite of these things.

That’s what I argue at @ms.now

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Opinion | ICE's violence is no accident
Alan Elrod: The killing of a woman by an immigration enforcement officer in Minneapolis was the raw application of Trumpist authoritarianism.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 7h
"After Trump’s first year, and especially after the accelerationist authoritarianism of the last ten days, Democrats have to embrace resistance without embarrassment. There are many fronts on which the Democratic party in Congress can fight..."

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Take the Masks Off
ICE won’t even match the courage and professionalism of the Iraqi Police.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 7h
Well, the markets failed to discipline the administration, which means things will continue to get much worse.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 7h
I think the US fails the minimalist definitions; the last time the Republican Party lost power it did not cede it peacefully.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 8h
We need less research framing the problem facing our country as "polarization" and more research framing the problem as "anti-democratic radicalization".

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 9h
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 11h
“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”— NOT A COMEDY. The face that Conan is in a movie does not mean it’s a comedy…

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 15h
“It is a bizarre, dangerous and self-wounding approach that cannot help the #US or its #monetarysystem” #Fed #FederalReserve #JeromePowell #USeconomy
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Prosecuting Powell Would Be a New Low With No Upside
The bullying is pointless and extends beyond the Fed to the US economy.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
as I said about the very different Katabasis: Funny because it's true, but almost too true to be funny.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
Was there big discourse about this movie that I missed? Because it's *brutal.* Someone did their homework reading slate star codex and hanging out among the techbros.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
I need a break from doomscrolling. Let's watch a movie. Oh, het, this Steve Carrell comedy looks funny; I've never heard of it.

[watches Mountainhead]

[two hours later]

WHAT THE FORK

LET ME BACK ONTO THE DOOMSCROLL WHERE IT'S SAFE

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
Not my favorite meme but

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d
TWO. Two chances this Supreme Court had to make the right call. One was the simply call January 6 what it was: An insurrection. Even the liberal justices couldn’t do that. The other was to not make sham and politically-motivated investigations an “official act.”

And here we fucking are.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d
Unfortunately for Powell, the Roberts Supreme Court specifically ruled that the president cannot be legally accused of making a bad-faith, pretextual prosecution, but is “absolutely immune” from any questioning of his motives for investigating or prosecuting whoever he chooses

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
Lemon it’s January 11th dot gif

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
How it’s going

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d
“Jerome Powell was No Angel, associates say” — NYT, probably

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d
Congratulations to John Roberts

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
(Hi, 2016 Cristina! Please say hi to her 2026 counterpart for me.)

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
leaving us with this incredibly divisive punctuation mark on the whole thing

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Election Week Cold Open - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
And while it is among the top 20, *it is not necessarily the best!*

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
On my FB #autonostalgia timeline, the big events were Bowie, Prince, Pokémon Go, the clown thing, and the Cubs winning the World Series. By November it was just obvious that something was cosmically screwy.

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David M Levinson ⁂ @transportist.org · 1d
It’s just Day 3665 of the Long 2016.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
I am not trot.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
While there are way too many Orwell comparisons available for comfort there days, the fact that Trump's official foreign policy vision is to create a world made up of Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia seems like it belongs on the list.
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The Trump administration has decided to prioritize the Western Hemisphere over Europe and East Asia - a decision that empowers the United States’ two most powerful geopolitical rivals. ICYMI Matt Johnson: lnk.thebulwark.com/4aHNPmz
Trump’s Obsession With Latin America Is a Strategic Calamity
While Trump gloats about Venezuela, he ignores the real risks to American security.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
It's hard to pick a single "the greatest exchange from The Simpsons" but this is absolutely on the ballot list of finalists.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
I don't know how often @theisb.bsky.social is on here but as I recall this annoyed the heck out of him.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
My current comfort rewatch is Young Justice s1 and I find it oddly charming that the villains talk to each other in private in this posturing way that still requires a [DUN DUN DUN] "THE LIGHT" pun every episode.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
@doctrinedominatrix.bsky.social and @joelwood.bsky.social within seven seconds of each other