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Andy Carr

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he/him | 🏳️‍🌈 nerd | mid selfies studying US law & politics: LPE, bureaucracy, reactionary movements | The New School, roaming adjunct elsewhere opinions mine, mostly bad Personal: andyjcarr.com SSRN: https://ssrn.com/author=3069305

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · Jan 30

given how infrequently I’ve published in recent years, let me be a bit selfish and indulgent as I share “Free Speech and Anti-Democratic Violence” – plus a thread elaborating its arc and aims.

(both the article and the thread are LONG – sorry!!!)

scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/crsj/vol31/i...

Free Speech and Anti-Democratic Violence

The resurgence of far-right extremist groups—like “sovereign” militias, white supremacists, and avowedly fascist gangs—has exposed the First Amendment’s vulnerabilities to the “leaderless resistance” ...

scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 9d

also good lord that huge jump from note number 97 to note number 183 lol oops

Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 9d

still holding on even after 3 rounds of edits/revisions 🫡😮‍💨

screenshot of footnotes from my dissertation. the footnote numbered 183 reads simply, solely "No."

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 11d

For a research project, I am looking for the candidate booklet produced for the 2010 UK Labour Party leadership election. Does anyone know where I might be able to find it online?

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 12d

My department is hiring in African history and the United States since 1865! Both positions are tenure-track, and both hires will be made at the assistant level. I'm not on either search committee (sabbatical, babyyyyy), but I'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have. 🗃️

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 14d

when I finish my dissertation in, idk, 2057 or so, please anticipate more business coming your way 🫡🙌🏻

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Kent State University Press @ksupress.bsky.social · 15d

Excited to hear Kent State University Press’s director, @tottencs.bsky.social, on the American Campus Podcast, where she talks with @llassabe.bsky.social about the meaning and value of university-press publishing.

The future of university presses with Clara Totten - American Campus Podcast

And how to approach an acquisitions editorReferences:Association of University Presses and #AskUpSteven L. Herman. 2024. Behind the White House Curtain. Kent State University Press.Madeleine L'Engle. ...

americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 15d

Four reporters to come up with this absolutely unhinged framing. People with autism are not a "problem to be solved." They are human beings who should be supported. Polio debilitating and killing thousands of kids annually was a "problem to be solved," and Jonas Salk did that... with a vaccine.

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 15d

having gleefully dunked on politico's reporting and headline-writing many times, I often jab at the "just put the PR people on the byline" or "there's subtext screaming over the text" varieties.

uncritically parroting a fundamentally eugenicist worldview is, uhh, well, it's really something else.

Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 15d

notttttt great 🥴

Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 15d

the hwat problem, politico

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15d

Ok so first off I don’t think he knew who the good guys were, this might be the root of the problem

Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 15d

I have some good/bad news for you Brendel

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 15d

well, that might make the cocktail party circuit awkward for him :\

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Jonathan Basile @jonothingeb.bsky.social · 15d

We now have this nifty flier for our upcoming conference on Marxist biology - please help spread the word!

(registration including for zoom link here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...)

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 15d

the most me-coded Chotinering in recent memory, a blessed Tuesday

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David Froomkin @dfroomkin.bsky.social · 15d

This is excellent historical scholarship, showing that the unitary executive theory does not have a strong originalist pedigree. I think it's also worth taking seriously the idea that the debate over the UET has focused too much on history to the neglect of the Constitution's text.

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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 16d

Just in time for the grant in Slaughter, my latest with @andreascoseriakatz.bsky.social and @janemanners.bsky.social out in the @umichlaw.bsky.social Journal of Law Reform!

repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcont...

DISAGREEMENT AND HISTORICAL ARGUMENT OR HOW NOT TO THINK ABOUT REMOVAL
Andrea Scoseria Katz, Noah A. Rosenblum, and Jane Manners
ABSTRACT
Scholars have debated the reach of the President's power to remove government officers for over one hundred years. This old fight is now suddenly urgent as President Trump asserts far-reaching powers to control the federal bureaucracy and the Supreme Court transforms Unitary Executive Theory into caselaw. Yet the scholarly case for an indefeasible presidential removal power has never been weaker.
This Essay continues an ongoing conversation about how to read some critical early republic evidence about removal. It briefly recapitulates the stakes of the disagreement before offering in-depth analyses of developments in Pennsylvania removal practice, including a reading of the Council of Censors' Report from 1784. Along the way, it responds to some recent criticisms of our work by Professors Saikrishna Prakash and Aditya Bamzai.
The Essay makes two overarching arguments: First, there was no consensus in the early republic that the executive power included an indefeasible power of removal.
Second, legal historians must take dissensus seriously. Historical disagreement is a fact that lawyers wishing to make legal meaning out of history need to confront. In this case, it straightforwardly undermines the notion there was a shared understanding in the early republic that the executive power included an indefeasible power of removal.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 15d

Interviewed two icons about being the faces of American food www.eater.com/food-culture...

Padma Lakshmi and Samin Nosrat Get Personal

With new books coming out this fall, the “Good Things” and “Padma’s All American” authors catch up to discuss their creative processes and what’s next for American food.

www.eater.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16d

I'm once again searching for a space in NYC where I can curate a month-long exhibition (Fall 2026 or Spring 2027). Putting it out there because I sometimes get some great space connections from folks on here.

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 16d

***AND a phenomenal outro song choice! (that I got to hear live for the first time just a few weeks ago!!!) 🥹

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 16d

“damn, I bet a librarian lives here.”

(if this is baffling, you will simply have to listen to this excellent interview 💁🏻‍♂️)

photo of an especially oversized, architecturally confusing mcmansion with a three-bay garage, a vaulted entry, turreted staircase, and all the usual stuff, in a drab brown-tan color scheme

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Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 17d

maybe we should retire the "worst person you know" meme; I'm just not sure it's actually doing whatever many users seem to think it is

Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 19d

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“Everyone disliked that” Fallout 4 meme.

Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 19d

because my brain is broken, I am ofc reading rather fascinating theories about the law that may or may not have been linked to.

because *gestures* I will not be posting any substantive comments about said theories or the person advancing them.

and because *gestures again* happy to chip in a bit. ❤️

Andy Carr @andycarr.bsky.social · 19d

nearly a third of all Americans live in NYC, I'm learning so much