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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 19h

New thing from me at Postcards of the Hanging. On the "judicial revolt" and the question of judicial solidarity.

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Priests, Not Prophets

Judicial Resistance, Conservatism, and the Question of Solidarity

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 2d

What's old is new again.

In September of 1850, black abolitionist leaders in Chicago gathered at Quinn Chapel to make a plan for protecting their community and resisting the federally supported slave catchers empowered by the Fugitive Slave Law.

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 5d

So strange when judges applying clear and well-settled law seem to part of “the resistance.” It might be time to start calling resistance to the administration “conservative”…because that is what these kinds of opinions are in outlook and result.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong.

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 6d

Samesies. Might have one or two new things in the next week or two.

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 6d

The fact that Kristi Noem was riding in an armored vehicle as part of this federal kidnapping mission is mindblowingly bad. It's like if Daniel Webster had been holding the gun to Anthony Burns' back, marching him to enslavement.

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Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 6d

This week I went to VMI to participate in a conversation about whether we're in a constitutional crisis. Being at VMI was really fascinating. I met a lot of great folks and learned some stuff. "Debatemebro" makes us all dumber. I hope this wasn't that.

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"Is the U.S. experiencing a constitutional crisis?" - The Steamboat Institute

Here’s what our audience had to say before and after the debate:

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 6d

MAKE EATING CAKE GREAT AGAIN!!!

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White House Will Continue Construction on 90,000-Square-Foot Ballroom During Government Shutdown

The $200 million construction of the White House ballroom will continue amid the government shutdown that began on Wednesday, Oct. 1, a White House official said.

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 8d

It was just a few years ago that I wrote about judicial resistance and judicial solidarity. I was skeptical for lots of reasons…but man life comes at you fast.

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 8d

MAKE THE THIRD AMENDMENT GREAT AGAIN!!

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 10d

This is a really fascinating development. It remains the case that local police vastly outnumber federal police. Where true resistance and obstruction come into play, the inertia and complexity of local government are going to make things very interesting.

Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 10d

Broadview Police have opened an investigation into an attack from federal agents on a CBS crew at Broadview, per BPD Chief Mills.

The following statement can be attributed to Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills:

“The Village of Broadview Police Department has launched a criminal investigation into an allegedly unprovoked attack on a CBS Chicago TV news reporter’s vehicle on Sunday by a chemical munition fired from the direction of U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement detention facility. The victim declined medical attention. The Broadview Police Department expects the full cooperation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security into our criminal investigation.”

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 10d

One of the greatest living Americans.

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10d

So exhausting..

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 10d

I think this is because Coates has studied and is adjacent to a set of movement organizing ideas and practices, while Klein is much closer to the thinner ideas of organizing that dominate electoral politics.

Movement organizing is about building power, political organizing is about counting votes.

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 10d

Two things about the Klein/Coates interview.
1) It's thoughtful and humane - which is good.
2) It reveals a real set of questions about role and strategy. Coates has a clear sense of what role he wants to play and what his strategy is within that role. Klein seems much more lost on both counts.

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 10d

If you haven’t read Dee Brown’s “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” now might be a pretty good time to do that.

While you’re at it, check out Vine Deloria’s “Custer Died For Your Sins.”

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 14d

@evapayne.bsky.social is the best and so is her book! Read it now.

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 14d

Next week, on October 1st at 7:00 pm EDT, see @evapayne.bsky.social in conversation with Andrew Jewett at @edemmas.org, where they will discuss her book, Empire of Purity. Learn more here: redemmas.org/events/eva-p....

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 16d

MAKE CHECKS AND BALANCES GREAT AGAIN!!!

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 16d

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 16d

Boy, Holmes' bad man is really getting a workout these days.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 16d

Holy shit

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 17d

Periodically reminding myself that things falling apart is the precondition of putting them back together.

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Founders All

Every End is a Beginning

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 19d

Also, you have northern Spanish/Portuguese shellfish (percebes, berberechos, etc.) along with North American lobster. I’m still team D. But There are arguments…

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 21d

Kathleen is very gentle in chiding me about how long this is...but I'm super grateful for the kind words. It remains alarming how relevant the history of the 1850s and national cataclysm are to our present circumstances.

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Kathleen Rubenstein @kbrnyc.bsky.social · 22d

Highly recommend this brilliant piece by @danfarbman.bsky.social Drawing on his rich knowledge of history, he he lays it out: "We have used up our inherited freedom, and if we want to live in a better world, we must build it together." It's hefty, so put on comfy jams + curl up on the couch.

Founders All

Every End is a Beginning

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 22d

Today from me over at Postcards of the Hanging it's a callback to something I wrote a while ago that feels like it might have some utility amidst...everything we're experiencing right now. Radical pragmatism, etc.

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A Commons in the Master's House

Thoughts on radical pragmatism and the institutions we inhabit

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 27d

We lost Luna (the little spoon) today. 16 years was a good run. But it breaks your heart anyways.

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 28d

MAKE NOT KNOWING ABOUT STUFF GREAT AGAIN!!!

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29d

One of Bari Weiss’s reporters over at the Free Press was shocked to discover what Columbia students are reading in class:

lol wat

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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 28d

As I warned you yesterday, @hashtagblevin.bsky.social and I will occasionally be writing about stuff in a shared space. Read Ben's first post on crime, DC, and who is being kept safe from whom here.

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Crime in the City

"Public safety" in DC

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