Matt Lavine
@mattplavine.bsky.social
Civil Rights atty. Const'l historian.
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Matt Lavine
@mattplavine.bsky.social
· Nov 29
Whether caused by depravity or despair, the American public discourse has descended into a uninspired contest over which personal grievances deserve the most attention, and neither a viral social media post nor a well-attended street parade is likely to awaken the citizenry from this stupor. -->
Whether caused by depravity or despair, the American public discourse has descended into a uninspired contest over which personal grievances deserve the most attention, and neither a viral social media post nor a well-attended street parade is likely to awaken the citizenry from this stupor. -->
November 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Whether caused by depravity or despair, the American public discourse has descended into a uninspired contest over which personal grievances deserve the most attention, and neither a viral social media post nor a well-attended street parade is likely to awaken the citizenry from this stupor. -->
Until Americans have a firm grasp on the ideas that moved rebelling colonists to revolution, we cannot distinguish between a reasonable public policy dispute and an attack on the defining principles of the American Republic. Viva Historical Scholarship!
October 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Until Americans have a firm grasp on the ideas that moved rebelling colonists to revolution, we cannot distinguish between a reasonable public policy dispute and an attack on the defining principles of the American Republic. Viva Historical Scholarship!
I just watched a clip of a Georgetown Law Professor testifying before the Senate about "States' Rights" and "State sovereignty." She teaches Const'l Law, evidently based on the twisted teachings of Jefferson Davis. Others decry rising socialism or fascism. Beware the neo-Confederates.
September 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I just watched a clip of a Georgetown Law Professor testifying before the Senate about "States' Rights" and "State sovereignty." She teaches Const'l Law, evidently based on the twisted teachings of Jefferson Davis. Others decry rising socialism or fascism. Beware the neo-Confederates.
In the early morning hours of Sunday, July 23, 1967, an unlicensed Detroit nightclub was hosting a party for two black soldiers recently returned from Vietnam. Police raided the club. As police loaded the vets and their friends into paddy wagons, citizens of Detroit reacted violently. -->
August 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
In the early morning hours of Sunday, July 23, 1967, an unlicensed Detroit nightclub was hosting a party for two black soldiers recently returned from Vietnam. Police raided the club. As police loaded the vets and their friends into paddy wagons, citizens of Detroit reacted violently. -->
ICE today is Amer. blasphemy. -> In his Farewell to the Cont'l Army, GW thanked the men for "rescuing Millions from the hand of oppression, protecting the rights of human nature, and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations [and] religions."
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The Third American Commandment
YouTube video by Matt Lavine
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August 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
ICE today is Amer. blasphemy. -> In his Farewell to the Cont'l Army, GW thanked the men for "rescuing Millions from the hand of oppression, protecting the rights of human nature, and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations [and] religions."
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Trump assembled men on Jan 6 for the "treasonous purpose" of blocking Congress from its Const'l duty. He directed his men to attack the Congress. Raskin charged the dubious "incitement to insurrect" but not treason. Trump's assoc'n w/Epstein is not of Nat'l importance. Now, the Dems care?
August 3, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Trump assembled men on Jan 6 for the "treasonous purpose" of blocking Congress from its Const'l duty. He directed his men to attack the Congress. Raskin charged the dubious "incitement to insurrect" but not treason. Trump's assoc'n w/Epstein is not of Nat'l importance. Now, the Dems care?
Does any American today (or any Amer on BlueSky) believe that our politics and policies should follow the ideals that prior generations claimed as the basis of our nationhood? Or has the distance between the claimed ideals and actual implementation created an irredeemable cynicism?
July 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Does any American today (or any Amer on BlueSky) believe that our politics and policies should follow the ideals that prior generations claimed as the basis of our nationhood? Or has the distance between the claimed ideals and actual implementation created an irredeemable cynicism?
The first, and most profound, failure to uphold the foundational precepts of American nationhood resulted not from a violent confrontation but from a comforting - and horribly false - prediction.
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The Fifth American Commandment
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July 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The first, and most profound, failure to uphold the foundational precepts of American nationhood resulted not from a violent confrontation but from a comforting - and horribly false - prediction.
youtu.be/Srkn-s8d3cE?...
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At the Const'l Convention in 1787, a conspiracy theory - and not slavery - produced the Senate and the Presidential Electoral System. NJ's Paterson undermined Madison's design.
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The Fourth American Commandment
YouTube video by Matt Lavine
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July 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
At the Const'l Convention in 1787, a conspiracy theory - and not slavery - produced the Senate and the Presidential Electoral System. NJ's Paterson undermined Madison's design.
youtu.be/rT3_21ix-9M?...
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The continuing obsession with the ethnic and religious composition of the American population reveals a suicidal misconception of the American national identity. How did American Revolutionaries replace the inherited ethnic and religious conflicts? D.E.I.
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The Third American Commandment
YouTube video by Matt Lavine
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July 12, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The continuing obsession with the ethnic and religious composition of the American population reveals a suicidal misconception of the American national identity. How did American Revolutionaries replace the inherited ethnic and religious conflicts? D.E.I.
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For colonial merchants, a tea tax was nothing compared to a British naval blockade. The British dominated the African slave trade, and no colonial slaveowner wanted to cut ties with his most dependable supplier. Why the move from rebellion to revolution?
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The Second American Commandment
YouTube video by Matt Lavine
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July 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
For colonial merchants, a tea tax was nothing compared to a British naval blockade. The British dominated the African slave trade, and no colonial slaveowner wanted to cut ties with his most dependable supplier. Why the move from rebellion to revolution?
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Only the purveyor of a bogus history claims to defend our nationhood and then defies the US Constitution. Only the purveyor of a bogus history claims to defend our Constitution and then moves to a place with no constitution.
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The First American Commandment
YouTube video by Matt Lavine
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July 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Only the purveyor of a bogus history claims to defend our nationhood and then defies the US Constitution. Only the purveyor of a bogus history claims to defend our Constitution and then moves to a place with no constitution.
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Pew Research: (1) Muslim pop. is 2.0 billion.
(2) Jews are nearly 15 million.
(3) "That’s fewer than the estimated 16.6 million Jews who were alive in 1939, prior to the Holocaust."
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(2) Jews are nearly 15 million.
(3) "That’s fewer than the estimated 16.6 million Jews who were alive in 1939, prior to the Holocaust."
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8. Jewish population change
Jewish people make up 0.2% of the world population. Jews rose in number by 6% from 2010 to 2020, mostly due to growth in Israel, according to Pew Research Center.
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July 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Pew Research: (1) Muslim pop. is 2.0 billion.
(2) Jews are nearly 15 million.
(3) "That’s fewer than the estimated 16.6 million Jews who were alive in 1939, prior to the Holocaust."
www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
(2) Jews are nearly 15 million.
(3) "That’s fewer than the estimated 16.6 million Jews who were alive in 1939, prior to the Holocaust."
www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
I do not doubt the sincerity of those transfixed by Marx or Trump or even Moses and the Ten Commandments. Because none formed our American national bond, I created the Ten American Commandments to explain our organizing national principles and mission.
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Introduction: The Ten American Commandments
YouTube video by Matt Lavine
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July 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I do not doubt the sincerity of those transfixed by Marx or Trump or even Moses and the Ten Commandments. Because none formed our American national bond, I created the Ten American Commandments to explain our organizing national principles and mission.
youtu.be/SMo4zcs7HOo?...
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Pharaoh is not ready to capitulate. The exodus began, but is far from having been completed. It was easier for the children of Israel to cross the Red Sea than for a child of America to cross certain university campuses. To think of man in terms of white, black, or yellow is a cancer of the soul.
July 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Pharaoh is not ready to capitulate. The exodus began, but is far from having been completed. It was easier for the children of Israel to cross the Red Sea than for a child of America to cross certain university campuses. To think of man in terms of white, black, or yellow is a cancer of the soul.
Responding to the Senate's passage of the Trump Bill, Elon Musk tweeted: "Our country needs an alternative to the Democrat-Republican uniparty so that the people actually have a VOICE.” How many Democrats in the Senate - I mean the "Dem-Repub uniparty" - voted for the bill?
July 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Responding to the Senate's passage of the Trump Bill, Elon Musk tweeted: "Our country needs an alternative to the Democrat-Republican uniparty so that the people actually have a VOICE.” How many Democrats in the Senate - I mean the "Dem-Repub uniparty" - voted for the bill?
1787 Const'l Convention: delegates from all but SC stated their opposition to slavery, but they agreed to allow slavery in the proposed American Republic. The sad truth is not that they needed slavery for their plantations or businesses but because SC, NC, and Ga. delegates explained -->
July 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
1787 Const'l Convention: delegates from all but SC stated their opposition to slavery, but they agreed to allow slavery in the proposed American Republic. The sad truth is not that they needed slavery for their plantations or businesses but because SC, NC, and Ga. delegates explained -->
8 USC 1424 allows for the revocation of naturalized citizenship of anyone "affiliated with any organization that advocates ... the overthrow by force or violence or other unconstitutional means." An organization that advocated for a violent overthrow of the US Gov?
July 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
8 USC 1424 allows for the revocation of naturalized citizenship of anyone "affiliated with any organization that advocates ... the overthrow by force or violence or other unconstitutional means." An organization that advocated for a violent overthrow of the US Gov?
1. I love this site. 2. It would be cool if the text went on to show how Ohio's great nat'l leaders often were leading Ohioans to advance equal rights. 3. The Great Dissenter by Peter Canellos is great on Ohio vs. Ky (and the great Justice John Harlan). calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
Jun. 30, 1829 | Cincinnati, Ohio, Forces Hundreds of Black People to Leave
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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July 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
1. I love this site. 2. It would be cool if the text went on to show how Ohio's great nat'l leaders often were leading Ohioans to advance equal rights. 3. The Great Dissenter by Peter Canellos is great on Ohio vs. Ky (and the great Justice John Harlan). calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
Gov. Tim Walz is saving the Amer. Repub. "While you've convened this hearing to explore the issue of so-called 'sanctuary states,' the Minn. legislature has passed no bill making Minn. a sanctuary state. . . Enforcing immigration law is not the role of local and state governments."
June 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Gov. Tim Walz is saving the Amer. Repub. "While you've convened this hearing to explore the issue of so-called 'sanctuary states,' the Minn. legislature has passed no bill making Minn. a sanctuary state. . . Enforcing immigration law is not the role of local and state governments."
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