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Patrick Schmidt
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Political scientist @MacalesterCollege: American law, comparative and historical constitutionalism, architecture, and...just curious about everything. Moot Court coach. Rarely refuses an opportunity for a dad joke.
Brett Kavanaugh will never wipe this stench from his legacy.
January 16, 2026 at 8:50 PM
I think it helps enormously, as was true in the Civil Rights movement, when at least some activists are bolstered by a spiritual / religious practice. I was down in the dumps the other day, and then I went to a post-Renee Good prayer service (Episcopal) here in St. Paul, and I felt a new energy.
January 16, 2026 at 7:46 PM
It took me six months to start going back to Target, even a little, the last time. This week, I'm back to a full boycott, and I'll before need action, not just time, before I consider Target again.
January 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Parallel: Ernst Rohm and the SA proved inconvenient by 1934 already.
January 16, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Even just "Putinist" would be more accurate.
January 16, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Or fascists. I'd like to slap fascists with a stick.
January 16, 2026 at 6:38 AM
It puts Teapot Dome in the shade, too!

Their playbook is that a cover-up is worse than a crime: do it openly and no one will care.
January 16, 2026 at 5:07 AM
Worse, now, all the inherent tendencies of Presidential government toward corruption and wonton international ambitions have been laid bare. We're beyond amending our way out of this.
January 16, 2026 at 4:04 AM
It's been apparent to me since well before Trump that we were headed to irreconcilable problems under this framework. All that was reformed in Reconstruction, the New Deal, and Warren Court / VRA is being undone, with minority constituencies now blocking modern govt and multiracial democracy.
January 16, 2026 at 4:02 AM
This post strikes at the heart of the failure of the Constitution of 1789. We will need some kind of Transitional Justice process. There is no such mechanism that doesn't run through the Supreme Court and the Senate, both held by intransigent forces... We need a new constitution on the other side.
January 16, 2026 at 2:55 AM
You'd think if they have a list of the "criminal illegals" that they want, they would go in with 50 agents and arrest them. Instead of, you know, knocking on people's doors here in St. Paul and asking them which houses have Asians.
January 16, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Should be the Zombie Kirk show.
January 15, 2026 at 8:33 PM
He's right about the networks. I'm in the Twin Cities, too. I'm seeing these networks in action. It's called "neighborhoods, churches, and community organizations protecting one another against a tyrannical government". And it's awe-inspiring. I love Minnesotans.
January 15, 2026 at 7:58 PM
By dumping all of their U.S. Treasuries.
January 15, 2026 at 7:52 PM
I am, unfortunately, watching for the moment when a fed shoots one of his own in order to trigger the military assault.
January 15, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Future hires at schools in MAGA states will want to negotiate Football Coach Clauses that give them nice payouts if anything like this happens.
January 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Not only that, but a CORN tortilla, not the pasty white flour tortilla preferred by bland corporate American chains.
January 15, 2026 at 4:23 PM
I thought Hegseth hated military lawyers and had them fired already!
January 15, 2026 at 5:46 AM
I really want to watch you take action.
January 15, 2026 at 5:12 AM