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James Quinn Wilson was an American political scientist and an authority on public administration. Most of his career was spent… more

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My memory is fuzzy, and I'm open to correction, but I recall Blumenthal being pretty poor in the Kavanagh hearings.

Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Steve Peers, Anne Norton , and 4 more

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It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
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Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Anne Applebaum, Anna O. Law , and 33 more

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Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
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by James Q. Wilson

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Food prices are practically the only things Schumpeter thinks voters are good at tracking correctly!
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Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Will Jennings, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 3 more

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1. Federal agents from ICE and other agencies are wrongly detaining U.S. citizens, sometimes detaining them for days, on suspicion that they are undocumented immigrants.

The raids are done without search warrants or other procedures designed to protect civil liberties.
How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens
Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.
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Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Anna O. Law, Marc Lynch , and 17 more

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ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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by Maya Sen — Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Anna O. Law, Tom Clark , and 3 more

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Brett Kavanaugh and his clerks need to read this --->

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From the AskReddit community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community
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Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Rebecca Tushnet

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Either the police are mighty and fearless warriors, or they’re scared enough of a sassy 20-something woman to unload a canister of pepper spray in her face from 2 feet away, but they cannot be both.
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Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Robert W. Wallace, Patricia Owens , and 3 more

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JOB: Associate Professor or Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, in association with a Tutorial Fellowship at Merton College. AoS Ethics and/or Political Philosophy, with at least an AoC in Feminist Philosophy.
#PhilJobs
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Associate Professorship or Professorship of Philosophy - Philosophy APTFC at University of Oxford
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by James Q. Wilson

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Pro-democracy sign at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, in flagrant violation of the university administration's strict interpretation of institutional neutrality. Are authoritarian or apathetic members of the campus community being silenced?
A photo of the front of the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics, reading "Democracy: [verb] Get involved."
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by James Q. Wilson

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Yeah I was jumping to the comments to say this.
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Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Anne Applebaum, Anna O. Law , and 14 more

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My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
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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Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Elizabeth Saunders, Nicholas A. Christakis , and 20 more

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“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
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Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Steve Peers, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 18 more

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Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
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Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Marc Lynch, Elizabeth Saunders , and 6 more

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BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Relevant www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...
The following is the text of the email that Penelope Hegseth sent to her son, Pete Hegseth, on April 30, 2018. One sentence was redacted by The New York Times for privacy reasons. Son, I have tried to keep quiet about your character and behavior, but after listening to the way you made Samantha feel today, I cannot stay silent. And as a woman and your mother I feel I must speak out.. You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth. I am not a saint, far from it.. so don’t throw that in my face,. but your abuse over the years to women (dishonesty, sleeping around, betrayal, debasing, belittling) needs to be called out. Sam is a good mother and a good person (under the circumstances that you created) and I know deep down you know that. For you to try to label her as “unstable” for your own advantage is despicable and abusive. Is there any sense of decency left in you? She did not ask for or deserve any of what has come to her by your hand. Neither did Meredith. I know you think this is one big competition and that we have taken her side… bunk… we are on the side of good and that is not you. (Go ahead and call me self-righteous, I dont’ care) Don’t you dare run to her and cry foul that we shared with us… that’s what babies do. It’s time for someone (I wish it was a strong man) to stand up to your abusive behavior and call it out, especially against women We still love you, but we are broken by your behavior and lack of character. I don’t want to write emails like this and never thought I would. If it damages our relationship further, then so be it, but at least I have said my piece. [Redacted] And yes, we are praying for you (and you don’t deserve to know how we are praying, so skip the snarky reply) I don’t want an answer to this… I don’t want to debate with you. You twist and abuse everything I say anyway. But… On behalf of all the women (and I know it’s many) you have abused in some way, I say… get some help and take an honest look at yourself… Mom
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Plato:
The classic "Am I a joke to you?" meme
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Citizens aren’t free if non-citizens aren’t free
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Jazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa.bsky.social · 8d
As immigration agents have escalated their tactics, US citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody by law enforcement officers. Allison, Jenny and I took a closer look at the encounters. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
‘I’m From Here!’: U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump’s Dragnet
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Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Anna O. Law, Scott A. Imberman , and 2 more

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As immigration agents have escalated their tactics, US citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody by law enforcement officers. Allison, Jenny and I took a closer look at the encounters. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
‘I’m From Here!’: U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump’s Dragnet
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Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan , and 14 more

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In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

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Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'
The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.
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Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Lisa W. Fazio, Linda J. Skitka , and 6 more

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This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

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What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
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Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Robert W. Wallace, Trevon D. Logan , and 5 more

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Now that summer is over, Chicago is still on track to have fewer homicides in 2025 than almost any other year since 2001. This is especially impressive considering that the five most violent years of the 21st century have all been in the past decade.
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Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Joe R. Feagin, Jonathan Hopkin , and 2 more

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It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away.

And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 15d
It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.
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Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Julie L. Lockwood, Richard Waite , and 3 more

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It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.
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Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Jon Green

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During the first Trump Administration, they allowed every single case about congressional oversight to drag on until after Trump had left office. (Receipts at pp. 642-48 here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... )
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Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Brendan Nyhan, Steve Peers , and 6 more

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Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing.

#twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...
Illinois professors face threats after landing on Charlie Kirk group watchlist
An online database compiled by a group affiliated with slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk identifies close to 50 Illinois college instructors it labels "radical professors."
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by James Q. Wilson

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Wow, appalling.
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In “Core of the Case,“ Waldron says he’s only discussing “strong judicial review,” which is overturning legislation without possibility of legislative override. He doesn’t discuss other versions in detail, but his arguments don’t strictly apply to them.
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Reposted by: James Q. Wilson, Diane Ravitch, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham , and 5 more

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Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/
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by James Q. Wilson

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I think this is a typo for "books that I would absolutely recommend everyone run out and buy for themselves and their friends."

(It's a good interview, about a good book!)
The definition I came to by reading a lot of very dusty and dry texts that I don't know I would recommend people who are not academics was that democracy is a system in which the governed govern. So the responsibility of governance, the power of governance, is not given over to some higher, arbitrary authority like a king or a class of oligarchs. People who are themselves subject to governance do the governing or, in Lincoln's formulation, government of, by, and for the people. That is the core of what democracy is." "by reading a lot of very dusty and dry texts that I don't know I would recommend people who are not academics" is highlighted.
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