Timothy J Lombardo

Why we’re holding a teach-in about American history at the Smithsonian | Kellie Carter Jackson and Nicole Hemmer Podcasters, professors, journalists and ordinary citizens will gather in Washington as the Trump regime wages war on history

In today’s Guardian with @kcarterjackson.bsky.social, explaining why teach-ins (like the one we’re holding Sunday!) are a vital part of activism.

Mine makes almost 9 times more

The Conservatives Who Think Trump Isn’t Going Far Enough - Boston Review MAGA’s base is more fractured than it looks.

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Honestly, remember when monuments were coming down & panels were put together to evaluate renaming, there was so much public push back. Where are all the irate "anytime you change any existing historic item you're erasing history" folks? Appearances, op-eds, protests? This is the White House. 🗃️

I was probably asking for it

You sir, do not understand their popularity. You use the tactics of communists and socialists such as division and coercion, normalizing abnormal and chaos to indoctrinate young minds. It’s really quite simple, everywhere democrats have inserted their progressive ideology’s have failed. The open border was a failure (and a crime), free drugs in Kensington, decriminalizing theft in California, Socializing healthcare, silencing voices not lock step in line with progressive ideas, all Failures. Trump and Rizzo’s popularity has grown from ordinary people being sick of crime, high taxes, bloated school budgets that produce kids that are so incapable, it’s staggering.

Trump brings rule of law, deportation of criminals (same as Obama but no one cared when Obama deported people), reduced crime, Trump closed the border when liberals lied to America and stated that only comprehensive immigration reform could fix the border…. The crisis at the border wants an engineered campaign to import and pay for New Democrat voters at the expense of law abiding American taxpayers. It was the greatest crime in history. I grew up in Philadelphia, about a half a mile from the “Move” block, graduated Drexel University in 1992, retired in the suburbs with my wife at 55 years old. Trump and Rizzo use every day language, not hyper liberal talking points, vetted phrases designed to pay for votes by enslaving people who are easily confused and end up voting for politicians that give them free shit vs working hard like I did and earning it.

Thats what progressives can’t understand, you can’t take money from the those who worked hard and had success and give it to those who mostly chose not to forever. We will tolerate some level of exploitation, taking from me to give to others but there is a limit and progressives have reached it. I know hundreds of people from West Philly, 99% of those not wealthy like me, or retired like me, chose not to be through their bad decisions and I will be damned if I will enable them to be free to commit crimes with my money. You would call me a MAGA Neanderthal - us MAGA populists are very simple, we want freedom, we want rule of law, we want prisons full of people who are dangerous, we want our tax dollars spent intelligently, we want ALL voices heard in our schools, not just the hate Trump liberal viewpoints. We want a closed border, legal Immigration and we believe people who commit crimes should pay for them, not be set free under the auspices of racial or socioeconomic level setting.

Trump has reduced gas prices and trillions of dollars of investments and jobs are coming - like Whirlpool now opening a plant in the US, you will see the success and jobs and lower prices but it takes more than 9 months. 8 wars ended, a roaring stock market, millions of jobs coming, a closed border, safer streets, wasteful spending like Sesame Street in Iran or trans theatre in Ireland stopped, school choice and accountability of how our money is spent are all wonderful things that you will always see as evil. I feel sorry for misguided Trump Derangement Syndrome liberals who cannot see common sense right in front of them.

I’m not high profile enough to get much hate mail, but it’s always fun when I do. This one was quite the ride. I’ve also never written about half the things listed here, so I’m not sure if it’s responding to something specific or just some generalized disgust at me personally. Either one seems fair

Mobile, Alabama

The "Democrat Party" slur has always been used to suggest that the Democratic Party is somehow un-American. But Leavitt's crazed language almost makes me nostalgic for the days of slightly less unhinged "Democrat Party" trolling that I wrote about for @slate.com.
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What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

YouTube video by X - Topic Los Angeles

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NO, IT IS NOT TOUGH TO WATCH KERSHAW STRUGGLE LIKE THIS

CBS Has Been in Conservative Sights for Decades It was once deemed the "Communist Broadcasting System" by conservative activists.

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Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

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She does tend to chew on her favorite things!

A copy of my book that has been ripped and chewed by my dog

This isn’t the first time my dog has gotten a hold of a book, but something about this time feels personal

the people who are destroying all public goods and trying to kill you would like you to blame someone else, perhaps some Other whose immigration status you can deduce at a glance by putting on your racism glasses, who you can have sent to a concentration camp on the basis of your suspicion

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

Mourn, or Else www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

"There's artificial intelligence, and then there's actual intelligence."

Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left

"...the right did not learn cancel culture from the left; the modern right in America emerged as a censorious movement."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Hey Alabama - The first step to getting out of a hole: Stop digging.

This ain't it.

I attended a conference of police all discussing surveillance and technology and here’s what learned:

Yeah, but that also assumes they'd ever deign to visit the museum in the first place

It's probably the former, but if it's the latter it's also the most generous of assumptions

It's so frustrating because the argument is so disingenuous, but they can get away with it because the kind of people who believe them probably weren't going to visit an African American history museum in the first place

Fair point. And even if they did, I'm probably giving them too much credit by assuming they'd understand the symbolism

The idea that the NMAAH doesn't show "how far we've come from slavery" is ridiculous. You have to physically ascend from the slavery exhibits through the 19th and 20th century exhibits. By the end, you have literally progressed from slavery. It's not only a powerful metaphor, its the whole point

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