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Nancy MacLean

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Cassandra. Author Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America & Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (new ed. just out). Professor of History and Public Policy @ Duke. Views my own.

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πŸ”₯ @grahamformaine.bsky.social : β€œWatching people who have no idea what any of this looks like or feels like disgusts me… saying we just need to be prepared for more casualties because β€˜that’s what happens’ β€” it’s not what fucking happens to THEM, it’s what happens to US.”

03.03.2026 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2359    πŸ” 818    πŸ’¬ 127    πŸ“Œ 71
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Trump was hosting a fund raiser at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, as the U.S. offensive began. The NYT reported last year that tickets for the dinner dance were $1M apiece. The optics of Trump partying while US soldiers died is partly what is behind the fact that today, #SendBarron trended on social media.

02.03.2026 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1249    πŸ” 421    πŸ’¬ 83    πŸ“Œ 40
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Iran in Focus: Stop Trump's War Β· MoveOn Over the weekend, the United States and Israel launched airstrikes against Iran, a dangerous escalation that risks dragging us into another devastating, decades-long conflict. This war threatens the l...

I'm attending MoveOn's event TONIGHT at 7 ET, β€œIran in Focus: Stop Trump's War” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

02.03.2026 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bill Clinton tells GOP-led panel he had no knowledge of Epstein’s crimes The appearance in New York marks the first time a former president has been compelled to testify before Congress under a subpoena.

Hillary’s opening statement was great, but it sounds like Bill Clinton went out of his way to exonerate Donald Trump as a fellow member of the Epstein class. Really vile that he volunteered absurd claims about Trumpβ€˜s innocence, not even having seen the records
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

28.02.2026 04:11 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Texas to fix 4,200 errors in Bible-infused Bluebonnet curriculum Taxpayers will bear the cost of fixing errors in learning materials published by the Texas Education Agency. The curriculum has drawn attention for its references to Christianity and the Bible.

Well, the Christian nationalists trying to impose theocracy on us obviously get Jesus all wrong, but, wow, 4,200 MORE errors??

www.texastribune.org/2026/02/25/t...

26.02.2026 05:03 β€” πŸ‘ 284    πŸ” 154    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 10

New some is a show pony chameleon. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is for real.

24.02.2026 04:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Are you still buying from Amazon?

22.02.2026 05:23 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We can afford to lift the financial burden of child care off the shoulders of parents.

We can afford to unburden young people from student loan debt.

Here’s where that money is going instead.

22.02.2026 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 173    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

$75m bribe to Melania for a $7.8bn return seems like good business to me

22.02.2026 03:01 β€” πŸ‘ 302    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4

These are concentration camps, according to the legal and historical definitions

22.02.2026 05:05 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Watch Netflix. The next CBS?

22.02.2026 05:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

gotta do investigations into DHS β€œwaste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency

17.02.2026 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 7346    πŸ” 1885    πŸ’¬ 134    πŸ“Œ 59
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Protect Academic Freedom, Vote No to Revising The Code The UNC System Board of Governors will vote to amend the UNC System Code with new restrictions on academic freedom at its February 26 meeting. The Board of Governors plans to rewrite the very definiti...

I just signed the @ncaaup.bsky.social petition calling on the UNC Board of Governors to Protect Academic Freedom, Vote No to Revising the UNC System Code. If you are in NC, please sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

16.02.2026 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Turn Up the Heat: Melt The Companies That Profit From ICE and DHS As older Americans, we hold enormous economic power. We’ve spent decades building savings, choosing where to bank, where to invest, and where to shopβ€”companies count on our loyalty. This Valentine’s D...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Turn Up the Heat: Melt The Companies That Profit From ICE and DHS. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/turn...

13.02.2026 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

08.02.2026 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 38094    πŸ” 14361    πŸ’¬ 1384    πŸ“Œ 745

No words. Except, it figures!

09.02.2026 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Different decade, same energy.
#SuperBowl

09.02.2026 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3062    πŸ” 709    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 21
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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not β€œmove on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

08.02.2026 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 44546    πŸ” 16954    πŸ’¬ 966    πŸ“Œ 962

Want to reclaim some of the states whose loss paved the way for the Trump regime? This is a fantastic organization doing vital work. I just pledged monthly though the 2026 election. Can you help out? statesproject.org

08.02.2026 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just imagine being so fragile and pathetic.

#ResistTrump

07.02.2026 04:59 β€” πŸ‘ 247    πŸ” 95    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 4

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

07.02.2026 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 16295    πŸ” 5985    πŸ’¬ 267    πŸ“Œ 164

We are living in the age of the pedopetrotechbroligarch

07.02.2026 05:14 β€” πŸ‘ 612    πŸ” 172    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 14

Oh please. McCain brought on Sarah Palin and paled around with some of the worst Christian nationalists. The rot goes back to Barry Goldwater, Mr. libertarian turning the party toward the white supremacists of the south. That was a nice McCain moment that you show but even he was starting to bend

07.02.2026 04:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Net Zero Billionaires 2030 includes Amazon

06.02.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

The cycle from Amazon killing bookstores to Bezos axing the books section of the Post is something

04.02.2026 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1709    πŸ” 419    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 22

Don't buy anything from Amazon

05.02.2026 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 122    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

amazon is gonna spend roughly the GDP of Qatar on data centers this year lol

05.02.2026 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 506    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 5
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Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Cuts 30% of Staff, Laying Off More Than 300 Employees Including Amazon Beat Reporter The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is enacting layoffs that will eliminate "hundreds" of jobs.

"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"

04.02.2026 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1488    πŸ” 565    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 87

Amazon dropped $75M on the Melania doc β€” with a big chunk going into the Trumps' pockets.

Since then, Amazon Web Services got a $580M Pentagon contract.

And this week, Pete Hegseth visited Blue Origin facilities as the DoD overhauls how it hands out defense contracts.

Always follow the money.

05.02.2026 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3932    πŸ” 1466    πŸ’¬ 120    πŸ“Œ 81

Thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, Amazon saw its corporate income taxes shrink by more than HALF last year, even as its profits climbed.

But instead of investing the savings into their workforce, Amazon just announced thousands of layoffs and plans to spend $200B on AI.

Textbook corporate greed.

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