Mark Lawrence Schrad

So no terrorism then?

But we already have one, though…? 🤷🏻‍♂️ The National Memorial Arch (1917) in Valley Forge. It’s nice!
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When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

He pardoned a bunch of people that committed political violence

Charlie Kirk got the America he always wanted. And it got him.

<all together now>

All of this hand-wringing about whether the president is either dead or a pedophile is really exhausting!

Active shooter at Villanova University. I'm safe a few blocks away, but can hear the sirens of dozens of emergency vehicles.

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never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

What do the American taxpayers gain by destroying this satellite?

Trump is wildly violating both WTO rules & the PTAs we have signed & ratified with 20 countries, & he's wildly abusing US domestic trade laws with ever-changing BS excuses about "national security" & "national emergencies."

The only thing new about this era is the lawless authoritarianism.

I’m not sure I ever mentioned this, but our cat Murray is named in his honor. He’s my writing companion. Far less talkative than the original, but just as kindhearted.

Absolutely. The Atlantic’s 18-page(!) profile on him from 1983 remains forever in the “recommended readings” of my Russian Politics syllabus. Part tribute, part window into the challenges of parsing authoritarian information on demography and economy.

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I’d love to have a roundtable on spelunking Soviet statistics with you, Yoi, and the ghosts of Murray Feshbach and Vlad Treml.

every republican

"You're gonna have to finish the job." Of Gazans living?

nyt sunday opinion front page that reads, "donald trump says he will prosecute his enemies, order mass deportations, use soldiers against citizens, abandon allies, play politics with disasters. believe him"

just looping back on this october 2024 warning and yep we have ticked through them all

<thread> Things are getting real in Judge Gallagher's courtroom.

Following Monday's revelation of UN report showing Government of El Salvador's official position to UN is that the detainees at CECOT are in US jurisdiction and under US legal responsibility.

Judge demands answers.⤵️

REPORTER: A simple question -- 'by the end of the week,' does that by Friday, by Saturday, or by Sunday?

TAMMY BRUCE: I think generally it could be the collection of the days at the end of the week. I'm not going to specify ... to clarify a bit more, i would say probably the end of the week

This is what the last two state Supreme elections were about.

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.

One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.

They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

An archipelago, if you will

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren I'm angry. You should be too. But this fight isn't over.

After 26 hours of fighting on the Senate floor, Republicans voted to rip health care from millions of people and let little babies go hungry. And they cheered.

I'm angry. You should be too. But this fight isn't over.

Leaked Iran Call Further Shreds Trump's Narrative: Report Iranian officials in a conversation intercepted by U.S. intelligence said the strikes on nuclear facilities were less destructive than expected.

Iranian government officials in a phone call said that the U.S. military strikes against its nuclear facilities were not as damaging or extensive as they had expected, further undermining the Trump administration’s narrative that they were “completely and totally obliterated.”