I’m not sure if you can overdose on schadenfreude but we’re about to find out
05.06.2025 19:19 — 👍 12989 🔁 1670 💬 303 📌 94@premontk.bsky.social
Professeure de politique américaine à l'Université de Sherbrooke / Directrice adjointe de l'Observatoire sur les États-Unis de l'UQAM / Aussi : heavy metal, littérature, astronomie, chats, hockey et basket / Prof US Politics
I’m not sure if you can overdose on schadenfreude but we’re about to find out
05.06.2025 19:19 — 👍 12989 🔁 1670 💬 303 📌 94Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more.
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Chapeau bien bas, Cory Booker.
Un peu plus de 24 heures, debout et à la défense du bien, du meilleur.
The words Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States superimposed on a statue of justice with her back turned
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A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States." @harvardpress.bsky.social
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Following Trump admin's orders, Arlington cemetery's website removed references to:
-Gen. Colin Powell
-the Tuskegee Airmen
-Hispanic Medal of Honor recipient
-Black regiments in Union army
-Justice Thurgood Marshall
-RGB (buried along her veteran husband)
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NEW from me -
Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans who have stopped holding in-person town halls amid the raucous receptions some of their colleagues have gotten across the country. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...
We are where we are because of a vast right-wing media ecosystem funded by ideologues (plutocrats, theocrats, and the KGB) who have no profit incentive - only persuasion. Maybe pro-democracy countries should get in the game and fund some pro-democracy media.
07.03.2025 21:38 — 👍 29 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1I’m sticking with the argument @profsaunders.bsky.social and I made in @foreignaffairs.com 8 years ago: good foreign policy is invisible. www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/uni...
Today was a lot of things. It wasn’t good foreign policy.
The absolute smugness and the absolute ignorance.
What a combo.
WTF.
Mother Jones reporting Deputy Archivist to step down on Tuesday, pushed out by Nixon Foundation head Jim Byron. Keep reading, it gets worse.
Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."
11.02.2025 21:01 — 👍 45920 🔁 11737 💬 941 📌 645Steve Harvey is aghast
09.01.2025 21:34 — 👍 2374 🔁 646 💬 36 📌 64I am so sorry. Lorenzo brought joy and beauty in this world.
31.12.2024 17:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Le timide retour d’un grand timide
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Je me disais la même chose...
01.12.2024 23:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Consumer confidence chart showing Republicans and Democrats changing their views post-election
Partisanship: still a helluva drug
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