Jerold Duquette

Jesse Watters doesn’t understand which party drew the maps in Texas.

104th 1995-1997 Bill Clinton 204 230 47 53 105th 1997-1999 Bill Clinton 206 227 45 55 106th 1999-2001 Bill Clinton 211 223 45 55 107th 2001-2003 George W. Bush 212 221 50** 49 108th 2003-2005 George W. Bush 205 229 48 51 109th 2005-2007 George W. Bush 202 232 44 55 110th 2007-2009 George W. Bush 233 202 49*** 49 111th 2009-2011 Barack Obama 257 178 56 42 112th 2011-2013 Barack Obama 193 242 51 47 113th 2013-2015 Barack Obama 201 234 53 45 114th 2015-2017 Barack Obama 188 247 44 54 115th 2017-2019 Donald Trump 194 241 46 52 116th 2019-2021 Donald Trump 235 197 45 53

Next question...would you say that America stopped being great sometime between the 90s and now? Well, you'll never guess which party has controlled the Congress for the majority of that time period.

82nd 1951-1953 Harry Truman 234 199 48 47 83rd 1953-1955 Dwight D. Eisenhower 213 221 46 48 84th 1955-1957 Dwight D. Eisenhower 232 203 48 47 85th 1957-1959 Dwight D. Eisenhower 234 201 49 47 86th 1959-1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower 283 153 64 34 87th 1961-1963 John F. Kennedy 262 175 64 36 88th 1963-1965 Kennedy/Johnson 258 176 67 33 89th 1965-1967 Lyndon B. Johnson 295 140 68 32 90th 1967-1969 Lyndon B. Johnson 247 187 64 36 91st 1969-1971 Richard Nixon 243 192 58 42 92nd 1971-1973 Richard Nixon 255 180 54 44 93rd 1973-1975 Nixon/Ford 242 192 56 42 94th 1975-1977 Gerald R. Ford 291 144 61 37 95th 1977-1979 Jimmy Carter 292 143 61 38 96th 1979-1981 Jimmy Carter 277 158 58 41 97th 1981-1983 Ronald Reagan 242 192 46 53 98th 1983-1985 Ronald Reagan 269 166 46 54 99th 1985-1987 Ronald Reagan 253 182 47 53 100th 1987-1989 Ronald Reagan 258 177 55 45 101st 1989-1991 George H.W. Bush 260 175 55 45 102nd 1991-1993 George H.W. Bush 267 167 56 44 103rd 1993-1995 Bill Clinton 258 176 57 43

Strikes me that Democrats looking to improve their brand might start by asking "if you think America was once great, would you date that greatness somewhere between 1950 and 1990?" If so, you'll never guess which party was in charge of making the country's laws for almost that entire period.

Trump’s new position that the Epstein files were “made up” by Democrats is a strong indication that they are extremely damaging to Trump

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project Alligator Alcatraz

One day Alligator Alcatraz will be filled with those who built it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-p0...

somehow i don’t think vance is imagining the descendants of veterans of the US Colored Troops when he is speaking about people whose ancestors fought in the civil war

See also: Gay, Claudine. Again, I am *not* defending the behavior in question, but the number of front-page stories was absurd. Served its purpose as a ritualistic performance, though.

Mamdani is like manna from heaven for media desperate to prove during Trump II that they aren't biased in favor of liberals. Doesn't mean he shouldn't get tough coverage, but structural need to perform objectivity rituals will create unfair, disproportionate coverage as with, e.g., HRC in 2016.

The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.

A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”

Column | What if Trump’s gains with minorities weren’t about Trump at all? We’re all racing to explain Trump’s growing appeal with minority voters. But what if it was never really about Trump at all?

Educational & ideological polarization extending to social minorities & trending against parties of the left is not unique to the US
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One important detail from that story is that two of the offending, integrationist professors were white. Policing white supremacy involved not just policing the thought and actions of black people, but also white people who were considered "race traitors." Communism here = teaching racial equality.

We stand with the people, by the people, and for the people... No one is safe until we all are saved. = Alabama Tribune COVERS ALABAMA LIKE THE DEW VOLUME 28, NUMBER 2 MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1958 PRICE TEN CENTS

When the AME trustees of Allen refused to fire the professors, the segregationist Governor of SC responded by refusing to license graduates from the university to teach in the state's public schools. This story appeared in Montgomery, Alabama's black newspaper, the Alabama Tribune on 25 April 1958.

Stand Taken In Face Ot Pressure, Probe COLUMBIA, S. C. - President Frank R. Veal of Allen Uni-versity, located here, has completely cleared three of his pro fessors of all charges of being "subversive." The three men, oli under sharp attack by Dixieçrat Governor George Bell Timmer-mman, Jr., are Dr. Forrest Oran Wiggins, Dr. Edwin D. rioif-man, and Dr. John Granville Rideout, The latter two are white. the professors forms Veprotesor torts tee ai deoation o loal Te the Su certification to teacn in the South portion of a sort of "state of the Carolina public schools. The board university" article dealing also with let it be known unofficially that "Greater Emphasis on Religion," certification would not pe restored "Community Cooperation," "Aca- until Allen fired the professors. On demic Improvements," and "Re-lated Activities." (Continued On Page Three) in the lengthy statement, which is circulating privately among leading white and Negro South Caro- Negro Does Not linians, Veal states emphatically, "It is the judgment of the President that he cannot, and does not, recommend the dismissal of the Identity In Intes three gentlemen whose presence is quet ting t. s die or of evidence NASHVILLE, Term.-Dr. James M. Nabrit, Jr., professor of law of CONTINUED RESISTANCE Veal's unequivocal stand taken in the face of severe pressures of the 1l and faten in de mairens t ek Howard University said, the Negro does not want to lose his identity or traditions in seeking integra- segregationist government of South tion, as he spoke to the first gen- Carolina, is seen by competent ob- eral session of the Tennessee Edu- servers here as a definite indicat- cation Congress, meeting on Ten- ion that the historic AME institut- nessee State University's campus ion will continue to resist the last week. Dixiecrat onslaught and will once Keynoted by TEC's theme, "Edu- again reelect Professors Wiggins, cation. An Endless Frontier" , Dr Hoffman, and Rideout at the May Nabrit, also secertary of t…

Stand Taken In Face (Continued from Page One) January 10, 1968, the Allen Uni- versity board of trustees met again to consider the problem. Dr. R. W Mance, a leading trustee and national financial secretary of the AME church which is responsible for the entire support of Allen, charged "political blackmail" by the State, and urged the retention of the professors. President Veal refused their dismissal and they were retained. GOVERNOR REQUESTS PROBE On January 14, 1958, Governor Timmerman addressing the General Assembly at its opening sess-lon, asked for a special investigating committee to expose "commun-ist activities." He spècifically attacked three professors at Allen. Negro groups such as the Columbia interdenominational ministeral alliance and the South Carolina progressive democrats strongly denounced the proposed investigation as an irresponsible attack on the freedom of the private Negro cci-leges. The Negro pastors served notice on the state that "if such a law is passed, that the legality of the law will be tested in the high-courts of the Federal govern-ment." When the state legislature was slow to do Timmerman's bidd-ing, he sent a special message, this time attacking President J. A. Ba- coat of Benedict college, and three white professors at this local Baptist college. On April 10, a weary, broke, vote-hungry legislature hurriedly voted to establish an investigating committee with the so-called purpose, "to preserve the government South Carolina." This is election year. The Veal statement charges that police agents of the Governor "first presented the issue" of the three professors in his office a year ago. Veal declared the University proceeded to make a full investigation of their charges and fully satisfied itself that the charges were absolutely groundless. Veal also states that the "Data sheets of the three gentlemen report each of them as a loyal Amer-ican."

1958 was an election year in South Carolina, so the conservative Governor and legislature sought to make headlines by firing 3 professors at Allen University, an HBCU, claiming they were supposedly teaching "subversive" and "Communist" ideas about race. The university's President protested heartily.

How is the "Free Press" handling the fact that it's their ideological allies who are very clearly posing the most significant threat to free speech and the press? With assurances that, actually? Everything is as great as it has ever been.

“Arrest Now, Ask Questions Later”: ICE Agents Arrest and Jail U.S. Citizen Andrea Velez In an effort to fulfill the Trump administration’s daily immigration arrest “quotas,” federal agents and deputized local law enforcement are racially profiling and snatching people off the streets wit...

My controversial position is that kidnapping is bad

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i'm reading this charles sumner speech from february 1866 and my dude is cooking

But …White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said it was "absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency."

Yeah, that’s what’s “absurd.”

"Repeatedly accuse your opponents of doing something they are not doing, so that when you take power and actually do it, the worst you'll face is 'both sides do it' handwringing."

It's a low, shitty, dishonest strategy, but it works, again and again and again.

The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential.

The provisions on student loans in Trump’s budget bill would dramatically limit access to student loans and loan forgiveness, resulting in the smaller and less accessible version of higher Ed that people like Chris Rufo have been calling for newrepublic.com/article/1970...

“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” – Louis Brandeis

Warning signs flashing red - increasing dehumanizing rhetoric from a fascist authoritarian leader and his partisan allies

Don't forget people. Tonight is the premier of the PBS docuumentary about Hannah Arendt. 9 pm ET

University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration

This is naked authoritarianism. It is exactly what happened in Turkey. There is nothing to stop this regime from demanding that faculty be purged too. Everyone must stand up and push back.
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Birthright citizenship litigants aren't wasting any time: new class action lawsuit below from the ACLU, DD Fund, NAACP LDF, LULAC, and more seeking:

1) declaratory relief in deeming Trump's order unconstitutional; and

2) injunctive relief in preventing Trump admin from enforcing the order

When Trump took office in January, there were 10.3 immigrants with criminal convictions arrested and detained by ICE for every one with no record. Now, there are 1.2 criminals detained for every immigrant with no record. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The Speaker thinks his word games are clever integrity workarounds. He’s wrong.

I am sure all those right-wingers who champion free speech and decry cancel culture will rise up and fight this.

Serious federal violations of civil liberties all over the place. Seems like SCOTUS and POTUS are not into Constitutional amendments 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8.
That’s freedoms of speech, press, assembly, search, due process, speedy trial, jury trial, cruel and unusual punishment.