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Historian. Educator. Journalist. Midwestern-raised.

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The 50% figure is a right-wing talking point, not original with Hawley.

It's based on a single, faulty study that lacked proper controls and analysis.

It's a propaganda weapon to allow them to continue their Culture War.

If they were serious about protecting children, they'd go after pedo Trump.

06.02.2026 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

NOT REAL. AI.

From Grok (Twitter/X AI):

"No, it's not real. This is an AI-generated satirical video parodying recent ICE protests in Minneapolis. No such "chair chase" event is reported by FOX 9 or other news sources."

30.01.2026 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't you wonder how much Putin or his oligarchs are bribing him, as an influencer?

He basically spouts Putin's FSB talking points.

22.01.2026 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They don't fight back... Schumer and Jeffries always surrender.

They don't "get it" that this is not 1975, under the glorious bipartisan compromising of a charming Tip O'Neil.

This is war. And, there will be casualties.

15.01.2026 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

TO DOKOUPIL (new verb):
1. To obscure & hide the truth.
2. To fog one's ability to do critical thinking, as well as to fog the minds of others.
3. To present news stories w/o historical or social context.
4. To mislead by omitting facts, and squirting out factoids devoid of context.
5. To lie.

15.01.2026 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He could have gotten BOTH the Order of Honor of the Russian Federation & Trump's awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom...

...After he paid $10 million for the presidential pardon -- that's the going price today -- funded by tax-deductible charitable contributions from Putin's oligarchs.

07.01.2026 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congresscritter Sam needs far more psych therapy than even the US Congress's Plan can provide.

Maybe he can get additional from the care plan in the US Bureau of Prisons?

31.12.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whiteness, as a social construct, is mutable and can include or exclude ethnicities as required. Latinos are becoming "white" in America, as were Irish in the late 19th century and Italians by the mid-20th century. There is pressure from the Right to currently redefine Jews as non-white.

26.12.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is pervasive and its actors and influencers are loud. They may be individually inconsistent and strategically incoherent. BUT, THE ORGANIZED THEOCRATIC MOVEMENT AND PROJECT 2025 ARE NOT.

26.12.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow. Great rabbi-in Chicago profile picture... Or maybe in New Town?

28.11.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Until their current leadership is voted out, the Democratic Party's motto will always be:

BUCKLE AND CAPITULATE.

10.11.2025 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Benjamin Leon Jr., Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher, The Lutnick Family, The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation, Stephen A. Schwarzman, Konstantin Sokolov, Paolo Tiramani, Cameron Winklevoss, and Tyler Winklevoss.

Source: Charlie Sykes from "To the Contrary," 10/22/25

BOYCOTT & SHAME ALL OF THEM

23.10.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The individual billionaires and billionarie-want-to-be's who donated money TO DESTROY THE HISTORIC WHITE HOUSE INCLUDE:

Stefan E. Brodie, Charles and Marissa Cascarilla, J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul, Edward and Shari Glazer, Harold G. Hamm, the Betty Wold Johnson Foundation...

(continued)

23.10.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ripple
Roblox
T-Mobile
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tether
Union Pacific Railroad

BOYCOTT ALL OF THEM.
MAKE THEM PAY, IN STOCK PRICE AND EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION FOR THEIR COMPLICITY IN THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HISTORIC WHITE HOUSE.

23.10.2025 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Here is a further list, h/t The Contrarian:

Alphabet
Altria
Amazon
Apple
Blackstone
Booz Allen Hamilton
Carrier
Caterpillar
Coinbase
Comcast
Google
Hard Rock International
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin
Meta
Microsoft
New York Jets
OpenAI
Palantir
Reynolds American

(Continued)

23.10.2025 02:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

From Time Magazine:
"OpenAI, Microsoft, Coinbase, Palantir, Lockheed Martin, Amazon and Google. Individual donors such as oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm, Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman and bitcoin billionaires the Winklevoss twins."

BOYCOTT THEM ALL FOR THEIR COMPLICITY IN THIS ILLEGAL ACT.

23.10.2025 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's time to BOYCOTT the companies and billionaires WHO PAID TO DEMOLISH THE HISTORIC WHITE HOUSE, for an illegal ballroom.
(See first comment below)

23.10.2025 01:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Muslims are, at most, 1.34% of the US population.

They are from at least 50+ countries.

Laura Loomer is diagnosable.

Even if Muslims were 70% of the population, SO WHAT?

Loomer would still be advocating for the genocide of the children of Gaza.

10.10.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let's refashion the "Stabbed in the Back" myth... after all, it worked for those other Nazis, right?

06.10.2025 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Churches have indeed been on both sides.

But you chose to leave out this salient fact:

The biggest Protestant church in America is Southern Baptist. It was created specifically to defend slavery as Biblically mandated.

Almost nothing ever changes in race-based America.

04.10.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ABC is going to air a special in remembrance of Charlie Kirk during β€˜Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Friday timeslot, 19 September 2025.

MAKE A LIST OF ALL THEIR ADVERTISERS AND BOYCOTT THEM.

We will show Disney, Nexstar, and Sinclair the power of a consumer boycott of their advertisers.

19.09.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's high time to BOYCOTT ALL PRODUCTS AND ADVERTISERS on DISNEY, as well as on all broadcast properties of NEXSTAR and SINCLAIR.

They were responsible for knuckling under to FCC fascist Brendan Carr, and pulling Kimmel off the air.

Make a list of all the advertisers & post it here.

18.09.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kilmeade did not say "euthanize." He advocated first degree murder of the homeless by lethal injection. Involuntary.

These are PEOPLE & they are common in our high-rent cities whose housing stock has been bought up by hedge funds.

So HOMELESS = MURDERER.

You're a real moral compass, Kilmeade!

14.09.2025 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
ICE’s charge is to β€˜make America white again’: Analyst
YouTube video by MSNBC ICE’s charge is to β€˜make America white again’: Analyst

ICE's mission is to "Make America White Again."

Anyone who doesn't see Trump's usage of "Great" as "White" is either naive, in denial, or a white supremacist. Period.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3TI...

12.07.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

What... "Are there no workhouses [for the poor]?"
-- Ebenezer Scrooge, in Dickens' "A Christmas Carol (1843)

08.07.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jeffries was paid $800,000 to by AIPAC to support the genocide of Gazans.

Nothing he says is more significant than that fact.

He isn't part of the problem. HE IS THE PROBLEM.

03.07.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Chief Justice Urges Political Leaders to Tone Down Rhetoric

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/u...

You crush all liberties, give Trump the powers of a dictator, force all women to be mere vessels without rights...

...then you whine when citizens criticize you for it, right Justice Roberts?

You murder the rule of law. You get pushback.

Deal with it.

29.06.2025 04:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Crypto has one use, and one use only:

TO LAUNDER ILLEGAL DRUG MONEY.

18.06.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

... Lujan (NM), Ossoff (GA), Padilla (CA), Rosen (NV), Schiff (CA), Slotkin (MI), Warner (VA),
Warnock (GA)

CRYPTO WILL DESTROY THE ECONOMY JUST LIKE THE BUNDLED, SUBPRIME MORTGAGE SECURITIES DID IN THE GREAT RECESSION OF 2008.

REMEMBER TO VOTE AGAINST THEM AT ELECTION TIME.
(I hate Trump too.)

18.06.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The following Democratic senators VOTED TO DESTROY THE U.S. ECONOMY.

They sided with corrupt Republicans to pass the crypto bill (S.1582):

Alsobrooks (MD), Booker (NJ), Cortez Masto (NV), Fetterman (PA), Gallego (AZ), Gillibrand (NY), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM)...
Hickenlooper (CO), Kim (NJ)...

18.06.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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