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David Maraniss

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Biographer, historian, journalist, professor, grandfather, Detroit born, DC and Madison based. Believer in Smokey Robinson, George Orwell, democracy, freedom of the press,Jim Thorpe, Roberto Clemente. and the Green Bay Packers.

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Good for Dave.

03.10.2025 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 190    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Good for you Dave!

03.10.2025 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Welcome to the Era of "Kavanaugh Raids" ICE crosses another big, important line.

America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

03.10.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 691    πŸ” 349    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 35

Aug. 26: Stephen Miller says "the Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization."

Sept. 25: Miller put in charge of coordinating a federal campaign to prosecute "domestic terrorist organizations."

25.09.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 624    πŸ” 286    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 23

The news side is still the Post
doing important work. The editorial side is not the Post any more but an odious embarrassment.

26.09.2025 01:40 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Brown shirt in action. Sickening.

26.09.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 105    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 11

So many outrages. So many lies. So pathetic that this monstrous piece of flesh is president.

16.09.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Today in: ICE is a rogue agency.

14.09.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 736    πŸ” 163    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 8

Gutless.

07.09.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Does this fall under "personal liberties" or "free markets"? Once again embarrassed by the editorial side of my former newspaper.

07.09.2025 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 155    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 2
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Applaud these women for protesting at Union Station in DC in the blazing heat! ✊🏼 #dc #notofascism

02.09.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1028    πŸ” 295    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 13

Madison eagerly awaits her appearance at CT Idea Fest next Monday!

03.09.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@stuartstevens using the old Jim Hightower dead armadillos line!

30.08.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 352    πŸ” 98    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 2

Love the picture on right! In the Reggie White and Charles Woodson tradition.

29.08.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"If you have a chance to help others and fail to do so you are wasting your time on this earth."
Roberto Clemente, born on this date, lived by his motto and died by it, trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Nicaragua after the December 1972 earthquake.

18.08.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 211    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Agree.

15.08.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 423    πŸ” 90    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 9

I said months ago that the National Symphony Orchestra should bail from Trumpland and move to the Strathmore. Now...more than ever. Who with any decency could attend an event there while this anti-art monomanical despotic desecration is happening?

14.08.2025 03:27 β€” πŸ‘ 252    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

It is time for every decent person and institution to stand up and say no, no way in hell, we will not give an inch, we will not rewrite history, we will not genuflect to this putrid dictatorship.

12.08.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 302    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 7
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Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

How low can we go? Show some guts and integrity damn it!

01.08.2025 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 339    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 15
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Exclusive: Air Marshals diverted from protecting commercial passenger flights act as "highly paid guards" on deportation flights. cnn.it/46UooMP

31.07.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 188    πŸ” 101    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 27
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β€˜Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted.

These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

31.07.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 10545    πŸ” 5611    πŸ’¬ 650    πŸ“Œ 389

Weak statement. There is nothing to "work with." WH press corps should stand as one against this suppression of a free press and say to Trump all or none.

22.07.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Chile under Pinochet. United States under Trump. From police state to police state. The horrors continue.

19.07.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 106    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

This is what I’m so worried about

03.07.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 15230    πŸ” 3885    πŸ’¬ 727    πŸ“Œ 126

Aand Americans. This should be 1968.

03.07.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 450    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 2

Trump pardoned Jack Johnson of Mann Act charges; odds are he'll pardon Combs. Johnson, the first black heavyweight champ, was the victim of a racist system determined to disempower him. Combs is not.

02.07.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yes democracy is collapsing but we arrived in Madison today and the sandhill cranes are in Wingra Park and there is beauty and peace here that an oligarch wedding could never ever match.

27.06.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly.

19.06.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 90    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

Jackson Chourio.

19.06.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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