In fairness I know some PhDs who probably would have got this wrong.🤪
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Mostly retired, business, musician, photographer, other stuff. History, international politics, military affairs. US Army RA 66-70. SAIS/Strat. I quickly block fools.
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Federal funding for research no longer exists. Sure there will be funding to study the genius of Trump’s tweets or how vaccines kill or the benefits of slavery or why the word genocide is antisemitic. But serious government funded research is over - universities, stop doing tricks to try to get it.
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He can almost taste that Nobel Peace Prize.🙄
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Fear. Always having to be careful about what you say, who you talk to. The threat of being hauled off to a camp for a week or two doesn’t hurt.😏
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Further thought suggests that it's like a lot of the Project 2025 program: How do they find all the people necessary to carry this out? What offices would they be organizationally located in? How many of them would there be? Who do they report to? 1/
The people who are so ready to call others "communists" institute one of the hallmarks of the Soviet Communist regime: political officers.
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It is not just political power the Right seeks. They desire cultural domination and affirmation. But in the cultural sphere, the public square, and across many societal dimensions like the family, the shift in power away from white male conservatives has been more pronounced.
Why the Extremists Took Over on the Right Fear of a pluralizing America is fueling a radicalization out of a sense of weakness and besiegement. Some thoughts from my new piece:
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Why the Extremists Took Over on the Right
Fear of a pluralizing America is fueling a radicalization out of a sense of weakness and besiegement
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t took six months for a Trump official to be politely forced by a journalist to admit live on air what everyone - including every economist - knows to be true (but which Trump keeps lying about): tariffs are paid in the US by US importers.
What an indictment of our media.
"So the tariff is paid in this country by the importer, is that right?" -- Eugene Robinson guides Scott Bessent into acknowledging that tariffs are in fact paid in the United States, not by foreign governments
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Everything happening in the US could probably be classified as a slow-rolling coup.
If Democrats were doing this, how would Republicans respond, I wonder?
At some point Americans have to decide what kind of country they want and how far they’re prepared to go to achieve it.
Trump Orders New Census Excluding Undocumented Immigrants — TIME
The direction comes amid Trump's push to weaken the political power of those voters less likely to support him.
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The Trump purge at the FBI continues.
Brian Driscoll, the former acting FBI director who refused to carry out Trump administration plans for the mass firing of J6 agents, is being forced out of the bureau, MSNBC reports.
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Three men have been arrested in Bavaria as part of an investigation into the far-right Reichsbuerger group plotting to violently overthrow the last German government and the constitutional order, Munich prosecutors said.
Three men arrested in Germany in suspected far-right Reichsbuerger plot probe
Three men were arrested in Bavaria on Thursday as part of an investigation into the far-right Reichsbuerger group, suspected of plotting to violently overthrow the last German government and the constitutional order, Munich prosecutors said.
