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Instructor of composition, as well as critical thinking and media literacy at a small, liberal arts college in South Carolina. I follow politics, history, science, and I take particular interest in media and its influence.
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It’s nice that the cult members in this administration keep asserting “they were disrespectful of Dear Leader” as the reason they’re torching the Constitution. No pretending that they’re anything but a wannabe dictatorship

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

Bondi declares war on the courts: "What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me ... they are deranged ... we are sending a very strong message today ... we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you."

As an historian, I agree with the Lt. Governor of Indiana that you should “know your history” but this clown absolutely does not know his history.

Just a reminder that the white nationalist Great Replacement Theory that's being pushed by Trump, Musk and their toadies has been responsible for multiple mass shootings in the last decade. This is the threat to Americans' safety, not innocent immigrants who've committed no crimes here.

As others have noted, if you’re not seeing this “pro-natalism” creepiness through the lens of the white nationalist Fourteen Words, you’re missing the point.

“I’m one of the good people,” I say as I drag an unaccompanied 4-year-old girl into an immigration court. “People will remember this as a *good* thing I’m doing. Not, like, evil.”

As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

Trump got so many trials himself we ran out of time for them all

Literally the first article of impeachment against Nixon and prohibited by law

If it was worthless they wouldn't have stolen it, and this should be obvious to everyone.

This is a legal trainwreck. Florida made it a crime to be an unauthorized immigrant in the state. Sounds like no big deal to some. But what it does in actuality is allow police to arrest people they perceive as immigrants. Here's how that goes. More below. oklahomavoice.com/2025/04/17/u...

If Trump can send immigrants to some foreign gulag in the jungle, how long before a Governor from one of those pointy-toed boot wearing states with the big hats decides to do the same thing for those who help women get an out-of-state abortion?

Again, the closest thing they have to "proof" that Abrego Garcia was even remotely affiliated with MS-13 was the word of a local cop who was suspended a month later for misconduct. That's it. But now he's one of the world's most dangerous criminals? PROVE IT.

He just hates autistic people and wants them gone.

If you'd run this headline as a joke in 2015 people would've thought it was laughably insane.

I'm going to have to add a paragraph to this book on the Civil Rights Division in the 1960s that informs readers that, originally, the CRD fought tirelessly for diversity, filed countless lawsuits to secure equity and showed up at segregated institutions to demand inclusion.

History will record that Pee Wee Hermann Goering here was the saddest discount fascist of all time. Go spray paint your dome again, you greasy dipshit.

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

Purging wrongthink

I say this as a historian — history will remember you utterly failing to meet the challenge of this moment. At the rate you’re going, “Schumer” is going to end up somewhere between “Chamberlain” or “Quisling”

RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."

gee i wonder why voters might've been confused about the existential stakes of the last election

(man douses himself with lighter fluid) (man shoots off a Roman candle to “fuck up the neighbors” but sets himself on fire) (man tries to pay out flames, spreads fire to his own garage) (man accidentally falls into swimming pool)

The argument in a nutshell.

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

Trump’s view on trade deficits is like getting mad at Target because you spend money there but they never buy anything from you. It’s just complete brain dead nonsense.

Republicans in Congress could make all of this stop. They have voluntarily ceded their constitutional authority over tariff policy. Trump is operating under emergency powers. They could stop this today. All of it.

Liar Greg Abbott says he has refused to set a special election to fill the seat of recently diseased Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner because he says Harris County doesn’t do their elections properly.

The gap between the self-image that MAGA has of themselves as tough macho he-men and their constant pants-pissing fear of every goddamn thing in the world is bigger than the Grand Canyon

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

well, they are probably gonna blame it on Jews

The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

I almost forgot to post this, and it's the perfect day for it.

The worst people in the world are like "They must be getting paid to hate me" when in reality everyone is happy to hate them for free

In a racist rant, white nationalist and Trump ally Laura Loomer called Rep. Jasmine Crockett a "very ratchet, ghetto woman who behaves worse than a domesticated animal." angrywhitemen.org/2025/03/30/l...

You can just convict these people.

Congrats to the White House correspondents who failed to stand in solidarity with the AP and now get to stand by their new peer, a dipshit podcaster and Putin stooge. Dont complain, you earned this.

You know, obviously I knew a second Trump term would be bad, but we’re only two months in, and holy shit this is so much worse than I expected…

Republican-controlled Georgia Senate is going after DA Stacy Abrams as retribution for holding Donald Trump accountable for breaking the law. We are a broken country. www.wabe.org/georgia-sena...

If you don't stand up for people like this woman then it gives these jackbooted thugs permission to do this to anyone.

WATCH: Project 2025 warned against using apps like SIGNAL to conduct official business👇🏽 Translation: They knew it was illegal and did it anyway - to keep it hidden from records requests. SIGNAL itself is an underdiscussed part of this scandal. #HegsethGate #WaltzGate