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larryglickman.bsky.social
Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
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The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets. These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.

Fraud. Waste. Abuse.

This stuff really pisses off vets.

These are masked men, with weapons, no warrants and this is extrajudicial abduction, and with local police aiding and abetting this thuggery. It is illegal under international human rights law. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...

wait, so the invasion along the southern border is not real?

I may be naive, but I find it hard to believe that turning ordinary parts of America into a warzone is going to prove popular with the public.

This is a recurring thing where the second a former appointee says something mildly critical, Trump goes on a tear about how incompetent & traitorous they are. It never seems to occur to him that he’s announcing he’s unfit for his job.

The speed in which we have decayed into an open oligarchic kleptocracy is astounding

I loathe Musk as much as anyone else but for a sitting president to openly threaten a private citizen over what political donations he or she chooses to make is a reminder of how authoritarian this country is becoming by the day - by the hour even!

Since the "Obamacare = Romneycare!" myth is popping up again, let's review: 1. Romneycare wasn't really Romneycare. It was passed by the *Democratic state legislature,* and while Romney did sign it, he vetoed 8 sections of it, with his veto immediately overridden. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massach...

It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian

“You know, if you're not safe in Honesdale, that means that they can get you anywhere.” The “they” in that sentence refers to the masked goons of the federal government.

This is so jarringly unAmerican that I sort of hope it wakes some normies up. It is occurring in a context where military-style equipment is being used to enforce immigration roundups and conveys the notion that we are increasingly living in a police state.

Shocked, I am *shocked* (not shocking for anyone who’s heard/read Pinker talk about race)

They’re replacing DEI with DAI: discrimination, alienation, and impediment

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

The Republican Party has fully embraced fascism and destroyed American democracy. But some Democrats still say Latinx. I have never felt more politically homeless.

Biden, Krebs, Taylor: For the third time in three months, a sitting president ordered an investigation into a perceived political foe. Just because Trump keeps doing this doesn’t mean we should get used to it or see it as normal. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

They are supposed to be public employees, not members of Trump’s private goon squad.

Escalation.

#deadlinewh "With thy blessing we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogancies. Lead us to the saving of our country." FDR's prayer 81 yrs ago today are just as relevant today as they were then. The whole prayer is worth the read.

They are supposed to be public employees, not members of Trump’s private goon squad.

The Supreme Court's Republicans have just used the shadow docket to ensure that DOGE has immediate access to non-anonymized Social Security data before its legal authority to do so has been established www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

What do Medgar Evers, J.D. Salinger, Yogi Berra, James Doohan, and David Niven have in common? www.biography.com/military-fig...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court allows DOGE team to access Social Security systems with personal data on millions of Americans for now.

"Willie Sutton's trademark-bank-withdrawal effort."

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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What do Medgar Evers, J.D. Salinger, Yogi Berra, James Doohan, and David Niven have in common? www.biography.com/military-fig...

Superb piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social pointing out that both Trump and Musk "agree that the U.S. state should dramatically roll back its commitment to providing minimal social and economic resources for lower-income Americans, including the working poor."

As Trump’s relationship with Elon Musk implodes, the president apparently realizes that *many* former members of his team now hold him in contempt. He's not sure why. Perhaps I can help. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1962...

it does seem that the further this goes the harder it is to walk back

Not the most important thing, but are we sure Trump actually *paid* for the Tesla he allegedly bought? Did he pay by cash, credit, crypto or a wink and a nod? Did Musk issue a receipt?

I bought a sandwich on this gorgeous day in DC and thought I might eat it in Dupont Circle. But I can’t because it’s barricaded against Gay Pride marchers. I hate what my country is becoming.

Trump: No money for your Mom’s Medicaid, but $200 million for ads to promote himself. And that’s totally who Trump is and always has been.

Musk has let it be known that he plans to sit at his regular cafeteria spot & has passed a note to Donald's friends saying Trump can join him there after fourth period ends. But sources report that Trump ostentatiously tore the note up into little pieces and plans to sit at the jocks' lunch table.

NYT needs a name like Brangelina for their National Enquirer style coverage. Trusk, Mump.

As Trump attacks Harvard/higher ed, it is worth remembering that in 1819 the US Supreme Court ruled that in the United States citizens could form private corporations to promote public goods and ideas without fearing direct retribution by the state. That's part of freedom. #civilsociety

Behold, the home page of our newspaper of record on June 6, 2025.