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U Akron PoliSci Prof; Akron Press Club Board. Focus: #POTUS (esp #WHStaff & #WHCOS) & #Congress. Posts my own; Reposts/likes ≠ endorsement. #CountryOverParty; @POTUSProf by day, dynasty baseball & fantasy football enthusiast by night @Wallbangers82
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See Elon’s post below. MAGA is really hoping they can blame the Toronto airplane crash on a woman.

Compliments of 🟠. Geauga County, Ohio, YMCA….

On MSNBC The Weekend, @gtconway.bsky.social explained that if the executive branch chooses to ignore the judiciary, there is nothing the courts can do since the executive has the enforcement power. The courts have no police power. I’ve been telling students, journalists, & others this for years. 1/

President Musk meeting with Prime Minister Modi of India at the White House today.

Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.

Rep. Mary Miller introduces Rep. Sarah McBride as “The Gentleman from Delaware, Mr. McBride.” Performative cruelty.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

Dying in darkness. 🇺🇸

The @democrats.org Party is very very broken…

"The US should use military force to obtain new territory like Greenland and the Panama Canal" Disagree: 71% Agree: 9% Ipsos / Jan 21, 2025 / n=1077

Elon Musk makes surprise appearance at AfD event in eastern Germany

No one has ever done this—TWICE—by accident. On camera. Before an international audience. Again, I've lived a long time. I have never done a Nazi salute. My parents, uncles, in-laws, etc would have gone berserk. I've seen this explained away as "autism." If so, keep him miles away from govt.

Started //// going (Democracy dies in capitalism)

Timothy Rybeck, a historian of Hitler's Germany, just published a long & timely "step-by-step account of how Hitler systematically disabled & then dismantled his country’s democratic structures & processes in less than two months’ time." Bookmark it in your browser for later reading! Gift link:

Los Angeles received just 0.16 inches of rain since May 2024, the second-driest period on record. Wildfires are now engulfing the city in January. But some politicians still claim the climate crisis is a "hoax" as they do the bidding of Big Oil. What planet are they living on?

Live look at the Biden, the DOJ, and the Democratic leadership deciding what to do about the Aileen Cannon injunction...or Trump violating 14th Amendment...or anything, really... [Possibly the most prescient clip of all time.]

Ongoing sex battle in Indiana fox59.com/news/state-o...

Canada PM Justin Trudeau to resign today… www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

The Russian disinformation network “Matryoshka” has launched a new campaign on Bluesky. Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative journalism group Bellingcat, has been one of the first researchers to detect its activity. So far, four Russian-made fake videos have been identified on the platform.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out…

"Elon Musk is backing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD)," writes @politico.com, "The AfD is surging despite its growing radicalism and persistent warnings from mainstream leaders that it is an extremist, even Nazi, party." www.politico.eu/article/elon...

The AfD is the political arm of Germany’s right-wing extremism and has aligned itself with European authoritarian regimes. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/germany-afd-bjorn-hocke-far-right-thuringia-election/

I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.” The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.

Elon Musk, who no one voted for, has told his puppet Donald Trump to shut down the government because Elon wants the GOP to refuse to raise the debt ceiling and default on our national debt. This will crash the US dollar so he can replace it with crypto currency. 1/

Trump just nominated Kari Lake to a job she can't have. Senate approved a bipartisan board in December that has oversight over Voice of America and other US funded broadcasters www.voanews.com/amp/senate-a... .

Remember when Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker decided to get into politics? Well boy do we have a story for you.

Public opinion research from October shows nearly two-thirds of Republicans now agree with a view of immigrants associated with organized hate: that they are "poisoning the blood of the country"

There are 14 BILLIONAIRES that are part of the second Trump administration

Musk and Ramaswamy have already identified $516B dollars in government savings — it includes cutting all of Veteran’s Affairs health care, eliminating the NIH, and ending funding for federal prisons. @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social

Facing criticism, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield said it will not proceed with a policy to put time limits on coverage for anesthesia during surgery.

Gianaris is a NY state senator. Every state should ban this gruesome practice.

NEW: GOP state lawmakers in Florida and Texas introduced identical bills that would ban 'weather modification activities,' based on claims made by fringe conspiracy theorists about 'chemtrails.'