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Professor, IUBloomington. Shakespearean, Dog mom, private pilot, landlocked surfer. Author of Notorious Identity (Harvard UP); Hamlet’s Heirs (Routledge); assorted products in the Divine Right to Democracy aisle. Political Psychology at eye-level.
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He didn’t want the actual job of being president. He wanted one thing: to stay out of prison. Secondary—getting pending cases dropped; taking revenge on anyone who prosecuted or investigated him; capitalizing on the emoluments of the office. He got all that. And handed Musk the rest of the job.

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Still and forever

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This goes out to the 34% of eligible voters who sat it out last November.

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submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Ubermensch, jah.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

He’s gotta keep that newly-regenerated miracle ear warm that’s why.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

This is SO sick. This is them. Guardians of our Republic.

submitted 93 days ago • 3 comments

Someone needs to ask Hegseth if he’s had a drink today. He’s way too wratched up.

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

Hegseth is not a patriot, he is a zealot for Trump. He talks like a rapist, pushing pushing against others, beating them over the head with his rhetorical holyrollerdom.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Hegseth is effing terrifying.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Mr Trump’s criminality is patent, extreme, treasonous, and anti-American. He is befouled by his own irredeemable corruption. It’s plain as day. We’ve become a nation half of whom simply don’t care.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Well this isn’t good. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

I remember all of them, and some took years to recover from. A good NY🥳’s resolution to think twice.

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Bury him in his own words. OD:

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And a total racket it is, too. It’s not even as moral as garden -variety extortion, where at least you get something in return for your enforced payment. apple.news/ATBKvNV0oRNO...

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

💀💀💀

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He is a plague, to be sure, and we have to survive his corrosive recrudescence and make sure that something like him—and his enablers— are never again able to mortally sicken our body politic. So say we all.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Think. Think harder.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

The facts. No travesty of SCOTUS hocus pocus or willful irrationality by 47% of low-information/brainwashed voters will or can change those facts. Shakespeare wrote “Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning,” and he was right.

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Remember when Dump wanted a military parade, like those in Russia and North Korea? I’m predicting that he’ll have one—the first in US history— parading IBMs, armored tanks, goose stepping soldiers, and heavy weapons—within his first year.

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British aristocrat SIR Andrew Witty, new CEO of United Healthcare Corporation, given editorial space to tell his lies in the NYT. I haven’t read anything quite so snooty and condescending since, well, David Brooks’s last column.

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

Americans—We deserve this. We pay for a service we don’t receive. Enough is enough. This should be the top goal for the Democratic and Independent parties. Demand it and don’t stop until all voters understand that it will protect ALL of us from needless death, despair, misery, and bankruptcy.

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Simply superb. We need universal healthcare and we’re need it now. steveschmidt.substack.com/p/americas-h...

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Happy New Year. Enjoy the Polio, courtesy of the Roadkill Eater.

submitted 128 days ago • 1 comment

No exoneration. Not once. www.thebulwark.com/p/dont-let-t...

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

How hard could it be?

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Guaranteed by our 14th Amendment. worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...

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Once upon a time there was this flying Shakespearean in the Midwest, giving aerial tours to friends and colleagues.

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Mood

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From 4 years ago: "The US healthcare system is helping to kill people in staggering numbers. And when it isn’t driving Americans to an early grave, the medical industry is bleeding the rest of the country of resources..." www.theguardian.com/society/2020...

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Nothing will change this fact. Nothing.

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Feelings? How about facts. The Medical-Insurance industry is evil, parasitical, and should be dismantled. Single-payer medicare for all citizens is the ONLY way to cure this cancer destroying lives, and standards of living, ESPECIALLY for what’s left of the middle-class. apple.news/ASy_o_WGXRI6...

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

An awful lot of emo around this. Time for universal healthcare. www.thedailybeast.com/leading-medi...

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

My bluesky “roast”—not bad

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Surgeon wakes up patient in the middle of surgery to ask “how do you want to pay for the remaining anesthesia? Cash or credit card?”

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