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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 24, 2026
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Frisk and I have both read a book called The Last Pumpkin Paper which canny readers knowledgeable about #Nixon will recognize as a reference to the infamous Alger Hiss case which has never been satisfactorily settled. It was an early political victory for the young Nixon, who was a vicious anti-Communist ideologue from the start of his Congressional years, given to slandering his opponents as Communist spies. Hiss was one of these persons, a State Department bureaucrat and a promising one. (cont'd)
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mxchara
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 24, 2026
RE: https://seattle.pink/@mxchara/116972462021660316 I'd like to take this specific matter up again, the Dick #Nixon problem. The U.S. public has been invited to be far more forgiving and charitable towards Richard Nixon than he deserves. This was a policy right from the start; the GOP scheme to insure Nixon's pardon has been considered a sound resolution to the whole affair and that is clearly wrong. An unholy fixation on executive clemency as a political weapon has invaded U.S. #politics thanks to the Nixon pardon. This has a moral dimension: according to the moral standards of Christofascism, a Trump pardon is exactly equivalent to a plenary indulgence. (cont'd)
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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink
Nixon was unusually cheerless and grumpy because he had a residual conscience, a memory of being touched by the faithful spirit of his Quaker mother, who referred to her children in the old Quaker way--avoiding the overfamiliar "you" and sticking with the courteous use of "thou" and "thee". Nixon was fatally tempted and corrupted by proximity to absolute power but it gnawed at him that he'd fallen so far. He self-medicated to a terrifying degree. After his Presidency ended in disgrace, Dick Nixon returned to marketing himself, building a new image as an elder statesman. (cont'd)
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Nonilex
Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai · Jun 30, 2026
#GiftArticle The ‘#DeepState’ didn’t take down #Nixon. So why did #JDVance say it did? 
Nixon’s #Crimes, the #Courts, #Congress & the #FreePress drove #Watergate. Such a scandal of #crime & #corruption could easily happen again — especially in a nation where #Trump controls the #press, the rule of #law only applies to his enemies & the courts have been subjugated by a #corrupt #SCOTUS. #Trumpaganda #propaganda #Republicans #RevisionistHistory #UShistory #law #criminal https://wapo.st/4eOdXMT
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ratatosk
Andi Chorley @ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 01, 2026
Vineland is a 1990[a] postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon set in California in 1984, the year of President Ronald Reagan's reelection. Through flashbacks, its characters, who lived through the 1960s, account for the free spirit of rebellion of that decade, and describe the traits of the "fascistic Nixonian repression" and the war on drugs that clashed with it. The book portrays transformations in U.S. society from the 1960s to the 1980s. - Wikipedia My first Thomas Pynchon novel, despite having meant to read him for decades. A dense, intense read, but very worthwhile, and whilst about Reagan's Amerikka and what preceded it is nonetheless very relevant to the events we are living through today. I look forward to reading the loose adaptation, One Battle After Another. #ThomasPynchon #Reading #Novels #USA #America #Nixon #Reagan #WaronDrugs
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