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• Post #4514688

  Lord Clive! Known as Lord Vulture during his lifetime because of his asset stripping with the East India Trading Company he killed himself after his reputation was so damaged. Statue erected in 1912!

• Post #4500104

  Wut www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...

• Post #4456312

  If a Governor can get Rebecca Hendricks or the Uihleins to leave it would certainly strengthen state democracy RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dci5jlffbhbi4ui4inf2wk6i/post/3mslpamip222z

• Post #4422773

  New from me: More than a trillion dollars flow through the federal government in grants. We have more and more evidence that the Trump administration has been directing those grants on purely partisan grounds, denying them to blue states. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-... Governing without Accountabili...

• Post #4388237

  No way this could backfire. When it does, Trump will blame states or somebody else, but this is a decision to endanger Americans that Congress did not approve. (Via @almsnatalie.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy) www.notus.org/agencies/fem... RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sivo2cn3vdjpt7ny2myjmbfr/post/3msbunyfdnk2d FEMA Cut Staff Without Plannin...

• Post #4382368

  Cannot get enough of these AI videos of Chinese everyman beating on the haughty foreigners. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ig76w6ddz35iu6iyv2e3tv34/post/3ms7chh5pho2q

• Post #4382167

  It's bad we have become a police state, but also a very inefficient police state RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tfi2ptjvgjf5xvkbykujtyz7/post/3msbds5sgyc2x

• Post #4382105

  The "cancel Thanksgiving" stuff is bad b/c its at the intersection of something she has no control of (the Governor of WI does not determine Thanksgiving) while also being a talking point that low-information voters will remember. Should pivot to "I'll be the first Governor to cook the turkey." RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3msb2jp7czz2e

• Post #4382025

  Domestically our government tries to prosecute people all the time who are clearly innocent. Even if you are not bothered by the lack of due process (and we all should be) huge amount of trust is going into intelligence behind who the US boat kills. And Senators are saying that trust is unwarranted. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dzezcmpb3fhcpns4n4xm4ur5/post/3ms7xregub52d

• Post #4368761

  Would be very cool to live in a country where we did not have to worry about a coup every couple of years RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:554uh3zchoid3tyseo2mfml5/post/3ms7tbo25qk2h

• Post #4368402

  The thing about RFK Jr is that he is a liar who has figured out there is a lot of money to be made from lying. Small example, he claimed the NY Times refused to publish an ad for his anti-Fauci book. Censored! Suppressed! Except they did. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

• Post #4365503

  These AI foreigners are deeply disrespectful of Chinese culture, despite having taking the time to become fluent in Mandarin RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ig76w6ddz35iu6iyv2e3tv34/post/3ms7chh2hx22q

• Post #4361409

  The reliance on AAU and the Yale/Vanderbilt reports shows that the administration (or at least McMahon) still cares about the imprimatur of academic support for policies most academics oppose. They are also pushing this now because they know such policies won't be tenable in 2028. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:apssfu5zqqdhdxsutocuwgd4/post/3ms6triazf22q

• Post #4361324

  Being a strong advocate of institutional neutrality and also advocating for using political ideology as a key criterion for hiring are not logically consistent positions. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:chlzwyjlbeu4l7qvavvmw5hf/post/3ms6ispzozs2z

• Post #4359657

  Still amazing that the official government policy is universities can't do DEI except for hiring professors whose politics better align with the regime in power. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/post/3ms6icqzgl227

• Post #4345184

  The consolidation of the media is bad in its own right. But Dems going along with it for companies who are avowedly opposed to your interests is political malpractice. This is where the idea of power-shifting comes in handy. Stop empowering your adversaries. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding... RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nztbvvo2gl4227zuxjf7gog3/post/3mrxlp3xcrs2i Rebuilding Democracy Requires ...

• Post #4282833

  This sort of sums it up: DOGE fired the employee of the year from the National Endowment of the Humanities. Then the government tried to hire her back. But their pitch was so unattractive that she said now. You can't treat people like shit and expect them to crawl back. www.notus.org/agencies/dog... DOGE Is Officially Ending. Age...

• Post #4281567

  It is not just that Fauci is held to a different standard. His critics are held to no standards at all. They routinely say insane or untrue things. We saw one of the most extraordinary public health officials in the world being lectured to by public health cranks. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h3ki44q6c2jrhhphbwfr7yaf/post/3mrwugpyha22u

• Post #4262779

  If not Matt Damon, who is you alternative Odysseus?

• Post #4262254

  A single interest group whose primary mission is to represent the interests of another country has spent $30 million on a *primary race* www.ap.org/news-highlig.... AIPAC has spent a record amoun...

• Post #4262196

  Threads

• Post #4255834

  Under Fauci, we ate steak. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h7qtoo7nxqxarrsijohjhbw4/post/3mrurub6klt2w

• Post #4251196

  New, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t... Watching the show trials

• Post #4245843

  UEFA channeling everyone: "The World Cup cannot be treated as an investment product. It is one of football's greatest sporting legacies. It has been built over generations by players, national teams and supporters across every continent. No part of it should ever be surrendered to private investors" RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:le235bw27qqmgnjdfq337jse/post/3mrurc4hf7k2d

• Post #4245739

  UEFA RUN ITS OWN WORLD CUP WITH JUST EUROVISION CONTESTANTS RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pnx2fjuannbdpy3337ggthpp/post/3mrupwv63xd2i

• Post #4244612

  "Also among those detained was a Ugandan woman in a wheelchair who has sickle cell anemia and an active asylum application, according to her lawyer." “It’s not people with criminal records” being targeted, Mr. Shamieh said. “You are talking about people with legitimate pending applications.” RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:chnfawig5kkpqnawqb3cyfeb/post/3mrqcbcmxqc2c

• Post #4172845

  In another victory for intellectual diversity, the NY Times conservative opinion person hired by the billionaire Trump supporters has hired another NY Times conservative opinion person as actual journalists keep getting shoved out. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bdzjbqgd2ojj3qkrhpbkzuxu/post/3mrq6euf7dc2x

• Post #4171880

  He is one conspiracy theory away from mutating into this RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vovinwhtulbsx4mwfw26r5ni/post/3mrpa345fxo23

• Post #4171749

  The only way to be a university leader with a shot of getting a job in Florida is a) be a MAGA Republican or b) getting someone like Nick Saban will vouch for you. And even then, b) might not work. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t246266smqkjxhwir7xpbl3o/post/3mrq2f4stkc22

• Post #4169939

  When journalists asked me about where we would see the effects of DOGE, my answer was a) during crises and b) for the big services that interact with the public like SSA, VA and IRS. So lets check in on the IRS: www.motherjones.com/politics/202... The IRS is imploding.