Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell made a deal with Jeff Flake and the Democrats to put the DACA Act up for a vote in January 2018, only to capitulate to Stephen Miller and Trump’s gutter racism.

During his very first press conference as president in 2017, Trump made sure to mock and belittle Lindsey Graham. www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...

Five facts that you should know about the current Cyclospora outbreak.

Jaffa had a notable feud with Mel Bradford, the original paleoconservative. "Bradford would never come right out and defend slavery. You can’t do that these days. Instead of defending slavery, he attacks Lincoln."

Lindsey Graham’s calculated tantrum secured Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination. That display of white rage is how he should be remembered.

This "tweet" from a year ago has been deleted by its author. I'm posting here now on BlueSky as a reminder and as a public service, for anyone, should they ever need it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Marco Rubio is praising The Beatles and The Rolling Stones for playing rock music created by Black Americans. John Lennon emigrated to America, married a Japanese immigrant, fought deportation, and wrote "Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do." An antithesis to Rubio’s garbage.

The only chain that a man can stand, Is that chain of hand in hand Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on youtu.be/BSrzg2DgFr8 "Keep your hand on that plow, hold on" was an old spiritual, revitalized by Langston Hughes in Freedom's Plow. Paul Muni recited the poem to music on the radio in March 1943.

In the theory of fascism, this is called "a glimpse of freedom." "Fascism is the mobilization of people’s fear of freedom after they’ve seen a glimpse of freedom... They’re not just afraid of other people becoming free. Deep down, they fear their own freedom, too."

In 1992, when closeted Rabois was an associate of closeted Thiel, he gained attention by shouting homophobic slurs at a Stanford lecturer.

AJ, a member of the Emma Goldman Book Club and longtime friend of several defendants, said the book club met once a month to discuss articles on topics ranging from feminism to afropessimism to environmental issues.

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Happy Fourth of July from Willie and me!

Nothing at all against the Jews themselves, mind you.

FDR in 1944: "All of our people all over the country—except the pure-blooded Indians- are immigrants or descendants of immigrants… big as this country is, there is no room in it for racial or religious intolerance—and there is no room for snobbery." www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad...

For fun, I searched the National Archives catalogue for Donald Trump. This 1989 letter to GWB is a hoot...

Jack Posobiec in July 2024: "I seem to remember a senator from Wisconsin telling us that communists were infiltrating our government. And you know what? He was exactly right."

"I wish I might live fifty years longer; I believe I should see the thrones of Europe selling at auction for old iron. I believe I should really see the end of what is surely the grotesquest of all the swindles ever invented by man - monarchy." Mark Twain disdained the Russian monarchy the most.

Paleoconservative Mel Bradford, who opposed Lincoln and Strauss’s student Harry Jaffa, argued the opposite: Because of obvious contradictions, the Declaration of Independence cannot possibly mean what it says about equality. theimaginativeconservative.org/2024/07/read...

The picture below was taken in Dearborn, Michigan, during Biden’s visit in May 2021. The Arab-American community, most concerned about Gaza, voted for Trump in 2024. No street protests occurred there during Trump’s visit in January 2026. There were also no Palestinian flags at Dearborn’s "No Kings".

One difficulty Nixon faced in convincing his senior colleagues at HUAC about Alger Hiss was that Hiss wasn’t Jewish. www.nytimes.com/1999/10/07/u...

By this logic, Americans fully support Trump and his agenda and should be blamed for everything he does. They allowed Trump to erode America's democracy to the point that it is now lower than Israel's.

Nobody hated USAID more than Putin, who banned it in Russia in 2012.

JFK helped end the Hollywood blacklist by watching "Spartacus" at a Washington movie theater in February 1961.

"The ability of the center-right to distance itself from the far-right was critical."

”We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable,” Jefferson had written. Franklin scratches out the last three words and makes it “self-evident.” The choice reflects his rational humanism rooted in logic—but also remains beautifully concise. 5/5

Naturally, Jimmy Dore was the worst. "Corporate media is going along with the Clinton campaign’s tactic of focusing on the (unproven) claim that the Wikileaks emails were hacked by Russia… Jimmy Dore, Richard Eskow, and Alonzo Bodden, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down." (October 22, 2016)

In 2016, during the peak of TYT’s influence (5 million people watched them on election night), they defended Russian propaganda. "RT America is not an arm of the Kremlin or Putin’s propaganda network. In fact, RT America is the source for some of the best progressive news out there right now."

Obama shouts out "those ordinary people in the Twin Cities who braved frigid temperatures, risked their own safety, standing shoulder to shoulder to look our for their neighbors and sometimes for strangers because they knew that was the right thing to do"

When Hitler started out, he took the Jews from their homes Hitler started out, took the Jews from their homes That's one thing, Mr. Hitler, you know you done wrong youtu.be/9M2wj-K1Rqk Sometimes history presents us with a clear choice between right and wrong.

The story of Nixon’s 1971 veto is illuminating. Bill Buckley supported John Ashbrook, an opponent of the Comprehensive Child Development Act, in his primary challenge to Nixon. youtu.be/3HzMlvpoS4k

In 1965, James Baldwin famously owned Bill Buckley at Cambridge. "The proposition, led by Baldwin, won by a landslide majority of 380, with the 'Ayes' receiving 544 votes to the 'Noes' 164."

Let’s celebrate true American masculinity in the image of a UFC fighter, represented by Jeffrey Epstein’s bodyguard and personal trainer.

A true Lincoln Memorial 💙 #HappyObamaDay

Tackiness and violence are the ultimate response to the White House being desecrated by having a Black president.

3. Your voice matters. You have the opportunity to express your concerns. Public comment is open until July 13. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Remember when y'all made this thread on Paulina Borsook go viral? Well, that resulted in her getting a deal to re-publish her book in the USA, the UK & Commonwealth, Belgium, France, and Switzerland! Coming Sept. 15—with a foreword by some guy named Gil Duran. Pre-order! www.cyberselfish.com

"Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that using the power of the State and the power of the market simultaneously they may keep the common man in eternal subjection." Henry Wallace on American fascism in April 1944.

"Charles McGonigal, a former FBI agent Aman had hired in 2022 as head of security, pleaded guilty last year to felonies in two separate cases, including violating U.S. sanctions by accepting secret payments from Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, for which he was sentenced to prison."

In October 2023, Biden made a moral case for supporting Ukraine and Israel as fellow democracies. "Fuck democracy! We want a dictatorship," said the horseshoe and helped Trump.

Before dying, Lee Atwater, Bush’s campaign manager, confessed to setting up a trap for Gary Hart.

Can we get @jamestalarico.bsky.social over 100,000 followers? I know we can! Let’s go Team Talarico! @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social

The 2016 RNC platform called for overturning Obergefell by electing a president who would appoint conservative justices.

Sam Francis paraphrased Joseph de Maistre when he said, "tribal behavior is what makes human beings human." This quote from non-religious but "culturally Christian" Francis is used as the opening epigraph in the book on Christian nationalism, promoted by Doug Wilson, Pete Hegseth’s spiritual leader.

"German anti-fascists have always declared that fascism had nothing new to offer, neither new ideas nor even the intention to find such ideas — that it was nothing more than good, old-fashioned barbaric reaction…"

Gromyko: "Hundreds of thousands of Jews are wandering across various European countries in search of a livelihood and refuge. Most of them are in displaced persons camps, and all continue to suffer great hardships." Most of the Holocaust survivors in the DP camps were forced there from the East.

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.  He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton

Here’s the article btw: Cheng, Myra, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Sunny Yu, Dyllan Han, and Dan Jurafsky. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, no. 6792 (2026): eaec8352.

James Bevel’s strategic contributions were crucial to the movement’s success. It’s a good thing we don't have his statues. In theory, good wins over evil. In practice, defeating evil requires some compromises.