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Alan Snyder

@alansnyder.bsky.social
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History professor at Christian universities for 35 years. Author of 6 books. Most recent ones on C. S. Lewis, who has been my research and writing focus for the past decade.

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John A. Daly @johndalybooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I just believe in the peaceful transfer of power. You lose an election, you suck it up, you congratulate... I said this person should not lead our country." —Asa Hutchinson, on why he ran for president in 2024 From this week's #ReaganCaucus Podcast: www.reagancaucusaction.org/p/asa-hutchi...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h
I guess he missed Hegseth’s speech at Quantico this week.
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CNN @cnn.com · 9h
A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. cnn.it/4AIwBQs
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So now there is no accountability whatsoever, and he consistently acts like it. And why wouldn't he?
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Republican Senate rationalized their failure to impeach him in 2021 because, they said, he would be accountable to legal prosecution. Then the Republican Supreme Court ruled, no, he's not, the only legal accountability was through impeachment.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h
Looks like Trump’s new “steel plant” in IA, announced to shore up support in midterms from people his policies have crushed, where he said construction has already begun, is nowhere close to happening and contingent on Iowans giving tax breaks & incentives to a company in India.
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Politico @politico.com · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether ICE’s unprecedented mandatory detention policy — which lower courts have rejected more than 20,000 times — is legal.
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Supreme Court will rule on Trump’s ICE detention policy
Lower courts have overwhelmingly rejected ICE’s novel view of its detention authority.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wonder why Trump and Republicans are promoting this industry so heavily and are allowing them to operate free from any guardrails or regulation?
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey you, Europe, You know how we started a war without telling you, failed badly, and hurt all our economies? No, after we tariffed you, lectured you that Russia isn’t a threat, and demanded territory. Okay. So. Weaken yourself to rescue us or we’ll hurt our own economy more and you’ll be sorry.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Amidst a failing war the US started, the SecDef chose to focus on measuring military members’ hormones, and injecting testosterone into personnel whose hormone levels he dislikes. He also fixates on PT while losing an air war. If you said this to someone a few years ago, they wouldn’t believe you.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/09/2026
Jack Smith praised honest Republican officials who had stood up to Trump’s corrupt pressure. The committee’s senators, listening to Smith’s remarks, could have chosen to identify with the honest Republicans he cited as models.
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Jack Smith and the Republican Smear Squad
If holding Trump accountable makes you an enemy of the GOP, the party has told you everything you need to know.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"If Warren G. Harding had kept his hands off Teapot Dome, gas would be under two dollars a gallon."
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pathetic…..
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
grandpa is talking crazy about the TV again
Why does FoxNews always put Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Jessica Tarlov, and every Democrat on, saying bad things about the Republican Party and, of course, me? I actually think they get more airtime than Pro Republicans. This is why MAGA, and REAL Patriots, will never like Fox! They repeat a completely negative narrative, on and on it goes, and then we get a quick retort. It’s truly amazing that I won all three Elections. The opposition is enormous, but the fight goes on! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mentions on Fox shows of the very newsworthy confrontation between Schmitt and Jack Smith: Ingraham (7-8pm): 0 Watters (8-9): 0 Hannity (9-10): 0 Gutfeld (10-11): 0 Fox & Friends this AM: 0
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
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Hegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academies
Military academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.”
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 30/09/2026
Exclusive: Donald Trump supports a new plan to offer Russia sanctions relief in exchange for the release of political prisoners—a move likely to outrage Ukraine, Europe, and even some of his allies in Congress, @shustry.bsky.social reports. theatln.tc/pV4oxIGu
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adrian @crawf34.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
bill clinton made my electric bill skyrocket this year
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/09/2026
"If there has ever been a politician who has invited electoral repudiation by betraying his own voters more thoroughly than Trump has, I can’t think of one." New from Mona Charen:
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Trump’s Populist Image Is Dead
That’s the price of corruption.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Them: "Maybe we should rethink the role of nutrition in health policy." Me: "The head of US health policy believes that vaccines are bad and are the greatest health care danger that we face."
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Them: "But how should we address chronic trade imbalances?" Me: "The President keeps threatening to invade and annex Canada, calling it the worst country in the world. That is flat-out insane."
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation. The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you’ve decided to start calling something by a new name because Donald Trump decided he wants everyone to call it something different, then you are in a cult of pathetic morons.
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Alan Godwin @alangodwin52.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yesterday’s Senate hearing brought to mind that old joke about the preacher who wrote this in the margin of his sermon outline: “Weak point, yell louder.”
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Republican senator's gotcha moment of confrontation against Jack Smith involving a basketball game backfires when it turns out the senator got the wrong game, wrong league and wrong state. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Jack Smith Defends Trump Charges as Senator’s Perjury Claim Falls Apart
A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
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Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Diogenes looked for an honest man. Are you looking for an honorable one? In my column today, I write about Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 golfer in the world. Further issues include the Iran war and a Philippine Schindler (talk about honor). www.jaynordlinger.com/p/an-instanc...
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An Instance of Honor, &c.
On golfers, the Iran war, flag-waving, a Philippine Schindler, and more
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a Christian ethic, but the Christian faith is about far more than ethics.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You’re going to get those $5,000 checks from Trump as soon as Eric Schmitt finds proof that Jack Smith was at the Atlanta Hawks game.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow Eric Schmitt will present proof that Trump never met Jeffrey Epstein.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You would think at some point MAGA would get tired of the incompetent buffoons they have representing them. But it seems like they’ve pretty much just accepted it as part of their brand.
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Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sen. Kennedy, in particular, is the picture of smug, ignorant triumph, emblematic of this age.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Again, gas prices spiked in 2022-23 because Russia invaded Ukraine which caused a major disruption in global supply. Then they came down. Biden didn’t cause it. Gas prices rose in 2026 due solely to the stupidity of Trump who started a war in the Middle East.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
The Jack Smith hearing is airing live on CNN, MS NOW, and NewsNation ... but not on Fox News 🤔
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why won’t network evening news broadcasts show their audience video of Trump dozing off during press events in the Oval Office in the middle of the day while people are talking, as he’s done dozens and dozen of times? Is that not newsworthy? Is it impolite? Will you lose access?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All Trump’s malevolence and psychosis will be on full display right after the midterms. We’ve been here before in Nov 2020, and here we go again. The national nightmare of Trump refusing to accept defeat and dragging the country through lies, conspiracies and drama begins again.
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Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A new CNN KFile investigation finds two past accounts from Texas GOP candidate Bo French calling for public executions of government officials, Obama, Adam Schiff, and more. Repeatedly asked Texas GOP, Paxton, Abbott campaigns if they stood by him and got no response. www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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KFile: Texas GOP candidate Bo French has a history of calling for public executions | CNN Politics
Bo French, the Republican nominee for one of Texas’ most powerful statewide offices, is facing bipartisan criticism over a racist post about the crowd at a University of Texas football game.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Putin’s reward for bombing hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, public parks and museums and killing children is to get invited to the G20 Summit by Marco Rubio.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it’s so funny that people were like “OMG a 2PM Oval Office announcement, is Trump going to end the war in Iran or invade Cuba?!?!” and it turns out, no, he’s just going to rant about how good the economy is + how elections are rigged and then fall asleep
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You can trust it's not a conspiracy theory because an election denier said it
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our tax dollars are being spent to indulge the fantasies and to soothe the fragile ego of a narcissistic sociopath who is falling deeper and deeper into psychosis.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Exactly. As he becomes more deranged and politically weaker, he will become more desperate and more dangerous.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” (Eph 3:20-21 ESV)
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So basically Trump is telling MAGA voters not to vote for Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar in November because she is a “back stabber” for criticizing him.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Does he realize how weak and pathetic this makes him look?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And just like that, MAGA loves the Chinese Communist Party leader.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: The plane appearing to have been scheduled to fly third-country nationals to 3 African countries today—before an appeals court prohibited it last night—has taken off, landed at Gitmo (Somalis in ICE camp there) and is now in San Juan, a common refueling stop for ICE flights to Africa.
An FR24 map showing N352BH landing at Gitmo. An FR24 map showing N352BH going from Gitmo to San Juan.
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