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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Regime Change and Corruption snyder.substack.com/p/regime-cha... "Anne described a coalition of actors who have never before controlled the federal government: those bent on destroying the administrative state, Christian nationalists, white supremacists, and tech and crypto oligarchs."
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Regime Change and Corruption with Anne Applebaum
A recording from Timothy Snyder's live video
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
snyder.substack.com/p/trump-powe... "The US is rapidly deflating its own power, both immediately, by torching alliances and losing wars, and over the long term, by hollowing out the economy, social mobility, and the research and educational base that power actually rests on."
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Trump, Power, What Comes Next with Robert Reich
A recording from Timothy Snyder and Robert Reich's conversation
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
lucid.substack.com/p/has-trump-... "Corruption and lawlessness go into overdrive; Trump’s adulation of a Communist dictator."
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Has Trump Gone Full Authoritarian? With Ruth Ben Ghiat
Watch now (56 mins) | Corruption and lawlessness go into overdrive; Trump’s adulation of a Communist dictator
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... "One is an authoritarian who represses the media and has a strong allergy to democratic elections. The other is head of the Chinese Communist party."
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Trump swoons over strongman soulmate Xi – are you feeling jealous, Vladimir?
Deference was deafening as US president rolled out red carpet for world’s biggest jailer of journalists – perhaps he was seeking tips
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
steady.substack.com/p/he-said-xi... "Trump kicked out 3 news organizations from the WH, tagging them with his tired “fake news” moniker. The outlets sued, the judge sided with the media. Reporters must be admitted. By ignoring the judge, Trump once again thumbed his nose at the rule of law."
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He Said, Xi Said
Trump spent his day kowtowing
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Anatomy of Exhaustion daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/the-anatom... "For generations, the primary tool of systemic maintenance has been gaslighting—convincing the public that their material decline is an individual failure rather than a structural feature."
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The Anatomy of Exhaustion
How the Myth of Normalcy Collapsed
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Customer engagement vs digital addiction. The risk of designing habit forming products. dave-sloan.medium.com/customer-eng... @catherine-price.bsky.social
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Customer engagement vs digital addiction
The risk of designing habit-forming products
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
open.substack.com/pub/thenextm... "In 1776, the Crown raided a newspaper’s offices for publishing critical commentary about the royal regime. The Stamp Act smothered America’s nascent free press in the cradle, charging publishers sympathetic to the rebels under Britain’s seditious libel laws."
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King Trump’s Press Ban
Banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico is straight out of the 1776 playbook—the British Crown’s playbook, that is.
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th... "Trump is a corporate raider doing what corporate raiders do. He seeks to destroy the media much as he seeks to destroy the US itself." @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
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Gutting the Fourth Estate
The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump’s Ban Is Backfiring steady.substack.com/p/trumps-ban... "Journalism has survived dictators, despots, and others who have tried to control the Fourth Estate. It will survive Donald Trump too."
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Trump’s Ban Is Backfiring
As the media unites against him
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
lucid.substack.com/p/a-reckonin... "A principle of autocratic behavior is that such leaders rarely course correct. Instead they double down: aggressions increase as their legitimacy decreases, and the mania to control the narrative grows. Trump is well into the autocratic backfire process."
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A Reckoning for the Free Press in America, as a Weakened Trump Escalates His Attacks
White House Press Bans, and a Dangerous Media Merger
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
open.substack.com/pub/stevenha... "The person losing money becomes a customer for the explanation of why they are losing money."
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Selling Financial Freedom: William Keep on MLMs, Crypto, and the Politics of Deception
How promises of a better life become tools of undue influence—and why consumer protection matters
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rise-o... "Trump Republicans have instead aimed populist fury at immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, Black and Latino people, “communists,” Muslims, so-called “woke” leaders, “coastal elites,” “childless cat ladies,” and other scapegoats."
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The Rise of AI Populism
Are we on the cusp of a political realignment against corporate power?
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frostellicus @maxellxlii.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Violence is the language of fascism. Ironsides’ monologue at the beginning of Starship Troopers covers it rather well youtu.be/EBxgrr0wL8M?...
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Starship Troopers: Failure of Democracy (HD)
YouTube video by Nightbound
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-gre... "A fiscal rescue is necessary because ticket sales and fundraising plunged after the trustees added Trump’s name to the building in December."
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Trump’s Worst Fear
His vanity, narcissism, vainglory, and vindictiveness are mere symptoms
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Sheeran Effect! daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/the-sheera... "The sudden retreat to “neutrality” in the face of ongoing human suffering and clear corporate bullying didn’t protect his brand—it cratered it."
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The Sheeran Effect!
How Ed Sheeran, Billionaire Bullying, and the Streisand Effect Backfired
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchy-... "The internet, far from spreading knowledge and reason, favored conspiracy thinking and habits of mind inconsistent with freedom and the rule of law."
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Oligarchy, Neo Fascism, and Liberation
Lesson ten in my lecture series
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered... "AI is the technofascist replacement for life, stripped of the qualities that make it worth living: love, imagination, curiosity, the natural world."
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I Wandered Lonely in The Cloud
How AI is destroying the life of the mind.
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You went to the protest. Great. That took courage. Fascism is not stopped by people who show up for one march and skip the next election. Fascism is stopped by people who register, vote, and bring their friends along to. #GetReadyToVote 🇺🇸
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
jesspiper.substack.com/p/hes-underw... "There is something going on in rural America. You’ve heard me say it so many times, but as November approaches, I am more confident in what I witness first-hand. Change is coming, and it’s starting in places like Iowa and Texas and Ohio and North Carolina."
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He’s Underwater
Rural Republican voters are coming around
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/09/2026
Katie Phang on a Russian oligarch bankrolling Don Jr.’s wedding: “They’re so dumb, we see it happening in real time. But because there’s no consequence or accountability, they just do it in the wide open.”
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
steady.substack.com/p/obama-trum... "Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources… The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all."
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Obama, Trump and the Age of AI
No easy answers
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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Billion-Dollar Shell Game daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/the-billio... "We are witnessing an overt, high-speed liquidation of public trust—funded by foreign oligarchs, powered by unregulated crypto tokens, and accelerated by the apocalyptic egoism of Silicon Valley."
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The Billion-Dollar Shell Game
How Crypto, AI, and Political Grift Are Eating America Alive
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I said this years ago. It's been obvious. It remains obvious. It's a tragedy for our country.
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
robertreich.substack.com/p/this-weeks... "Furthermore, she found an “overwhelming risk” to Americans who need access to mail ballots to vote, and that if the plan were implemented, they wouldn’t be able to."
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This week’s Joseph N. Welch Award goes to …
Recognizing the people who are protecting us against Trump’s authoritarianism
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
lucid.substack.com/p/hungarys-h... "The GOP and its patron the Heritage Foundation had long ago linked themselves to Orbán, who spoke at CPAC and advised them on how to wreck American democracy."
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Hungary’s Half-Turn
The new government is dismantling the economic machinery of Orbánism. But that is not the same as remaking the order that made it durable.
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Helping the Terrorists to Win snyder.substack.com/p/helping-th... "The basic American policy response to 9/11 should have been to liberate ourselves from fossil fuels. Without our dependence on oil, we would never have been entangled in the Middle East in the first place."
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Helping the Terrorists to Win
A Quarter Century after 9/11
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/09/2026
If they really wanted to give everyone $5k they could do it right now
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/09/2026
Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
newrepublic.com/article/2151... "Trump is threatening things that are never, ever going to happen. The calculation that his voters will be satisfied by this—even as he’s failing them so badly across the board—reveals his seething contempt for them with great clarity."
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Angry, Unglued Trump Accidentally Reveals His Contempt for MAGA Voters
As fresh Trump outbursts expose what he really thinks of his supporters, a skilled decoder of MAGA explains the role of sheer unreality in Trumpian politics—and why it betrays deep political weakness...
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.patreon.com/gaslit/posts... "Mar-a-Lago face” is what happens to white women when they try to secure proximity to power by joining a death cult."
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Unmasking "Mar-a-Lago Face" | Gaslit Nation
“Mar-a-Lago face” is what happens to white women when they try to secure proximity to power by joining a death cult. Feminist icon Soraya Ch
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Fair Warning @fairwarning.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Why have him on?
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
robertreich.substack.com/p/the-real-f... "It’s another example of Republicans deserting Trump, who thinks the “fix” for SS is to repeal taxes on SS benefits. Trump’s fix will not save Social Security. Without the revenue from SS taxes, the SS trust fund will run out of money even sooner."
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The Real Fix For Social Security
We may be on the brink of a bipartisan solution that’s fair
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
lucid.substack.com/p/elections-... "Authoritarians try and delegitimize the idea of voting and attack every link in the chain of voting, from making it more dangerous and difficult to vote, to claiming the results are “rigged” if they lose, to staging coup attempts to stay in power illegally."
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Elections and Autocracy, with Joyce Vance
On standing up for our right to vote, and how we cope with stress
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Kelly Miller @sqirlgirly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It isn't banned, some removed it due to a boycott & lack of sales. Lutnick: "It's disgraceful that Canada refuses to put American spirits on its shelves. It's insulting and disrespectful to America." Shaheen: "They won't do it because of the insults from this president and comments like yours."
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Wonder Why🦆Ducky🦆 @duck-flying.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation If tech firms such as Meta, Google and TikTok did not give the option to turn off algorithms, they should face "substantial" penalties www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation
Firms like Meta, Google and TikTok should face "substantial" penalties if they don't give the option, minister says.
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... "But his popularity dwindled immediately, as he cleaved the federal workforce, imposed price-inflating tariffs, passed a profligate spending bill and launched a rudderless war with Iran. Some 58% of voters now disapprove of his performance with only 38% approving"
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More voters identifying as Democrats and not calling themselves Republican
Latest data from Gallup, showing 49% leaning Democrat and 39% Republican, marks sharp reversal from 2024
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
snyder.substack.com/p/three-publ... "Given that the presidency is held by an oligarch who wishes the bring our republic to an end, a victory of the opposition is a prerequisite for the maintenance of the rule of law and anything resembling political decency."
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Three Public Speeches on Freedom
Some Video Reminders Before the US Midterm Election
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "One would think an unpunished international pedophilia ring might worry Blanche more than schoolkids experimenting with their names in Kansas."
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The US attorney general is fretting about a ‘pandemic’ of gender transitions in schools | Arwa Mahdawi
Todd Blanche’s remarks are part of a totally-not-invented moral panic that stretches the limits of the imagination
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
State AGs and others continue to litigate. But response to unprecedented, malicious attempts to prevent voters from exercising their constitutional rights to choose their leaders requires political response. Voters should have no doubt which party is out to silence them and keep power at all costs.
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Federal judge won’t lift temporary block on Trump’s anti-mail voting order
"Defendants’ branding the Final Rule’s changes as ‘modest’ does not alter the actual requirements of the Final Rule," Judge Talwani wrote.
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’ open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/... "It is the latest front in Trump and his party’s mission to codify MAGA’s brand of American racism and sadistic cruelty into law."
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Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’
The most urgent moral test in all of Trump’s America today is happening in a small Ohio city – and we as a country are failing it miserably.
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Trump Is Making Us Sick steady.substack.com/p/trump-is-m... "The tentacles of Donald Trump’s dangerous ineptitude have reached a segment of American society that affects every man, woman, and child: the food supply."
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Trump Is Making Us Sick
Recalls are on the rise, while food inspections are at record lows
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
1. Regular readers know I used to talk a lot about conservatism, fascism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism – all those multi-syllabic schools of thought that attempt to explain politics in America today. But I don't talk about them in depth these days. I have come to a conclusion.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 02/09/2026
MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
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MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We’re watching the fall of the Trump Empire in real time. Don’t stand so close where you can’t see it. Step back a little bit and enjoy a good view.
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Really curious what percentage of Republican voters that attack "socialism" are government employees that provide public services? Who wants to tell them?
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Dave Sloan @dave-sloan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Origin Stories: How Trump Broke the GOP lucid.substack.com/p/origin-sto... "The conversion of the GOP into an openly authoritarian party in its domestic and foreign policies is one of the biggest stories of the 21st century."
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Origin Stories: How Trump Broke the GOP
Remembering the Role of First-Hour Enablers Sessions and McCarthy
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Pinks📨 @pinksglobal.net · 30/08/2026
Signs of Fascism. #Pinks
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