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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is kind of an "asked and answered" situation, frankly.

David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them." (3/3: Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946.)

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"this is called pacification. Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they can carry: this is called transfer of population or rectification of frontiers. People are imprisoned for years without trial," (2/3)

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets:" (1/3)

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

ICYMI, great statement by former VP Mike Pence about Trump's betrayal of Ukraine. Scandal there's no one else left in Republican Party able to say it out loud.

President Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin's ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey
Graham.
While Ukraine fights for its survival, Putin's war machine continues to prosecute his terrorist war on civilian populations and innocent Ukrainians are dying every day.
Now, Instead of implementing the tough sanctions Lindsey Graham fought to his last breath to enact, President Trump has announced the United States is lifting sanctions on Russian energy, fueling the Putin's war machine.
As I saw firsthand in Ukraine last month, Putin is losing this war. Ukraine has fought the Russian military to a standstill and reinvented warfare with drones taking the fight into the heart of Russia.
America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin's war machine. Now is the time to stand strong against Russian aggression as we did during the first Trump administration.
Putin doesn't want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. I have no doubt that if Putin overruns Ukraine, it will only be a matter of time until Russia's military crosses a border that our troops will have to deal with him.
America is the Leader of the Free World. For our National Security, for the security of our Allies in Europe including Ukraine, President Trump should rescind this deal immediately and return to the strong policies of our four years in the White House; impose harsh sanctions on any nation purchasing Russian energy and work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava Ukraini

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Time to revisit Orwell’s superb essay, “Shooting an Elephant.”

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Highly accepted“=accepted by people who are high.

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No matter what you think of Elon Musk (I despise him), he wasn't ELON MUSK when he came to the U.S. He was just another guy violating visa rules.

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You could definitely make that argument if your audience was capable of logical thinking, yes.

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There are market -salary rules for non-citizen employees, which you'd think he'd know....

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Patricia Kayden @kaydenpat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yet both parties keep funding the military to the tune of billions of dollars per year. Stop funding the military until Hegseth allows representatives to have access to military bases anywhere and everywhere. Why shouldn't the American know what is happening on those bases? We're paying for them.

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

By all means, let's just add another $1+ trillion to the debt. What the heck?

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s amazing he thought posting a video of that swing was a good idea.

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026

JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Didn't something of considerable historical interest happen in 1789? Hmm. What was that again?

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ken Paxton offered plea deals to at least 10 students accused of raping their classmates.

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Power Vibe · by NoMAGA @powervibe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Abstention isn’t a neutral third option: it shrinks the electorate, giving the most disciplined and organized blocs more say over who wins—and who gets ignored afterward.

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Deputy Secretary of State for Aviation Security.

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My Australian Shepherd is more of an intellectual giant than Sen. Schmitt.

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Red Garnet @curiosa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Smith’s accusations against the GOP for not indicting Trump for the Jan 6 constitutional crisis and subsequent participants’ pardons are damning and should never be forgotten.

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Spitting tea with each Trump appointment concept @notmattbellamy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bonus fuckery: Sen. Eric Schmitt has openly been a white nationalist for about 13 months now. (I'm so old, I remember when then-US-Rep. Steve King [Iowa-4th D] lost his cmte assignments & GOP funding after advocating white nationalism on the House floor. He quit politics to run a neo-Nazi website.)

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 30/09/2026

📺 HAPPENING NOW: The Senate will vote on Republicans' latest attempt to sneak a voter ID requirement through the chamber by attaching it to a congressional stock-trading ban. The last-ditch effort comes just as the Senate packs up for the campaign trail. Stream below👇

senate.gov

U.S. Senate: Floor Proceedings

Floor Activity

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kelly Loeffler's campaign took Leon Black's money two months after the Times exposed his Epstein payments. She now runs Trump's Small Business Administration. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-billiona...

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Korea, at least until 47 lets his buddy Kim have his way. (I know, technically a “police action,” but let’s tell the truth.)

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Senator Dirtbag Schmitt-head, even Rupert Murdoch’s NY Post is mocking his “perjury gotcha” moment. This is the only thing he’ll ever be remembered for. nypost.com/2026/09/29/u...

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That could only happen if she had a soul in the first place, and there doesn't seem to be much evidence of that.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jamie Raskin calls out the shitty ads as a crime (this was cited by CNN and other stories). This is the kind of Xitter post that I beg of @raskin.house.gov or other MoCs to cross-post over here -- not least bc more people over here are likely to magnify it.

Rep. Jamie Raskin

@RepRaskin
This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes. 18 U.S.C. § 1641. It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it. It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.
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The White House is currently airing this video as an ad during commercial breaks on Fox News.

It looks and sounds like a political spot and includes a disclaimer stating that it is paid for by the U.S. government.

The soundtrack: as images of Trump flash across the screen,

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Upper-Midwesterners of Scandinavian descent are the absolute masters of passive aggression.

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We're seriously using UPS to ship sensitive military equipment? Wow, that's just awesom.

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Aside from that, how was the play, Melania?

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Borrowing at 30% to get a return of 2500% is still an excellent deal.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026

Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s already happening all over the world. But leftist repression is still repression. And Lenin wasn’t really a nice guy either, so Stalin had his model.

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm sorry about your dog. Woody is at home in New Mexico and I miss him.

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

By the way, what's your dog's name? Mine is Woody, who I rescued in Oklahoma so I named him after OK's most prominent communist

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thanks. We probably actually agree something like 90%.

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I could say "stick to rescuing dogs, pal," but I won't because that's not a bad thing.

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am absolutely not a centrist, and I actually live in Iraq.

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

2/2, and that is the kind of theoretical outcome that concerns me. I've also lived in Bulgaria, so I've directly seen that too. I'm still a leftist, but I'm also aware that love of power and control is not limited to right-wingers. Politics isn't in a vacuum because it's everything.

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here's the problem: I currently live in Iraq (Kurdistan) so I'm acutely aware of, e.g., the effects of the US/UK coup against Mossadegh, which is precisely what you describe. But that event in turn is closely responsible for Saddam, not to mention Khomeini. Saddam is the kind of pushback you 1/2

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yet oddly, most every far left government in history has ended up going in a totalitarian direction. Politics may not work that way, but human nature surely does, & the Nietzschean will-to-power is real. Leftism tends to be driven by idealism & idealists are by nature not cynical, so easily misled.

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Functionally, whether the state owns business or business owns the state is a distinction without a difference.

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Both right and left end up at the far ends in totalitarian government, regardless of any other dimensions they may have.

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's a stellar example of the horseshoe model of the political spectrum, however. Identical tools, theoretically different goals, though practical goals are pretty much the same (unconstrained oligarchy thriving on the backs of everyone else).

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David R. Evans, Ph.D. @drdreforreal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If they had, after 30 years, compounded annually, $1,000.00 would have ended up just over $111,000....

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