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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I worry too! Why tempt fate? I get not wanting to spend four hours on the Jersey Turnpike—or more—but why not have a home in or around Philly? It’s a great town and it’s the home of his new team! Of course it’s not New York – no place is. But Los Angeles wasn’t either! apple.news/AiSakI9jhR--...

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Why LeBron James’ helicopter ride had so many NBA fans thinking about Kobe Bryant — The Athletic

Picture it from above.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The Lancet estimates that Trump‘s cuts to USA ID will cause more than 14 million deaths in Africa by 2030. That’s more than the population of the greater New York metropolitan area: wiped out. Try to imagine it, even though we obviously can’t.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

In his poem on the death of Freud, Auden said, “He has become his admirers.” Trump, on the other hand, “has become his impressionists.” No exaggeration when I admit that I absolutely cannot tell the difference, in either manner or content, between Trump in his interview on cnbc and JAJ from SNL.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Davis: The ghost of Don Rickles is Donald Trump’s spirit animal.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

A smart Brit with a clear-eyed view of the US’ collapse. Keir Starmer should listen too!

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Best short explanation of the MAGA cult I’ve seen: Bingo! But it also highlights how much these people need our help. They need saving from this monster; as much as they resist, they are our fellow citizens, even if they don’t want to be.

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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Joy Reid on Stephen A. Smith profiting off of his attacks on Black women.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

“Stockholm syndrome is a proposed condition to explain why hostages occasionally develop a psychological bond with their captors. It is named after an attempted bank robbery in 1973, in Stockholm, Sweden, in which four people were held hostage but later refused to testify against the robbers.”

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Quisling (/ˈkwɪzlɪŋ/, Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈkvɪ̂slɪŋ]) is a term used in Scandinavian languages and in English to mean a citizen or politician of an occupied country who collaborates with an enemy occupying force; it may also be used more generally as a synonym for traitor or collaborator.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Spread this poster, and help diminish the Republican reality distortion field. We took President Biden too much for granted, and look where that got us!

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Important suggestions for Blue-State self-defense and steps on the way to autonomous self-rule. By Thomas Geoghegan, a labor lawyer who understands the power of organizing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Blue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here’s how | Thomas Geoghegan

States opposed to Trump can create a compact – a new prototype for American government – even if it’s perceived as political theater

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Pollsters are hired guns, but I was still sad to see that Cornell Belcher, once Obama’s pollster, is working for the Andrew Cuomo campaign. Of course, Cuomo was Clinton’s HUD secretary, so maybe it’s just more evidence that we need a new party, root and branch. That stink won’t wash off.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

OregonLive has many other good stories about ICE/citizen confrontations, detailing abundant ICE misbehavior and incompetence.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.” Pass it on.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

It would be a public service if someone who still has an X account would go there and post a short explainer, without comment, of what happened to Horst Wessel. Though I suppose, at this point that would be grounds for arrest, firing, and endless harassment.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I swear that Megan McArdle is the original Pitchbot! She’s been writing crap like this for nigh on three decades. And getting paid! That’s the real shame.

Picture shows fed chair Powell in conversation with Lisa Cook at a meeting.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

If you’re driving this weekend, strong recommendation for this Pretenders Essentials playlist. Hit after hit after hit! music.apple.com/us/playlist/... Hats off and windows down for the amazing Chrissie Hynde and her bands.

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Pretenders Essentials on Apple Music

Playlist · 27 Songs

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Dante puts the flatterers deeper in Hell than murderers—buried in shit. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/suck...

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Dante's Damned Flatterers

Flattery is a sin against the community.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I put a version of this question on Bluesky yesterday, asking for constitutional experts to weigh in, tagging a few I follow. As of this morning, no answer – I doubt any saw it! – so I asked Perplexity. If you’re curious, try asking any AI agent – the answer was as frightening as the question!

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

A hypothetical question for constitutional scholars: A document comes to light in which Trump agrees with Putin to end the NATO alliance. (Bear with me: hypothetical premise!) As part of this agreement, Trump turns a NATO base in the Baltics or Turkey over to Russian control in two weeks.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Clearly Acosta knows his Bible— he probably understood Epstein’s behavior as an updated re-enactment of Lot and his daughters. Hence the sweetheart deal, with no need to turn Ghislaine Maxwell into a pillar of salt.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

The most important story of the year. Will the mainstream media give it sustained coverage and further investigation? I wish I could be confident, but in any case, it’s up to us citizens to keep the pressure on the media and Democratic leadership. There are still pressure points! Use them!

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru... What can we learn from this story? That the quickest and best way to push back on MAGA destructiveness is to BOYCOTT every bit of Red State economic activity. They love money, not truth: hit ‘em hard in their pocketbooks, and watch how fast they stand down.

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Trump says he is willing to let migrant laborers stay on US farms

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he is willing to let migrant laborers stay in the United States if the farmers they work for will vouch for them.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I’m surprised I’m not seeing coverage of the Democratic Governors’ Council’s response to Trump’s illegal and unconstitutional abuses, along with an outline of their collective counterstrategies: from boycotts and tax and general work strikes to a redoubled flood of lawsuits.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Follow this advice to win the immediate battle for public opinion and the longer war for justice and democracy. This is how Gandhi and MLK Jr faced even tougher odds and won in the end: non-violent civil disobedience.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Oh great—the Knicks have reverted to their accustomed management style. You know, decades between playoff appearances—good times!

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This article has a cogent, detailed analysis of the issues and circumstances in this case. Share widely!

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Pro-democracy billionaires—there are a number of them—could combine and pledge to use wealth to protect Republicans who vote their consciences from MAGA primary challenges. That’s what they’re most afraid of, and why no one is stopping Trump’s destruction. Remove the fear, save democracy. Please!

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Has anyone started calculating whether we hit that critical mass of 3.5% of the population protesting? (About 11.5 million people…) Seems like a job for a major news organization with major resources – if they actually cared to know…

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Laura Young @catsmyau.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Shame on her for being the pawn.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Only the vilest white supremacists would dare to slander a man as great as Jackie Robinson.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The Greatest Generation would like a word… This film gets some of its power from the fact that it’s**official**… Straight from FDR‘s War Department. That won’t happen now, obviously, but couldn’t Blue State governors make short films and PSAs like this? We badly need compelling counter-narratives.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

People are dying—why won’t President Bush speak up? PEPFAR is his great achievement, and he could make a difference!

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

“The Roberts court *is* the constitutional crisis…“ This post brilliantly illuminates how the seeds of this crisis were sown decades ago – very, very helpful.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

You should always read Marcy Wheeler, but you should especially read this incredible post. The best summation I’ve seen of where we are and the best steps forward we should take.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Plain speaking about the danger of Trump on Canadian TV—honesty like I’ve never heard in the US mainstream media, but what a difference it would make! Please watch and share widely.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

This is what happens when you elect a president who has zero idea of what Honor is. The man who looked at rows and rows of soldiers’ graves and asked the Gold Star father standing next to him, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?“

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Thought experiment: Imagine you’re FBI or CIA, current or former, and you have solid evidence that T received an order from Putin to stand down counter-intelligence measures. Treason, yes? But who could you tell now who’d be able to arrest the traitor? Is any agency left that’s not captured?

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Lindsay Graham now snarling to the DC press corps how he’s proud of Trump and he thinks the US can’t do business with Zelensky. Translation: Putin gave Trump orders to get rid of Zelensky, whom he fears, and JD provoked an argument to help that happen. Manchurian President—or rather, Muscovite.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Crucial list of the aid cuts. Horrifying—actually genocidal. “Americans voted for this, sorry!” The Hell we did! This must change, now! Justice Roberts, is this the legacy you want?

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Louisiana Residents! Please contact Senator Cassidy—I think he might actually do something about this. I am writing to my Connecticut senators, but I highly doubt RFK will listen to them.

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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

What a photograph! “Present at the Creation…” Slava Ukraini!

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