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Mark Peffley

@markthelark.bsky.social
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Political scientist, etc

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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Heil!
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Beautiful picture. Thanks for posting.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Staffan Lindberg The USA no longer qualifies as a democracy. It has joined Hungary, India, Türkiye and others as electoral autocracies.
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Fifty years of the third wave(s): from democratization to autocratization
This piece reflects on 50 years since Portugal’s 1974 Carnation Revolution, seen as a trigger for the “third wave of democratization,” a global trend that transformed many dictatorships into democr...
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Blowhard idiot.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Charities? Like in the past? Ha!
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Unless someone hands me $50,0000!
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Stupid people deserve representation but Tuberville is representing people who likely can’t vote.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I didn’t know MN allowed toads to compete for higher office.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Then how do state prosecutors bring charges against masked ICE officers murdering citizens? Makes no sense, Tillis.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Exactly. Sophie’s Choice of Germany’s genocide is the perfect comparison.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Maybe he will slip and fall and break his back.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
NYT headline is laughable inside elite-talk, and so antiseptic. What are they afraid of? Communication?
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
bsky.app/profile/camb...
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Unfortunately they were able to think one step ahead and ask, what’s next?
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Been there, done that—twice!
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
NOEM: I shoot dogs and people!
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Russia and China: Are you hearing this? Have your attorneys ready!
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b... Far right groups NEED bald faces lies and hate speech (they’re eating our pets) to get support.
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They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
paulkrugman.substack.com?utm_campaign... If you want to stay informed by a Nobel Prize winning economist, Paul Krugman, who regularly fact-checks Trump’s lies, it’s only $7 a month! Golden!
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Paul Krugman | Substack
Notes on economics and more. Click to read Paul Krugman, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Yes and southern males were the most likely to go out of their way to bump the passersby
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
SS
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
How does Fox get all these dopes on air lying through their teeth about what Trump is doing to the country?
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Our ketamine president.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Need more context, please.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/o... I can say with confidence that Trump’s proposal is the single most idiotic and dangerous Middle East “peace” initiative ever put out by an American president.
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Opinion | What’s Most Frightening About Trump’s Gaza Ravings (Gift Article)
There is a case to make for fresh thinking about Gaza. But Trump’s plan is not fresh thinking, it’s fresh riffing.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u... Arab leaders, he said, “know how to placate Trump — and then work with the serious people on his team who have the job of making sense of his nonsense.”
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Jordanian King Rebuffs Trump Proposal to Displace Palestinians in Gaza (Gift Article)
His pushback came after President Trump insisted Tuesday that the United States has the authority to “take” Gaza.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
ProPublica article on how Trump and Elon’s actions are probably illegal and unconstitutional. www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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In Breaking USAID, the Trump Administration May Have Broken the Law
ProPublica’s reporting provides new details about what legal risk officials were prepared to take and what laws they may have violated on their way to creating a “constitutional crisis.”
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A total idiot in the same class as Tommy Tuberville.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Part of what we are seeing here is a) Trump/DOGE officials claiming authority they do not have, trying to break the law b) career officials pushing back c) career officials punished: put on leave and likely fired when Schedule F returns.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Find out how you your precinct voted!
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An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2024 Election Results: Trump vs. Harris (Gift Article)
See how your neighborhood voted on our interactive, precinct-level results map of the presidential election.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Excellent job!
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
How stupid and unpersuasive.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Androids are so lifelike these days.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
In KY there is an additional tax on EV and Hybrid cars for that very reason.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
They don’t come any dumber.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/u... The guy is such a complete liar.
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Fact-Checking Trump’s Press Conference at Mar-a-Lago (Gift Article)
The president-elect made inaccurate claims about his predecessor’s energy policies and repeated familiar falsehoods on a number of topics.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Bravo. As if he has a reputation to defend.
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Mark Peffley @markthelark.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
How disgusting. So much for free thought.
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