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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 10h

“There is evil, and there is cowardice. The further along I go the more I recognize that the former is not possible without the latter.” Daniel Barkuff

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 10h

“That happens all the time on college campuses, even at house parties with lots of alcohol, when one young man in the group chooses a masculinity defined in part by duty to the defenseless rather than personal weakness.” Daniel Barkuff

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 10h

“The margin between ruining eight lives and not, in this case, was as small as one young man saying to another young man, “I don’t think we should do this.” Daniel Barkuff

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 10h

“The authoritarian trick is to convince people the exception is temporary. But once the fire is out, and the enemy is defeated, their version of normal is all that remains. Normal has been getting harder to find lately.” Caroline Beccia

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 10h

“Then once the public normalizes the threat framing, extraordinary measures that once looked excessive can start to look proportionate.” Caroline Beccia

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 10h

“In political science, securitization is what happens when a politician takes an ordinary policy problem, declares it an existential threat, and uses the panic to justify extraordinary measures.” Caroline Beccia

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“At the same time, the Republicans are, at his direction, slashing the social welfare programs, medical funding, education, infrastructure, and healthcare that used to serve the American people." Heather Cox Richardson

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“His tariffs, deep tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, extraordinary corruption, multiple vanity projects, and war on Iran are benefiting him, his family, and his cronies." Heather Cox Richardson

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“…the crux of the crisis that is driving a seismic political change: it has become crystal clear that Trump never intended to address the real problems he identified." Heather Cox Richardson

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“The American public is reaching a breaking point. You can tell voters that the economy is thriving, but you cannot make them believe it when they reach the checkout counter. The gaslighting has run out of runway—and the fallout will dictate the future of American democracy.” Wajahat Ali

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Corrections in Tennessee are barbaric. Justice isn’t being served, the convicted aren’t rehabilitated,and the citizens are not reassured by example.

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Reading these quotes side-by-side really reveals one man to be an arrogantly pathetic asshole.

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The book is excellent as well.

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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He has made it clear that you can rape a woman and STILL be the President. That you can endlessly defame the victim and STILL be the President. That you can boast about sexual assault and STILL be the president.

A PENGUIN WITH THE WORDS:
NO ONE HAS DONE MORE TO
MINIMIZE THE
SERIOUSNESS
OF RAPE THAN TRUMP.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every bit of this 👇

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Less than five weeks until the November 3 midterm elections, Democrats must show Americans not only that they’re paying more for just about everything, but that the reason they’re paying more is the rot at the heart of Trump-Republican deal.” Robert Reich

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“— taxes, labor laws, anti-monopoly laws, and even foreign policies in the forms of tariffs and wars. The problem, in other words, is that big money has distorted our system in favor of those at the top and against everyone else.” Robert Reich

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“It’s important that Americans understand the real reason for the power shift: As wealth has concentrated at the top, so has political power to alter the laws and rules by which the market functions - ” Robert Reich

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“And yet the United States is entering its eighth month of a war on Iran that Trump apparently began with the same cowboy mentality Bush carried into the war in Iraq.” Heather Cox Richardson

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Today on social media, Trump took credit to himself for ending the U.S. engagement in Iraq—although he confused the names of two different Iraqi operations—complaining that it was “very bad decision-making that got us involved in this quagmire in the first place.” Heather Cox Richardson

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Perfect. And. Of course. An idiocy of bedfellows.

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“No Republican contradicted Smith on the facts; they all know how corrupt and criminal their boss is. They’re just too terrified or bought-off to say it out loud.” Thom Hartmann

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“No Republican contradicted Smith on the facts; they all know how corrupt and criminal their boss is. They’re just too terrified or bought-off to say it out loud.” Thom Hartmann

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“A Senate hearing gives its participants powers and obligations that extend well beyond producing a successful video clip. Schmitt behaved as though those obligations belonged to someone else.” Steve Schmidt

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“A witness’s reputation was available for sacrifice to a senator’s ambition. The preparation apparently stopped wherever the desired conclusion began. That combination deserves contempt. Stupidity armed with public authority can injure people.” Steve Schmidt

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hahaha! Hilarious. I had my Covid vaccination and I’m worried that my pronouns may be shifting around.

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Ray @raymolson22.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We are not being governed. We are being looted.

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“.. court orders he didn’t want his administration to comply with. What emerges when you take a deep breath is a picture of what we all know by now to be true. This is not a president who is committed to governing, to public service. This is a smash and grab, and we are the victims.” Joyce Vance

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“It was another day where we were flooded with drama, all of Donald Trump’s making: The revenge prosecution and persecution of Jack Smith, Trump putting his name on President Kennedy’s memorial, Trump’s efforts to ban new outlets whose reporting isn’t to his liking,” Joyce Vance

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith is defending the rule of law. He is an American patriot.

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Which parents? What comfort? This is Shameful. The Secretary of Education is unqualified. Never taught a day in her life yet making pronouncements based on what data, what experiences, what qualifications? I hope she will be held to account.

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“The republic shrinks to the size of one man’s demands.” Steve Schmidt

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“If the public can be persuaded that the man and the office are the same thing, then service to the country can be replaced by service to the family. Criticism becomes disloyalty. Scrutiny becomes persecution. An election defeat becomes an injustice that must somehow be undone.” Steve Schmidt

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can they spell ‘ironic?’

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“So next time someone hands you a scapegoat, ask who's paying for the delivery. Ask who profits if you hate that person. Then go and find the people you've been told to fear, and ask them what they're angry about.” Winston Brown

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“You don't send troops, bombers and FBI informants after something that doesn't threaten you. That's the tell. They're not scared of your anger. They've been farming your anger for centuries. What they're scared of is you finding out who else is angry.” Winston Brown

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“But look at the pattern across four centuries. Every time working people of different colours, sexes, faiths and nationalities got together, from Jamestown to Lawrence to Blair Mountain to Hampton's apartment to Grunwick, the response was fast, organised and often fucking lethal.” Winston Brown

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“They have had every chance to fund our schools and protect our rural hospitals and maintain our roads and fund our libraries and make this state work for the people who live here. If they wanted to, they would. They don’t. The only way to force their hand is to take the power from it.” Jess Piper

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Missouri Republicans have had the power for more than two decades. They have had the votes. They have had the budgets.” Jess Piper

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Jeff Bezos has defanged the editorial page of The Washington Post. Elon Musk has turned Twitter into global neofascist X.Trump suck-up Mark Zuckerberg controls Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads.And now the Ellisons, and CBS News and CNN (and Comedy Central and HBO).”Robert Reich

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Better still, make deals with your cronies so when they take over the media, they have ongoing financial incentives to silence criticism. If they’re billionaires, they can keep buying up media and silence criticism as they make even more money.” Robert Reich

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Modd Dr. Todd @moddtodd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“It’s the neofascist playbook: Take over the media and silence criticism. Even better (because it’s less out in the open), have your cronies take over the media and have them silence criticism.” Robert Reich

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