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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I wish that was the only time something like that happened. Mitch McConnell not even having hearings for Obama’s Supreme Court nominee is the same sort of tactic. If democracy doesn’t give the right what they want, they will ignore it and resort to violence if they have to.

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

So if Trump wants to arrest & prosecute Raul Castro for shooting down planes possibly run by the CIA, does that mean other countries can arrest him and Hegseth for blowing up random boats in the Caribbean they claimed were drug dealers? www.huffpost.com/entry/raul-c...

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This is how you need to campaign and govern. It aint rocket science. open.substack.com/pub/thefeed1...

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

They think they do, but just as increasing numbers of people realize MSM& right wing media are less than accurate, eventually, more are going to look outside of the algo-sphere for reliable sources

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

If our defense industry were really about defense instead of welfare for the already insanely wealthy, they'd be coming up with weapons like Iran has. Instead, it's a stream of multi-billion-dollar boondoggles, often that the military doesn't even want. www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-t...

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This is how Republicans might lose the midterms even if they get their SAVE Act through. I gotta say, I'm impressed at how many people remember the human & financial costs of the Iraq War, & that it did NOTHING to help average Americans. www.rawstory.com/nick-fuentes...

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Bob Dylan's "Masters of War" has rarely fit a president better than Trump, a draft-dodging spoiled trust fund baby. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2ma...

You fasten the triggers

For the others to fire

Then you set back and watch

When the death count gets higher

You hide in your mansion

As young people’s blood

Flows out of their bodies

And is buried in the mud

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

When even the Jerusalem Post calls BS on Trump's case for war with Iran... www.jpost.com/middle-east/...

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

The rich would rather burn money than spend to make life easier for the rest of us.

The primary aim of modern warfare
is to use up the products of the
machine without raising the general
standard of living.

For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all
alike, the great mass of human beings who are
normally stupefied by poverty would become
literate and would learn to think for themselves;
and when once they had done this, they would
sooner or later realize that the privileged
minority had no function, and they would sweep
it away.
George Orwell, 1984

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Democrats could be hurt too, as could the system Israel uses to keep a chokechain on our politicians.

Speaker Mike Johnson says Epstein file disclosures must be limited in order to “make sure we don’t do permanent damage to the political system.”

Johnson just admitted the Republican political system is full of pedos.

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I got good reactions to this ICE protest poster.

text says end ice lynch mobs. cartoon klan hoods with the word ICE on the forehead

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Many people know the first part of this quote, but few know the last.

Photo of Hitler wth text that says, "Hiter's Big Lie Rule"

"In view of the primitive simplicity of their minds they more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big.

Such a falsehood will never enter their heads and they will not be able to believe in the possibility of such monstrous effrontery and infamous misrepresentation in others; yes, even when enlightened on the subject, they will long doubt and waver, and continue to accept at least one of these causes as true."

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, part I chapter X

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Trump said something I strongly agree with: presidential candidates should take cognitive tests. Potential presidents should also be required to take the immigrant citizenship test, a narcissist test, and a sociopath test. www.msn.com/en-us/news/n...

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The most damning part of the video was that only 3% of those sent there had ever been convicted of a violent or potentially violent offense, according to all state criminal records, those in Venezuela, and even ICE ITSELF.

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Halloween IS Kristi Gnome's holiday. But she should put on a less scary mask. Jesus.

Kristi Noem scary face with headline "Treat or Treat, ICE vows halloween raids!"

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

We need something like the Nye Committee that investigated who lobbied for World War I, but BEFORE World War III. We were promised such an investigation into who lobbied for the Iraq War and never got it.

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

57% of MAGA LIKE the health insurance subsidies Republicans in Congress are fighting to kill. 70% of non-MAGA Republicans don't want them to end the subsidies. Who is the GOP listening to on this fight?

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

According to the Wall St Journal, Trump ordered the Epstein cover-up because he was afraid his "friends" would be hurt by the release. The information he saw about himself was so damaging that he wanted to tell the public it had been "doctored." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

WSJ: But what was the rest of Trump’s motivation for ordering the Files permanently kept from voters? According to the Journal, “he worried aloud [to aides[ that the files might have been doctored to hurt him” (emphasis supplied). The problem with this is that by that point in Spring 2025 he had already been briefed by the FBI and DOJ on the number and nature of his appearances in the Epstein Files, so if he was still concerned about the way(s) his name appeared in the Files—to the point that he was prepared to lie to American voters and claim without evidence that the Epstein Files must have been “doctored”—it means that the references to him in the Files that he covered up via a direct presidential order to the FBI and DOJ must have been excruciatingly bad.

WSJ: But behind the scenes, Trump was—as he issued that order—“telling aides he was worried some of his friends might be mentioned in the files,” meaning that his order to the FBI and DOJ to block all future Epstein File releases was, and by his own admission, significantly motivated by a desire to protect his friends from disclosures about their involvement with Epstein.

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Read this in an old article on Gene Sharp, the guru of non-violent political methods. www.cnn.com/2012/06/23/w...

What gives a government – even a repressive regime – the power to rule? The answer, he realized, was people’s belief in its power. Even dictatorships require the cooperation and obedience of the people they rule to stay in charge.

So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government’s power – people working in civil service, police and judges, even the army – then you know what a dictatorship depends on for its existence.

Suddenly, he got it. If a dictatorship depends on the cooperation of people and institutions, then all you have to do is shrink that support

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Republicans have never presented evidence in court that enough illegal immigrants are voting to change the outcome of an election. This makes it look like ICE harassment of Latino US citizens is not a mistake, but a warm-up for this voter suppression tactic.

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Racial hypocrisy on the right: you can't look at race for admissions, but you sure as hell can for ICE to give someone a beat-down. www.rawstory.com/racial-profi...

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The people in our military are not mindless robots, and there are lines most will not cross. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-trump...

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Trump was never a great liar, but now he has forgotten what the purpose of a lie should be. Saying you broke with a sex trafficker because he hired away your employees is like saying the sex trafficking was okay, but THIS was a step too far... www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Does anyone believe the 10,000 hours of video Epstein had was just regular porn NOT surveillance of the rich and powerful? This sounds like another lame talking point dictated by Trump himself. www.mediaite.com/politics/com...

“I had dinner last week with the vice president. He told me that that was commercial pornography. They do not have videos of any powerful person in a compromising position. That’s the party line that they’re going with,” continued Dillon, adding:

If that’s the case, why would Pam Bondi call it evidence? Why would she say it’s evidence? She’s not an idiot. She’s the attorney general. Why would you say she has files on her desk if none of these implicated anybody? It just feels like they’re covering something for sure.

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Best headline of the day & reality check on fascist wannabes. Even ICE agents know what they are doing is stupid & unnecessary. www.salon.com/2025/06/11/s...

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

How did Trump win all the swing states when he trailed Kamala in the polls? Some weird sh!t was going on with the updating and certifying the voting counting machines. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Best slogans for "No Kings" protest signs? I asked Grok and ChatGPT and got a couple of OK ones.

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

These are the reactions I hoped our military would have to Trump using them to put down civilian protesters. I hope the guys who are deployed feel the same way and act accordingly. www.yahoo.com/news/america...

"Former Army. Unrest is when the citizens are trying to send a message to the government. Using troops against your citizens is the government's way of not listening."

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

Or if someone posts a meme of him as Col. Klink.

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Doger says government actually works pretty well, gets fired. www.govexec.com/management/2...

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

@gregpalast.bsky.social My Latina wife, who has been a citizen for over 30 years, got this postcard when she re-registered after we moved. We live in California, but in a county with a strong Republican presence. Is this something to be concerned about or alert others about?

Orange County Registrar of Voters change of address verification or cancellation.

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The budget cuts are to keep the rest of us down.

A hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance...
For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away.

George Orwell, 1984

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

. . . and can you believe it only cost a hundred and eighty people their Medicaid benefits?” www.newyorker.com/gallery/cart...

cartoon of a giant yacht, with one guy telling another, . . . and can you believe it only cost a hundred and eighty people their Medicaid benefits?”

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Bronze sculptures of Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning standing on chairs, in Berlin on May Day 2015. The fourth, empty chair invites individuals “to stand up instead of sitting like the others.” Luigi took the fourth chair. Now we need more.

The traveling art installation “Anything to Say?” by Davide Dormino featuring bronze sculptures of Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning standing on chairs, in Berlin on May Day 2015. The fourth, empty chair invites individuals “to stand up instead of sitting like the others.” (Davide Dormino, Wikimedia Commons,
CC BY-SA 4.0)

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Someone raised a good point about those masked, no-badge/no-ID raids for illegal immigrants that have hit citizens as well. Unlike in your favorite action movie, it's not immediately clear in real life who the good guys and bad guys are. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

John Stewart nailed Trump's Achilles heel as an authoritarian: “So Trump’s got it all, authoritarian-wise...All he needs now is to bring it home with his ruthless competence.” www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Yes, the whole world respects us again with a president who talks like a professional wrestler but doesn't put as much thought into what he does. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

An important note about Trump's proof of citizenship to register to vote executive order: Republicans who have never proved the problem it's supposed to solve exists. www.gregpalast.com/trump-execut...

According to Barbara Arnwine, who taught voting rights law at Columbia University, Trump and Musk are trying to get around Article 1 of the Constitution. Arnwine, founder of the Transformative Justice Coalition, notes that the Tenth Amendment requires an act of Congress to change federal election law. The Trump-Musk Order tries to end-run the Constitution by pretending this is only a change in a federal form, the national mail-in registration form that almost all Americans use.

We’ve been there before: In the 2016 election, Kansas launched a registration form that required proof of citizenship. Kris Kobach, Trump’s “Voter Fraud Tsar” and then Secretary of State of Kansas, admitted in court that there was not one non-citizen among the 36,000 Kansans who lost their vote because of this prove-you’re-a-citizen registration form.

Not coincidentally, most of the voters blocked by Kansas were students, i.e. Democrats.
The Trump-Musk Order also threatens the return of the infamous Interstate Crosscheck purge program. Courts had already struck down Crosscheck because it wildly tagged over three million Americans as potential “multiple” voters.

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

What did President & General Dwight D. Eisenhower think of Musk & Trump's plans to break Social Security?

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This might be the most important post of the day. substack.com/home/post/p-...

News reports are filled with stories celebrating Trump’s power, audacity and successes without accomplishments. America’s capitulant media is blinded by the fear of its owners. Most of its TV characters practice some mix of public exploitation, character assassination, delusional weaving and angry posturing, and call it news.

What they are preaching is a gospel of nonsense. What America’s broken media cannot see is that Trump is tipping over because he leaned over too far. What is tipping him over and weighing him down is the world’s richest child, who emasculates the president of the United States with each passing hour because the child seems to have made his puppet sing for all to see.

Strung out on ketamine, Weirdo #1, the richest infant in the world, and his gang of digital ‘Little Eichmanns’ have stormed into government offices like conquering Gestapo looking for Vichy and purging everyone else.

There is a paradox that Democrats should exploit, which is that as Musk’s popularity falls, the faith and extremism of his techno fascist base will harden and rise. Their resentments and grievances will grow as their defenestration looms. Their threats against Trump will grow and deepen as they are cut loose like latter day Ernst Röhms, used up, thrown away and forgotten as the glorious MAGA era marches forward.

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professorsmartass.bsky.social @professorsmartass.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The best thing about China's AI coup: American could realize how little money they did it for and how much of ours goes to feather the nests of our oligarch. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The CIA spent $18 billion building its propaganda machine called OpenAI, only for a $5 million Chinese upstart to surpass it overnight. The entire DeepSeek project cost less than the average salary of a big tech CEO in the US. If China is this efficient, no wonder its infrastructure is 300 years ahead of everyone else’s. The scary thing is Americans might realise they can’t have high speed rail and universal healthcare because rich arseholes are hoarding all the money.

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