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and no Tom Nichols, Reagan’s foreign policy toughn<ahem> treasonously bribing the Iranians to hold American hostages longer for political purposes was not worth worshipping

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If political conservative leaders have had one good idea in the past 50 years that wasn’t to funnel your money to billionaires, I cannot think of it

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This pin shows Trump is spewing falsehoods. Yet the most salient feature of the Reagan / Bush 1980 campaign, for me, is really when Reagan went to the county location of a notorious white supremacist killing and signaled his support for that killing.

his 1980 speech at the Neshoba County Fair, Ronald
Reagan emphasized his belief in "states' rights," a phrase
historically associated with racial segregation. This speech was controversial due to its proximity to the site of the 1964 murders of civil rights activists, leading many to interpret his message as appealing to segregationist
sentiments. W Wikipedia
Miller Center

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All I really have to say is: have some goddamn human decency, conservatives. Is that so hard?

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Heather Mac Donald and Megyn Kelly are really neck and neck in the race to the bottom, straight to hell.

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People are worried about Gillibrand co-opting Angie Nixon. I am even more cynical but it’s a good sign: Gillibrand knows if she cuts off Nixon completely, Nixon will say that, which will further expose the big donor money machine that is locking Gillibrand and ppl like her into a surrender posture.

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I think it’s even more cynical but it’s a good sign— Gillibrand knows if she cuts off Nixon completely, Nixon will say that publicly, and that will further expose the big donor money machine that is locking Gillibrand and people like her into a surrender posture

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And Gillibrand and the DSCC are doing some fundraisers for Angie Nixon. 👀👀👀

Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc)
@purrtah.bsky.social
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DSCC Chair Gillibrand will host a virtual fundraiser for
Angie Nixon Scoop: DSCC chair boosts Angie Nixon in Florida. The surprise progressive Democratic nominee in the long-shot Florida race will get some help from Washington today. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York), the chair of Senate Democrats' fundraising arm, will host a virtual event for Nixon, a source familiar with the plans told The Sun's Stephen Neukam. Nixon said this week that the DSCC has not committed to helping
her air ads.
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And here is some really interesting stuff. Angie Nixon telling the head of the FL D state party to get in line and do the right thing bsky.app/profile/clea...

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Here she is in 2025 putting her body on the line bsky.app/profile/koja...

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plain, direct talk bsky.app/profile/qasi...

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Angie Nixon is running a campaign that people who want change in the D party have long called for: Go on the attack, be aggressive on ICE, talk about Democratic values—what liberals can provide for the public to make the country better—and criticize Republican bad values. This is the way in FL.

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And anyone who takes the job of running MI owns Heather Mac Donald. He knew that going in

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No one is un-fireable. There is either the will and the skills to fire someone or there is not.

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Here is the head of the Manhattan Institute, Reihan Salam, at last years Abundance event with David Brooks, Derek Thompson, and Ezra Klein. Salam employs Chris Rufo AND Heather Mac Donald.

Top: Brooks, Thompson, Ezra Klein
Bottom left: Salam from the Manhattan Institute

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People are saying that everyone knows the Manhattan Institute is extremists— but that is not true, centrists kiss up to them all the time. Here is a major Abundance event and look at all the people pal-ing around with a Manhattan Inst director.

ABUNDANCE26
December 10 & 11
Washington, DC
Nicholas Bagley
Professor, University of Michigan
Law School
Matt Clancy
Program Director, Coefficient
Giving
Colani Nottoni
Judge Glock Director of Research, Manhattan
Institute
Derek Kaufman
Founder & CEO, Inclusive
Abundance
Jennifer Pahlka
Author, Recoding America

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If Clarence Thomas’ wife was a legal recruiter, I bet he doesn’t take that money from Harlan Crow for schools or houses. The right could just funnel money to Thomas and his family through his wife in that case

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looks like maybe a little T supplementation too (no evidence beyond this pic)

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That sounds like studying, though, not actually doing academic scholarship. But fair point: she was admitted to some impressive places and got good grades there

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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

what academic credentials? She's been at junk thinktank Manhattan since like 2003 or so. Has she ever done any successful academic work at all?

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Kind of gives the game away about the whole abundance thing tho

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Other, more serious countries have actual constitutional courts

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THAT MEANS YOU ED GLAESER and yes “bus good train bad” is an example of intellectual laziness, at best

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Charles Xavier Van Damme @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Video source is Cabot Phillips, Daily Wire, posted on X today. Not sure about Truth Social. the text summary is an accurate quote from the clip I watched.

Cabot Phillips
@cabot_phillips.•7h "After drunken orgy sex, females have regrets. And they translate their regret into
rape, but that doesn't make it so."
-Heather Mac Donald on the Cornell 7
水。
Heather Mac Donald and Daily Wire

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When I lived in DC I had a friend who was a young black woman with a masters in poli sci. A conservative media org offered her a job that would have been 8x her salary. (She turned it down ) There’s *so* much more money on the right.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

heather mac donald is one of the biggest racists in the public sphere, what a disgrace this is

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Not only a racist apparently yo

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The argentina bond case is grotesque

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And since people asked, here’s the thread from today on SCOTUS corruption and how Roberts’ spouse’s income and interests are in fact his income and interests bsky.app/profile/prot...

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Ezra Klein interviewing Chris Rufo of the Manhattan Institute

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I think she’s mainly asking for money from conservative billionaires but yea that too

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yell back, because you’re right

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America’s biggest political problem is rightwing billionaires

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And connecting two threads today: the corrupt Supreme Court and the fascist Manhattan Institute are linked through a single billionaire and GOP mega-donor, Paul Singer. Singer gave Sam Alito a bribery flight on a fishing vacation, and he is the founder and longtime major funder of Manhattan Inst.

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Here is the head of the Manhattan Institute, Reihan Salam, at last years Abundance event with David Brooks, Derek Thompson, and Ezra Klein. Salam employs Chris Rufo AND Heather Mac Donald.

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Tor @torberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You wouldn’t believe how much this is true

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Tracks. Manhattan Institute was founded by Bill Casey, who went on to commit treason as Reagan’s CIA director.

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

hold on there Ted Cruz nipples

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Clean energy is the cheapest way to add electricity to the grid. So is a clean grid realistic? I say yes. The real question is how fast we tear out our old one. That’s up to us. New op-ed for @livescience.com! Check it out here: www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

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Trump can't stop America's shift to clean energy. And we can accelerate it.

The cost of clean energy just keeps falling as the price of coal ramps up. Politicians promising affordability will follow those savings no matter who is in the White House. And in the meantime, there...

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