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Bob Mann

@robertmannbooks.com
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Emeritus professor at Louisiana State Univ; political historian; former Russell Long, John Breaux, Kathleen Blanco flunky; RobertMannBooks.com; My new book is: "You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis & the Biography of a Song." robertmann.substack.co

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dan favale @danfavale.bsky.social · 9m
"we're all trying to find the guy who did this" meme with president orange lava lamp in a hot dog suit
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 10h
Absolutely embarrassing stuff
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 2h
1. The texts came from the DOJ. 2. Grassley knew about them. 3. Grassley did not include the texts in the memo to the committee. 4. Grassley did not share the texts with the Dems on the panel.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 6h
Just a reminder that the Secretary of Defense is a dangerous idiot
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2h
BREAKING: MS NOW EXCLUSIVE. Republican Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway. GOP Judiciary staff told Schmitt the texts — obtained from the Trump DOJ — were "unvetted." Schmitt still used them.
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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.
As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.
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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 5h
I genuinely wonder if Bob Jones University was too racist, or not racist enough.
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Clyde Barnchaser @clydebarnchaser.bsky.social · 3h
Premier? 😂
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3h
Bevan is a Republican by the way.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 3h
Does he realize how absolutely pathetic he seems to all women?
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 3h
thank goodness someone with this absurd set of priorities isn’t in charge of anything important
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 5h
The common thread in Pete Hegseth's rant to the troops, JD Vance suggesting Talarico is a pedophile, Brendan Carr calling the Trump ads aired with tax dollars "normal force PSAs," and Eric Schmitt fabricating a Jack Smith conspiracy is the whole GOP is incentivized to be performatively evil.
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Greg Boysen @gregboysen.bsky.social · 4h
Every accusation is a confession by these weirdos.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h
He's so far gone he can't even maintain consciousness as his little toadies blow him
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Philip K. Dick Trickle @pkdtrickle.bsky.social · 6h
No one has ever compensated more. Peak compensating.
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Grant Rayner @grantrayner.bsky.social · 6h
It’s hard to believe this is real. What a clown.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 7h
The Onion doesn't miss an opportunity 💥😤 @theonion.com
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22h
Here's footage of Jack Smith at the Iowa vs. Maryland game on February 3rd, 2024 btw
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h
An entire massive industry that has the potential to cause tremendous damage and destruction by their own admission completely unregulated because they have Trump and the Republican Party in their pocket. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 9h
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11h
Hegseth is destroying the military academies along with the military.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11h
I don't find the Schmitt Senate fiasco remotely funny. It's just McCarthyism but more incompetent. It's appalling, & a constitutional order that can't end this level of unserious lying & extremist nonsense isn't worth saving. We need massive institutional reform to make sure it never happens again.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h
36 minutes before the hearing started.
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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
May we all have the confidence of a mediocre white dude who works for Senator Schmitt
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Eric Schmitt is what happens when a state becomes so red that you don’t need to be a talented politician to become a US Senator. And to be fair, there are examples of this in blue states too. Iron sharpens iron.
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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 14h
I can’t let go of the idea that Eric Schmitt would never contemplate that anyone would go to a women’s basketball game.
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 15h
SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice?
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 14h
Make the argument you want to make in resonant terms. It changes opinions.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13h
If you didn't already hate Meta, Mark Zuckerburg, and data centers, Meta is using the latter to cheat on their taxes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 14h
"This was elder care masquerading as world-saving policy, stringing together some of Trump’s favorite activities — proximity to power, document signings, and arbitrary renamings — for an entire day."
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Anthony Pignataro @apignataro.bsky.social · 15h
LMAO they misspelled United States
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social · 23h
Seems like some of you are just now learning that TItle IX offices are on survivors' side in the same way that your HR rep is on your side in an employment dispute.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23h
Once again: anyone who thinks rape victims come forward for any reason except telling the truth at great fucking cost to themselves is a brainwashed bastard
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Senator Schmitt doubles down, seemingly implying it’s risible for a man to be following a woman’s sport. (Any other interpretation of this post?)
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Roccam Soccam’s Razor @fwadp1.bsky.social · 23h
Alt text: Senator Eric Schmitt sits at a Senate hearing while Senator John Kennedy stands beside him holding up a large poster displaying Schmitt’s Facebook post, which reads, “Who knew Jack Smith was a Caitlin Clark fan?”
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You know that scene in The Godfather where Michael goes to the trattoria bathroom, retrieves a pistol, and shoots those 2 guys in the head? This is 100X better. Maybe more.
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Inspiring
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 23h
average negative Democratic ad this cycle is like, "[Generic Republican] is taking bribes from pedophiles to bulldoze your house for a data center"
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 22h
Britt was the next Republican Senator up after Eric Schmidt. Was Schmidt’s little Hawks/Hawkeyes gotcha planned by the whole committee staff? Was Britt planning to ask about it before Schmidt imploded?
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 23h
Democrats haven't openly hated their opposition like this in a while and God it's hot
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Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 30/09/2026
Nobody better inform Schmidt that Nixon was in Dallas on the day JFK was shot.
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General Strike @ivanasstaircam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
JD Vance and Eric Schmitt should definitely run together. Two un charismatic weirdos who don’t know shit about sports, the economy, or running anything. Conservatives will love them.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you realize you're an adult and you're responsible for your future
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i’ve been busy most of the day but i’d be remiss if i didn’t mention eric schmitt, who took a faceplant so hilariously legend that even the NYT couldn’t sugarcoat it (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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