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Threadbare Republic

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We're examining the unraveling of American democracy through history, politics, and culture, connecting past events to today’s challenges with insight and urgency. Substack: threadbarerepublic.substack.com

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Threadbare Republic @threadbarerepublic.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Yesterday, Donald Trump stepped up to the marble podium at the United Nations General Assembly and delivered what may be remembered as one of the most destabilizing addresses ever given by an American president.
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Submitted for Your Disapproval: The Bullshit Zone
When the president uses the world’s stage to rage, lie, and gloat
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Threadbare Republic @threadbarerepublic.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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Threadbare Republic @threadbarerepublic.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
It’s bad politics. It is terrible science.
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Scapegoating Science
When politics needs a villain, even Tylenol will do
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Threadbare Republic @threadbarerepublic.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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Threadbare Republic @threadbarerepublic.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
In a single week, Donald Trump moved across the corridors of power like a storm, leaving upheaval in his wake. Any one of his moves might seem calculated or chaotic. Together, they reveal the pattern of a leader testing the limits of every institution meant to constrain him.
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The United States’ No Good, Very Bad Week
In seven days Trump pressured the press, rewrote immigration, claimed control over prosecutors, erased history, and pushed the courts to their limits.
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Threadbare Republic @threadbarerepublic.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
In ABC's defense, Jimmy Kimmel should have said something much less offensive during his monologue, such as advocating that we kill homeless people.
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Threadbare Republic @threadbarerepublic.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Freedom of speech is being hollowed out. If a regulator can use merger approvals to pressure broadcasters into canceling dissent, then the government has found a back door into censorship. That is authoritarianism, plain and simple.
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Democracy Dies in Silence
When the FCC silences comedians and networks shovel dirt for mergers, freedom of speech dies.
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Threadbare Republic @threadbarerepublic.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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Threadbare Republic @threadbarerepublic.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
When Americans say “this is our Reichstag Fire,” they are pointing to the possibility that fear will be weaponized to erode rights and entrench one-party control. They are reminding us that the real test comes when those in power decide whether to protect democracy or bend it to their will.
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America’s Reichstag Fire
How violence could be used to rewrite the rules of power
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Threadbare Republic @threadbarerepublic.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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Threadbare Republic @threadbarerepublic.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Let’s call it what it is: Trump is dismantling the free press, installing a state mouthpiece, and stripping away another vital check on presidential power. open.substack.com/pub/threadba...
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The Authoritarian’s Oldest Enemy: A Free Press
When the press is the enemy, democracy is at risk
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Threadbare Republic @threadbarerepublic.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Distraction is not incompetence. It is a weapon. If we fail to call it out, we become complicit in it. And unless the public learns to resist the churn, the noise will smother democracy itself.
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Welcome to the Machine
Chaos is not his weakness. It is his strategy, and it is slowly erasing the line between outrage and catastrophe.
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Threadbare Republic @threadbarerepublic.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Trump has made cruelty his brand, but this moment strips away even the veneer of leadership. A president who laughs at tragedy is not a leader. open.substack.com/pub/threadba...
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Ask Not What I Can Do for You…
When the president couldn’t care less, democracy pays the price.
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Threadbare Republic @threadbarerepublic.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Writing about Charlie Kirk is hard because it forces a reckoning with how far political discourse has shifted, how fragile our civic norms have become, and how careful we must be when telling stories about death, influence, and morality in public life.
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Between Outrage and Reflection
Why some stories of political violence resist simple narratives
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