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Associate Professor of Political Science at Knox College in Galesburg, IL.

Tinley Park, IL
Joined September 2010
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Replying to @elonmusk
@elonmusk 's Twitter verse is essentially what Marcus Aurelius spoke of, on steroids. (Or whatever drug the white nationalists are doing so much of these days).
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The Grand Ole Pedophiles are praising Trump using the Guard in DC, and pretending they didn't claim he didn't have the authority to do so to stop J6 coup. The Grand Ole Pedophiles are also repeating false pretense that crime is up (it isn't in DC). Release the Epstein Files!
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Trumpster Fire is posting on Truthless Social about his parade (spelling parade wrong!), but not about the assassination of a Minnesota lawmaker. Disgraceful lack of humanity and extreme narcissism.
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🚨OUTRAGEOUS: Police just arrested an 80-year-old veteran protesting Trump’s parade at the Capitol after he “crossed a barrier.” Police were caught on tape holding his walker instead of letting him use it. He served this country. This is shameful.
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Andy Civettini retweeted
There was no call. Not even a voicemail. Americans should be alarmed that a President deploying Marines onto our streets doesn’t even know who he’s talking to.
Reporter: When is last time you spoke with Governor Newsom? President Trump: A day ago. Called him up to tell him, got to do a better job, he's doing a bad job. Causing a lot of death and potential death
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If you're Germany, Poland, Taiwan, South Korea, or Japan right now, you should probably assume the U.S. is an unreliable ally and try to get your own nuclear deterrent.
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You know, if you'd just STOP doing Nazi shit all the time, we'd stop calling you fuckers Nazis. It's not that complicated.
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This is an excellent summary of Musk’s takeover of the Treasury from @NYMag’s @chasdanner, with quotes from WSJ, NYT, WaPo, and my op-ed from @MSNBC yesterday. But this quote from @smotus is right on the money. This isn’t efficiency. It’s a coup. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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President Biden got this exact deal -- 10,000 troops deployed to the border -- at the start of his term without tanking the market.
For three days a lot of the far left has actively rooted against America and argued we’d get nothing out of President Trunp’s demands that Mexico secure its country. Well, how do you like them apples?
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1. BREAKING Several Musk associates installed at OPM — including two recent high school graduates — have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees. 🧵
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USAID tells staff to not show up at DC HQs today in morning email as Elon says the agency has been shut down. The email is from [email protected]. Gavin Kliger is one of the 19-24yr old group of Musk aides running the government now.
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This is a constitutional crisis. The richest man on earth has illegally obtained physical access to the US government payment systems and is now shutting down funding to any recipient he personally dislikes. This is money authorized by Congress, he is usurping the Constitution.
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It’s hard to overhype how dangerous this moment is. This a naked attempt to seize government by the right wing billionaire class so they can steal from the American people.
USAID employees were told overnight their HQ in Washington DC is closed today “at the direction of agency leadership,” according to an email shared w/CBS News. It tells staff to work remotely today instead. “Further guidance will be forthcoming.”
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🚨Read/copy/repost if you can: From an anonymous OPM employee on Reddit. submitted 3 hours ago by Throwaway918284: "I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM. I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service. Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen. The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest “yes man” you'll ever meet. He never says no. It’s clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck. Under his name, they’ve sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn’t even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security. Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency. Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various “test” message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road. The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we've filed. Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it’s looking pretty grim." H/T @sandibachom
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This weekend, Trump's 25% tax increase will kick in on every American. He's doing this by implementing import taxes on America's biggest allies and trading partners. Here's a list of common food items that you can expect to increase in price: From Mexico: 🥑 Avocados (+25%) 🍅 Tomatoes (+25%) 🌶️ Bell peppers (+25%) 🥒 Cucumbers (+25%) 🍓 Strawberries (+25%) 🍋 Limes (+25%) 🥭 Mangoes (+25%) 🫐 Blueberries (+25%) 🍌 Bananas (+25%) 🍇 Grapes (+25%) 🌽 Corn (+25%) 🫘 Beans (+25%) 🥩 Beef (+25%) 🐖 Pork (+25%) 🍤 Shrimp (+25%) 🧀 Cheese (+25%) 🍦 Ice cream (+25%) 🍿 Snack foods (+25%) 🍹 Tequila & mezcal (+25%) 🍺 Beer (+25%) From Canada: 🥚 Eggs (+25%) 🥩 Beef (+25%) 🐖 Pork (+25%) 🐟 Salmon (+25%) 🦞 Lobster (+25%) 🧀 Cheese (+25%) 🥛 Milk powder (+25%) 🧈 Butter (+25%) 🌾 Wheat (+25%) 🌾 Oats (+25%) 🌾 Barley (+25%) 🌻 Canola oil (+25%) 🍏 Apples (+25%) 🥔 Potatoes (+25%) 🍁 Maple syrup (+25%) 🥃 Whiskey (+25%) 🍺 Beer (+25%)
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And just in case you missed it — this is the video that broke them today. 😂😂😂
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