@reedgalen Republicans have been stepping on the same rake for decades. nytimes.com/1947/09/14/arc…
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Jack Pitney
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Jack Pitney
@jpitney
Claremont McKenna College Prof. Author: The Politics of Autism (2015), After Reagan (2019), Un-American: the Fake Patriotism of Donald J. Trump (2020).🇺🇦🇺🇸
Claremont, California Katılım Kasım 2008
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Funny how all Americans have to sacrifice except for the folks making all the worst decisions.
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen@NoLieWithBTC
A top Republican just told Americans how they should deal with rising gas prices under Trump: “Maybe take one less trip to Starbucks... Let’s just try to be patriots about this.”
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What’s a tv show from your childhood you swear nobody else watched?
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Don Bacon on Russia-Ukraine:
We shouldn't act like a referee in a boxing match between two equals. No, we have a victim, a democracy being invaded, and a dictator doing the invading. We should not act neutral. This is good versus evil.
I expect more from a Republican administration: stand up to the bully, stand up to Putin. I'm a Reagan Republican. I support negotiations, but there's right and wrong here, and we’re acting morally blind.
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.@neelkashkari was right.
L.A. Reported@LA_Reported
California voted for a bullet train connecting L.A. to San Francisco in under 3 hours. The latest plan: High-speed rail from Gilroy to Palmdale, with slower connections at both ends that could make the trip six hours. That's the same as driving time. lareported.substack.com/p/the-bullet-t…
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@Acyn This dereliction of Constitutional duty is exactly why I’m running against Risch.
I’m the only candidate in Idaho that’s leading in the polls and has a path to beat him.
For the sake of the 5,000 Idahoans on active duty, November can’t come soon enough.
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Stories of overbilling by autism service providers have prompted cutbacks by states and Medicaid managed care plans. Side effect: a number of autistic kids won't be getting all the help they need. autismpolicyblog.com/2026/03/aba-fu…
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@kyledcheney DHS is part of the intelligence community. A would-be secretary ought to know what "classification" means.
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Mullin claimed that the House sent him on a classified trip that only four people knew about. When Paul and Peters pressed him on which agency classified it, it led to this exchange:
MULLIN: It wasn’t an agency. It was done here, well, in the House at the time.
PETERS: The House classified it?
MULLIN: I’m assuming.
Except the House doesn't have that power. All classification authority flows from the president/executive.
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@MichaelRBloodAP Many people have forgotten (or never knew) that Nelson Rockefeller was dyslexic. He still managed to be a very consequential political figure.
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Trump Says Newsom Shouldn’t Be President Because He Is Dyslexic nytimes.com/2026/03/17/us/…
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@TimothyDSnyder Yep. Nine years ago, I wrote: "He is a weak little man who pretends to be a big strong one." politico.com/magazine/story…
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He took the greatest military force in world history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, and demanded that the media lie about this and everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone can mistake this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength. His weakness is something negative, gravitational, so deep that it can draw in a whole country. But only if we fail to see it. Only if we let it.
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@capitolhunters @michaeldweiss If only there were an American who had the last say on what constitutes Catholicism...
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@michaeldweiss Carrie Prejean and Candace Owens are odd choices to headline a conference about what it means to be really Catholic since they converted to Catholicism 1 and 2 years ago.
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Catholics for Catholics, as opposed to Catholics for another Abrahamic faith which might be a smidge awkward for these particular Catholics right here to be for?
CyberBoy@BenHanan_
🚨 Breaking News: Joe Kent will now be speaking at the Catholics for Catholics convention in Washington DC alongside: Candace Owens & Carrie Prejean Boller. Something isn’t right…
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Jack Pitney retweetledi
.@ZohranKMamdani and I have something huge in common — we’re both entirely focused on making life better for working people. We have very different ideas on how to do that, but I think that’s the sign of a healthy democracy: the ability to disagree civilly, debate thoughtfully, and grapple with the fact that what we’ve been doing isn’t working — even, and perhaps most importantly, when you come from the same political party.
I love New York, but I’m happy to be on a flight home right now — because California, we have a whole lot of work to do.
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@RpsAgainstTrump Hmm, two years ago, Trump was a huge fan: @realDonaldTrump/112865246897454933" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…
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Trump on Joe Kent: I always thought he was a nice guy, but I always thought he was weak on security. I didn't know him well, but I thought he seemed like a nice guy. But when I read his statement, I realized that it's a good thing he’s out.
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If a friend says they don't like black and white films, which one would you pick to show them what they're missing?
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Significant. Joe Kent is a Trump appointee.
Joe Kent@joekent16jan19
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.
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Not that long ago, Trump was a big fan of Joe Kent: @realDonaldTrump/112865246897454933" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…
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It’s time to abolish the FCC. If Republicans were serious about shrinking government they would do it now. When libs tried to silence Rush with Fairness Doctrine many conservatives promised to abolish FCC if they got the chance. Today many Republicans prefer to use govt to wield power like the Left
Brendan Carr@BrendanCarrFCC
Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not. And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters. The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves. It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news. When a political candidate is able to win a landslide election victory after in the face of hoaxes and distortions, there is something very wrong. It means the public has lost faith and confidence in the media. And we can’t allow that to happen. Time for change!
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@JonahDispatch He saw Godfather II and thought, "Hyman Roth had the right idea about Cuba!" youtube.com/watch?v=mdvjRI…
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This is bonkers for a bunch of more troubling reasons, but the idea that Cuba isn’t in a hurricane zone was hilarious. I mean I looked it up. 37 since 2000. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_C….
Acyn@Acyn
Trump: Cuba, it's a beautiful island. Great weather. I will be having the honor of taking Cuba. Whether I free it, take it. I think I can do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth
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This is just a flatly stupid thing to say
David Senra@davidsenra
Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.
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@TerryMoran Three times in a row, a majority of the electorate voted for somebody else.
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There is a blatant lie here, Mr. Censor.
Trump did not win a "landslide victory."
He won the popular vote by 1.5%--among the smallest ever, 5th smallest margin in the 32 elections post-1900. A middling electoral win. You can look it up. But you were groveling, not informing.
Brendan Carr@BrendanCarrFCC
Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not. And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters. The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves. It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news. When a political candidate is able to win a landslide election victory after in the face of hoaxes and distortions, there is something very wrong. It means the public has lost faith and confidence in the media. And we can’t allow that to happen. Time for change!
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A new study profiles four autistic state lawmakers: @jessicalbenham and @RepSalisbury, of PA, @RepBriscoeCain of TX, and @yuhline of NY. autismpolicyblog.com/2026/03/autism…
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