#Reagan

Esha K

eshaLegal

By unfortunate necessity, I must do a thread on the Reagan years.Millennials: If your life sucks, blame your parents for voting Reagan 1. Ronald Reagan gave a speech in the

BrinConvenient

BrinConvenient

Many thanks to @AlexandraErin for directing me to this article. This is just such a clear illustration and articulation of the moral & intellectual collapse of the GOP. I've long

Rick Perlstein

rickperlstein

I recently received an interview request a political reporter from a nationally prominent news org, from whom and which doesn't matter; the problem it reveals is structural, and my despair

XVIII Airborne Corps

18airbornecorps

1 of 30:37 years ago today, the US invaded a teeny-tiny Caribbean island, rescued a bunch of medical students, and rounded-up a group of gang members, along with their Cuban

🏳️‍🌈Lisa Talmadge FIGHT FOR GEORGIA! Rev and Jon

LisaTalmadge

John Kerry was a war hero and the loudest most effective voice on capital hill to end the Vietnam war.They claimed Kerry was a traitor to cover for GW Bush

Ruth Marcus

RuthMarcus

Some facts on the timing of Supreme Court nominations/confirmations in presidential election years. Since 1900, the latest has been July (John Clarke to replace Charles Evans Hughes, who resigned to

JohnWBuaas

AnonScone

Just sitting here thinking a couple of things about the notion of religious liberty and real and perceived threats to it in this country. (Full disclosure: I'm Lutheran.)Years ago, I

Son of Baldwin (Robert Jones, Jr.)

SonofBaldwin

Can it be justice if it's also racist?This company is pleading guilty to hooking primarily white people on a drug that has caused a drug crisis that dwarfed the crack

Martin “Black Lives Matter” Pfeiffer 🏳️‍🌈

NuclearAnthro

...did we all miss that fascist theocracy has been the goal of American evangelicals and fundamentalists since (the beginning) at least the 1980s?It amazes me how often we give nuclear

Pinboard

Pinboard

Joseph Heller would be proud. There are only 20 patients on the 1200 bed hospital ship Comfort in New York City because of strict Navy requirements for keeping the ship

Jeremy Smith

mrbeaks

In July of 2012, @MrPeytonReed and I hosted a "Summer of 1982" series at the @newbeverly. '82 is generally considered the summer that made "summer movies" a thing, so it

Edward, A deplorable cat named DOG

Geek4MAGA

1) OK, folks, this is getting on my nerves…. People speculating about the possibility that Speaker Pelosi could somehow “become POTUS” while @realdonaldtrump is sick if Pence also gets ill.

John Stoehr's Editorial Board

johnastoehr

Trump Inches Toward Political Violence by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/trump-inches-toward-political-violence?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. The president came close to inciting viole

DCI KENYA

DCI_Kenya

Detectives based at Central Police Station, are holding three errant law enforcement officers, who were arrested yesterday while conducting unwarranted arrests.The three suspects Police Corporal Cliff Ombati, KDF Lance Corporal

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

All right.We have to talk about Trump, his doctors, reality being purposefully altered by Republicans, and how this represents a fascistic threat to America.For more of this disturbing history and

Alexander Lanoszka

ALanoszka

Good thread, but for me the interesting question is not whether arms races lead to war (too many problems with reverse causation), but how they shape state's choices over armaments