Thomas Zimmer
Historian at Georgetown - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana thomaszimmer.substack.com - Podcast: Is This Democracy podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/is-this-de…
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- In the 1980s, American fascists tried to turn Idaho into a white Christian nationalist homeland for “refugees” from American multi-racial democracy and religious pluralism. One such community was called “Aryan Nations.” So this tracks perfectly . www.idahostatesman.com/news/politic...
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- “Little did Steinmetz-Jenkins know that, within a year of its publication, his volume would go from being a triumphant coup-de-grace against the liberal tyrannophobes, to an artifact of the shortest victory lap ever taken.” s-usih.org/2025/05/the-...
- Stone and sky.
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- the two big camps in dem politics right now are "just have some values and fight for them" and [smugly] "values? what are you, five?"
- they’re having a “values? what are you, five?“ conference
- NYT: “.. The United States is the only country .. that is forecast to see an international visitor decline in 2025.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/t...
- Every photo of this man projects “mean dumb asshole” which is exactly what you’re looking for in a Librarian of Congress
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Great piece about how DOGE is crippling capacity to stop necessary spending. *Remove discretion on spending from employees closest to the work *Require more justifications for routine/previously approved spending *Allow only DOGErs/senior officials to approve www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...- [Not loaded yet]
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- Trump's blatant corruption is, like a lot of the malfeasance in his second term, a bigger version of things he did and got away with in his first term. As @jilldlawrence.bsky.social writes, the Supreme Court and Republican Congress helped him do that. To quote a US Senator, he learned his lesson.
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- Fully one THIRD of the entire FBI’s work is now immigration enforcement! Can you IMAGINE the howls if Biden has taken so many agents off of their normal duties and reassigned them to the border?
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- What authority does Trump have to “pull” this funding? This is an outrageous abuse of power.
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- That paper has great writers, but it feels like “don’t be too critical of Trump” and “find ways to cast the left as equally radical” are guiding principles there. The corruption post today from one of their reporters absolutely deserved the roasting it received.
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- THIS.
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- With all due respect, “corruption” is not an exact synonym for “bribery” and I find it very bizarre that you are acting as if the two are one and the same. Many things which are corrupt are not bribery!
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