Andy McLeod
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Democracy defense, public history, all things good!
The #Trump mob “is the greatest #threat to #academic #freedom and #scientific research since the ebb of #McCarthyism. This #compact is just more evidence that it wants to dictate what we #teach, what we #research … and how we #express ourselves.”
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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
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October 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The #Trump mob “is the greatest #threat to #academic #freedom and #scientific research since the ebb of #McCarthyism. This #compact is just more evidence that it wants to dictate what we #teach, what we #research … and how we #express ourselves.”
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No Kings. Save Congress.
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No Kings. Save Congress.
Five fingers for democracy
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October 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
No Kings. Save Congress.
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Bravo, Sara Bronin! Thanks, ABC (Australia).
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Is Trump allowed to demolish the White House's East Wing? | Planet America | Sara C. Bronin
The demolition of the East Wing has raised alarms beyond the American preservation community: the world is watching. Today, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) released a lengthy episode: "I...
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October 26, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Bravo, Sara Bronin! Thanks, ABC (Australia).
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#TheBulwark #CQ #MeidasTouch #TheFulcrum.US #TheNewYorkerThe #Guardian #HarvardKennedySchool #IndivisibleProject #DemocracyForward #TheDispatch ‘ #news #HeathMayo #PublicCitizen
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Cowardice on the American right:
Reagan Foundation was “easily intimidated by a call from the White House, yet another sign of the hugely corrosive influence of Trump on the American conservative movement,” Jason Kenney, former Conservative Canadian cabinet minister.
Oh, Canada!!! 🇨🇦
Reagan Foundation was “easily intimidated by a call from the White House, yet another sign of the hugely corrosive influence of Trump on the American conservative movement,” Jason Kenney, former Conservative Canadian cabinet minister.
Oh, Canada!!! 🇨🇦
October 26, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Cowardice on the American right:
Reagan Foundation was “easily intimidated by a call from the White House, yet another sign of the hugely corrosive influence of Trump on the American conservative movement,” Jason Kenney, former Conservative Canadian cabinet minister.
Oh, Canada!!! 🇨🇦
Reagan Foundation was “easily intimidated by a call from the White House, yet another sign of the hugely corrosive influence of Trump on the American conservative movement,” Jason Kenney, former Conservative Canadian cabinet minister.
Oh, Canada!!! 🇨🇦
"Hands Off" protests are occurring right now across the USA!! www.linkedin.com/pulse/confro...
Taking on our would-be dictator (today, April 5!): Practice "corporeal politics” and apply these lessons. With an assist from John Lithgow.
Timothy Snyder has long seen it coming. In 2016, just weeks after the initial Trump electoral victory, Synder authored his highly prescient On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.
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April 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"Hands Off" protests are occurring right now across the USA!! www.linkedin.com/pulse/confro...
Confronting today’s American tyranny requires “corporeal politics” (at tomorrow's #HandsOff #protests) and 19 other Synder lessons applied www.linkedin.com/pulse/confro... #Today #news #tariffs @thebulwark.bsky.social @nytimes.com @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social @thehill.com @politico.com
Confronting today’s American tyranny necessitates “corporeal politics” (tomorrow!) and 19 other lessons learned
Timothy Sydner has seen it all coming for a long time. In 2016, just weeks after the initial Trump electoral victory, Synder authored his highly prescient On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth...
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April 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Confronting today’s American tyranny requires “corporeal politics” (at tomorrow's #HandsOff #protests) and 19 other Synder lessons applied www.linkedin.com/pulse/confro... #Today #news #tariffs @thebulwark.bsky.social @nytimes.com @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social @thehill.com @politico.com
We are the Cavalry! Principles First #defends the #Constitution, rule of #law, #democracy
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We are the cavalry! Americans are uniting for the defense of our democracy.
“In America, I encountered sorts of associations ..
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February 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
We are the Cavalry! Principles First #defends the #Constitution, rule of #law, #democracy
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"The imperative of citizenship is to love the country so much that you’d risk everything to fulfill its promise ... That’s what it means when we say America is exceptional.” -- Barack Obama
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Here come Trump, Vance & the most extreme: Time to stand up and rally, good citizens. Push back -- big, big time!
The presidential election is now certified. The new, narrowly Republican Congress has been installed.
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January 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"The imperative of citizenship is to love the country so much that you’d risk everything to fulfill its promise ... That’s what it means when we say America is exceptional.” -- Barack Obama
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Are We Sleepwalking Into Autocracy? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/o...
Opinion | Are We Sleepwalking Into Autocracy?
What we can learn from countries that have pushed back on threats to democracy.
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January 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Are We Sleepwalking Into Autocracy? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/o...
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We the #people are the cavalry. To defend #democracy #Constitution & #ruleoflaw @principlesfirst.bsky.social@bulwark.bsky.social @heathmayo.bsky.social @sarahlongwell.bsky.social #breaking @crew.bsky.social @apnews.com @politico.com #congress #senate
February 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
We the #people are the cavalry. To defend #democracy #Constitution & #ruleoflaw @principlesfirst.bsky.social@bulwark.bsky.social @heathmayo.bsky.social @sarahlongwell.bsky.social #breaking @crew.bsky.social @apnews.com @politico.com #congress #senate
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We did a hearing on this in Budget when I was chairman. Republicans wouldn’t listen. Now here we are.
E&E News: $4T municipal bond market wakes up to climate risk. (With help from Trump.)
The bonds are considered a safe investment. The Los Angeles wildfires sparked concern that climate change is making them risky.
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February 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
We did a hearing on this in Budget when I was chairman. Republicans wouldn’t listen. Now here we are.
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“Especially in light of the billionaire’s other blatant efforts to cozy up to Donald Trump, Bezos’s move is more than a gut punch; it’s more like a death knell for the once-great news organization he bought in 2013.”
My latest on Bezos bulldozing the reputation and business of the paper he vowed to save. And yes, it’s personal https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/26/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion
Jeff Bezos is muzzling the Washington Post’s opinion section. That’s a death knell | Margaret Sullivan
‘I couldn’t be more sad and disgusted,’ says former top editor Martin Baron
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February 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
“Especially in light of the billionaire’s other blatant efforts to cozy up to Donald Trump, Bezos’s move is more than a gut punch; it’s more like a death knell for the once-great news organization he bought in 2013.”
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Who would have believed you even a few years ago that "personal liberties and free markets" would be code for "cozying up to *Donald Trump*"?
The Washington Post and Autocracy’s Asymmetric Advantage
Liberalism is afraid to take its own side.
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February 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Who would have believed you even a few years ago that "personal liberties and free markets" would be code for "cozying up to *Donald Trump*"?
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"The likeliest result of a U.S. attempt to pry Russia away from China would be the needless sacrifice of Ukraine and Europe, which would leave America less able to contain China."
Trump’s Two-Week Capitulation to Putin
The president gave the Russian dictator the best run of good news he’s had in years.
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February 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM
"The likeliest result of a U.S. attempt to pry Russia away from China would be the needless sacrifice of Ukraine and Europe, which would leave America less able to contain China."
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"The position we’re in with Putin isn’t toe to toe. It’s tongue to toe. The toes are his, and the tongues belong to Trump, Hegseth, Waltz, Witkoff, Bessent, JD Vance, and the rest of this bootlicking administration."
Republicans Follow Trump in Selling Out Ukraine
Ten distortions from GOP politicians who should know better about Russia, Putin, and NATO.
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February 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
"The position we’re in with Putin isn’t toe to toe. It’s tongue to toe. The toes are his, and the tongues belong to Trump, Hegseth, Waltz, Witkoff, Bessent, JD Vance, and the rest of this bootlicking administration."
We the #people are the cavalry. To defend #democracy #Constitution & #ruleoflaw @principlesfirst.bsky.social@bulwark.bsky.social @heathmayo.bsky.social @sarahlongwell.bsky.social #breaking @crew.bsky.social @apnews.com @politico.com #congress #senate
February 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
We the #people are the cavalry. To defend #democracy #Constitution & #ruleoflaw @principlesfirst.bsky.social@bulwark.bsky.social @heathmayo.bsky.social @sarahlongwell.bsky.social #breaking @crew.bsky.social @apnews.com @politico.com #congress #senate
Are We Sleepwalking Into Autocracy? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/o...
Opinion | Are We Sleepwalking Into Autocracy?
What we can learn from countries that have pushed back on threats to democracy.
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Are We Sleepwalking Into Autocracy? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/o...
"The imperative of citizenship is to love the country so much that you’d risk everything to fulfill its promise ... That’s what it means when we say America is exceptional.” -- Barack Obama
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Here come Trump, Vance & the most extreme: Time to stand up and rally, good citizens. Push back -- big, big time!
The presidential election is now certified. The new, narrowly Republican Congress has been installed.
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January 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"The imperative of citizenship is to love the country so much that you’d risk everything to fulfill its promise ... That’s what it means when we say America is exceptional.” -- Barack Obama
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Donald Trump has called January 6 "a day of love" and promised to issue pardons related to the riot.
On the eve of the presidential inauguration, @hannarosin.bsky.social and Linda Kinstler discuss if a society can move forward without embracing revisionist history:
On the eve of the presidential inauguration, @hannarosin.bsky.social and Linda Kinstler discuss if a society can move forward without embracing revisionist history:
January 6 and the Case for Oblivion
The difference between forgetting the past and choosing not to remember it
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January 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Donald Trump has called January 6 "a day of love" and promised to issue pardons related to the riot.
On the eve of the presidential inauguration, @hannarosin.bsky.social and Linda Kinstler discuss if a society can move forward without embracing revisionist history:
On the eve of the presidential inauguration, @hannarosin.bsky.social and Linda Kinstler discuss if a society can move forward without embracing revisionist history: