Fred Dews
@freddews.bsky.social
Genealogy / family history | Master Gunner | He/Him
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Good lort, there are like 30 from my year. I'll go with the band who gave the first show I ever attended.
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Good lort, there are like 30 from my year. I'll go with the band who gave the first show I ever attended.
Close the submissions. Photo of the year.
What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Close the submissions. Photo of the year.
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Enhanced ACA subsidies are set to expire at the beginning of next year—what does that mean for Americans, insurers, and health care providers? Matt Fiedler breaks it down on The Current. Listen at the link below or on your favorite podcast app.
Why are expiring ACA subsidies raising health insurance premiums?
With expanded subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans set to expire at the end of 2025, Americans on ACA health plans are starting to see big increases in their monthly health insurance premiums for 2026 as insurers send out annual notices. To address w...
www.brookings.edu
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Enhanced ACA subsidies are set to expire at the beginning of next year—what does that mean for Americans, insurers, and health care providers? Matt Fiedler breaks it down on The Current. Listen at the link below or on your favorite podcast app.
Here's an episode of a podcast I produce.
On a new episode of Reimagine Rural, Tony Pipa explores how civic collaboration is driving economic transformation in a small town in Maine. Listen online here or on your favorite podcast app 🎧
Skowhegan, Maine, is making waves as it builds a vibrant future along the Kennebec River | Brookings
A former mill town once defined by economic decline, Skowhegan, Maine, is thriving again through creativity and collaboration. From a growing regional food hub and a major riverfront revitalization ef...
brook.gs
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Here's an episode of a podcast I produce.
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New research from my colleagues @brookings.edu finds that mail voting fraud is extremely low
They also show that adopting universal vote-by-mail voting reduces racial & economic disparities
Read more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
They also show that adopting universal vote-by-mail voting reduces racial & economic disparities
Read more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
Mail voting fraud: Data points to low risk and high benefits for voters | Brookings
Analysis finds mail voting fraud in the U.S. is exceedingly rare and shows universal vote-by-mail boosts access, turnout, and cost efficiency.
www.brookings.edu
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
New research from my colleagues @brookings.edu finds that mail voting fraud is extremely low
They also show that adopting universal vote-by-mail voting reduces racial & economic disparities
Read more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
They also show that adopting universal vote-by-mail voting reduces racial & economic disparities
Read more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
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SNAP update. Insane one. So USDA is now saying on a huge lag:
- issue partial payments using a bad-math formula;
- CLAW BACK full issuances that any state sent *properly* under last week's guidance;
- if you don't CLAW BACK benefits, we won't pay the federal share of SNAP administrative costs (??)
- issue partial payments using a bad-math formula;
- CLAW BACK full issuances that any state sent *properly* under last week's guidance;
- if you don't CLAW BACK benefits, we won't pay the federal share of SNAP administrative costs (??)
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
SNAP update. Insane one. So USDA is now saying on a huge lag:
- issue partial payments using a bad-math formula;
- CLAW BACK full issuances that any state sent *properly* under last week's guidance;
- if you don't CLAW BACK benefits, we won't pay the federal share of SNAP administrative costs (??)
- issue partial payments using a bad-math formula;
- CLAW BACK full issuances that any state sent *properly* under last week's guidance;
- if you don't CLAW BACK benefits, we won't pay the federal share of SNAP administrative costs (??)
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"A tariff is a tax; by definition, a tariff is the tax paid by an importer for the right to import a product. When you tax something, you get less of it."
Tariffs are a particularly bad way to raise revenue | Brookings
In this explainer, Jay C. Shambaugh shows why tariffs are a particularly bad way to raise funds for the U.S. government.
brook.gs
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"A tariff is a tax; by definition, a tariff is the tax paid by an importer for the right to import a product. When you tax something, you get less of it."
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Honestly, folks.
Today's electoral results are a referendum on fascism.
Take heart, peeps.
It's fuel to step up and keep going!
Today's electoral results are a referendum on fascism.
Take heart, peeps.
It's fuel to step up and keep going!
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Honestly, folks.
Today's electoral results are a referendum on fascism.
Take heart, peeps.
It's fuel to step up and keep going!
Today's electoral results are a referendum on fascism.
Take heart, peeps.
It's fuel to step up and keep going!
Solid comms ops.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Solid comms ops.
deep cut. intersectional.
Bill Ackman has got to be feeling like Donald Pleasance in ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK right about now
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
deep cut. intersectional.
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The demolished East Wing is a monument to this regime's destruction of our system of checks and balances, and the process of democratic governance.
It is a monument of rubble.
It is a monument of rubble.
October 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The demolished East Wing is a monument to this regime's destruction of our system of checks and balances, and the process of democratic governance.
It is a monument of rubble.
It is a monument of rubble.
The entry just before "Muslim brotherhood visit" is "Bill Clinton Scandal," showing a photo of him + Lewinsky. Of 19 entries on this "timeline," 15 of them are about stuff that happened TO the building, like additions and the British burning it. Then there are 4 "gotcha" entries about Dems. Nasty.
This is the official "About the White House" website right now. 77 million people voted for this.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
October 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The entry just before "Muslim brotherhood visit" is "Bill Clinton Scandal," showing a photo of him + Lewinsky. Of 19 entries on this "timeline," 15 of them are about stuff that happened TO the building, like additions and the British burning it. Then there are 4 "gotcha" entries about Dems. Nasty.
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Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
October 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
Can affirm: this is not nor has it ever been how I and my male friends have EVER talked. Ever. Anywhere.
This was exactly what I said a decade ago after the “locker room talk” bullshit about the Access Hollywood tape.
No, neither I nor my friends ever hung out in the locker room bragging about sexually assaulting women.
No, neither I nor my friends ever hung out in the locker room bragging about sexually assaulting women.
No, this is how Nazis talk in their own spaces. I don’t know abut this dude, but I never talked about gassing people and raping women when I was hanging out with my pals.
October 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Can affirm: this is not nor has it ever been how I and my male friends have EVER talked. Ever. Anywhere.
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The thing about Nazis is their speech is all hate speech, all of it, not free speech, because Nazism is predicated on violence and contemporary Nazism is predicated on knowing about genocide and approving of it and wanting to do it again.
October 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The thing about Nazis is their speech is all hate speech, all of it, not free speech, because Nazism is predicated on violence and contemporary Nazism is predicated on knowing about genocide and approving of it and wanting to do it again.
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If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
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This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
October 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
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Leftists who are anti military service and want everyone to resign...what do you think happens when the military stops reflecting an electorate where only 1/3 voted for this idiot and starts looking like a MAGA rally?
Like what's your plan there?
Like what's your plan there?
September 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Leftists who are anti military service and want everyone to resign...what do you think happens when the military stops reflecting an electorate where only 1/3 voted for this idiot and starts looking like a MAGA rally?
Like what's your plan there?
Like what's your plan there?
This is the key takeaway. Not SecDef's new PT standards and grooming policies.
JUST IN: President Trump has told top U.S. commanders that the military would be used against "enemy within."
Trump defends use of U.S. military against 'enemy within'
Earlier, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the purpose of the department would exclusively be "war fighting."
n.pr
September 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is the key takeaway. Not SecDef's new PT standards and grooming policies.
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Repost for Irish Film Classifications by Damien Owens, because it's just come up in FB memories and it's still *brilliant*.
September 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Repost for Irish Film Classifications by Damien Owens, because it's just come up in FB memories and it's still *brilliant*.
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The far right has been looking for a reason to commit mass political violence and it’s extremely important to unite around the principle that all political violence in America is unthinkable and unacceptable.
September 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The far right has been looking for a reason to commit mass political violence and it’s extremely important to unite around the principle that all political violence in America is unthinkable and unacceptable.
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I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah.
Political violence has no place in our country.
Political violence has no place in our country.
September 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah.
Political violence has no place in our country.
Political violence has no place in our country.
Back then (the late '80s) we didn't have the turn of phrase, "what a time to be alive," so there was really no way for us olds to have any other perspective on our life and times.
A couple of years ago I made a passing comment to a student about a politician’s career ending because he had an extramarital affair and they were stunned.
Dear History Professor, don't you wish Gary Hart was still alive so we could ask him what he thinks of these revelations?
His answers might not be fit for polite company.
His answers might not be fit for polite company.
September 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Back then (the late '80s) we didn't have the turn of phrase, "what a time to be alive," so there was really no way for us olds to have any other perspective on our life and times.