Maurice T. Cunningham
@masspolprofmo.bsky.social
Author, "Dark Money and the Politics of School Privatization." Retired professor of political science. Phony "parents" and "moms" groups expert.
Morton Blackwell pays well for hate
Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit.
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
December 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Morton Blackwell pays well for hate
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I hope this will stop deploying the US military and National Guard against Americans slate.com/news-and-pol...
Trump Just Faced the Biggest Supreme Court Defeat of His Second Term So Far
But another battle looms in the distance.
slate.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I hope this will stop deploying the US military and National Guard against Americans slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
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Reposting my husband's artwork.
December 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Reposting my husband's artwork.
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Second Matthew Taylor whose book "The violent take it by force" talks about leaders like Che Ahn who were at Jan 6 Insurrection
New book examines a group of charismatic Christian leaders and their ties to Jan. 6 attack
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with religious studies scholar Matthew D. Taylor about his book "The Violent Take it By Force" and charismatic Christianity's role in U.S. politics.
www.npr.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Second Matthew Taylor whose book "The violent take it by force" talks about leaders like Che Ahn who were at Jan 6 Insurrection
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I'm not sharing it, go look it up for yourselves.this line really pissed me off "Journalists and scholars paid little attention to this movement until recently, when they realized that some of its members had rallied to President Trump " SMDH. Many of us were writing about this in Trumps 1st Term.
December 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I'm not sharing it, go look it up for yourselves.this line really pissed me off "Journalists and scholars paid little attention to this movement until recently, when they realized that some of its members had rallied to President Trump " SMDH. Many of us were writing about this in Trumps 1st Term.
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CBS and the Myth of the Liberal Mainstream Media radicalscholarship.com/2025/12/23/c...
CBS and the Myth of the Liberal Mainstream Media
[Header Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash] If trending matters on social media, a consensus is building that Bari Weiss has ushered in the death of CBS, a nail in the coffin of mainstream media:…
radicalscholarship.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
CBS and the Myth of the Liberal Mainstream Media radicalscholarship.com/2025/12/23/c...
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Wheels coming off the bus of a Philadelphia charter school hit by huge staff layoffs, student protests as teachers vow to organize a union to fight back against administrative dysfunction and mismanagement. #CharterSchoolFail
www.inquirer.com/education/es...
www.inquirer.com/education/es...
A Philly charter just laid off 17 employees. Students, staff, and parents say it’s a sign of troubling changes at the school
The school, a K-12 in Hunting Park, has seen changes in the past year, culminating with teacher layoffs this month. Now, Esperanza Academy Charter High School staff are attempting to unionize.
www.inquirer.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Wheels coming off the bus of a Philadelphia charter school hit by huge staff layoffs, student protests as teachers vow to organize a union to fight back against administrative dysfunction and mismanagement. #CharterSchoolFail
www.inquirer.com/education/es...
www.inquirer.com/education/es...
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At least we have the foreign press to tell us how it is
December 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
At least we have the foreign press to tell us how it is
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In 2024, Pence's Advancing American Freedom brought in $13.7 million and spent $11 million according to its latest IRS filing obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy.
December 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
In 2024, Pence's Advancing American Freedom brought in $13.7 million and spent $11 million according to its latest IRS filing obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy.
of course not. Trump is just the kind of guy to stage an elaborate transparent coverup when he has nothing to hide.
Scarborough: "Trump is not on Epstein's list. There's nothing in there really damning about Trump or Bill Clinton. So one of the great mysteries is not what Trump's hiding, it's why if he's not in the files - which all the reporting says he's not - why is he so obsessed on blocking access to them?"
December 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
of course not. Trump is just the kind of guy to stage an elaborate transparent coverup when he has nothing to hide.
Happening now, due to the Roberts Court and Trump
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Happening now, due to the Roberts Court and Trump
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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This is something else. Lots of respect for @60minutes.bsky.social reporter Sharyn Alfonso for defending the integrity of her work.
What a disgrace for 60
Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches.
GIFT LINK:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
What a disgrace for 60
Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches.
GIFT LINK:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This is something else. Lots of respect for @60minutes.bsky.social reporter Sharyn Alfonso for defending the integrity of her work.
What a disgrace for 60
Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches.
GIFT LINK:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
What a disgrace for 60
Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches.
GIFT LINK:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
This is a beautiful statement from a real journalist. Weiss would not recognize it. What a tool
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:44 AM
This is a beautiful statement from a real journalist. Weiss would not recognize it. What a tool
Wow. Weiss is going to kill off 60 Minutes.
Good on 60's Sharyn Alfonsi, who emailed the show's staff and correspondents to say Bari Weiss had "spiked" her story in what she says was a "political" call.
With cals like this, "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi said.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
With cals like this, "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi said.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
CBS News Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Segment; Correspondent Calls Decision Political
The news organization said the segment about the El Salvador prison where the Trump administration sent deportees needed additional reporting.
www.wsj.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Wow. Weiss is going to kill off 60 Minutes.
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And there it is...
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
And there it is...
FWIW I've had the experience, just once, of providing some background info for a 60 Minutes segment. Incredibly meticulous and thorough.
December 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
FWIW I've had the experience, just once, of providing some background info for a 60 Minutes segment. Incredibly meticulous and thorough.
Another MAGA cover up
CBS News correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi to the NYT on her CECOT segment getting pulled from 60 Minutes: “I refer all questions to Bari Weiss.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Another MAGA cover up
Traditional MAGA Mourning Dress
These people all go to rich people megachurches so they have no idea how freaky this looks to normal people
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Traditional MAGA Mourning Dress
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oh the CBS bosses went to dylan byers? then they are definitely lying.
December 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
oh the CBS bosses went to dylan byers? then they are definitely lying.
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
December 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Parents should never have to worry about their kids having nightmares after witnessing an ICE raid in the school parking lot or be rushed in from recess to avoid tear gas. Schools must be ICE-free zones.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
ICE Arrests Disrupt Schools, Prompting Fear Among Families
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Parents should never have to worry about their kids having nightmares after witnessing an ICE raid in the school parking lot or be rushed in from recess to avoid tear gas. Schools must be ICE-free zones.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman