Mike Habegger
@mikehabegger.com
Ph.D. Political Scientist. College of Liberal Arts, Louisiana Tech University. Social media, democracy, IR&Comp, and global security scholar. #EverLoyalBe
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Mike Habegger
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“These most recent pardon recipients appear to have given Trump approximately $250,000 in combined political donations through 2025.”
@alisond64.bsky.social for @forbes.com
@alisond64.bsky.social for @forbes.com
Trump pardoned more than 70 people who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election—the latest in a string of pardons to people who have benefited the president.
Trump’s Pardon List: Here Are The Big-Time Donors And Allies He’s Sprung Free
Trump pardoned more than 70 people who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election—the latest in a string of pardons to people who have benefited the president.
www.forbes.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
“These most recent pardon recipients appear to have given Trump approximately $250,000 in combined political donations through 2025.”
@alisond64.bsky.social for @forbes.com
@alisond64.bsky.social for @forbes.com
Turns out what I really crave is hot sauce and Montreal steak seasoning, not the chicken or the beef
Since we are also doing meat discourse tonight I’ll say that I’ve been eating much less of it mostly due to health and prices and I really have been totally fine. I never thought I’d say that even a few years ago.
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Turns out what I really crave is hot sauce and Montreal steak seasoning, not the chicken or the beef
Since we are also doing meat discourse tonight I’ll say that I’ve been eating much less of it mostly due to health and prices and I really have been totally fine. I never thought I’d say that even a few years ago.
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Since we are also doing meat discourse tonight I’ll say that I’ve been eating much less of it mostly due to health and prices and I really have been totally fine. I never thought I’d say that even a few years ago.
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Facing 3rd-and-long, you simply have to get the ball into Will Shipley's hands.
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Facing 3rd-and-long, you simply have to get the ball into Will Shipley's hands.
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On pardons, Trump is no longer concerned about appearances or the pretense of propriety.
He’s corrupting the process; he knows he’s corrupting the process; he knows that we know he’s corrupting the process; and he’s doing it anyway. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
He’s corrupting the process; he knows he’s corrupting the process; he knows that we know he’s corrupting the process; and he’s doing it anyway. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Trump pardons Giuliani and 76 others involved in scheme to overturn 2020 election
The president was already under fire over a series of scandalous pardons. He continues to make matters worse.
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
On pardons, Trump is no longer concerned about appearances or the pretense of propriety.
He’s corrupting the process; he knows he’s corrupting the process; he knows that we know he’s corrupting the process; and he’s doing it anyway. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
He’s corrupting the process; he knows he’s corrupting the process; he knows that we know he’s corrupting the process; and he’s doing it anyway. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Must say I won’t be that mad if my OTA antenna stops picking up this game.
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Must say I won’t be that mad if my OTA antenna stops picking up this game.
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Trump literally says "shhhhhhhh" after Laura Ingraham notes that the cost of beef, coffee, and auto repairs have gone up.
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Trump literally says "shhhhhhhh" after Laura Ingraham notes that the cost of beef, coffee, and auto repairs have gone up.
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I'm a SNAP recipient... for the last month I was tightening my belt, doing my best to eat cheaper and eating less so I'd have a little left over to help get me through when payments were cut. It was all for nothing. Fuck the dems who supported this.
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I'm a SNAP recipient... for the last month I was tightening my belt, doing my best to eat cheaper and eating less so I'd have a little left over to help get me through when payments were cut. It was all for nothing. Fuck the dems who supported this.
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Everyday Trump does something that would be a 3 alarm crisis for a Democratic president, and would be described as pivot point for their administration.
Trump to air traffic controllers: "For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn’t step up to help the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK"
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Everyday Trump does something that would be a 3 alarm crisis for a Democratic president, and would be described as pivot point for their administration.
not the point of this but what’s with their obsession over the word “kinetic”?
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
not the point of this but what’s with their obsession over the word “kinetic”?
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I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
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when you've lost Ezra Klein ...
Team Fold/Senate cave caucus - how embarrassing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Team Fold/Senate cave caucus - how embarrassing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Opinion | Democrats Were on a Roll. Why Stop Now?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
when you've lost Ezra Klein ...
Team Fold/Senate cave caucus - how embarrassing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Team Fold/Senate cave caucus - how embarrassing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
What’s going on now is radical beyond any modern precedent.
They also hate that flights were cancelled.
They also hate that flights were cancelled.
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
What’s going on now is radical beyond any modern precedent.
They also hate that flights were cancelled.
They also hate that flights were cancelled.
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When you've lost *checks notes again* Chris Cillizza
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
When you've lost *checks notes again* Chris Cillizza
I really think it was the flight cancellations. That’s the kind of inconvenience that works in other countries across history that breaks opposition elites.
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I really think it was the flight cancellations. That’s the kind of inconvenience that works in other countries across history that breaks opposition elites.
so we get a dem cave AND it leads almost directly to a continued assault on the rule of law re: Jan 6 and the abuse of the pardon power.
great work, everyone, to bury this all on a Sunday night.
Politicians, man.
great work, everyone, to bury this all on a Sunday night.
Politicians, man.
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
so we get a dem cave AND it leads almost directly to a continued assault on the rule of law re: Jan 6 and the abuse of the pardon power.
great work, everyone, to bury this all on a Sunday night.
Politicians, man.
great work, everyone, to bury this all on a Sunday night.
Politicians, man.
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A real banner week for Chuck Schumer, given that only a few days ago he refused to back the Democratic nominee for mayor of his home city.
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 AM
A real banner week for Chuck Schumer, given that only a few days ago he refused to back the Democratic nominee for mayor of his home city.
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At the same time the Trump administration is firing FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors who investigated the J6 insurrection, they are pardoning those directly involved in trying to overturn the election and organizing January 6th, and prosecuting the President's perceived political enemies.
Ed Martin seemed to explicitly link the pardons to his “No MAGA left behind” mantra—tweeting the news in reply to a post that said exactly that.
In addition to his role as pardon attorney, Martin leads the Weaponization Working Group, which probes alleged “politicization” of the Justice Department.
In addition to his role as pardon attorney, Martin leads the Weaponization Working Group, which probes alleged “politicization” of the Justice Department.
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
At the same time the Trump administration is firing FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors who investigated the J6 insurrection, they are pardoning those directly involved in trying to overturn the election and organizing January 6th, and prosecuting the President's perceived political enemies.
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"Democratic capitulators whose seats would be filled by Democratic governors in the event of vacancy (Durbin, Fetterman, Kaine, King) should be under immense pressure to resign mid-session. Now, even. Or in Kaine’s case, after Abigail Spanberger is sworn in. If your senator fits that bill, get loud"
Thoughts on Dems throwing a game they were winning. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...
16 Thoughts On The Dem Shutdown Cave
Another disgrace, and a new path forward.
www.offmessage.net
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
"Democratic capitulators whose seats would be filled by Democratic governors in the event of vacancy (Durbin, Fetterman, Kaine, King) should be under immense pressure to resign mid-session. Now, even. Or in Kaine’s case, after Abigail Spanberger is sworn in. If your senator fits that bill, get loud"
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LMAO
HOO BOY
HOO BOY
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
LMAO
HOO BOY
HOO BOY
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If Dems accept this deal, it will help the GOP cement the following ideas into the public conscience over the coming 4 weeks:
-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump
Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.
-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump
Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.
First, I will say this: never believe an Axios backed story with only a Thune test vote schedule.
That being said, for obvious reasons to anyone who sees my posts regularly, I don't think a deal is a good idea for Dems, but the rumored deal seems pretty poor even factoring in my priors against.
That being said, for obvious reasons to anyone who sees my posts regularly, I don't think a deal is a good idea for Dems, but the rumored deal seems pretty poor even factoring in my priors against.
IMO there are two legitimate goals to non-cooperation (which would likely lead to shutdown):
-Demonstrate Dem opposition & non-complicity
-End filibuster
-Demonstrate Dem opposition & non-complicity
-End filibuster
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
If Dems accept this deal, it will help the GOP cement the following ideas into the public conscience over the coming 4 weeks:
-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump
Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.
-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump
Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.