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
@mikehabegger.com
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My take on this is avatar might be the most mainstream liberal movie (plus insurgency) movie of all time and many many people saw it. Who knows the political impact but it wasn't zero.
Obviously tongue and cheek but you know why not
December 27, 2025 at 6:04 AM
My take on this is avatar might be the most mainstream liberal movie (plus insurgency) movie of all time and many many people saw it. Who knows the political impact but it wasn't zero.
I'm teaching methods now and we can't have two modes man! The students will kill me.
Modal response seems to be:
Raiders and Last Crusade battling for the top two slots
Then Temple
Crystal Skull and Dial of Destiny for the last two
I enjoyed Dial of Destiny more - would make it top 3.
Raiders and Last Crusade battling for the top two slots
Then Temple
Crystal Skull and Dial of Destiny for the last two
I enjoyed Dial of Destiny more - would make it top 3.
December 27, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I'm teaching methods now and we can't have two modes man! The students will kill me.
Ok on other hand avatar 2009 gives us Obama 2012
My take on the "AVATAR hasn't made a big cultural impact" thing is that for movies in the last 40 years to make a big cultural impact, people need to watch them over and over and over, and among popular films, AVATAR is uniquely bad at being a movie that people want to watch on their TV.
December 27, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Ok on other hand avatar 2009 gives us Obama 2012
Other than about ten missed foul calls on sixers shooters at th end I guess the bulls deserved this win
December 27, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Other than about ten missed foul calls on sixers shooters at th end I guess the bulls deserved this win
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Let’s hear it for the unitary executive everyone
Trump frustrated at never-ending Epstein saga, calls on DOJ to release names of only Dems connected to Epstein to “embarrass them” and suggests that despite legal requirement to release everything, DOJ should consider saying “no more.”
December 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Let’s hear it for the unitary executive everyone
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Republicans quoted: 9
Democrats quoted: 0
Democrats quoted: 0
The Trump administration celebrated Christmas on Thursday by posting a series of religious messages from official government accounts, using language that drew criticism from those who pointed to America's separation of church and state.
Trump Administration Emphasizes Religion in Official Christmas Messages
Government officials have traditionally steered clear of such overtly religious language, as the Constitution prohibits the establishment of an official state religion.
nyti.ms
December 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Republicans quoted: 9
Democrats quoted: 0
Democrats quoted: 0
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The Wisconsin component of the analysis here is revealing. Evidence is consistent with DOGE strategically delaying contract terminations in WI until after the 2025 state Supreme Court elections to mitigate electoral risk.
December 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The Wisconsin component of the analysis here is revealing. Evidence is consistent with DOGE strategically delaying contract terminations in WI until after the 2025 state Supreme Court elections to mitigate electoral risk.
He realizes he is just as toxic and criminal as Epstein and is railing against people like MTG for abandoning him when "things got hot".
Am I crazy or is he making Epstein sound like the wronged party here?
Donald Trump, basically acknowledging that so far at least he’s losing the fight over Epstein.
December 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
He realizes he is just as toxic and criminal as Epstein and is railing against people like MTG for abandoning him when "things got hot".
Resegregation?
WHY?
What possible reason would there be for them to do this?
What possible reason would there be for them to do this?
So, a version of IT"S A WONDERFUL LIFE on Amazon cuts 22 minutes of the movie including the entire Pottersville sequence.(via @pematson.bsky.social )
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December 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Resegregation?
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Trump says the people who “thought Epstein was the greatest guy on earth, only to drop him like a dog when things got too HOT” are “sleazebags.”
Trump is criticizing people who…stopped hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein?
Trump is criticizing people who…stopped hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein?
December 26, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Trump says the people who “thought Epstein was the greatest guy on earth, only to drop him like a dog when things got too HOT” are “sleazebags.”
Trump is criticizing people who…stopped hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein?
Trump is criticizing people who…stopped hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein?
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Curious. If someone with millions of followers tweeted “enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas” at people in the Trump administration, what do we think the FBI would do?
Trump says the people who “thought Epstein was the greatest guy on earth, only to drop him like a dog when things got too HOT” are “sleazebags.”
Trump is criticizing people who…stopped hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein?
Trump is criticizing people who…stopped hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein?
December 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Curious. If someone with millions of followers tweeted “enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas” at people in the Trump administration, what do we think the FBI would do?
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real cool how he calls his domestic political enemies scum this morning and now he‘s announcing deadly strikes on other people he calls scum on the very same day! really neat!
Trump on Christmas: “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria.”
December 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
real cool how he calls his domestic political enemies scum this morning and now he‘s announcing deadly strikes on other people he calls scum on the very same day! really neat!
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"Merry Christmas (War Is Starting)"
Merry Christmas!
The President of Peace just bombed Nigeria.
The President of Peace just bombed Nigeria.
December 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
"Merry Christmas (War Is Starting)"
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This is literally a holiday-themed missile strike. It is as insane as it sounds and should be front-page news.
December 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This is literally a holiday-themed missile strike. It is as insane as it sounds and should be front-page news.
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“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”
Ceedee lamb killing me in my fantasy championship
December 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Ceedee lamb killing me in my fantasy championship
Fun, as first-time Christmas homeowner, to go outside and hear children excitedly playing with their friends and family.
December 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Fun, as first-time Christmas homeowner, to go outside and hear children excitedly playing with their friends and family.
Madison’s faction problem.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Madison’s faction problem.
This is why I renamed my phone “oh happy day” for four years.
The best thing about Joe Biden was that we almost never had to hear about what he was doing or saying or thinking. It was so refreshing. Somehow the media turned that into a liability for him.
December 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is why I renamed my phone “oh happy day” for four years.
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Joe Biden did the foreign policy thing everyone said for a decade that they wanted, & they really didn’t, & it destroyed his presidency & the media did this 👇
Trump is literally walking America away from the world, & we don’t see framing like this on CNN & in the Papers of Record
🤷♂️
Trump is literally walking America away from the world, & we don’t see framing like this on CNN & in the Papers of Record
🤷♂️
December 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Joe Biden did the foreign policy thing everyone said for a decade that they wanted, & they really didn’t, & it destroyed his presidency & the media did this 👇
Trump is literally walking America away from the world, & we don’t see framing like this on CNN & in the Papers of Record
🤷♂️
Trump is literally walking America away from the world, & we don’t see framing like this on CNN & in the Papers of Record
🤷♂️
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The road to autocracy is paved with false equivalences.
This is not a “duel,” which suggests both sides are equally culpable, but the latest salvo in the Trump administration’s ideological war on Harvard and higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...
In Private Letters, Harvard and Trump Administration Escalate Duel
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The road to autocracy is paved with false equivalences.
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"America’s 902 billionaires are collectively worth more than $6.7 trillion, the most wealth ever amassed by the nation’s ultra-rich, according to Forbes."
"Trump’s Cabinet is the wealthiest in US history, with a combined net worth of $7.5 billion."
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"Trump’s Cabinet is the wealthiest in US history, with a combined net worth of $7.5 billion."
wapo.st/4ipXaBd
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"America’s 902 billionaires are collectively worth more than $6.7 trillion, the most wealth ever amassed by the nation’s ultra-rich, according to Forbes."
"Trump’s Cabinet is the wealthiest in US history, with a combined net worth of $7.5 billion."
wapo.st/4ipXaBd
"Trump’s Cabinet is the wealthiest in US history, with a combined net worth of $7.5 billion."
wapo.st/4ipXaBd
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On the one hand, we can have people being economically productive, contributing to their communities, and paying most taxes without receiving most government benefits.
On the other hand, the rest of us could pay to have less of that in exchange for seeing images of people getting hurt.
Trade-offs.
On the other hand, the rest of us could pay to have less of that in exchange for seeing images of people getting hurt.
Trade-offs.
Forgetting the whole inhumane thing, it's not even cost effective to imprison illegal immigrants. It makes no sense except as a message. And that message is invaluable to fascist racists.
December 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
On the one hand, we can have people being economically productive, contributing to their communities, and paying most taxes without receiving most government benefits.
On the other hand, the rest of us could pay to have less of that in exchange for seeing images of people getting hurt.
Trade-offs.
On the other hand, the rest of us could pay to have less of that in exchange for seeing images of people getting hurt.
Trade-offs.