Michael Gauger
@mtgauger.bsky.social
Writer/editor focused on American history (especially the Progressive Era and World War I) and political science, funding for youth music education. Proud University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee alumnus. Opinions mine. A repost isn’t necessarily an endorsement.
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This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.
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Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence!
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
Trump Boat Bombings Take Dark, Unnerving Turn with Leaked Memo Stunner
A new Trump administration memo argues that those carrying out the boat attacks can’t be prosecuted. Why? Because the administration says so!
newrepublic.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence!
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
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Healthcare should be affordable and accessible, no matter your ZIP code or income.
We will keep fighting to make sure folks have the healthcare they need and deserve.
We will keep fighting to make sure folks have the healthcare they need and deserve.
How to navigate the health care marketplace as premiums rise and options shrink
If you’re feeling anxious or overwhelmed as open enrollment begins, here is some information that might help you choose a plan.
wisconsinwatch.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Healthcare should be affordable and accessible, no matter your ZIP code or income.
We will keep fighting to make sure folks have the healthcare they need and deserve.
We will keep fighting to make sure folks have the healthcare they need and deserve.
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In re: the utterly abject poverty of the “Democrats Must Do An Abundance Of Popularism and Must Not Talk Funny because they are Alienating Real Folkz” Discourse™️ that we have suffered through in the last year while the Republicans keep Doing A Fascism & calling people “vermin” & “morons” & such
Official U.S. Government account refers to its citizens as "imbecilic morons".
November 15, 2025 at 4:25 AM
In re: the utterly abject poverty of the “Democrats Must Do An Abundance Of Popularism and Must Not Talk Funny because they are Alienating Real Folkz” Discourse™️ that we have suffered through in the last year while the Republicans keep Doing A Fascism & calling people “vermin” & “morons” & such
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They're running from it now. But the fact that Senate Republicans tried to give 10 of their colleagues at least $1 million each for nothing but a bogus press op captures the corruption of Trump II. In no other environment wld this even occur to the most corrupt politicians.
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
They're running from it now. But the fact that Senate Republicans tried to give 10 of their colleagues at least $1 million each for nothing but a bogus press op captures the corruption of Trump II. In no other environment wld this even occur to the most corrupt politicians.
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We’re now reaching the stage of the “it’s okay to have sex with teens” discourse that it’s being used to argue sexually abusive Catholic priests were not pedophiles. 1/
www.catholicleague.org/megyn-kelly-...
www.catholicleague.org/megyn-kelly-...
MEGYN KELLY IS RIGHT ABOUT EPSTEIN - Catholic League
Bill Donohue
www.catholicleague.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
We’re now reaching the stage of the “it’s okay to have sex with teens” discourse that it’s being used to argue sexually abusive Catholic priests were not pedophiles. 1/
www.catholicleague.org/megyn-kelly-...
www.catholicleague.org/megyn-kelly-...
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Meanwhile, it's being reported this morning that Trump and Pete Hegseth are ramping up their bloodthirsty and incoherent threats to wage land war on Venezuela. Note how the fact that they're threatening to do this unilaterally has been relegated to an afterthought in much of the coverage.
Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence!
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
Trump Boat Bombings Take Dark, Unnerving Turn with Leaked Memo Stunner
A new Trump administration memo argues that those carrying out the boat attacks can’t be prosecuted. Why? Because the administration says so!
newrepublic.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Meanwhile, it's being reported this morning that Trump and Pete Hegseth are ramping up their bloodthirsty and incoherent threats to wage land war on Venezuela. Note how the fact that they're threatening to do this unilaterally has been relegated to an afterthought in much of the coverage.
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‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers.
Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost forever. In a basement at Howard University, uncovered treasures have includ...
www.csmonitor.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
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Researching the politics of private health insurance? Submit to @jhppl.bsky.social, which is doing a special issue on this very subject, and which I’m pleased to be co-editing with @adrianna.bsky.social. Looking for papers on prior auth, Medicare Advantage, ACA and so much more! Submit by 2/1.
November 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Researching the politics of private health insurance? Submit to @jhppl.bsky.social, which is doing a special issue on this very subject, and which I’m pleased to be co-editing with @adrianna.bsky.social. Looking for papers on prior auth, Medicare Advantage, ACA and so much more! Submit by 2/1.
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Once again urging the Harvard-affiliated amateur lexicographers to Stop It
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Once again urging the Harvard-affiliated amateur lexicographers to Stop It
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among other things i do not understand this idea that she is an exceptionally good prose stylist
what the actual fuck is wrong with American journalists?
November 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
among other things i do not understand this idea that she is an exceptionally good prose stylist
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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 1:51 PM
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...
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Had 4 years of outrage media coverage of Hunter Biden having a board seat but not quite as much energy directed to what is basically legalized bribery. Need your tariffs cut? Just hand Trump a <checks notes> $130,000 solid gold bar and a bespoke Rolex desk clock. Media shrugs.
November 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Had 4 years of outrage media coverage of Hunter Biden having a board seat but not quite as much energy directed to what is basically legalized bribery. Need your tariffs cut? Just hand Trump a <checks notes> $130,000 solid gold bar and a bespoke Rolex desk clock. Media shrugs.
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Are women's and girls' lives so expendable and meaningless that the right wing is willing to ignore the mounting evidence support a pedophile?
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Right-wing media shrugs off latest Epstein document release
"To me, these are nothingburgers. If they're even real," said one pro-Trump podcaster, of the thousands of documents that were released this week, including several that named the president.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are women's and girls' lives so expendable and meaningless that the right wing is willing to ignore the mounting evidence support a pedophile?
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
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Pope Leo: “We can no longer tolerate structural injustices in which those who have more always have more, and, conversely, those who have less become increasingly poor".
Pope Leo XIV: ‘We can no longer tolerate structural injustices’ - Vatican News
A new book by Pope Leo XIV, “La forza del Vangelo: la fede cristiana in 10 parole,” includes a previously unpublished text by the Holy Father. ...
www.vaticannews.va
November 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Pope Leo: “We can no longer tolerate structural injustices in which those who have more always have more, and, conversely, those who have less become increasingly poor".
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“Child rape is okay actually” is clearly where this was going to end up, but let us remember those who paved this path
Holy shit. They're really doing it. They're doing "actually pedophilia is good now." The debasement of the American Right is complete.
MEGYN KELLY IS RIGHT ABOUT EPSTEIN - Catholic League
Bill Donohue
www.catholicleague.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
“Child rape is okay actually” is clearly where this was going to end up, but let us remember those who paved this path
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For no particular reason, a thread of books on presidential power that I recommend. 🧵📚
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
For no particular reason, a thread of books on presidential power that I recommend. 🧵📚
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It was a scandal to our legacy media when Biden would go to Delaware on weekends to visit the graves of his dead family members but they say nothing when Trump goes to Florida every weekend.
Trump does not take questions from reporters as he boards Air Force One to head to another weekend getaway at his private club in Florida
November 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
It was a scandal to our legacy media when Biden would go to Delaware on weekends to visit the graves of his dead family members but they say nothing when Trump goes to Florida every weekend.
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This entire administration is a national security risk
As the FBI’s deputy director, Dan Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau background check is unprecedented, insiders say.
FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...
www.propublica.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This entire administration is a national security risk
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feckless and stupid people play acting at political strategist when they should be denouncing a *substantively* corrupt move
Here The Washington Post Editorial Board treats Donald Trump ordering DOJ investigations of his political adversaries as a *political* misstep, never once so much as hinting that it is an *abuse of power*
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
feckless and stupid people play acting at political strategist when they should be denouncing a *substantively* corrupt move
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In July, an FBI memo about the Epstein case said: “We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”
But in a desperate deflection today, Trump ordered AG Bondi to investigate Bill Clinton. She got right on it.
These people make dirt look clean.
But in a desperate deflection today, Trump ordered AG Bondi to investigate Bill Clinton. She got right on it.
These people make dirt look clean.
www.justice.gov
November 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
In July, an FBI memo about the Epstein case said: “We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”
But in a desperate deflection today, Trump ordered AG Bondi to investigate Bill Clinton. She got right on it.
These people make dirt look clean.
But in a desperate deflection today, Trump ordered AG Bondi to investigate Bill Clinton. She got right on it.
These people make dirt look clean.
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Tonight, I got to hold the galleys for my forthcoming book Coverage Denied! Feeling so grateful to have such wonderful support from @rblaifeder.bsky.social and the whole team at @universitypress.cambridge.org @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org, and friends and mentors who’ve helped make this possible.
November 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Tonight, I got to hold the galleys for my forthcoming book Coverage Denied! Feeling so grateful to have such wonderful support from @rblaifeder.bsky.social and the whole team at @universitypress.cambridge.org @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org, and friends and mentors who’ve helped make this possible.
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We don’t need 9 Wizards In Robes to figure out if “national emergency” laws give this guy the power to randomly alter tariffs on a daily basis
BREAKING: President Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee and tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices.
Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to get rid of tariffs on a broad swath of commodities, including beef, coffee and tropical fruits.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
We don’t need 9 Wizards In Robes to figure out if “national emergency” laws give this guy the power to randomly alter tariffs on a daily basis
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I no longer use "moron"
So I will not say that a person—a Fed governor!!—who claims that immigration has been a major source of housing inflation is "a moron."
Instead I'll say that he is "uninformed" about home-construction biz, median rent or purchase prices from immigrants, etc
Also, a bigot.
So I will not say that a person—a Fed governor!!—who claims that immigration has been a major source of housing inflation is "a moron."
Instead I'll say that he is "uninformed" about home-construction biz, median rent or purchase prices from immigrants, etc
Also, a bigot.
Fed Governor Stephen Miran: "Cutting down net migration to 0, potentially even negative because of the deportations that have been occurring, I think is very deflationary."
November 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I no longer use "moron"
So I will not say that a person—a Fed governor!!—who claims that immigration has been a major source of housing inflation is "a moron."
Instead I'll say that he is "uninformed" about home-construction biz, median rent or purchase prices from immigrants, etc
Also, a bigot.
So I will not say that a person—a Fed governor!!—who claims that immigration has been a major source of housing inflation is "a moron."
Instead I'll say that he is "uninformed" about home-construction biz, median rent or purchase prices from immigrants, etc
Also, a bigot.
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In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.