Eric Redding
@bv-redding.bsky.social
Economics, Politics, & History Aficionado - Purveyor of Random History Facts - Football Fan ⚽️ 🐝
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The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...
The only check-and-balance that actually matters
www.doomsdayscenario.co
October 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...
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For those that feel worried and overwhelmed with the state of politics in the United States, are there ways of engaging that can actually make a difference?
@ianbremmer.com weighs in for @gzeromedia.com:
https://www.gzeromedia.com/by-ian-bremmer/a-citizens-guide-to-civic-resistance
@ianbremmer.com weighs in for @gzeromedia.com:
https://www.gzeromedia.com/by-ian-bremmer/a-citizens-guide-to-civic-resistance
A citizen’s guide to civic resistance
I get a lot of questions these days from people feeling worried, disturbed, even overwhelmed about the state of politics in the United States.
www.gzeromedia.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
For those that feel worried and overwhelmed with the state of politics in the United States, are there ways of engaging that can actually make a difference?
@ianbremmer.com weighs in for @gzeromedia.com:
https://www.gzeromedia.com/by-ian-bremmer/a-citizens-guide-to-civic-resistance
@ianbremmer.com weighs in for @gzeromedia.com:
https://www.gzeromedia.com/by-ian-bremmer/a-citizens-guide-to-civic-resistance
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Ten years since I moved to Germany + started covering the Bundesliga on the ground aaaand still excited for it. 🥳🥳🥳
"It's boring, Bayern always win it"
No one's forcing you to watch…ok, I am actually. Watch it. Watch it now!
Let me hype you for this coming season.
"It's boring, Bayern always win it"
No one's forcing you to watch…ok, I am actually. Watch it. Watch it now!
Let me hype you for this coming season.
oprah winfrey is holding a microphone with her arms in the air and screaming .
ALT: oprah winfrey is holding a microphone with her arms in the air and screaming .
media.tenor.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Ten years since I moved to Germany + started covering the Bundesliga on the ground aaaand still excited for it. 🥳🥳🥳
"It's boring, Bayern always win it"
No one's forcing you to watch…ok, I am actually. Watch it. Watch it now!
Let me hype you for this coming season.
"It's boring, Bayern always win it"
No one's forcing you to watch…ok, I am actually. Watch it. Watch it now!
Let me hype you for this coming season.
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Only one man has the particular set of skills... to lead Police Squad and save the world! Liam Neeson stars alongside Pamela Anderson in The Naked Gun, opening in theaters on August 1.
June 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Only one man has the particular set of skills... to lead Police Squad and save the world! Liam Neeson stars alongside Pamela Anderson in The Naked Gun, opening in theaters on August 1.
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My thoughts on the authoritarian spiral that we are currently experiencing.
youtube.com/watch?v=7if9...
Ben Rhodes, former deputy, national security advisor:
This is far beyond what we’ve seen in other authoritarian countries. So this is not a question whether we are democratic backsliding. We are way beyond that. We backslid. 1/x
Ben Rhodes, former deputy, national security advisor:
This is far beyond what we’ve seen in other authoritarian countries. So this is not a question whether we are democratic backsliding. We are way beyond that. We backslid. 1/x
Nicolle Wallace calls out Kristi Noem’s lie over Sen. Alex Padilla’s handcuffing and forced removal
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtube.com
June 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
My thoughts on the authoritarian spiral that we are currently experiencing.
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“The searing pain of the unfilled boots, / the solemn speeches, / the lowered ramp and the flag-draped coffin.” Read “I Remember,” a poem by William H. McRaven:
I Remember
A poem
bit.ly
May 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“The searing pain of the unfilled boots, / the solemn speeches, / the lowered ramp and the flag-draped coffin.” Read “I Remember,” a poem by William H. McRaven:
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Cory Booker as he breaks Strom Thurmond's speaking record: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."
April 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Cory Booker as he breaks Strom Thurmond's speaking record: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."
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One of the world’s most chilling ruins is the Ploutonion at Hierapolis, otherwise known as “the Gate to Hell”.
Here crowds once watched priests lead animal sacrifices down into a cave, where they died mysteriously as if dragged down to the underworld. And no one knew how they did it until recently.
Here crowds once watched priests lead animal sacrifices down into a cave, where they died mysteriously as if dragged down to the underworld. And no one knew how they did it until recently.
March 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
One of the world’s most chilling ruins is the Ploutonion at Hierapolis, otherwise known as “the Gate to Hell”.
Here crowds once watched priests lead animal sacrifices down into a cave, where they died mysteriously as if dragged down to the underworld. And no one knew how they did it until recently.
Here crowds once watched priests lead animal sacrifices down into a cave, where they died mysteriously as if dragged down to the underworld. And no one knew how they did it until recently.
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Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.
March 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.
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Immigrant neighborhoods, whether they’re white or Hispanic or Asian or African, you really see these absolutely massive shifts against Democrats. Trump won Corona in Queens. Immigrants go from a D+27 group in 2020 to a potentially R+1 group in 2024.”
www.vox.com/politics/403...
www.vox.com/politics/403...
This is why Kamala Harris really lost
Turnout among young people and immigrants was too high for the party’s own good, according to Democratic data analyst David Shor.
www.vox.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Immigrant neighborhoods, whether they’re white or Hispanic or Asian or African, you really see these absolutely massive shifts against Democrats. Trump won Corona in Queens. Immigrants go from a D+27 group in 2020 to a potentially R+1 group in 2024.”
www.vox.com/politics/403...
www.vox.com/politics/403...
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March 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Bingo: "This is not just a Trump problem. I don’t care if Abraham Lincoln himself walked into the White House in 2029, no foreign leader can responsibly trust a nation that is perpetually four years away from electing another authoritarian nihilist.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
Opinion | It Isn’t Just Trump. America’s Whole Reputation Is Shot.
What happens when a superpower goes rogue.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Bingo: "This is not just a Trump problem. I don’t care if Abraham Lincoln himself walked into the White House in 2029, no foreign leader can responsibly trust a nation that is perpetually four years away from electing another authoritarian nihilist.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
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NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
March 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
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everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
March 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
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Perhaps the most depressing part about the last couple of months is that every awful shitty thing that’s happening to this country is self-induced. People asked for this. None of it had to happen.
March 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Perhaps the most depressing part about the last couple of months is that every awful shitty thing that’s happening to this country is self-induced. People asked for this. None of it had to happen.
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One of the greatest tricks that Donald Trump and Elon Musk ever pulled is to convince millions of people that DOGE is about government efficiency. It's about narcissistic, resentful destruction: The Death of Government Expertise.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Death of Government Expertise
Why Trump and Musk are on a firing spree
www.theatlantic.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
One of the greatest tricks that Donald Trump and Elon Musk ever pulled is to convince millions of people that DOGE is about government efficiency. It's about narcissistic, resentful destruction: The Death of Government Expertise.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Hello.
The stock market is not the economy.
Thank you and have a Happy New Year
The stock market is not the economy.
Thank you and have a Happy New Year
January 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Hello.
The stock market is not the economy.
Thank you and have a Happy New Year
The stock market is not the economy.
Thank you and have a Happy New Year
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Once again, the absolutely stupidest possible way to run the most important economy on the planet.
Republicans are preparing to scrap House Speaker Mike Johnson’s bipartisan plan to avert a government shutdown, as Elon Musk joined conservative rebels to raise concerns about excess spending after Johnson cut a deal with Democrats in a bid to keep the government open.
Under pressure from Elon Musk, House GOP prepares to scrap spending bill
Unless Congress acts, a shutdown deadline looms just past midnight Saturday.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Once again, the absolutely stupidest possible way to run the most important economy on the planet.