Jim Burroway
@jimburroway.bsky.social
It’s very scary being a history buff these days.
I wonder when we’ll start seeing people mysteriously falling out of windows.
This (gift link) is scary / depressing on how fear of retaliation by Trump has silenced much of civil society, from business to law to the press to university leadership. Wesleyan president Michael Roth is a lonely profile in courage here, and makes me proud of my family's connection to Wesleyan.
Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves (Gift Article)
People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families.
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I wonder when we’ll start seeing people mysteriously falling out of windows.
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Somebody dared Trump to see if he could engineer another COVID crash without there being any COVID.
March 4, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Somebody dared Trump to see if he could engineer another COVID crash without there being any COVID.
Per WSJ's editorial yesterday: "Unbridled Tariff Man was always going to be a big economic risk in a second term, and here we are."
WSJ endorsed Trump. Who did they think they were dealing with?
thehill.com/homenews/med...
WSJ endorsed Trump. Who did they think they were dealing with?
thehill.com/homenews/med...
thehill.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Per WSJ's editorial yesterday: "Unbridled Tariff Man was always going to be a big economic risk in a second term, and here we are."
WSJ endorsed Trump. Who did they think they were dealing with?
thehill.com/homenews/med...
WSJ endorsed Trump. Who did they think they were dealing with?
thehill.com/homenews/med...
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Even on the bad old other site, with its Musk-arranged algorithms, paid accounts and bots, outrage over Trump and Vance’s conduct yesterday is coming across loud and clear.
March 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Even on the bad old other site, with its Musk-arranged algorithms, paid accounts and bots, outrage over Trump and Vance’s conduct yesterday is coming across loud and clear.
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Wall Street Journal Editorial Board comes out swinging against JD Vance.
Indeed, key moment in downward spiral was Vance lashing out in response to Zelenskyy's point on diplomacy with Putin
WSJ: "It is bewildering to see Mr. Trump’s allies defending this debacle as some show of American strength."
Indeed, key moment in downward spiral was Vance lashing out in response to Zelenskyy's point on diplomacy with Putin
WSJ: "It is bewildering to see Mr. Trump’s allies defending this debacle as some show of American strength."
Opinion | Putin Wins the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office Spectacle
Vice President Vance starts a public fight that only helps Russia’s dictator.
www.wsj.com
March 1, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Wall Street Journal Editorial Board comes out swinging against JD Vance.
Indeed, key moment in downward spiral was Vance lashing out in response to Zelenskyy's point on diplomacy with Putin
WSJ: "It is bewildering to see Mr. Trump’s allies defending this debacle as some show of American strength."
Indeed, key moment in downward spiral was Vance lashing out in response to Zelenskyy's point on diplomacy with Putin
WSJ: "It is bewildering to see Mr. Trump’s allies defending this debacle as some show of American strength."
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At least a few people are making noise.
February 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
At least a few people are making noise.
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Looking like a dork aside, hurting grandma, the economy, and the military without much thought is definitely peak MAGA.
February 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Looking like a dork aside, hurting grandma, the economy, and the military without much thought is definitely peak MAGA.
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If you look at all the firings across the government over the last two weeks it's frequently been taken as a given that any black or woman official or officer is either a DEI hire or supports DEI and is summarily fired on that basis. Seems like the same model here.
Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.
February 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
If you look at all the firings across the government over the last two weeks it's frequently been taken as a given that any black or woman official or officer is either a DEI hire or supports DEI and is summarily fired on that basis. Seems like the same model here.
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We can't afford air traffic controllers, but we can afford a $200 million government ad campaign thanking Trump. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Kristi Noem Says $200 Million DHS Ad Campaign Thanking Trump Was His Idea
Donald Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said he instructed her to make ads that “thank me for closing the border.”
www.rollingstone.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We can't afford air traffic controllers, but we can afford a $200 million government ad campaign thanking Trump. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Fewer immigrants =fewer jobs
Studies show that when deportations increase, the US construction, childcare, and farming industries shrink. Less growth means fewer opportunities for everyone.
Studies show that when deportations increase, the US construction, childcare, and farming industries shrink. Less growth means fewer opportunities for everyone.
Trump's Deportations Will Hit American Workers, Too
Previous expulsions of migrant laborers have proven economically harmful—even for the people the policies were supposed to help.
www.cato.org
February 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Fewer immigrants =fewer jobs
Studies show that when deportations increase, the US construction, childcare, and farming industries shrink. Less growth means fewer opportunities for everyone.
Studies show that when deportations increase, the US construction, childcare, and farming industries shrink. Less growth means fewer opportunities for everyone.
The Times of London (owned by Rupert Murdoch, by the way) published this clever cartoon today with the eagle in the Presidential Seal replaced with a parrot, saying “Putin is right! Putin is right! Squawk!”
The free world would be laughing if it weren’t so horrified.
The free world would be laughing if it weren’t so horrified.
February 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The Times of London (owned by Rupert Murdoch, by the way) published this clever cartoon today with the eagle in the Presidential Seal replaced with a parrot, saying “Putin is right! Putin is right! Squawk!”
The free world would be laughing if it weren’t so horrified.
The free world would be laughing if it weren’t so horrified.
Zelenskyy is more popular than Trump. Meanwhile Trump is Putin’s marionette, repeating Kremlin propaganda.
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Fact check: No, Zelenskyy doesn't have 4% approval as Trump claims; it's over 50%
President Donald Trump last night joined Russian President Vladimir Putin in claiming Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lacks legitimacy.
abcnews.go.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Zelenskyy is more popular than Trump. Meanwhile Trump is Putin’s marionette, repeating Kremlin propaganda.
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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But Zelenskiy didn’t start the war. Putin did. And Trump is rolling over like a bitch in heat.
There are many ways to set up the conditions for WWIII. As with Munich in 1938, this is as good as any.
There are many ways to set up the conditions for WWIII. As with Munich in 1938, this is as good as any.
President Trump on Tuesday appeared to blame Ukraine’s leaders for the three-year war with Russia, arguing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “should have never started it.”
thehill.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:30 AM
But Zelenskiy didn’t start the war. Putin did. And Trump is rolling over like a bitch in heat.
There are many ways to set up the conditions for WWIII. As with Munich in 1938, this is as good as any.
There are many ways to set up the conditions for WWIII. As with Munich in 1938, this is as good as any.
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This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
a stammering Tom Homan on AOC: "She's the dumbest congresswoman ever elected to Congress."
February 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
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What does it mean that Secretary Rubio is agreeing to allow Russia to restore its previous levels of staffing at its US diplomatic facilities?
Well, the staffing levels were reduced by expelling intelligence officers.
Well, the staffing levels were reduced by expelling intelligence officers.
February 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
What does it mean that Secretary Rubio is agreeing to allow Russia to restore its previous levels of staffing at its US diplomatic facilities?
Well, the staffing levels were reduced by expelling intelligence officers.
Well, the staffing levels were reduced by expelling intelligence officers.
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Democrats being feckless again.
As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works.
Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
"activist leaders have told him and colleagues that they fear protests against Trump might eventually be used as a predicate for declaring martial law. Other House Democrats echoed this privately"
Something something in advance
www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...
Something something in advance
www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...
February 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Democrats being feckless again.
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As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit
February 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit
