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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
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I love you, Bluesky.
The Outspoken Observer @outspokenobserver.bsky.social Follow This fucking idiot thinks we should flood the Dems with progressives and take the party over... You mean like how they held back AOC!? This dumb fuck is looking more like a gop op daily. The Outspoken Observer @outspokenobserver.bsky.social 16.7K followers 8.3K following 8.9K posts Christian (the side of Christ that turns the tables over) & Husband of @callisto-socal-af.bsky.social ea Dog lover (have 4) I Political Enthusiast E supporter of 14/3. He did not win 2024.
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Why are some people like this?
@lalegault.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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The befuddled grandfather from a 90s Disney Kids! sitcom
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Cursed timeline
Jeanne Shaheen, awkwardly smiling in a Fox and Friends promo A victim of the Joker, awkwardly smiling but dead
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Deleted this because the quotes were spiraling.

I’m not hoping for an angry mob. I’m worried about it and I’m worried about leaders who aren’t.
Not enough of these guys fear angry mobs. Aaron Huertas@@aaronhuertas.bsky.social • 5h Not enough of these guys fear primaries.
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Harry Dean Stanton and Yaphet Kotto
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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My fantasy football chat discussing Trump at the Commanders game
Isn't he demanding they rename his stadium after him? Yeah, pedo park would work well
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Or maybe Senate Democrats are aware of how pissed off voters will be?

This alleged deal guarantees a BILLION dollars in spending for security and police at the Capitol, and then a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that will surely lose.

Not sure a billion will even be enough but OK.
The broader legislation would include three full-year appropriations bills that deal with military construction and veterans affairs, the legislative branch and the Department of Agriculture. *****That includes $203.5 million in new funding to enhance security measures and protection for members of Congress in addition to $852 million for US Capitol Police****** per a summary provided by top Democratic appropriator Sen. Patty Murray of the bill to fund the legislative branch. The deal would not include an extension of the expiring enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies — a key Democratic demand — but it would guarantee a vote in the Senate on the issue at a later date.
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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I know there's not a lot of 2025 left. And yet ...
Polymarket site for bets on whether Trump will be "out as president" this year
November 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Trump Administration Begins Mass Firings of Air Traffic Control Staff
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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And you may tell yourself, “This is not my beautiful banner!”
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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I crossed the streams
teenage mutant ninja turtles in the Zohran font
November 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Posting this in response to the above post?

That is the easiest of blocks.
@kassandraseven.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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This is a parody account. This is not a real quote.

Stop sharing it.

And if you say, "well, it's ok because it might as well be real," I will block you.
@patmaguire10.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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PUPDATE
Sarge sitting on the arm of the couch looking like he’s thinking about a long lost love
November 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Bluesky has the sports
Amanda Mull‬ ‪@amandamull.bsky.social‬ · 1m WHAT A CATCH 2 2 38 ‪Amanda Mull‬ ‪@amandamull.bsky.social‬ · 55s GOOD ON SUNDAY TOO 4 ‪Thanks For The Turkey, Jerk‬ ‪@thx4sharingjerk.bsky.social‬ · 55s Insane toe-tapping by Indiana Reposted by Aaron Schatz ‪Vincent Verhei‬ ‪@vincentverhei.bsky.social‬ · 1m Gus Johnson just Gus Johnson'd like he has never Gus Johnson'd before. 2 4 ‪Corey Rayburn Yung‬ ‪@coreyryung.bsky.social‬ · 57s I don't know how he got his toe down. That was incredible. 1 ‪Timothy Burke‬ ‪@bubbaprog.xyz‬ · 57s GUS-SPLOSIUON
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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I don't know how to break it to everyone, but this is not my official management team's social media account.

Please block and report @kevinkrusemgmt.bsky.social
The internet version of a windowless van with "FREE CANDEE" spray painted on the side
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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www.history.com/articles/foo...
Although launched by Democratic presidents, the food stamp program saw its largest expansion under the stewardship of a Republican president, Richard Nixon, in the wake of Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s highly publicized trips to the Mississippi Delta and Appalachia, the Poor People’s Campaign of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1968 CBS documentary “Hunger in America,” which shocked viewers with images of starving children with sunken features and bloated bellies. “That hunger and malnutrition should persist in a land such as ours is embarrassing and intolerable,” Nixon asserted in a May 1969 message to Congress that expressed his determination “to put an end to hunger in America for all time.” During the course of Nixon’s presidency, the food stamp program grew fivefold from 3 million recipients in 1969 to 15 million by 1974. “Nixon was actually very supportive of many social programs, proposing the Family Assistance Program that would have benefited the working poor and expanding Social Security. Nixon’s expansion of food stamps is in line with his larger efforts,” says Matthew Gritter, a political science professor at Angelo State University and author of the book The Policy and Politics of Food Stamps and SNAP.
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Average gas price $3.084/gallon Map showing no state lower than $2.60/gallon
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Look, it's not even in the top thousand offenses of this administration, but I can't get over how fucking tacky and gaudy the Oval Office has become under this clown.

I'm surprised he hasn't thrown up some LIVE LAUGH LOVE pictures to complete the look of "strip mall Italian restaurant"
Clinton in the Oval Office, one painting on the wall GW Bush in the Oval Office, one painting on the wall Obama in the Oval Office, one painting on the wall Trump in the Oval Office, with every goddamn inch covered in cheap gold shit and three dozen paintings. Imagine if Liberace was the dictator of a small island nation.
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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This is featured on the official White House website.
Imagine the stupidest 12 year old you know showing you his even dumber friend's social media account. OK, now even dumber. Kicked in the head by a mule, but the kick hit a spot that sent the "spite" emotion into overdrive? OK, twice as dumb as whatever you've got now
November 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Weekend at Bernie's 3: MAGA Mania
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?
Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
November 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Text from a friend:
Just an idea for you to tweet (or whatever you use these days) An alternative strategy for limiting flights from major airports would be closing small (private jet) airports and sending those air traffic controllers to the main hubs. But that would impact private jets and that would be terrible.
November 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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What the election returns on Tuesday night showed so clearly is that all of these figures, and many more we hadn't even considered, are leaders of a diverse and suddenly dynamic party. While they were fruitlessly looking for one leader to rule them all, Democrats created a broad based coalition, one which covers everything from the Democratic Socialism of Zohran Mamdani to the more traditional centrism of Abigail Spanberger. Neither of them would be the right leader for the party as a whole, and neither would have run well if they'd been competing in the other's contest. But where they were? They proved to be the right choices. Democrats were searching for a leader. They found something better: a coalition.
November 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM