Fletcher McClellan
@mcclelef.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus, Political Science, Elizabethtown College; contributor, LancasterOnline/LNP; Philadelphia sports fan, scars to prove it; views my own; https://facultysites.etown.edu/mcclelef/
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Put it in The Louvre of US political history. The look on Mamdani's face is priceless.
November 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Put it in The Louvre of US political history. The look on Mamdani's face is priceless.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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David Bowie - Modern Love (Official Video)
YouTube video by David Bowie
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November 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Grace Kelly photographed on 4 October 1951 watching the World Series opener between the New York Yankees and the New York Giants at Warner Bros Burbank Studios with the cast and crew of “HIGH NOON” including Otto Kruger, Thomas Mitchell, Gary Cooper and Lon Chaney Jr.
November 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Grace Kelly photographed on 4 October 1951 watching the World Series opener between the New York Yankees and the New York Giants at Warner Bros Burbank Studios with the cast and crew of “HIGH NOON” including Otto Kruger, Thomas Mitchell, Gary Cooper and Lon Chaney Jr.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
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God I am listening to @aoc.bsky.social unapologetically celebrating cities -- urbanity, diversity, creativity, decency -- and it is giving me life.
Nothing but respect for *my* president.
Nothing but respect for *my* president.
"We Are NOT the Crazy Ones, NYC" — AOC Fires Up Queens Rally for Zohran Mamdani | APT
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October 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
God I am listening to @aoc.bsky.social unapologetically celebrating cities -- urbanity, diversity, creativity, decency -- and it is giving me life.
Nothing but respect for *my* president.
Nothing but respect for *my* president.
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
Post-No Kings, my latest is on the Roberts Court and Trump…
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US Supreme Court's rulings in Trump cases could determine fate of democracy [column]
“Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions,
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October 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Post-No Kings, my latest is on the Roberts Court and Trump…
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The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.
October 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.
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Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
October 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Jake Tapper, who eviscerated Biden for the sin of growing older, has done everything but help install a chair lift in the White House to cover up Trump's deepening dementia and utter feebleness.
Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
October 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Jake Tapper, who eviscerated Biden for the sin of growing older, has done everything but help install a chair lift in the White House to cover up Trump's deepening dementia and utter feebleness.
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Hundreds of generals and admirals had to fly in from all over the world so Pete Kegseth can live out his Patton fantasies.
September 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Hundreds of generals and admirals had to fly in from all over the world so Pete Kegseth can live out his Patton fantasies.
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The Ryder Cup is a perfect microcosm for America in 2025 - overhyped, performatively chesty, whiny, and boorish. IOW, a 'complete embarrassment'
September 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The Ryder Cup is a perfect microcosm for America in 2025 - overhyped, performatively chesty, whiny, and boorish. IOW, a 'complete embarrassment'
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Sounds romantic, congrats girl
Watters: What is it like being married to Stephen Miller?
Miller: He's an incredibly inspiring man who gets me going in the morning with his speeches being like let's start the day, I'm going to defeat the left and we are going to win.
Miller: He's an incredibly inspiring man who gets me going in the morning with his speeches being like let's start the day, I'm going to defeat the left and we are going to win.
September 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Sounds romantic, congrats girl
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Looks like it's about to break a million views in just one hour...
So much for low ratings.
So much for low ratings.
As I was saying…
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
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September 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Looks like it's about to break a million views in just one hour...
So much for low ratings.
So much for low ratings.
My latest for LancasterOnline…
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Competitive authoritarianism comes to the United States [column]
Though we Americans like to think of our country as a strong democracy, considerable backsliding has taken place in the last decade.
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September 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
My latest for LancasterOnline…
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Neil Young brought it at Farm Aid. One of the greatest rock n rollers of all time.
September 21, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Neil Young brought it at Farm Aid. One of the greatest rock n rollers of all time.
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This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt.
Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.
Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.
moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
September 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt.
Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.
Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.
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I think this comparison is largely right.
Yes, it’s a replay of McCarthyism’s ugliest aspects but that was fueled by a widespread sense that the country faced dire external dangers while this is about a deeply unpopular president’s grudges.
Yes, it’s a replay of McCarthyism’s ugliest aspects but that was fueled by a widespread sense that the country faced dire external dangers while this is about a deeply unpopular president’s grudges.
This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
September 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I think this comparison is largely right.
Yes, it’s a replay of McCarthyism’s ugliest aspects but that was fueled by a widespread sense that the country faced dire external dangers while this is about a deeply unpopular president’s grudges.
Yes, it’s a replay of McCarthyism’s ugliest aspects but that was fueled by a widespread sense that the country faced dire external dangers while this is about a deeply unpopular president’s grudges.
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Spot on. The First Amendment in on death watch right now. Ht @johnfugelsang.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Spot on. The First Amendment in on death watch right now. Ht @johnfugelsang.bsky.social
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Stephen Colbert's Emmy victory speech:
"Sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it. I have never loved my country more desperately. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!"
"Sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it. I have never loved my country more desperately. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!"
September 15, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Stephen Colbert's Emmy victory speech:
"Sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it. I have never loved my country more desperately. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!"
"Sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it. I have never loved my country more desperately. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!"