Linda A Charnes
@proflac.bsky.social
Professor, IUBloomington. Shakespearean, Dog mom, private pilot, landlocked surfer. Author of Notorious Identity (Harvard UP); Hamlet’s Heirs (Routledge); assorted products in the Divine Right to Democracy aisle. Political Psychology at eye-level.
Pinned
He didn’t want the actual job of being president. He wanted one thing: to stay out of prison. Secondary—getting pending cases dropped; taking revenge on anyone who prosecuted or investigated him; capitalizing on the emoluments of the office. He got all that. And handed Musk the rest of the job.
February 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
He didn’t want the actual job of being president. He wanted one thing: to stay out of prison. Secondary—getting pending cases dropped; taking revenge on anyone who prosecuted or investigated him; capitalizing on the emoluments of the office. He got all that. And handed Musk the rest of the job.
Still and forever
January 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Still and forever
This goes out to the 34% of eligible voters who sat it out last November.
January 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This goes out to the 34% of eligible voters who sat it out last November.
He’s gotta keep that newly-regenerated miracle ear warm that’s why.
January 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
He’s gotta keep that newly-regenerated miracle ear warm that’s why.
This is SO sick. This is them. Guardians of our Republic.
January 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This is SO sick. This is them. Guardians of our Republic.
Someone needs to ask Hegseth if he’s had a drink today. He’s way too wratched up.
January 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Someone needs to ask Hegseth if he’s had a drink today. He’s way too wratched up.
Hegseth is not a patriot, he is a zealot for Trump. He talks like a rapist, pushing pushing against others, beating them over the head with his rhetorical holyrollerdom.
January 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Hegseth is not a patriot, he is a zealot for Trump. He talks like a rapist, pushing pushing against others, beating them over the head with his rhetorical holyrollerdom.
Hegseth is effing terrifying.
January 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Hegseth is effing terrifying.
Mr Trump’s criminality is patent, extreme, treasonous, and anti-American. He is befouled by his own irredeemable corruption. It’s plain as day. We’ve become a nation half of whom simply don’t care.
January 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Mr Trump’s criminality is patent, extreme, treasonous, and anti-American. He is befouled by his own irredeemable corruption. It’s plain as day. We’ve become a nation half of whom simply don’t care.
Well this isn’t good.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Court strikes down US net neutrality rules
The ruling marks a significant moment in the long running battle over how to regulate internet providers.
www.bbc.com
January 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Well this isn’t good.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I remember all of them, and some took years to recover from. A good NY🥳’s resolution to think twice.
December 31, 2024 at 2:31 PM
I remember all of them, and some took years to recover from. A good NY🥳’s resolution to think twice.
Bury him in his own words. OD:
December 29, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Bury him in his own words. OD:
And a total racket it is, too. It’s not even as moral as garden -variety extortion, where at least you get something in return for your enforced payment.
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Americans are sick of the health insurance grinches who steal our money and our lives — Raw Story
In the past few weeks, one thing has become crystal clear in America: The public outrage after the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson exposed a seething fury over the health insuranc...
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December 28, 2024 at 7:38 PM
And a total racket it is, too. It’s not even as moral as garden -variety extortion, where at least you get something in return for your enforced payment.
apple.news/ATBKvNV0oRNO...
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He is a plague, to be sure, and we have to survive his corrosive recrudescence and make sure that something like him—and his enablers— are never again able to mortally sicken our body politic. So say we all.
December 26, 2024 at 5:31 PM
He is a plague, to be sure, and we have to survive his corrosive recrudescence and make sure that something like him—and his enablers— are never again able to mortally sicken our body politic. So say we all.
Think. Think harder.
December 25, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Think. Think harder.
The facts. No travesty of SCOTUS hocus pocus or willful irrationality by 47% of low-information/brainwashed voters will or can change those facts. Shakespeare wrote “Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning,” and he was right.
December 19, 2024 at 10:38 PM
The facts. No travesty of SCOTUS hocus pocus or willful irrationality by 47% of low-information/brainwashed voters will or can change those facts. Shakespeare wrote “Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning,” and he was right.
Remember when Dump wanted a military parade, like those in Russia and North Korea? I’m predicting that he’ll have one—the first in US history— parading IBMs, armored tanks, goose stepping soldiers, and heavy weapons—within his first year.
December 15, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Remember when Dump wanted a military parade, like those in Russia and North Korea? I’m predicting that he’ll have one—the first in US history— parading IBMs, armored tanks, goose stepping soldiers, and heavy weapons—within his first year.
British aristocrat SIR Andrew Witty, new CEO of United Healthcare Corporation, given editorial space to tell his lies in the NYT. I haven’t read anything quite so snooty and condescending since, well, David Brooks’s last column.
December 14, 2024 at 2:17 PM
British aristocrat SIR Andrew Witty, new CEO of United Healthcare Corporation, given editorial space to tell his lies in the NYT. I haven’t read anything quite so snooty and condescending since, well, David Brooks’s last column.