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Peter Haugen

@peterhaugen.bsky.social

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Resistant. Hopeful (despite everything). Wrote “World History for Dummies” and other stuff, including many theater reviews. Proud survivor of newspaper journalism. Seek to be kind and respectful, but sometimes fail. Stop Donald and his evil cohort!

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Peter Haugen @peterhaugen.bsky.social · Dec 29

You try your best to love the world despite obvious flaws in design and execution. And you take care of whatever needy things present themselves to you during your passage through it. Otherwise you’re worthless.—Charles Frazier

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 15h

Unfortunately this is holding up

@classicvirtues.bsky.social
Maybe the defining film image of our current moment:

“FIRST REFORMED CHURCH
EST. 1767 -
WILL GOD FORGIVE US?” on church sign in Paul Schrader’s ‘First Reformed’

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 17h

damn who could have foreseen that giving every desperate redneck in america a bonus, a mask, and carte blanche to hassle city dwellers could have negative consequences

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

CARTOON OF THE DAY

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 1d

Fewer than 1 in 10 of our Congressional races are considered competitive - in a country that's politically more or less 50-50.

This is madness. And it doesn't have to be this way.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This is what ice is doing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Peter Haugen @peterhaugen.bsky.social · 1d

This is what Idaho voted for, I guess?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

We've all heard that there is no free lunch.

Well, guess what?

There is no free 747 either.

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Peter Haugen @peterhaugen.bsky.social · 1d

Shhh! They’re all pretending they can see it.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

Soybean farmers should dump their beans on Capitol Hill…

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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John Paul Helveston @jhelvy.bsky.social · 1d

I knew MIT hired smart people
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 1d

How many billions of $ did Qatar give to Trump in exchange for allowing them to build an air force base on US soil?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 2d

Please can I have a Nobel peace prize, I helped a friend of mine murder a bunch of his neighbours and now I’ve told him to stop, so I’ve definitely done a peace. Give me the prize immediately please, not that anything could possibly go wrong, but just give it to me now, or else.

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Clay Jones @claytoonz.bsky.social · 2d

You can't say for certain that any participants of the J6 terrorist attack are working for ICE, but you can't say for certain that they're not. #ICE

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud: “The president has plenary authority.” Then froze as CNN cut the feed and later erased the clip.

That wasn’t a glitch. It was a confession - the blueprint for absolute power, hidden in plain sight.

Read more: www.facebook.com/share/v/17FZ...

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 1d

Roberts Is Just As Responsible For Chump As Chump Is ! Both Have
Failed This Country.......

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command.

The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other states—and, in at least one case, deploy the Guard from one state into another—is extremely dangerous.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2d

One of the things that's terrifying about what's happening now is the number of Republicans who won't stand up to Trump because they're cowards who are terrified of backlash. MGT strikes me as just unhinged enough to not be sensitive to that, which turns out to be a liability for them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 2d

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