@tdplumer.bsky.social
My profile pic. here is me with a statue of my mentor, Dr. Herman B (no period) Wells. He was President and Chancellor of Indiana University.
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I agree with Never Trumpers on a lot, but split hard on this: I do not think the Democratic Party needs to convince swing voters that Democratic candidates aren't too liberal. I think the party needs to convince swing voters that they themselves are actually quite liberal. They just won't admit it.
December 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I agree with Never Trumpers on a lot, but split hard on this: I do not think the Democratic Party needs to convince swing voters that Democratic candidates aren't too liberal. I think the party needs to convince swing voters that they themselves are actually quite liberal. They just won't admit it.
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"Please be kind enough to explain when and where and under what authority you gained access to this material.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse & Sen. Dick Durbin write letter to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, asking how she's "read the Epstein files"
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse & Sen. Dick Durbin write letter to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, asking how she's "read the Epstein files"
December 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"Please be kind enough to explain when and where and under what authority you gained access to this material.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse & Sen. Dick Durbin write letter to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, asking how she's "read the Epstein files"
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse & Sen. Dick Durbin write letter to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, asking how she's "read the Epstein files"
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Is it bad that nobody justifiably believes anything Putin says while the President of the United States believes everything he says?
December 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Is it bad that nobody justifiably believes anything Putin says while the President of the United States believes everything he says?
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Every single time Trump has a meeting with Zelensky, Putin calls Trump the day before and Trump’s position in the Zelensky meeting then mirrors the Russian position. The talking points are the same, with all the same lies. It’s a simple playbook for Putin and it works every time.
December 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Every single time Trump has a meeting with Zelensky, Putin calls Trump the day before and Trump’s position in the Zelensky meeting then mirrors the Russian position. The talking points are the same, with all the same lies. It’s a simple playbook for Putin and it works every time.
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December 28, 2025
December 28, 2025
On the clear, cold morning of December 29, 1890, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, three U.S.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:30 AM
December 28, 2025
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A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.
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And we continue. Together we are stronger
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December 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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This dramatically enhanced pressure on Europe/Denmark and the new outrageous sanctions on info researchers coming at a time when Putin is escalating his physical attacks on Ukraine suggests that the US is now *coordinating* with Russia to weaken Europe and Ukraine.
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Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.
They’re again advocating against Denmark when it comes to Greenland
December 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This dramatically enhanced pressure on Europe/Denmark and the new outrageous sanctions on info researchers coming at a time when Putin is escalating his physical attacks on Ukraine suggests that the US is now *coordinating* with Russia to weaken Europe and Ukraine.
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Sometimes I recall that my great grandpa was an egg-candler. Held eggs in front of candles to check yolks
Brought double yolks to his family
And I’m a college professor
And I think: the US, land of immigrants, land of hope
It takes a nanosecond to see how out of step this regime is w/that truth
Brought double yolks to his family
And I’m a college professor
And I think: the US, land of immigrants, land of hope
It takes a nanosecond to see how out of step this regime is w/that truth
December 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Sometimes I recall that my great grandpa was an egg-candler. Held eggs in front of candles to check yolks
Brought double yolks to his family
And I’m a college professor
And I think: the US, land of immigrants, land of hope
It takes a nanosecond to see how out of step this regime is w/that truth
Brought double yolks to his family
And I’m a college professor
And I think: the US, land of immigrants, land of hope
It takes a nanosecond to see how out of step this regime is w/that truth
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Wednesday Spill: Video Of Interest… Liza Donnelly & Heather Cox Richardson on Tracking Santa Claus; Addams Among The Holiday Stationery. @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Wednesday Spill: Video Of Interest… Liza Donnelly & Heather Cox Richardson on Tracking Santa Claus; Addams Among The Holiday Stationery
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December 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Wednesday Spill: Video Of Interest… Liza Donnelly & Heather Cox Richardson on Tracking Santa Claus; Addams Among The Holiday Stationery. @hcrichardson.bsky.social
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#WETHEPEOPLE
🙏 @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Who are we? Can a DNA test give us our identities back?
You won't find it if you win the millionaire's lotto.
Maybe you can get a peak at it here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV5P...
🙏 @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Who are we? Can a DNA test give us our identities back?
You won't find it if you win the millionaire's lotto.
Maybe you can get a peak at it here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV5P...
Mercy Otis Warren | Episode 1, The Declaration in Action
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
#WETHEPEOPLE
🙏 @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Who are we? Can a DNA test give us our identities back?
You won't find it if you win the millionaire's lotto.
Maybe you can get a peak at it here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV5P...
🙏 @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Who are we? Can a DNA test give us our identities back?
You won't find it if you win the millionaire's lotto.
Maybe you can get a peak at it here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV5P...
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WOW. Trump's approval rating is now 36%. And I don't remember ever seeing him underwater with white people.
December 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
WOW. Trump's approval rating is now 36%. And I don't remember ever seeing him underwater with white people.
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Refusing to take sides in a 'fight over bigotry' is tantamount to taking sides.
This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
December 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Refusing to take sides in a 'fight over bigotry' is tantamount to taking sides.
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I cannot emphasize enough that the White House has no authority to withhold funds from the Smithsonian. It can, however, try to persuade/threaten Congress to reduce future funding.
“American people will have no patience” for any museum that is “uncomfortable conveying a positive view of American history,” Trump aides wrote.
"It was not immediately clear how much money the White House might try to withhold, from which parts of the Smithsonian or on what authority."
"It was not immediately clear how much money the White House might try to withhold, from which parts of the Smithsonian or on what authority."
White House threatens Smithsonian funds in sweeping content review
It is not clear on what authority the administration could withhold Smithsonian funds, as President Trump tries to purge “woke” content from cultural institutions.
wapo.st
December 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I cannot emphasize enough that the White House has no authority to withhold funds from the Smithsonian. It can, however, try to persuade/threaten Congress to reduce future funding.
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This.
Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
December 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This.
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Yup.
From a late 18th/early 19th century dictionary.
“TRUMPERY, n. falsehood; empty talk” or in New England: “useless matter; things worn out and cast [a]side.”
From a late 18th/early 19th century dictionary.
“TRUMPERY, n. falsehood; empty talk” or in New England: “useless matter; things worn out and cast [a]side.”
December 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Yup.
From a late 18th/early 19th century dictionary.
“TRUMPERY, n. falsehood; empty talk” or in New England: “useless matter; things worn out and cast [a]side.”
From a late 18th/early 19th century dictionary.
“TRUMPERY, n. falsehood; empty talk” or in New England: “useless matter; things worn out and cast [a]side.”
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TRUTH
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
TRUTH
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The last thing our veterans need is FEWER people making sure they get the health care they need.
This is a grossly short-sighted decision by Secretary Collins. We need answers and accountability.
This is a grossly short-sighted decision by Secretary Collins. We need answers and accountability.
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The last thing our veterans need is FEWER people making sure they get the health care they need.
This is a grossly short-sighted decision by Secretary Collins. We need answers and accountability.
This is a grossly short-sighted decision by Secretary Collins. We need answers and accountability.
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Regardless of the ugliness of the moment, never forget that this country is ours.
It’s about us.
And we can and must do better.
A look at how we ended our “America at 250” lecture course a week or two ago.
www.newhavenindependent.org/2025/12/15/n...
It’s about us.
And we can and must do better.
A look at how we ended our “America at 250” lecture course a week or two ago.
www.newhavenindependent.org/2025/12/15/n...
"Never Forget America’s Semiquincentennial Is About Us" - New Haven Independent
Allan Appel's dispatch from the closing lecture of Yale's "America at 250" history course.
www.newhavenindependent.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Regardless of the ugliness of the moment, never forget that this country is ours.
It’s about us.
And we can and must do better.
A look at how we ended our “America at 250” lecture course a week or two ago.
www.newhavenindependent.org/2025/12/15/n...
It’s about us.
And we can and must do better.
A look at how we ended our “America at 250” lecture course a week or two ago.
www.newhavenindependent.org/2025/12/15/n...
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What do you call it when a foreign power’s agents target and damage your transportation infrastructure, drinking water and food safety?
December 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
What do you call it when a foreign power’s agents target and damage your transportation infrastructure, drinking water and food safety?
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I know we’ve been talking about the 25th Amendment being invoked for years now, but we should probably be talking about it a lot more and a lot more seriously right now.
Couple of things here:
1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently
2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"
3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"
4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently
2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"
3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"
4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I know we’ve been talking about the 25th Amendment being invoked for years now, but we should probably be talking about it a lot more and a lot more seriously right now.
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NEW INFO: A decision, made by a Manhattan-based federal judge, could release hundreds or even thousands of previously unseen documents. They will be released to the public in a searchable format in the next 10 days, as required by the recently passed Epstein Files Transparency Act. trib.al/BbpFVtj
Judge Gives Trump DOJ 10 Days to Release Ghislaine Maxwell Docs
More information on Jeffrey Epstein is incoming.
trib.al
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
NEW INFO: A decision, made by a Manhattan-based federal judge, could release hundreds or even thousands of previously unseen documents. They will be released to the public in a searchable format in the next 10 days, as required by the recently passed Epstein Files Transparency Act. trib.al/BbpFVtj
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Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."
December 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."