Alan Snyder
@alansnyder.bsky.social
History professor at Christian universities for 35 years. Author of 6 books. Most recent ones on C. S. Lewis, who has been my research and writing focus for the past decade.
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CATO INSTITUTE:
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
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Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
December 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
CATO INSTITUTE:
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
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Julie Brown: “They didn’t even release the victim interviews…It’s clear that the Department of Justice is not only thumbing its nose at the public’s demand for transparency and accountability, it is not taking the crimes committed against children seriously.”
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The Epstein Files: My observations
Nothing to See Here
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December 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Julie Brown: “They didn’t even release the victim interviews…It’s clear that the Department of Justice is not only thumbing its nose at the public’s demand for transparency and accountability, it is not taking the crimes committed against children seriously.”
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Lou Cannon died on Friday at age 92. The journalist and author was widely regarded as a foremost authority on Ronald Reagan, whom Cannon covered from his time as California governor through his years in the White House.
Lou Cannon Dies at 92; Journalist Chronicled Reagan as an Author
He was a foremost authority on the president, tracing his career in unvarnished accounts from his time as California governor through his years in the White House.
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December 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Lou Cannon died on Friday at age 92. The journalist and author was widely regarded as a foremost authority on Ronald Reagan, whom Cannon covered from his time as California governor through his years in the White House.
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Trump continues to reduce the venue sizes for his rallies to high school gym proportions for his shrinking cult.
December 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Trump continues to reduce the venue sizes for his rallies to high school gym proportions for his shrinking cult.
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The next president should remove Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center on day one.
December 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The next president should remove Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center on day one.
In "Mere Christianity," C.S. Lewis asks if evil is God's will. “If it is,” he begins, “He is a strange God, you will say: and if it is not, how can anything happen contrary to the will of a being with absolute power?” I wrote about this here. ponderingprinciples.com/2025/02/05/t...
December 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
In "Mere Christianity," C.S. Lewis asks if evil is God's will. “If it is,” he begins, “He is a strange God, you will say: and if it is not, how can anything happen contrary to the will of a being with absolute power?” I wrote about this here. ponderingprinciples.com/2025/02/05/t...
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When Trump visited Mount Vernon in 2018, he couldn't understand why George Washington didn't name it after himself. “You’ve got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you.” Reupping this prescient piece from @politico.com which seems pretty relevant today. www.politico.com/story/2019/0...
Trump’s ‘truly bizarre’ visit to Mt. Vernon
The 45th president — no student of history — marveled at the first president's failure to name his historic compound after himself.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
When Trump visited Mount Vernon in 2018, he couldn't understand why George Washington didn't name it after himself. “You’ve got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you.” Reupping this prescient piece from @politico.com which seems pretty relevant today. www.politico.com/story/2019/0...
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How Trump or his reps have characterized his relationship w/Epstein:
“A lot of fun to be with”
“No formal relationship”
“They did not socialize”
A business acquaintance
“There was no relationship”
“I was not a fan of his”
But our @nytimes.com report reveals an intense, complicated friendship. 🧵
“A lot of fun to be with”
“No formal relationship”
“They did not socialize”
A business acquaintance
“There was no relationship”
“I was not a fan of his”
But our @nytimes.com report reveals an intense, complicated friendship. 🧵
December 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
How Trump or his reps have characterized his relationship w/Epstein:
“A lot of fun to be with”
“No formal relationship”
“They did not socialize”
A business acquaintance
“There was no relationship”
“I was not a fan of his”
But our @nytimes.com report reveals an intense, complicated friendship. 🧵
“A lot of fun to be with”
“No formal relationship”
“They did not socialize”
A business acquaintance
“There was no relationship”
“I was not a fan of his”
But our @nytimes.com report reveals an intense, complicated friendship. 🧵
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Social conservatives are supposedly worried about sports gambling, online porn, and legal marijuana.
This, of course, brings us to Trump, whose agenda includes a broader tolerance for industries that profit from addiction, distraction, and dopamine hits. thehill.com/opinion/5655...
This, of course, brings us to Trump, whose agenda includes a broader tolerance for industries that profit from addiction, distraction, and dopamine hits. thehill.com/opinion/5655...
December 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Social conservatives are supposedly worried about sports gambling, online porn, and legal marijuana.
This, of course, brings us to Trump, whose agenda includes a broader tolerance for industries that profit from addiction, distraction, and dopamine hits. thehill.com/opinion/5655...
This, of course, brings us to Trump, whose agenda includes a broader tolerance for industries that profit from addiction, distraction, and dopamine hits. thehill.com/opinion/5655...
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Federal data shows military lawyers detailed as immigration judges ordered deportation nearly 80% of the time. One judge who didn’t? He was fired after five weeks on the bench.
Military lawyer swiftly fired from immigration bench after defying Trump deportation push
A U.S. Army Reserve lawyer detailed as a federal immigration judge has been fired barely a month into the job after granting asylum at a high rate out of step with the Trump administration’s mass deportation goals.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Federal data shows military lawyers detailed as immigration judges ordered deportation nearly 80% of the time. One judge who didn’t? He was fired after five weeks on the bench.
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"You’re describing a dystopian hellscape. None of this could ever happen" - what every reliable Trump lickspittle would have told you if you neutrally described America in Dec. 2025 to them on the eve of Election Day in 2024.
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3MTvrwZ
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3MTvrwZ
December 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"You’re describing a dystopian hellscape. None of this could ever happen" - what every reliable Trump lickspittle would have told you if you neutrally described America in Dec. 2025 to them on the eve of Election Day in 2024.
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3MTvrwZ
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3MTvrwZ
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Five years ago today, Trump summoned a mob to Washington, DC for a “protest” on Jan. 6, 2021, tweeting: “Be there, will be wild!”
Rightwing extremists began planning for violence almost immediately.
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Rightwing extremists began planning for violence almost immediately.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Five years ago today, Trump summoned a mob to Washington, DC for a “protest” on Jan. 6, 2021, tweeting: “Be there, will be wild!”
Rightwing extremists began planning for violence almost immediately.
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Rightwing extremists began planning for violence almost immediately.
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
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“That is the most insidious corruption…Trumpism gets its defenders to insist terrible things could never happen…Until Trump does the thing. At which point these same people insist the thing which could never happen must happen. That it is right, good and necessary.”
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Trump, Hunger Games, and the Kennedy Center
The dystopia everyone said was impossible is already here.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
“That is the most insidious corruption…Trumpism gets its defenders to insist terrible things could never happen…Until Trump does the thing. At which point these same people insist the thing which could never happen must happen. That it is right, good and necessary.”
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We are living and suffering through a Mad King presidency.
Mad King.
This is what it is.
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Mad King.
This is what it is.
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Trump, Hunger Games, and the Kennedy Center
The dystopia everyone said was impossible is already here.
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
We are living and suffering through a Mad King presidency.
Mad King.
This is what it is.
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Mad King.
This is what it is.
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Wasting no time, the Trump administration begins adding his name to the Kennedy Center building, ignoring the understanding that it would require an act of Congress. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Kennedy Center Adds Trump’s Name to Facade
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December 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Wasting no time, the Trump administration begins adding his name to the Kennedy Center building, ignoring the understanding that it would require an act of Congress. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
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New in PN: The legal "defense" for Trump's ballroom is a joke
"How does putting a pause on the Big Gilded Ballroom compromise national security? Well, the administration can’t say … because it would compromise national security."
"How does putting a pause on the Big Gilded Ballroom compromise national security? Well, the administration can’t say … because it would compromise national security."
The legal "defense" for Trump's ballroom is a joke
If everything is "national security," then nothing is.
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December 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
New in PN: The legal "defense" for Trump's ballroom is a joke
"How does putting a pause on the Big Gilded Ballroom compromise national security? Well, the administration can’t say … because it would compromise national security."
"How does putting a pause on the Big Gilded Ballroom compromise national security? Well, the administration can’t say … because it would compromise national security."
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The more Trump contorts the truth, the more his devotees must contort themselves to support the contortions.
December 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The more Trump contorts the truth, the more his devotees must contort themselves to support the contortions.
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Good news: The number of people traveling to the U.S. illegally has plunged.
Bad news: The number of people traveling to the U.S. legally has plunged.
The common thread: Nobody wants to come here.
Bad news: The number of people traveling to the U.S. legally has plunged.
The common thread: Nobody wants to come here.
December 18, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Good news: The number of people traveling to the U.S. illegally has plunged.
Bad news: The number of people traveling to the U.S. legally has plunged.
The common thread: Nobody wants to come here.
Bad news: The number of people traveling to the U.S. legally has plunged.
The common thread: Nobody wants to come here.
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Pro life Administration 🤷
The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent.
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Pro life Administration 🤷
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Breaking News: The Trump administration plans to ramp up efforts to strip some naturalized Americans of their citizenship, internal documents obtained by The New York Times show, marking an aggressive new phase in President Trump’s immigration crackdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
December 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Breaking News: The Trump administration plans to ramp up efforts to strip some naturalized Americans of their citizenship, internal documents obtained by The New York Times show, marking an aggressive new phase in President Trump’s immigration crackdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
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New in PN: Trump gets bored issuing real pardons, tries a fake one
"Tmrw is the anniversary of Trump’s infamous tweet: 'Big protest in DC on J6. Be there, will be wild!' We know what happened next. All of which is to say his fake pardon of a grifting weirdo is very funny. And also…not funny at all"
"Tmrw is the anniversary of Trump’s infamous tweet: 'Big protest in DC on J6. Be there, will be wild!' We know what happened next. All of which is to say his fake pardon of a grifting weirdo is very funny. And also…not funny at all"
Trump gets bored issuing real pardons, tries a fake one
It's hilarious ... right up until his supporters storm the jail.
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December 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
New in PN: Trump gets bored issuing real pardons, tries a fake one
"Tmrw is the anniversary of Trump’s infamous tweet: 'Big protest in DC on J6. Be there, will be wild!' We know what happened next. All of which is to say his fake pardon of a grifting weirdo is very funny. And also…not funny at all"
"Tmrw is the anniversary of Trump’s infamous tweet: 'Big protest in DC on J6. Be there, will be wild!' We know what happened next. All of which is to say his fake pardon of a grifting weirdo is very funny. And also…not funny at all"
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January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
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[email protected]l: "He's just making stuff up and he just says a bunch of stuff…I wish somebody would tell him how math works. You know, saying prices are going to go down 500% or 600% — anyone who has been through the sixth grade knows that's not a thing."
December 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
[email protected]l: "He's just making stuff up and he just says a bunch of stuff…I wish somebody would tell him how math works. You know, saying prices are going to go down 500% or 600% — anyone who has been through the sixth grade knows that's not a thing."