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Phil Klinkner
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · Mar 31
theconversation.com/how-trump-co...
How Trump could try to stay in power after his second term ends
Though the 22nd Amendment prohibits Trump from being elected president again, it does not prohibit him from serving as president beyond Jan. 20, 2029. A scholar of politics and history explains.
theconversation.com
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 3h
It seems clear that The Atlantic has replaced Tom Nichols with AI Tom Nichols. This is the result. It sounds like Tom but only an AI bot would come up with something this silly.
Politicians Aren’t Cool Enough to Curse This Much
Political leaders once watched their language. Now they delight in using obscenity.
www.theatlantic.com
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 5h
Remember, the sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.
a man with a mustache is smiling and looking at the camera .
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 5h
There are lots of people in Oregon outside of Portland who think it's a hellscape and are feeding that impression to Trump. Same with people in downstate Illinois and Chicago.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 6h
Trump take freedom of speech
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 6h
Well, if out-parties can drive down the approval rating of the in-party president, then Democrats are doing a terrific job.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 7h
"Green Lanternism" is @brendannyhan.bsky.social's great term for the idea that a president can accomplish anything as long as he tries hard enough. The new version is "Bluesky Lanternism" which is the idea around here that Democrats can accomplish anything they want if only they try hard enough..
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1d
ICE is literally shooting priests like it's 1905 or some shit
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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d
Here’s video of the incident
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 3d
Tom thinks it’s not fascism until he gets arrrested.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 6d
Just another woke liberal.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 6d
“Infantry wins battles, logistics win wars.”

Gen. John J. Pershing
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 6d
Seriously. Lots of scholarship on WWII pointing out that democracies can’t expect civilians to adopt the war-fighting ethos of Germany and Japan.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 6d
A related FYI, in WWII US soldiers were rationed 22 sheets of toilet paper per day while British soldiers got 3 ("one up, one down, and one to polish")
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 6d
In WWII, one side exalted the "warrior ethos" and the other side built a giant bureaucracy that made its soldiers as comfortable as possible and used firepower over human lives. Guess which side won?
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 6d
Two sides of the same token.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 7d
A few years back the Western political science meeting was in Seattle at the same hotel as the Pacific NW Anime Convention. Both groups looked at the other and thought to themselves, "Get a load of those nerds."
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 7d
Do you even have to ask?
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 7d
Post a fictional comedian who definitely would accept an invitation to the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 7d
I'm not as familiar with that category, but I'll still go with full professors.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 7d
Spot on. Full professors are the most cowardly people I've ever known. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
Why Aren’t Professors Braver?
Fear and self-censorship in academe.
www.chronicle.com
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 8d
Not exactly a peak physical specimen
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 9d
A child that only sleeps 4 hours a night? No way in hell, unless you are a wealthy enough to afford round-the-clock nannies.
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Dec 12
welcome to america's cyberpunk years
jacob sansbury telling people not to have kids so they can do genetic engineering
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 9d
a man wearing a red hat is smiling with the words y 'all got any heaters written above him .
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 10d
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 10d
Chauncey Gardiner has an epiphany.
Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'
President Trump had said he will send troops to Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he said were "under attack."
www.kgw.com
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 10d
Don’t laugh. Now Adams can concentrate 100% on his 2028 presidential campaign.
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