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Rick Neal
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Fight MAGA, Save America 🇺🇸/ Proud Dad and Husband 🏳️‍🌈 / Peace Corps, Public Health, Politics 🇲🇦🇰🇭🇦🇿🇧🇮🇦🇫🇯🇴🇨🇩
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Musk 😬
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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In all its captivating soullessness
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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The words and intent are not the issue. The issue is: how will it be enforced? If Trump is polling well and gets on the ballot for the primary in enough states, it’s hard to see who would have standing to stop him. The Constitution says he can’t be “elected” - but try telling that to his voters
October 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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this decision to do a hard pivot on gender is very closely intertwined with dismissing previous and ongoing opposition to trump as somehow embarrassing and ineffective, because it wasn't led by men in hard hats www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
That movement’s on-the-ground organizing proved to be quietly, but strikingly, effective. The early phase of the opposition to the first Trump administration—before the racial-justice protests following George Floyd’s murder, in 2020—was largely led by white, college-educated, suburban women, and many of them, yes, wore pink “pussy hats” and T-shirts with slogans such as It’s Mueller Time! But they helped secure the “blue wave” midterm victory in 2018 that flipped the House of Representatives for Democrats and allowed the party to begin clawing back Trump’s power through legislative oversight. And though that congressional response had its limitations—neither impeachment of Trump, after all, successfully barred him from office—the Resistance notched continued successes at a local level in countering efforts to pull books from school shelves and restrict access to reproductive health care after Roe v. Wade was overturned. And, of course, a Democrat won the White House in 2020. As the reference to hysteria suggests, it’s difficult to fully disaggregate the substance of this critique from gender politics, especially because of the predominance of older women in Resistance organizing during Trump’s first term. Liberal politics, the humor writer Clare Haber-Harris assessed in early 2025, had become “middle-aged-women coded” and therefore “uncool.” These Resistance aesthetics contrasted with the macho energy of Trump’s second term, itself a promise that Americans wouldn’t have to listen to those hectoring women anymore.
October 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM