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Virginia Sapiro is an American political scientist and political psychologist.

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Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

via www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...
Screenshot from a NYT article by Thomas Edsall, quoting Barbara Walter of UC-San Diego: "The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied. "Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely."
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Speaker Johnson actively denying the people of the Arizona 7th their right to representation. Sue!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away
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I guess we should make believe we’re surprised.

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Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
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Murray: I talked to a family that’s paying about $300 a month for their health insurance. It’s going to jump to over $1,800 per month.

Many people will turn away and not pay for it—obviously, they’ll lose their health insurance. The fewer people who have insurance, the more everybody pays.
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That’s a lot of leavitty for one not very funny person.

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This is not going well for Pam Bondi
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Maybe she doesn't think we notice that she could have said, Of course I didn't see any such thing because there is no such thing. That is, if that wouldn't place her in the position of having lied... but no. She's a Trumpy so she has to bully and attack.
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Isn't it amazing? And I have different color yellows, but they love these best. They are in other colored flowers, but this is the blossom -- all over the garden -- where I find these drunken bee parties.
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Hey, Iowa. Your Representative will listen to you when hell freezes over.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 14h
House Republican says she'll hold a town hall 'when hell freezes over' www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
House Republican says she'll hold a town hall 'when hell freezes over'
One of the most vulnerable House Republicans up for reelection in 2026 told her colleagues that she will host a town hall meeting "when hell freezes over.”� CNN obtained audio of Rep. Mariannette ...
www.dailykos.com
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House Republican says she'll hold a town hall 'when hell freezes over' www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
House Republican says she'll hold a town hall 'when hell freezes over'
One of the most vulnerable House Republicans up for reelection in 2026 told her colleagues that she will host a town hall meeting "when hell freezes over.”� CNN obtained audio of Rep. Mariannette ...
www.dailykos.com
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Reposted by: Virginia Sapiro, Joe R. Feagin, John Collins , and 2 more

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Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away
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Bees love my yellow dahlias in particular at this time of year -- they nestle in and sleep in them. But sometime they look like the aftermath of a very drunken party.
Yellow dahlia with orange in the middle and 3 bees sleeping among the petals
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given how depressed I feel at the very thought of him... goodauthority.org/news/depress...
Depressed people are more likely to support Donald Trump.
New research shows a connection between mental health and political attitudes.
goodauthority.org
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Reposted by: Virginia Sapiro, Gavin A. Schmidt, Manisha Sinha , and 1 more

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And now @acls1919.bsky.social speaks out. Just. Say. No. To Trump's compact on higher ed. It's extortion plain and simple. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...
ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...
www.acls.org
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Universities that give in will be subservient forever and they will force the rest of our univs into untenable positions.
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This is also part of our world.
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I like that "a civil debate" seems to include a bunch of words and phrases that even I, a New Yorker, don't put in print or say in polite company. In some cases, in any company.
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Seems so inefficient for the Supreme Court to have to sit around listening to people argue then discussing among themselves. Seems so much more efficient for one of the conservative members just to sit in his bathroom writing his opinion. No fuss, no muss.
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À college or university that refuses to teach a course like that is not a legit college or university.
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Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."
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I want a chicken bowl.
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Dun Dun.

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Again?

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Dreaming of Nuremberg trials.
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Gold
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Conservatives talk as tho groupthink never had impact on campuses before. Same or worse back when conservatism dominated univs. Look at any picture of campus life before late 60s. All white or all Black. Students dressed so alike can't tell them apart. What they did to get into frats/sorors.

by Virginia Sapiro

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The usual problem of ahistorical analysis: It's new that students are afraid of others censoring them? Faculty replicating themselves? Please. In the 60s/early 70s gay students could not come out of closet. We budding feminists always faced ridicule (faculty & students) if we spoke our minds.
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They seem specifically to recruit disgusting cruel thugs. Just who we want doing law enforcement working with Americans.
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Dr. Canuck, MD @drcanuckmd.medsky.social · 4d
ICE fuckin maced my frog boy that I posted the other day. 😡
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😂 “Master negotiator” Donald Trump owns the modern government shutdown

Via @317_2_202 on IG
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