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I'm thrilled to be working on this with @PrincetonUPress.
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Maybe he should never have had anything to do with @TPUSA in the first place, on account of: Stupidity, racism, authoritarianism, corruption, conspiratorialism, and ignorance. I mean, I’m glad TPUSA has standards, but it feels like they have more to do with public relations than anything else.
Jack Posobiec is expected to be removed from Turning Point USA following reports that he may be lobbying for Qatar, who financially supports the Muslim Brotherhood. Team Trump unfollowed Posobiec on social media yesterday. The disgraced former Navy officer previously had his security clearance revoked for allegedly sharing classified information on Twitter before his separation from the Navy Reserve.
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What a closing paragraph
Abdul El-Sayed fears that high-profile attacks have compromised his safety—but he also argues that they’ve given him “one of the biggest and best platforms.” newyorker.com/news/the-polit…
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In this story JD shares that he panicked & took his kid to the emergency room when he was totally fine. Instead of being relieved by that good news he got upset that there are translators in the hospital helping the sick. This must’ve been before he was Catholic.
JD Vance whines about translators in hospitals and says, "how about if everyone just spoke English?"
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This ad from @VivekGRamaswamy will go down in history as one of the most disgraceful ever aired, and that will be the only reason anyone ever remembers Vivek at all
Amy Acton's stepfather's surviving biological daughter spoke to The Daily Mail when they knocked on her door in Ohio, while sobbing. She said: She believed Amy's story, because her father raped her sister more than once (the victim in this 1974 indictment); she remembered Amy lived in a tent with Donna and Cledith; it's been terrible for her family to see Vivek's ad run in Ohio; and she heard rumors her father had victimized even more young girls.
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Join the IPK and the Global New Right Working Group for an event with @lkatfield on November 9. She will discuss her new book, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, with @CBeltranNYU, Suzanne Schneider and George Schulman. ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-talk…
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Damn - that's an insane statistic.
Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.
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Happening this Friday! This whole project is so fascinating - born of something called the Social Contract Incubator, Let’s Agree on Poland is a book about constitutional design and depolarization that became a bestseller in Poland. If you’re in DC you should come!
Join us on Oct. 30 for Is There Room for Revolutionary Conservatives in Liberal Democracy? With Sylwia Sysko-Romańczuk, @JakubDrozdz, Piotr H. Kosicki, @lkatfield, and @JulianWaller. You won't want to miss it! Register here: tinyurl.com/3976yv78
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat to a student-led movement in a seismic political shift.
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Tremendous news and job by those who built this movement.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat to a student-led movement in a seismic political shift.
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The visceral disgust people have to Ramaswamy's ad is heartening -- and it goes beyond politics.
NEW on @zeteo_news— Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his final bus tour across Ohio. “We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican says. “It’s that damn ad.” From @andrewperezdc & Swin Suebsaeng:zeteo.com/p/venues-start-can…
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Humanists should be snobby about the fact that they are stewarding a tradition that stretches back thousands of years rather than doing busy work involving little technical puzzles. Instead they find dumb “research” niches to fill because STEM gave them an inferiority complex.
Replying to @jennfrey
I'm convinced that the R1 model will always disfavor the humanities and liberal learning and that we need to be very savvy and strategic in how we understand ourselves and our place within that model. Very few humanists agree with me, I've found.
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ok. this is an actual endorsement of the Vivek ad, unlike his earlier line that he was upset that republicans were upset with the ad. Can't really believe that they're attaching themselves to this thing.
Vance: "And now the media and the Democrats in the state of Ohio are obsessed because, guess what? Vivek Ramaswamy had the audacity to run a TV commercial which calls it out like it is and calls Amy Acton a liar."
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Court records and 1978 reports confirm Amy Acton's stepfather was arrested and charged with raping her at age 12; he fled Ohio before trial and was declared a fugitive. Her brother has corroborated the events. Vivek and Vance are siding with abusers over a victim. cincinnati.com/story/news/pol… forbes.com/sites/saradorn… mediaite.com/media/news/ram…
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Shame needs to make a comeback. I’m glad this ad exists, awful as the story is. Vivek should lose this race in a rout, and disappear from public life.
Vivek Ramaswamy is not fit to lead. Watch our new ad.
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Here's an extremely gentle interview between Acton's mother and Operation Rescue in 2020 where she admits: 1.) the allegation was made (one of at least two against the same man) 2.) it got to a grand jury in 1978 and 3.) she left town with the husband to escape it.
Amy Acton claims her mother and stepfather abused her as a child and that criminal charges were filed against them. Acton's mother says that isn't true. This conflict can easily be resolved by finding a record of the charges.
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Court records and newspaper reports from 1978 show that Cledith Arthur, Amy Acton’s stepfather, was charged with rape of a 12 year old girl in Mahoning County, OH. Multiple other accounts, including her brother’s, corroborate this. Donna Arthur lost custody as a result. x.com/justinbarasky/… nationalreview.com/news/amy-acton… nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/…
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What Vivek Ramaswamy has done here is despicable beyond words
Amy Acton's brother slams Vivek Ramaswamy featuring her estranged mother in a campaign ad. "After he was arrested and Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amy’s rapist until he died. This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core – a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants."
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He says the name just fine when he’s begging the Qataris for a personal jet or the Saudis for funding for his son-in-law’s private equity firm. Wonder what’s changed?
Trump on El-Sayed: "His name is actually Abduladadalalalala. It's Adulbabababababa Mohammed Al-Sayed. So his middle name is Mohammed. So I was right. He's a jihadist."
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Join us on Oct. 30 for Is There Room for Revolutionary Conservatives in Liberal Democracy? With Sylwia Sysko-Romańczuk, @JakubDrozdz, Piotr H. Kosicki, @lkatfield, and @JulianWaller. You won't want to miss it! Register here: tinyurl.com/3976yv78
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In case you missed it, the recording of our event, Liberalism as a Way of Life, with @alex_usyd and @lkatfield, is now on YouTube! Check it out! piped.video/watch?v=Zv-F3lpV…
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Agree. And the tech seems like the problem rather than the solution.
This Apple ad is the epitome of what’s wrong with modern culture. Truly disgusting. @Apple
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