Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
Still trying to have it both ways - | 2024-04-29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1784933947828494608 | 1784933947828494608 |
America's Founders knew all about kings and emperors - | 2024-04-27 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1784045760805564468 | 1784045760805564468 |
Who would you pick? | 2024-04-27 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1784042046917140621 | 1784042046917140621 |
How empires collapse - | 2024-04-27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1784040275960295821 | 1784040275960295821 |
Want to make a small fortune? | 2024-04-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1784032705681989973 | 1784032705681989973 |
Can't tell the players without a scorecard! | 2024-04-26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1783891784835473551 | 1783891784835473551 |
Hamas talks "cease-fire" meaning "pause to regroup, | 2024-04-26 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1783651760567197971 | 1783651760567197971 |
You probably never heard of or cared about Moldova, | 2024-04-26 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1783649111033720976 | 1783649111033720976 |
“I don’t care if the speaker’s office becomes a | 2024-04-19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1781351078791184888 | 1781351078791184888 |
Where the Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP can get its | 2024-04-19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1781338536698081495 | 1781338536698081495 |
That was the week that wasn't - | 2024-04-19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1781336025920651515 | 1781336025920651515 |
Getting a pardon or commutation from Trump is pretty much | 2024-04-18 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1780934933021962328 | 1780934933021962328 |
They were against labor then - | 2024-04-17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1780413494862762391 | 1780413494862762391 |
You don't know about the election until you've heard from | 2024-04-17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1780406746571587780 | 1780406746571587780 |
GOP megadonors cater to the reactionary religious right | 2024-04-16 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1780367949246927156 | 1780367949246927156 |
Can Johnson lead the Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP, | 2024-04-16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1780362388459659304 | 1780362388459659304 |
Why is the GOP is so opposed to abortion? Some care | 2024-04-16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1780269977347727625 | 1780269977347727625 |
Devaluing the dollar - as good an idea as unilateral | 2024-04-16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1780254056063369356 | 1780254056063369356 |
Inflation is real, but not bad compared to the stagflation | 2024-04-16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1780040438738764230 | 1780040438738764230 |
Sacrifice is for little people, not Trump! The little | 2024-04-16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1780035870067990633 | 1780035870067990633 |
You can't be a Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP without | 2024-04-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776983692927521017 | 1776983692927521017 |
Party caucuses are a joke. Replace them with | 2024-04-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776982834844147748 | 1776982834844147748 |
Freischütz Caucus greatest accomplishment - driving out | 2024-04-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776977798068109562 | 1776977798068109562 |
Who's going to make money on Truth Social? It won't | 2024-04-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776973019535306931 | 1776973019535306931 |
No peace for our time! | 2024-04-07 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776970246353834086 | 1776970246353834086 |
Third-party centrism just doesn't work unless it's combined | 2024-04-07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776966295025856766 | 1776966295025856766 |
In Trumpworld, loyalty or the illusion of loyalty always | 2024-04-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776651237603360994 | 1776651237603360994 |
How Putin, Xi, Kim, and the Ayatollah use social media to | 2024-04-06 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776646519560770030 | 1776646519560770030 |
Trump assumed that in 2016 he was elected emperor for life. | 2024-04-05 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776384860170674205 | 1776384860170674205 |
A win for rule of law. But how long can it stand? | 2024-04-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776383861393670456 | 1776383861393670456 |
What happened when the defenders of minority rule realized | 2024-04-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776383137318371742 | 1776383137318371742 |
Violence is still as American as cherry pie - | 2024-04-05 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776382469736169499 | 1776382469736169499 |
Money is not speech. Democracy is not about one | 2024-04-05 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776380795336503807 | 1776380795336503807 |
What the Alabama IVF decision did and didn't decide - | 2024-04-05 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776379360351785284 | 1776379360351785284 |
Why stick to boring old facts when you can weave exciting | 2024-04-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776322765865492509 | 1776322765865492509 |
That was the week that wasn't - | 2024-04-05 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776321286379388998 | 1776321286379388998 |
More than one way to interpret an old text! | 2024-04-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1776318805448573130 | 1776318805448573130 |
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========== Still trying to have it both ways - "Trump said there is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting.” "Trump’s campaign said that Trump will continue to strongly protect Social Security and Medicare in his second term.” https://apnews.com/article/aarp-older-adults-retirement-savings-prices-c4f1353d97e8c0a9973c9c67a8eab800 #PS1deficit ===== impress 1 time 2024-04-29 13:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1784933947828494608 ========== America's Founders knew all about kings and emperors - and wanted none of it. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opinion/trump-immunity-supreme-court.html The Supreme Court isn't sure they meant it. #PS1trump ===== impress 38 time 2024-04-27 02:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1784045760805564468 ========== Who would you pick? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2024/vice-president-candidates-donald-trump/ Trying to think like Trump, I came up with MTG. She's as loyal to him as he to her, which is to say, until something better comes along. #PS1trump ===== impress 4 time 2024-04-27 02:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1784042046917140621 ========== How empires collapse - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/26/david-ignatius-rand-study-us-forecast-decline/ Or not! Where is our Theodore Roosevelt? #PS1theory ===== impress 1 time 2024-04-27 02:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1784040275960295821 ========== Want to make a small fortune? https://apnews.com/article/trump-investing-stocks-truth-social-short-politics-986566b8b876cd5ddae909029fd410c9 Start with a large fortune. #PS1trump ===== engage-rate NaN time 2024-04-27 01:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1784032705681989973 ========== Can't tell the players without a scorecard! https://apnews.com/article/trump-election-interference-indictments-giuliani-meadows-8137b90da8c3a971316e0cfa3acfd6a9 Several have already cut plea deals. #PS1insurrection ===== impress 2 time 2024-04-26 16:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1783891784835473551 ========== Hamas talks "cease-fire" meaning "pause to regroup, recruit, and rearm for the next invasion." Netanyahu's coalition depends on a minority as fanatical as Hamas. But that minority is not the Hamas target - all of Israel is. https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-war-f756cc054732eb3f7e0c49a9987560a0 #PS1mideast ===== impress 13 time 2024-04-26 00:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1783651760567197971 ========== You probably never heard of or cared about Moldova, just as your great-grand-parents about the Sudetenland. Putin talks "peace" and "cease-fire" but he means "pause while Russia regroups, recruits, and rearms for the next invasion." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/25/moldova-russian-politics-ukraine-invasion-europe/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 18 time 2024-04-26 00:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1783649111033720976 ========== “I don’t care if the speaker’s office becomes a revolving door" There you have it - Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat politics in its purist form - shut the Federal government down! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/19/israel-ukraine-aid-house-speaker-mike-johnson/ #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2024-04-19 15:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1781351078791184888 ========== Where the Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP can get its orders - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/17/russia-foreign-policy-us-weaken/ Though most seem to know what to do without being told. #PS1putin ===== impress 1 time 2024-04-19 15:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1781338536698081495 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-trump-trial-migrants-264c620a7ee973d26d869cbec57ad7ec #PS1media ===== impress 1 time 2024-04-19 14:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1781336025920651515 ========== Getting a pardon or commutation from Trump is pretty much a guarantee of criminal behavior! https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/13/trump-pardon-philip-esformes-biden-justice-department/ That's why so many criminals are hoping Trump gets re-elected and helping any way they can. Here's how that one turned out - https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article285778766.html #PS1justice ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% expands 1 impress 5 time 2024-04-18 12:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780934933021962328 ========== They were against labor then - https://www.facingsouth.org/2021/03/pro-act-would-undo-decades-southern-anti-union-laws-rooted-racism and they're against labor now - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/16/republican-governors-uaw/ Interesting how only Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP governors are interested in protecting black folks' rights to be exploited. #PS1economics ===== impress 2 time 2024-04-17 01:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780413494862762391 ========== You don't know about the election until you've heard from Dave Barry! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/16/election-postcards-2024/ #PS1election ===== impress 1 time 2024-04-17 01:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780406746571587780 ========== GOP megadonors cater to the reactionary religious right for the same reason they cater to the gun lobby - it's a cheap source of reliable GOP votes in favor of candidates that will protect and enhance minority rule economic and political power. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/16/religion-politics-republicans-abortion-trump/ #PS1gop ===== engage 2 engage-rate 67% impress 3 likes 1 retweets 1 time 2024-04-16 22:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780367949246927156 ========== Can Johnson lead the Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP, which is only barely a majority if you add up all its feuding contradictory factions? https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-israel-house-republicans-3f6f6af81c860eb8ce4104e61728a0fb Boehner, Ryan, and McCarthy couldn't. Can ANYBODY? #PS1gop ===== impress 1 time 2024-04-16 22:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780362388459659304 ========== Why is the GOP is so opposed to abortion? Some care deeply, and some just pretend - anything to win the election. Its megadonors finance the GOP to protect and expand minority rule and the economic and political power of the ruling class. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/opinion/arizona-abortion-supreme-court.html #PS1gop ===== impress 1 time 2024-04-16 16:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780269977347727625 ========== Devaluing the dollar - as good an idea as unilateral nuclear disarmament. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/16/trump-devalue-dollar-inflation-economy/ #PS1economics ===== impress 3 time 2024-04-16 15:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780254056063369356 ========== Inflation is real, but not bad compared to the stagflation of the 1970's. But swing voters that don't follow politics closely usually just vote their pocketbook feelings, whether based on fact or fantasy. https://www.columbian.com/news/2024/apr/13/why-biden-is-getting-little-credit-for-the-economy-especially-in-california/ #PS1economics ===== impress 3 time 2024-04-16 01:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780040438738764230 ========== Sacrifice is for little people, not Trump! The little people can't say they weren't warned. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/25/trump-truth-social-stock-2024/ https://apnews.com/article/trump-media-truth-social-nasdaq-stock-106d7c423174ca1d7cc3cc9a3f3897a0 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/14/truth-social-investors-faith-trump/ Maybe they'll remember what "pump and dump" means next time, if they ever get to have a next time. #PS1trump ===== engage-rate NaN time 2024-04-16 00:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780035870067990633 ========== You can't be a Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP without being an election denier. Fortunately, there's more than one way to qualify. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/speaker-johnson-denies-being-an-election #PS1gop ===== engage-rate NaN time 2024-04-07 14:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776983692927521017 ========== Party caucuses are a joke. Replace them with ranked-choice voting. Our campaign finance laws are another joke. End unlimited dark money! https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/decoding-the-iowa-caucuses #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2024-04-07 14:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776982834844147748 ========== Freischütz Caucus greatest accomplishment - driving out GOP who want to solve problems. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/07/house-republicans-retirements-mike-johnson-majority-elections/ "Congress was built to make incremental changes, but that lawmakers often promise immediate, large-scale reforms to voters in an effort to get elected." #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2024-04-07 14:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776977798068109562 ========== Who's going to make money on Truth Social? It won't be the little investors that bid up the stock price! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/07/trump-media-truth-social-payout/ What's sure is a gold mine for lawyers! #PS1media ===== impress 3 time 2024-04-07 13:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776973019535306931 ========== No peace for our time! It didn't work for Chamberlain with Hitler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_for_our_time And it won't work for Trump with Putin https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/05/trump-ukraine-secret-plan/ #PS1ukraine ===== impress 5 time 2024-04-07 13:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776970246353834086 ========== Third-party centrism just doesn't work unless it's combined with ranked-choice voting. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/06/no-labels-trump-biden-election/ And there's no ranked-choice voting for president. #PS1democracy ===== impress 1 time 2024-04-07 13:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776966295025856766 ========== In Trumpworld, loyalty or the illusion of loyalty always trumps competence or the illusion of competence. https://ncnewsline.com/2024/03/29/in-gubernatorial-race-mark-robinson-exposes-republican-fault-lines/ #PS1trump ===== engage-rate NaN time 2024-04-06 16:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776651237603360994 ========== How Putin, Xi, Kim, and the Ayatollah use social media to weaken America - https://apnews.com/article/misinformation-anonymous-accounts-social-media-2024-election-8a6b0f8d727734200902d96a59b84bf7 And then there are all the Americans using social media to stir up blind rage - for big bucks, or to protect minority rule. #PS1media ===== impress 2 time 2024-04-06 16:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776646519560770030 ========== Trump assumed that in 2016 he was elected emperor for life. Same as Putin, Xi, Kim, and the Ayatollah! https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/a-president-is-not-a-king But he was, is, and will be... wrong. That won't keep him from trying. #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2024-04-05 23:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776384860170674205 ========== A win for rule of law. But how long can it stand? https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/breaking-trumps-immunity-claim-rejected Rule of law just gets in the way of strong leaders. #PS1justice ===== engage-rate NaN time 2024-04-05 22:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776383861393670456 ========== What happened when the defenders of minority rule realized that a reactionary judiciary could be bought too - https://statecourtreport.substack.com/p/state-court-report-post-dobbs-state #PS1justice ===== engage-rate NaN time 2024-04-05 22:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776383137318371742 ========== Violence is still as American as cherry pie - https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/threats-and-intimidation-are-distorting Strong leaders love to incite violent mobs to shortcircuit the rule of law. #PS1democracy ===== impress 24 time 2024-04-05 22:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776382469736169499 ========== Money is not speech. Democracy is not about one dollar = one vote. While American Promise has been laboring toward a bipartisan Federal solution, New York has already acted - https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/the-answer-to-citizens-united-is #PS1democracy ===== impress 13 time 2024-04-05 22:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776380795336503807 ========== What the Alabama IVF decision did and didn't decide - https://statecourtreport.substack.com/p/state-court-report-how-the-alabama #PS1health ===== impress 3 time 2024-04-05 22:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776379360351785284 ========== Why stick to boring old facts when you can weave exciting new fantasies? https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/fact-checking-trumps-speech-on-crime #PS1trump ===== engage-rate NaN time 2024-04-05 18:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776322765865492509 ========== That was the week that wasn't - https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check Just the lowlights - https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-voter-registration-e3a7f5f7d3e68120395b05065d051c80 #PS1media ===== impress 1 time 2024-04-05 18:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776321286379388998 ========== More than one way to interpret an old text! https://statecourtreport.substack.com/p/state-court-report-the-thing-about #PS1firearms ===== engage-rate NaN time 2024-04-05 18:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776318805448573130