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https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l3m33tfy7y2z

Published: September 7, 2024 23:55

When he asserts that Democrats are aborting babies after theyā€™ve been delivered ā€” which he did before with Biden ā€” she should flatly call it a lie and demand he name a specific incident in which this happened. When he sputters, just say ā€œthatā€™s what Iā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l3jdowqyej2s

Published: September 6, 2024 21:51

Nine years ago this week, I picked my son up from the first week of kindergarten and asked him what they'd done that day. "We had a wockdown dwill." I could feel something break inside me. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l3jdd3lzkn2p

Published: September 6, 2024 21:45

I hate Dick Cheney with the heat of a thousand suns, but this isn't aimed at me, this is aimed at other people who are not me, and this isn't going to change the approach of the Harris-Walz campaign in the slightest, so it will not affect me. I'm going toā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l3j6ojodxr2s

Published: September 6, 2024 20:22

Glad to see so many political scientists upset about @apsa.bsky.social welcoming back the far-right hacks from the coup-supporting Claremont Institute. This should be a huge scandal. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l3iyot4lo32p

Published: September 6, 2024 18:34

I really canā€™t stress this point enough. America has a long record of holding powerful figures accountable ā€” presidents and judges impeached, congressmen and cabinet officials imprisoned, etc ā€” but the officials currently in power bizarrely decided toā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l3irfsf65e2k

Published: September 6, 2024 16:24

Seriously, my first book was about people who insisted that civil rights laws led to "restrictions of certain other rights." They were segregationists who believed they had a clear "right" to pick their neighbors, their kids' classmates, their customers.ā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l3iexozl2622

Published: September 6, 2024 12:41

The nepo baby who inherited a fortune from an apartheid emerald mine says we have to vote for the nepo baby who inherited a fortune from a racist real estate empire or weā€™ll no longer have a true meritocracy [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l3fsgwwtz422

Published: September 5, 2024 12:05

In my opening lecture yesterday, I told my students that a working knowledge of recent American history is vital because we often use its milestones as benchmarks in our current political debates. Ignorance of this history can make someone sound like anā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l3etnlovkf2r

Published: September 5, 2024 02:54

The closest I ever got to doing treason for Russia was when I did an interview for my second book with Larry King when had a show on RT. In my defense, I did it because it was a hilarious experience. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l3ensqhq5x2b

Published: September 5, 2024 01:09

Even if this were 100% true, it would still be pretty damning! "We were just so reliably parroting the lines of Russian propaganda that Russia assumed we were a good longterm investment. That's it!" [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l3elxbcibp2s

Published: September 5, 2024 00:36

I never agreed to receive texts from this restaurant Iā€™ve never heard of and now Iā€™ll definitely never eat there. Not just because itā€™s annoying, but because if youā€™ve been reduced to cold calling strangers to try to get customers, your restaurant must beā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l3dxir3hzp23

Published: September 4, 2024 18:30

Almost every day now, Americans line up at a big roulette wheel to see whose number comes up for that day's mass shooting. We all quietly sigh in relief that this time it didn't impact us personally, but we do nothing knowing we'll be right back at theā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l3dx6ndpda2r

Published: September 4, 2024 18:24

All his movies are Tom Hanks having a bad day at work. Castaway - bad day at FedEx Sully - bad day as a pilot Captain Phillips - bad day as a ship captain The Post - bad day as an editor Saving Private Ryan - bad day as a soldier Road to Perdition - badā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l3bh7xaeut2t

Published: September 3, 2024 18:33

Weā€™re feeling this at the college level, where I see students complaining about ā€œheavyā€ reading loads of 100-200 pp. a week that wouldā€™ve been seen as laughably light two decades ago. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l3b2hprtdj2d

Published: September 3, 2024 14:45

The best writing advice I've ever gotten is to remember that the first draft is where you explain it all to yourself and then the second draft is where you explain it all to your readers. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l34ebtrtxy2e

Published: September 1, 2024 17:57

When I go to the grocery store on the weekend, Iā€™m amazed by the people who were apparently dragged their by a loved one, for the first time in their lives. A lot of elderly husbands, wandering around aimlessly and staring at the shelves in utterā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l32jdkuzfl2j

Published: September 1, 2024 00:22

Still trying to wrap my head around Dana Bash in the big @CNN interview, making sure loser couples who had an embryo fertilized *inside* the woman's uterus don't steal the precious valor of heroic couples who had an embryo fertilized *outside* the woman'sā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l32ftg6h5v2m

Published: August 31, 2024 23:20

The Harris camp needs an ad to dispel this. Show the news coverage, show the shit eating grin photo, show Vance denying they'd have an ad, show the ad they ran, show the Trump campaign's statements -- calling Arlington staffers mentally unstable, fightingā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l32fb5lhe52y

Published: August 31, 2024 23:09

Trump has sold his followers an astounding lie in which there was some sort of major "event" at Arlington, which Trump faithfully and solemnly attended, while Biden and Harris both ignored it. In their minds, *Trump* is the one who was respectful there. ā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l2xsadgsjz2c

Published: August 30, 2024 22:24

Trump talks to them nonstop but never says anything. Itā€™s rambling nonsense mixed with promises that heā€™s ā€œlooking into thisā€ or ā€œhearing a lot about thatā€ and heā€™ll have a proposal ā€œvery soonā€ and endless bullshit. They donā€™t actually want answers. Theyā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l2wyb2ybbl2g

Published: August 30, 2024 14:39

"Through the forced removal of millions of minorities he has denounced as 'vermin,' Mr. Trump promises to provide Real Americans with additional 'living space,' a classic concept known in German as 'lebensraum.'" [contains quote post or other embeddedā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l2vkbshcdx2n

Published: August 30, 2024 00:56

This was my exact experience when I learned Matt Lassiter was working on a similar topic to my first book. We easily couldā€™ve become rivals but we became good friends and collaborators and we both benefited tremendously from that turn. [contains quoteā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l2vj5emoto2c

Published: August 30, 2024 00:36

As I noted in Fault Lines, Obama appointed two Republicans and almost landed a third ā€” which wouldā€™ve been the most bipartisan cabinet since FDRā€™s unity cabinet in WWII ā€” and Republicans *still* attacked him as a wild eyed partisan. Itā€™s a non issue andā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l2v6doz7qr2f

Published: August 29, 2024 21:22

Seeing a lot of hand wringing about what is a bland, fairly traditional promise and will probably involve putting some Never Trumper at Transportation or something. If youā€™re working yourself into a fury over this, please do yourself and everyone else aā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l2uypeipyu2r

Published: August 29, 2024 19:41

Had a terrific conversation with @lolgop.bsky.social about ... (waves generally) all of this. https://thecause.substack.com/p/the-ultimate-victim-with-kevin-m?utm_campaign=reaction&utm_medium=email&utm_source=substack&utm_content=post

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