Mastodawn

Kevin M. Kruse Jul 4, 2023

Some thoughts on how a holiday meant to unite us has often been exploited to divide us

https://kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/torn-on-the-fourth-of-july

Torn on the Fourth of July

One of the things I like about Substack is I actually get to write my own headlines. This title is what I wanted to call this piece I did for Washington Post a while back, but I was tragically overruled. In that piece, I talk briefly about Nixon’s campaign to blunt the massive criticism he’d received after the invasion of Cambodia and the shooting of protesters at Kent State and Jackson State by staging a patriotic pro-administration “Honor America Day” on the Fourth of July in 1970.

Campaign Trails

Kevin M. Kruse Jun 8, 2023

I’ve been bouncing around social media trying to find a new home — Substack is it.

KevinMKruse.Substack.com

Kevin M. Kruse Mar 28, 2023

Thomas Zimmer Mar 27, 2023

America Is Sacrificing Its Children at the Altar of the Gun

Mass shootings are a political problem. A democracy problem. A uniquely American problem.

New Democracy Americana – a reaction to what just happened in Nashville: https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/america-is-sacrificing-its-children

America Is Sacrificing Its Children at the Altar of the Gun

Mass shootings are a political problem. A democracy problem. A uniquely American problem.

Democracy Americana

Kevin M. Kruse Jan 26, 2023

L O L G O P Jan 25, 2023

DeSantis is destroying his state's educational system to solve the problem of Florida's kids possibly getting an education.

RT @[email protected]

An ABSOLUTELY HEARTBREAKING message from a teacher in Duval County, Florida who is being forced to make her classroom library inaccessible as a result of @[email protected]'s policies

(via @[email protected])

Kevin M. Kruse Jan 26, 2023

Seth Cotlar Jan 25, 2023

With House Republicans proposing to abolish the IRS and institute a highly regressive mode of "simpler" taxation designed to bankrupt (or just starve) the federal government, I'm reminded of that time in 1996 when Walter Huss, an Oregon Christian Nationalist with ties to neo-Nazis and far right domestic terrorists who'd chaired the OR GOP in 1978, excitedly corresponded with Pat Buchanan about his "nation saving" single tax plan idea.

Kevin M. Kruse Jan 25, 2023

Judd Legum Jan 25, 2023

An ABSOLUTELY HEARTBREAKING message from a teacher in Duval County, Florida who is being forced to make her classroom library inaccessible as a result of @[email protected]'s policies

(via @[email protected])

Kevin M. Kruse Jan 25, 2023

Brendan Nyhan Jan 25, 2023

What would you say if you saw it in another country? Say, China? (from Florida)

Kevin M. Kruse Jan 25, 2023

Dan Gillmor Jan 24, 2023

Those who follow the NY Times' relentlessly woeful political reporting are used to case studies in normalizing extremists and false balance. They are surely unsurprised to learn that the author of this "analysis" (read: opinion) is one of the orgs' most reliable normalizers and false balancers. Most of this piece does the latter, with some hedge language proving the writer knows better.

Kevin M. Kruse Jan 25, 2023

Rolling Stone Jan 24, 2023

Twitter has reinstated the account of white nationalist Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nick-fuentes-reinstated-twitter-1234667137/

Nick Fuentes Reinstated to Twitter

The avowed white supremacist is only the latest right-wing extremist Elon Musk has unbanned since taking over the platform

Rolling Stone

Kevin M. Kruse Jan 18, 2023

PUPDATE:

“Keep scratching, old man!”