Emeritus professor at Louisiana State Univ; political historian; former Russell Long, John Breaux, Kathleen Blanco flunky; RobertMannBooks.com; My new book is: "You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis & the Biography of a Song." https://robertmann.substack.co
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Everyone knows that government ownership of the means of production is what anti-Communism is all about.
You know what I think is a a sign something is seriously wrong? No leaks. I canât imagine White House preventing any leaks unless theyâve tightly restricted those who are around Trump Whoâs CiC right now? Can Trump perform his job as well as he could 2 wks ago? Is it worse than Lloyd Austin?
Democratic ad next fall: "Donald Trump even boasted about raising your taxes. By $8 trillion."
I don't blame anyone for being suspicious about that. I am.
I don't want to be all "but her emails" about this but with each passing day the friendly fire that took down Joe Biden feels more and more like the world's biggest self-own.
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions â and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
Memo to Bill Cassidy: It's ok to criticize RFK Jr. in public now. fyi: Your courage is still at the back door, right where you left it two years ago.
Leaving aside the typical histrionics, this seems to be Trump beginning to distance himself from Kennedy (whoâs âripping apartâ CDC), and inviting mainstream physicians and scientists to defend the vaccines, so Trump can then say, I got them to explain it better and vaccines are OK.
You can easily get that view from the rooftop bar at the Hotel Washington. At least you once could. I spent a few hours up there in years gone by.
Weâre only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jrâs eugenicist ideology.
Troops in the streets and he thinks heâs going to get a Nobel, peace begins at home
The worldâs leading genocide scholarsâ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says. There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.
I'm preaching to the choir here but I'm dismayed people are still using a site owned and manipulated by an obvious fascist. I think if you'd asked them 5 years ago if they'd use a fascist's social media site they would have said god no, of course not
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I canât overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
This cannot be the case of an interim LSU president who, on his own accord, decides to fire the LSU Law School dean. Interim presidents just don't make decisions like that. 1/2
In 7 months, Trump has taken the world's most powerful nation and turned it into a train wreck, inviting both our allies and our adversaries to reshape the world based on our irrelevance.
âThere are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.â - Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Rudy Giuliani was busy nursing orphaned bald eagles back to health, when he was struck by a car that hated America and it's freedoms
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a âvaccine skeptic.â The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. Thereâs video of him in 2023 saying that thereâs no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
manâs never met a press camera he didnât want to be in front of and has been calling into every right wing radio station and cable show to rant for decades, if heâs doing neither, something weird is up
horrible
"I look forward to watching the videos of soldiers entering Chicago" An American government official actually said this.
I didnât see it
Humble suggestion to news outlets in Louisiana and beyond: Tell your readers/viewers what the rules are here for getting vaccines this fall. Of all types. And how to go about getting them with the least hassle.
Yeah it's not exactly subtle what's going on here
The police version of the crash, as relayed by a local Manchester reporter, is unsurprisingly quite different from what Giuliani's spokesman says. The whole thing is even more murky now, however. manchester.inklink.news/rudy-giulian...
Heâs providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administrationâs actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
Everything points to this: An interim LSU president who desperately wants the job permanently is eager to prove his willingness to do Gov. Jeff Landry's bidding by firing the Law School dean. 2/2
This cannot be the case of an interim LSU president who, on his own accord, decides to fire the LSU Law School dean. Interim presidents just don't make decisions like that. 1/2
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Once again I ask, whatâs it going to take?
What a crazy series of events that definitely happened exactly as this statement claims they did.
I was doing something super heroic and cool before I got in a car accident, please do not look into this any further
I would read a whole series of reports like this on each individual federal goon. They all deserve a profile.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
The entire fascist plot relies on us being terrified and sad. This is why theyâre constantly trying to scare everyone with theatrics. They want you to see him as unstoppable and not as a 79-year-old with severe health problems who will die soon.
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening todayâbeyond that it's happeningâis that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
Thanks!
Sunday morning sunrise in Baton Rouge.
Iâm purposely not linking the post. But I noticed that my morning mailing from _The Hill_ included an article on likely GOP nominees in 2028 to succeed the President. Heâs not young or in good health. Somebody in MAGA has noticed.
If youâre running LSU and conducting a ânationalâ search for the best possible president, you donât fire most of your top Black leadership unless you want the overriding message to be, âWeâre going back to being a school that serves the white people of this state.â
Whoâs next at LSU?
You've seen how much damage RFK has done at HHS. RFK is a disorganized, age-addled maniac, and most of his job is PR stunts. I cannot begin to tell you how much damage a Thiel-verse technocrat like O'Neill will do in CDC. Starting with: he will persecute women you know and love for their abortions.
tl;dr: They're going to get rid of the CDC as you know it. They're going to build something new and ghastly that they call the CDC, using its legal powers and data systems, and they are going to use it to hunt down every abortion in America. We are still in the window of time when we can stop that.
Never will get why Democratsâwho should understand privilege!âso often use their first thought that frames their entire message, and the only line most people read, to spread Republican lies.
Why donât you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesnât want you here)
The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the worldâs leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism.
Stopped at a Midas repair shop today and the guy there brought up the CDC. This is an example where raising the salience of what is going on really can break through the noise.
Current situation with COVID19 vaccines at CVS. ACIP is meeting September 18-19 so it will likely become available at pharmacies w/o a prescription then, unless ACIP pulls the rug out. Prescription requirement related to state laws requiring ACIP approval for pharmacist administration.
Trump did this
Fascism-plus.
Maybe a hot take but this really does feel like the worst, most egregious ex of news media legitimacy collapse as an institution, even worse than their pre-Iraq War boosting, bc *literally the thing they said was the most impt thing* is actually happening w this president now & they cant be arsed
â ď¸ Israel assassinated the prime minister of Yemen.
so, bill cassidy, mcconnell, murkowsky, and collins could force Trump to get rid of RFK by refusing to advance any other agenda item if he doesn't. they could also demand real hearings. 1
The chaos at the CDC wouldn't have been possible without Sen. Bill Cassidy, a medical doctor, providing the crucial vote to confirm RFK Jr as HHS Secretary. We should make sure he never forgets that.
Bill Cassidy, you could stopped this months ago if you had a shred of integrity.
Sen. Bill Cassidy traded the lives of America's children to keep his Senate seat.
Literally, about how @nytimes.com covers American politics changed, from the point at which it wrote that masthead editorial & today. Its editors have just continued with the same decades-old playbook as if nothing had happened. New levels of torturous euphemisms & normalization ever day.
R.E.M. âpushed the boundariesâ of alternative rock Herbie Hancock âpushed the boundariesâ of jazz Trump & RFK Jr. are âdestroying public health & will be responsible for killing peopleâ What is journalism, anyway? đ¤ˇââď¸đ¤Śââď¸
Joe Biden had a cold and sounded frail in a debate and our political press couldnât wait to unceremoniously shove him out of the presidential race. Fast forward to people legitimately questioning if Trump was dead and somehow Iâm confident that exact same press will just move on.
You spelled ENDANGERING wrong, @nytimes.com. âPushing the boundariesâ is a *positive* frame implying unconventional innovations. There are no innovations here. Just medieval anti-science populist attacks on some of best methods of truth seeking we have.
â.. The Oval Office photos donât resolve those questions. They raise them. And until the press decides to treat Trumpâs health the way it treated Bidenâs, makeup and memos will remain the White Houseâs firstâand lastâline of defense.â @passantino.bsky.social www.status.news/p/trump-heal...
Sad but true..
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
2024 vs today
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A public health catastrophe. Not âimmanent,â not âpotential.â This is the catastrophe.
Well, really 66. I turn 67 next week.
"Is this when Sen. Bill Cassidy finally finds his courage?" New by me. open.substack.com/pub/robertma...
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of âDid this dictator die or just disappear for a day?â Weâve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
if the Weekend at Bernie's theory is true, this is exactly what you'd expect to see. just sayin'.
Nope. Did it all online. Iâm 67, so maybe my age means I didnât need that.
Right now, your ability to get access to a COVID vaccine this fall is in jeopardy, whether or not you fit the new, restricted eligiblity criteria. Please send a letter to your member of Congress here. And spread the word. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...
If youâre in Louisiana and eligible for a COVID shot, CVS wonât give them at all. Theyâre cowards. But Walgreens will. I have mine scheduled for next week.
Nothing really. He just hasnât been seen in public for a few days.
This is all going to force them into some kind of Proof of Life move today, isnât it?
Feeling like the immediate aftermath of this, whenever it happens, will be like the âDeath of Stalinâ film. Weâll be learning about the outrageous backstabbing and comical coverups for years to come.
Something made me think of this ⌠#RightToJail youtu.be/eiyfwZVAzGw
Trump has turned the National Guard into Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
The warfighters in DC got the trash picked up, now time to mulch.
ââŚI am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.â My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says âCan I help you find something?â âIâm looking for the obituaries.â âThe obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.â âNot the one Iâm looking for.â
Trump dying in office after Biden lived through his term would be such an indictment of the press. Made âBiden Oldâ the top story, treating it as an uncovered secret, a scandal. Then lamented not covering it even more. All while treating âTrump Oldâ as a nonstory. Because heâs loud and lies a lot.
Thinking about that time Edith Wilson was secretly the President of the United States for awhile.
Assume for a minute he has the pulse. He doesnâtâhe couldnât find the pulse on a marathon runnerâbut just assume it was true. This is dumb even then. The ideas donât follow. Itâs boring. Bad writing, bad politics.
In this Ohio diner, cancer research is what astrologers do for people born in late June and July. But they do know this: President Trump's landslide 49% of the vote gives him a clear mandate to defund America's scientists.
This is what mediocre white men believe.
In some ways Ham-Face is the perfect Trump voter: all his decisions blow up in his face but the explanation is always, you don't understand, the radical leftist Joe Biden made us mad.
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Obviously everyone around the world wishes the President well.
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a âstraight up communistâ and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trumpâs unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
At 25 town halls across the country that were viewed or attended by NBC News this summer, voters pressured Democrats to deploy more aggressive tactics as they battle Trump and took them to task over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Live your life in such a way that if you donât check in for a few days, most of the people you know donât start celebrating your supposed passing.
If Trump is actually ill, I truly hope that he's getting the best medical attention that RFK Jr. can offer.
Brian 
