Michael Gauger

Writer, scholar (U.S. history, political science, grants). Ex-journalist. RTs don’t mean endorsements. If I express a view, it's mine. @UWM alum

[Dan Shafer @DanRShafer]

Republicans will say this and then cut funding for mental health at every opportunity.

[Dan Shafer @DanRShafer]

The free market and states rights conservatives have been awfully quiet this year. Maybe these principles were never actually all that important to them to begin with, and it’s always been all about power???

[Michael Gauger @mtgauger]

Stepping back in here just to congratulate everyone graduating today from @UWM — my new fellow alums!

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

The Russian compromising of the Republican party is one of the most impactful stories in American history.

Russia helped elect Donald Trump in 2016. What did they get?

For generations, the most consistent opponent to the Soviet Union and later Putin was the conservative core of GOP. That is now the beating heart of the pro-Putin movement in American politics.

Ed Martin is just another example.

[Chris Bury @ChrisBuryNews]

Wait, I thought Bill Maher found this guy charming.

[Charlie Sykes @SykesCharlie]

FFS. In broad daylight

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

Glad someone said it. And when Jackie Robinson Day rolls around … the fact that MLB has been silent is going to make that day ring awfully hollow.

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

Pete Hegseth removed Colin Powell’s name from a list of notable Americans, buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Hegseth also removed the names of every person of color and every woman on the same list. Only white men were left in place.

[Mike @half_witt]

Thanks @HouseGOP. Great job @WisGOP. Typical example of @RepFitzgerald watching out for us.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Yo, Marco. Come get your soul.

[Reed Galen @reedgalen]

This is who they are. It will get worse. Kids will suffer.

Texas governor threatens to pull children’s hospital funding over doctor’s viral post https://t.co/WYmHa9ePIn

[Michael Gauger @mtgauger]

Please join me where the skies are blue… @mtgauger.bsky.social

[Ann Jacobs @AnnJacobsMKE]

I can’t believe I have to post this but here we go. Nobody is entitled to win an election. Voters get to decide. This means sometimes voters elect the person you want and sometimes they don’t. The idea that you can prevent a candidate from running because it might 1/

[. @GregTSargent]

.@RepAngieCraig says here that Ds downplayed inflation and the economy, but Harris and the party ran $225 million in ads on the econ, many of them focused on costs, and it was a constant on the stump.

This is phony realism and transparent self-positioning, not a real assessment

[Dean Baker @DeanBaker13]

I suspect the Trumpers, unlike Biden-Harris, will get help from the media

[Greg Hughes @newsbyhughes]

Sen. Graham during the January 2018 shutdown: “As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of negotiating immigration, we are going nowhere. He’s been an outlier for years.”

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

I'm tired of liberals preaching at me so I decided to vote for someone who will probably jail or deport me.

[Dan Shafer @DanRShafer]

There are viral tweets on here making allegations of voter fraud in the U.S. Senate race in Wisconsin. They use the same endlessly-debunked "vote dump" nonsense about Milwaukee's votes.

To put these to rest, it would be good for Eric Hovde to concede. It's long past time.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump’s new Secretary of State: “If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now? Selling watches in Manhattan.”

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

Trump will either have to betray our institutions, or he’ll have to betray his base.

You like those odds?