Eric Davis
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Eric Davis
@newdemocracy.bsky.social
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Eric Davis is Professor of Politcal Science at Rutgers University. He is past Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, author of MEMORIES OF STATE: POLITCAL, HISTORY AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN MODERN IRAQ, and a forthcoming study of global populism
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Nature is spectacularly beautiful. Why are we humans destroying it?
This scene is not "too" far from a favorite trailhead...I find it very easy on the eyes in the shadows, whether in the morning before the sun hits it or later in the day as the sun sets. The details in the canyon wall are revealed wonderfully

#landscape #photography #landscapephotography #fall
Trump's claim of a "big win" with China is like the arsonist taking credit for putting out the fire. China is only relishing controls of exports of rare earth minerals for a year and still holds more cards in a trade war that Trump foolishly started and the US can't win
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Opinion | Trump's latest China deal is anything but a win
No matter how rosy a picture Trump paints of this new agreement, the reality will be far bleaker.
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Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner. Of course, this Tax Cheat is smiling. He bought his way out of prison sentence and $4.4 million restitution payment. In Trump's world, money talks, everyone else, get lost.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner
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Here’s How Much Obamacare Prices Are Rising Across the Country. Red state Trump supporters, enjoy your new (UN)Affordable Care Act premiums. Sadly, many Americans who depend on ACA policies but can no longer afford them will become seriously ill or die www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here’s How Much Obamacare Prices Are Rising Across the Country
The new prices make it official: Americans will need to pay more for insurance next year if extra subsidies are allowed to expire.
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Limit on Refugee Admissions Slashed to 7,500( White S Africans). Let's ethnically, racially and religiously homogenize American society. If you're not lily white and Christian (like me) & preferably male, you're now beyond the pale. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Limit on Refugee Admissions Slashed to 7,500
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The EPA is eliminating all regulations on toxic chemicals. Fight back by telling EPA Administrator Lee Zelden to stop his destructive policies which are harming the health of our nation
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Tell the EPA: Stop the use of diquat
Diquat has been linked to gut damage, organ failure and even Parkinson's disease. But the EPA still approves its use on our fields.
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EPA Plan Would Weaken Safeguards Against Toxic Chemicals in Everyday Products. EPA (Environmental Poison Administration) wants to weaken Toxic Substances Control Act, subjecting more Americans 2 highly toxic chemicals. DJT regime is harming Americans in ever way possible
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EPA Plan Would Weaken Safeguards Against Toxic Chemicals in Everyday Products
Proposed changes are in line with suggestions from the National Association of Manufacturers’ “wishlist” sent to Trump.
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Nothing at all like the real Dodgers of Ebbets Field and the wonderful Sym-Phony that played during the games
How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught. Deeply disturbing that Christopher Rufo-Trump's anti-diversity advisor-is influencing how public schools teach social studies which has led to a drop in civics education in US. American democracy takes another hit www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...
How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught
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Putin's invasion of Ukraine has led to over 1 million unnecessary Russian deaths. The men killed & seriously wounded in the destructive Ukraine War, & men fleeing Russia to avoid conscription, will reverberate negatively by further promoting a declining Russian population
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Russia faces a shrinking and aging population and tries restrictive laws to combat it
Russia has grappled with a shrinking and aging population for decades, with President Vladimir Putin viewing it as a threat to national security.
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Zohran Mamdani - the (next) Mayor of ALL the people of NYC!
It doesn’t exactly surprise me but the Islamophobia directed at Mamdani is off the charts. Shameless gutter racism. His victory will be a defeat for the very worst people
Overall, OBBBA will reduce benefits for as many families as it helps, with greatest losses among least well-off. By 2030 the 40% lowest-income households will experience a net loss & middle quintile will have no net change; only net gains for top 40% of households
www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
How children are treated in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act | Brookings
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will likely end up hurting roughly as many families with children as it helps.
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Excellent outcome for the citizens of Ireland - a president of ALL the people, not just the wealthy and politically powerful
“leftwing independent candidate Catherine Connolly won landslide election victory & been declared Ireland’s next president. She pledged to be a “president for all” after securing 63% of the first preference votes, a..result that shook the political establishment”
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Leftwinger Catherine Connolly wins Ireland presidential election by landslide
Independent pledges to be ‘president for all’ after taking 63% of vote in upset for political establishment
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Trump Is Putting Election Deniers in Charge of Elections. Why we need to elect Democrats Mikie Sherrill, Abigail Spanberger and Zohran Mamdani to office on November 4th. Vote! Prevent Trump from tunring the US into a dictatorship www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
Trump Is Putting Election Deniers in Charge of Elections
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Amen!
ZOHRAN MAMDANI ISN'T JUST RUNNING FOR MAYOR HE'S LEADING A MOVEMENT FOR RENTERS RIGHTS AND AGAINST ISLAMOPHOBIA. WE ARE DONE WITH CORPORATE LEADERS WHO WAIT TIL THE LAST MINUTE. STAND WITH MUSLIM IMMIGRANT AND WORKING CLASS NEW YORKERS NOW!
"Enough" evidence or any evidence?
NBC News: The federal mortgage fraud investigation into Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff, one of Trump’s chief political foes, has stalled.

Prosecutors in Maryland haven’t found enough evidence to bring charges.
The foxes guarding the chicken coop. US election officials alarmed by Dept of Homeland Security meeting w officials DJT appointed 2 protect election integrity because all election deniers who seek 2 control 2026 elections. DJT's major step 2 impose authoritarian rule www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
Trump Empowers Election Deniers, Still Fixated on 2020 Grievances
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All true. $300 million could treat a lot of Americans with serious illnesses
Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom
White House List of Donors for President Trump’s $300 Million Ballroom. What a pathetic list of unpatriotic Americans! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
White House List of Donors for President Trump’s $300 Million Ballroom
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AIPAC says it strongly supports Israel but refuses 2 condemn Netanyahu's far right "Greater Israel" gov't. Black Caucus' support 4 AIPAC makes is complicit in Israel's Internat'l isolation, effort 2 annex the W Bank & prevent peace thru creation of Palestinian state open.substack.com/pub/thenatio...
The Congressional Black Caucus’s Silent Partnership With AIPAC
The influential group of lawmakers has damaged its reputation as “conscience of the Congress” by staying silent on the Gaza genocide.
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