Sanford Schram
sandysfs.bsky.social
Sanford Schram
@sandysfs.bsky.social

Author
The Trajectory of Trumpism: Racism, Fascism, Civil War and Beyond (Oxford, 2025).

Political science 66%
Economics 15%
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My new book should be available electronically in October: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com

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His warning takes on even greater urgency today.

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We could have had this, but noooo. I hate this timeline.
Big announcement from Gov. Newsom:
Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement.

#NoWords 🤮

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The pipe bomb suspect "expressed support for Trump and said he had embraced conspiracy theories regarding Trump’s 2020 election loss" WSJ confirms.

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Previously: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
How a Tech-Savvy Officer Finally Cracked the Jan. 6 Pipe-Bombs Case
Investigators used powerful tools to obtain mountains of data, but couldn’t decipher some of it until recently.
www.wsj.com
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted

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The Washington Post, everyone

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Ilhan Omar Says Son Was Targeted By ICE In a Traffic Stop: ‘Had To Remind Him How Worried I Am’ Mediaite
www.mediaite.com
Ilhan Omar Says Son Was Targeted By ICE In a Traffic Stop: ‘Had To Remind Him How Worried I Am’
twp.ai
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

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We sadly know Zoe Weissman because of Parkland. In fact, our families are so close, that she has been there for my wife and I after Parkland and helped with our foundation Orange Ribbons For Jaime.

America, are you ok with this?

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NEW: The Trump administration's new National Security Strategy is worse than you may have heard. It turns Trump's racism, corruption, and appeasement into official US policy. For my OUR LAND newsletter, I gave it a read so you don't have to.

link.motherjones.com/public/43021...

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Israeli settlers attacked 28-year-old American Luisa Kolb, and then attacked a Palestinian grandmother and two kids — threatening to burn them alive if they didn’t leave their land in the West Bank.

Watch the full interview:
zeteo.com/p/israeli-se...

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Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to switch from Calibri font back to Times New Roman. But let's be honest, this is a Comic Sans administration.
BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc
BREAKING: In a powerful reproach to Trump, the Indiana Senate votes against advancing the state’s GOP-led congressional gerrymander that would have handed Republicans both of Indiana’s blue districts.
In Blow to Trump, Indiana Rejects GOP Gerrymander
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com

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The report also singled out the cost of Trump’s deployments to U.S. cities over the past year and cited reporting by The Intercept on the steep cost of those deployments.
Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising
Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price.
interc.pt

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Trump now openly threatening Indiana and saying if they don’t steal seats for him he’ll strip federal funds from them and not pave their roads.

A mob boss president.

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The Trump administration is funding its anti-immigrant campaign with money set aside for defense, Democratic lawmakers wrote.
Trump Administration Diverted $2 Billion in Pentagon Funds to Target Immigrants, Lawmakers Say
The Trump administration is funding its anti-immigrant campaign with money set aside for defense, Democratic lawmakers wrote.
interc.pt

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ICE puts a U.S. citizen in a chokehold, forcing him to his knees in the snow.

When he offers his ID, agents ignore him.

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Please tell me why we even ask them questions
LOOK AT ME, I AM THE CAPTAIN NOW
Trumplethinskin creates his own version of reality & then expects us to believe it as if we don't have eyes, ears or functioning brains.

#SAD 🤣
Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail
I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback
The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.
The decline of democracy in the US means you can’t visit the US if you commented on the decline of democracy in the US
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)

Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...