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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 1m

Exactly the headline you wanna be seeing

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 4h

Mamdani and Spanberger forming a united front like it's 2001 Afghanistan

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bokross.bsky.social @bokross.bsky.social · 42m

Alternatively:

Election Day 2024 was Pearl Harbor

WI Supreme Court was the Doolittle Raid

Election Day 2025 was Midway

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 47m

Since we love ww2 analogies, November 24 was the fall of France. Tonight was the Battle of Britain.

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 1h

Womp womp

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 1h

Yall will never believe this

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 1h

Silwa just becomes a permanent fixture of New York politics from here on out, popping up occasionally to try and spoil mamdani’s plans for the city, only to fail spectacularly

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 1h

“You haven’t seen the last of me” type shit

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 1h

Democratic Party returning to its roots(laudatory)

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 1h

Virginia’s blue af now, so that’s neat

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 1h

From Adlai Stevenson’s 1956 convention speech

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 1h

Was saving this for 26, but what the hell

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 2h

-adopted Ted Kennedy’s amendment to impose an arms embargo on Chile. Writing for the New York Times Richard Lyons called it “the most sweeping overhaul of the foreign military aid program in over 20 years” www.nytimes.com/1976/02/19/a...

Senate Votes Overhaul of Military Aid (Published 1976)

www.nytimes.com

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 2h

“The view from the White House” emphasis when discussing us foreign policy misses a lot. Like, to the extent anyone is familiar with US support for Pinochet under Nixon, they likely don’t know that Congress denied Nixon’s aid request for chile in 1974 and in 1976-

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 2h

Literally did not sleep that night, very dreary shower the next morning

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 2h

Honestly wasn’t expecting to feel this good about election results so soon after that dreaded night a year ago.

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 3h

Biden voting in the senate at the same time as Hubert Humphrey is still such a mind fuck ngl

The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 3h

In December 1975, Senator John Tunney(D-CA) successfully attached an amendment to the defense appropriations bill before the senate to end covert assistance to the anti communist factions in the Angolan civil war, rebuking the ford administration’s foreign policy in the area.

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 3h

In December 1975, Senator John Tunney(D-CA) successfully attached an amendment to the defense appropriations bill before the senate to end covert assistance to the anti communist factions in the Angolan civil war, rebuking the ford administration’s foreign policy in the area.

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 3h

Dawg

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 3h

This is way worse than 2021 was for Dems

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election.

DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.

His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...

Democrat Johnny DuPree Flips Republican-Held Mississippi Senate District in Forrest County

Johnny DuPree, a Democrat who served as the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for 16 years, has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 4h

The admin’s policies in Angola were flawed for many reasons, but another one is that Kissinger’s strategy required the US to lean heavily on Mobutu to support the anti MPLA factions in the civil war

The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 5h

“On Angola, Mr. Warnke, who is a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, contended that the Ford Administration's basic mistake was to portray the civil war there as part of Soviet‐American competition rather than as internal turmoil inevitable in a nation emerging from colonial bondage-

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 5h

-Professor Brzezinski, a former member of the State Department's Policy Planning Council, said that as a consequence the United States became identified with white supremacy.”

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 5h

“On Angola, Mr. Warnke, who is a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, contended that the Ford Administration's basic mistake was to portray the civil war there as part of Soviet‐American competition rather than as internal turmoil inevitable in a nation emerging from colonial bondage-

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 5h

If you read the gop platform for 1976, it’s literally all of Reagan’s complaints about Ford jammed in there. This includes a shout out to Solzhenitsyn, who ford got flack for not meeting with, and denouncing the Helsinki final act, crowning diplomatic achievement of detente

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 5h

Angola basically torpedoed Kissinger’s(and detente’s) reputation

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