Bob Mann
@robertmannbooks.com
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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The crazy thing is that this money is fundraised specifically for this purpose. The rich of Louisiana prefer to pay Bryan Kelly to not work than to donate to lsu‘s academic programs.
November 28, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The crazy thing is that this money is fundraised specifically for this purpose. The rich of Louisiana prefer to pay Bryan Kelly to not work than to donate to lsu‘s academic programs.
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
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Look at these men. They are ashamed of themselves as they should be. They are standing here while the president calls their professional colleague a “stupid person.”
I don’t care if you think you’ll lose access. You need to speak up. Decent Americans are tired of this and disgusted with all of you.
I don’t care if you think you’ll lose access. You need to speak up. Decent Americans are tired of this and disgusted with all of you.
November 28, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Look at these men. They are ashamed of themselves as they should be. They are standing here while the president calls their professional colleague a “stupid person.”
I don’t care if you think you’ll lose access. You need to speak up. Decent Americans are tired of this and disgusted with all of you.
I don’t care if you think you’ll lose access. You need to speak up. Decent Americans are tired of this and disgusted with all of you.
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Just learned there are companies offering rental communities the ability to split their monthly rent payments via third party.
Biggest recession indicator yet.
Biggest recession indicator yet.
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Just learned there are companies offering rental communities the ability to split their monthly rent payments via third party.
Biggest recession indicator yet.
Biggest recession indicator yet.
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The people running the government social accounts should be held accountable for their hate speech.
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The people running the government social accounts should be held accountable for their hate speech.
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Important to do this press conference about a mass shooting from behind a comic book convention’s folding table inside the hotel from The Shining.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Important to do this press conference about a mass shooting from behind a comic book convention’s folding table inside the hotel from The Shining.
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Q: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted & it came up clean
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
November 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Q: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted & it came up clean
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
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The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.
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They're going after green card holders. They will come after citizens next. www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcn...
Trump administration to re-examine green card holders from 19 countries 'of concern'
The announcement comes a day after an attack on National Guard troops near the White House. Authorities have identified the suspect as an Afghan national.
www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
They're going after green card holders. They will come after citizens next. www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcn...
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Endowing a faculty position runs about $2–3 million, in case you were wondering
LSU confirms Kelly was fired 'without cause' and is owed his full $54 million buyout
Former LSU coach Brian Kelly has received a letter from LSU confirming that he was fired without cause and is owed his full $54 million buyout.
apnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Endowing a faculty position runs about $2–3 million, in case you were wondering
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I’m mindful today of those for whom this is their first Thanksgiving without a loved one. I’m praying for a measure of peace and the comfort of beautiful memories.
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I’m mindful today of those for whom this is their first Thanksgiving without a loved one. I’m praying for a measure of peace and the comfort of beautiful memories.
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Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 79% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending (Capex and R&D) growth. am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...
November 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 79% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending (Capex and R&D) growth. am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...
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Trump has canceled the GDP Report for the first time in history. He has also cancelled the Jobs Report. He is trying to conceal the weak economic performance his policies have caused .
www.newsweek.com/trump-cancel...
www.newsweek.com/trump-cancel...
Trump canceling GDP report comes under scrutiny
The canceled release of the third-quarter GDP advance estimate has fueled speculation about the state of the economy.
www.newsweek.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Trump has canceled the GDP Report for the first time in history. He has also cancelled the Jobs Report. He is trying to conceal the weak economic performance his policies have caused .
www.newsweek.com/trump-cancel...
www.newsweek.com/trump-cancel...
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
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Always remember that the conclusion of THE BRAINWASHING OF MY DAD was that they got their dad back from Rush and Fox by just subscribing him to a bunch of progressive news emails.
My grandfather went through a period where he was tuning into Rush Limbaugh to “know his enemy,” and let me tell you it did NOT improve his thinking.
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Always remember that the conclusion of THE BRAINWASHING OF MY DAD was that they got their dad back from Rush and Fox by just subscribing him to a bunch of progressive news emails.
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Dude just had a weeks-long vacation on our dime and he's "overworked"? Implausible. He's simply having a hard time with the ages-old problem of getting what you think you want, only to find out it's different than you thought it would be. He's lazy, and he thought the job would be easy.
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Dude just had a weeks-long vacation on our dime and he's "overworked"? Implausible. He's simply having a hard time with the ages-old problem of getting what you think you want, only to find out it's different than you thought it would be. He's lazy, and he thought the job would be easy.
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"We're actually just on the cusp of being able to militarily overwhelm u so you better give us what we want but havent been able to secure on the battlefield ourselves" is such an obvious Russian bullshitting technique at this point & here we have the Trump admin dutifully repeating it to our allies
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
"We're actually just on the cusp of being able to militarily overwhelm u so you better give us what we want but havent been able to secure on the battlefield ourselves" is such an obvious Russian bullshitting technique at this point & here we have the Trump admin dutifully repeating it to our allies
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Funny how many ppl in Trumps admin dont seem to understand that they dont actually work for Russia
U.S. Army Sec. Driscoll warned EU diplomats that Russia is stockpiling long-range missiles, using it as leverage to push Trump’s peace plan.
He claimed the growing arsenal could soon overwhelm Ukraine’s air defenses. Critics say this flips U.S. policy on its head, pressuring the victim to settle.
He claimed the growing arsenal could soon overwhelm Ukraine’s air defenses. Critics say this flips U.S. policy on its head, pressuring the victim to settle.
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Funny how many ppl in Trumps admin dont seem to understand that they dont actually work for Russia
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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Yes.
And then also fired a ton of senior agents with a ton of counterterrorism experience, including the Acting Director.
And then also fired a ton of senior agents with a ton of counterterrorism experience, including the Acting Director.
Didn’t the FBi pull a lot of personnel from anti terrorism to put them on deportations?
Actually the whole security establishment pivoted
Actually the whole security establishment pivoted
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Yes.
And then also fired a ton of senior agents with a ton of counterterrorism experience, including the Acting Director.
And then also fired a ton of senior agents with a ton of counterterrorism experience, including the Acting Director.
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Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies:
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
So now they’re going to be doing individualized re-review of tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees’ cases on TOP of the re-review of 200,000+ refugees who entered under Biden?
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies:
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
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When RFK Jr posted a video on X saying the government would no longer recommend Covid-19 vaccination in pregnancy—despite the proven benefits of such vaccination & the risks of infection in pregnancy—2 physicians stood at his side, smiling & nodding, Drs Makary & Bhattacharya. It was frustrating 😡
NEW: A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
www.propublica.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
When RFK Jr posted a video on X saying the government would no longer recommend Covid-19 vaccination in pregnancy—despite the proven benefits of such vaccination & the risks of infection in pregnancy—2 physicians stood at his side, smiling & nodding, Drs Makary & Bhattacharya. It was frustrating 😡
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It's hard work to constantly swat down any notion that the House has constitutional powers and can do stuff affecting the operations of the government.
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
It's hard work to constantly swat down any notion that the House has constitutional powers and can do stuff affecting the operations of the government.
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Setting aside the blatant racism here, why is the G20 even able to be held at his golf resort? That's self-dealing. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Says He Won't Invite South Africa To 2026 G20 Summit At His Doral Golf Resort
“South Africa has demonstrated to the World they are not a country worthy of Membership anywhere,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
www.huffpost.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Setting aside the blatant racism here, why is the G20 even able to be held at his golf resort? That's self-dealing. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...