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Fergus Cullen
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Husband, 4x dad, Dover NH city councilor, HS XC/track coach, investor, real estate developer, traditional conservative exiled from my party, 40 mile/wk runner, 2x 4Kfooter hiker, 9Y4, HKS MPA, profoundly grateful
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mkorolden.bsky.social
Psssssstttt… we’re all on the decoy plane.
August 15, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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theatlantic.com
Ten years ago today, J. D. Vance called Trump “cultural heroin” in The Atlantic: “To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution … He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t," Vance wrote of Trump.

Read the piece:
Opioid of the Masses (From 2016)
To many, Donald Trump feels good, but he can’t fix America’s growing social and cultural crisis, and the eventual comedown will be harsh.
bit.ly
July 4, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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physiciandemocracy.medsky.social
Cartoon: your nurse is “deported to Haiti”
June 26, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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jonathanmladd.com
He was the most influential scholarly advocate for the claim that America is based on an idea: human equality and republican government. It is not based on blood, soil, or ancestry. See this excerpt from one of Woods's last speeches, at AEI last November. Trust me, this one is worth reading.
Gordon Wood, RIP
The great historian of the American Founding passed away yesterday, killed by a car while walking.
reason.com
June 10, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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250yearsagonews.bsky.social
May 21, 1776: The Raleigh, a 32-gun frigate of the Continental Navy, is launched from Langdon’s Island, Mass. (later Badger Island, Maine). The warship is seen in the state seal and flag of New Hampshire, as it was built in the shipyard of John Langdon, a patriot of that state.
A plan of the Raleigh The New Hampshire flag
May 21, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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prchovanec.bsky.social
Given this argument, I assume it's too dangerous for the President to go golfing anymore, right?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 27
Mike Johnson: "The ballroom will be a solution for this. It'll have 7-inch thick glass, so it'll be a very safe environment to do events like that. We need a place like that and the president keeps pointing it out."
April 27, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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atticus59914029.bsky.social
It’s like the entire country is being held captive in an abusive relationship.
April 10, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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pbump.com
Where Americans live. (From my new column/newsletter.)
www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
April 7, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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prchovanec.bsky.social
They renamed the Secretary of Defense the "Secretary of War" and now they're embarrassed to say they launched a war.

I don't understand these people.
March 27, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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prchovanec.bsky.social
Live the kind of life that makes people like Donald Trump welcome your death.
March 21, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
The NBC News story about Corey Lewandowski is very important.

The GEO Group-related claims are astounding, and later reporting in the story suggests that those allegations were not some one-time thing.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
During the transition, Lewandowski told Zoley that he wanted to be paid in exchange for protecting and growing GEO Group's DHS contracts, according to a senior DHS official and three people familiar with their discussion. Zoley, concerned about the propriety of the ask, told Lewandowski he would have no part of it, the sources said, describing the confrontation as tense. Lewandowski took a role as an unpaid "special government employee" at DHS once the new administration was sworn in, where he advised and acted as a "de facto chief of staff" to Noem and, sources said, influenced contract awards. Zoley scrambled to find a way to assuage tensions from the meeting during the transition, two industry sources familiar with the matter said. He secured a follow-up with Lewandowski in late February or early March 2025. That second meeting did not go much better. Zoley offered to put Lewandowski on retainer - a recurring consulting fee - with GEO Group, according to two industry sources familiar with the matter. Lewandowski balked, saying he wanted to be compensated based on the company's new or renewed contracts with DHS, the two sources said. "He wanted payments — what some people would call a success fee," said a person with knowledge of the meeting. Zoley declined, the two sources said. In the months that followed, the length of two of GEO Group's federal contracts shrank, and currently several of its facilities that could house migrants sit idle, One senior White House official raised the issue with Trump during an unrelated meeting in October, two current administration officials said, before the conversation was cut short by superseding business. And another senior White House official told NBC News they had received a "dozen" complaints from at least four companies about Lewandowski's involvement in the contracting process during the second Trump administration. Such complaints are rare in the defense contracting industry, in which relationships are often carefully built over years and across political parties. The reports of requests to pay Lewandowski, a government contracting expert told NBC News, raise "red flags." This account is based on seven months of reporting, including interviews with nearly two dozen people who expressed concern about Lewandowski's role in the contracting process - including current administration officials, current DHS officials, industry sources who have done business with DHS and lobbyists. These sources were interviewed on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media or because they wanted to protect their relationships with an agency critical to their business.
March 19, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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250yearsagonews.bsky.social
March 17, 1776 (Morning): The British give up Boston without a fight. Gen. William Howe leads over 6,000 redcoats into transports docked at the harbor, unmolested by Washington’s Army observing them from the heights. After 334 days of siege and suffering, the cradle of the Revolution is free. 1/7
The evacuation
March 17, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
🎯🎯
March 1, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
"Most members of Generation Z were still children when Trump came down the escalator…They don’t view Trump as sui generis or beyond the pale, because he’s been the dominant force in our politics for as long as they’ve been politically aware."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Disappointment of Young Trump Voters
Americans under 30 swung to the right in 2024, but they’re not getting what they voted for.
www.theatlantic.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:53 AM
ferguscullen.bsky.social
A Republican county in NH with a 2-1 Republican majority of County Commissioners had declined to enter an agreement with ICE to house detainees

www.fosters.com/story/news/l...
Rockingham County shelves ICE detainee jail deal indefinitely: Here's why
Questions over staffing, leadership, and direction lead Rockingham County to table a controversial ICE contract to house detainees in its jail.
www.fosters.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:19 PM
ferguscullen.bsky.social
Trump’s tripling down on broadly unpopular, militarized immigration enforcement puts GOP pols in non-deep red states in a vise
marialangholz.bsky.social Maria Langholz @marialangholz.bsky.social · Jan 26
pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor:

"Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."
January 26, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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atrupar.com
Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6
January 22, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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prchovanec.bsky.social
It's already cost us a lot more than we could ever imagine, or ever afford.
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Jan 22
Is Trump's Greenland deal anything new? And if it is, how much might it cost us?

The latest edition of Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4q4kg2I
January 22, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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originalsp.in
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti

Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta

Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Stephen Miller • @St... • 13m Ø Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids. Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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paulisci.bsky.social
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
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.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Nov 27
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?
35 min ago Michael Birnbaum In the wake of the D.C. shooting, the Trump administration will conduct a full review of Afghan nationals who were admitted to the U.S. under the Biden administration, President Donald Trump said. "We must now reexamine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden, and we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here, or add benefit to our country"
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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prchovanec.bsky.social
And you tell them, because the President has been illegally trying to usurp Congress and can't be trusted to uphold his end of any deal.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 10
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
An Idaho mother was brutally beaten and zip-tied by ICE in front of her three U.S. citizen children.
October 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM