US security strategy aftershocks hit Reagan (Joe Gould/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/global-security/2025/12/07/us-security-strategy-aftershocks-hit-reagan-00679806
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p118#a251208p118
Confirmed measles cases linked to March for Life rally in D.C. : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/08/nx-s1-5705972/measles-march-for-life-dc-reagan-national-union-station-metro
Breaking: Michael Reagan, Conservative Host and Son of Pres. Ronald Reagan, Dead at 80 (Becca Lower/RedState)
https://redstate.com/beccalower/2026/01/06/breaking-michael-reagan-president-reagan-80-n2197837
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p146#a260106p146
Twenty years after the U.S. invaded Iraq,
the American consensus is clear:
It was wrong.
Neocons admit it.
Reaganite conservatives admit it.
Liberals who helped sell the war admit it.
Bret Stephens — well, Bret Stephens regrets nothing,
Even George W. Bush himself won’t come out and publicly defend the war he started,
leaving Peter Baker to write an entire article premised on the question,
but what if he did?
Yet as a society w…
Hegseth declares end of US 'utopian idealism' with new military strategy (Paul McLeary/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/06/hegseth-reagan-forum-defense-strategy-00679736
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p16#a251207p16
When you hear Right-wing Latinx immigrants talking about doing immigration “the legal way” take it with a grain of salt.
I questioned someone on that and found that his family benefitted from the 1986 “amnesty” passed under Reagan. So: illegal until made legal.
DHS is now engaged in a reverse process: arbitrarily terminating legal statuses so that people engaged in “the legal ways” are pushed outside of the law so that they can be deported ASAP.
I'm not saying there isn't any problem, but I am saying that thatcherism/reaganism is absolutely how everyone dies. How about we stop American private equity from draining the economy, ignore all US laws against reverse engineering, stop paying copy levy to the US, and legalize squatting again to make it so giant corporations can't hold all the housing stock? Maybe we can check in after that.
Reagan sucked in 1980 and his terrible influence continues in 2025
From: @…
https://mastodon.nu/@janhoglund/115758889451784602
Eugene Hasenfus, key figure in 1980s Iran-Contra affair, dies at 84 (Scott Bauer/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-contra-eugene-hasenfus-ronald-reagan-44566d5bda597f79579385eff5c40c6e
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p90#a251202p90
A Year Past a Fatal Crash, Concerns About Safety at Reagan Airport Continue (Kate Kelly/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/politics/reagan-national-airport-crash.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p147#a260126p147