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Adam McMahon

@adammc123.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Villanova University. Presidency, homeland security, & national security. CUNY grad. www.adammcmahon.net 📍 New York, New York

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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Kathy during election season >>>>> Kathy any other time
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
lol at Peggy Noonan writing about AI
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Does visiting a major Holocaust museum impact your political views? New study in JOP by @laiabalcells.bsky.social et al uses a field experiment at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to see They find a visit: -stokes more “never again” universalist views -has limited and fleeting fx on antisemitism
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Disgusting and barbaric
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The best deterrent for another 9/11 is the fact that all of us know it happened. So *if* the initial reports are true (big if) the passengers stopping the copilot from crashing the aircraft should be reassuring for air travel overall.
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And academics ignoring the march to autocracy in the name of “objectivity”
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I need to see La Bola Negra like yesterday
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I keep telling myself "you can't die of stress!" then I'm like oh wait... heh heh he
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wish we would all start wearing hats equipped with LED lights
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I mean, CNN asked Bernie if terrorist should get to vote so it's only a hop, skip, and a jump to these other questions intellectually. But capital loves to destroy a left-of-center candidate that proposes any serious change.
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Translation: We need an offramp because our product sucks and there's no more money
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary
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• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Apropos of nothing, she did decide to attend Henry Kissinger's 100th birthday party!
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Karl Rove quoted in the San Antonio Current today: "In the last 48 hours, Ted Cruz has reached out to me and says, 'We’re losing... even the Republicans are admitting that they’re behind.'" www.sacurrent.com/news/politic...
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Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by 'Nazis'
The Bush-era GOP political operative also said Republicans would be winning the battle for Texas' U.S. Senate seat if John Cornyn was the nominee.
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Greg Shill @gregshill.com · 28/09/2026
Notably, travel times also did not increase outside the congestion zone. This mirrors what we have seen in other aggregate congestion pricing impacts. For example, it was predicted that drivers would change their routes to avoid the zone, creating new congestion; this, too, did not happen.
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Beggin' for a bailout! Buckle up...
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is no such thing as the president "canceling" funding appropriated by Congress. The legislature must impeach the president for this constitutional violation.
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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The plan is unconstitutional, the acting on it a crime, the actors requiring impeachment and prosecution.
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm fairly confident that Americans are aware we're fucked.
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sabrina the Teenage Witch premiered on TV 30 years ago today!!
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Disgusting to ban "stumbling blocks"
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Governments should prosecute the leaders of these AI companies. Their products have been instructed to hack into other companies (a felony) & the media calls it "going rogue." Meanwhile, people have developed psychosis & killed themselves or others. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/t...
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As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind (Gift Article)
The gap between technology and policymaking has gotten wider than ever with artificial intelligence, leaving a global policy vacuum as A.I. models rapidly advance.
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John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“…far-right groups target non-political associations, sports clubs and community groups precisely because they are trusted and embedded in local life. If [they] capture or intimidate the institutions that communities rely on, they may be able to reshape the boundaries of what is considered normal.”
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It only takes one ego to ruin an IP worth billions
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump as failed Neustadtian president
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
65% of Dems have a positive view of socialism according to Pew. Cc: @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @golden.house.gov Source: news.gallup.com/poll/714653/...
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
War criminals are not welcome in New York City. I stood alongside a diverse set of Jewish New Yorkers and allies — at several protests today organized by @jvp.bsky.social, by @truahrabbis.bsky.social & @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social, and by Israelis for Peace.
Standing with a large group of demonstrators to protest Netanyahu
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is fairly clear the administration does NOT know what it is doing (understatement of the decade). The whole White House media ban gambit was a loser from the beginning, how could they not foresee that?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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Hyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
That nasty Florida Stetson poll did all its sampling with an "online non-probability panel" and didn't poll in Spanish disregard
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I absolutely love the ZuckOff app for Meta glasses detection!
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I want everyone to understand that Trump is sane, rational, and has intent to break the law, because he needs to go to prison.
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Ben Krimmel @benkrimmel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sean Manaea is wearing a "New York Is Love" Mets Pride shirt after pitching six solid innings to beat the Texas Rangers, the MLB's only team without a Pride night. Perhaps coincidence, perhaps not.
Image of Sean Manaea wearing a "New York Is Love" Mets Pride shirt.
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Former Republican Speaker John Boehner on Texas Senator Ted Cruz: "Lucifer in the flesh... I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life." Source: www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Former Speaker Boehner calls Cruz 'Lucifer in the flesh'
FORT WAYNE, Indiana — Former House Speaker John Boehner unloaded on Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz during a talk to college students, calling the Texas senator "Lucifer in the flesh."
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Every commercial on tv last night, except for red bull, was for an AI-related product last night 😭
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I need modern life to be like 25% less intrusive (AI phone calls, notifications, having to create an account for everything, downloading an app for every service under the sun, etc)
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Where can I do the most good?" is a question I wish more politicians would ask themselves... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...
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Will Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Run for President in 2028? Here’s What She Said. (Gift Article)
In a wide-ranging interview, the New York congresswoman offered her most detailed insight yet into how she is thinking about a possible presidential run.
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
😑👍
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bikesforcenturies @theodora2b.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Lucas county Stonewall Democrats (Toledo area, Ohio 9th house district) have sent a letter to Congresswoman Kaptur over her transphobic ad and demand it be taken down and will be highling the ad and Rep Kaptur's open transphobia until election day.
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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Sims (2000)
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Ben Kannenberg @benkannenberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"I think trans rights are an 80/20 issue I'm on the wrong side of, and am choosing to raise their salience, drive a wedge into my own coalition, and make myself look weak and inauthentic. I am very smart!"
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Anthropic employees: NEXT-GEN AI COULD WIPE OUT HUMANITY WITH A SUPERVIRUS! Normies: that seems like a big leap. How would this AI disseminate such a virus in the real world? Anthropic employees: oh, through the wet labs we built and hooked it up to, of course. Normies: …😬😤
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I see The Atlantic has apparenlty made it its mission to play up Ossoff in a gambit to head off AOC for the Democratic party nomination in 2028. Good luck!
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The NY Times is in “but her emails” mode regarding Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker. Relentless and unfair. Where’s the big story about a Republican megadonor who is a white supremacist? Maybe NYT has heard of him. His name‘s Elon Musk.
NYT headline: A provocative streamer creates headaches for El-Sayed in key Senate race
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I can model it for you: Trump leaves office I’m not kidding. The variable you’re looking for to have Iran and the U.S. compromise and end the conflict is party in power
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Samuel Popkin’s Reasoning Voter (1994): voters have shorter term considerations but they also see trouble on the horizon (p. 33)
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Adam McMahon @adammc123.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is absolutely insane. The worst timing for the president, but completely self inflicted. Are these prices going to keep going up? A midterm disaster for Republicans.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There's really no good argument against it, especially if Dems take the Senate. A distraction? Futile? As opposed to what, passing bills that you can't get past a veto anyway? Oversight? You get more attention and stronger legal tools with impeachment. Just do the right thing, it's good politics!
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