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Art Krikorian

@akrikorian.bsky.social
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educator, arts lover, classical music listener, weather watcher, film lover. 🇺🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 8h
Republicans are eager to campaign on Trump's big "beautiful" 2025 bill But these headlines on the front pages in battleground Ohio aren't helping the cause .....
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10h
Do we have a new metric -- 1 Zacharia?
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
“Similar past claims..of illegal voters have fallen apart..Last month election officials in Nevada said that they had examined a list..of 185 names of supposed noncitizens who had been improperly registered to vote & found that every person on the list was a..citizen. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/u...
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Trump Administration Sues California Over Voter Rolls (Gift Article)
The lawsuit seeks to temporarily block the state from counting mail ballots of voters it claims are likely noncitizens, opening a new front in the administration’s legal fights with election officials...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake."
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dwight @dwightmunroe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Dallas Morning News in 2018 had at least a couple of articles detailing the MILLIONS of Russian money that was spread around the Republican leadership, including Mitch, Marco, Lindsey, and Donald. I thought it was jaw dropping. Barely made a ripple. Here's one: www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
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How Putin's oligarchs funneled millions into GOP campaigns
How Putin's oligarchs funneled millions into GOP campaigns
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Here it is: My big October update on the now near-record/record-strength El Niño event and the still-increasing likelihood of significant California impacts this winter. This deep-dive post is meant to accompany my Tuesday 1pm PT livestream.
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El Niño, already near/at record intensity, will further strengthen to historic level and likely bring major California & SW U.S. winter impacts - Weather West
October 12, 2026 - Daniel Swain - A quick recap of the forecast vs real-world evolution of El Niño 2026 thus far An El Niño event officially developed in the tropical Pacific Ocean earlier this summer, and it has strengthened almost continually since that point. In fact, as of mid-October, the 2026 El Niño event has already become the strongest on record #
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is psychosis. He is profoundly mentally ill. He is not fit to be in any position of power over anyone or anything. He should not control nuclear weapons.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/10/2026
There was a guy who told us about this in 2019. People ignored him because he didn't have enough "pizzazz." He even indicted the Russian troll farm and the man who ran it: Yevgeny Prigozhin.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
On Tuesday, Oct 13 at 1pm PT, I'll have my "big October El Niño" update. There's a lot to discuss regarding this extremely strong event and the growing likelihood of substantial California & SW US impacts.
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The big October El Niño update: Status check on El Niño, still expected to become historic,& impacts - YouTube
The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive #weather and #climate-focused "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain. 10/13/2026 topics: ...
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The most extreme conservative project - Nazism - solved this by just killing people rather than trying to mold them. They didn't try to grow better people - they just killed the ones they thought were inferior. In either case, conservatives would argue, never give the State that much power. /5x
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And that's *good*, because once you believe government can mold people, you become willing to *give the government power to mold people.* Conservatives inherently distrust the state (or did, once) for this very reason, among others. /4
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You will not eradicate sexism or racism or whatever-ism by wise government policy. You can lead people away from it, or toward it, but you are dealing with some hard-wired human stuff about tribe and selfishness. Government exists to limit the damage, not mold us. /3
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Millions of Americans literally bet their life that RFK Jr, a complete crackpot, knew science better than the CDC and Jonas Salk and just about every living doctor
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Will take your last cent and worse! Another tax collector by Jan Massys. Fear!
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bit more niche but also you don't need to be sworn in by the speaker *at all* after an election. You do if you are elected mid-session (by house rules) but immediately after the election you are sworn by the speaker elect by convention, not by requirement
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump admin has declined to invite election observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to witness the midterms — meaning observers from the group won't be at a U.S. election for the first time in more than two decades.
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s October and the neighbors are back with #SkeletonCrew. Strong start!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
... Who is lacking in morality, conscience, empathy, remorse, and impulse control, and whose only concern if a city (in any country, including ours) were to be wiped off the face of the Earth, would be how it affects him.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You can reasonably dispute the meaning of a lot Trump says because he’s so incoherent and inarticulate. But what you can’t reasonably dispute is that he is a sadistic and delusional narcissistic sociopath, at once both psychopathic and psychotic ...
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So I think it is fair to say that the warning lights are flashing--in California, and also beyond. This extreme El Niño event will have widespread global impacts. We've never seen an event this big before in the context of our rapidly warming climate. Expect some surprises.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This kind of outlook is one reason why California's pre-emptive emergency declaration, I think, is justified. Disaster is not guaranteed! But with a forecast like this, it is hard to image ever having a clearer advanced warning of a potentially difficult winter ahead in CA.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
To be quite honest, this is a seriously concerning outlook. While it remains true that El Niño, even a very strong one, "tilts the odds" rather than guaranteeing outcomes, the current forecast suggests one heck of an odds tilt toward wet conditions--perhaps problematically so.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just did some number crunching using latest (Oct 1) ECMWF seasonal data, and I must say that I've never seen such high predictive confidence in a very wet California winter. This is a truly extraordinary forecast amid a record-strength El Niño event. [Thread: please read to end.]
Model-relative sea surface temperature anomalies for November 2026–January 2027. The supplied grid is displayed without added smoothing or coastal filling. Beige marks land and gray marks missing ocean values. The main colour scale spans -2 to +10°F, with white at zero. Hot pink marks anomalies above +10°F. This map does not establish an operational ENSO category.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So, one of my best argument against the electoral college is that it actually provides perverse incentives to presidents to ignore states they’re not going to win. Of course, Trump takes “perverse” to unhinged extremes.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A little change from Christian saints and martyrs: Charon, w/ tiny soul, crossing the river Styx, 1522. By Joachim Patinir. It's been his day.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Latest ECMWF ensemble update is out, and outlook re: El Niño & associated regional hydroclimate impacts is even more extraordinary vs Sep. I'll discuss briefly in today's livestream, & more comprehensively next week. But odds of consequentially wet CA winter continue to rise...
Map from ECMWF ensemble update in Oct showing the likelihood of  Jan-Mar precipitation being above the median. The odds are nearly 100% across all of California and much of the American Southwest, which is truly extraordinary.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am expanding today's livestream to also, at least briefly, cover just-updated data regarding the California/SW US hydroclimate implications of the historically strong El Niño event later this winter.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Boston Globe did a feature on NWC shortly after I arrived and we started teaching woke DEI stuff
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
After recapping yet another busy week of #SCOTUS news, today’s “One First” officially closes the book on the Court’s October 2025 Term with some final (and pretty mind-boggling) data about just how busy—and just how ideologically charged and divided—the emergency docket was:
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255. Closing the Book on OT2025
As the October 2026 Term begins, it's worth taking a moment to highlight the *real* final statistics for the Court’s output during the October 2025 Term.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This reminds me of two scenes in the German movie “Downfall,” which depicts, historically accurately, Hitler’s last days. Both scenes involve Hitler and Albert Speer discussing Hitler’s “Nero Order,” by which the Führer had ordered the destruction of the Reich’s remaining economic infrastructure...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's not so simple. The means of holding Israel to account for its actions in Gaza are thwarted when people make claims for crimes that are unevidenced. This allows Netanyahu and others to tar legitimate criticism as simply more outrageous overreach. Leaning into that punch is counterproductive.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump's economy in two headlines.
CNN Business: The US economy added just 29,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%. 

ABC News: Households will pay more for energy because of Trump's policy changes
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Beautiful picture of an older woman, 1654. Exactly the eyes of gentle old age. By Michael Sweerts, whose day has been today.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How embarrassing 😳
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scans from “Nomads” by Itsuro Naraki. Naraki is a Japanese photographer whose work is deeply influenced by Robert Frank. These portraits show people Naraki met on the street between 1986 and 1994. The book is available for purchase at Pinakotheca Books. IG t.archivist
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.
Michael Weiss: Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal
Someone on Twitter writes to me: "People should follow your advise if they want to look gay."
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
On September 9 or 10, someone staged this protest at the Dallas Fort Worth airport ahead of the GOP midterm convention. Does anyone know which organization was behind it? We would love to speak with them. Please share widely!
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seconded and posted. Everyone else get aboard and let it fly.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government:
A chart that shows the number of emergency applications filed and granted by the Supreme Court during each presidency dating back to George W. Bush, with the data annualized to show the far-higher frequencies since 2017, but especially during the Trump I and Trump II administrations.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a bad ruling for all of the reasons Justice Jackson’s dissent make clear. But as both the majority and dissent point out, it’s not likely to have major effects *this* cycle because we’re inside the 90-day NVRA purge window.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court just ruled the Trump admin can use a government database that includes Social Security info to help state officials identify noncitizens on their voter lists. Critics fear using the system could result in the purging of large numbers of valid voters.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I can tell you what Xi thinks of the Orange Chicken here
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 24/09/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is making his speech at the U.N., where a large-scale walkout just took place. Netanyahu lashed out at the delegations leaving, calling them "moral cowards."
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