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Alex Kingsbury

@alexkingsbury.bsky.social
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Writer, journalist. New York Times contributing writer. Formerly New York Times editorial board, Boston Globe, US News&World Report, WBUR.

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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Thomas Jefferson envisioned America as a lily white republic that rigorously excluded Black people. Join us next week - online or in person - for a frank discussion of race and racism at the founding of The United States. events.leapevents.com/tickets/anne...
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Annette Gordon-Reed with Brent Staples: Jefferson on Race
Annette Gordon-Reed with Brent Staples: Jefferson on Race in New York - Checkout. The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian examines Thomas Jefferson’s complicated and often contradictory views on race and...
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🚨: NASA just released this closest image of Moon ever taken by Artemis II . The clarity in insane in this view.
Lunar Closeup from NASA Artemis II Gallery https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mobile-wallpapers/
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?
Boston Globe mock front page from April 9, 2016. Date says April 9, 2017, with giant headline “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN” and “Markets sink as trade war looms.”
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 09/04/2026
Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/04/2026
It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The more Trump moves towards leaving NATO, the more Europe and Canada accept that the Western alliance is effectively dead and increase their own capacity accordingly. In that sense, yes, it's a positive. The alternative of telling themselves NATO is ok and the US will be there if needed is worse.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Conservative parents’ advocacy groups are using commercially available artificial intelligence tools to help them flag more books they’ve deemed pornographic to be removed from public schools and libraries (the books aren't actually pornographic) www.404media.co/blockade-the...
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‘BLOCKADE’: The Right Is Using AI Content Scanners to Try to Supercharge Book Banning
Groups that challenge books have begun using Gemini, ChatGPT, xAI, and other AI tools to try to get books banned.
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Alex Kingsbury @alexkingsbury.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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Opinion | Is It 1914 in America?
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/03/2026
We don’t fear for our lives when crossing Delancey St. anymore. When I had to take a car to Newark airport the other day in the middle of the day, it took *22 minutes*. The air is noticeably cleaner. Big government overreach absolutely fucking rocks.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.
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The Ghosts of Al-Shifa Hospital
Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 23/03/2026
“The Republican effort to undermine the 2026 midterm elections is neither theoretical nor exaggerated,” writes Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader.
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Opinion | Chuck Schumer: What the SAVE Act Would Really Do
Republicans want to pretend it’s a voter ID bill.
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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.
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Alex Kingsbury @alexkingsbury.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
John F. Burns, Prize-winning Foreign Correspondent for The Times, Dies at 81 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/w...
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John F. Burns, Prize-winning Foreign Correspondent for The Times, Dies at 81
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Alex Kingsbury @alexkingsbury.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Let’s do a billionaire war tax now.
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Alex Kingsbury @alexkingsbury.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
America First was against the most popular war and America First started the least. Imagine that.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
New grad students often adopt a stance of hypercriticism as a shortcut to seeming savvy. When I was one, Nick Salvatore told us he didn't like "shit-on-the-book seminars" so we would instead spend our time talking about what *worked* in various texts to see what we could learn from other authors.
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Alex Kingsbury @alexkingsbury.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."
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Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.
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Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel
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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I think a lot of writers would do well to admit themselves, embrace JLC's dictum that 'the writer is a natural spy' - it's uncomfortable but you have to wrestle with it if you want to write things that last
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Today was an important day for the opposition movement. The law firms that stood up against Donald Trump threats won. Those that capitulated and collaborated with Trump will need to explain to their families, clients and future generations why when democracy was at stake they were such cowards.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape. 50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.
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How have crime rates in the United States changed over the last 50 years?
Both violent and property crime are far below their 1990s peak, but some crimes see periodic rises.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
THIS.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Alex Kingsbury @alexkingsbury.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Commit acts of journalism.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/02/2026
…the united states had a vibrant ecosystem of local, regional and alternative press sources. in a real sense — and this has been true since the start — the US is a nation of newspapers and newspapermen, with both of those categories broadly defined…
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/02/2026
INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday. They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.
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Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash
Civil rights groups and parents gathered in front of the Quakertown Police Department Saturday demanding answers for the violent confrontation Friday.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Fun fact I just noticed: The U.S. had about half as much total job growth in 2025 (total) as during an average *month* during the Biden administration. 181k net jobs added over the entire course of 2025, versus average of 329k each month from 2021-2024.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/02/2026
this literally looks like a scene from THE FIRST PURGE
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Alex Kingsbury @alexkingsbury.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Well done @radosh.bsky.social
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I know we’re so far past even considering the possibility that Republicans ever actually believed in the Constitution, but it’s a useful thought experiment to read this article as if it was about Biden using technology developed by a billionaire donor to surveil anti-abortion and 2A activists.
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Alex Kingsbury @alexkingsbury.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Nice of Trump to build a federal gun owner’s facial database for us. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
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Alex Kingsbury @alexkingsbury.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Agreed.
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Alex Kingsbury @alexkingsbury.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Our idea that legislation could preserve privacy was the mistake.
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Alex Kingsbury @alexkingsbury.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This is Susan Collins’ America. www.foxnews.com/media/don-le...
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Don Lemon taken into custody for his involvement in livestreaming protest at Minnesota church
Former CNN host Don Lemon was taken into custody for his role in the left-wing protest that took over a Minnesota church, his attorney said in a statement.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/01/2026
Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...
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ICE’s excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested
There have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/01/2026
Breaking News: Spain issued a decree allowing hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants to apply for legal residency. The measure is bucking a trend, as many Western governments have cracked down on illegal immigration.
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Spain Offers Undocumented Migrants a Legal Way to Stay
The measure, unexpectedly approved, comes as other countries are cracking down on immigration.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Time for Europe to read this from @himself.bsky.social and act accordingly. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
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Opinion | Europe Has a Bazooka. Time to Use It.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Marine Le Pen's trial for embezzlement — something they've done to other judges around the world
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 16/01/2026
Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Dementia has a devastating impact on affected families' finances. Beginning about six years prior to clinically recognizable dementia, affected families net worth starts to crater. We should treat dementia risk not just as a medical issue, but as a predictable financial shock.
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Alex Kingsbury @alexkingsbury.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Extremists in Uniform Put the Nation at Risk www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/o...
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Opinion | Extremists in Uniform Put the Nation at Risk (Published 2022)
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Alex Kingsbury @alexkingsbury.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Luke Littler is on the path to greatness: ‘I’ll be around for a very long time’ www.nytimes.com/athletic/693...
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Luke Littler is on the path to greatness: ‘I’ll be around for a very long time’
Luke Littler emphatically retained his world title and can now be regarded as an all-time great of his sport
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 17/12/2025
The briefing with Hegseth and Rubio only reaffirmed what we already knew: the Trump Administration is in clear violation of domestic and international law—and our own Constitution.
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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
One of my weird hobbyhorses is that a standard university education is almost always going to make this, the correct view of history, unthinkably distasteful.
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Alex Kingsbury @alexkingsbury.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
There are a dozen Billy Joel songs that aren’t terrible.
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Alex Kingsbury @alexkingsbury.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This is the correct take. USBC in general. The EU exists for stuff like this.
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Alex Kingsbury @alexkingsbury.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Exaggerating the importance and impact of advisory memos is a key part of the cult of authority. Don’t join it.
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Alex Kingsbury @alexkingsbury.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
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Opinion | What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes
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