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Round Seal with an APS on its Head @happyseal-z.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Tysm for the reality checks and surgically implanting common sense into some people’s brains today Mr. Nichols, Remember Hanlon’s razor: never assume malice when stupidity is a plausible explanation. Some people really are just dumb enough to try rushing in like that. Glad no innocents dead.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Yes, tonight was a strange lapse in security. POTUS and VPOTUS are never in the same place at the same time.* *they are often in the same place at the same time in public

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

This is why it's okay to just sit for a moment and wait for more details. "He couldn't have been a shooter! He went to Cal Tech!"

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Historian1661 @historian1661.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

It's amazing how so many people who were Iran experts, oil experts, shipping experts and military experts so suddenly become security experts.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

What's a gunman look like?

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Thanks, Columbo, we'll get back to you

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

You don't need a designated survivor for an event like this, because so many of the possible presidential successors are not at the event. The SOTU is different; everyone in the line is there.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Because Wolf Blitzer, among others, said on live TV "he had a gun and he fired it off just a few feet from me," but other than that, I'm just guessing

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

No. I expect more from sane American citizens than I do from Trump.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

"I'm not paranoid, I just assume that major events like a gunman at a hotel are faked"

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Yes. Happens all the time. That's why we have a "continuity of government plan" and a line of succession.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Thank you for making my point

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

um, okay

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I'm not here to be helpful for your paranoid theories.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

It's true. The White House and the WHCA are in cahoots with the reverse vampires and the RAND corporation

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

POTUS and VPOTUS each have their own details. It's possible Vance's guys were closer to him. But don't let that stop you from saying reckless and stupid things.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

"Trump keeps staging assassination attempts" is the same Infowars brainworm strain as "Obama keeps staging mass shootings." Different party, same paranoia.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

"A thing happened at a major event and there's lots of confusion and no one was able to explain it in 20 minutes so I HAVE QUESTIONS" Jesus. People, deep breaths.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

He's not dead. This is why it's good not to speculate.

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The Matador! The Matador! @vs-phd.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

How do these people imagine the Butler staging meeting went?? "OK, Mr. President, so you'll be standing at the podium and the shooter is gonna deliberately miss you by a little bit and kill a bunch of people standing right behind you..."

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Calm down. You don't know a thing about this, but if you think Butler was staged, then you're already way beyond the need to go touch grass.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Vance was literally grabbed by Secret Service (this, we have on video) and pulled off the stage.

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mrsbeaverhausen.bsky.social @mrsbeaverhausen.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

JD was right at the end of the dais, and Trump can’t move fast, let alone steadily, so they just let him sit there until they had enough people to drag him out. Also, I read a report that the shots were fired outside 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I was at the WHCD last year. The Hilton is *massive*, and yes, it's possible to run into the lobby, but since I don't know how the guy got in, I'll just hold back on speculating - and so should you.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Sorry, but this is wrong. I wrote a book tracing the growth of this kind of insanity long before Trump.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

And you won't get them answered tonight, so calm down.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Basically this. We can’t turn into MAGA and just assume everything is rigged, staged, stolen, etc. Let the investigation play out.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

It’s totally OK not to speculate on anything right now.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

It took only nanonseconds for someone to say "here, do some other thing besides the one you asked about." "How do I make a cheeseburger?" "Have a salad instead." I have Spotify, but I own a lot of music, and I want to transfer stuff back and forth.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

No, seriously, you have no idea what's going on at the DC Hilton, and neither do I. Neither do many of the people that are there. And unless you're part of the law enforcement effort, you don't really need to figure this out in the next ten minutes.

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PowderRiver737🇺🇸🇨🇦 @powderriver737.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The number of conspiracy theories I’m seeing here is depressing. I joined this site to follow people with intellects and some common sense. ☹️

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The level of paranoia and conspiracy theorizing here is indistinguishable from the MAGA nuts on X doing the same thing

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Lisa @lisamw.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Naw lots of people saying insane crap with zero knowledge. I’m embarrassed for them actually no I’m annoyed AF at them. They sounds just like maga.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

As I was saying, pretty much just like the MAGA nuts

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

kash:

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Photos spreading online appear to match a photo of a California teacher whose name matches a name spreading online as the correspondents dinner shooter

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The Correspondent’s Dinners will continue until the secret service improves

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

When was the last time somebody tried to kill the British PM? Thatcher?

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P. Thomas Johnson 🇨🇦🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 @ptomj.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

There were two others after: the IRA fired mortars at Downing Street to try and kill John Major in '91, and the Taliban had planned to kill David Cameron when he visited Afghanistan, but his helicopter was diverted before they could try.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

So as I understand the situation, shots either were or were not fired and someone either is or is not dead and the range of outcomes are “someone dropped a plate” to “the president was assassinated.” The instant 24 hour news cycle was a mistake.

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

One thing I'm learning from this administration is how well counterterrorism works in normal administrations

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zlorpl.bsky.social @zlorpl.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Its the kinda system you never want to think about usually

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Do you feel safer yet?

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Nom de Plume Brett En Spookified @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Rember when his counter part got reported to DHS OIG for soliciting a suggar daddy? Good times last week.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

! Wolf Blitzer on CNN, saying he was a few feet away from a shooter at the White House Correspondents Dinner: "A guy with a very, very serious weapon starts shooting. I happened to be a few feet away from him."

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

It’d be funny if it wasn’t so predictable lol

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The shooter has been identified as 31 year old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California. -AP

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21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

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