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Immie_8

@immie8.bsky.social
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Foodie, swordfighter, Canucks fan, and media junkie. Proud geek! Waiting on the mountain. 🏔️

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I think the No Kings marches are great: They are the kind of mass protest even someone like me - who distrusts mass protests - can admire. No violence, no vandalism, the Dumbass Quotient low. I just hope it all turns into voting in the fall.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Mar-a-Lago is represented by a Democrat now, Joe The most powerful man in your state of SC just lost his job - by 23 votes Your bitterness about voting is defeatist and foolish.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Trump just raged at our NATO allies for refusing to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz and bail him out of the fiasco he created. He threatened to withdraw from NATO with childish insults. This is best seen as an admission of serious political weakness. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2080...
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Trump Erupts in Fury Over His War Failures—and Exposes a Big Weakness
His rage at NATO is actually an admission that he needs our allies’ help—and that he wants somebody to blame as his war goes from bad to worse.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
That's Noem, Lewandowski, and Bovino out. Wannabe fascists, perhaps, but you are not living in a fascist country. Public pressure, embarassment, legislative opposition - all of them helped to turf these folks. That's what I mean by "the levers of democracy still work and you should use them."
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I understand this but I don't think the rest of us should leave because of mediocre college seminar gadflies, failed grapic novelists, middle-aged faux revolutionaries, and other griefers who want to use social media as their instrument of self-actualization.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
They see it. They know. They just like that he hates the same people they hate.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Watching CNN and I know people have been mad at Jake Tapper, but he is spending quite a lot of time taking apart Trump’s completely crazypants speech
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Philly Special @phillyspesh.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I would encourage anyone who is questioning the security of our elections to volunteer at their local polls! It’s a bunch of regular people like you and me, working hard to ensure that the vote is conducted according to the rules
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
And that's the thing. People want dirt-cheap air travel. They get it. Then they're mad. That's like going to Walmart or Sam's Club and asking for a concierge.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I wish Secretary Duffy would concentrate on keeping the skies safe and leave the moral hectoring to me. I'm better at it.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This entire administration is a national security risk
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I put a Reagan/Bush sign in my window when I was at BU during the 1980 election. Amazingly, I still had lots of friends of various political persuasions. Maybe it's not about his politics.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
🔥 @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social : "Y’all get it now?? Do you understand what’s possible? I don't wanna hear no more 'my vote doesn't matter. Nothing ever changes.' Look what happens when you participate. We win everything. There are more of us… for the rest of your damn life, you gotta vote.”
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/11/2025
This guy is so fuckin dumb.
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Tom Tell @thomastell.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Fortunately, there's no big holidays in November. Or anything... 🤔
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A coalition that ranges from democratic socialists to neoconservatives, including a lot of energized liberals in between, is large and formidable. A big pro-democracy tent. A united front. Any internal disagreements can be hashed out once the authoritarian emergency is over. This really can work.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be
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a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and making a funny face .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and making a funny face .
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delib.bsky.social @delib.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Democrats had one of the best nights in a long time. From NY to GA to CA, there wasn't a single bright spot for Republicans. Yet, some people are so addicted to doom they almost get aroused by it. Worse, they are smug, self-righteous, and proud of such an attitude.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Trump’s voters have become like the members of the administration, delighting in the crassness and obscenity that pours out of the president and his circle whenever they are challenged. But policies suffer and the public is poorly served. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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A Confederacy of Toddlers
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
That's an alpha warrior war-fighter right there. Get my man a free Punisher tattoo.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Scott Jennings just now: Virginia has never been a great bellwether and New Jersey is just New Jersey
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Sure, but when *I* say it, people lose their minds :)
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
And this is it's so important to reject nihilism about freedom and voting. This is gonna be tight.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Now that people have bitched about the article by looking at the headline, maybe you should read it It’s about organizing, not cheating.
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Immie_8 @immie8.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I drive my friends nuts sometimes with my insistence on specificity and language, but that’s because words begin to lose meaning a weight if they are not used in the correct context.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The president is establishing the principle that he can order the murder of anyone he deems a threat. And Congress is letting it happen.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 16/10/2025
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a man in a blue shirt is sitting in the back seat of a car with his eyes closed .
ALT: a man in a blue shirt is sitting in the back seat of a car with his eyes closed .
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
“A House of Dynamite” is all too plausible. I’m a nuke expert - and it scared the heck out of me. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it. But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.
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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
So frustrating to read his comment because the Never Trumpers are the most consistent voters I know - 100% consistent for Clinton and Harris - while the progressives I know in Boston and NYC were not. Something about Bernie not being given his due and Kamala personally bombing Palestinians
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/09/2025
White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse. Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.
Abigail Jackson saying: Democrats, calling your political opponents Nazis has consequences. 

Study: Left-wing terrorism climbs to 30-year high

And posting a graph from Axios that shows WAY WAY WAY more right wing terrorism, and showing a very slight increase in left wing terrorism this year that would still have it lower than basically every other year of right wing terrorism.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
While Stephen Miller claims that Democrats calling him a fascist constitutes incitement, there are hundreds of examples of Miller publicly calling Democrats fascists.
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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Trumpism is fascist, sure. But we're not yet under fascism. I think that's a fair summation. Let's make sure it doesn't get worse.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Okay. Let me try this another way, and see if that works. I was a boy with relatives in Greece during the time of the Colonels, a pretty scary military junta. Some would say it was fascist: Militarism, anti-communism, nostalgia, etc. But no. /1
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I agree! So assert your rights as a citizen of a functioning democracy. Engage. Participate. Speak up. Vote. Donate. Volunteer. And stop huddling behind a keyboard and mythologizing a failed real estate developer as Mussolini, Hitler, or Pol Pot. People who believe in democracy are the majority.
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Tom Tell @thomastell.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
"He [Donald Trump] has the soul of a fascist and the mind of a disordered child." @radiofreetom.bsky.social
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Jessica @jessicai917.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
@radiofreetom.bsky.social explained it better than anyone; this is from a thread he posted after the 2024 election. For us, it has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with character. ⬇️
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
“A meeting between the two leaders would be a significant win for Putin after Trump has spent weeks attacking him.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Live updates: Trump tackles tariffs, orders a new census and could soon meet with Putin
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s second term and the Republican-led Congress.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This is how they managed statistics in the old USSR.
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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Tom Nichols: “When you look at our enemies, they cannot believe their good fortune. They cannot believe that Donald Trump will do for them for free what they’ve been trying to do to us for decades.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
If only there had been warnings
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/07/2025
Modern Republicans are incapable of competent governance. They are unaware that it even exists. They think politics is just reality tv, an exchange of rhetorical volleys for entertainment purposes. They have no awareness that real lives are involved.
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Marty Lenz @martylenz.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
“You can do a lot of bad things around Trump. You can ignore court orders. You can deport people without due process. You can let Ukrainian rivers fill with the blood of innocent people. But when you make Trump look weak or stupid, you’ve gone too far.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social @theatlantic.com
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Presidential Pettiness
Donald Trump seems to have no theory of governance beyond personal gain and retribution.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
A MAGA voter in PA told me she voted early and then didn't watch the news. If you're so afraid of what your candidate will do that you'll vote and then cover your eyes, maybe that's not a good sign.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
If your #1 issue is inflation, this is a five-alarm fire
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Nicholas Thompson @nxthompson.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Clinical research has found that online trolls suffer from psychopathy, Machiavellianism, sadism, and narcissism, in that order. We all just need to ignore them. www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
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Trolls Aren’t Like the Rest of Us
Online jerks and offline jerks are largely one and the same. Here’s how to keep them from affecting your happiness.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
All the FBI needs now to complete a scene from, say, The Death of Stalin, is for Patel to run down the hallways shouting, “I have documents on all of you!” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Federal Bureau of Paranoia
America turns on its own spies and cops.
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Tom Taylor @tomtaylormade.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
What a headline.
Superman Isn’t Trying to Be Political. We Just Have Real-Life Supervillains Now.
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