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Maximillian Potter

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Writer-editor @protectdemocracy.org Contributing Editor @vanityfair.com NYT & WSJ Best Wine Book: “Shadows in the Vineyard” amzn.to/2H5ikFW Ghost in some memoirs. Facts are facts. My opinions are my own. linktr.ee/maximillianpotter

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
An entire speech “recognized” for Leadership & Management … about servant leadership. Talarcio is one of the few who talk the talk and walk the talk.
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Was Editorial Consultant on this memoir; and so, glad to see.
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Speaking of daddy issues
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Look, man, all I’m saying is every single one of these Trump lackeys — if you research their biographies, there are substantial reasons to think Daddy issues. Pick a cabinet member or billionaire sycophant and take a look. Every one of them.
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A reporting detail deftly presented here by @passantino.bsky.social. Sometimes it’s seeing a detail anyone can see, but having the unique ability/perspective to recognize it in its most meaningful context.
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I am an Eagles fan but I am not this much of an Eagles fan. #GoBirds #yochucky
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
— Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey, anybody think it would be a good idea for Musk (and a “syndicate”) to basically have an ownership stake in CNN and CBS News and a shit-ton of production companies that have development deals with Paramount-Warner Bros?
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bari and Bilton are unworthy of what “60 Minutes” was. They are walking-talking Ponzi schemes. Here’s an idea: If you want to be in the journalism business, hire actual journalists, like, who have done the goddamn job, who respect the responsibility.
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Straight-up insanity. Imagine this as one day one of the so many pages in the American-history-book chapters on the Trump administration.
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
He worked for a JDM construction company. Out in the yard, where JDM kept the heavy equipment. His job was Greaser. When he had to fill out forms, under Occupation he would write "Lubrication Technician." I once asked him what that meant and he said, "It means nothing." It meant something.
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Anger. For more than a decade, Trump has been tapping anger. Call it “populism,” frame it in political science. But it’s primal—anger. The “forgotten,” “ignored.” He conned and screwed them. Now their anger is turning on him. Angry voters put him in power. And they will remove him from power.
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a fantastic doc. Like her poetry, it seems to appear at a moment when we most need it to remind us of our capacity for tenderness.
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This may seem (be) nit picky, but i feel like the way this highlighted clause os dropped in diminshes the fact that this is outrageously empirically corrupt. The phrase coukd have been held or instead of “democrats”… “ethics and legal experts along with democrats.” www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The FBI interviewed the woman four times in 2019, with three summaries specifically noting the allegations involving Trump.
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This admin is a never-ending freight train of so much crime and corruption…and…but…when the full truth and scope of the horrors of the Epstein pedophile trafficking becomes known, I believe, the extent of the web of crime and ongoing coverup will be mind-bogglingly nauseating and enraging.
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Put another way: Ted has no hubris.
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
And so we went and fucked that all up. Tune in!
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It would be incredible that people like this ascend as they do except for the fact that so many of them do. (The Trump era is proof that integrity, talent and EQ have so little to do with so much of what passes for success and “leadership.”)
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Recognizing this as the story it is +and+ being able to earn the trust of the subjects and craft a structure and sentences like this … is Jedi journalism.
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Also, just fyi, this was Daulerio in late 2016 — calling what Trump and Thiel meant for all of us. Daulerio called exactly where we are now, a decade later. It has always been obvious to those paying attention. It was clear then what was happening. (*which is why I wanted to do the story)
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We’re really going to miss the truth infrastructure when it’s all gone. But hey invest in this sideshow.
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
“Testing” Truce: 1: a suspension of fighting especially of considerable duration by agreement of opposing forces : ARMISTICE, CEASEFIRE
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
“MAGA” finally makes sense.
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