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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Vote in person or use a dropbox if you possibly can. And if you can't, mail your ballot as early as you possibly can
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people say! Trump's vow was....weird. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Weird Loyalty Pledge
In a night of wild emotions and odd ideas, one moment stood out.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 was traumatic for all Americans. But the U.S. and other governments panicked, and took their eyes off a lot of other threats for a while. We’re still living with the consequences of that panic. My look back at that day and what it brought: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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A Quarter Century of Panic
After 9/11, the U.S. government was over-focused on fighting terrorism, losing sight of other threats. Americans are still living with the consequences.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Why does Trump hate #Canada so much? Because (like Putin and Ukraine) he can't imagine that it's actually an independent country and that it doesn't just do what he tells it to do. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Why Trump Has It Out for Canada
The superficial similarities between the U.S. and its closest friend are likely driving much of the president’s vitriol.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Two more Americans dead, one missing. The president must tell Congress why he’s gambling with the lives of U.S. service members. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Two More Americans Dead in the Iran War
Congress must demand an explanation from the president about why he’s gambling with the lives of U.S. service members.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"The Republican senator from South Carolina was the epitome, the poster child, the quintessence of our era." - @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Quintessential Politician of This Era
The late South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham made a mid-career turn to MAGA.
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Jonathan Boyd @bigboid88.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
You know this, and it’s worth repeating: Every rule, warning, boldface in aviation is written in blood.
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Robert Elisberg @relisberg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
And so, again, with no Congress approval, no required environmental reviews, no zoning hearings -- Trump has just gone ahead and rushing to pour cement on the White House lawn (where the Easter Egg hunt is held for children) to build a heliport! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Inside Trump’s Swift Construction of a White House Helipad (Gift Article)
The president has bypassed a review or approval process in his swift effort to build a granite helipad on the South Lawn.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I think it should be on every TV and cable outlet and radio and broadcast on giant screens everywhere. I'm serious.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Well, that was ....something. Article about to drop. But that speech was not only bonkers, the documents prove, in some places, the OPPOSITE of what he's claiming.
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44 LIGHTS @44lights.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
@radiofreetom.bsky.social okay, I realize now why Tom said this insane rant should be televised everywhere. I didn’t think Trump was this far gone. I knew he was gone but tonight was absolute crackers. Kudos, Tom. Nailed it.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The documents Trump cited don't even make his case - and actually refute much of it. But that didn'tg matter. No foreign regime, no spies, no saboteurs have yet matched the damage that America’s own president just did tonight to faith in U.S. elections. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Just Did More Damage to Elections Than China
His speech was a mashup of charges that aren’t supported by the documents he released.
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Taco the Cat @tacothecat.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Science is amazing.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"The Tommy Tuberville Foundation’s treasurer couldn’t say whether the senator had kept his promise. 'Coach has to live with that himself, I know what he said and I know what he promised — me and the people heard that,' he said. 'I’m not trying to cover for him'....” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Alabama’s Tommy Tuberville hedges on whether he kept his campaign promise to veterans
All of the available evidence leaves little doubt that the GOP senator simply did not do what he said he would do.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
www.netflix.com/title/81930567
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Watch The American Experiment | Netflix Official Site
Life. Liberty. The pursuit of happiness. This sweeping historical documentary series traces how the ideals of America's founders gave rise to a nation.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Air conditioning - I am not kidding - made the progress of civilization possible after World War II. Helped people work more productively, live longer, etc. Demonizing a/c is done by people who've never really had to live in a world without it
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 04/07/2026
1976 looked like a great party in DC (And there were huge parades everywhere on July 4, from big cities to small towns. What an easy goal this administration didn't even try to kick.)
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Here you go. Why is Pete Hegseth such a cornball? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Pete Hegseth, Cornball in Chief
The secretary of defense is a fountain of corny performances and rhetoric.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
“The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the U.S., or any of them.” [i.e. state govs]
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/05/2026
The President, in creating the “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” may have committed the rare offense that turns Republican lawmakers against him. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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How Trump Created a Slush Fund for His Allies
The President, in creating the “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” may have committed the rare offense that turns Republican lawmakers against him.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/05/2026
“The Callais decision was the worst decision of my lifetime,” Marc Elias said. Marc explains how Republicans will try to use the Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act to delegitimize any community of Black voters electing their candidate of choice.
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Susie & Midge w/ an extra Smidge @midgeandsusie.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Watch it. It’s hilarious. There’s a link in the comments
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks for the gift article and please keep pounding President "Unconditional Surrender" on this fiasco. Funny how stupidity/incompetence gets exposed when it can't bluff, threaten, cajole, plead, NDA, pay off, or otherwise extricate itself from a self-dug, punji stake-lined pit of mistakes.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
As this war stumbles to a close, it is clear that the president is lost: He didn’t know what he was doing when he began it, and now he doesn’t know how to get out of it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s War Is Staggering to an Incoherent Defeat
Even the president’s supporters are alarmed.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
He's completely incompetent, even apart from being deranged.
Ben Meiselas: You are seeing in real time why Trump companies went bankrupt so many times. Set aside your politics. This guy is incapable of making a deal or meaningful decision and it follows the same cycle. Big flashy announcement (Epic Fury). Adversity hits (Hormuz closed). Defraud stakeholders (promise two week solution). Freeze up (endless two week cycle loop). Compound the problem (resource depletion). Final chance to save face rejected (what you’re seeing now). Bankruptcy strikes and blame others during chaos. Rinse repeat.
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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 25/05/2026
I never get tired of re-reading that.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Three times this week, someone I haven't seen in a while has greeted me with "I forgot how tall you are!" The third time it happened, I caught myself apologizing, like I'd been purposefully keeping it a secret from them. So please. Be forewarned. I'm 6'3". And I'm sorry.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
From a Raymond Chandler novel "you're awfully tall" "I didn't mean to be"
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/05/2026
If I missed my court date, a default judgment would be entered against me.
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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
11,000 air traffic controllers bsky.app/profile/forb...
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 16/05/2026
The lawmakers voiced their frustrations with the Pentagon following a decision not to send thousands of U.S. troops to Poland.
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Republicans Lash Out Over Pentagon’s Call Against Sending Troops to Poland
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Did Sean Duffy set the policy while on his reality TV road trip? Did he do it by texting while driving?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/05/2026
Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton has frequently opted for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost taxpayers more than $24,000 for a day’s work. (Published July 2025 w/ @texastribune.org)
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers
Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...
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Real Blue Patriot @realbluepatriot.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Trump: "We didn't discuss tariffs. It wasn't brought up." China: "We brought it up and we told him no." #FuckTrump
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
“Elon Musk Said He’d Stop Political Spending. He’s the Third-Largest Donor in the Midterms *** And now he's accompanying Trump as a guest of honor in China.” 5/13/26 … 1/ gizmodo.com/elon-musk-sa...
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Elon Musk Said He'd Stop Political Spending. He's the Third-Largest Donor in the Midterms
And now he's accompanying Trump as a guest of honor in China.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Me me me me me me me me me
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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The $1 billion Republicans are proposing for the Epstein Memorial Ballroom could pay over 6,000 air traffic controllers for a year.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The United States is ABSOLUTELY in RAPID decline thanks to Trump and his many awful enablers. My only continuing question is, is Trump doing it on purpose, or is it a side effect of his corrupt and moronic indifference, or both?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/05/2026
Ah, yes. Fewer air traffic controllers is the answer. www.reuters.com/business/wor...
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FAA cuts target for air traffic control staffing
The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it was sharply reducing its target for air traffic control staffing as ​it vowed to modernize scheduling and increase the time employees spend managing ...
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I am this many years old: I can never hear "cola nut" and not hear this guy
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
2 days ago.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I am, and it is, and no, they don't
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If Trump does give an order to attack civilian targets that have no military value as a means of collectively punishing the Iranian people - and make good his threat to begin a genocide - Marco Rubio should resign and the military must refuse the order. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Did Trump Just Threaten to Use Nuclear Weapons in Iran?
If such an order comes to pass, the military can and must refuse.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
For one thing, these generals are not being fired by the president, but by an appointee, the SECDEF. Second, both of those men were singular cases with clear cause. This is several generals/admirals, for no reason given.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Someone needs to tell the American people what's going on in the Pentagon, and it obviously won't be Pete Hegseth, who is at war with America's senior military officers. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Hegseth’s War on America’s Military
Someone needs to explain the Pentagon purges to the American people.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/04/2026
📽️NEW: What’s going on with the Epstein files? In our latest video, election lawyer Marc Elias breaks down the timeline of the Trump administration's handling of the ongoing scandal, and exposes how the DOJ is implementing a massive cover-up to protect Trump. This is one you can’t miss👇
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Trump's Epstein Cover-Up Is Getting Worse
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The Buffalo Medical Examiner rules that the death of a legally blind elderly Burmese refugee dropped off by Border Patrol at a closed shop late at night in winter was a homicide. He died of a burst ulcer caused by severe stress brought on by dehydration and hypothermia.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The country is at war and energy prices are spiking and all he can talk about is his precious ballroom. He knows more about the construction and detail details of this white elephant than he does about the people that are overseas fighting right now.
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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Yeah we're the only country in the world that allows birthright citizenship except for the other 58 countries that allow it
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.
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