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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 12h

JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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Nate Birkhead @nate-birkhead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We all know that "great man" theories of history are complete garbage. I will suggest however, that "terrible man" theories of history are quite valid

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yada yada yada all the substantive stuff, but I’m really fucking annoyed that our social/economic betters have all adopted cartoon character uniforms. Steve Jobs w his turtleneck and jeans, Musk and Jensen w their all black + leather jacket, Trump with his distinctive bullshit. A holocaust of taste.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They all just have too much damned money.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“… but Führer, bringing bigness down, lifted littleness up.” - Mayer, They Thought They Were Free, 45.

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Pacific Antifascist Research Collective @pacantifa.is · 22/07/2026

Since 2020, at least 51 ICE and CBP officers, agents, and contractors have been convicted or accused of sexual misconduct — 34 of them for crimes against children. These are the masked men kidnapping women and children off the street into unmarked vans and disappearing them into concentration camps.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026

to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The most frustrating part of the tendency towards posting as pressure release valve. As others have pointed out, Twitter/Bluesky/etc. is sky-writing. You're putting your messages out there for everybody to see. Opponents will use what you post to characterize everybody even marginally on your side.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

For my part, I've always wanted some form of consolidated database of the scandals and vileness of Trumpworld. Something like that will be needed during Nuremberg 2.0. To my knowledge, what we've got is a couple of dedicated Redditors and things like the Campaign Legal Center's corruption reports.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Bought it weeks ago mostly as a measure of support. Crawling through the actual text because it’s all so depressing. Well written, but the events described are bleak.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Bleak. Gives me an opportunity to share a photo from 2018 that I'm still proud of.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This perspective really has to contend with the fact that the Biden administration almost entirely handed staffing over to Elizabeth Warren and the Warrenite wing.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Largely same. My only problem with this idea is that it butts up against some real physical limits via-a-vis natl parks. They already get so damn crowded, diminishing the experience a bit for everybody who resentfully makes up the crowd.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

For the people saying critics of Democrats on immigration from the left don’t have an alternative, I always say “go look at the Statue of Liberty, that’s our immigration policy.”

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The NYT’s The Daily’s coverage of the NY primaries this morning is the most hyperbolic, scare-mongering anti-left coverage I’ve heard from them in a while. Whinging, tendentious concern-trolling.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Election conspiracy theories are going to be with us for the rest of our lives.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Why in god’s name do I get these random batches of new followers? Thirty overnight when I have done nothing…

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Of course we wouldn’t be exempt. So bloody depressing.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

“For a lot of my colleagues, the argument has been, ‘well, we don’t support defund the police or open borders, and we don’t say we do,’” Frank said.” I’m absolutely furious this is what people think “the left” advocate for in this country. Just stop supporting genocide and pass Medicare for all.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

What persuadable voters see when anyone forces Trump to govern better, whether it's a Dem majority or his own staff, is Trump "learning". This is partly him as wealth totem, partly the nature of the presidency, but it's exceptional thanks to how he's made himself the sole protagonist of US politics.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This man’s going to make my wife get confirmed…

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

There’s the West Wing joke where Bartlett asks “how come only sons of bitches know how to lick a stamp.” I think about that when I want to reach out to authors. Andy Weir and Peter Watts have both been responsive and appreciative.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

They’re weird, sure, but there’s something deeply tragic about being born in a time where we’re confident transformative things can happen* (e.g. dramatic life extension), but also where enough work has to be done that nobody alive today will likely benefit. A feeling of being left behind.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Amazing footage. Distressing that the commentary includes “dude…”

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Darling getting absolutely toasted in the comments. [im bored]

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/04/2026

"You're just voluntarily complying with this whimsical cosplay" -- holy shit, Tim Kaine is *demolishing* Russ Vought

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Grotesque: In a dispute over a will, two brothers including a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse, appear to have gotten their mother-in-law arrested by ICE. Using the state to remove disfavored family members is the sort of thing that happens in totalitarian regimes.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Ben Kenobi meme: “Olivia Tremor Control. Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a very long time.”

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 07/04/2026

‘Sally Carson insists that recognising the subjugation of women within the family is essential to any analysis of fascist ideologies. But her book doesn’t share the febrile quality that characterises Gmeyner’s writing.’ Dinah Birch on novels exploring Nazism’s rise. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Dinah Birch · Born with a Hitler moustache: How to write about fascism

Sally Carson’s dissection of the question that has disturbed the European mind for decades – how did it happen? –...

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

*Imperatives for dating my daughter.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Colonizer discourse eventually coming to cancel the first settlers to cross the Bering Strait.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

An absolutely essential practice that is almost entirely absent in mainstream reporting.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

In all this, I continue to be shocked, daily, at how unserious our political opposition leadership has behaved in the face of an actual attempted fascist takeover of the United States

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

It is so distressing that people on the right don’t see this as a huge, huge problem.

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Mom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Men also choose the bear.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

There was a very brief period during which there was support for a maximalist liberal response from the North. Then its wings got clipped and it has never happened again. We need liberal energy that crushes illiberalism when it wins. This is better literally for everybody.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I’m a simple man—I see somebody reference Dewey (laudatory), I quote.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Easiest yes I’ve come to today.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Incredible piece. I particularly like that the author spends some time describing the UX of Maven.

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Nicholas Adams @nicholasadams.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Every red state is going to have a Donald J. Trump International Airport and it’s going to be so confusing.

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