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We’re in a MORAL crisis that is causing a CONSTITUTIONAL crisis

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
New video from me at @theatlantic.com www.instagram.com/reel/DYqLOVX...
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The Atlantic on Instagram: "Donald Trump finds himself “flattered and intimidated in the presence of very powerful dictators”—and it causes him to sometimes side with them over the U.S., Tom Nichols a...
422 likes, 33 comments - theatlantic on May 22, 2026: "Donald Trump finds himself “flattered and intimidated in the presence of very powerful dictators”—and it causes him to sometimes side with them o...
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Pinky @pinky1259.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
💙STEPHEN COLBERT💙 A true hero of a gentleman who sacrificed his job to preserve his integrity and who stood up for the Constitution and our freedom of speech.
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Dave Long @stupordave1.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Do you know what the men in the Epstein files will do if their names are not made public? WHATEVER THE HELL THEY WANT!
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
SOME GOOD NEWS, FOR A CHANGE…👇 ENJOY. 😎✨
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 22/01/2026
Why do I post about the Constitution and the rule of law? Not because I think these things are self-enforcing! But because it is our duty to live up to them. And one goal of the Trumpist movement is to make such bold assertions of power that we are disoriented and forget our rights and liberties.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Because of course he did. It’s all about intimidation for the next ruling.
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Artski @artski.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Cartoon from Andy Donato.
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David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Healthy political parties make each other better. To defeat a viable opponent, a party has to rise to the challenge. It has to fix its failures. It has to innovate. Defeating a sclerotic rump of a party is no achievement. Instead, one-party rule enables corruption. It fosters stagnation.
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Opinion | The ‘Rabid Partisan’ Republican Who Defied Donald Trump
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 16/05/2026
Atlantic columnist and US Naval War College professor emeritus Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social delves into the tumultuous political situation in the United States and its impact on US foreign policy, and what that means for the prospects for new nuclear arms control agreements.
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Tom Nichols on the arms control process, in the second Trump era
Self-described as “old-school about the Constitution,” Atlantic columnist Tom Nichols delves into the tumultuous current political situation in the United States and its impact on US foreign policy,…
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
"That Americans get more angry about gas prices than a seditious revolt against the Constitution tells you something about how decadent and self-absorbed a nation we've become." ~ @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/E5Z9wa7... (~49:15)
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Tom Nichols: There’s Something Wrong with the President | The Bulwark Podcast LIVE
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $270B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $210B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 04/05/2026
Ukraine deserves our support.
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Opinion | Ukraine took Russia’s best punch. It wants to teach Europe what it learned.
The country’s fighters gave the continent's defense chiefs a blunt message: You forgot how to fight. We can help.
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purelycurious.bsky.social @purelycurious.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Heard about a newly published annotated U.S. Constitution What is needed is truth in reporting from “conservative news” Fox, Newsmax etc. Without truth, we’re fucked
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Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · 29/04/2026
Today, SCOTUS took an axe to the Voting Rights Act — effectively undoing the hard fought gains to ensure minority groups have a voice in our elections. It’s time for Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to ensure all Americans have equal representation.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Vance has now seized the top seat in the Death of Expertise Hall of Fame: He has lectured the pope—the pope, the leader of a billion and a half Catholics—about being too sloppy with theology. The queen of all vices: Pride. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Pope James David Vance the First
The vice president has decided he’s a more accomplished theologian than Leo XIV.
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purelycurious.bsky.social @purelycurious.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Saw this recently: MAGAs dashboard idiot lights are all lit up and they’re blaming Biden Almost tore my hernia repair laughing
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"Filing taxes should be really easy and completely free. It is in most other developed countries. In 2024, the Biden administration debuted a program called Direct File to make tax filing easy and free for most American taxpayers, too. President Trump killed it." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/o...
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Opinion | Trump Killed the One Thing That Made Filing Taxes Easier
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Some thoughts about the President of the United States speaking about ending a civilization. The president speaks genocide. Anyone who has been involved in that conversation or associated actions would be complicit. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We won't last 33 more months of this. This must stop. We must make it stop.
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purelycurious.bsky.social @purelycurious.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Saw a post with a picture of Biden looking dazed and confused Was washing my face in front of the mirror and listening to stuff about trump’s activities on the tv in the background Saw the same dazed and confused look on my face in the mirror at least two times Just thinkin.,,
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purelycurious.bsky.social @purelycurious.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Am not catholic but agree with the pope on all of his statements about Trump and MAGA We are living in the equivalent of Germany 100 years ago Fortunately Trump and his cult are dying
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𝐓𝐨𝐦 𝐇𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 - 𝐓𝐇𝐌 @tomhicksmedia.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
“If Trump were a Democrat would you still hate him?” Trump WAS a Democrat, and I hated him then, too. I don’t GAF what party someone claims to be. Nobody hates Trump because he’s a Republican. We hate him because he's a shitty President and possibly the shittiest human being who has ever lived.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I hope he's dead. I hope he's dead. I hope he's dead. I hope he's dead. I hope he's dead. I hope he's dead. I hope he's dead. I hope he's dead. I hope he's dead. I hope he's dead. I hope he's dead. I hope he's dead. I hope he's dead. I hope he's dead. I hope he's dead. I hope he's dead.
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a young boy is covering his face with his hands while sitting on a bed .
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I mean there it is.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Emotionally unstable and cognitively impaired president
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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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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The chance of an incident involving nuclear weapons is more likely now than it was during the Cold War.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
"If we can't exercise the duty and the power that Congress has been given by the Framers to remove the most corrupt administration in American history — the most vile administration, the president who has most violated his oath, and violated the law — then we don't have a Constitution."
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Think voting doesn’t matter? 766 votes.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/03/2026
Whitehouse: "Americans are made less safe every time this committee holds hearings promoting fake outrage about Jack Smith, every time MAGA influencers like Loomer convince Trump to fire agency heads & every time Patel fires FBI experts bc he wants to distract from his own waste of taxpayer dollars"
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Do you know what time it is? It’s 25th Amendment time.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This is an ICE agent at TSA. Post their unmasked faces everywhere.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Eric Trump calls the Ayatollah’s son an incompetent moron who only got his position through nepotism. Irony is dead.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/03/2026
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 02/03/2026
Uh no...we definitely realize it.
Quote from Washington Times editorial board

"[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."
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Jeff P Daniels @jeffdaniels64.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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purelycurious.bsky.social @purelycurious.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Googled “who made antifa bad” Actually came back Donald Trump and co. Going to check again tomorrow
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John Flannery @jonflan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Sit & Talk - OUR PREDATOR PRESIDENT - relying on “predatory hegemony” - see Stephen Walt in Foreign Affairs - using his presidential privilege to extract concessions, tributes, deference from allies & adversaries, in a zero sum game; boycott the SOTU - youtu.be/q1kiucQnbYY?...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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Jeff P Daniels @jeffdaniels64.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Worth noting. Every day. Until. #ReneeGood 🕯
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Raskin: What makes somebody a good lawyer? You have to identify with the people who are the victims of injustice — not with their perpetrators. So I would say to Pam Bondi: If you’re going to stand with the victimizers and not the victims, then you’re not a real lawyer.
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purelycurious.bsky.social @purelycurious.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Me watching superbowl advertisers airing commercials try not to catch Trumps attention with them…
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fry from futurama says very interesting in front of a blue background
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 08/02/2026
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this. www.ms.now/news/minneap...
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Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Easy to agree with Elie here. I don't think an "elections czar" will do it, but every state-level official who cares about democracy - and a battalion of lawyers - better buckle up for what's coming.
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purelycurious.bsky.social @purelycurious.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Who’s Bubba?!
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