Sign in

RAdam X the Xtreme

@radamx.bsky.social
185 followers 684 following 9 posts

X-Men comic nerd, scifi nerd, science nerd, international relations news junkie, NYC is my homeland

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h
the UK Labour government has a very severe case of Cletus Safari brain where Farage is assumed to be the voice of the Authentic British Volk and therefore he can't be touched despite being a hyper corrupt alcoholic bsky.app/profile/cric...
21228
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It took massive interventions into the market for this to be the case, part of Trump's scheme to turn American consumers into customers of last resort for otherwise stranded Saudi oil reserves
657683
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is all disgusting. I've had people accuse me of using AI when I do shit like use an em-dash. I struggle to avoid yelling but HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES AND AT LEAST TWO BOOKS I WROTE have been scraped by OpenAI. I'm part of why your chatbots write the way they do. They're copying me.
483156489
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
TBC, since I'm actually at this place, this document doesn't endorse the views it recognizes as dominating Israel's current national security concept. It actually criticizes them.
512433
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 14/10/2026
"Fascists intended to redraw the map with the sword in order to secure their vision of an ethnically pure and strong nation… It is no surprise that conservatives across the Western world have embraced these ideas. What is shocking is how many Western leftists have done the same." (from October 2023)
liberalcurrents.com
Fascism and the Unlearned Lessons of the Twentieth Century
From Russia to China, from Azerbaijan to Israel and Palestine, fascist political projects are gaining strength.
07222
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/10/2026
Destroy this company, pls.
2381120
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Harper's Letter/U. of Austin vanguard loathes both protests & young people on principle—but the "67" slogan is the opposite of "dumb." It's a historically-minded joke that casts the current uprising as the heir to the May '68 student revolt while winking at Gen Alpha meme-speak. Crack a book?
1255452
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Why would a physical search of Omar’s home in 2026 be relevant to or necessary for an investigation into whether her dad filled out a form incorrectly decades ago?
374335761
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
How it’s going
1686639946
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).
There's a trap on your ballot in California. Here's how to get past it.
1. Prop 40: 250 billionaires pay with they owe so hospitals, schools, and food assistant survive the federal cuts. Vote yes.
2. Props 41 and 42: paid for by billionaires to cancel prop 40. Vote no.
3. Tell one person, because the confusion is the plan.
Yes I'm 40. No on 41 and 42.
2741322945
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is a form of retaliation against someone for speaking out. He knew he would be punished, buy that punishment does not include unnecessarily strict confinement (which is barred by military law). www.military.com/air-force-ma...
military.com
Air Force Maj. Jason Watson is in Solitary 24 Hours Daily After Publicly Calling For Trump’s Impeachment
Maj. Jason Watson has been jailed since August after publicly opining on the president and his administration, drawing a big legal battle.
28948341
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Wrong Portland. @nbcnews.com #MEsen www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
2392605463
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
EV sales in the U.S. are down by half compared with last year. Meanwhile, charging companies in the U.S. are on track to install about as many public EV plugs this year as in 2025, the industry’s record high. www.wsj.com/business/aut...
wsj.com
America’s EV Downturn Hides a Silver Lining: Charging Is Quietly Getting Better
Public EV chargers continue to be installed at a steady clip, even as the industry faces a tough road to long-term profitability.
2346494
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
When I posted something on X after a break someone immediately called me a race traitor. Posts about ancient history inevitably end up in race science territory. So I’m sorry, but I wouldn’t call that a friendly place. Is there an audience? Yes. I don’t want to sift through shit to talk to people.
835323
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A good summation of David Brooks and "civility" politics generally: no one on the right-wing can ever be described honestly, while everyone who isn't on the right-wing is always portrayed as a radical breaking cherished norms.
702082456
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Right-wing Jews are really going with, "We need to do the antisemitic Great Replacement conspiracy against Jews on the left, before the actual antisemites do it against all the Jews and we get blamed, too."
from National Conservatism: "“We, the Jews of Israel, have a great problem with progressive Jews abroad promoting immigration. 

And we should start calling them out before the anti-Semites do, because we have lost the left... but we are also losing the right.”

— 
@GadiTaub1
 at NatCon Jerusalem."
1427976
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Sam @samd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
it’s worth noting that Zohran has made major policy reforms to legalize development of more market rate housing. On the other hand, New York republicans are super NIMBY and want the government to regulate new housing out of existence with excessive red tape
What's one issue in politics that you've changed your mind about?
The role of the private market in housing construction.
How so?
I clearly recognize now that there is a very important role to be played, and one that city government must facilitate through the increasing of density around mass transit hubs, the ending of the requirement to build parking lots, as well as the need to up-zone neighborhoods that have historically not contributed to affordable housing production - namely, wealthier neighborhoods.
I think all these things, in tandem with a muscular role for the public sector. But that is a changing opinion over time that I've been in office.
329835
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
ashley (spooky) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Andy Beshear forever, man
504512633
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026
Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.
erininthemorning.com
Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims
Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.
1485038971
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2026
He releases this even with Third Way, a centrist org, telling dems to stop doing this. bsky.app/profile/erin...
640747
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2026
When Third Way says that Dems should hold off their anti-trans strategies, you know things are changing. The organization tends to be more centrist, and they are noticing the same thing the far-right is... the Republican anti-trans campaign cycle is NOT working this year.
14814181
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: If Trump and Hegseth weren’t trying to kick trans people out of the military, a Navy board recently wrote of a trans women that it “without reservation would recommend retention based on a record of exemplary service," lawyers revealed today. www.lawdork.com/i/219495792/...
Absent ALNAV 011/26, the board without reservation would recommend retention based on a record of exemplary service.
• If separated from Naval Service, the board recommends waiving recoupment of debt associated with service education program costs based on LT Winchell's demonstrated exemplary service.
REDACTED BOARD MEMBERS 9/23/26
111788419
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 09/10/2026
There should be a political party that wants to stop this and punish the people doing this
151971425
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 08/10/2026
These guys are good and right (and if anything are far too generous about the nuclear book)
1144
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Looks like Deters, who was banned from a Cincinnati courthouse for threatening to burn it down, is burning something down: the career of Kimberly Guilfoyle.
1214737
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Philip Bump @pbump.com · 07/10/2026
My theory is that these dudes get so used to people telling them how right they are that they truly believe they have the only solutions to the world’s problems, so see stroking Trump as a means to their own vision of what the world should be.
2623429
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
DO NOT LISTEN TO ANNIE JACOBSEN
821128
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Curtis Yarvin, a major influence on Vice President JD Vance, is openly fantasizing about Hitler again. Extremism isn’t fringe on the right.
611006359
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.
352362391
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026
this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished
8045511080
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead
824715582
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I love that this video is getting a bit of a lift on TikTok. Honestly, it's hard to make the case for why Miller and Trump are so evil and antithetical to American values, and FDR does it better than I ever could.
tiktok.com
FDR v. Stephen Miller. "The doctrine that the strong dominate the weak is the doctrine of our enemies."
TikTok video by LOLGOP
36828
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.
753561899
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The NYT is the Weekly World News now. There's no difference. This is never going to happen, not in our lifetime, and especially not with the fuck ass hucksters who run Silicon Valley today. They cannot do any of this. The NYT is just lying for them. This is so wild, man. This paper is asswipe
522840
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Nick in NC @nicknc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Science fiction authors designing aliens need to aspire to at least the level of weirdness of a real bucket orchid. Coryanthes macrantha in my greenhouse this morning. Flower is approx 15 cm wide, 10 cm tall. 🌴🌱
A bucket orchid in shades of orange and yellow. The bucket is formed from the distal end of the labellum and the column. Glands drip liquid into the bucket. Bees falling into the bucket can only escape through a hole at one side where they will be forced into contact with the pollen and stigma at the end of the column. The hole is pretty large, so the bees must be equally big.  The sepals look like big wings made of tissue paper that counterbalance the bucket. The base of the labellum where it connects to the rest of the flower looks like a weirdly ridged orange alien penis.
1125444
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026
You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.
10244561334
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump's lawlessness is more pressing, but let's not forget: the GWBush admin was also overflowing with incompetent, corrupt Republicans who were pathologically hostile to the rule of law. None of this was necessary or helpful, but it made them feel manly and it was good money for gov't contractors.
“A detainee who is shackled, transported to a former C.I.A. black site, and intentionally kept ignorant of both his right to remain silent and the inadmissibility of his prior coerced confessions, cannot be said to be making an ‘essentially free and unconstrained choice,’” he wrote.
433392
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: Susan Collins team bragging in its canvassing materials about her having "delivered" the conservative Supreme Court majority that overturned Roe. tinyurl.com/3mxnybe7 #MEpolitics
11372159
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Megan McArdle's WaPo column celebrating the end of the woke left's ability to "cancel" right-wing voices over their social media posts, while making no mention of @karenattiah.bsky.social's legally enforced reinstatement to the WaPo after being fired for her social media posts, is chef's kiss.
201459207
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
yeah i am reasonably sure that i have a better chance of winning the democratic primary for president than rahm emmanuel
3075075464
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pass a law clarifying that the supreme court’s appellate jurisdiction does not begin until a final ruling has been made by district and appeals courts.
21839166
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy
1583971509
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Data center construction has migrated to places of low resistance: poor, often Black areas where corrupt deals are commonplace and the harms to residents invisible. Lowndes County, Alabama, in the heart of the Black Belt, is one of those places. 🧵 prospect.org/2026/10/01/d...
prospect.org
‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect
Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.
7442179
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not
592610419
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
462220777
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wild that he gets this coverage after he packed the Utah Supreme Court in order to try to prevent it from enforcing a referendum-passed gerrymandering ban to steal a congressional seat for the GOP (and disenfranchise his state's largest city)
37745158
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 30/09/2026
bro are you five
Greg Brockman’s signature. Imagine if a kindergartener wrote the letters “gdb.”
81611195
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ICE's own reviews of cases of immigrant deaths in custody show a pattern of neglect: confiscation and refusal to provide routine medication, lack of follow-up care, even incompetence in reading tests or supplying medication. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social has this report. prospect.org/2026/09/30/i...
prospect.org
Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American Prospect
The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.
110658
Reposted by RAdam X the Xtreme
Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026
This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows
553121572