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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

These summits are too embarrassing - and too dangerous, with Trump's instability - and the country would be safer and better off if our president weren't hosting them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Trump Should Stop Hosting Summits

He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 1h

A quick trip to DC and back today

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2h

Literally at this moment. I realized a week ago I was never getting this chair back.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2h

So, this is the seat I use when I'm doing TV. It's high and has no back, so it works better for TV. I left it next to my desk last week. Lily has decided that she's now my officemate. She stays next to me all day and night. So I bought another of the exact same chair for TV. Because I am a cat dad.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 7h

"Fortunately, the damage this project could do will be somewhat limited because Hegseth has set a deadline of just 120 days for these men to report back. Then again, if Gingrich, Luckey, and Musk can’t redefine the future of national defense in four months, who can?" 😂😩

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kshap @kshap.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you @radiofreetom.bsky.social via @theatlantic.com “…Hegseth’s speech proved, yet again, that he is manifestly unfit for his job… www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Pete Hegseth, Idea Guy

His State of the Force address was a partisan disgrace—with a few good ideas buried in it.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 12h

And on it went, with Hegseth spinning one bad idea after another, and managing to insult any number of Americans in the process. A bad idea hamster www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Pete Hegseth, Idea Guy

His State of the Force address was a partisan disgrace—with a few good ideas buried in it.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 10h

This is a great if frustrating piece. Also: "Luckey—who co-founded the defense firm Anduril Industries" -- my rule that people who name things after stuff in Lord of the Rings should be avoided at all costs remains undefeated.

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Shoshana Bee @shohanabee76.bsky.social · 13h

“What a democracy cannot—and should not—tolerate is a secretary of defense who trucks in propaganda and wants the people who serve in America’s military to be the armed instrument of his own resentments and biases.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Pete Hegseth, Idea Guy

His State of the Force address was a partisan disgrace—with a few good ideas buried in it.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 12h

We’ll know soon enough. Hope I’m wrong too.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 12h

And on it went, with Hegseth spinning one bad idea after another, and managing to insult any number of Americans in the process. A bad idea hamster www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Pete Hegseth, Idea Guy

His State of the Force address was a partisan disgrace—with a few good ideas buried in it.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I retired four years ago. They gotta let it go :)

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Eric Schmitt just kept doubling down on his Jack Smith conspiracy even after that painful moment in the hearing. Now, we have concrete evidence he misunderstood his own evidence. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...

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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing

TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you haven't been keeping up, Sen Schmitt tried to play gotcha with Jack Smith and it blew up in his face.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why did I have to wait all season for an episode as good as Tomorrow’s Enterprise?

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David Veit 🇺🇦🌻 @daves-not-here-man.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"His summits are a national hazard precisely because Trump apparently does not understand that he is representing the United States; instead, he seems to think he’s just having a visit with some of the guys in a very cool club of which he’d very much like to be a member."

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nobody knew. Highly classified failure of the Soviet warning system kept under wraps for years. Happy Almost Nuclear War Day, for those who celebrate

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CaptainWonkoTheSane @captainles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Boston Breakout Day to all who celebrate (which I'm pretty sure is only @radiofreetom.bsky.social).

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m sorry, but if you bring an iced coffee - or any damn beverage at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.

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Call me Ishmabill @billjank.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nailed this one, @radiofreetom.bsky.social Giving the reins of the US to Trump should disqualify anyone left in the GOP from further service to the country. No president in US history has damaged US standing in the world more.

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Trump Should Stop Hosting Summits

He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Of course it was 6-3. People are going to have to vote in numbers too big to challenge. That's just how it is, unless states can block this somehow.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Soe Noire rampaged through Greenfield’s LGBTQ community like a dose of the clap." The Greenfield lesbian bar saga, by @helenlewis.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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How to Destroy a Lesbian Bar

The scourge of COVID led to drive-by whinings disguised as activism.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Great convo! (And with an expert on monuments)

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This character was what made me turn off Buck Rogers, even if 19 year old me wanted to stare at Erin Gray

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“In the Donald Trump White House, summits are hazardous excursions during which the interests of the United States are shoved aside by a president whose cringe-inducing admiration of dictators makes these meetings into rituals of American humiliation.”—Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social

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Trump Should Stop Hosting Summits

He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.

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Jim @theslothsays.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bluesky is the Western Massachusetts Lesbian bar of Social media

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes, my one article on vintage TV shows how the cancer grew in the GOP, not the dozens and dozens of articles I wrote about Trump and the GOP and Nazis in the GOP Wait'll she finds out my feelings about why James Bond should be white

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I thought it might be nice to have one article that isn't about politics or why America sucks, but no, we can't have nice things. (I wrote a LOT in my last book about the poisonousness of nostalgia)

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Tom Hilton @tvhilton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anyone: Sometimes I enjoy certain things Bluesky: ^^^HISTORY’S GREATEST MONSTER

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Ted Pastrick @splendidsplinter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I often dread opening Bluesky for the very thing you document: Relentless lack of joy. I know things are bad. I don't need to be clubbed over the head with that reality because of some offhand remark. Should be renamed Darksky. Waiting for someone to scold me for saying that.

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KQED Forum @kqedforum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🎙️ON AIR: Trump is building monuments to cement his legacy, from a White House ballroom to a proposed triumphal arch. We’ll discuss what they say about presidential power. ❓Have you ever visited a monument or public building that changed how you understood a historical figure or event? 📻Listen:

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Trump’s Monuments to Himself | KQED

Why are monuments such a priority for Trump, and what does this tell us about executive power?

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

never change, Bluesky Me: I fondly remember TV shows of my childhood Bluesky replier:

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A few years ago, I wrote an ode to vintage television, including the Emperor of Cheese, Irwin Allen: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Why I Love Vintage Television

It's like time travel, only safer.

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