Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Too good to be true, too true to not be good. 000
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumKonrad Adenauer formerly Honest Abe @hombrelibre.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Please read if you care about national defense. It's not enough to say we support the troops and then give morons leadership positions in questions of war and peace. 220436
Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Good and timely essay from Bill Gates www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-...gatesnotes.comThe choices we make about AI now are critical | Bill GatesAI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice. We need to start planning now so it makes the world a fairer place. 000
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumAustin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 24/08/2026Active-duty military should not have to worry about family members being deported, especially while serving in a time of war. The Trump administration's attacks on our military members goes against everything we stand for, and is something that all Americans should oppose. ICE is out of control. 1019585
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026"A pseudo-democratic fiscal basketcase, whose only apparent foreign policy objective is domination for the gratification of its president’s slapdash vanity... "Trump’s world — a world of transaction and submission — is not the only world we all have to live in..." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Canada Said No to America. It Will Reverberate Far Beyond Its Borders.Mark Carney has chosen suffering, but he did what Canadians elected him to do. 1031262365
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026John Roberts is Natalie Harp in a robe. A cringeworthy handmaiden 12153421152
Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 18/08/2026What it means to be a patriot www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comThe Wrong Kind of AmericanThe Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public. 000
Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The bit that seems missing to me in all this coverage is the switch from Gold Plated AirForce 1 from Qatar to the Original. Happy to sacrifice the press, a few cabinet secretaries the original AirForce 1, but not the gold plated plane with chandeliers www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...theatlantic.comThe Flawed Logic of Trump’s Airplane EscapeThe president cleverly evaded a serious threat, but he shouldn’t have kept it a secret. 000
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumDr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I stand with Dr. Anthony Fauci …because I value EVIDENCE over conspiracy, DATA over rumors, and SCIENCE over politics. No public official is beyond criticism, but there’s a difference between honest scientific guidance and misinformation. I’ll choose evidence EVERY time. #medsky #publichealth 457207125673
Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Hard to read this analysis on the Trump effect on US global leadership and long-term security - MAGA indeed. How China Won the Iran War open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...open.substack.comHow China Won the Iran WarTrump has shattered American power, and Beijing is picking up the pieces 010
Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Perfect, we have "perimeters of a deal" which I guess we can interpret as we don't have "parameters of a deal" merely an outline that circles the items we would hope Iran might agree to. The Tangerine Toddler mind is mush. 000
Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 30/06/2026act.weplanet.org/p/donate-jun...act.weplanet.orgDonate before the end of the monthI just donated to support WePlanet's science-based campaigns. Can you chip in too before the 30 June deadline? 000
Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 26/06/2026One of the many acts of treason by the Trump administration that will take years to repair www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...theatlantic.comAmericans Deserve Answers From HegsethThe president and the secretary of defense have a right to remove officers, but also an obligation to explain their actions. 000
Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 22/06/2026You Can See Why Trump Hates Obama open.substack.com/pub/contrari...open.substack.comYou Can See Why Trump Hates ObamaObama is everything Trump could never be. 000
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumI Live And Breathe @i-live-and-breathe.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Minnesota governor Tim Walz commented: “Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn’t listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went. The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell.” 15859186
Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 16/06/2026SO MUCH MAGA WINNING (or is that whining). A weaker nation (and it is not Iran) and a more dangerous world. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...nytimes.comOpinion | President Trump Lost This War 000
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Here you go. Why is Pete Hegseth such a cornball? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comPete Hegseth, Cornball in ChiefThe secretary of defense is a fountain of corny performances and rhetoric. 73465123
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Donald Trump proposes a 1.776 billion slush fund for terrorists. In my book "On Freedom" I proposed $1776 as guaranteed monthly fixed income for Americans. Each kind of future is possible. We choose. 412858712
Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 02/06/2026That about covers it from @davidfrum.bsky.social "Trump’s methods are too chaotic and lazy. Trump’s goals are more fundamentally larcenous and criminal than ideological and political." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comWhy the Worst Get on TopTrump’s choice of Bill Pulte for acting director of national intelligence is both terrifying and predictable. 010
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumRo Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Congratulations on your wedding Don Jr. Sorry for distracting your Dad with this important work. 1115195313519
Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 26/04/2026With so many horrors coming from Trump 2.0, a little thing like destroying USAID (resulting in 700K excess deaths and counting) gets lost in the noise 000
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumAmee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Bravo to there person who has put these flyers all over Capitol Hill and even thought to put them in waterproof sleeves. 412257525
Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Trump, admitted the test with 'a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe’ was 'very hard,' - no chance he was going to get the math question right 000
Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 18/04/2026"He is also known to drink to excess at the Poodle Room, in Las Vegas, where he frequently spends parts of his weekends." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...theatlantic.comThe FBI Director Is MIAKash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences. 052
Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 16/04/2026To great advocates for the role of science in advancing human flourishing 000
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/04/2026It's Schrödinger’s joke: It only decides to be a joke when you open the box to ask why Trump said it. 1631219164
Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 13/04/2026"... in casting aside enlightened self-interest in favor of survival of the meanest, Trump sacrifices the foundation of our superpower stature. As Kagan wrote, 'No one will cooperate with the United States by choice, only by coercion. '" @contrariannews.org open.substack.com/pub/contrari...open.substack.comBullying Does Not PayNATO and the pope reveal Trump’s isolation and weakness. 000
Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 12/04/2026You forgot free navigation in the Straits of Hormuz 000
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumJess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 10/04/2026This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads. 907194337007
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/04/2026This is so well done. 👌 560196778276
Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Donald Trump is the war’s biggest loser (unfortunately only partly true, the American people and our ?former? allies are). economist.com/leaders/2026...economist.comDonald Trump is the war’s biggest loserThere is a reason he wants an exit from Iran 000
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumWePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 09/04/2026As we face the second global energy crisis in five years, remember: the clean energy transition is also an energy security transition. Nuclear, wind, solar and hydro make us less exposed to authoritarian regimes and global shocks. Electrification makes us more resilient. 074
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/04/2026A commenter notes that "Trump managed to be both Hitler and Chamberlain in the same negotiation. An unprecedented feat." 😭 9164421402
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Iran posted this. What a humiliation for Trump. 830117534036
Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 08/04/2026It is unconditional surrender, just US surrender 010
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumArt Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez: “The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” 🍿 544325477237
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumSimon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here: 464231437588
Steven Buchsbaum @stevebuchsbaum.bsky.social · 08/04/2026IMPORTANT READ FROM RADIO FREE TOM - @radiofreetom.bsky.social Trump has threatened use of nuclear weapons. We have unfortunately entered a whole new level of global instability. Will be hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comDid Trump Just Threaten to Use Nuclear Weapons in Iran?If such an order comes to pass, the military can and must refuse. 000
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumKamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 07/04/2026The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this. 21714683011453
Reposted by Steven BuchsbaumElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Don't think I've ever been as terrified in all the Trump security crises. As @pkrugman.bsky.social said, "It’s the most astonishing, awful thing that I’ve ever seen, and we’ve all seen a lot of awful things." Mainly as cope, and to teach it, I keep asking why. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...open.substack.comLiving in HellWar crimes coming: A horrifying update 271096402
