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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump’s obsession with these vulgar memorials to his own vanity is a reminder of the darkness around him, of his hostility to democracy, his loathing of honor, and his disordered mind. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Monumental Obsession
The president fantasizes about a capital city full of memorials—to himself.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Trump is waiting to party on the South Lawn after surrendering to Iran. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Celebrates While America Capitulates
The peace deal with Tehran is an Iranian victory.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This may be @jamellebouie.net 's best column ever, which is really saying something. Here's a gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...
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Opinion | America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance
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Timothy Griffin @tag100.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
#tenminmerlin from my porch today in NE MS
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Timothy Griffin @tag100.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
#tenminmerlin on a walk today in NE MS
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Timothy Griffin @tag100.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
#tenminmerlin on my porch in NE MS.
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Timothy Griffin @tag100.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
#tenminmerlin in NE MS today
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Timothy Griffin @tag100.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
#tenminmerlin in NE MS today
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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
“The Constitution vests the power of declaring War with Congress, therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject, and authorised such a measure.” —George Washington to William Moultrie, 28 August 1793
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The New York Times published an extraordinary study of the role of billionaires in politics earlier this week, that naturally got lost in everything that is going on, including in Iran. Here is a gift link to the article, and a few select quotes: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
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The Scale of Billionaires’ Campaign Donations is Overwhelming U.S. Politics
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
"By trumpeting unachievable objectives—unconditional surrender, regime change—as his war aims, Trump has given his enemies the opportunity to claim survival as victory. He’s left with no end point to a “short-term excursion.” - Frank Foer www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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The Obvious Is Taking Its Revenge on Trump
The reasons other U.S. presidents avoided war with Iran are becoming all too evident.
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Timothy Griffin @tag100.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
#tenminmerlin in NE MS today
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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
NEW: Before the Iran War, Trump ignored warnings that Iran could retaliate across the region and stop oil shipments. Now, with energy markets in chaos, some aides are pessimistic about the lack of a strategy to end the war. But they haven't told Trump. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
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How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War
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Timothy Griffin @tag100.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
#tenminmerlin in NE MS today
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Timothy Griffin @tag100.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
#tenminmerlin in NE MS
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Purge. Then strike. There are only three explanations. And two of them are worse than incompetence. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Epstein's ranch. (Gift Link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...
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Epstein’s New Mexico Ranch Gets Scrutiny at Last. It May Be Too Late.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Even by cult standards, this is just bonkers.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
First impression: This is regime change, lots of ways for it to go wrong, a few it could go right, but at huge risk: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran
A few paths to success, many to failure
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 28/02/2026
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 28/02/2026
My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️
OCASIO-CORTEZ STATEMENT ON
TRUMP'S COMBAT OPERATIONS IN IRAN
"The American people are once again dragged into a war they did not want by a president who does not care about the long-term consequences of his actions. This war is unlawful. It is unnecessary. And it will be catastrophic.

"Just this week, Iran and the United States were negotiating key measures that could have staved off war. The President walked away from these discussions and chose war instead.President Trump flippantly acknowledged the possibility of American casualties, stating "that often happens in war.'

"Mr. President: this was not an inevitability. This is a deliberate choice of aggression when diplomacy and security were within reach. Stop lying to the American people.

"Violence begets violence. We learned this lesson in Iraq. We learned this lesson in Afghanistan. And we are about to learn it again in Iran. Bombs have yet to create enduring democracies in the region and this will be no different.

"In moments of war, our Constitution is unambiguous: Congress authorizes war. The President does not. I will do my part to uphold our Constitution by voting YES on Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie's War Powers Resolution. Every member of Congress must join us in rejecting this aimless war.
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
We shall all reap what our leaders sow. And it will be a bitter harvest.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents
Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 19/02/2026
Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2g8rz7y… ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁
Could a different style of vaccine mark the end of the winter cold?
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Sometimes moving forward requires reckoning with uncomfortable realities. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
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A Dose of Hard Truths
Don't look away. These issues must be understood and addressed.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 14/02/2026
So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.
That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse.
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I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist.
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True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/02/2026
"I forced the shape of English onto resisting tongues and then dared to call it 'broken.'"
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I’m Still Your America
Hey, patriot. It’s been a week. As ICE spreads terror through the streets, and Teacup Eichmann presided over the murder of yet another innocent civ...
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 05/02/2026
Today, I sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro informing them that I will not be sitting down with them for their inquiry over a 90-second video I filmed in November. Here's why.
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Why I am not sitting down with Trump's DOJ
YouTube video by Sen. Elissa Slotkin
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Crushing story about a father and husband DHS wants to deport despite "doing it the right way." rayhartmann.substack.com/p/ice-cruelt...
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ICE Cruelty Hits St. Louis Family
Here's the full paywall-free version of my post (apologies for technical issues)
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Read this. We're going to need a lot of smart people to figure out how to undo all of this. If that's still even possible. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
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Opinion | ICE Is Watching You
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
New at The Watch: I dug into archival witness accounts of the British siege of Boston prior to the American Revolution. They are remarkably similar to what we're seeing in Minneapolis. open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...
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Two cities under siege
Remarkably similar scenes from Boston and Minneapolis, 260 years apart, show a federal government betraying its founding principles.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I wasn't sure what to expect from a group of Democratic state AGs, but I definitely was not expecting a long monologue about Ruby Ridge and the Boston Massacre www.theverge.com/policy/86588...
Just before the town hall, a reporter asked Ellison about the difficulty states faced in prosecuting federal agents like the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. “The idea that they’re absolutely immune is a misstatement of the law, and it is a dangerous misstatement of the law, because I don’t want any ICE agent or Border Patrol agent or any agent to think that they can just kill people and then that’s it,” Ellison told the group of reporters. Then he asked rhetorically: “What about Ruby Ridge? You ever heard of that one?”

Years after an FBI sniper shot Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge, the state of Idaho prosecuted the federal agent. The federal government went to bat for the agent, claiming that he was immune under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. The Ninth Circuit ruled that Idaho was allowed to prosecute the sniper — similarly, Minnesota is also entitled to investigate and potentially prosecute the officer who shot Renee Good.

But a different example loomed larger in Ellison’s mind: the Boston Massacre of 1770, where British soldiers shot into a crowd, ultimately killing five people.“It’s not exactly analogous, but we are talking about local authorities in Boston, prosecuting imperial agents of the colonial power, the central government, in England. And they were prosecuted. Two of them were convicted. John Adams actually represented a few of the imperial officers.”

The Boston Massacre, said Ellison, was obviously “in the mind of the framers of the Constitution” at the time the document was written.“They were thinking about this event, and they would have never conceded the state’s authority to prosecute a federal officer,” said Ellison, going on to add, “The states of the United States pre-date the United States. It is federal courts that are limited. Not state courts. State courts have plenary power.”

He finished with a dramatic flourish: “It’s true that the feds are denying us access to the investigative file. It’s also true that there’s no statute of limitations on murder.”
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
It is not up to the armed forces to put a stop to Trump’s ghastly ideas of war against NATO. The United States is not run by the military, nor should it be. Americans, and their elected representatives, must take this burden away from the armed forces—now. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal
Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
“Trump’s megalomania is transforming the United States from international leader into international pariah, and the American people will suffer the consequences for years to come.” {gift link} www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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America vs. the World
President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
It really is mad king stuff, untethered from reality. He tells the Norwegian leader, you did not give me a prize that you don't control, so maybe I will invade the territory of another Scandinavian country you don't lead.
Dear Jonas:

Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only a boat that landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Must-read @anneapplebaum.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw
Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
A terrible day. The U.S. government vs. the free world.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Danish and Greenland ministers just left the White House. It did not go well. I have a long discussion here of Trump's attempt to get Greenland and why it could lead to World War III. (Gifted.) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Most Dangerous Gambit
His irrational obsession with Greenland could lead to global conflict.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Peter Wehner is channeling Pontifex maximus “The United States under Trump is dark, aggressive, and lawless. It has become…a predator nation. This period of our history will eventually be judged, and the verdict will be unforgiving” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Folly
The United States has turned dark, aggressive, and lawless.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
At 19, I thought, “the Iraqi people were suffering under a brutal dictator…in the worst-case scenario, removing him would be a net good. What followed was civil war, mass death, swelling ranks of terror groups, genocide, mass rape, and slavery. “ I wrote about Venezuela reason.com/2026/01/07/i...
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I once supported regime change in Iraq. That’s why Venezuela worries me.
When we use our military and roll the dice with the fate of nations, the consequences play out in a much longer time frame than social media trends.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I had a really fun time working on the code that was used to make these fallout visualizations for this USA Today article. I will soon be incorporating some of it into the NUKEMAP and probably making a version of this "mass attack fallout mapper" for public use. www.usatoday.com/graphics/int...
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Fallout maps show how an attack on nuclear silos would impact US cities
USA TODAY mapped the far-reaching potential consequences of a nuclear strike against America's 450 nuclear missile silos.
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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership (Gift Article)
As President Trump sought a peace deal and Vladimir V. Putin sought victory, factions in the White House and Pentagon bled the Ukrainian war effort.
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Shelley Powers @burningbird.net · 31/12/2025
#giftarticle www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
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NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
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Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This @michellegoldberg.bsky.social piece is good, as always, but also a perfect vehicle to understand the MAGA circular firing squad, without having to immerse yourself in it 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/o...
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Opinion | Candace Owens Is the Conservative Movement’s Frankenstein Monster
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