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Ted Perlmutter

@tedperl.bsky.social
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Working on the nexuses between human rights, social media, peacebuilding and migration at Columbia University

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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Is it Trump's plan to go through every amendment and systematically undermine them?
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Do we not live in the best of all possible worlds? We should feel honored.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/a...
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Homeland Security’s Embrace of Art Reopens an Old Debate (Gift Article)
Showcasing “American Progress,” John Gast’s tableau of Manifest Destiny, is of a piece with the administration’s desire for a more traditional view of American history.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
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How Democratic Socialists Are Wrestling With Their Next Moves (Gift Article)
After notching primary victories, D.S.A. members in Chicago debated whether socialist candidates should be free to distance themselves from goals like abolishing prisons as they chase more seats this ...
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
wapo.st/4dYKhhc No (EZ) Exit -- by DJT
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Opinion | Trump’s Iran own goal
The war has empowered Iranian hard-liners, blocked a vital shipping lane and handed a windfall to Russia.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
7 years ago, we learned about Bob Mueller’s conclusions. Today, there are a lot of posts on social media claiming it was a farce, or worse, a fraud. But those posts are disinformation. Here is the actual information, with links for those who want to do a deep dive. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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What Was Actually in the Mueller Report
There is an enormous amount of misinformation circulating about former Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 U.S.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
some people neverr learn www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...
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Gregory Bovino’s Final Days: Harsh Words and Few Regrets
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius: “There will be no military participation.. We have a situation which we did not provoke.. This war started without any consultations.. What does Trump expect from a handful of European frigates in Strait of Hormuz that the mighty US Navy can't manage alone?"
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Everything Trump Touches Dies #ETTD www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
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Trump plans to close Kennedy Center for about two years, starting in July
Under a proposal by President Donald Trump, the closure could begin July 4, with construction beginning immediately.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Editorial cartoon from chappatte.com/en
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
HORRIFIC: the Trump admin is reportedly planning to dump hundreds of parents and children arrested in the interior (including Minneapolis) into extraordinarily dangerous Mexican border towns, and make them run a gauntlet of kidnappers if they want kangaroo court hearings.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A British executive who managed to grab a seat later told me he wanted to be in the room, “if only because seeing Trump in the wild is like a zoological experience.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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Column | Trump dominated Davos. But Canada’s Carney was the star.
Carney delivered an address that squarely confronted the world wrought by Trump’s presidency. Davos’s attendees — including Trump — took notice.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Good Carnegie Endowment story worth reading--governments are increasingly willing to bear the costs of internet shutdowns if they see immediate payoffs.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Brutal poll showing how fleeting Trump's progress was with young and minority voters. Worse than where he started from.
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Center for Transformational Change @cftchange.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
On #MLKDay, we remember Mariam Kaba's call that "hope is a discipline." Our new zine explores how creators sustain political hope through expression and community. It asks: What gives you political hope right now? Read it here: www.transformationalchange.co/news-stories...
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The urgency of political hope — CfTC
What good is hope in a time led by charlatans and monsters?  In our present moment, forces aligned toward extraction, opportunism, oppression, and violence seem to have gained momentum over our ...
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/01/2026
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.
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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The Labor Department in recent days has done multiple posts echoing QAnon phrases. QAnon influencers in response have declared vindication. One of them wrote the department "is Q posting. … This is not debatable now. If you like it, cool. If you don’t like it, too bad. It’s happening." My latest:
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QAnon community declares vindication as Trump’s Labor Department pens multiple posts echoing QAnon phrases
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Imperial dining
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Some men dream things that never were and ask why not? RFK (the real one)
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.
Chart showing "Detention Population, Among Those Arrested in the interior, by Criminal Record, May 2019 through January 27, 2026. There are three lines on the graph: prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. from 2019 through January 2025, "prior conviction" is by far the highest, followed by pending charges much lower down and "no criminal record" the lowest. During the Biden admin, very few people arrested by ICE in the interior and detained had no criminal record. Beginning in January 2025, all three lines jump, but the highest spike is among those with no criminal records. By September, that has become the single largest. Since that point, there are now thousands more people in detention with no criminal record than people with prior convictions.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Heavy Weather
yellow warning sign indicating danger of ICE shooting into a car
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 07/01/2026
The Trump administration’s brazen military assault risks causing a new human rights disaster for Venezuelans. The US appears poised to actively encourage Venezuela to maintain Nicolás Maduro’s repressive apparatus as long as it furthers US interests.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Trump’s ‘High-Fear’ World talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
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Trump’s ‘High-Fear’ World
Not long after I first moved to Washington, D.C. more than 25...
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
At least his unlawful belligerence is consistent.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: Trump “will try to take what he wants—that's true whether it's in a department store dressing room, or a majority of the American electorate telling him no, or the head of a sovereign foreign state telling him no, or our NATO allies, or the courts, or the Constitution.”
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Hard to see how Hegseth thinks this is a winning strategy, particularly since he had expressed similar views about not following illegal orders about a decade ago.
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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
"The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape---As the buildout of AI infrastructure alarms communities, it is fast emerging as a potent electoral issue across the political divide" wapo.st/4jytv9K
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The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape
Backlash over the proliferation of data centers has entered the national political conversation and could affect voters of all political persuasions in this year’s midterm elections.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Another aspect of Trump administration tendency to create "narco-terrorist" organizations when politically convenient falls by the wayside. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
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Justice Dept. Drops Claim That Venezuela’s ‘Cartel de los Soles’ Is an Actual Group
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation
The WHITE HOUSE
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RESTORING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ENDING FEDERAL
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January 20, 2025A memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi said these agendas may merit a federal investigation:
• "anti-Americanism"
• "anti-capitalism"
• "anti-Christianity"
• "opposition to law and immigration enforcement"
- "radical gender ideology"
- "hostility towards traditional views on family, religion, and morality"
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Some explanation for how we sink into illegal, illegitimate, and ineffective boat bombings in the Caribbean. wapo.st/4p66tIm
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Stephen Miller’s hard-line Mexico strategy morphed into deadly boat strikes
President Donald Trump’s homeland security adviser, Stephen Miller, had a plan to target Mexican drug cartels. That strategy morphed into lethal boat strikes.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Food fight escalates www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/s...
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Amid Fractures on the Right, Tucker Carlson Continues His Attacks
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Be realistic, demand the impossible!
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Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Today in 'headlines that feel like they should be by The Onion but are in fact horrifically real'
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Trump has now pardoned a murderous drug lord who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the country, AND the guy who ran the Dark Web's biggest drug marketplace.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration. But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants. The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Strange and getting stranger www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/a...
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Late Night on Trump’s ‘Social Media Blitzkrieg’
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Is the tide starting to flow back out? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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More than 220 judges have now rejected the Trump admin’s mass detention policy
The number has skyrocketed in recent weeks and includes at least 20 judges appointed by Trump himself.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Remnants of a brutal war explode on an American street. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
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D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan, a Childhood Friend Said
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Testing AI in bluesky gemini.google.com/share/c12754...
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‎Gemini - LLM Essay Likelihood Analysis
Created with Gemini
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
RT @davidaxelrod: "I’m having serious concerns that my order is not being followed." -U.S. District Judge Sarah Eliis, after numerous cases of wanton assaults on members of the public and media by armed, masked DHS agents during their current blitz of the Chicago area.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
RT @TheAtlanticPR: The Atlantic’s journalists will not sign the Pentagon’s press policy. Statement here from editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg:
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
RT @BillKristol: ICE is provoking violence, and rhetoric coming from Trumpists about their desire for an authoritarian strongman is alarming. But some governors and judges are trying to defend the republic. And Dems should consider broadening their aims in the shutdown.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Questions After Quantico U.S. military commanders around the world will be working to provide steady leadership after Hegseth’s bravado and Trump’s bluster. www.thebulwark.com/p/questions-...
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Questions After Quantico
U.S. military commanders around the world will be working to provide steady leadership after Hegseth’s bravado and Trump’s bluster.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Questions After Quantico www.thebulwark.com/p/questions-...
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Questions After Quantico
U.S. military commanders around the world will be working to provide steady leadership after Hegseth’s bravado and Trump’s bluster.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Public blowback works..... RT @yashar: BREAKING Jimmy Kimmel’s show is returning to ABC. "Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
A new form og government -- corrupto capitalism www.notus.org/courts/doj-p...
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The Justice Department Had 36 Lawyers Fighting Corruption Full-Time. Under Trump, It’s Down to Two.
The Public Integrity Section is the latest casualty in the administration’s attacks on Nixon-era good-government reforms.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The goal of these ads is to drive a deeper wedge between local law enforcement and local politicians.
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