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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stephen Miller's Office of Remigration deliberately announces right in its name that white nationalism is the basis for US immigration policy. Dems should defund it. The great Posting Through It pod invited me on to talk about my reporting on Miller. We went deep: open.spotify.com/episode/5OAX...

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146: Taxpayer-Funded White Nationalism feat. Greg Sargent

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 8h

like Gandhi’s comment on Western Civilization: “I think it would be a very good idea.”

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 8h

Law and Order did an episode based on Steve Bartman. They could do one on this guy.

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 8h

these awful men ruin so much more than just the lives they touch or even their own. 😢🤬

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 9h

love Elaine Stritch’s reaction.

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 10h

My brother in law used to grow both in Hawaii before they moved. 🍌☕️😉

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 11h

no, i had in mind the animus against any kind of refinement or urbanity.

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 11h

when Democrats suggest anything remotely resembling personal austerity, we are of course denounced as Maoist revolutionaries.

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 11h

fair enough, but almost everyone opposing Lenin in 1918 had been pro-war in 1914.

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 12h

he expected revolution to break out rendering national borders irrelevant.

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 12h

All the border areas at that time were uncertain and unfixed. centuries of imperial struggle made that an unfortunate reality—Polish “national self determination” could deny Ukrainian or other smaller peoples.

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 12h

everyone was. there were no good sides from 1914–23. read Adam Hochschild’s “To End All Wars.”

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 12h

all of that happened during a horrific civil war against vile opponents. after an even worse world war that he was one of the relatively few to oppose all along. he was a violent authoritarian. his opponents were no better. if they had won, things would have been no better.

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 12h

Noël Coward would be appalled.

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 12h

also a huge amount of the criticism he receives is in bad faith.

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 12h

“He who has not made mistakes in war has not made war.” (attributed to Napoleon)

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 12h

the only reason i ever defend Lenin is because most of his adversaries were at least as bad as he was.

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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 21h

Obviously, when we learned that there was a book festival dedicated to history, Kate had to go check it out. The hardest part was choosing which panels to attend. Read her report here: www.draftingthepast.com/wait-theres-... #booksky #skystorians 🗃️

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Wait, there's a book festival just for history?

Kate reports from the tenth annual History Book Festival

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 13h

probably a Celtics fan

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 13h

All the airline had to do was not eliminate the in-flight entertainment.

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 13h

oh, just give it to him. he'll never know it isn't real.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 15h

This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...

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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 13h

He's not the first to point this out.

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 13h

Also, I must never suffer from my decision to neglect people I don't approve of--if they get sick I must never contract their disease. If they get deported, someone else is to blame for crops not being picked or my mother's nursing aide no longer showing up.

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 13h

maybe a third of a seventeenth?

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 13h

"For he himself has said it and it's greatly to his credit"

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 13h

And as an addendum: Watch as the foamers, Zionist and anti-Zionist alike, arrive in the comments below to throw rage and spittle becsuse their singular, hermetic imaginings of what the end game in The Levant should be, aren't being heeded. Both sides, without fail.

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 13h

good to know he didn't waste his college experience by going to class or reading anything.

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basta4me.bsky.social @basta4me.bsky.social · 17h

Insanity upon insanity. And what is extra evil is that Putin always expects a birthday “gift” from his loyalists in the form of some kind of terror inflicted on others as his way of celebrating. It’s his depraved tradition. thegaze.media/news/a-blood...

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A ‘Bloody Birthday Gift’ for Putin: Russian Strike Kills Nine in Ukrainian Apartment Block

A Russian missile struck an apartment building in the northern Ukrainian city of Pryluky, killing at least nine people and wounding 39, in one of the deadliest attacks of a wider overnight bombardment...

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 13h

The hallmark of personalist governance: everyone needs to propitiate the ruler and earn his bounty. Or get screwed.

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Cortney McKee @cortneymckee.bsky.social · 19h

Not my favorite picture of Honey, but she has something important to say. But still a good dog picture.

Dog on a couch with a sign that reafs 'There are more.than 65,000 people in US Concentration Camps."

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 14h

You deserve what you vote for. Texans should WANT to deserve better than Ken Paxton. We wait to find out if they actually DO deserve better. Houston Post editorial endorsement: "James Talarico for Senate: Texans deserve better than Ken Paxton’s moral rot"

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?

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As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind

The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 15h

neither extremist Zionists nor extremist anti-Zionists are willing to concede the humanity of the other nor to forgive anyone who does. 😢💔

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 15h

there is no “THE left.” There are approximately 100,000 different, completely uncoordinated lefts. Unfortunately, we fight each other at least as much as we fight the right.

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 15h

unless you’re a hot dog vendor

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