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Vegas Tenold

@vegastenold.bsky.social
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Journalist, documentary guy, and author.

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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I wouldn't worry about it. FIFA will suspend the result later tonight.
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Evan McLaren, Ayatollah of Japan 🇯🇵 @evanmclaren.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Bra episode av MAGAWATCH fra @eivindtraedal.bsky.social og @vegastenold.bsky.social, som vanlig. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilca...
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Hvem er Norges svar på MAGA? | MAGAWATCH
YouTube video by Manifest Media
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
@jeanguerre.bsky.social Hey, Jean. Any way I can DM you for a podcast interview?
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Go get you a copy of @michaelehayden.bsky.social new book Strange People on the Hill. Thank me later, or even better, thank him. What a read!
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Ny episode fra @eivindtraedal.bsky.social og meg! Her er det enormt mye rart!
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Eivind Trædal @eivindtraedal.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Aldri har vi hatt så mye stoff å nå over i en episode av MAGAwatch. Jeg og Vegard snakker om Iran, paven, blasfemi, lego-propaganda og wrestling i ukas MAGAwatch. Og vi forsøker å finne ut om vår MAGA-venn Jason snart har fått nok av kaoset! open.spotify.com/episode/6Zhj...
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Captain on the speakers before takeoff: "Plane suddenly decided not to work. Weird. But it works now so we should be on our way in a minute or two."
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Hey, @sarahposner.bsky.social ! I've been trying to reach out to you.
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
More delightful nonsense from Krishna and I! This time with special guest Alzo Slade! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnsH...
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Episode 7! Give it Up for Alzo Slade!
YouTube video by Wonderboys
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The craziest thing happened! Ye just released a new album and took the cover art from a piece me and my friend Peter van Agtmael did for a Norwegian magazine back in 2015. Nope, he didn't ask first.
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Maybe the state of protest isn't as bleak as I thought, but it's clear that the nature of protest has to change as Trump ignores First Amendment rights.
wagingnonviolence.org
Resistance is alive and well in the United States
Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This is terrifying and should be seen alongside the CBS settlement, Gawker, the efforts to overturn Sullivan--billionaires putting their boot on the throat of free speech. This is the actual cancel culture.
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
“So, let’s get this party started, Terrorbros.”
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
After chatting with @michaelehayden.bsky.social and @jaredlholt.bsky.social on their podcast, I've been thinking about what the regime's crackdown on activists means for the future of protest in America. New substack! Subscribe and share!
whathappensinvegas.substack.com
I Think We're Alone Now
Is this the end of protest?
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
the funniest thing about JFK assassination theories is that conspiracists accidentally discovered a seedy nexus of intelligence agencies, organized crime, and political extremists and then judged it irrelevant because it didn't provide proof of what they were originally looking for
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This is so so wild. Mercola is the OG of online health misinfo sitting on a $300 mil enterprise. And these tapes where he confers with an alien spirit on every decision from what gasses he inserts into his bum, to firing executives, to feeding his dog his own blood—shows he’s a true believer.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Remember “the #Resistance”?! I did a deep dive into 2017-2020 internet, the rise of the movement, its major figures, the resistance’s ultimate downfall, and why it crumbled. youtu.be/mz3Rf820ozE
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The Rise and Fall of 'the Resistance'
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Next episode is a doozy! Chatted with @thesparrowproject.bsky.social about the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, the regime's crackdown on dissent, and Andy's own arrest for non-violent activism. Episode drops tomorrow! Subscribe at whathappensinvegas.substack.com to get it right in your inbox!
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Like a goddammed idiot I've been doomscrolling here, and all the dystopia is a little overwhelming. Any good news out there? What do you folx do to feel happy these days?
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
On the newest podcast episode, you’ll hear us speak with @vegastenold.bsky.social about the unholy political alliances that the ADL is attempting to form with the Trump administration. Bleak stuff podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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010: The ADL Goes MAGA feat. Vegas Tenold
Podcast Episode · Posting Through It · 03/17/2025 · 1h 5m
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Talking to @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social about the ADL abandoning any pretense of being a civil rights organization.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Ep 10, featuring a chat with @vegastenold.bsky.social The ADL goes MAGA postthroughit.substack.com/p/010-the-ad...
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010: The ADL Goes MAGA feat. Vegas Tenold
The 'leading anti-hate organization in the world' has shacked up with Trump world
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Friendly reminder that everything you do online is being monitored and could be used against you. Focus on real world communities, real world solidarity, real world friendships.
404media.co
The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring
404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it an...
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I got to be there when the Posting Through It podcast hit double digits! Shame the topic is such a bummer, but a spoonful of @michaelehayden.bsky.social and @jaredlholt.bsky.social makes the medicine go down a treat!
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is an absolute masterclass in how to interview people in power.
npr.org
DHS official defends Mahmoud Khalil arrest, but offers few details on why it happened
Homeland Security deputy secretary Troy Edgar offered few details on the Trump administration's legal reasoning to deport Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.
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Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A few words on journalism, risk and what I actually said.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Great. Columbia J-school students from abroad are being told to obey in advance by their dean. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...
Students who were not U.S. citizens should avoid publishing work on Gaza, Ukraine and protests related to their former classmate’s arrest, urged Stuart Karle, a First Amendment lawyer and adjunct professor. With about two months to go before graduation, their academic accomplishments — or even their freedom — could be at risk if they attracted the ire of the Trump administration.

“If you have a social media page, make sure it is not filled with commentary on the Middle East,” he told the gathering in Pulitzer Hall. When a Palestinian student objected, the journalism school’s dean, Jelani Cobb, was more direct about the school’s inability to defend international students from federal prosecution.

“Nobody can protect you,” Mr. Cobb said. “These are dangerous times.”
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/03/2025
“Throughout the work on the list, I was encouraged to look for cases of extremism coming from the left. It was even explicitly suggested that congresswomen AOC, Ilhan Omar, or Rashida Tlaib would be good places to start.”
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Vegas Tenold (@vegastenold.bsky.social) : I’ve realized that what I’ve really been covering is American loneliness .... to say that loneliness has gotten us into a pretty bad spot. Let's figure out loneliness before it breaks the world. whathappensinvegas.substack.com/p/lets-figur...
whathappensinvegas.substack.com
Let's figure out loneliness before it breaks the world.
Welcome!
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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
To my delight I just found Vegas on BlueSky. You should definitely follow him and read this article about the ADL. It's enlightening, although unsurprising.
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The ADL threw its support behind Trump's arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. I know a little bit about the ADL because I used to work there, so I wrote about the civil rights org that doesn't care about civil rights.
whathappensinvegas.substack.com
The Fascist and His Little Helpers
As much as we might hope that it’s lonely on the wrong side of history, it’s getting remarkably crowded.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
“If organs of state security & petty demagogues & mob leaders are acting in concert to crack down on dissent it is clearly and unequivocally fascist.” - @lioneltrolling.bsky.social www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-abduct...
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The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil
“..the first arrest of many to come.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Kidnapping students for thought crimes is not something democracies do. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...
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BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
As a professor & a Jew I’m sick to my heart about the attack on Columbia—which is a) escalation of the war on all of higher ed; b) Jew-washing fascism, with the intention of inciting more antisemitism, which in turn will be used as cover for more fascism.
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Trump and Musk have been making totally unfounded claims that the gold in Fort Knox is gone, but they should definitely do down and check and spend a long time doing it. @annamerlan.bsky.social
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I talked to my friend Vegas about the worlds we cover for his new podcast. I look insane in the video so don’t watch that but do like and subscribe without looking right at it okay
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
@annamerlan.bsky.social and I chat about the stickiness of lies, the challenge of countering them, and the allure of extremism and conspiracy theories. Check out the full episode here! whathappensinvegas.substack.com/p/disinforma...
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
New substack! Donald Trump doesn't want you to start a band! whathappensinvegas.substack.com/p/the-orange...
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The Orange Man Hates Your Dungeons & Dragons Game
I won’t dwell too much on The Bad Thing that happened in the Oval Office the other day.
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Vegas Tenold @vegastenold.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
First post! Welcome to my substack! I'd love it if you subscribed! whathappensinvegas.substack.com/p/lets-figur...
whathappensinvegas.substack.com
Let's figure out loneliness before it breaks the world.
Welcome!
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