Nick Demarest
@ndemarest.bsky.social
Overly-Susceptible to Trust without Verification
and a likely
Provider of Context-Free Judgment and Opinion
and a likely
Provider of Context-Free Judgment and Opinion
Pinned
Reposted by Nick Demarest
Le Groenland est et doit rester européen
Le Groenland est et doit rester européen
Après l’enlèvement de Nicolas Maduro au Venezuela, le territoire autonome danois fait partie des autres cibles de Donald Trump. Une menace qui porterait un coup fatal à l’OTAN. Pour les Européens, il est plus que temps de répondre avec fermeté, le seul langage que comprend le président américain.
www.lemonde.fr
January 6, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Le Groenland est et doit rester européen
Reposted by Nick Demarest
“.. How can anyone in Congress — Democrats or Republicans — make a budget ‘deal’ with this administration if we now know the President is going to ignore implementing any part of the ‘deal’ he wants?”
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...
October 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
“.. How can anyone in Congress — Democrats or Republicans — make a budget ‘deal’ with this administration if we now know the President is going to ignore implementing any part of the ‘deal’ he wants?”
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...
Reposted by Nick Demarest
This long read in The Verge does a remarkable job of describing how Wikipedia's editing community works, the project's strengths and weaknesses, and the threats it faces.
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive
The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.
www.theverge.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This long read in The Verge does a remarkable job of describing how Wikipedia's editing community works, the project's strengths and weaknesses, and the threats it faces.
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Reposted by Nick Demarest
if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war
September 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war
What if the corporate world operated like sports.. $1 trillion market cap over a 3 month average and you get split up. No messy lawsuits, just clear rotating competition for the consumer’s benefit.
August 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
What if the corporate world operated like sports.. $1 trillion market cap over a 3 month average and you get split up. No messy lawsuits, just clear rotating competition for the consumer’s benefit.
Outrage is power in the attention economy
June 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Outrage is power in the attention economy
Reposted by Nick Demarest
June 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Reposted by Nick Demarest
Donald Trump’s crypto project netted $350mn from presidential memecoin
https://www.ft.com/content/cb1def8f-53a6-478e-9b3e-33c383b29629
https://www.ft.com/content/cb1def8f-53a6-478e-9b3e-33c383b29629
Donald Trump’s crypto project netted $350mn from presidential memecoin
FT analysis shows potential windfall for US president in three weeks following launch in January
www.ft.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Donald Trump’s crypto project netted $350mn from presidential memecoin
https://www.ft.com/content/cb1def8f-53a6-478e-9b3e-33c383b29629
https://www.ft.com/content/cb1def8f-53a6-478e-9b3e-33c383b29629
Reposted by Nick Demarest
Forcing 240,000 legal Ukrainian refugees to return to their country amid Putin’s brutal invasion is a shameful decision that flies in the face of America’s values.
Exclusive: Trump plans to revoke legal status of Ukrainians who fled to US, sources say
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation.
www.reuters.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Forcing 240,000 legal Ukrainian refugees to return to their country amid Putin’s brutal invasion is a shameful decision that flies in the face of America’s values.
Reposted by Nick Demarest
This is an excellent response to Trump administration bullying. Well done.
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is an excellent response to Trump administration bullying. Well done.
Reposted by Nick Demarest
Read every word of this article reporting how immigration detainees were abused in Guantanamo. 1 hour a week outdoors, shackled. Otherwise solitary. Military guards. Leaders and unfortunately apparently service members guilty of humanity’s worst. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Invasive frisks, suicide attempts: Three migrants describe Guantánamo detention
Three migrants sent to Guantánamo said they were denied calls to loved ones, subjected to humiliating strip searches and left in isolation for prolonged periods.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Read every word of this article reporting how immigration detainees were abused in Guantanamo. 1 hour a week outdoors, shackled. Otherwise solitary. Military guards. Leaders and unfortunately apparently service members guilty of humanity’s worst. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Reposted by Nick Demarest
Zelensky cares more about Ukraine and Ukrainians, present and future, than about himself or what people say about him. This makes him incomprehensible to people like Trump and Musk, who care only about their personal power and image. He is a living rebuke and it’s one reason they despise him.
February 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Zelensky cares more about Ukraine and Ukrainians, present and future, than about himself or what people say about him. This makes him incomprehensible to people like Trump and Musk, who care only about their personal power and image. He is a living rebuke and it’s one reason they despise him.
Reposted by Nick Demarest
En direct, guerre en Ukraine : le pays « n’est pas à vendre », dit Volodymyr Zelensky aux Etats-Unis
En direct, guerre en Ukraine : le pays « n’est pas à vendre », dit Volodymyr Zelensky aux Etats-Unis
Samedi, l’Ukraine a refusé de signer un accord proposé par les Etats-Unis concernant les ressources en minerais du pays. L’administration de Donald Trump avait fait savoir qu’elle attendait de Kiev l’accès à 50 % des minerais stratégiques ukrainiens, en compensation de l’aide militaire et économique américaine.
www.lemonde.fr
February 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
En direct, guerre en Ukraine : le pays « n’est pas à vendre », dit Volodymyr Zelensky aux Etats-Unis
Reposted by Nick Demarest
This excellent post identifies some huge flaws in a "study" by the MRC which doesn't interrogate why right-wing sources like OANN and Newsmax are deprecated (not banned) as sources on Wikipedia, and ignored right-leaning sources that are considered reliable and are widely used.
1/ The Media Research Center (MRC) is pushing a new attack on Wikipedia, claiming it "blacklists" conservative media. In reality, right-wing groups have been escalating their war on Wikipedia for over a year—because they can’t control it. 🧵👇 www.thewikipedian.net/p/right-wing...
The Right’s War on Wikipedia is Just a Repackaging of its War on Journalism
In its exaggerated critique of Wikipedia's standards for reliable sources, the Media Research Center attempts a striking feat of false equivalence
www.thewikipedian.net
February 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This excellent post identifies some huge flaws in a "study" by the MRC which doesn't interrogate why right-wing sources like OANN and Newsmax are deprecated (not banned) as sources on Wikipedia, and ignored right-leaning sources that are considered reliable and are widely used.
Reposted by Nick Demarest
Guerre en Ukraine : Donald Trump brise l’unité des alliés en lançant, avec Vladimir Poutine, des négociations de paix
Guerre en Ukraine : Donald Trump brise l’unité des alliés en lançant, avec Vladimir Poutine, des négociations de paix
Sans concertation avec les dirigeants européens, le président américain s’est longuement entretenu, mercredi, avec le chef du Kremlin. Il a également appelé, beaucoup plus brièvement, Volodymyr Zelensky qui doit rencontrer vendredi, à Munich, une délégation américaine emmenée par le vice-président J. D. Vance.
www.lemonde.fr
February 13, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Guerre en Ukraine : Donald Trump brise l’unité des alliés en lançant, avec Vladimir Poutine, des négociations de paix
Reposted by Nick Demarest
Guess we misheard him when he said: “I'll demand that interest rates drop immediately.”
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/p...
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/p...
February 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Guess we misheard him when he said: “I'll demand that interest rates drop immediately.”
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/p...
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/p...
Reposted by Nick Demarest
Uhhh, hi! It's me, Bookshop.org, a place to buy books online where every purchase financially supports indie bookstores instead of some billionaire.
November 20, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Uhhh, hi! It's me, Bookshop.org, a place to buy books online where every purchase financially supports indie bookstores instead of some billionaire.
Reposted by Nick Demarest
#FYI: ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.
(Published 2021)
(Published 2021)
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes,…
www.propublica.org
February 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
#FYI: ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.
(Published 2021)
(Published 2021)
Reposted by Nick Demarest
A new, ideologically driven American oligarchy is on the march, and in DC, not on Wall St or Silicon Valley. What does it mean for democracy, and the 2026 midterms in particular? Fighting back takes strategy, not hysteria. My new article: t.co/FZpP5FtZjB
January 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A new, ideologically driven American oligarchy is on the march, and in DC, not on Wall St or Silicon Valley. What does it mean for democracy, and the 2026 midterms in particular? Fighting back takes strategy, not hysteria. My new article: t.co/FZpP5FtZjB
Reposted by Nick Demarest
“When you worship power, compassion and mercy will look like sins.”
How MAGA’s morality contradicts the core principles of American pluralism: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...
How MAGA’s morality contradicts the core principles of American pluralism: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...
Opinion | How a German Thinker Explains MAGA Morality
Us and them is all the rage.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“When you worship power, compassion and mercy will look like sins.”
How MAGA’s morality contradicts the core principles of American pluralism: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...
How MAGA’s morality contradicts the core principles of American pluralism: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...
Reposted by Nick Demarest
What the country (especially Christians) needs to learn from the Mormon church right now... www.deseret.com/faith/2025/0...
Latter-day Saints preach the civic theology American Christianity desperately needs?
Jonathan Rauch, a Brookings Institution senior fellow and national expert on public policy, says American Christianity needs to look to Jesus and James Madison
www.deseret.com
January 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
What the country (especially Christians) needs to learn from the Mormon church right now... www.deseret.com/faith/2025/0...
Reposted by Nick Demarest
i’m fairly confident elon just doesn’t want to say “boycott” because of that time he tried to claim boycotts are illegal
www.techdirt.com/2024/08/07/i...
www.techdirt.com/2024/08/07/i...
January 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
i’m fairly confident elon just doesn’t want to say “boycott” because of that time he tried to claim boycotts are illegal
www.techdirt.com/2024/08/07/i...
www.techdirt.com/2024/08/07/i...
Reposted by Nick Demarest
The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control.
Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.
Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.
January 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control.
Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.
Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.