Stuart Harmon
@stuartharmon.bsky.social
Journalist and documentary filmmaker - The New York Times, PBS, The Intercept. In my free time I’m a middle aged dad who constantly injures himself on a mountain bike. www.stuartharmon.com
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Stuart Harmon
@stuartharmon.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Fontana PD: Hate Within the Ranks
YouTube video by The Intercept
youtu.be
@alicesperi.bsky.social and I recently had the chance to delve into the ties of law enforcement to the January 6th insurrection through an investigation into the Fontana Police Department, where we heard rare testimony from former officers about their experience with racism: youtu.be/aIaQVFyStQk?...
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At what point will the press corps, as a chorus, in unison, just shout back, “THATS NOT TRUE”!
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
At what point will the press corps, as a chorus, in unison, just shout back, “THATS NOT TRUE”!
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
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Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place
Good point which I generally agree with, although we do know that Trump also reads polls and approval ratings and will adjust focus when he knows he’s tanking
Anybody professing surprise at Trump's behavior with Mamdani doesn't understand Trump.
Nothing Trump said yesterday, nor anything he'll say tomorrow, carries any meaning for him.
He exists entirely in the present (as I explained in
@bostonglobe.com in 2016).
web.archive.org/web/20160409...
Nothing Trump said yesterday, nor anything he'll say tomorrow, carries any meaning for him.
He exists entirely in the present (as I explained in
@bostonglobe.com in 2016).
web.archive.org/web/20160409...
Trump is trapped in the moment - The Boston Globe
He disregards the past and promises a future that will never arrive.
web.archive.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Good point which I generally agree with, although we do know that Trump also reads polls and approval ratings and will adjust focus when he knows he’s tanking
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Anybody professing surprise at Trump's behavior with Mamdani doesn't understand Trump.
Nothing Trump said yesterday, nor anything he'll say tomorrow, carries any meaning for him.
He exists entirely in the present (as I explained in
@bostonglobe.com in 2016).
web.archive.org/web/20160409...
Nothing Trump said yesterday, nor anything he'll say tomorrow, carries any meaning for him.
He exists entirely in the present (as I explained in
@bostonglobe.com in 2016).
web.archive.org/web/20160409...
Trump is trapped in the moment - The Boston Globe
He disregards the past and promises a future that will never arrive.
web.archive.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Anybody professing surprise at Trump's behavior with Mamdani doesn't understand Trump.
Nothing Trump said yesterday, nor anything he'll say tomorrow, carries any meaning for him.
He exists entirely in the present (as I explained in
@bostonglobe.com in 2016).
web.archive.org/web/20160409...
Nothing Trump said yesterday, nor anything he'll say tomorrow, carries any meaning for him.
He exists entirely in the present (as I explained in
@bostonglobe.com in 2016).
web.archive.org/web/20160409...
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one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.
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ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
www.cbsnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
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They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
They’re all just looting the treasury now
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entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster
September 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster
So many bad things about the Jimmy Kimmel dust up but one of the worst is how our weak regulatory system is about to allow a single company to own 80% of the TV stations in America.
September 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
So many bad things about the Jimmy Kimmel dust up but one of the worst is how our weak regulatory system is about to allow a single company to own 80% of the TV stations in America.
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Here's what will happen if Trump's $100k fee on H-1Bs stands:
America's top tech companies will accelerate the expansion of their overseas offices, which are already huge.
Net effect for the world: "Brain Gain"
(gift link)
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
America's top tech companies will accelerate the expansion of their overseas offices, which are already huge.
Net effect for the world: "Brain Gain"
(gift link)
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
America’s Brain Drain Could Become the World’s Brain Gain
Research-funding cuts and immigration changes threaten some of America’s economic advantages.
www.wsj.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Here's what will happen if Trump's $100k fee on H-1Bs stands:
America's top tech companies will accelerate the expansion of their overseas offices, which are already huge.
Net effect for the world: "Brain Gain"
(gift link)
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
America's top tech companies will accelerate the expansion of their overseas offices, which are already huge.
Net effect for the world: "Brain Gain"
(gift link)
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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The fact that left-of-center folks see it as hypocrisy is itself a sign that they do not understand the contemporary right. From the basic Wilhoit-ian perspective of conservatism, there's no contradiction, no hypocrisy. Power *is* the principle.
When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.
September 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The fact that left-of-center folks see it as hypocrisy is itself a sign that they do not understand the contemporary right. From the basic Wilhoit-ian perspective of conservatism, there's no contradiction, no hypocrisy. Power *is* the principle.
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I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.
September 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.
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When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
September 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
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Somebody tried to blow up a news van in Salt Lake City
Two men arrested in Utah after bomb found under news vehicle
Men could face terrorism-related and weapons charges after officials say explosive ‘had been lit but failed to function’
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Somebody tried to blow up a news van in Salt Lake City
People do know that there is an area in Utah called “Dixie” right? And the history behind it?
September 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
People do know that there is an area in Utah called “Dixie” right? And the history behind it?
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“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”
September 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”
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The effort to paint Charlie Kirk as some sort of model for practicing politics and a beloved figure across the spectrum is bizarre.
Just a month ago, South Park was mocking him pretty mercilessly.
Just a month ago, South Park was mocking him pretty mercilessly.
September 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The effort to paint Charlie Kirk as some sort of model for practicing politics and a beloved figure across the spectrum is bizarre.
Just a month ago, South Park was mocking him pretty mercilessly.
Just a month ago, South Park was mocking him pretty mercilessly.
Just when I start to like Ezra Klein again he goes and does that thing he does
September 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Just when I start to like Ezra Klein again he goes and does that thing he does
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one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
August 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
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Getting booed out of a neighborhood by schoolkids in backpacks and mom with a stroller.
ICE getting routed in my old DC Columbia Heights hood. Public, viral, resistance is the only way to prevent them from selling the idea that we love our red state military occupation are it’s a solution to urban ills Trump/Bondi/drunk Pirro are lying. Here’s how to expose the lie.
August 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Getting booed out of a neighborhood by schoolkids in backpacks and mom with a stroller.
America was founded upon white vigilante violence so not surprising that these folks would continue to advocate for this
August 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
America was founded upon white vigilante violence so not surprising that these folks would continue to advocate for this