@magenta1910.bsky.social
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"Give Donald Trump this much: He has never tried to hide his malice, his lawlessness, or his desire to inflict pain on others." -
@peter-wehner.bsky.social
Trump's authoritarian plans are out in the open.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
@peter-wehner.bsky.social
Trump's authoritarian plans are out in the open.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump’s Plan Is Now Out in the Open
It’s getting ever harder to avoid connecting the authoritarian dots.
www.theatlantic.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"Give Donald Trump this much: He has never tried to hide his malice, his lawlessness, or his desire to inflict pain on others." -
@peter-wehner.bsky.social
Trump's authoritarian plans are out in the open.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
@peter-wehner.bsky.social
Trump's authoritarian plans are out in the open.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation
September 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation
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80 years ago today the first atomic bomb was used against human targets. Since 1945 the power to do it again has rested in the hands of one person - who can order their use without anyone's permission and cannot be countermanded.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The President’s Weapon
Why does the power to launch nuclear weapons rest with a single American?
www.theatlantic.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
80 years ago today the first atomic bomb was used against human targets. Since 1945 the power to do it again has rested in the hands of one person - who can order their use without anyone's permission and cannot be countermanded.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Where Hate Hides paw.princeton.edu/article/joel...
paw.princeton.edu
July 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Where Hate Hides paw.princeton.edu/article/joel...
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In my latest piece, I examine how the collapse of a common and shared reality is threatening our ability to govern, deliberate, and make informed decisions. From AI-driven disinformation to the concentration of power in a handful of platforms, the stakes have never been higher.
Information overload: Can we keep our minds and our democracy?
Algorithms and echo chambers are fracturing Australian society, but the democratic discourse hasn’t switched off yet.
www.lowyinstitute.org
July 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
In my latest piece, I examine how the collapse of a common and shared reality is threatening our ability to govern, deliberate, and make informed decisions. From AI-driven disinformation to the concentration of power in a handful of platforms, the stakes have never been higher.
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"Chandos Beauty" is a hybrid tea rose known for its strong fragrance and large, classic-shaped blooms. It features a blend of light amber gold and cream, often with subtle pink tones, and has a high petal count
June 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"Chandos Beauty" is a hybrid tea rose known for its strong fragrance and large, classic-shaped blooms. It features a blend of light amber gold and cream, often with subtle pink tones, and has a high petal count
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There are only three political positions in America today
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
June 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
There are only three political positions in America today
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
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Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17
June 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17
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Short of nuclear strikes, Fordow is buried deep enough that it can’t be destroyed without multiple big bombs on top of each other, and possibly not even with that (ie damaged, but not destroyed).
There’s virtually no way it’s totally done. And in a broader sense, this is probably far from over.
There’s virtually no way it’s totally done. And in a broader sense, this is probably far from over.
June 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Short of nuclear strikes, Fordow is buried deep enough that it can’t be destroyed without multiple big bombs on top of each other, and possibly not even with that (ie damaged, but not destroyed).
There’s virtually no way it’s totally done. And in a broader sense, this is probably far from over.
There’s virtually no way it’s totally done. And in a broader sense, this is probably far from over.
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🧵 I often talk about VDA, Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, as the core functions that make democracy possible. But to understand what’s gone wrong, we need to look at how those functions have changed.
June 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🧵 I often talk about VDA, Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, as the core functions that make democracy possible. But to understand what’s gone wrong, we need to look at how those functions have changed.
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Dan Driscoll [answering cell phone]: Hello?
Voice: Hi it’s the moon
Driscoll: I told you to stop calling
Voice: I going to hit your eye like a big pizza pie
Driscoll: I HAVE ALERTED THE FBI TO THIS HARASSMENT
Voice: I have a man in me
Driscoll: THIS IS DISRESPECT TO THE MILITARY
Voice: Hi it’s the moon
Driscoll: I told you to stop calling
Voice: I going to hit your eye like a big pizza pie
Driscoll: I HAVE ALERTED THE FBI TO THIS HARASSMENT
Voice: I have a man in me
Driscoll: THIS IS DISRESPECT TO THE MILITARY
June 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Dan Driscoll [answering cell phone]: Hello?
Voice: Hi it’s the moon
Driscoll: I told you to stop calling
Voice: I going to hit your eye like a big pizza pie
Driscoll: I HAVE ALERTED THE FBI TO THIS HARASSMENT
Voice: I have a man in me
Driscoll: THIS IS DISRESPECT TO THE MILITARY
Voice: Hi it’s the moon
Driscoll: I told you to stop calling
Voice: I going to hit your eye like a big pizza pie
Driscoll: I HAVE ALERTED THE FBI TO THIS HARASSMENT
Voice: I have a man in me
Driscoll: THIS IS DISRESPECT TO THE MILITARY
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This is a real thing being posted and circulated by the Department of Homeland Security, referring to undocumented immigrants as “foreign invaders” and urging good Americans to turn them in.
(I’ll leave it to BlueSky historians to find comparisons to WWII era materials.)
(I’ll leave it to BlueSky historians to find comparisons to WWII era materials.)
June 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This is a real thing being posted and circulated by the Department of Homeland Security, referring to undocumented immigrants as “foreign invaders” and urging good Americans to turn them in.
(I’ll leave it to BlueSky historians to find comparisons to WWII era materials.)
(I’ll leave it to BlueSky historians to find comparisons to WWII era materials.)
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My reaction after reading too much about Elon Musk today: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/go-the-fk-...
Go the F**k To Therapy
An open letter to Elon Musk -- and everyone else who needs to hear it.
danieldrezner.substack.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
My reaction after reading too much about Elon Musk today: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/go-the-fk-...
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New, from me:
The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
What DOGE gets wrong about tech and government
Lessons learned by civic tech, forgotten by DOGE
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New, from me:
The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
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Trump, on the leader of Russia:
"Putin is tired of this whole thing and he’s not — he’s not looking good. And he wants to look good”
It's hard to imagine a more fundamental misunderstanding.
No, Putin is not "tired of the whole thing" - the war is the only thing keeping his economy going
"Putin is tired of this whole thing and he’s not — he’s not looking good. And he wants to look good”
It's hard to imagine a more fundamental misunderstanding.
No, Putin is not "tired of the whole thing" - the war is the only thing keeping his economy going
May 18, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Trump, on the leader of Russia:
"Putin is tired of this whole thing and he’s not — he’s not looking good. And he wants to look good”
It's hard to imagine a more fundamental misunderstanding.
No, Putin is not "tired of the whole thing" - the war is the only thing keeping his economy going
"Putin is tired of this whole thing and he’s not — he’s not looking good. And he wants to look good”
It's hard to imagine a more fundamental misunderstanding.
No, Putin is not "tired of the whole thing" - the war is the only thing keeping his economy going
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Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
May 14, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
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Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.
Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why?
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
May 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.
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1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️
May 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️
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Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1952, two colour lino cut. The US artist utilised printmaking with extreme skill to explore themes of her fellow African Americans in a 20th century era of Civil Rights activism #womensart
May 4, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1952, two colour lino cut. The US artist utilised printmaking with extreme skill to explore themes of her fellow African Americans in a 20th century era of Civil Rights activism #womensart
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An Australian scholar explains the idea that drove Australia to adopt compulsory voting: "You would know that the government that was elected had the support of the majority of voters in the electorate—not just the majority of the people who turned up." boltsmag.org/compuls...
“An Egalitarian Pressure”: Australia Has Been Requiring People to Vote for 100 Years
As Australia compels voters to show up at the polls this weekend, a scholar lays out the genesis of
boltsmag.org
May 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
An Australian scholar explains the idea that drove Australia to adopt compulsory voting: "You would know that the government that was elected had the support of the majority of voters in the electorate—not just the majority of the people who turned up." boltsmag.org/compuls...
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There’s no point correcting this. There’s no reason to expect this travesty of a human to be any less ignorant on history than he is on every other fathomable topic. So as a 20th Century military historian I’ll just say that those Americans who serve in both wars would be ashamed of this.
May 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
There’s no point correcting this. There’s no reason to expect this travesty of a human to be any less ignorant on history than he is on every other fathomable topic. So as a 20th Century military historian I’ll just say that those Americans who serve in both wars would be ashamed of this.
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NEW: Russia is using social media to recruit unsuspecting Ukrainian civilians - including children - and turning them into unwitting suicide bombers.
A deep dive into Moscow's disturbing new tactic with
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social for New Lines Magazine.
newlinesmag.com/reportage/ru...
A deep dive into Moscow's disturbing new tactic with
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social for New Lines Magazine.
newlinesmag.com/reportage/ru...
Russia’s New Weapon: Child Suicide Bombers
Moscow’s intelligence services are recruiting unsuspecting civilians, including the young and vulnerable, for suicide missions
newlinesmag.com
May 2, 2025 at 7:38 AM
NEW: Russia is using social media to recruit unsuspecting Ukrainian civilians - including children - and turning them into unwitting suicide bombers.
A deep dive into Moscow's disturbing new tactic with
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social for New Lines Magazine.
newlinesmag.com/reportage/ru...
A deep dive into Moscow's disturbing new tactic with
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social for New Lines Magazine.
newlinesmag.com/reportage/ru...