R. Nixon
@nixon2.bsky.social
Observer, dabbler, skeptic, pilot. Caretaker of dogs. "Sic Semper Tyrannis."
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The president posts batshit insane, self-contradictory, harmful crap online daily, and the media is incentivized to not cover it like a scandal.
When all this is over we’ve got to restructure media/reporting/journalism entirely.
When all this is over we’ve got to restructure media/reporting/journalism entirely.
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The president posts batshit insane, self-contradictory, harmful crap online daily, and the media is incentivized to not cover it like a scandal.
When all this is over we’ve got to restructure media/reporting/journalism entirely.
When all this is over we’ve got to restructure media/reporting/journalism entirely.
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I contributed a few thoughts to this Politico piece on America’s rising political violence.
10 Political Violence Experts on What Comes Next for America
Can America escape the spiral of political violence after Charlie Kirk’s killing?
www.politico.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I contributed a few thoughts to this Politico piece on America’s rising political violence.
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Our conversation just dropped. Here it is:
America’s New Age of Political Violence — with Barbara F. Walter
pca.st
September 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Our conversation just dropped. Here it is:
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "Texas Rangers can come to Illinois and enjoy our lakefront, but they're not arresting anybody and taking them away."
August 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "Texas Rangers can come to Illinois and enjoy our lakefront, but they're not arresting anybody and taking them away."
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Off the rails.
August 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Off the rails.
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"Most people don't want yelling and screaming and division at their township library board meetings or their school board meetings. They want well-resourced schools. They want well-resourced libraries with a lot of services." — Daniel Montgomery, incoming ALA ED
www.edsurge.com/news/2025-08...
www.edsurge.com/news/2025-08...
Why This English Teacher-Turned-Library Leader Is Optimistic About the End of Book Bans - EdSurge News
“People want libraries, and they want the services that libraries provide. That's universal.”
www.edsurge.com
August 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"Most people don't want yelling and screaming and division at their township library board meetings or their school board meetings. They want well-resourced schools. They want well-resourced libraries with a lot of services." — Daniel Montgomery, incoming ALA ED
www.edsurge.com/news/2025-08...
www.edsurge.com/news/2025-08...
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Let them eat cake.
July 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Let them eat cake.
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🚨NEW: We uncovered multiple photos of Jeffrey Epstein at Donald Trump‘s wedding. Photos of the pair together earlier that year at an event. And video of Epstein Stein and Trump at the 1999 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/p...
Exclusive: Newly discovered photos and video shed fresh light on Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein | CNN Politics
Newly uncovered archived video footage and photos reveal fresh details about Donald Trump’s past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
www.cnn.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
🚨NEW: We uncovered multiple photos of Jeffrey Epstein at Donald Trump‘s wedding. Photos of the pair together earlier that year at an event. And video of Epstein Stein and Trump at the 1999 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/p...
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Cahy Young: If anyone still doubted that Gabbard is a bad actor, installed in her present job with the purpose of corrupting U.S. intelligence and turning it into a tool of Trump’s personal agendas and vendettas, her Russiagate report should put those doubts to rest. That's exactly what she is.
Gabbard Garbles 2016 ‘Russiagate’ Intelligence
Her memo is smoke and mirrors—but it boosts both MAGA and Kremlin narratives.
www.thebulwark.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Cahy Young: If anyone still doubted that Gabbard is a bad actor, installed in her present job with the purpose of corrupting U.S. intelligence and turning it into a tool of Trump’s personal agendas and vendettas, her Russiagate report should put those doubts to rest. That's exactly what she is.
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American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But Chief Justice John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion.
www.publicnotice.co/p/john-rober...
www.publicnotice.co/p/john-rober...
The worst chief justice of all time
Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.
www.publicnotice.co
July 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But Chief Justice John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion.
www.publicnotice.co/p/john-rober...
www.publicnotice.co/p/john-rober...
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1984, but with LLM’s, by Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social / Marcus on AI - Substack garymarcus.substack.com/p/1984-but-w...
1984, but with LLM’s
“Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” - 1984, George Orwell
garymarcus.substack.com
June 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
1984, but with LLM’s, by Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social / Marcus on AI - Substack garymarcus.substack.com/p/1984-but-w...
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While the number is likely not 500,000 (as many people who came in on CHNV likely transitioned to another status), the Trump admin will be formally "de-documenting" hundreds of thousands of people this week.
The total number of people de-documented since Trump took office is over half a million.
The total number of people de-documented since Trump took office is over half a million.
As many as 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela will reportedly be told today they have had their permission to live and work in the US revoked by DHS.
The scale of this abomination is difficult to process.
www.cnn.com/2025/06/12/p...
The scale of this abomination is difficult to process.
www.cnn.com/2025/06/12/p...
June 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
While the number is likely not 500,000 (as many people who came in on CHNV likely transitioned to another status), the Trump admin will be formally "de-documenting" hundreds of thousands of people this week.
The total number of people de-documented since Trump took office is over half a million.
The total number of people de-documented since Trump took office is over half a million.
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BANNON TO ELON: “Wanna stop the debt bomb? Raise taxes on the wealthy.”
When he’s right, he’s right.
But @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett @AndyOgles @SenatorHagerty etc. won’t tax the rich — because they don’t care about the debt, and never did.
When he’s right, he’s right.
But @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett @AndyOgles @SenatorHagerty etc. won’t tax the rich — because they don’t care about the debt, and never did.
June 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
BANNON TO ELON: “Wanna stop the debt bomb? Raise taxes on the wealthy.”
When he’s right, he’s right.
But @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett @AndyOgles @SenatorHagerty etc. won’t tax the rich — because they don’t care about the debt, and never did.
When he’s right, he’s right.
But @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett @AndyOgles @SenatorHagerty etc. won’t tax the rich — because they don’t care about the debt, and never did.
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"MAGA's aesthetic is closer to the "Real Housewives"-style shows, where petty and cruel behavior is rewarded over human decency... the vindictive trophy wife who takes out her pointless grievances by throwing glasses of wine."
There was a lot of mockery of Kristi Noem for not knowing what "habeas corpus" means. But I was struck by how little she seemed to give a shit.
That's because Noem is part of a tradition that really emerged with Sarah Palin: The proud MAGA bimbo.
www.salon.com/2025/05/23/k...
That's because Noem is part of a tradition that really emerged with Sarah Palin: The proud MAGA bimbo.
www.salon.com/2025/05/23/k...
Kristi Noem and the legacy of the proud MAGA bimbo
The GOP adores a woman who plays dumb to build up the man she's serving
www.salon.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"MAGA's aesthetic is closer to the "Real Housewives"-style shows, where petty and cruel behavior is rewarded over human decency... the vindictive trophy wife who takes out her pointless grievances by throwing glasses of wine."
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
May 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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Our country is so fucking embarrassing.
May 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Our country is so fucking embarrassing.
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I am often challenged to provide an example of a vaccine that could not have been developed without doing gain-of-function virology research.
Thanks to HHS Secretary Kennedy and former BiosafetyNow! board member/NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, I now have an answer:
Generation Gold Standard
Thanks to HHS Secretary Kennedy and former BiosafetyNow! board member/NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, I now have an answer:
Generation Gold Standard
May 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I am often challenged to provide an example of a vaccine that could not have been developed without doing gain-of-function virology research.
Thanks to HHS Secretary Kennedy and former BiosafetyNow! board member/NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, I now have an answer:
Generation Gold Standard
Thanks to HHS Secretary Kennedy and former BiosafetyNow! board member/NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, I now have an answer:
Generation Gold Standard
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I'm sorry I know there's a lot going on but how are we not screaming about Ron DeSantis stealing $10 million from Medicaid and the money ending up with pro-DeSantis superPACs, funneled through a charity run by his wife?
HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS?
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS?
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
The $10M steered to Hope Florida by the state was Medicaid money, document shows
A draft agreement of a $67 million settlement between the DeSantis administration and a Medicaid contractor that had overbilled the state sheds new light on how $10 million of that amount was diverted...
www.miamiherald.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I'm sorry I know there's a lot going on but how are we not screaming about Ron DeSantis stealing $10 million from Medicaid and the money ending up with pro-DeSantis superPACs, funneled through a charity run by his wife?
HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS?
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS?
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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NBC News EXCLUSIVE: A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it
The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure.
www.nbcnews.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:05 AM
NBC News EXCLUSIVE: A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Margaritas and “gang tattoos” – photo ops gone off the rails.
Authoritarian regimes use propaganda to distract from the truth.
Stalin did it. Mussolini did it. Trump’s doing it now.
Here’s how they game reality. ⬇️
Authoritarian regimes use propaganda to distract from the truth.
Stalin did it. Mussolini did it. Trump’s doing it now.
Here’s how they game reality. ⬇️
April 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Margaritas and “gang tattoos” – photo ops gone off the rails.
Authoritarian regimes use propaganda to distract from the truth.
Stalin did it. Mussolini did it. Trump’s doing it now.
Here’s how they game reality. ⬇️
Authoritarian regimes use propaganda to distract from the truth.
Stalin did it. Mussolini did it. Trump’s doing it now.
Here’s how they game reality. ⬇️
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What if Elon is the first autistic person RFK has ever actually met and that’s why he assumes we don’t pay taxes or go on dates
April 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
What if Elon is the first autistic person RFK has ever actually met and that’s why he assumes we don’t pay taxes or go on dates
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Amazing presentation by @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social
It is really depressing to see that what is happening now in the US resembles the past and present of many dictatorships/autocracies/kleptocracies.
youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw?...
It is really depressing to see that what is happening now in the US resembles the past and present of many dictatorships/autocracies/kleptocracies.
youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw?...
History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
youtu.be
April 18, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Amazing presentation by @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social
It is really depressing to see that what is happening now in the US resembles the past and present of many dictatorships/autocracies/kleptocracies.
youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw?...
It is really depressing to see that what is happening now in the US resembles the past and present of many dictatorships/autocracies/kleptocracies.
youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw?...