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Nicholas Slayton

@nslayton.bsky.social

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Journalist. Contributing editor @TaskandPurpose.com . Bylines at New Republic, The Prospect, Motherboard, Wired, elsewhere. Was once insulted by Martin Shkreli. Signal: nslayton.12 nslayton.substack.com

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 14d

If you saw footage of Nepal's protests this month, it's a fair chance you saw it from WeHateTheCold, a British travel vlogger who stumbled into the revolution and started filming. I spoke to him about it for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/how-a-...

How a Travel YouTuber Captured Nepal’s Revolution for the World

Harry Jackson went into Kathmandu as a tourist. He ended up being one of the main international sources of news on Nepal’s Gen Z protests.

www.wired.com

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 2h

One of the best

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 9h

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 3h

What I'm saying is the Texas NG is still in Illinois. They didn't drop the overall number of troops deployed against Chicago.

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 3h

I have only done this at work at the bar I'm at, my home bar is not as tech heavy, but a big plastic bin, an immersion circulator, ziplocks and patience and I've made soooo much pandan vodka, syrup, raspberry syrup, etc. And a large cambro with ice to shock it

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 3d

Some stories about my friend Kaleb, on the occasion of his funeral:

channel-6.ghost.io/its-just-dif...

IT'S JUST DIFFERENT VALLEYS, THAT'S ALL

Kaleb Horton has departed this life, and for those left behind there is nothing that reconciles any part of what’s happened with what should’ve happened. He had a family, grieving now. He had friends,...

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 3h

Yes. I see that and I raise you an 8qt cambro

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 3h

Rule I always learned: Shake for citrus, stir without.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 5h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 3h

Didnt change anything

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4h

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 4h

That wouldn't make sense. The Guard has been constrained by the courts while the federal paramilitary has not. Why hamstring yourself?

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 4h

My mentions right now are a blue anon hellscape of fat jokes, weird nicknames for admin officials that reads as baby talk and homophobic jokes about Trump. I hate it.

I'm trying to talk about the brutality of ICE and the use of troops against people and people are doing...this.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 4h

The fascists goal is not just power to dominate society but the ability to rewrite history and reality itself.

Those who try to control history are attempting to control the present and future.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 4h

Its honestly really weird to me that people will get mad at the simple statement of fact "the FAA will send you to big kid jail for shining lasers at airplanes"

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 4h

The spread of using NPC as an insult feels like the worst evolution of main character syndrome and hyperindividuality. The enemy of community.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 9h

quite a take from someone who called COVID restrictions "fascism" and "a violation of constitutional rights," and argued that SEC penalties for announcing a fake leveraged buyout of Tesla trampled on his first amendment free speech protections

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 9h

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

‘The only solution’: Elon Musk backs call to deploy federal troops to San Francisco

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 4h

Fierce, unruly joy in Portland at the emergency naked bike ride

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 4h

Every state has one. It's the part of the state government that oversees the National Guard

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

The amount of money we are giving to Argentina amounts to $450 per resident of that country. But we're not even giving it to people there who need it, we're giving it to prop up Elon's pal, the corrupt President of that country, who'll then shovel some of it into the pockets of Trump's friends here.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

“America First.”

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 4h

Seeing unconfirmed reports that the Taliban is using seized US planes in its fight with Pakistan. A video on X allegedly shows a seized US-provided one being used against Lahore. Anyone seeing any confirmation?

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 5h

I bow my head to the true master, Jeff Schogol.

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 9h

updates for kipnuk

several houses are gone and more continue to float away from the village

hope help arrives soon

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