Steve Sikora
@artofangles.bsky.social
Former manager, bleeding edge tech services for visual communicators. Still sane. Gainfully retired.
Veteran🇺🇸
Seen from Key West to PEI 🇨🇦
#STEAM #Humanities #Civics #ClimateAction #PublicHealth #CyberSecurity #RuleOfLaw
#InformedCitizenry
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Veteran🇺🇸
Seen from Key West to PEI 🇨🇦
#STEAM #Humanities #Civics #ClimateAction #PublicHealth #CyberSecurity #RuleOfLaw
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“The more that prediction markets are treated like news, especially heading into another election, the more every dip and swing in the odds may end up wildly misleading people about what might happen, or influencing what happens in the real world.”
Creepy.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Creepy.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
America Is Slow-Walking Into a Polymarket Disaster
Why is the media obsessed with prediction markets?
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:34 AM
“The more that prediction markets are treated like news, especially heading into another election, the more every dip and swing in the odds may end up wildly misleading people about what might happen, or influencing what happens in the real world.”
Creepy.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Creepy.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Thanks to Trump, writes Robert Kagan, "Americans are entering the most dangerous world they have known since World War II, one that will make the Cold War look like child’s play and the post–Cold War world like paradise."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
America vs. the World
President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Thanks to Trump, writes Robert Kagan, "Americans are entering the most dangerous world they have known since World War II, one that will make the Cold War look like child’s play and the post–Cold War world like paradise."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Trump has reunited the world—with China.
A parade of foreign leaders is suddenly visiting China after years away. On Friday, Canadian PM wrapped up a Beijing trip, 1st trip since 2017. Korean president was there earlier this month (last visit: 2019); British PM will be there soon (last visit: 2018)
A parade of foreign leaders is suddenly visiting China after years away. On Friday, Canadian PM wrapped up a Beijing trip, 1st trip since 2017. Korean president was there earlier this month (last visit: 2019); British PM will be there soon (last visit: 2018)
Trump Is Making China Great Again
America’s friends and trading partners are running into the arms of our adversaries. What a mess.
www.thebulwark.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Trump has reunited the world—with China.
A parade of foreign leaders is suddenly visiting China after years away. On Friday, Canadian PM wrapped up a Beijing trip, 1st trip since 2017. Korean president was there earlier this month (last visit: 2019); British PM will be there soon (last visit: 2018)
A parade of foreign leaders is suddenly visiting China after years away. On Friday, Canadian PM wrapped up a Beijing trip, 1st trip since 2017. Korean president was there earlier this month (last visit: 2019); British PM will be there soon (last visit: 2018)
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Focus on the 5 buckets of affordability
Let this radicalize you.
January 19, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Focus on the 5 buckets of affordability
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Let this radicalize you.
January 19, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Let this radicalize you.
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I apologize — I failed to credit @leahmillis.bsky.social for this extraordinary photo.
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 AM
I apologize — I failed to credit @leahmillis.bsky.social for this extraordinary photo.
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1. Yesterday I was fortunate enough to visit the Alfa Romeo museum in Milan. What a gorgeous museum of design.
Over the next few days I'll be posting a thread of pictures from my visit.
Here's a teaser.
Over the next few days I'll be posting a thread of pictures from my visit.
Here's a teaser.
January 18, 2026 at 9:33 AM
1. Yesterday I was fortunate enough to visit the Alfa Romeo museum in Milan. What a gorgeous museum of design.
Over the next few days I'll be posting a thread of pictures from my visit.
Here's a teaser.
Over the next few days I'll be posting a thread of pictures from my visit.
Here's a teaser.
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: From 1971, the Jackson 5's "Never Can Say Goodbye." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKes...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKes...
Never Can Say Goodbye (Single Version)
YouTube video by The Jackson 5 - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:43 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: From 1971, the Jackson 5's "Never Can Say Goodbye." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKes...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKes...
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“Trump has sent more federal agents to Minneapolis—several thousand of them—than there are police officers in the city. It’s a fight he wants, and it’s a fight he’s got.” In this week’s column, @sbg1.bsky.social writes about Trump’s escalations in Minnesota. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rr93ry
January 16, 2026 at 7:00 PM
“Trump has sent more federal agents to Minneapolis—several thousand of them—than there are police officers in the city. It’s a fight he wants, and it’s a fight he’s got.” In this week’s column, @sbg1.bsky.social writes about Trump’s escalations in Minnesota. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rr93ry
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There is no scenario where Tricia McLaughlin would not blame the victim, would not allege, with zero evidence, that they have assaulted the DHS agent. It his her default setting.
McLAUGHLIN: Racial animus has no place in DHS and of course is not use
CNN: *plays clip of ICE agents asking Minneapolis woman where she was born*
McLAUGHLIN: I haven't seen this clip before. She might've been assaulting law enforcement prior to this.
CNN: *plays clip of ICE agents asking Minneapolis woman where she was born*
McLAUGHLIN: I haven't seen this clip before. She might've been assaulting law enforcement prior to this.
January 17, 2026 at 3:29 AM
There is no scenario where Tricia McLaughlin would not blame the victim, would not allege, with zero evidence, that they have assaulted the DHS agent. It his her default setting.
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“By 15 percentage points, more voters rate the economy as weak rather than strong, a deterioration from July, when negative views predominated by 4 points”
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Exclusive | It’s Trump’s Economy, and Voters Are Unhappy With It, WSJ Poll Finds
The poll offers warning signs for the president and Republicans as they prepare for a pivotal midterm election.
www.wsj.com
January 17, 2026 at 12:36 AM
“By 15 percentage points, more voters rate the economy as weak rather than strong, a deterioration from July, when negative views predominated by 4 points”
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
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Whatever you think of Ryan Lizza, everything he says in these three paragraphs is true. True and hellish for freedom of the press.
January 16, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Whatever you think of Ryan Lizza, everything he says in these three paragraphs is true. True and hellish for freedom of the press.
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Two days ago we learned that Federal agents showed up at a Washington Post reporter’s home, searched it, seized her phone and two laptops. We also learned that the Post's owner, Jeff Bezos, remained silent that day. No words of support.
Well, Thursday came and went and still nothing from Bezos.
Well, Thursday came and went and still nothing from Bezos.
January 16, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Two days ago we learned that Federal agents showed up at a Washington Post reporter’s home, searched it, seized her phone and two laptops. We also learned that the Post's owner, Jeff Bezos, remained silent that day. No words of support.
Well, Thursday came and went and still nothing from Bezos.
Well, Thursday came and went and still nothing from Bezos.
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I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.
He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.
January 17, 2026 at 1:26 AM
I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.
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they’re not going to be satisfied until they kill again
none of these agents have a shred of humanity
none of these agents have a shred of humanity
Woman Seen Pulled from Car Speaks Out: 'Lucky to be alive'
Aliya Rahman "said she was driving to an appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when the incident occurred."
She asked for a doctor and was taken to a detention center where she lost consciousness.
abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...
Aliya Rahman "said she was driving to an appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when the incident occurred."
She asked for a doctor and was taken to a detention center where she lost consciousness.
abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...
January 17, 2026 at 1:16 AM
they’re not going to be satisfied until they kill again
none of these agents have a shred of humanity
none of these agents have a shred of humanity
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Discount Goebbels has unilaterally withdrawn the US from NATO, I guess.
Miller: Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military. They cannot defend Greenland… Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory…
January 17, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Discount Goebbels has unilaterally withdrawn the US from NATO, I guess.
“Trump answered: 'Psychologically important for me. Now, maybe another president would feel differently, but so far I’ve been right about everything'.”
“An attack on Greenland is wildly unpopular in the United States.”👇🏼
“An attack on Greenland is wildly unpopular in the United States.”👇🏼
January 17, 2026 at 8:46 AM
“Trump answered: 'Psychologically important for me. Now, maybe another president would feel differently, but so far I’ve been right about everything'.”
“An attack on Greenland is wildly unpopular in the United States.”👇🏼
“An attack on Greenland is wildly unpopular in the United States.”👇🏼
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NEWS: The U.S. Department of Justice has formally moved to block the appointment of an independent monitor or special master to oversee the release of Epstein-related records
DOJ Moves to Block Independent Monitor in Maxwell Case, Says Courts Cannot Force Epstein File Disclosures
DOJ Tells Court It Cannot Be Forced to Release Epstein Files
meidasnews.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:42 AM
NEWS: The U.S. Department of Justice has formally moved to block the appointment of an independent monitor or special master to oversee the release of Epstein-related records
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In like six months or so we’re gonna have some wild undercover investigative pieces from journalists who got jobs as ICE agents huh
January 16, 2026 at 2:20 AM
In like six months or so we’re gonna have some wild undercover investigative pieces from journalists who got jobs as ICE agents huh
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I’d bet on it www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy
This is the biggest investigation we’ve ever published.
www.motherjones.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:23 AM
I’d bet on it www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
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Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
Trump’s Own Advisers Suddenly Unnerved as ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn
So the president doesn’t like the “optics” of what ICE is doing. But there’s no such thing as sanitized, popular mass deportations—and this is by design.
newrepublic.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
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There is no recalibrated or sanitized way to conduct the war that Trump and Stephen Miller are waging on American cities right now. That’s because it’s a campaign of deliberate terror.
The policy *is* the terror, and the terror *is* the policy.
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
The policy *is* the terror, and the terror *is* the policy.
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
January 16, 2026 at 7:40 PM
There is no recalibrated or sanitized way to conduct the war that Trump and Stephen Miller are waging on American cities right now. That’s because it’s a campaign of deliberate terror.
The policy *is* the terror, and the terror *is* the policy.
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
The policy *is* the terror, and the terror *is* the policy.
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
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A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country
Mike Johnson comes out against additional guardrails on ICE as Democrats call for it.
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
January 14, 2026 at 11:58 PM
A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country
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Pennsylvania, Bucks County.
There's a new sheriff in town, and he just cancelled cooperation with ICE.
Dan Ceisler's campaign was focused on ICE and he's 100% committed to his promises.
There's a new sheriff in town, and he just cancelled cooperation with ICE.
Dan Ceisler's campaign was focused on ICE and he's 100% committed to his promises.
BREAKING: Dan Ceisler, the new sheriff of Pennsylvania's Bucks County, just announced he has terminated his county's 287(g) contract with ICE.
Ceisler defeated GOP sheriff who'd joined the ICE program in November, & ran on quitting it; we reported then:
Ceisler defeated GOP sheriff who'd joined the ICE program in November, & ran on quitting it; we reported then:
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
January 14, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Pennsylvania, Bucks County.
There's a new sheriff in town, and he just cancelled cooperation with ICE.
Dan Ceisler's campaign was focused on ICE and he's 100% committed to his promises.
There's a new sheriff in town, and he just cancelled cooperation with ICE.
Dan Ceisler's campaign was focused on ICE and he's 100% committed to his promises.
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I wrote about Iran's protests for @theatlantic.com: how AI manipulation and the suspicion of it is being weaponised to dismiss real footage of protests.
This piece draws on work from my stellar team at WITNESS and years of studying information controls in Iran and beyond.
This piece draws on work from my stellar team at WITNESS and years of studying information controls in Iran and beyond.
Doubt has become a weapon in Iran as AI manipulation—and the very suspicion of it—serves those who have the most to hide, Mahsa Alimardani argues:
How Doubt Became a Weapon in Iran
AI manipulation, and the very suspicion of it, serves those who have the most to hide.
bit.ly
January 14, 2026 at 5:47 PM
I wrote about Iran's protests for @theatlantic.com: how AI manipulation and the suspicion of it is being weaponised to dismiss real footage of protests.
This piece draws on work from my stellar team at WITNESS and years of studying information controls in Iran and beyond.
This piece draws on work from my stellar team at WITNESS and years of studying information controls in Iran and beyond.