Nick
@nickwidzowski.bsky.social
Former NYC political hack. Did some climate stuff once (and still do, now and again). Also occasional Liverpool FC posts.
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Nick
@nickwidzowski.bsky.social
· Jun 9
“America was never America to me.
And yet I swear this oath: America will be!” - Langston Hughes
And yet I swear this oath: America will be!” - Langston Hughes
So passes the Atlantic
February 13, 2026 at 2:01 AM
So passes the Atlantic
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you have a bunch of sanctimonious centrists lecturing everyone about whether comparisons between the masked paramilitary police arresting people on flimsy premises and taking them to horrific unregulated facilities, meanwhile 80 year old grandparents in florida are like yeah this is like the gestapo
February 13, 2026 at 1:32 AM
you have a bunch of sanctimonious centrists lecturing everyone about whether comparisons between the masked paramilitary police arresting people on flimsy premises and taking them to horrific unregulated facilities, meanwhile 80 year old grandparents in florida are like yeah this is like the gestapo
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BREAKING: DOJ moves to drop criminal charges in alleged shovel/broom attack in Minneapolis that led ICE to open fire. "Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the Complaint Affidavit," prosecutors say. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
February 12, 2026 at 11:47 PM
BREAKING: DOJ moves to drop criminal charges in alleged shovel/broom attack in Minneapolis that led ICE to open fire. "Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the Complaint Affidavit," prosecutors say. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...
Vince Guaraldi - earliest television recording of "Linus and Lucy"
YouTube video by Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc.
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...
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i like it when people are both robust progressives and good soldiers for the party
February 12, 2026 at 11:59 PM
i like it when people are both robust progressives and good soldiers for the party
I don’t know why this is on FinTwitter, but it’s good to see
ZOHRAN MAMDANI TO REINSTATE BUS AND PROTECTED BIKE LANES SCRAPPED BY ERIC ADAMS, INCLUDING OFFSET BUS LANES ON FORDHAM ROAD AND A TWO-WAY PROTECTED BIKE LANE ON ASHLAND PLACE, AS PART OF PUSH TO SPEED UP AND EXPAND CITY TRANSIT.
February 12, 2026 at 11:32 PM
I don’t know why this is on FinTwitter, but it’s good to see
Colleen, wyd
February 12, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Colleen, wyd
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No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
February 12, 2026 at 10:19 PM
No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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Remember all the "In Trump's Second Term, the Resistance is Dead" headlines?
Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018
February 12, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Remember all the "In Trump's Second Term, the Resistance is Dead" headlines?
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Check in on your environmental lawyer friends today, it's been a toughie (even for those who work on issues other than climate)
February 12, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Check in on your environmental lawyer friends today, it's been a toughie (even for those who work on issues other than climate)
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Ah great, it’s my worst fear from before the election happening. It’s why I stopped being friends with an old friend who defended people who were refusing to vote for Harris.
cooperlund.medium.com/my-personal-...
cooperlund.medium.com/my-personal-...
February 12, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Ah great, it’s my worst fear from before the election happening. It’s why I stopped being friends with an old friend who defended people who were refusing to vote for Harris.
cooperlund.medium.com/my-personal-...
cooperlund.medium.com/my-personal-...
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Notoriously the vast majority of the national archives is undigitized and not online.
A lot of people really don’t realize that there is a vast amount of information out there that is not online and plausibly never will be, or can’t be.
I think that's a point that will surprise a lot of people. There's a lot of calling the internet capable of accessing "the sum of all human knowledge" and such that I think gives people the impression that any and all records exist online somewhere.
February 12, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Notoriously the vast majority of the national archives is undigitized and not online.
Climbing up the charts to claim second spot on my list of "things named STP"
Thanks for the support! and joining us on this important journey. bsky.app/profile/stpg...
I've just reviewed my 51st Sticky Toffee Pudding. But what did it get out of 10?
February 12, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Climbing up the charts to claim second spot on my list of "things named STP"
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one of the things that’s harder to see while we are in it, but will jump off the page at future historians, is how deeply corrupt *the entire trump family* is, and how they abused and and manipulated every lever of the federal government they could grab to steal everything that isn’t nailed down
News: The top-secret whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner
The substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known.
www.wsj.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:10 PM
one of the things that’s harder to see while we are in it, but will jump off the page at future historians, is how deeply corrupt *the entire trump family* is, and how they abused and and manipulated every lever of the federal government they could grab to steal everything that isn’t nailed down
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Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
February 12, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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The California Air Resources Board is, in essence, now a shadow EPA.
February 12, 2026 at 7:33 PM
The California Air Resources Board is, in essence, now a shadow EPA.
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a perennial issue is that people just refuse to believe that the republican party is as far gone as it is.
February 12, 2026 at 5:43 PM
a perennial issue is that people just refuse to believe that the republican party is as far gone as it is.
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If you're not persuaded the Trump team is turning the 250th anniversary of US independence into a partisan clown show, note that Freedom 250, the dark money group that's taken over the party planning, is apparently partnering with Glenn Beck and Moms for Liberty. momsforliberty.org/news/moms-fo...
February 12, 2026 at 6:53 PM
If you're not persuaded the Trump team is turning the 250th anniversary of US independence into a partisan clown show, note that Freedom 250, the dark money group that's taken over the party planning, is apparently partnering with Glenn Beck and Moms for Liberty. momsforliberty.org/news/moms-fo...
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orange man bad
February 12, 2026 at 6:57 PM
orange man bad
You will be cursed for the rest of history for this act alone, you decrepit monster
Trump: "We are officially terminating the so-called 'endangerment finding'"
February 12, 2026 at 6:42 PM
You will be cursed for the rest of history for this act alone, you decrepit monster
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I still don’t understand who the atlantics audience is lol
The Atlantic is Atlanticking extremely hard this morning
February 12, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I still don’t understand who the atlantics audience is lol
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I'm going to start drastically limiting my time on here and pour more energy into my newsletter (publiccomment.blog) in part because I don't think it's healthy to be regularly exposed to takes this radioactive.
February 12, 2026 at 6:00 PM
I'm going to start drastically limiting my time on here and pour more energy into my newsletter (publiccomment.blog) in part because I don't think it's healthy to be regularly exposed to takes this radioactive.
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It’s one of those online games of telephone where everything gets flattened and turned into a caricature of itself. “Some Nazis admired some aspects of Jim Crow” gets turned into “actually European antisemitism is due to the US”
I have no idea where “the nazis learned everything they knew about bigotry from Americans” came from but it is a particularly delusional form of American exceptionalism
February 12, 2026 at 5:57 PM
It’s one of those online games of telephone where everything gets flattened and turned into a caricature of itself. “Some Nazis admired some aspects of Jim Crow” gets turned into “actually European antisemitism is due to the US”
Whitehall backwards sounds Welsh
Political crises lead to ‘perma-purdah’ in Whitehall ft.trib.al/RIoDlgk
Political crises lead to ‘perma-purdah’ in Whitehall
Plus, rising public frustration with high state spending and taxes
ft.trib.al
February 12, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Whitehall backwards sounds Welsh