Peter Nicholson
@peterpen9000.bsky.social
writing and riding. and eating. lots of eating.
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The fact that it was absolutely ready and the standard for comment had been met several times over?
The Bari Weiss hysteria continues. Exactly what in "this piece isn't ready" and "try harder to get comment from the administration" constitutes the death of American journalism? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The fact that it was absolutely ready and the standard for comment had been met several times over?
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.
Icon.
Betty Reid Soskin, who served as the country's oldest National Park Service ranger, has died at the age of 104.
Soskin’s family announced her death on Facebook, saying she died peacefully at her home in Richmond, California.
“She led a fully packed life and was ready to leave," the statement read.
Soskin’s family announced her death on Facebook, saying she died peacefully at her home in Richmond, California.
“She led a fully packed life and was ready to leave," the statement read.
December 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Icon.
Or, just stop using Spotify period. It ruthlessly exploits artists and platforms literally the worst people like Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens. The world would be better without it, full stop.
Stop using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
December 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Or, just stop using Spotify period. It ruthlessly exploits artists and platforms literally the worst people like Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens. The world would be better without it, full stop.
AI is iNeViTaBLe!
Google Gemini Pro: please generate a map of the western united states showing cities of over 250K population
December 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
AI is iNeViTaBLe!
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In case you need to hear it from someone who was raised Hindu: Usha is not a hostage, she is an accomplice. She is culpable. Fuck her and the fascists she colludes with. May she go down with all of them. As Zohran ably demonstrates, our communities do not aspire to whiteness & don’t seek to appease.
Vance's latest rant has set off another misguided round of "free Usha" rhetoric. This isn't just inaccurate--she's wholly a part of this fascist project--it's dangerous. We can no longer afford to imagine fascism as smaller than it is. Hindu fascism is vast, too. No religion is immune.
December 22, 2025 at 4:53 AM
In case you need to hear it from someone who was raised Hindu: Usha is not a hostage, she is an accomplice. She is culpable. Fuck her and the fascists she colludes with. May she go down with all of them. As Zohran ably demonstrates, our communities do not aspire to whiteness & don’t seek to appease.
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It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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I just chipped in a tiny donation to support FRONTLINE, the award-winning documentary series on PBS. If you want to & can support their original, investigative reporting — here’s where you can donate: www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli... (currently they are matching so doubles your impact)
December 22, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I just chipped in a tiny donation to support FRONTLINE, the award-winning documentary series on PBS. If you want to & can support their original, investigative reporting — here’s where you can donate: www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli... (currently they are matching so doubles your impact)
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Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman
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Nicki Minaj called Trump handsome at TPUSA and now I want HER to take a cognitive test
December 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Nicki Minaj called Trump handsome at TPUSA and now I want HER to take a cognitive test
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We are in the maelstrom of a multi-century struggle for this nation. If we don’t understand that, then we will fail to understand what’s at stake.
And we will under-react to the danger of this moment. That is why we need to know how history brings us here.
And we will under-react to the danger of this moment. That is why we need to know how history brings us here.
“The white supremacist, anti-14th Amendment, post-Brown movement has the complicity or active engagement of all three branches of government as it works to undo the constitutional infrastructure of Reconstruction and the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.”
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Is It Too Late?
No. But We Must Better Understand the Nature of the Battle
open.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We are in the maelstrom of a multi-century struggle for this nation. If we don’t understand that, then we will fail to understand what’s at stake.
And we will under-react to the danger of this moment. That is why we need to know how history brings us here.
And we will under-react to the danger of this moment. That is why we need to know how history brings us here.
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Frog pushed Toad out of bed.
December 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Frog pushed Toad out of bed.
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If we treated him like a normal president he’d be in prison right now
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
If we treated him like a normal president he’d be in prison right now
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The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
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Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
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I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
December 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
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O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!
December 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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Jealous
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Resigns in the Face of Mass Protests
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Jealous
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