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Contributing editor, Harper's Magazine; Lecturer, Columbia Law School; Attorney

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · May 14

ZDF is now broadcasting the documentary I prepared with Johannes Hano and David Frum concerning the Russian influence operation targeting Musk, Thiel and other Silicon Valley South Africans, which was personally overseen and run by Vladimir Putin and was deemed hugely successful by the Russians.

Putins Helfer

Rücken Trump und sein Umfeld näher an Russland? Bedrohen Autokraten und Tech-Oligarchen die liberale Ordnung?

www.zdf.de

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h

Trump's bargain with Ghislaine Maxwell: you keep quiet on what you know, and I'll let you go free. www.thedailybeast.com/why-trump-co...

Why Trump Could Pardon Maxwell as Soon as This Week: Author

Donald Trump biographer Michael Wolff believes that the sex trafficker’s pardoning is a matter of when, not if.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h

Mohamed A. El-Erian: No stopping the price of gold for now:
Up more than 50% so far this year, it has more than doubled over the past two years.
Consistent buying by some foreign central baks is being reinforced by growing institutional and retail allocations, and a more volatile speculative overlay

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h

Carl Ott, Author @bubba687.bsky.social · 12h

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h

Alzheimer’s reversed in mice. A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

www.nature.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h

H/t Ian Carrillo

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h

Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 4h

We are in late-stage authoritarian media takeover.

Fox and CNN are owned/controlled by rightwing billionaires.
Twitter and Truth Social
WSJ and WaPo
CBS and ABC
Newsweek, Sinclair, now Tegna; TikTok getting close.

We are far along in the Putin-mold media takeover plan.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h

Why secret police always prefer losers, a study focusing on Argentina and Greece.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h

It's a well-established global phenomenon: secret police organizations always recruit losers, mediocrities, people who can't succeed in a competitive environment, whether bureaucratic, academic or commercial. These are people who will follow orders and engage in depraved, violent conduct when asked.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

The true requirement is that no matter how many (or few) views are presented to the students, they should be offered as objects of analysis rather than as candidates for allegiance."

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

Conspiracy Theories 101. Stanley Fish: "There is, in fact, no academic requirement to include more than one view of an academic issue, although it is usually pedagogically useful to do so....

Opinion | Conspiracy Theories 101 (Published 2006)

www.nytimes.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

The Kremlin's new film feature, Толерантность (Tolerance), presents Europe as a bubbling hellhole in which gays and lesbians have rights and bigots, racists and hooligans face repression. It beats the drum for the invasion and conquest of Europe to liberate the Europeans from themselves.

Пропагандистский фильм о Европе «Толерантность» с Захаром Прилепиным собрал в прокате сто тысяч рублей Бюджет, по оценкам экспертов — не меньше 200 миллионов — Meduza

Писатель Захар Прилепин сыграл серийного убийцу, противника европейских либеральных ценностей, в фильме Андрея Грачева «Толерантность». Это картина о вымышленном европейском государстве, где общество ...

meduza.io

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

Vanity Fair chronicles the most incompetently run campaign in modern New York history as a sort of funeral march for Andrew Cuomo. He's dead, but he hasn't been buried yet. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/a...

As Cuomo Tries to Catch Mamdani, the Campaign May Get Ugly

“You’ve got a candidate who has lost his way,” one Cuomo insider tells Vanity Fair.

www.vanityfair.com

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

The Nobel Prize announcements become an opportunity to remind the world of the severe damage Trump is doing to science and scientific research. bsky.app/profile/en.a...

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 6h

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

u.afp.com/SmAy

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

Lula to Trump: we'll find an outlet for our products, but you should give a Americans a break on the tax you're imposing on their coffee and hamburgers.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has urged Donald Trump to scrap tariffs on his country’s imports and sanctions against its officials, as the two men held what the Brazilian presidency called a “friendly” video call, swapping phone numbers after months of friction.

Brazil’s president asks US to scrap tariffs in ‘friendly’ call with Trump

Presidents spoke on a video call as expert speculates that Haiti could be an area where the two leaders can cooperate

www.theguardian.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

It's entirely suitable to commemorate the victims of the Oct 7. What's entirely inappropriate: Columbia forbids commemoration of the more than 67,000 Gazans killed and 170,000 wounded as a consequence of IDF operations post-Oct 7.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

The Fox effect: always edit out whatever is most embarrassing. It never happened.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

The mounting deaths in Trump's concentration camps. “Contracts are being distributed to Trump’s buddies and people with no experience running detention centers, many of these contracts are no-bid. They’re incarcerating people and allowing them to die, not providing medical facilities. It’s horrific”

The “Moral Monsters” Among Us

Immigrants are dying now. Will people of good conscience speak up?

www.thebulwark.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

Adam Douglas Thompson, The New Yorker

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

Not just "critics." Its use is now ubiquitous. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/n...

Critics of Trump’s immigration crackdown are using the term ‘Kavanaugh stop.’ Here’s what it means. - The Boston Globe

The phrase, is "a window into where [the administration] can go next," some advocates say.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

Ross Douthat has this just right. Adolf Hitler becomes Reichskanzler—1933; his thousand-year Reich reaches its end—1945. Twelve years.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

We had Pierre Franey's cauliflower soup as the starter, it's a real delight. But so was everything that followed.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

Petrus Christus, A Goldsmith in his Shop (Bruges 1449)
A celebrated masterpiece of Northern Renaissance Art, this painting is by Petrus Christus, the leading painter in Bruges after van Eyck. The panel attests to the artists’ keen interest in pictorial illusionism and meticulous attention to detail

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

"Democrats in disarray," "Republicans in disarray": the most vacuous clichés uttered by Beltway chatterboxes.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

One of Donald Trump’s earliest supporters on Wall Street owns a stake in the tiny mining business that tripled overnight on news of the government’s grant of critical rights in Alaska to the company coupled with the federal government making a huge investment to help it float. Forbes reports.

Billionaire Trump Donor Paulson Scores Windfall Thanks To Government’s Investment In Trilogy Metals

One of Donald Trump’s earliest supporters on Wall Street owns a stake in the tiny mining business that tripled overnight on news of the government’s investment.

www.forbes.com

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