Sasha Margolis
sashamargolis.bsky.social
Sasha Margolis
@sashamargolis.bsky.social
Violinist, author of The Tsimbalist, fiddler/singer/talker of Big Galut(e)
Amazing!
January 3, 2026 at 2:08 PM
It’s great!
January 3, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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(5/X) I should point out that jailing oligarchs is the only possible way to save our democracy. They're all cowards, look how the Russian ones responded once Putin jailed a couple. It's the only way to bring them in line.
January 2, 2026 at 3:12 AM
How much for a bris-kit?
December 29, 2025 at 4:24 AM
There are a lot of things Bill Ackman is not
December 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The part where it is motivated by a desire to obscure the illegality and immorality of sending people to a concentration camp without any due process.
December 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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This book is egregiously dishonest. It sticks the outcome of Murthy in a footnote while lying about our work as well.
December 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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There’s a lesson here about writing in the age of weaponized lies: Always precede false claims with giant red text, ideally wrapped in a <blink> tag, that says “THIS IS A LIE I AM REFUTING!!”

But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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One such refutation appears in my paper under the heading “The FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands.” I spend several hundred words explaining that that didn’t happen.
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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The authors quote from an article I wrote in 2023, refuting false claims about government jawboning of social media platforms. One of the claims I directly push back against is the persistent lie that the FBI demanded Twitter censor online speech.

knightcolumbia.org/blog/getting...
Getting the Facts Straight: Some Observations on the Fifth Circuit Ruling in Missouri v. Biden
knightcolumbia.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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And yet, In Covid’s Wake quotes me as saying that “the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands” — literally the opposite of what I argue — to buttress their claim that the government was too busy censoring speech to adequately deal with the pandemic.
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Why would you publish this dreck?
December 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lyin… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/17/2025 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
That’s wonderful, thank you for sharing it
December 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM