Scott Adelson
@scottadelson.bsky.social
Writer, editor, communicator
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Curious to learn more about CECOT?
Hear Juan, Andry, and Wilmer share firsthand how the Trump administration branded them as gang members without evidence and deported them to the brutal El Salvadoran prison.
This @pbsnews.org documentary is available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lku5...
Hear Juan, Andry, and Wilmer share firsthand how the Trump administration branded them as gang members without evidence and deported them to the brutal El Salvadoran prison.
This @pbsnews.org documentary is available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lku5...
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Curious to learn more about CECOT?
Hear Juan, Andry, and Wilmer share firsthand how the Trump administration branded them as gang members without evidence and deported them to the brutal El Salvadoran prison.
This @pbsnews.org documentary is available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lku5...
Hear Juan, Andry, and Wilmer share firsthand how the Trump administration branded them as gang members without evidence and deported them to the brutal El Salvadoran prison.
This @pbsnews.org documentary is available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lku5...
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If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism.
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
CBS Pulled a “60 Minutes” Story Because the White House Refused to Comment — That’s a Veto on Journalism
Pulling a finished investigation because the administration refused to comment isn’t journalism. It’s submission.
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism.
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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!!!President Trump's Coast Guard has declared that the swastika will no longer be classified as a hate symbol!!! (And these are the folks investigating universities for antisemitism....) www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
!!!President Trump's Coast Guard has declared that the swastika will no longer be classified as a hate symbol!!! (And these are the folks investigating universities for antisemitism....) www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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I'm donating my monthly Disney payment to @pbs.org 🙂
a blue light is shining on a black surface
ALT: a blue light is shining on a black surface
media.tenor.com
September 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I'm donating my monthly Disney payment to @pbs.org 🙂
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Yanking Jimmy Kimmel’s show is a new low for free speech in America | Margaret Sullivan
Yanking Jimmy Kimmel’s show is a new low for free speech in America | Margaret Sullivan
Kimmel’s sudden defenestration may be a political success for Trump but it’s a dire sign for free speech in America
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Yanking Jimmy Kimmel’s show is a new low for free speech in America | Margaret Sullivan
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Thank you to @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for just telling the truth about #ElonMusk. The rest of the media should hang their heads in shame with the fawning, irrelevant pieces they ran yesterday. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Thank you to @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for just telling the truth about #ElonMusk. The rest of the media should hang their heads in shame with the fawning, irrelevant pieces they ran yesterday. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
September 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
September 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Paramount bends the knee and weakens a nation - my latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
Paramount Bends the Knee and Weakens a Nation
Paramount settlement in the ridiculous lawsuit against CBS News is a shameful bribe paid to Trump's extortion racket, and yet another indictment of the corporate media industry
open.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Paramount bends the knee and weakens a nation - my latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
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Fuck Lisa Murkowski.
July 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Fuck Lisa Murkowski.
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Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr. says U.S. will stop funding global vaccine alliance Gavi
Gavi works to expand access to vaccines for children in some of the world’s poorest countries. Health experts say the move could have deadly consequences.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com
June 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com
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By failing to defend against Russian attacks on the free world, we’ve ceded advantage to our enemies
We’ve also made it harder for our democracy to deliver to Americans at home
The survival of America and the survival of Ukraine may be inextricably linked
www.greatpower.us/p/thin-blue-...
We’ve also made it harder for our democracy to deliver to Americans at home
The survival of America and the survival of Ukraine may be inextricably linked
www.greatpower.us/p/thin-blue-...
Thin blue-and-yellow line
The line between American chaos and American greatness runs through Ukraine
www.greatpower.us
June 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
By failing to defend against Russian attacks on the free world, we’ve ceded advantage to our enemies
We’ve also made it harder for our democracy to deliver to Americans at home
The survival of America and the survival of Ukraine may be inextricably linked
www.greatpower.us/p/thin-blue-...
We’ve also made it harder for our democracy to deliver to Americans at home
The survival of America and the survival of Ukraine may be inextricably linked
www.greatpower.us/p/thin-blue-...
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Again, the big divide within the Democratic Party is not going to be progressives versus moderate (or The Groups). It's going to be fight versus flight.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Josh Shapiro says he’s ‘prepared’ if Trump sends military to Pennsylvania
Gov. Josh Shapiro’s comments came during an interview following Trump administration threats to expand National Guard call-ups to other states.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 12, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Again, the big divide within the Democratic Party is not going to be progressives versus moderate (or The Groups). It's going to be fight versus flight.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Currently. (Not 1930s Europe or 40s USA.): “Agents confiscated belongings and rushed deportees to California’s high desert or Texas.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Families arrested in LA Ice raids held in basements with little food or water, lawyers say
Agents confiscated belongings and rushed deportees to California’s high desert or Texas, saying local facilities had not prepared for influx
www.theguardian.com
June 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Currently. (Not 1930s Europe or 40s USA.): “Agents confiscated belongings and rushed deportees to California’s high desert or Texas.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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"Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life."
Thank you to @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for just telling the truth about #ElonMusk. The rest of the media should hang their heads in shame with the fawning, irrelevant pieces they ran yesterday. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
"Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life."
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FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value.
There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.
There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.
May 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value.
There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.
There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.
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Dear Jake Tapper:
Go fuck yourself
Best,
Naomi Biden
Go fuck yourself
Best,
Naomi Biden
May 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Dear Jake Tapper:
Go fuck yourself
Best,
Naomi Biden
Go fuck yourself
Best,
Naomi Biden
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Literally cannot scroll our home feed without finding multiple different similarities between communism under Mao and
the Trump regime!
the Trump regime!
Not a good sign when the president's doctor is credulously repeating obvious nonsense about Trump's golf "championships" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u... Shades of Mao Zedong’s world record pace on his Yangtze swim
April 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Literally cannot scroll our home feed without finding multiple different similarities between communism under Mao and
the Trump regime!
the Trump regime!
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Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
Get out there, if you can! #handsoff2025
April 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Get out there, if you can! #handsoff2025
Disgraceful. Meanwhile, “China, Russia, India and other nations have rushed in assistance.” #myanmar www.reuters.com/world/us/usa...
USAID team fired while in Myanmar earthquake zone, ex-official says
Three U.S. aid workers were laid off while in Myanmar helping the rescue and recovery from the country's massive earthquake, a former senior staffer said, as the Trump administration's dismantling of foreign aid affects its disaster response.
www.reuters.com
April 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Disgraceful. Meanwhile, “China, Russia, India and other nations have rushed in assistance.” #myanmar www.reuters.com/world/us/usa...
SOS: “The nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science
Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warned Americans of ‘real danger in this moment’
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
SOS: “The nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...