Vin Sylvia
@vinsylvia.bsky.social
Lifelong New Englander, still a journalist at heart. Politics, ethics, sports, travel.
Naturally, the type of people who would invest the time and effort into attending a Trump rally (other than those assigned to do so) laugh and applaud this garbage.
Trump: I did something no other President ever done. I took cognitive tests. By the way, not easy…The first question is like what is this and they show a lion, giraffe, fish and a hippopotamus. And they say, 'Which is the giraffe?'
December 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Naturally, the type of people who would invest the time and effort into attending a Trump rally (other than those assigned to do so) laugh and applaud this garbage.
@dandrezner.bsky.social's comment gets to the heart of Trumpism: It frees people from feeling they should make amends for past misdeeds and try to do better? Done something morally and/or legally wrong and wound up hurting people? Fuck it. Fuck them. It's sure worked for Trump.
“One of the great virtues to have [in Trumpworld] is that you got caught doing bad things and not giving a fuck… That’s the definition of Donald Trump’s career. He’s been caught over and over again. I think they value that greatly.”
I wrote about Benny Johnson, a documented plagiarist who’s become something like MAGA’s content creator in chief: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
@dandrezner.bsky.social's comment gets to the heart of Trumpism: It frees people from feeling they should make amends for past misdeeds and try to do better? Done something morally and/or legally wrong and wound up hurting people? Fuck it. Fuck them. It's sure worked for Trump.
Absolutely a great Christmas movie. I've been looking for cinematic antidotes to the madness of the past week. Here's a good one. Extra points for the bowling scene, shot in my hometown of Wakefield, MA.
By the way, a great Christmas movie.
December 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Absolutely a great Christmas movie. I've been looking for cinematic antidotes to the madness of the past week. Here's a good one. Extra points for the bowling scene, shot in my hometown of Wakefield, MA.
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The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)
December 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)
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Happy birthday, Paul Simonon. 🎸
And thank you for taking time out to sing with young street musicians playing The Clash. 💕
@theclash.com @faroutmagazine.co.uk
And thank you for taking time out to sing with young street musicians playing The Clash. 💕
@theclash.com @faroutmagazine.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Happy birthday, Paul Simonon. 🎸
And thank you for taking time out to sing with young street musicians playing The Clash. 💕
@theclash.com @faroutmagazine.co.uk
And thank you for taking time out to sing with young street musicians playing The Clash. 💕
@theclash.com @faroutmagazine.co.uk
My mind keeps shifting from appreciation for Rob Reiner’s incredible run of brilliant films to the horrible reality of his and his wife’s death. By all accounts, he was an exceptional person as well as a great artist. For him to die this way is confoundingly unjust.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Live Updates: Hollywood Director Rob Reiner and His Wife Are Found Dead
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
My mind keeps shifting from appreciation for Rob Reiner’s incredible run of brilliant films to the horrible reality of his and his wife’s death. By all accounts, he was an exceptional person as well as a great artist. For him to die this way is confoundingly unjust.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
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can do news and research. It's not that simple!
December 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
can do news and research. It's not that simple!
Trump is a convicted and adjudicated criminal who is using the most powerful office in the world to financially benefit himself, his family and his corrupt business associates. It’s maddening that people support this abomination of a human being.
December 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Trump is a convicted and adjudicated criminal who is using the most powerful office in the world to financially benefit himself, his family and his corrupt business associates. It’s maddening that people support this abomination of a human being.
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💯 percent this
“Congress has largely been focused on the double-tap strike. But the consensus among experts is that the entirety of the strikes is illegal.”
@naomilachance.bsky.social breaks down the details of Trump’s recent strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and what makes them illegal.
@naomilachance.bsky.social breaks down the details of Trump’s recent strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and what makes them illegal.
December 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
💯 percent this
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"The national reaction would be immediate. Congressional hearings, emergency ethics panels, a weeklong media frenzy. Now consider what is actually happening.”
December 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"The national reaction would be immediate. Congressional hearings, emergency ethics panels, a weeklong media frenzy. Now consider what is actually happening.”
Which is it?
Trump knows he’s racist and is no longer attempting to disguise it.
Trump doesn’t recognize that it’s racist to call overwhelmingly Black nations like Somalia “shit-hole countries” while pleading for immigrants from overwhelmingly white nations like Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
Trump knows he’s racist and is no longer attempting to disguise it.
Trump doesn’t recognize that it’s racist to call overwhelmingly Black nations like Somalia “shit-hole countries” while pleading for immigrants from overwhelmingly white nations like Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
I’ll never forget hearing Donald Trump’s racist “shithole countries” comment in a 2018 Oval Office meeting about immigration.
Tom Cotton and David Perdue claimed Trump didn’t say it and accused me of lying.
The truth comes out.
Tom Cotton and David Perdue claimed Trump didn’t say it and accused me of lying.
The truth comes out.
TRUMP: “I said why is it we only take people from shithole countries? Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, Denmark… But we always take people from Somalia— places that are filthy, dirty, disgusting.”
Such a mystery what he means when he says this stuff, isn’t it?
Such a mystery what he means when he says this stuff, isn’t it?
December 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Which is it?
Trump knows he’s racist and is no longer attempting to disguise it.
Trump doesn’t recognize that it’s racist to call overwhelmingly Black nations like Somalia “shit-hole countries” while pleading for immigrants from overwhelmingly white nations like Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
Trump knows he’s racist and is no longer attempting to disguise it.
Trump doesn’t recognize that it’s racist to call overwhelmingly Black nations like Somalia “shit-hole countries” while pleading for immigrants from overwhelmingly white nations like Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
Bergman and Alonso? Wow — that makes the mind reel with the possibilities for 2026.
Great piece from @peteabeglobe.bsky.social. Literally reading it by a hot stove — OK, a gas fireplace — made it all the more enjoyable.
Great piece from @peteabeglobe.bsky.social. Literally reading it by a hot stove — OK, a gas fireplace — made it all the more enjoyable.
December 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Bergman and Alonso? Wow — that makes the mind reel with the possibilities for 2026.
Great piece from @peteabeglobe.bsky.social. Literally reading it by a hot stove — OK, a gas fireplace — made it all the more enjoyable.
Great piece from @peteabeglobe.bsky.social. Literally reading it by a hot stove — OK, a gas fireplace — made it all the more enjoyable.
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Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
Nicole Foy
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
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ProPublica reporter @nicolefoy.bsky.social found that more than 170 U.S. citizens had been detained by immigration agents.
“The number became an important, irrefutable fact in the conversation about the immigration crackdown,” our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.
“The number became an important, irrefutable fact in the conversation about the immigration crackdown,” our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.
The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims
As federal data becomes less available, our journalists are doing shoe-leather reporting to provide readers with the precise numbers.
www.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
ProPublica reporter @nicolefoy.bsky.social found that more than 170 U.S. citizens had been detained by immigration agents.
“The number became an important, irrefutable fact in the conversation about the immigration crackdown,” our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.
“The number became an important, irrefutable fact in the conversation about the immigration crackdown,” our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.
1. The destination of the boats’ cargo is most likely Europe, not the U.S.
2. If there are drugs on board, they’re almost certainly cocaine, not fentanyl.
3. Legally, alleged drug traffickers are entitled to due process, not subject to extrajudicial killing, aka murder.
2. If there are drugs on board, they’re almost certainly cocaine, not fentanyl.
3. Legally, alleged drug traffickers are entitled to due process, not subject to extrajudicial killing, aka murder.
“Saving 25,000 lives” by blowing up a boat relies on the kind of innumeracy that led people to believe that, when Trump talked about deporting 20 million people, he would be targeting only criminals and rapists. lnk.thebulwark.com/3KP4z0z
Donald Trump and the Power of the Little Lie
The war against Venezuela isn’t about drugs. It’s about the destruction of regular order.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
1. The destination of the boats’ cargo is most likely Europe, not the U.S.
2. If there are drugs on board, they’re almost certainly cocaine, not fentanyl.
3. Legally, alleged drug traffickers are entitled to due process, not subject to extrajudicial killing, aka murder.
2. If there are drugs on board, they’re almost certainly cocaine, not fentanyl.
3. Legally, alleged drug traffickers are entitled to due process, not subject to extrajudicial killing, aka murder.
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Women when Harrison Butker doinks a kick
December 8, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Women when Harrison Butker doinks a kick
Season’s greetings!
December 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Season’s greetings!
Cleo and Luna supervising the decoration of the Christmas tree. They’re exceptionally discerning.
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Cleo and Luna supervising the decoration of the Christmas tree. They’re exceptionally discerning.
The ignorance, denialism and just plain stupidly of this administration is incalculable. History will not judge us kindly.
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
December 7, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The ignorance, denialism and just plain stupidly of this administration is incalculable. History will not judge us kindly.
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Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
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FBI Director Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capital, you attack the very being of our way of life. This FBI and this DOJ stand here to tell you we will always refute it and combat it."
Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...
Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...
December 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
FBI Director Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capital, you attack the very being of our way of life. This FBI and this DOJ stand here to tell you we will always refute it and combat it."
Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...
Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...
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One thing's quite clear: major US donors to the GOP are far more responsible for introducing fentanyl (and opioid equivalents) into US markets than are the alleged drug lords of Venezuela.
December 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
One thing's quite clear: major US donors to the GOP are far more responsible for introducing fentanyl (and opioid equivalents) into US markets than are the alleged drug lords of Venezuela.
If you have a chance to catch this year’s Squirrel Nut Zippers Christmas Caravan, do so. Tonight’s show in Beverly, MA, show got off to a good start and just kept getting better. Wonderful music and tremendous fun!
December 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
If you have a chance to catch this year’s Squirrel Nut Zippers Christmas Caravan, do so. Tonight’s show in Beverly, MA, show got off to a good start and just kept getting better. Wonderful music and tremendous fun!
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Yup. Those of us born at the tail end of that cohort have had to walk behind the Woodstock generation and breathe their fumes our whole lives. 😠
December 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Yup. Those of us born at the tail end of that cohort have had to walk behind the Woodstock generation and breathe their fumes our whole lives. 😠