Nicholas Grossman

Of course Bashar al Assad is living comfortably in Russia. Putin wants current and potential future lackeys to see that partnering with Russia can not only defend/empower you, but if it stops working, will get you a soft landing. Downside is death? Pass. Downside is luxurious exile? Risk worth it.

Me, 5.5 years ago, on self-styled champions of free speech doing "free speech for me but not for thee" while scolding others for supposedly opposing free speech, using Bari Weiss as a specific example. And I was hardly the only one to notice this. Full thing here: medium.com/arc-digital/... https://inkcap.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:756gaaeewovgn4axja34ajne&cid=bafkreichopmwqezsodkrnmcwymur3ueffny5ugbcip3sa2nd2mcuvoxcay https://inkcap.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:756gaaeewovgn4axja34ajne&cid=bafkreic7ggotpz7h75lu6i74pn7aotzuiyafi7j6zimgthid2fdphn4xmu

To the Ellisons, $8B for the chance to censor CBS reports about atrocious Trump regime actions is a good deal. To Elon Musk (and the Saudis), $44B to censor and manipulate Twitter is worth it. They don't need profits from media properties. For them, money long ago crossed the threshold into power.

First concerning thought: The US is giving Grok access to Pentagon systems? The exchange unavoidably goes both ways, so they’re handing an Elon Musk company tons of valuable, sensitive data. Second concerning thought: That already happened with DOGE. Pentagon taps Musk's xAI to bo...

First Elon Musk at Twitter, now Bari Weiss at CBS. What’s next, finding out others who loudly proclaimed themselves free speech champions never valued free speech at all, and were always doing “speech I like must be widely distributed and cannot be criticized, speech I don’t like must be censored”?

Dear Media, When JD Vance says "take the country back," what do you think he means? What would the party that controls the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, and various state goats—plus leading businesses, media orgs, and more—take back? Take what from whom? Thanks, Anti-bigotry Americans

Russia already signed a treaty to not attack a NATO or EU member. It’s the UN Charter, and also forbids Russia from attacking anyone else. Plus 1994 Budapest Memorandum and 2014-15 Minsk Agreements promise to not attack Ukraine. Promising to not attack isn’t a concession, it’s baseline obligation.

You’re joking, right? Vance sides with the bigotry. He’s been pushing blatant white nationalism in public for years, and it’s accelerated recently. His whole pitch is he’s more directly bigoted than Trump. This might be even worse than the infamous article saying Elon Musk’s politics are a mystery. Vance Refuses to Take Sides in...

So CBS News paid President Trump millions to settle a baseless lawsuit over 60 Minutes editing a Kamala Harris interview the way they edit every interview, then a self-styled free speech champion took over CBS News and censored a 60 Minutes report exposing Trump admin actions, do I have that right?

The ways JD Vance could become president: 1) Trump dies in office 2) 2028-29 coup attempt succeeds That’s it