Adam Keiper
@adamkeiper.com
Executive editor, The Bulwark (thebulwark.com) /// Cofounder of The New Atlantis (thenewatlantis.com) and American Purpose (americanpurpose.com).
(I wonder how many hit the trifecta?)
It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories:
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
November 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
(I wonder how many hit the trifecta?)
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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May we never stop trying to write cricket bats.
![HENRY: Shut up and listen. This thing here, which looks like a wooden club, is actually several pieces of particular wood cunningly put together in a certain way so that the whole thing is sprung, like a dance floor. It’s for hitting cricket balls with. If you get it right, the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds, and all you’ve done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout, and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly… (He clucks his tongue to make the noise.) What we’re trying to do is to write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might … travel … (He clucks his tongue again and picks up the script.) Now, what we’ve got here is a lump of wood of roughly the same shape trying to be a cricket bat, and if you hit a ball with it, the ball will travel about ten feet and you will drop the bat and dance about shouting ‘Ouch!’ with your hands stuck into your armpits. (Indicating the cricket bat.) This isn’t better because someone says it’s better, or because there’s a conspiracy by the MCC to keep cudgels out of Lords. It’s better because it’s better. You don’t believe me, so I suggest you go out to bat with this and see how you get on. [quoting from the play] ‘You’re a strange boy, Billy, how old are you?”Twenty, but I’ve lived more than you’ll ever live.’ Ooh, ouch! (He drops the script and hops about with his hands in his armpits, going ‘Ouch!’ ANNIE watches him expressionlessly until he desists.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tfusco6lurhflepbh3g7m7s5/bafkreihts3fxnflkahxc7f6q4gpmjmbfxxkoeerd7ksiqmqvgl2mvgerbe@jpeg)
November 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
May we never stop trying to write cricket bats.
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I said it and I'm glad.
May I suggest that Arcadia is the greatest play written in the English language in the last 150 years or so at least?
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I said it and I'm glad.
Tom Stoppard, R.I.P. As great as they come. I always keep 'Arcadia' an arm's reach away from my desk. What a thrill it was—it will always be—to see a really great production of one of his shows.
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Tom Stoppard, playwright of electric verve, dies at 88
His intellectually challenging and verbally dazzling works, including “Arcadia” and “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” were among the most acclaimed and oft-performed plays of the last half-cen...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Tom Stoppard, R.I.P. As great as they come. I always keep 'Arcadia' an arm's reach away from my desk. What a thrill it was—it will always be—to see a really great production of one of his shows.
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
NEW: Activists are targeting Home Depot, AT&T, Amazon, and other businesses for their cooperation with Trump's mass deportation regime.
www.thebulwark.com/p/backlash-b...
www.thebulwark.com/p/backlash-b...
A Backlash Is Brewing Against Companies Helping ICE
Activists are targeting the reputations of Home Depot, AT&T, and other businesses.
www.thebulwark.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
NEW: Activists are targeting Home Depot, AT&T, Amazon, and other businesses for their cooperation with Trump's mass deportation regime.
www.thebulwark.com/p/backlash-b...
www.thebulwark.com/p/backlash-b...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight. See you around.
The great Toni Lamond, a legend of Australian musical theatre, has died. She was 93. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1xv...
Losing My Mind - Toni Lamond
YouTube video by You'reGonnaLoveTomorrow
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight. See you around.
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight. See you around.
The great Toni Lamond, a legend of Australian musical theatre, has died. She was 93. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1xv...
Losing My Mind - Toni Lamond
YouTube video by You'reGonnaLoveTomorrow
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight. See you around.
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Since when do Americans “do business “with their government in this fashion?
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Since when do Americans “do business “with their government in this fashion?
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: André Previn's take on the jazz standard "More Than You Know." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIVG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIVG...
More Than You Know
YouTube video by André Previn - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: André Previn's take on the jazz standard "More Than You Know." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIVG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIVG...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: André Previn's take on the jazz standard "More Than You Know." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIVG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIVG...
More Than You Know
YouTube video by André Previn - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: André Previn's take on the jazz standard "More Than You Know." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIVG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIVG...
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“You can be anything” sounds like an encouraging thing to say to a child, but there are lots of terrifying and bad things one could become 🤔
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
“You can be anything” sounds like an encouraging thing to say to a child, but there are lots of terrifying and bad things one could become 🤔
"Every year, I hear a chorus of bitching and moaning about the turkey’s supposed faults. It’s too big to cook. It’s too dry. It takes too much time. Chicken is better. (Chicken!)"
(Clare wrote this lovely, funny piece before JD Vance's anti-turkey rant.)
(Clare wrote this lovely, funny piece before JD Vance's anti-turkey rant.)
A Defense of the Thanksgiving Turkey
The noble, beautiful, all-American bird pays worthy homage to our grand culinary inheritance.
www.thebulwark.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"Every year, I hear a chorus of bitching and moaning about the turkey’s supposed faults. It’s too big to cook. It’s too dry. It takes too much time. Chicken is better. (Chicken!)"
(Clare wrote this lovely, funny piece before JD Vance's anti-turkey rant.)
(Clare wrote this lovely, funny piece before JD Vance's anti-turkey rant.)
Happy Thanksgiving, Bluesky! I'm thankful for so many of you—and for the past year of conversations and learning and dumb jokes here.
a man is standing in a kitchen with his hands on his hips .
Alt: Joey from friends showing how loosely fitting his comfortable slacks are, with a superimposed caption reading "These are my Thanksgiving pants"
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November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, Bluesky! I'm thankful for so many of you—and for the past year of conversations and learning and dumb jokes here.
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The classic Shaker song "Simple Gifts" as recorded in 2001 by Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Krauss. Feels like a good fit for Thanksgiving eve. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQX...
Simple Gifts
YouTube video by Yo-Yo Ma - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The classic Shaker song "Simple Gifts" as recorded in 2001 by Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Krauss. Feels like a good fit for Thanksgiving eve. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQX...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The classic Shaker song "Simple Gifts" as recorded in 2001 by Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Krauss. Feels like a good fit for Thanksgiving eve. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQX...
Simple Gifts
YouTube video by Yo-Yo Ma - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The classic Shaker song "Simple Gifts" as recorded in 2001 by Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Krauss. Feels like a good fit for Thanksgiving eve. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQX...
lol
It’s about the past.
It’s about being thankful for socialism and post-scarcity.
It’s about a meeting of two different cultures over drinks and food.
Star Trek: First Contact is a Thanksgiving movie.
It’s about being thankful for socialism and post-scarcity.
It’s about a meeting of two different cultures over drinks and food.
Star Trek: First Contact is a Thanksgiving movie.
Half-watching/half-listening to 'Star Trek: First Contact' as I pre-cook Thanksgiving food, and I'm glad to be reminded of what a fun romp it is, with an excellent screenplay. (That is, aside from a truly egregious title drop: "So you're astronauts? On some kind of ... star trek." Ugggggh.)
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
lol
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"We don't want to talk too much about Scott Jennings, but it was funny watching him go after Tim....his thesis is, did we ever really believe it? Which is some projection because nobody has changed themselves more."
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social, @timmiller.bsky.social, and @jvl.bsky.social:
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social, @timmiller.bsky.social, and @jvl.bsky.social:
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"We don't want to talk too much about Scott Jennings, but it was funny watching him go after Tim....his thesis is, did we ever really believe it? Which is some projection because nobody has changed themselves more."
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social, @timmiller.bsky.social, and @jvl.bsky.social:
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social, @timmiller.bsky.social, and @jvl.bsky.social:
"Officers and senior NCOs take their place behind the serving line—carving turkey, ladling gravy, and offering jokes and smiles to soldiers and their families who file through. For a service culture that cares deeply about symbols and rituals, this one is very special: Leaders serve the led."
How the Military Celebrates Thanksgiving
Across the world, members of our armed forces come together, share a meal, and remember that they are not alone.
www.thebulwark.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 AM
"Officers and senior NCOs take their place behind the serving line—carving turkey, ladling gravy, and offering jokes and smiles to soldiers and their families who file through. For a service culture that cares deeply about symbols and rituals, this one is very special: Leaders serve the led."
Half-watching/half-listening to 'Star Trek: First Contact' as I pre-cook Thanksgiving food, and I'm glad to be reminded of what a fun romp it is, with an excellent screenplay. (That is, aside from a truly egregious title drop: "So you're astronauts? On some kind of ... star trek." Ugggggh.)
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Half-watching/half-listening to 'Star Trek: First Contact' as I pre-cook Thanksgiving food, and I'm glad to be reminded of what a fun romp it is, with an excellent screenplay. (That is, aside from a truly egregious title drop: "So you're astronauts? On some kind of ... star trek." Ugggggh.)
Reposted by Adam Keiper
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
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anyway. conde naste should fire Nuzzi, fire the hack editor at vanity fair, reverse its gutting of teen vogue, and apologize to all of us for this nonsense.
November 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
anyway. conde naste should fire Nuzzi, fire the hack editor at vanity fair, reverse its gutting of teen vogue, and apologize to all of us for this nonsense.
JD Vance is spectacularly wrong about turkey (as he is spectacularly wrong about so many things) in his rant today. Check out Clare Coffey's hilarious and lovely defense of the turkey:
www.thebulwark.com/p/a-defense-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/a-defense-...
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
JD Vance is spectacularly wrong about turkey (as he is spectacularly wrong about so many things) in his rant today. Check out Clare Coffey's hilarious and lovely defense of the turkey:
www.thebulwark.com/p/a-defense-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/a-defense-...
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"Thanksgiving in uniform becomes more than a meal. It is an act of leadership and community. It’s a reminder that our oath binds us not just to the Constitution, but to each other." lnk.thebulwark.com/3KixnOD
How the Military Celebrates Thanksgiving
Across the world, members of our armed forces come together, share a meal, and remember that they are not alone.
lnk.thebulwark.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"Thanksgiving in uniform becomes more than a meal. It is an act of leadership and community. It’s a reminder that our oath binds us not just to the Constitution, but to each other." lnk.thebulwark.com/3KixnOD
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"With all the duties, the decorations might be meager, the tables improvised, but the tradition still happens, and its meaning is usually deeper." How the military celebrates Thanksgiving: lnk.thebulwark.com/3KixnOD
How the Military Celebrates Thanksgiving
Across the world, members of our armed forces come together, share a meal, and remember that they are not alone.
lnk.thebulwark.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"With all the duties, the decorations might be meager, the tables improvised, but the tradition still happens, and its meaning is usually deeper." How the military celebrates Thanksgiving: lnk.thebulwark.com/3KixnOD