Edward Witten
edwardwitten.bsky.social
Edward Witten
@edwardwitten.bsky.social
Theoretical physicist
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It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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TENNESSEAN: “Ethics complaint filed claiming 8 Senators ― including @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty ― violated conflict of interest rules by supporting a provision allowing them to sue the government for millions…”

(Finally they cover this story! 👏🏽)
www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...
November 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Four years ago today President Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill into law. This was one of the most consequential bills of our lifetimes.

Trump has been working to dismantle that work since entering office. He is always working against the people.
November 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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They are straight up robbing taxpayers blind at this point and not even trying to hide it. Just ransacking the treasury out in the open. This motherfucker pleaded guilty! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Mafia governance in action

"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Dreamers were once obvious candidates for a path to citizenship. Now, they’re getting picked up, detained, and set for potential deportation.
Then they came for the Dreamers
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
www.motherjones.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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BREAKING: 100+ Members of Congress sent a letter to PM Netanyahu calling on him to withdraw demolition orders targeting the Palestinian village of Umm al-Kheir.

Here's the NJN response: www.newjewishnarrative.org/statements/n...
NJN Praises Congressional Letter on Umm al-Kheir — New Jewish Narrative
More than 100 Members of Congress sent a letter today to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling on him to withdraw demolition orders that his government issued against homes and other str...
www.newjewishnarrative.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
One of the hostages killed by Hamas - a longtime peace activist (and not the only one)
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
Slain hostage Oded Lifshitz refused to stay silent on Israel's misdeeds | Opinion
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www.haaretz.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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The White House is a 24/7 pay-to-play enterprise.

The latest? Trump is pardoning Changpeng Zhao, who built a company that allowed terrorists and sex predators to launder money.

Why? Because Zhao made a huge investment in Trump's corrupt crypto business.

Pay-to-play.
October 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Shame on the private companies that are funding Trump's ballroom
October 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
#JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to do everything possible to end the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org
Jews Demand Action
jewsdemandaction.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I keep saying “it’s almost impossible to explain how corrupt this is” but then something like this happens that’s even MORE corrupt:
President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.

Whether he gets paid will ultimately be up to DOJ's second-in-command, who was recently his personal lawyer.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
October 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Back in 1939, Thomas Mann wrote an essay called Bruder Hitler. Esquire magazine ran it with the title “That Man Is My Brother”.

Here’s an archived link: archive.ph/kPMHn
February 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Is he just gonna steal $230 million dollars from us?
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
October 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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October 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/0islLh9
October 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Hey, Mike Johnson, is this what a pro-Hamas terrorist looks like?
October 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM