Tom von Alten
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I like the e.g.: Artist, dog-lover, and avid reader. I mean, aren't we all? Retired engineer s/w dev, writer, bicyclist, former newspaper boy.
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
Not only is Trump the most corrupt president in US history, there isn't anyone close to him for second place.
Having the BBC try to edit out the stated fact is pathetic.
Having the BBC try to edit out the stated fact is pathetic.
Trump is the most corrupt president in US history, and the openness of his corruption is an essential feature of it. It's particularly bad that this comes as Trump is using state power to punish Sen Mark Kelly for correctly warning against breaking illegal orders.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Not only is Trump the most corrupt president in US history, there isn't anyone close to him for second place.
Having the BBC try to edit out the stated fact is pathetic.
Having the BBC try to edit out the stated fact is pathetic.
Missouri AG claims w/o evidence signature gatherers are “reportedly employing illegal aliens.”
They're test-driving voter intimidation to suppress participation.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
They're test-driving voter intimidation to suppress participation.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
This Week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s Texas Gerrymander Blocked, and the GOP Calls ICE on Signature Gatherers
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Missouri AG claims w/o evidence signature gatherers are “reportedly employing illegal aliens.”
They're test-driving voter intimidation to suppress participation.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
They're test-driving voter intimidation to suppress participation.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
That late November feeling
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
That late November feeling
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When a turkey who wanted a pardon pardons another turkey, it's called "a professional courtesy."
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
When a turkey who wanted a pardon pardons another turkey, it's called "a professional courtesy."
"What does this tell us about American process and about American factions and about where and why Dmitriev is finding a sympathetic hearing and partners inside the White House or around the White House?"
Worth 50 minutes to watch.
1/3
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Worth 50 minutes to watch.
1/3
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Oligarchs and Diplomats (video with Michael Weiss)
Thinking Live episode 2
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"What does this tell us about American process and about American factions and about where and why Dmitriev is finding a sympathetic hearing and partners inside the White House or around the White House?"
Worth 50 minutes to watch.
1/3
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Worth 50 minutes to watch.
1/3
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If any US quislings want to claim authorship of the Capitulation to Russia Plan, let them identify themselves.
"[T]hroughout the document, Russia is being rewarded for invading Ukraine."
"[T]is text cannot be seen as a framework for a peace settlement."
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"[T]hroughout the document, Russia is being rewarded for invading Ukraine."
"[T]is text cannot be seen as a framework for a peace settlement."
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Russian Unreality and American Weakness
Notes from a bizarre moment of diplomatic history
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
If any US quislings want to claim authorship of the Capitulation to Russia Plan, let them identify themselves.
"[T]hroughout the document, Russia is being rewarded for invading Ukraine."
"[T]is text cannot be seen as a framework for a peace settlement."
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
"[T]hroughout the document, Russia is being rewarded for invading Ukraine."
"[T]is text cannot be seen as a framework for a peace settlement."
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"
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Oh this is the SONG of the YEAR — turn the sound ON 🔊 THIS is how artists fight back against the terror running wild in this country. And as we head into this holiday week, remember there are people being hunted simply for being working folks all because of the color of their skin. History Repeats.
November 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Oh this is the SONG of the YEAR — turn the sound ON 🔊 THIS is how artists fight back against the terror running wild in this country. And as we head into this holiday week, remember there are people being hunted simply for being working folks all because of the color of their skin. History Repeats.
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It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
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Here is the proposal that wins Nobel Prize: Russia leaves Ukraine.
November 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Here is the proposal that wins Nobel Prize: Russia leaves Ukraine.
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
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Senator Bill Cassidy, who voted to confirm RFK JR, just posted this.
Threads
Threads
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Senator Bill Cassidy, who voted to confirm RFK JR, just posted this.
Threads
Threads
We don't need another narcissist masturbating with antisocial media
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk Is Trying to Rewrite History
Why did Grok say he’s better than Jesus?
www.theatlantic.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
We don't need another narcissist masturbating with antisocial media
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging.
Here’s my response:
Here’s my response:
November 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging.
Here’s my response:
Here’s my response:
The pig rots from the head
Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
The Pig Is in the White House
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The pig rots from the head
Worsens the war and more.
Encourages nuclear proliferation, and more wars of conquest.
The +rump-Witkoff "plan" is stenography for Putin; we presume he's keen to cash in on the Epstein leverage he's long had, now that it's a wasting asset here in USA FAFO mode
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
Encourages nuclear proliferation, and more wars of conquest.
The +rump-Witkoff "plan" is stenography for Putin; we presume he's keen to cash in on the Epstein leverage he's long had, now that it's a wasting asset here in USA FAFO mode
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War
Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine
snyder.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Worsens the war and more.
Encourages nuclear proliferation, and more wars of conquest.
The +rump-Witkoff "plan" is stenography for Putin; we presume he's keen to cash in on the Epstein leverage he's long had, now that it's a wasting asset here in USA FAFO mode
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
Encourages nuclear proliferation, and more wars of conquest.
The +rump-Witkoff "plan" is stenography for Putin; we presume he's keen to cash in on the Epstein leverage he's long had, now that it's a wasting asset here in USA FAFO mode
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
The chaos presidency, fueled by Stephen Miller's psychopathy
Borders Czar Tom Homan just announced he’s ramping up ICE operations in NYC.
Same playbook we’ve been seeing in LA, DC, Chicago & Charlotte. They aren’t hunting criminals, they’re targeting workers and people who are part of the community. Families. Neighbors. The people who keep the city running.
Same playbook we’ve been seeing in LA, DC, Chicago & Charlotte. They aren’t hunting criminals, they’re targeting workers and people who are part of the community. Families. Neighbors. The people who keep the city running.
November 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The chaos presidency, fueled by Stephen Miller's psychopathy
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“The JAG at Southern Command specifically expressed concern that strikes against people on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean…could amount to extrajudicial killings, the six sources said, and therefore legally expose service members involved in the operations.”
Top military lawyer raised legal concerns about boat strikes
The lawyer at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the operations against alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela, disagreed that the strikes are legal and was overruled, according to six sources...
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 AM
“The JAG at Southern Command specifically expressed concern that strikes against people on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean…could amount to extrajudicial killings, the six sources said, and therefore legally expose service members involved in the operations.”
Night sweats
Just a week before his arrest in 2019, Epstein wrote to Trump ally Steve Bannon: “Now you can understand why trump wakes up in the middle of the night sweating when he hears you and I are friends.”
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Just a week before his arrest in 2019, Epstein wrote to Trump ally Steve Bannon: “Now you can understand why trump wakes up in the middle of the night sweating when he hears you and I are friends.”
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November 19, 2025
Yesterday the House of Representatives passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Night sweats
Just a week before his arrest in 2019, Epstein wrote to Trump ally Steve Bannon: “Now you can understand why trump wakes up in the middle of the night sweating when he hears you and I are friends.”
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Just a week before his arrest in 2019, Epstein wrote to Trump ally Steve Bannon: “Now you can understand why trump wakes up in the middle of the night sweating when he hears you and I are friends.”
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
