Tom
@thomas-a-stewart.bsky.social
Writer, editor, business thinker, former Editor in Chief of HBR, culture vulture, consultant, intellectual capital/customer experience.
There’s no limit to their perfidy
CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.
CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"
February 11, 2026 at 11:03 PM
There’s no limit to their perfidy
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Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
Monstrous
Tuberculosis is flourishing in ICE prisons across the country, including in the Anchorage Correctional Complex, Adelanto ICE Processing Center, Eloy Detention Center, Denver Contract Detention Facility, and the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.
I have been informed by U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar and confirmed by the City of El Paso, Texas that there are two known active cases of tuberculosis registered at Camp East Montana. There are also at least 18 cases of COVID-19.
I had been hearing rumors of this from my contacts for weeks.
I had been hearing rumors of this from my contacts for weeks.
February 10, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Monstrous
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ICE officials, under a judge’s order to clean up overcrowded and squalid conditions inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate floor where they decided the the ruling didn't apply. The revelation comes in a hearing today:
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...
ICE Moved Detainees to Previously Undisclosed Floor of 26 Federal Plaza
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reduce overcrowding and squalid conditions at a Manhattan holding room. Months later, he finds ICE merely shifted floors.
www.thecity.nyc
February 10, 2026 at 1:25 AM
ICE officials, under a judge’s order to clean up overcrowded and squalid conditions inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate floor where they decided the the ruling didn't apply. The revelation comes in a hearing today:
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...
Totally bummed that Olympics preempted by the terminally boring Suoerbowl
February 9, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Totally bummed that Olympics preempted by the terminally boring Suoerbowl
Sharing for no particular reason
"this is fine"
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
February 7, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Sharing for no particular reason
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Really important piece in today's @nytimes.com about possible, disastrous next target of MAGA wrecking ball:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a...
H/t to my friend @timothynoah.bsky.social for pioneering on this story: newrepublic.com/article/2010...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a...
H/t to my friend @timothynoah.bsky.social for pioneering on this story: newrepublic.com/article/2010...
It’s Been Called the ‘Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.’ Don’t Destroy It.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Really important piece in today's @nytimes.com about possible, disastrous next target of MAGA wrecking ball:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a...
H/t to my friend @timothynoah.bsky.social for pioneering on this story: newrepublic.com/article/2010...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a...
H/t to my friend @timothynoah.bsky.social for pioneering on this story: newrepublic.com/article/2010...
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1) My nominee for Nobel Peace Prize: The people of Minnesota.
2) My action-item for people of DC: Keep round-the-clock watch on the Kennedy Center, so Trump's goons don't do to it what they did to the East Wing.
2) My action-item for people of DC: Keep round-the-clock watch on the Kennedy Center, so Trump's goons don't do to it what they did to the East Wing.
February 6, 2026 at 8:01 PM
1) My nominee for Nobel Peace Prize: The people of Minnesota.
2) My action-item for people of DC: Keep round-the-clock watch on the Kennedy Center, so Trump's goons don't do to it what they did to the East Wing.
2) My action-item for people of DC: Keep round-the-clock watch on the Kennedy Center, so Trump's goons don't do to it what they did to the East Wing.
Mamdani is so good at this
If they make a sequel to Muppets Take Manhattan I hope they do it while he’s mayor and put him in it.
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Mamdani is so good at this
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plenty cowards were all too happy to get right in line with his racist agenda and claim they were bullied into compliance.
FOH.
Fix this shit.
FOH.
Fix this shit.
Corporate DEI index sees 65% drop in participation from Fortune 500 companies
Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equity Index saw a 65% drop in participation of Fortune 500 companies willing to disclose their equity practices.
www.cnbc.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:16 PM
plenty cowards were all too happy to get right in line with his racist agenda and claim they were bullied into compliance.
FOH.
Fix this shit.
FOH.
Fix this shit.
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Both! It's Schrodinger's racism: it was both posted and not posted by Trump and it's both perfectly fine and so offensive it should be removed.
Don't you libs understand quantum mechanics?
Don't you libs understand quantum mechanics?
February 6, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Both! It's Schrodinger's racism: it was both posted and not posted by Trump and it's both perfectly fine and so offensive it should be removed.
Don't you libs understand quantum mechanics?
Don't you libs understand quantum mechanics?
Trump Posts Video Portraying Obamas as Apes www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
Trump Posts Video Portraying Obamas as Apes
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Trump Posts Video Portraying Obamas as Apes www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
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My HS age son, heavily invovled in Model UN, is very upset about this. It's a resource they use in class and in the club to learn about other countries. The US govt just eliminated a way to fact-check misinformation about other nations.
Trump just killed the CIA World Fact Book, which I fondly remember consulting from time to time since HS, yet another thing made worse for no good reason
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell - CIA
www.cia.gov
February 6, 2026 at 12:52 AM
My HS age son, heavily invovled in Model UN, is very upset about this. It's a resource they use in class and in the club to learn about other countries. The US govt just eliminated a way to fact-check misinformation about other nations.
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The IRS contractor who leaked the returns has already been convicted and sentenced to five years in prison.
That satisfies Trump's vengeance but doesn't do anything to line his pockets, so ....
That satisfies Trump's vengeance but doesn't do anything to line his pockets, so ....
February 5, 2026 at 10:41 PM
The IRS contractor who leaked the returns has already been convicted and sentenced to five years in prison.
That satisfies Trump's vengeance but doesn't do anything to line his pockets, so ....
That satisfies Trump's vengeance but doesn't do anything to line his pockets, so ....
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@democrats.senate.gov
THIS is THE Red Line.
THIS is THE Red Line.
🚨BREAKING: The White House Thursday refused to rule out the presence of immigration enforcement at voting locations this November, a response that follows extremist rhetoric about placing federal forces at the polls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
White House ‘can’t guarantee’ ICE won’t be at polls
The federal government has historically recognized polling places as off-limits for immigration enforcement precisely to avoid deterring lawful voters.
www.democracydocket.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:39 PM
@democrats.senate.gov
THIS is THE Red Line.
THIS is THE Red Line.
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This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen:
A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"
But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"
But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
February 5, 2026 at 7:13 PM
This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen:
A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"
But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"
But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
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Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”
February 5, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”
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I've been sorting through my angry thoughts about the gutting of the Washington Post. And while the whole story is terrible—humanly for the talent that has been laid off, and politically for our democracy—I'm especially appalled by the philistinism of getting rid of books and arts coverage.
A requiem for arts coverage
I used to say I wished that newspapers would treat their arts sections the way they treated their sports sections. What I meant was that sports sections offered a balanced mix of news stories, feature...
annemidgette.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:03 AM
I've been sorting through my angry thoughts about the gutting of the Washington Post. And while the whole story is terrible—humanly for the talent that has been laid off, and politically for our democracy—I'm especially appalled by the philistinism of getting rid of books and arts coverage.
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Trump has weaponized every other part of the federal government, but we’ve heard surprisingly little about the Intelligence Community proper. It’s a shoe I’ve been anxiously waiting to drop for the past year.
February 4, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Trump has weaponized every other part of the federal government, but we’ve heard surprisingly little about the Intelligence Community proper. It’s a shoe I’ve been anxiously waiting to drop for the past year.
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We should also be clear that Republicans made defunding IRS anti-cheating enforcement literally their number one legislative priority when they retook the House in 2023. Since then they've gotten rid of nearly all the enforcement money from the IRA.
Their goal is making it easier to cheat on taxes.
Their goal is making it easier to cheat on taxes.
It is not surprising that the people who are ideologically committed to the idea that government can't do anything right actually suck at running the government.
February 4, 2026 at 10:21 PM
We should also be clear that Republicans made defunding IRS anti-cheating enforcement literally their number one legislative priority when they retook the House in 2023. Since then they've gotten rid of nearly all the enforcement money from the IRA.
Their goal is making it easier to cheat on taxes.
Their goal is making it easier to cheat on taxes.
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A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
February 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
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Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
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"The news media doesn’t seem to know how to bring anything other than wide-eyed credulity to [Trump's] utterances, even after all the lies and deceit of the past decade," writes @sulliview.bsky.social.
Outlets must start making Trump's lying as much a part of the story as the things he lies about.
Outlets must start making Trump's lying as much a part of the story as the things he lies about.
Dear media, stop acting like Trump means what he says
Whether over "a deal" on Greenland or a "pivot" on ICE, we need far more skepticism
margaretsullivan.substack.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:06 PM
"The news media doesn’t seem to know how to bring anything other than wide-eyed credulity to [Trump's] utterances, even after all the lies and deceit of the past decade," writes @sulliview.bsky.social.
Outlets must start making Trump's lying as much a part of the story as the things he lies about.
Outlets must start making Trump's lying as much a part of the story as the things he lies about.
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Over 10 years of his BS and lies, yet @sulliview.bsky.social still has to write this:
Dear media, stop acting like Trump means what he says
Whether over "a deal" on Greenland or a "pivot" on ICE, we need far more skepticism
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
Dear media, stop acting like Trump means what he says
Whether over "a deal" on Greenland or a "pivot" on ICE, we need far more skepticism
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
Dear media, stop acting like Trump means what he says
Whether over "a deal" on Greenland or a "pivot" on ICE, we need far more skepticism
open.substack.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Over 10 years of his BS and lies, yet @sulliview.bsky.social still has to write this:
Dear media, stop acting like Trump means what he says
Whether over "a deal" on Greenland or a "pivot" on ICE, we need far more skepticism
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
Dear media, stop acting like Trump means what he says
Whether over "a deal" on Greenland or a "pivot" on ICE, we need far more skepticism
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...