Kevin Newman
Edo denizen
Blue Ridge raised. UNC / 関西外国語大学 / Fletcher School
Early onset curmudgeon
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- Reposted by Kevin Newman"What’s most alarming here is that Director Gabbard’s own team acknowledges there was no evidence of foreign interference, yet they seized voting machines and election data anyway," U.S. Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence panel, said. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanAmericans with genuine concern for the welfare of at-risk Afghans probably shouldn't have taken up with a far right political movement with an express xenophobic disposition. All visible from 2021, of course.
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanI just signed an executive order instructing @boston.gov departments to take a range of actions to protect our residents and make clear that we will hold anyone accountable who commits violence, property damage, or any criminal conduct in the City of Boston—including federal officials.
- Reposted by Kevin Newman“A lot of very smart people pay attention to both the Signal Protocol and the Signal apps to ensure they are operating as intended,” EFF’s @thorinklosowski.com told @nytwirecutter.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/...
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanGreat, important work
- NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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- “remarkably partisan” document - the oxymoron of our time related to Trump
- Amazing timely topic — hope PM Takaichi will watch !!
- Reposted by Kevin Newmanoh boy I have an answer for this actually! it's called "The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take it Back" and I worked very hard on it! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanNorth Carolina is the third-fastest-growing state in the country, and this is the best place in the country to live, work, play, and raise a family. We welcome the 150,000 new people who came to North Carolina this past year. You’ll surely love calling North Carolina home.
- Reposted by Kevin Newman“What they’re talking about is a facility between 5,000 to 10,000 humans who will be warehoused in something that was built as an Amazon distribution facility … And the attractiveness of the site is because it’s next to railroads. I don’t like big encampments next to train tracks and all of that.”
- Reposted by Kevin Newmanbear in mind that with a high level of vaccination measles is almost completely preventable... and also that while measles is the most infectious big disease, all that means is that our current MAHA policy trajectory will awaken more monsters that regularly killed children and will kill again
- Reposted by Kevin Newman“I don’t think about her” is hilarious. He mentions Ilhan Omar more often than he talks about all his children combined.
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by Kevin Newmanjust limitless depravity
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanFrom this piece by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanMasa doesn't have a multi hundred bagger (Alibaba) to keep him afloat this time; his blow up will be a bigger and dumber dumpster fire than his Dotcom meltdown. Will also be hilarious
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanLooking forward to hosting the World Cup in a couple months!
- MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal immigration officers tried to enter Ecuadorian consulate in Minneapolis but were stopped, foreign minister says www.axios.com/2026/01/28/i...
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanThis is well-done www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1dy...
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanBREAKING: Supreme Leader Trump has repealed the Second Amendment
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- Reposted by Kevin NewmanOut today: THE CROWN'S SILENCE I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanWow. The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanTrump: "Cuba will be failing pretty soon"
- Reposted by Kevin Newman#マグカップ見せて 一軍マグ達 ウサギ軍団🐰 今のエースは 元祖「遅刻!ちこく〜!」の 不思議の国のアリスの白うさぎ氏 紅茶はほぼ毎日2～3杯飲むので 写真のために 茶渋を激落ちくんで落としました(◜ᴗ◝ )
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanWelcome, new followers! I’m a historian of Civil War & Reconstruction and their aftermath in American life. On here, you’ll find me trying to connect that history to our current day—as I did in longer form, in the piece below. Oh, and I occasionally post pictures of my dog, and things I baked.
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanIt's a speech that's been getting more and more attention over the past decade, and is definitely worth a read! www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanAccording to the Times, Glass's symphony is based on Lincoln's 1838 Lyceum Address. In that speech, the 28yo Lincoln warned of the threats to American democracy both from above - the rise of an American Caesar - and from below - the mob.
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanResearchers discovered a feedback loop between nerve cells, the immune system and the heart. They think it shows promise as a target for future therapies. n.pr/4amVwNl
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanI know you're not going to believe this, but Ken Goff ran a secretive training camp for white supremacists and klansmen in Colorado where he was prepping people to engage in large scale revolutionary violence against the government. Shocking, I know. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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- Reposted by Kevin NewmanNew report on immigration enforcement in the first nine months of Trump's presidency deportationdata.org/analysis/imm... Key findings: -"ICE arrests quadrupled" -"ICE street arrests...went up by over a factor of 11" -"over a sevenfold increase in arrests of people without criminal convictions"
- Reposted by Kevin Newman"I need not mention to you the Importance of Canada in the scale of our Affairs." - George Washington to Brigadier General David Wooster, 27 January 1776 founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanI'm so old, I remember August of 2016 when Donald Trump, great supporter of the 2nd Amendment, suggested that some "second amendment person" might have to stop Hillary Clinton if she got elected. www.npr.org/2016/08/09/4...
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- Reposted by Kevin NewmanDownfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanThe most disturbing government abuses of data aren't necessarily the data they're *deleting* but the data they're *collecting.* The Trump administration is compiling lists of dissidents, immigrants, people with disabilities, Jews. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-chil...
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanA Trump-appointed district judge described the conditions of ICE detainees with no criminal history held in a temporary cell in the Central Islip federal courthouse on Long Island for days — putrid, cramped, inhumane and unlawful.
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanIf a non-citizen neighbor gets kidnapped by ICE, you supposedly have about 4-5 hours to file a habeas petition in Minnesota to prevent ICE from shipping people to Texas. They are moving people that quickly regardless of whether or not they have legal status.
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanOn Saturday, @theverge.com's creative director @kristenradtke.bsky.social carefully watched a video of a shooting in Minneapolis, twice. Hours later, she found out that the man who was killed was her childhood best friend. www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
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- Reposted by Kevin NewmanComposer Philip Glass Withdraws “Lincoln” Symphony Premiere From Kennedy Center deadline.com/2026/01/phil...
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- Reposted by Kevin Newmanthis morning in the Mpls suburbs: "There were 5 Ice vehicles staged around this neighborhood and the elementary school, they seem to be watching to bus stops during school kid pick up and drop off. I believe they are trying spook kids/parents so vulnerable parents would expose themselves"
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanVindman jumps into the FL-SEN special
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- Reposted by Kevin NewmanNorway is probably pre-emptively excited about fill any future gap from US fossil gas but Equinor has a huge number of projects in the US, including several offshore wind projects it has to defend in courts. This won't be as easy as 2022.
- The NYT about Europe’s growing dependency on US gas. Time to transition much, much faster. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/b...
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanA homeland security guy from Trump 1.0 is calling DHS fascists.
- "John Mitnick, who once was the head attorney at the Department of Homeland Security in the first Trump administration, criticized his former agency on Saturday night. 'I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty,' he wrote" www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...
- Reposted by Kevin NewmanThis is “Operation PARRIS,” a top reason that DHS is in Minneapolis. The goal is to arrest 5,600 lawfully present refugees and take them to detention centers in Texas to be interrogated about their status. There is NO investigation first. They are arresting everyone; grab first, question later.
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