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Tom Nichols
@RadioFreeTom
Staff writer at @TheAtlantic. Discussion and cat pics and bad music takes are at the other place: radiofreetom.bsky.social
Newport, RI
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    Tom Nichols
    @RadioFreeTom
    Jul 13
    The U.S. and Russia have lost four wars over the past 60 years, despite their #nuclear arsenals. What do nuclear weapons buy besides the important function of strategic deterrence? Nothing. Maybe we need to rediscover this truth.
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    Russia and America Are Rediscovering the Limits of Nuclear Weapons
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    Tom Nichols
    @RadioFreeTom
    Mar 11, 2025
    It's not that the kid is wrong, it's that he's wrong with utter and serene confidence. When people ask me why I wrote The Death of Expertise, it wasn't ignorance that compelled me to write, it was this kind of unbreakable, completely self-assured stupidity that did it.
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    Mar 9, 2025
    This was the moment @SamSeder realized you just can't get through to these people
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    Tom Nichols
    @RadioFreeTom
    Nov 11, 2025
    He is easily the least intelligent person ever to hold the presidency, and it's not even close
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    Acyn
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    Nov 11, 2025
    Trump: Nobody knows what a magnet is.
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    Tom Nichols
    @RadioFreeTom
    Jul 29, 2025
    Before you burst out laughing, remember that his followers believe him
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    Olga Nesterova
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    Jul 29, 2025
    Trump: I solved 6 wars, I averaging a war per month. Including wars that lasted 500 years.
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    Tom Nichols
    @RadioFreeTom
    Nov 14, 2025
    Like watching children play-acting.
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    Department of War 🇺🇸
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    Nov 13, 2025
    Welcome to the War Department.
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    Tom Nichols
    @RadioFreeTom
    Sep 13, 2025
    It really is the perfect encapsulation: Russia invades Polish airspace, so Trump issues an ultimatum to…. NATO
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    Tom Nichols
    @RadioFreeTom
    Sep 6, 2025
    Yale Law, '13
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    JD Vance
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    Sep 6, 2025
    Replying to @krassenstein
    I don’t give a shit what you call it
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    Tom Nichols
    @RadioFreeTom
    Aug 11, 2025
    First thing I thought when I saw the stuff about taking over DC
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    Fred Wellman
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    Aug 11, 2025
    Whatever is in those files are really bad.
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    Tom Nichols
    @RadioFreeTom
    Feb 19, 2025
    I never thought I would see the leader of the American nation siding with the Kremlin in a war of aggression.
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    Tom Nichols
    @RadioFreeTom
    Oct 5, 2025
    Now and then X has its moments:
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    Tom Nichols
    @RadioFreeTom
    Jun 17, 2025
    Honestly, I think this is why he came back early.
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    Aaron Rupar
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    Jun 16, 2025
    "Let me exercise my role as G7 chair" -- Carney steps in to stop Trump from taking more questions
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    Tom Nichols
    @RadioFreeTom
    May 16, 2025
    A 7 to 2 ruling? I wonder who the two dissenters were? Just kidding. I know exactly who they were, didn’t even have to look.
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    Tom Nichols
    @RadioFreeTom
    Sep 22, 2025
    So now we’re going to spend weeks talking about Tylenol instead of about the Epstein files.
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    Tom Nichols
    @RadioFreeTom
    Jul 27, 2025
    The video of Trump’s caddy doing an Oddjob Slazenger drop isn’t a big deal; cheating at golf isn’t nearly the worst thing about Trump. But watching the cult of personality try to explain it away is really some creepy North Korean level stuff.🙂
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