Tom Nichols
@RadioFreeTom
Staff writer at @TheAtlantic. Discussion and cat pics and bad music takes are at the other place: http://radiofreetom.bsky.social
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Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip. Despite the firing of several top officers—and his threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the president. But for how long? theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
Could President Trump really use the U.S. military against Americans? npr.org/2025/10/11/nx-…
The Jackson Lamb monologue about the Stasi in the last episode of “Slow Horses” struck me as the perfect bizarro-world complement to George Smiley’s monologue about Karla in Delhi. Shared significance of a cigarette lighter, too. Gary Oldman deserves a second knighthood.
Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Dozens of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
"Making the rigged election claim to the military now, retroactively, is a half-step. By stating it as fact and forcing the general staff to accept it, he is laying the predicate to make such a claim directly to the military in the future." thebulwark.com/p/legal-orders…
I wrote about this and other nuke movies: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
How well do you remember this nuclear monstrosity? 💭 Watch "Them!" on Svengoolie at 8P | 7C. #Svengoolie #MeTV #ClassicTV #Halloween metv.com/quiz/them-true…
To summarize. If Trump wanted to send Ukraine Tomahawks, he could right now. If Trump wanted to sanction Russia, he could right now. If Trump wanted to seriously bolster Ukrainian air defense against Russia drones/missiles, he could right now. But he’s not, so he doesn’t want to.
We have begun the parade of morons trying get on a Dash-8 with luggage that cannot possibly fit, followed by the ritual of whining about have to gate-check bags that never had a chance of qualifying as “carry-on”
FBI Director Kash Patel’s “challenge coin” leans on comic-book references and gun imagery. It’s more apt for “a grown man who spent too much time on the internet as an adolescent” than for the head of a law-enforcement agency, @RadioFreeTom argues. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
It's strange that one person can be the cruelest bully in the schoolyard and also at the same time the saddest little boy in the world.
Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"
.@carnegieendow @ceipstatecraft @nytimes It's not a peace plan; or a guarantee to end war in Gaza. And it's tailor made for Israel. But with real presidential leadership, it just might work. nytimes.com/2025/10/10/opi…
Every day, it gets more North Korean.
Brooke Rollins: "We had an amazing cabinet meeting. President Trump walked in before the cameras were there. The cabinet is seated around the table, and we all stood up, just his team, and gave him a two minute standing ovation. I don't think anybody has talked about that.…
Getting back to those kitchen table issues
'RFK linked early circumcision to higher rates of autism, saying it was likely because of Tylenol,' per pool report.
This is the essence of the profession of arms
It’s tempting to laugh at this because it’s all so buffoonishly incompetent. But we shouldn’t be numb to what this means: Trump is directing the head of DOJ to prosecute his political enemies via his janky social media property’s DM’s. This alone would end a regular presidency.
10 Months Later, Russia Admits Deadly Downing of Azerbaijani Plane nytimes.com/2025/10/09/wor… via @NYTimes
A kid came up to me to ask a question after my talk yesterday, and started "Not a big fan, don't really read your stuff" Honestly, respect lol
Wow — Harvard @thecrimson student newspaper busts Hegseth for having written a long policy brief touting diversity before he joined Trump’s war on DEI. With receipts. Bravo, Crimson. thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…
The majority of my career has been spent covering the military from outside the Pentagon. In North Carolina, Florida and California.
And your life is so sheltered the only place you can find service members are in the halls of the Pentagon? Learn to be a journalist and stop wasting our time pretending to be one.
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