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Nicky Schwenzer
@nickyschwenzer.bsky.social
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Construction Consultant • Lifelong Democrat • 🇺🇸🫂🇪🇺🫂🇺🇦 London/Miami 🏍️🐶🍫🩵🏄🍷🏞️🎶🏎️ “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. It's not the length of life, but the depth.”
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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · Jan 10
“Democracy is fragile. You have to fight for every bit, every law, every safeguard, every institution, every story. You must know how dangerous it is to suffer even the tiniest cut. This is why I say to us all: we must hold the line.”

• @mariaressa.bsky.social •

#NoHate #NoRacism #StrongerTogether
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 5m
The Trump administration is attempting to undermine elections. Efforts have included rewriting election rules to burden voters, threatening to prosecute election officials, and supporting election deniers. Keep track and learn more with our new interactive timeline: bit.ly/3IZMSdG
Timeline of the Trump Administration’s Efforts to Undermine Elections
Together, these actions form a concerted strategy to interfere with elections.
www.brennancenter.org
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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 10m
The worst part is that a huge number of people who voted for #Felon now regret it...

I'm so angry!!!

Their stupidity allowed this to happen!
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 28m
MAGA's Dilemma: Trump's Actions vs. Beliefs. David French on today’s “To the Contrary” podcast…
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 1h
Fact check: Trump’s ‘$17 trillion’ investment figure is fiction. www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/p...
Fact check: Trump’s ‘$17 trillion’ investment figure is fiction | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump keeps claiming he has secured “$17 trillion” in investment this year – or even more than that.
www.cnn.com
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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 21m
Thank you for your conversations / substack @sykescharlie.bsky.social
Have a peaceful Sunday 🇺🇲🫂🇬🇧
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 38m
“‘We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof, and it was deeply disturbing,’ the Rev. David Black of Chicago told CNN earlier this week in his first interview.” people.com/pastor-claim...
Pastor Claims He Was Praying When ‘Laughing’ ICE Agents Shot Him in the Head with Pepper Ball During Protest
A pastor, who was captured on video being allegedly shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents during a protest, claimed that the officers were laughing and were indiscriminate in their use of ...
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Mitch Jackson ⚖️ @mitch.social · 35m
He and his administration, their media mouthpieces, and every influencer on the payroll, are running a full-time gaslighting operation, feeding Americans propaganda and calling it truth.

Don’t buy it.

Here's a quick read with a few vids...

open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 55m
STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h
New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
Purge, Merge, and Surge
Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state
donmoynihan.substack.com
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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 1h
DOJ withheld evidence from the grand jury which would possibly negate the charges against Letitia James.
Halligan claimed Hames was going to rent the property as a second home but James never rented it. She lived there.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
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'A huge problem': DOJ may have withheld evidence suggesting Letitia James’ innocence
The New York Times reports U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan may have left out important information in her indictment against New York AG Letitia James that might have derailed some charges.“In the indi...
www.alternet.org
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 59m
Lyin’ Leavitt, Gaslight Edition. 🤣🔥
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Marko Silberhand @markosilberhand.bsky.social · 1h
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Hey America,

are you great yet ?

💠 😔 💠
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Jeff Storobinsky @jeffstorobinsky.bsky.social · 1h
We are nearing a historic moment in Israel with the imminent release of the remaining hostages

We ALL pray for this so the remaining peace plan points can be implemented

If it falls apart, Trump is 0 for 2 with the world's two major conflicts which of course includes Ukraine
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Joanne in Boston @vtgal.bsky.social · 3h
Anyone else feel like they’re now living in a third world country?
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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 1h
Lynda 🇺🇲🫂🇬🇧
a red heart with a white border and a drop of water
ALT: a red heart with a white border and a drop of water
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2h
One of the most important Post-Trump reforms we should start working on now is building an entirely new independent civil service
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h
I saw the new George Orwell documentary last night. It’s called 2+2=5. I have been a little bit squeamish about applying the word totalitarian to Trump and the Republicans. Not anymore. We are experiencing a totalitarian movement. There’s no question.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2h
Vance says Trump is ‘looking at all his options’ as the president threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
Vance says Trump is ‘looking at all his options’ as the president threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act
The Insurrection Act would allow the president to deploy the U.S. military domestically for law enforcement purposes.
www.nbcnews.com
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4h
Hannah Arendt distinguished totalitarianism “from other forms of political oppression known to us such as despotism, tyranny and dictatorship” in that totalitarianism seeks to subjugate civil society and private lives, not just political opponents, using psychological, not just physical, repression.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h
I saw the new George Orwell documentary last night. It’s called 2+2=5. I have been a little bit squeamish about applying the word totalitarian to Trump and the Republicans. Not anymore. We are experiencing a totalitarian movement. There’s no question.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 2h
REMINDER: It's now 264 days since Trump was sworn in but he has still NOT released the complete Jeffrey Epstein file. What is Trump hiding?
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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 2h
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

#Maga not normal 'ordinary'

Fmr. VP Harris: Trump 'is deploying U.S. military to the streets of America'
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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 2h
With her refusal to answer the questions, Bondi confirmed: there are Polaroids of Trump with topless teenage girls
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 2h
Fascists fear teachers and unions for many of the same reasons. They see opportunity for all—not some—as a threat to their power. Thanks to @reutherlibrary.bsky.social & AFT Michigan for hosting me in a venue that means so much to the labor movement.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3h
Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:
We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly
Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy
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Cathy 🖤 💀 🧡 @coco.sheshed.rocks · 2h
Good Sunday Morning ✌🏽🩷

A friendly reminder to all the Christians out there………….

#SheShed 🩷
@coco.sheshed.rocks "PEOPLE WERE CREATED TO BE LOVED. THINGS WERE CREATED TO BE USED. THE REASON WHY THE WORLD IS IN CHAOS IS BECAUSE THINGS ARE BEING LOVED AND PEOPLE ARE BEING USED." ~ DALAT LAMA ~
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