Susan Nelson
@susaniniowa.bsky.social
Democrat, Rural IA02, iowawingding.com board member
Funniest thread 🧵 I’ve seen on BlueSky
This hotel I am staying in for trial may be the grimmest place I have ever stayed and that includes the room in Budapest I shared with several Swiss and a monkey
February 4, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Funniest thread 🧵 I’ve seen on BlueSky
🧵with details on all the ways the Republicans’ precious tax cut bill hurts everyone but rich people.
New 25-page @centeronbudget.bsky.social paper from me summarizing the distributional, fiscal, and economic effects of One Big Beautiful Bill's tax cuts and cuts to health care, food assistance, student loans, and climate investments. 🧵
www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
Republican Megabill Trades Essential Support to Low-Income People for Skewed Tax Cuts
The sprawling megabill passed by the Republican-controlled Congress and signed by President Trump in July 2025 will redistribute trillions of dollars upward over the next decade, making it harder for ...
www.cbpp.org
February 3, 2026 at 3:20 PM
🧵with details on all the ways the Republicans’ precious tax cut bill hurts everyone but rich people.
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A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”
February 2, 2026 at 1:28 AM
A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”
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📣 My Dem ATTY. GENERAL and SECRETARY OF STATE candidate page is live!
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Show your support with a contribution.
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February 1, 2026 at 7:51 PM
📣 My Dem ATTY. GENERAL and SECRETARY OF STATE candidate page is live!
Donate today to help keep & flip STATE EXECUTIVE seats blue! #Blue26
--You can opt out of sharing your email/phone w/the campaigns.
--Not a dime of donations through this page go to me.
secure.actblue.com/donate/agsos...
Donate today to help keep & flip STATE EXECUTIVE seats blue! #Blue26
--You can opt out of sharing your email/phone w/the campaigns.
--Not a dime of donations through this page go to me.
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It'll be the biggest protest in American history because people are going to make it the biggest protest in American history. Nokings.org has all the info you need for 3/28, and more ICE watch trainings coming next week!
January 29, 2026 at 3:30 AM
It'll be the biggest protest in American history because people are going to make it the biggest protest in American history. Nokings.org has all the info you need for 3/28, and more ICE watch trainings coming next week!
Message from The Boss youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Message from The Boss youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
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This needs to happen at the very least
January 28, 2026 at 4:56 PM
This needs to happen at the very least
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Honestly any Dem who gets on board with this ChatGPT like "restrain, reform and restrict" messaging written up by some cowardly messaging flack in DC for Schumer/Dems - should kiss his or her presidential or any higher aspirations good bye.
Softer than cotton candy. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Softer than cotton candy. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
January 27, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Honestly any Dem who gets on board with this ChatGPT like "restrain, reform and restrict" messaging written up by some cowardly messaging flack in DC for Schumer/Dems - should kiss his or her presidential or any higher aspirations good bye.
Softer than cotton candy. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Softer than cotton candy. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter.
He's got to go.
He's got to go.
Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week
Two sources who were on a Democratic caucus strategy call Sunday said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the group the message must be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:48 AM
The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter.
He's got to go.
He's got to go.
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The way that political violence backfires is when it prompts more people to get involved. Now is the time for action.
January 26, 2026 at 10:22 PM
The way that political violence backfires is when it prompts more people to get involved. Now is the time for action.
The content and clarity of this statement are excellent, and show that this US Senate candidate understands the danger and urgency of this moment more clearly than some already in DC.
What is happening in Minnesota is unacceptable. This needs to end, now.
January 24, 2026 at 10:49 PM
The content and clarity of this statement are excellent, and show that this US Senate candidate understands the danger and urgency of this moment more clearly than some already in DC.
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"The worst of the worst"
January 21, 2026 at 9:29 PM
"The worst of the worst"
I am looking forward to accountability for every individual responsible for this. The statutes of limitations will not run during this reign of terror. He won’t pardon everyone. He might exit the presidency before he gets around to pardoning anyone who hasn’t paid for one.
I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.
ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 5:14 PM
I am looking forward to accountability for every individual responsible for this. The statutes of limitations will not run during this reign of terror. He won’t pardon everyone. He might exit the presidency before he gets around to pardoning anyone who hasn’t paid for one.
Beautiful MLK Day 🧵 from state representative, chaplain, and candidate for IA02 @lindsay4iowa.bsky.social
This MLK Remembrance Day, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s interpretation of the parable of the Good Samaritan is deeply resonant.
January 20, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Beautiful MLK Day 🧵 from state representative, chaplain, and candidate for IA02 @lindsay4iowa.bsky.social
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We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
January 19, 2026 at 10:59 PM
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
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ICE is out of control. This includes video of a man being taken out of his home in shorts in sub-zero weather in the Twin Cities. He was a naturalized U.S. citizen. Congress and the courts need to stop this.
www.rawstory.com/amp/ice-us-c...
www.rawstory.com/amp/ice-us-c...
ICE forces showering citizen outside into freezing weather in his underwear: report
www.rawstory.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:40 PM
ICE is out of control. This includes video of a man being taken out of his home in shorts in sub-zero weather in the Twin Cities. He was a naturalized U.S. citizen. Congress and the courts need to stop this.
www.rawstory.com/amp/ice-us-c...
www.rawstory.com/amp/ice-us-c...
@msnowreports.bsky.social Some reading for Katy Tur from @gelliottmorris.com open.substack.com/pub/gelliott... @basilsmiklephd.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 9:41 PM
@msnowreports.bsky.social Some reading for Katy Tur from @gelliottmorris.com open.substack.com/pub/gelliott... @basilsmiklephd.bsky.social
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This is important & revealing. Gallego is from AZ. He ran to the right of Dems in 2024 on immigration. The fact he's saying this speaks volumes. He sees where the public is on ICE. Tear it down. Build another non-police-state-freak-show immigration enforcement agency.
Arizona’s @gallego.senate.gov : "I think ICE needs to be totally torn down… People want immigration enforcement that goes after criminals, not the goon squad that has come from Stephen Miller and Trump."
January 18, 2026 at 5:25 PM
This is important & revealing. Gallego is from AZ. He ran to the right of Dems in 2024 on immigration. The fact he's saying this speaks volumes. He sees where the public is on ICE. Tear it down. Build another non-police-state-freak-show immigration enforcement agency.
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I lived on the block where Renee Good was shot. Her death is horrific. We need a full investigation, accountability, and an overhaul of ICE - not a threat to invoke the Insurrection Act.
January 15, 2026 at 5:11 PM
I lived on the block where Renee Good was shot. Her death is horrific. We need a full investigation, accountability, and an overhaul of ICE - not a threat to invoke the Insurrection Act.
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And right on cue, Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act. Trump and Stephen Miller are deliberately trying to cause the rule of law and civil order to collapse in Minnesota for a reason. This is that reason.
January 15, 2026 at 4:06 PM
And right on cue, Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act. Trump and Stephen Miller are deliberately trying to cause the rule of law and civil order to collapse in Minnesota for a reason. This is that reason.
Every syllable of this. Thank you @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America
January 14, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Every syllable of this. Thank you @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
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Reminder that these kind of door-to-door “general warrants” are both explicitly illegal and also a major trigger for the American Revolution.
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
January 12, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Reminder that these kind of door-to-door “general warrants” are both explicitly illegal and also a major trigger for the American Revolution.
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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Mason City, Iowa, 25 degrees and protesters on both sides of Washington Avenue. #ICEOUTFORGOOD
January 11, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Mason City, Iowa, 25 degrees and protesters on both sides of Washington Avenue. #ICEOUTFORGOOD
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I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
January 11, 2026 at 2:44 AM
I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.