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Bryan Fichter

@bryanfichter.bsky.social

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Retired intelligence analyst. Russian speaker. Arabic speaker. Democracy enthusiast. Publisher of the Intelligencer newsletter on Substack.

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 5d

We can do this, people
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 9h

Catholic Church coming in hot

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 9h

Who is this woman and what has she done with MTG

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 11h

A cardinal rule of dictatorships is that you keep the security forces happy and economically secure
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CNN @cnn.com · 19h

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 11h

I keep saying, Trump is doing his authoritarianism all wrong (which is good !)

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 11h

The Trump regime's war on blue cities is inadvertently revealing that actually they're nice places where people care about their neighbors and sometimes wear inflatable costumes
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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 12h

American Bolsheviks, just destroying everything to rule over the ruins

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 12h

A failson of a failson, nice

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 12h

Good to know there are things you can still count on in this topsy-turvy world

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 16h

Wait till they see how many "terrorists" show out next weekend, they'll be stunned

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 16h

Hmmmm

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 16h

Idaho is chock-full of heavily armed white supremacists; stationing military personnel from a Muslim country in the state seems the height of folly
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

Hegseth: I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho.

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 17h

So the CDC is a Democrat thing ?

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 17h

Mike Johnson should never stand next to John Thune

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 17h

Shades of Anne Frank, here in America

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 18h

Could he possibly look any more fashy ?

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 18h

Who knew the golden age was going to be 1910 ?

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 18h

And in response they did...what ?

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 18h

As a Wake Forest grad, you love to see it

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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 1d

You should not control a nuclear arsenal if you cannot tell the difference between fiction and reality. The story needs to be told through the lens of mental illness

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has gone totally mad. It's 25th Amendment time all day, every day. He's living in a totally invented, fictional world. And he's old and in ill-health.

It's outrageous, reckless, choose your word that Republicans haven't done more to deal with this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "The restaurants were all closing, now you can't get into a restaurant. They're opening up new restaurants. It took 12 days for us. We sent in not politically correct military. We sent them in based on merit."

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 18h

Be there !

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h

#NoKings #NoKingsDay

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 2d

A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement.

Librarian gets massive payday after firing for refusal to yank LGBTQ books off shelves

A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement. According to The New York Times, "Terri Lesley, the former director of the Campbell County Public Library in Gillette, Wyo., filed a feder...

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 1d

I'll just keep sayin git- this is not how confident authoritarians talk. Johnson is begging people to stop doing democracy.

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 1d

He can read polls.