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Nicky Schwenzer

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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.”

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#NoHate #NoRacism #StrongerTogether

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Julie Roginsky @julieroginsky.bsky.social · 1h

The Epstein saga is about so much more than the horrors he and his fellow abusers visited upon young girls. We must make a conscious effort to treat it that way — not just as a drip-drip of individual revelations about sexual misconduct but as a disease that turned our country into what it is today.

How Jeffrey Epstein Predicted this Political Moment

Focus on the big picture of what the Epstein scandal means for America today

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 1h

Continuing on the resilience dilemma, I explore in this week’s Europe Dispatch with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social the question how to establish deterrence by punishment against hybrid attacks.

Deterrence works quite differently in the hybrid sphere than in the conventional realm - if it works at all

Easier Said Than Done: Hybrid Deterrence By Punishment

This week, Minna Ålander turns to the question of how to move from defensive reactions to Russian hybrid warfare to an effective deterrent. (Spoiler: not easy)

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1h

Chicago is safe, beautiful and vibrant. In fact, it was just voted the best big city in America for the ninth year in a row. If the jaw dropping images you’ve seen recently on TV or social media make it look like a war zone, that’s on Donald Trump. My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

Fearless journalists & vigilant residents tell Chicago's story

The abuses of federal power are far worse here in Chicago. Don't look away.

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HeadhunterSully @headhuntersully.bsky.social · 36m

This is The Way

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‘I am not fearful, I am fearless’: NY AG Letitia James responds after being indicted by Trump’s DOJ

This Is America I Want To See 🇺🇸💙❤️🤍

Be Like Letitia Ann "Tish" James 🗽

”I’m not leaving my fate up to chance.”

I’m a Mandalorian ✊🏻

#DemocracyDefenders
#FightForFreedom
#Justice

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 1h

A history of President Trump's legal battles with New York Attorney General Letitia James. www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/t...

A history of President Trump's legal battles with New York Attorney General Letitia James

The day she was elected New York’s attorney general, Letitia James blasted President Donald Trump as a “con man” and “carnival barker” and pledged to scrutinize his public policies and personal busine...

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 2h

#MorningVibe

Bob Ross dedicated his life to making art accessible to everyone,” said Joan Kowalski, president of Bob Ross Inc.

In a world of Donald’s, be a Bob.

🔗 www.pbs.org/newshour/art...

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to raise money for public TV stations after funding cuts

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 3h

Incredible vision on Alfred Nobel’s part to use the money he earned inventing dynamite to create the world’s greatest trolling opportunity

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Jodie 🇦🇺 @jodie.sheshed.rocks · 5h

Trump is going to have a very unhappy Friday. 😂🤣

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Allyship @allyship.bsky.social · 14h

The slogan 'No Farms, No Food' should be changed to 'No Democrats, No Farms.'

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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 3h

Please read or listen to Robert Hubbell’s newsletter!
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DOJ's disgrace.

October 10, 2025

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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 3h

an illustration of a superhero with a red cape standing in front of a city

ALT: an illustration of a superhero with a red cape standing in front of a city

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4h

Patriots don't peddle for Putin.

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Farage's top aide in furious BBC Question Time clash over Russian bribe MEP

Reform UK's Zia Yusuf clashed with Green Party leader Zack Polanski on BBC Question Time over the conviction of ex-Reform Welsh leader Nathan Gill, who took Russian bribes

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 3h

Here’s my question:

Why is there no pro-democracy billionaire buying the largest gaming companies, or voting machines, or social media platforms, or media companies?

Maybe more fundamentally, why are there no pro-democracy billionaires at all?

Is it just that that level of greed is incompatible

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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 3h

Fight Till Death 🥷🏻🇬🇧🫂🇺🇸🥷🏻

Hey #FelonMagaCult, are you ready for the hurricane? 🌪️⚖️👊🏻

a man with a headband on his head says you ready for the hurricane

ALT: a man with a headband on his head says you ready for the hurricane

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

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Margarete Rosalind Weidenhammer @margareterosali.bsky.social · 4h

Good morning☕at #Bluesky💙🤝 #America

there are Committees who understand the opposition between truth, greed & lies 🏆👏
❤️‍🔥
#Venezuelan politician #MaríaCorinaMachado 💐
has been awarded the #NobelPeacePrize
by the #Norwegian Nobel Committee for her tireless commitment to #democracy rights...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 4h

Trump’s tragedy: the US becomes an autocracy and the presidency, a dictatorship theconversation.com/trumps-trage...

Trump’s tragedy: the US becomes an autocracy and the presidency, a dictatorship

Blood-and-soil style violent nationalism infuses everything the Trump administration is doing.

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 5h

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A brave woman of integrity and a Venezuelan won the Nobel Peace Prize. Brava!

Nobel Peace Prize 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h

Tick-tock.

The Clock Is Ticking

Trump and Putin face a reckoning

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Andrew @dartsmaster.bsky.social · 6h

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins

With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 7h

"Brussels-bashing" is becoming fashionable again.

With Friedrich Merz sounding like a revenant Boris Johnson, fights over the long-term budget and unhappiness at EU-US trade, it's open season on Brussels.

My Charlemagne on the return of an old European scourge

www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

“Brussels” is the phantom menace Europe loves to blame

Why bashing the EU is likely to become ever more popular

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 6h

New video out! Watch it👇
youtu.be/yvoFBp0yQ00?...

Is Trump’s ICE America’s Gestapo?

YouTube video by Joni Askola

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 9h

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JonBowzerBauman.bsky.social @jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social · 17h

Time for America to get serious & plan general strikes, boycotts, & millions on top of millions of people PEACEFULLY in the streets to confront The Dictator’s madness.

Got to step it up.

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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 5h

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan political opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy." 🕊️

He must be fuming! 👊🏼

2025 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Maria Corina Machado, Venezuela opposition leader, for promoting democracy

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for fighting for democracy in her country.

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Mark Bauer @thepurplebauer.bsky.social · 4h

Measure to Curb Trump’s Caribbean Boat Strikes Fails in Senate — The Wall Street Journal

U.S. has attacked at least four vessels, citing alleged drug smuggling

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