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Suzanne Werner
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First life as a professor of political science. Second life as a small business owner. Third life - still figuring out! Married with two grown, amazing kids and a heart dog named Cookie. Love hiking & gardening. Hate Trump.
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Midlands LikeMinded @midlandslikeminded.bsky.social · 3h
REPUBLICANS HAVE S200 MILLION FOR A BALLROOM, S1 BILLION FOR A NEW JET AND S72 MILLION FOR ENDLESS GOLF TRIPS. THEY HAVE MONEY TO GIVE ICE $50,000 BONUSES. THEY HAVE S1 MILLION PER DAY TO OCCUPY AMERICAN CITIES. THEY HAVE S3.8 BILLION TO SEND ISRAEL WEAPONS AND $40 BILLION TO BAILOUT ARGENTINA. BUT THERE'S NO MONEY FOR HEALTHCARE.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16h
My response to the NYT’s “moderate to win” argument: The data shows the strategy is tapped out. Being seen as moderate by voters doesn’t boost votes, replacing every progressive with moderates would net 0 seats, and the graveyard of defeated D incumbents if full of moderates, not progressives.
The New York Times Argues “Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win.” But the Data Shows the Strategy Is Tapped Out.
Democrats already run moderates in nearly every swing district. It's not enough. A data-driven response to the case for centrism as a core electoral strategy.
data4democracy.substack.com
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 1d
Why do right's odious lies & horrifying claims break through not merely as rhetoric but policy? Because center-left keeps wielding thermometers to take temperature while right power up flame throwers to change it. New evidence from Germany:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
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Suzanne Werner @suzwerner.bsky.social · 1d
I think young people are beyond angry but also extremely disillusioned. They will need commitment for real structural reforms to get off the bench.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d
"The US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier"
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Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia
US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting
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Mary Lawrence @mlawrence1027.bsky.social · 3d
People just keep coming! Peaceful and fun and a beautiful day! #NoKings #50501 #IndivisibleStJohns
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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 2d
This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.
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LowResHighDef @lowreshighdef.bsky.social · 2d
Jacksonville, FL
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Suzanne Werner @suzwerner.bsky.social · 2d
It was great! DUUUVAL!
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d
I hear from informed sources that these #NoKings rallies are more than twice as big as last time, making them easily the largest protests in US history. Thanks to everyone and especially organizers.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 2d
Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings
resnikoff.bsky.social Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d
Remember back in January when all these sage politics-knowers were writing about how there had been a vibe shift and now the resistance was over?

lol. lmao.
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d
Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d
The crowd at the #NoKings protest in Orlando is growing so large that the police just closed off the street!!!
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d
Welcome to the largest day of peaceful protest we’ve ever seen in our lifetimes.

Today, we’re gonna speak out on a grander scale than Trump has ever seen. No Kings Day is going to be big, loud, boisterous, and joyful. Find your local event and let’s make history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE #NoKings
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d
I’ve got a nervous energy in anticipation of No Kings protests, an excitement I haven’t felt with these things before.

They’ll be big. The regime has taken notice and broken out its go-to move: blatantly lying. Media will cover it more.

This won’t be the end, of course, but something is happening.
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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 3d
Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8d
Renewables are expected to overtake coal as the largest global source of electricity by next year despite the pullback of the U.S.

“No one can stop the energy transition,” said the director general of the International Renewable Energy Agency.
The real winners of Trump’s attack on clean energy aren’t American
U.S. politics are undercutting clean energy at the same time economics are propelling it forward globally. Can the U.S. afford to sit this out?
www.washingtonpost.com
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9d
Unprecedented grift & corruption, happening daily right in front of us
dcollier74.bsky.social Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 10d
Man what a lucky guess.........
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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 9d
Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous
The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News. A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.
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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 9d
Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
www.nytimes.com
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 9d
Are you fucking kidding me.
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10d
Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job
US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board
www.telegraph.co.uk
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11d
We’re eight days away from No Kings Day, and we have 2,500 protests planned in all 50 states and across the world.

October 18 is going to be the biggest day of nonviolent protest in US history — and we want to see you there. Find your local event: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11d
Is this the country where you want to live? Where people get assaulted (and hospitalized) just for talking?
lyndab08.bsky.social Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 16d
This is Brighton Park, the neighborhood where a U.S. Border Patrol agent also shot a woman earlier today. It is a predominantly Latine community on the southwest side.
lordnad.bsky.social Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 16d
@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 11d
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
jael.bsky.social jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11d
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11d
Kavanaugh stop
collincountydems.bsky.social CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 11d
This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.
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