Nancy Auer Hickner
nahickner.bsky.social
Nancy Auer Hickner
@nahickner.bsky.social
Progressive Dem, political junkie, retired teacher, 3 adult kids, no grandkids
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How many days until DOGE announces it is laying off three Supreme Court justices?
April 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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There is no way on god's green earth that a Democrat could even think of not attending a transfer cermony of fallen soldiers and going to a golf game and fundraiser instead. They lost their ever loving minds for days when Biden checked his watch once during one.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump Skips Honoring Soldiers Killed in Lithuania to Watch Golf
Donald Trump skipped a ceremony to recieve the bodies of four soldiers killed in Lithuania in order to attent a LIV golf tournament at his Doral club.
www.rollingstone.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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A harrowing story of a USAID employee who was stranded in the the Democratic Republic of the Congo: “Carol feels a sense of deep betrayal, loss and anger. Our own government has treated her and the entire USAID workforce as if they were criminals.” www.thebulwark.com/p/abandoned-...
Abandoned in a Foreign War Zone
One USAID employee’s experience in Kinshasa as the agency was dismantled.
www.thebulwark.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Stock market crashes causing a global meltdown

Oz is confirmed to take control of Medicare and Medicaid

Laura Loomer gets 3 NSC officials fired

Trump hawks his $5 million gold card on Air Force One

Trump goes golfing

Just another perfectly normal day
April 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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New Study Finds Average American Stands No Chance Against What’s Coming
theonion.com/new-stu...
April 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.
April 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Senator Cory Booker -- nearly 23 hrs into this -- is more coherent than your average elected official speaking (while seated) at an average legislative hearing.

Even if you haven't been watching all along, dip in for a moment -- he is making considerable sense:

www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
U.S. Senate
The Senate will vote to advance President Trump's nomination of Matthew Whitaker to be the U.S. Ambassador to NATO. He previously served as Acting Attorney General during the first Trump Administratio...
www.c-span.org
April 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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"Formerly we were in the habit of saying: ‘This is right or wrong.’ Today we must ask the question: ‘What would the Führer say?’ We are under the great obligation of recognizing as a holy work of our Folk Spirit the laws signed by Adolf Hitler." -- Hans Frank, the role of lawyers and judges (1933).
March 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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"Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records..."

www.propublica.org/article/elon...
How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is c...
www.propublica.org
March 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Good gawd! Trump aligns with the absolute worst of us!
Andrew Tate, under investigation for human trafficking and other criminal charges in Romania, left Bucharest on a private jet to the US with his brother, after a Trump official discussed the case w/ Romanian officials
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Andrew Tate Leaves Romania for U.S. Despite Human-Trafficking Probe
The social-media influencer and his brother, under investigation for human trafficking and other criminal charges, left Bucharest weeks after a Trump official discussed the case with the Romanian auth...
www.wsj.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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"...eliminated positions for employees who have played a role in assessing the brain-implant technology in Elon Musk’s Neuralink devices."

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/h...
Firings at FDA Decimated Teams Reviewing AI and Food Safety
Staff units evaluating high-tech surgical robots and insulin-delivery systems were gutted by Trump layoffs even though industry fees, not taxpayers, financed the employee salaries.
www.nytimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.
February 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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#Doge #Musk #Trump have come to roost. My company has a supply chain automation contract with the #VA to provide mail order pharmacy to veterans. Mission critical work. We just received this email
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February 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM