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Deborah Nicholas MD

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Anesthesiologist, retired. Pro-democracy. Anti-fascism. LGBTQ+ | BIPOC Inclusive This is a safe & inclusive space and I do not tolerate intolerance or incivility Header: Santa Fe, NM. Red or green? 🌶️ Profile pic: Atropa Belladonna, Gabriel von Max

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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 18m
October goblins. www.abqjournal.com/news/dont-ca...
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Male tarantulas seek mates across New Mexico
Monsoon signals send male tarantulas searching for mates across New Mexico deserts and roadways.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 14h
It's also unusual that flu activity seems to have started in Western states, such as California, Washington, Hawaii and Alaska. www.npr.org/2026/10/07/n...
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An early flu season means it might be time to think about a flu shot
Flu season typically starts in October or November. But it looks like the flu started to pick up in September this year.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The 4th estate abdicated.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Absentee and early voting begins Oct 6, 2026 in Santa Fe at the County Clerk's office. Expanded voting sites to follow.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He's a clear and present danger to the republic.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Midterms. Get ready to fight for our country, because this is probably going to get very ugly. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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Hopeless Trump is just a step away from committing the unthinkable
It isn’t catastrophizing to assume that Donald Trump is going to do everything we fear he may do to threaten the midterms, if for no other reason than every one of his actions lately demonstrates his ...
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm so relieved.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New Mexico abolished the death penalty in 2009.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Feature, not a bug. Lethal injection has been associated with botched executions in multiple states. States keep doing it. Because? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/o...
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Opinion | I Consulted With Christa Pike’s Death Row Team. I Knew This Could Happen. (Gift Article)
Lethal injection failures are not glitches; they are features of the process.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"the weave" Trump Derangement Syndrome–addled philistines fail to grasp is that our president is a poet. newrepublic.com/article/2161... via @newrepublic.com
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Donald Trump, Poet Extraordinaire
You might think the president’s disjointed ramblings are cause for concern. But maybe this is the rebirth of a free verse superstar.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
ABQ 54th Balloon Fiesta kicks off on a brisk fall day!
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's a business deal, not a peace process.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Corruption on an epic level. Definitely not in the people's interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bonds. Japan bonds. This is for sure an esoteric part of international finance. It’s also a vital underpinning for markets that matter for your retirement account, savings and household budget. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Opinion | There’s a New Threat to Your Personal Finances (Gift Article)
The revival of Japan’s economy isn’t all good news.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents: The Trouble with Sycophants, Courage Outsourcing, and Partisan Groupthink" hits shelves on Tuesday, Oct. 6. 🔥🔥 www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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'MAGA morons' and 'insanity': Retiring GOP senator unleashes ruthless Trump onslaught
A Republican senator on the outs has dedicated an entire book to criticizing the "MAGA morons" surrounding President Donald Trump, whom he predicts will trigger an election day disaster for the GOP th...
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity newrepublic.com/article/2157... via @newrepublic.com
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Trump Personifies the Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
How a 50-year-old treatise by an Italian economic historian makes sense of our utterly senseless moment
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The GOP propaganda machine: First, a Republican makes a dramatic accusation. Then, conservative influencers and right-wing media outlets duly amplify the charge until it becomes a viral “gotcha” moment. GOP politicians and operatives then go on podcasts and Fox News to repeat the accusation.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just like Joseph Goebbels: The modern conservative machine often operates in unison to manufacture a reality-TV confrontation designed to thrill the GOP base. The GOP incompetence in the execution of their plan does not change the intent. www.salon.com/2026/10/01/e...
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Eric Schmitt's failed Jack Smith gotcha exposes GOP propaganda
MAGA media was ready to amplify the Missouri senator's conspiracy theory. It turned out to be laughably false
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Water water everywhere... www.abqjournal.com/news/albuque...
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Albuquerque, Santa Fe have wettest September on record
Albuquerque followed up its hottest August on record with its wettest September after back-to-back monsoon surges hit the state over the past two weeks.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Rio Grande is running high now!! We're drying out, many folks have lots of issues with leaky roofs, wells flooded, road washouts. Still, not even a dent in the decades long drought.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Pecos River the canyon is raging at > 800 cubic ft/sec. Amazing.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Project 2025 is a far-right manifesto, filled with the kind of pie-in-the-sky fantasies that denizens of conservative think-tanks had been churning out for decades in the hopes of influencing Republican administrations. www.salon.com/2026/10/01/t...
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Trump's failure hides Project 2025 success
OMB director Russell Vought is quietly remaking the federal government, and Congress is next
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New Mexico record breaking rain. Video of the earthen McLeod Dam in Garfield as heavy rains create flooding in Doña Ana County on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026. Courtesy Alessandra Alanis
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Give me a break. Photo caption says Trump is listening to Zuck speak. IMO, he's a lecherous old man probably gawking at some woman that looks like Ivanka.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Santa Fe Farmer's Market. It's awesome. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/busines...
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Santa Fe Farmers Market claims No. 2 spot on list of country's best farmers markets
The Santa Fe Farmers Market ranked second on TimeOut.Com's list, behind New York's world-famous Union Square Greenmarket.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Voters don’t think the economy is working for them, and they think it’s being rigged more and more in favor of a precious few who are cozied up to our nation’s leaders. It’s not just the economy: “It’s the corruption,” too. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Opinion | The Trump Brand Has Tanked. The G.O.P. May Pay the Price. (Gift Article)
He went from outsider businessman to disappointing politician.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hurricane Polo associated rain flowing into New Mexico.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Putin has condoned murder of people and animals. Not a war. Genocide.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bad business. Every decision Trump makes is the wrong one and makes the situation worse. newrepublic.com/article/2158... via @newrepublic.com
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The Last Recession Wasn’t Trump’s Fault. The Next One Will Be—Utterly.
Trump is following one of the Republican Party’s long-standing traditions: burning the economy to the ground.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nope. Out loud and proud. Time for good trouble. 😈
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What a happy throuple. 😏
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Total bullshit. An election subterfuge. Trump is a dotard and not really in charge of immigration malfeasance; it's the Nazi Steven Miller who is committing genocide. I don't believe any of this excrement. Hall of mirrors – watch what they do, pay no attention to what they say.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP is *not* pro-life for women. ProPublica analyzed the data collected from every state by the CDC to look for patterns. The analysis shows a growing divide for women in states with strict abortion bans compared with those without. www.salon.com/2026/09/13/e...
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Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled. It’s worse in states with abortion bans - Salon.com
ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that almost 200 women died after an ectopic pregnancy from 2020 to 2025
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
SCOTUS still enabling Trump “The harm caused by burdening or disenfranchising even a few lawful voters outweighs the nonexistent harm that the Government experiences when it is prevented from taking an action that it likely lacks the authority to take” – KBJ www.them.us/politics/ket...
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Why Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Warning About the Latest SCOTUS Ruling Includes Forgotten Voters Like Transgender Americans
“Taken together, these requirements are likely to present an unnecessary and undemocratic obstacle to voting for many transgender people,” National Center for LGBTQ+ Rights legal director Shannon Mint...
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
GOP in panicked free fall? Hitched your wagon to a broken down mule. Won't get very far with independents. newrepublic.com/article/2157... via @newrepublic.com
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Trump Hits Record Poll Low as GOP Leaks Get Ugly: “Bottom Falling Out”
As GOP panic intensifies over Trump’s cratering numbers, a veteran Democratic strategist in North Carolina explains why Trump is so toxic among independents—and why he’s plummeting in red areas too.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"What does the future look like for MAGA right now?" she said. "I think Trump has lied so much to us and betrayed us so incredibly, beyond any of my comprehension. I think MAGA is dead." www.rawstory.com/marjorie-tay...
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Red state festival breaks into cheers as 'betrayed' Republican declares 'MAGA is dead'
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene declared MAGA dead on Thursday, and she laid much of the blame on President Donald Trump's efforts to keep the Jeffrey Epstein files under wraps.Speaking at the Texa...
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Went to ABQ for meetings yesterday during Monsoon. Carnage on the roadways. Slow down and drive safely.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ed Burmila argues these subsequent defeats are in part because Democrats are addicted to a safe, milquetoast approach of casting themselves as centrist and competent, instead of pushing a core set of values and policies. newrepublic.com/article/2155... via @newrepublic.com
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The Mistakes That Democrats Keep Making
Author Ed Burmila says Democrats must get out of the pattern of winning elections based on anti-GOP sentiment but then governing in a milquetoast way that helps Republicans get back in power.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And what else do we *not know* about this incident. And how many others are simply not reported at all? Trump is an idiot for saying he is the only regulator needed for AI agents.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Opened DM for intros, if you like.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Now, as Russia intensifies its hybrid war against Ukraine's allies, Trump stands to lose more than he realizes if he continues to take a passive approach. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
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Time for Trump to make a defining choice on Russia
EDITORIAL. For the past 18 months, the White House has seen that talks with Vladimir Putin, without any show of strength, have led nowhere. Now, as Russia intensifies its hybrid war against Ukraine's ...
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Mexico National Guard on stand-by. We need the water. More due today and tonight. www.krqe.com/video/heavy-...
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Heavy rain leads to rescues and flood damage throughout New Mexico
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Same here.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'Patrimonialism is manifest in Trump’s enrichment of himself and his family, reportedly by several billion dollars — and in his effort to extract almost $1.8 billion from taxpayers by means of a sham legal settlement. He repurposed the executive branch to serve his personal and political interests.'
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump changed from democratic gov't to patrimonialism, in which the state is run as the leader’s personal property and family concern. In a patrimonialist system, expert bureaucracies and neutral rules are replaced by — or subordinated to — the head of state’s will. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...
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Opinion | Trump Has Finally Lost the Plot (Gift Article)
It is now apparent that many Americans — probably enough Americans — are determined to live within the truth rather than the lie.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump's admin clown show. Defund the gov't ["tear it all down"] and this is what it gets you: MAJOR hack of the FBI. Better idea is updating systems to account for todays cyberwarfare. www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump, a narcissistic, lunatical madman is cornered. The worst is yet to come. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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Trump openly told the UN he's cornered — and a deranged attack is imminent
Today Donald Trump asked a seemingly rhetorical question to the UN General Assembly: Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic of Iran? Do I drive them into hell?But if you’ve been watching Trump especiall...
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
*Now* will the GOP act to remove this loathsome man? Maybe to save their own positions of power? Cowards that they are.
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump's kleptocracy. Other democracies have gone down this road and figured out how to recover from a political party becoming so corrupt it sanctions theft from, and even the open murder of, its own citizens. open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
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America Lost Trust in Its Government. Now Comes the Dangerous Part.
With 89 percent saying corruption is widespread, history shows what can follow when citizens stop believing their institutions will hold criminals and the powerful accountable…
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Finally the NYT is on board. The new ban is alarming for two reasons: It continues Trump’s attempt to prevent the free flow of information in American society and his utter disregard of the law. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Lashing Out at the Media to Distract From His Failures (Gift Article)
The new ban continues Mr. Trump’s attempt to prevent the free flow of information in American society.
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