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Ursel T Dougherty

@earthling24.bsky.social
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Born in Germany, became a US citizen in 1965; studied political science (MA University of Wisconsin) and strategic planning (MBA from CWRU) in the US while embarking on a business career.

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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Measles Outbreak in Amish Country Forces Some to Rethink Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Measles Outbreak in Amish Country Forces Some to Rethink Vaccines (Gift Article)
The spread of measles in Pennsylvania and Ohio is largely affecting Amish communities where vaccinations levels are low.
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This op-ed article is among the most perceptive and clarifying analyses on today’s political dilemma in American politics and a must read: This Mistake Doomed Biden. Trump Is Falling Into the Same Trap. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/o...
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Opinion | This Mistake Doomed Biden. Trump Is Falling Into the Same Trap. (Gift Article)
When leaders ignore people’s lived experience, their political messaging collapses.
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His Jet vs. Her Jeep: How Wealth Is Playing in the Midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u... 🤞🙏that Ohioans have more sense voting for Governor than going again for the power of money — we have plenty of evidence where it has gotten us in politics in the past two years!
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His Jet vs. Her Jeep: How Wealth Is Playing in the Midterms (Gift Article)
In the so-called affordability election, two candidates for governor of Ohio are sparring over whether billionaires are the problem or the solution.
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@morningjoe Now the Nation’s Judiciary is under attack with the Legislative and Executive branches remaining secured. If Trump and his influencers Steven Miller and Russ Vought wouldn’t follow Hitler ‘s strategic playbook so well, it all wouldn’t be so obvious, would it now???
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tennessee Fails to Execute Woman After 2 Doses of Lethal Injection Barbaric is the best definition fitting this State attempt to killing a convicted criminal on death row. When will Americans stand up and demand an end to executions ?!? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)
Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump Is Going Viral in the Worst Ways www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Going Viral in the Worst Ways (Gift Article)
On the technological, diplomatic and biological fronts, Trump is creating a disaster.
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What We Saw in One Venezuelan Gold Town Unbelievable how this president messes with countries and people in the name of greed! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
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What We Saw in One Venezuelan Gold Town (Gift Article)
With U.S. support, traders arrived and cut deals. That investment has so far failed to improve the bleak conditions in the mining industry.
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Uschi Eichhorn (@ursel.dougherty) on Threads
@cleveorch the fact that management and musicians had to part ways and a strike was called, after all these years of harmonious negotiations, is immensely sad. It suggests a certain intransigence (if...
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Germans Are in Shock. But We Can Get Out of This Mess. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/o...
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Opinion | Germany Is in Danger. But There’s Still Time. (Gift Article)
We should not give in to gloom.
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
An Open Letter to the Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts emilkang.substack.com/p/an-open-le...
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An Open Letter to the Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The President has tied renovation to his name. Now demolition is part of the alternative.
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
With Trump Secretly Evacuated, Imperiled Air Force One Became a Flying Decoy www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/u...
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With Trump Secretly Evacuated, Imperiled Air Force One Became a Flying Decoy
In response to a threat against the jet last month, the president was clandestinely removed in a catering container. But the plane was sent into the skies anyway with government employees and reporter...
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
@abcnews American politicians would greatly benefit from a re-education on communism versus socialism. Republicans use these concepts to scare voters; Democrats now use them as a defense against their emerging Left. Social compassion is neither but about not leaving 60 of voters in abject poverty.
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This Is How America Trounces China in the A.I. Race www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/o...
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Opinion | This Is How America Trounces China in the A.I. Race
Open-weight models have been the underlying strength of Chinese artificial intelligence strategy. America should take cues.
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Running the Numbers open.substack.com/pub/hawkeye1...
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Running the Numbers
What four decades of federal data reveal - and what it doesn't.
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) on Threads
“For all our flaws, we had a country that functioned better than others,” Konstantin Richter writes from Berlin. “Now it doesn’t anymore, and we’re mystified.”
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
@fareedzakaria Excellent First Take! Yet, the glass remains half full: Europe would have done well to get out of its “security-puberty” phase long ago and develop its own muscle to fight alongside the U.S. rather than cowering behind America’s security shield.
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Orban’s Fate Is a Warning Not to Get Too Close to Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/o...
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Opinion | Orban’s Fate Is a Warning Not to Get Too Close to Trump
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
How Trump Became a Liability for Europe’s Far Right www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/w...
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How Trump Became a Liability for Europe’s Far Right
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Trump Just Proved Carney’s Point www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...
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Opinion | Trump Just Proved Carney’s Point
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Not only is this nation in danger of being forced into attacking a NATO ally, the greed for rare earth minerals threatens to bankrupt America with a highly questionable outcome if Nr 47 gets his way www.perplexity.ai/page/greenla...
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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An Open Letter to Richard Grenell
The nonprofit arts were built to do what the market cannot. Confusing that with failure puts our cultural infrastructure at risk.
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
@morningjoe It is clear from your fact checking effort that Nr 47th grandiose address to the Nation was another self serving snow job that excelled in lying with statistics and facts!
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
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Opinion | The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. It does not got much more absurd as the governance of America goes! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Bondi Assigns Prosecutor to Look Into Epstein’s Ties to Prominent Democrats
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
A New Era of Strongman Rulers Is Upon Us www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
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Opinion | A New Era of Strongman Rulers Is Upon Us
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
He’s Never Been to America. But in China, He’s Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/w...
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He’s Never Been to America. But in China, He’s Trump.
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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Uschi Eichhorn (@ursel.dougherty) on Threads
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/world/europe/coalition-of-the-willing-zelensky-uk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare If President Trump really wanted to end this war all he n...
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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Uschi Eichhorn (@ursel.dougherty) on Threads
@senjonhusted Dear Senator Husted. Listening to a broadcast on @morningjoe about another ICE abuse just now, I want to share with you what I posted on this platform: “…. MAGA wants to make abortion o...
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
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Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
China Punishes ‘Excessively Pessimistic’ Social Media Users www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...
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China Punishes ‘Excessively Pessimistic’ Social Media Users
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The Real Stakes of the Shutdown www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
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Opinion | The Real Stakes of the Shutdown
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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The Man Behind Trump’s Push for an All-Powerful Presidency
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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Hugh Howey (@hughhowey) on Threads
Give this man all the Pulitzers.
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
The Trump Administration’s Chilling Efforts to Punish Free Speech www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...
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Opinion | The Trump Administration’s Chilling Efforts to Punish Free Speech
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t, Either. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t, Either.
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
@morningjoe The world can thank America’s Nr 47 for the eastern political unity on display in China. How much of this realignment is real, durable and lasting remains to be seen but Putin will do down in history as the pariah to global peace successfully playing all sides of the political spectrum.
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Ukraine Diplomacy Reveals How Un-American Trump Is www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/o...
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Opinion | Ukraine Diplomacy Reveals How Un-American Trump Is
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
@nato NATO doesn’t need Russia’s permission to admit Ukraine. The land Russia wants is home to a largely Russian speaking population. Does it take a “PhD” to work out security for Ukraine? Admit Ukraine to NATO and work out the “BUTs”!
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
The counter demand to Putin can only be that Ukraine joins NATO in return for the Donbas region. As painful as that concession would be for Ukraine it would guarantee the safety and security of her people!
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
@CNN To keep calling this meeting a summit is an insult to international diplomacy, seriously!
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
@morningjoe a great statesman with the political power of a US President would have started with China and ensure that they are on the side of peace in Ukraine before sitting down for a useless ego session with Putin!
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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Uschi Eichhorn (@ursel.dougherty) on Threads
BDUTT @fareedzakaria declaring to the world that India is independent and cannot be bullied by Trump/America or anyone is insincere when india’s political reaction is running back into the arms of Ch...
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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Frederick D Sciortino Ferretjans (@frederickdsciortino) on Threads
Russian Asset Donald J. Trump is meeting Putin in #Alaska to go over his semi-annual performance review.
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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Frederick D Sciortino Ferretjans (@frederickdsciortino) on Threads
Russian Asset Donald J. Trump is meeting Putin in #Alaska to go over his semi-annual performance review.
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
California Democrats Look to Redraw House Map to Counter Texas G.O.P. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
@ThomasFriedmann However a person feels about Trump, one fact remains: the USA is gradually sliding into autocracy. Unless enough people with the power to make a political difference act to preserve Democracy, generations after us will ask: “ How could this have happened in America?!”
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Why American Jews No Longer Understand One Another www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o...
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Opinion | Why American Jews No Longer Understand One Another
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Ursel T Dougherty @earthling24.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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Musk ordered Starlink shutdown during Ukraine counteroffensive
According to a Reuters investigation, Elon Musk ordered the shutdown of Starlink satellite service over parts of Ukraine during a critical counteroffensive in...
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