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nancywiegand.bsky.social

@nancywiegand.bsky.social
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EarlyEnglish BAOxon, Linguistics PhD Stanford. Was UMich faculty in Eng/Linguistics, quit, worked at Umich ISR. Retired. Breast cancer survivor. Live with husband and son, and memories of our much missed Lab-with-attitude.

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Today is day 25 of the Trump Justice Department refusing to release the full Epstein files, violating the law in the process. All of the files need to be released immediately so that all of the survivors can get justice and accountability.
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nancywiegand.bsky.social @nancywiegand.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I think Trump has *no idea* how to develop or evaluate policy proposals.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Even the legal justification for drone strikes on senior members of al Qaeda and associated forces (ostensibly covered under the 2001 AUMF) states that strikes are justified only “when capture is infeasible”
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
For all that I think major media has done a decent job of covering these particular war crimes committed by the Trump administration, I do keep getting the sense that its journalists still believe we're gradually getting questions answered. I see the opposite—the number of questions is only growing.
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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
It's amazing how so many billionaires - who have WAY more money than they could possibly need in 500 lifetimes - REALLY want to avoid paying small slivers of tax money to benefit a common good like social safety services for less fortunate countrymen within the society that made them billionaires.
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
When the cult leader starts threatening the cult... There's that sound, again. It's MAGA cracking.
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@KeepItBlueDems.bsky.social @keepitbluedems.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Meanwhile, CEOs make 280 times the typical worker today. The system is rigged.
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nancywiegand.bsky.social @nancywiegand.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Watch the video. His first reaction is to turn and look. Only then does he come back to his desk and stand in this odd way. I think Trump is evil, and he probably doesn't care. BUT, I was once a philologist, so I don't take an isolated bit of data at face value, out of its context.
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nancywiegand.bsky.social @nancywiegand.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Ok, I think Trump is evil, BUT watch the video of this incident. He turned to see what was going on, got up walked over there. Then he returned to his desk, and struck up this very strange, unnatural posture. So what you're seeing is NOT his first reaction.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Same. #AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Traded the "Don't Tread on Me" flag for a "Go Tread on Them" one.
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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?" Older veteran: “87.” Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.” Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.” 🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 05/10/2025
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2025
Pritzker: "For Donald Trump and the MAGAs in Congress, this is not about fighting crime or public safety ... this is about consolidating power in Donald Trump's hands. What he plans to do with that power now or during the 2026 elections should worry all of us."
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
out of curiosity who made this
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Princess Fielder (Evil) @notkimboslice.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I know it's old hat, but the constant insistence that "freedom of speech" = "freedom to be an asshole to anyone around me without any form of reprisal on a social level" always drives me nuts
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nancywiegand.bsky.social @nancywiegand.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Shriek out loud!
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Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
BREAKING NEWS: TYLENOL RESEARCHERS FIND DISTURBING LINK BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN
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nancywiegand.bsky.social @nancywiegand.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Tomorrow? Please?
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nancywiegand.bsky.social @nancywiegand.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The hook! We need the hook! Or, just someone turn the teleprompter off.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Last week, the Trump administration strong-armed ABC and Disney into suspending Jimmy Kimmel. Thousands spoke out to protest this blatant attack on free speech, and now Kimmel will return to television tonight. Never doubt the power of collective action. youtu.be/wCuOx5yXeQU?feature=shared
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Why Corporate Media is Bending the Knee
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Republicans R Evil 👿 @republicansrevil.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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nancywiegand.bsky.social @nancywiegand.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Congrats to my home state! And why aren't other governors fighting back like this?
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JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Not only do we routinely see kids dying in ICE custody, now they’re missing nearly 1000 people who were being held in Alligator Alcatraz? HOW THE HELL is this not a stop the presses moment? We can only hope it’s not a Brubaker moment.
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The mysterious disappearance of hundreds of immigrants detained at Alligator
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Lawyers and family members report that they have been unable to locate the inmates at the infamous Florida prison after they disappeared from the ICE database
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Pic of Detainees arrive at Alligator Alcatraz on August 21.
EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI (El PAIS journalist)
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
If the concern is authoritarianism, I struggle to think of more than a very few things a state can do that are more intrusive of human rights, dignity and freedom than forced pregnancy.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
A disorienting moment: Trump is consolidating autocratic power in areas where there's an easy path to do so. But in other areas he's facing deep institutional resistance and people are refusing to abandon the rule of law. Here he's weak and failing. Thoughts on that: newrepublic.com/article/2006...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
As corrupt and appalling as the ouster of this career prosecutor for refusing to prosecute Trump's enemies truly is, I strongly encourage folks to also understand this as evidence that Trump's authoritarian designs are facing serious institutional resistance:
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
One thing that's absolutely f---ing unbearable on this site is that if you dare to point out that Trump is not actually successfully oppressing all of us on every conceivable front, that not *all* is irretrievably lost, a parade of doomers materializes to denounce you. It's counterproductive. Stop.
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nancywiegand.bsky.social @nancywiegand.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
"schoolmarm-looking"? Seriously? Don't insult the woman.
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nancywiegand.bsky.social @nancywiegand.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I started to reply by writing: "Billionaires should not be allowed to ..." then paused to thing about wording ... then decided just to erase the "to".
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
(5,7) In addition, the constitution has the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as well. We all have a right to be free from gun violence and should take steps to reduce gun violence and the gun violence death rate in America.
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nancywiegand.bsky.social @nancywiegand.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
This is how you do it. f Heads up, Democratic leadership. Comments like this should be issued DAILY.
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Peter Flaire @peterflaire.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
We need more Americans to understand how Trump is turning American democracy into a fascist government that will create more evil and eventually destroy the USA. #fascism #Trump #ICE #DHS #LA #LosAngeles #protest #resist #USA #Noem #Miller #Scalise #Bondi #kakistocracy #GOP #TrumpCult #politics
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nancywiegand.bsky.social @nancywiegand.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Tweedledum and Tweedledee Agreed to have a battle; For Tweedledum said Tweedledee Had spoiled his nice new rattle. TweedleDumb and TweedleDumber
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nancywiegand.bsky.social @nancywiegand.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Trump enjoys nastiness.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Never let them claim a monopoly on loving this country - they are frauds. #ResistTrump
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nancywiegand.bsky.social @nancywiegand.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
More of this please! I hope your Democratic colleagues will do the same. Make the ridiculous look ridiculous!
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TD Warner @triciadmwarner.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Hegseth spent 14 mins attacking the press. That means they are close to finding out lies
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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Shorter Hegseth: Please clap
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I think the way Dems should play this is genuinely to make Hegseth apologize for denigrating Operation Overlord
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Pete Hegseth bombed that press conference more effectively than he did Iran.
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nancywiegand.bsky.social @nancywiegand.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Decades ago, yes.
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nancywiegand.bsky.social @nancywiegand.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I was originally going to write something like that. But I think it goes deeper. It's his narcissism. When someone disagrees, furious, it's an attack on who he is.
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nancywiegand.bsky.social @nancywiegand.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Trump is mentally and emotionally abnormal. He cannot accept that he failed, or that people think he did, because he's emotionally walled himself up against that. When faced with that, he simply cannot deal with it, gets mad, and becomes unhinged.
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nancywiegand.bsky.social @nancywiegand.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Thank you!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Damn right!!!
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nancywiegand.bsky.social @nancywiegand.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
You mean crouching under a school desk isn't enough?
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