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Nelle Engoron

@nelleengoron.bsky.social
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Writer in Northern California. Finishing a play about the red/blue divide, based on my experiences since moving from a big blue city to a small purple town.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13h
Just another left-wing politician telling real Americans they can’t eat road salt. I thought this was a free country.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 11h
Add Karen Smith to my list of badasses whose mouthy approach I respect. Actions usually speak louder than words. This is a hero, Y'all. Well done, Ma'am. You're gonna kick ass in your new position. ✊📖
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h
Hilarious. Mike Rogers is now running against … Donald Trump.
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 17h
Susan Collins is showing just how out of touch she is. “I spent a whole year without health insurance…in ‘94” That was 3 decades ago, Susan, when insurance was $1500 annually… Thanks to Susan’s vote that helped pass Trump’s murderous budget bill, premiums are $1500 a month now for some folks.
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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 10h
"Thomas’s lie...is particularly hypocritical, considering how often he has claimed to be against government aid and welfare [but has spent] decades enjoying free travel, housing, & school that are only offered because he holds a powerful position in the government." newrepublic.com/post/172494/...
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How Clarence Thomas Smeared His Own Sister to Gain Right-Wing Cool Points
Lying about money is apparently nothing new for the Supreme Court justice.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸
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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In the 70s, Bill Harris murdered, kidnapped and raped people & claimed these were revolutionary acts. A friend of mine knew him ~25 years later & asked about his past. His only answer: "You do a lot of crazy things when you're young." No remorse or responsibility. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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One of Patty Hearst’s Kidnappers Has Died (Gift Article)
Bill Harris was a disillusioned Vietnam veteran looking for purpose when he joined a revolutionary group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“He’s gotta resign. … We have to let our own people and everybody else know why it had to be done—because of what’s on the tape, because he lied.” — White House speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan to White House chief of staff Alexander M. Haig, August 2, 1974
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Radio Free America @radiofreeameri.ca · 06/10/2026
ICE has detained at least 506 U.S. citizens since the start of Trump's second term.
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ICE has detained at least 506 U.S. citizens since the start of Trump's second term.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
An American president is encouraging an enemy to destroy American cities. This is treason, though he will claim we are not at war.
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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Worth listening to
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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Isn't this how almost every apocalyptic plague movie starts?
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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A great story to restore your faith in human beings. No good thing that we do for others will ever be wasted. It will always bear fruit even if we never know that. Far, far more human beings are good than are bad. We need to maintain our hope and humanity by helping others in any way we can.
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Michael Kruse @michaelkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The current Congress is the oldest in modern history, with more than 135 members who will be 70 or older by the end of their term.
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Voters Say Congress Is Too Old. But Older Candidates Keep Winning.
In primary races across the country, incumbency trumped calls for generational change, as older members of Congress held off younger challengers.
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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And sits whenever he possibly can.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL? The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?” Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug.
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've helpfully outlined the Pentagon's choice of experts to write a new report on the future of the U.S. military. The Future of War Is These Four Jerks, Apparently: gizmodo.com/the-future-o...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”
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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Humanities will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no humanities.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Like everything else Trump “fixes,” the reflecting pool (along with the war in Iran, gas prices, beef prices, and mortgage rates) is in exponentially worse shape than when he started.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I served in multiple authoritarian states, both communist and otherwise--Russia, Vietnam, Iraq, the Sultanate of Oman, and Ukraine before the Orange Revolution brought in democracy. One common thread among all of them is government spending on propaganda to glorify the dictator/sultan.
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White House airs another government-funded ad, this time with Trump warning of ‘final battle’ | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is set to launch another overtly political campaign ad funded by taxpayer dollars, attacking the “fake news media” and “the sick political class that hates our country.”
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Being the undisputed worst POTUS in history is pretty cool, but I think we can do better on this approval rating
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2026
Trump says 18 Americans dying fighting Iran is “small potatoes”
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The full trailer for You Can See Everything is out today. And my first thought is that it should be required that Nathan Fielder film for 48 hrs at every tech CEO’s home.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026
I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/09/2026
Somebody get Trump an AirTag for Marco Rubio. “Where’s Marco?” Sir, turn your head approximately four inches.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’d highly recommend that nobody download this app. At best, it’s unfiltered propaganda. At worst, it’s spyware.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
His brain is completely broken. What the actual fuck is this nonsense
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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
C'mon, he's actually trying to pull the "new phone, who dis?" gambit? Are his listeners gonna go along with that? But hey, the more rats we see jumping overboard, the more we know the ship is sinking.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ah, now I see how AI could destroy the world www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Which is why Congress created a compensation fund for legitimate injuries from vaccines, rare as they are. Where is the fund for parents whose kids die so RFK can feel superior?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Man, I wonder why there aren't more headlines about this imaginary thing that does not happen?
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Could he be any more pathetic?
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A really useful graphic on how much Trump has monetized the presidency. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...
A table from Forbes showing Trump's net worth since 1983. In the last two years, it has almost doubled from $4B to $7+.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's bad that the central rule of US diplomacy is now "sometimes the president just says crap, and sometimes he justs post crap, and neither is the official position of the United States, except sometimes seriously but not literally, or sometimes literally, or sometimes it is. You'll find out."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There are at least two provisions in the U.S. Code that make it illegal to offer or accept a $5,000 "GOP Dividend" for voting. Both the offerer (Donald Trump) and the accepter (good luck with that!) are liable for fines and jail time.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/09/2026
Ted Cruz with a Freudian slip on CNN while trying to defend Trump's 9/11 lies: "I have every doubt that what he's conveying there is what he experienced"
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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day! Hope you enjoy this video of a hummingbird MOTH (insect not bird) feeding on our flowers this morning. 
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026
Perspective.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 06/09/2026
I’m going to need everyone who’s reporting on AI psychosis and how it’s making people, especially men, come up with theories of everything to please talk with the scientists who have been getting multiple emails from “theory of everything” guys for decades
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2026
“We could do tremendous good for ourselves by just not trading with countries” — Trump’s bonkers view of trade is that you become wealthy by not engaging in commerce
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There’s no legitimate purpose for ICE to have this information. There are a ton of nefarious ones, though.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When you claim renewable energies aren’t workable—but you attach solar panels to all your dystopian Flock surveillance cameras.
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