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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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h
(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
But giving water to voters waiting in long lines to vote is illegal
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Reporters should explicitly take the position that everything Zacharia says should be treated with extreme skepticism because she lied about something she knew not to be true on Day 1.
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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
So how many Scaramuccis is she predicted to last on Kalshi? 
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Laser focused on preparedness.
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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As some of us have been saying for quite a while… We’re living in The Onion. 
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There’s always a tweet
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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 · 07/10/2026
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 · 07/10/2026
Hilarious. Mike Rogers is now running against … Donald Trump.
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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What's weird is that he acts like a man who's going to live 10-20 more years when he's clearly quick-marching towards the grave. Has he never heard the saying, "You can't take it with you"? He doesn't care about his heirs & he's feeding at the public trough, so when is he going to spend all this $ ?
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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 · 07/10/2026
"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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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“My kingdom for a horse!”
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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
Hearst's memoir "Every Secret Thing" is very good but I really loved Shana Alexander's book "Anyone's Daughter" about her trial. (It also has one of the best cover images ever!) Experts testified that trained soldiers gave into brainwashing easier than Patty did. www.amazon.com/Anyones-daug...
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Anyone's daughter
Anyone's daughter [Alexander, Shana] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Anyone's daughter
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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yup. Hearst's memoir "Every Secret Thing" is very good but I really loved Shana Alexander's book about the trial "Anyone's Daughter". (It also has one of the best cover images ever!) Experts testified that trained soldiers gave into brainwashing easier than Patty did. www.amazon.com/Anyones-daug...
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Anyone's daughter
Anyone's daughter [Alexander, Shana] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Anyone's daughter
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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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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I was thinking this AM about how much his supporters truly believe he knows what he's doing, and a phrase came to mind that was used about another politician decades ago: "He's a stupid person's idea of a smart guy."
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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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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Imagine if college guys who partied were as likely to be raped as college women are. Impossible to imagine, isn't it? Men can (and do) become inebriated without risk of being sexually victimized. The worst thing that might happen to them is having their money or phone stolen. Oh, and a hangover.
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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
This movie about a severed hand that crawls around killing people got me at age 9. I spent months looking over my shoulder in fear that it was following me.
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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
"These are not the droids you're looking for." Except rather than being a Jedi master, he's medicated jackass.
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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And sits whenever he possibly can.
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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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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We’re doomed.
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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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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Shades of the hyper manipulative recruitment test film shown in the great political thriller “The Parallax View” (1974). m.youtube.com/watch?v=vhzt...
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The Parallax View: Best Scene (1974)
YouTube video by Graham Gough
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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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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
That photo offers definitive proof of the observation that white men walk around like they have a stick up their butt. Illustration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Le...
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White Like Me - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Nelle Engoron @nelleengoron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Gonna need to shave off that beard, though, and apply a bunch of bronzer. That’s when we’ll know the last particle of his being has completed its transmigration.
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