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Nina @nvmk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Yesterday, I volunteered as an election monitor, and then went to an election results viewing party until 10pm (10pm!!). It's the pro-democracy nerd idea of a good time.

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Nina @nvmk.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This is why it's important to be that one annoying friend who talks about voting all the time. Happy to be of service to tell people where to vote. 🫡

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Nina @nvmk.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Taking tomorrow off to be an election monitor (not wearing the silly hat, but I appreciate that they provided me one). See you at the polls!

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Lisa D. Ramirez @lisaramirez.com · 30/05/2026

Grassroots Candidate for Congress CA40 Lisa D Ramirez. Please vote for Lisa Tuesday June 2, 2026

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Nina @nvmk.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Last weekend of door knocking/lit dropping! Make sure you use black ink and drop at a drop box or polling place! @lisaramirez.com

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Nina @nvmk.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

More shady dealings from @estherkimvaret.bsky.social This was posted on the 28th. I am not even sure what to think anymore except that @lisaramirez.com is the right choice for CA-40. #oc #riverside

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Lisa D. Ramirez @lisaramirez.com · 29/05/2026

GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN

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Lisa D. Ramirez @lisaramirez.com · 29/05/2026

Time is of the essence, please vote Lisa D Ramirez for Congress CA40 ‼️

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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

TOMORROW let’s hang! 🎉: Pop by La Paz & Marguerite (Mission Viejo) 11 AM–1 PM with @soc4d.bsky.social & @indivisibleca40.bsky.social. Meet neighbors and Lisa D. Ramirez for Congress, grab info, and get energized for Election Day. Bring a friend!

SOUTHOC4DEMOCRACY "MEET THE CANDIDATES" SERIES
LISA RAMIREZ FOR CA- 40

Lisa is an immigration attorney and one of the first women, the first Latino and the first Spanish-speaking specialist in Orange County. She was the attorney for Narcisco Barranco, the rather or three
U.S. citizen Marine sons, who was unlawfully apprehended by ICE.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29 11AM - 1PM SOUTH OC
Hosted by SouthOC4Democracy
An Indivisible CA 40 team @soc4d & @indivisibleca40
AT THE CORNER OF LA PAZ / MARGUERITE
MISSION VIEJO

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Nina @nvmk.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

If you're in CA-40, consider voting for @lisaramirez.com for congress! Lisa is an immigration attorney, who has stood up to ICE and won. We have rhe chance to unseat Ken Calvert and young Kim with this seat. @winnablecademraces.bsky.social @winnabledemraces.bsky.social

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

HOLY CRAP! Kash Patel when asked by Senator Klobuchar about an Assault Weapons ban: "Senator, I think there are instances on this legislation that could prevent future attacks, but I’m not going to weigh in to the creation of legislation." Now do something about it!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

“.. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year due to tariffs and deporting agricultural workers.” @waiterich.bsky.social @fortune.com #CPI fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

By a 7-4 vote, the full Federal Circuit has *affirmed* a lower-court ruling holding that many of President Trump’s tariffs exceed his statutory authority. The ruling won’t go into effect until October 14, though—which gives the Trump administration plenty of time to seek intervention from #SCOTUS:

storage.courtlistener.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

So free speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The official voice of the U.S. government draws from 4chan trolls, explicitly white nationalist phrases and talking points, and radicalizing, dehumanizing, desensitizing language for its targets. I talked to propaganda experts about what it’s doing to us: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?

Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

We are frogs in boiling water 👇

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement. The President does not run the Smithsonian. The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law. Release the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Nina @nvmk.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Remember when conservatives believed federal agents randomly patrolling the streets were a threat to liberty?

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It’s truly depraved for Trump to welcome Vladimir Putin to the US while Putin is actively wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Ukraine. Trump calls this a peace summit but it’s just an opportunity to hang out with one of his dictator buddies. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

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Trump and Putin will meet in Alaska next week, Trump says

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are planning to meet in the United States, multiple sources tell CBS News.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The billionaire CEO of the third richest company on the planet gives the President an actual block of gold so his company is exempted from US Government tariffs. And the whole thing is broadcast live on TV. Anyone who can't see what is happening to this country is unsalvageable at this point.

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Nina @nvmk.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

What Trump fails to understand, what he is not capable of understanding, is that a pillar of our economy and government is trust. Weaponing data erodes public trust, leading to less investment and fewer jobs. To those around him who stay silent are severely damaging their country.

nytimes.com

Opinion | The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi says: - We are headed for a recession -The BLS data is totally reliable- for now -The revisions are due to delayed reporting of DOGE govt layoffs -Higher tariffs are dragging down the economy 1/

Mark Zandi
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The economy is on the precipice of recession. That’s the clear takeaway from last week’s economic data dump. Consumer spending has flatlined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall. And with inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue.
Unemployment remains low, but that’s only because labor force growth has gone sideways. The foreign-born workforce is shrinking, and labor force participation is declining. Telling is the economy-wide hiring freeze, particularly for recent graduates, and the decline in hours worked.
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It’s no mystery why the economy is struggling; blame increasing U.S. tariffs and highly restrictive immigration policy. The tariffs are cutting increasingly deeply into the profits of American companies and the purchasing power of American households. Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy.

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Nina @nvmk.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Text from the hubby this morning at the grocery store. The next thing we will hear is that these tariffs are curing Americans of their caffeine addictions. #econsky

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Nina @nvmk.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Trump and the GOP have proven themselves to be not only liars but anti-truth. Data is always a threat to despots, so the easiest thing to do is to get rid of the data. @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social's firing should be alarming to all Americans. #bls #econsky

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Nina @nvmk.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Just a reminder: none of these "deals" are actually trade deals. These are just frameworks at best, tweets at worst. All of them leave us worse off because our effective aggregate tariffs prior to the second term were about 2.5%. Trump is actively trying to make us worse off. #econsky

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.

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Nina @nvmk.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Understatement of the year.

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Yer-ol’-pal-Unkledak🇨🇦 @unkledak.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Everyone needs to be dragged into the light, exposed and punished. No exemptions!

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 20/07/2025

An 82-year-old grandfather and Pinochet refugee, Luis Leon, was detained without warning while replacing a lost green card—then secretly deported to Guatemala, a country he’s not from. This is Trump’s deportation machine—built on the Heritage Foundation’s vision: punish, erase, dehumanize.

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Trump Administration Deports 82-Year-Old Pennsylvania Grandfather to Guatemala

On June 20, 82-year-old Luis Leon, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, went to a Philadelphia immigration office with his wife to replace his lost green card.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

"If you look at page 1 of the tariff handbook, it says: Don't tariff inputs. It's the simplest way to make it harder—more expensive—for Americans to do business. Any factory around the world can get the steel, copper, and aluminum it needs without paying a 50% upcharge, except an American factory."

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18/07/2025

The House gives final approval to President Donald Trump's $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid. Passed by a vote of 216-213, the bill now goes to Trump for his signature.

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House gives final approval to Trump's $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid

The House has approved President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid.

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Nina @nvmk.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

More on the war on higher education. #econsky #academicsky

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/07/2025

Holy shit -- Kevin Hassett completely bombs on ABC when pressed by Jon Karl to explain how Trump can possibly justify 50% tariffs on Brazil even though the country has a trade *deficit* with the US

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 12/07/2025

Kash Patel, Dec 2023: "What the hell are the House Republicans doing? They have the majority. You can’t get the list?...Put on your big boy pants, and let us know who the pedophiles are." The "black book" is "under direct control of the director of the FBI...Release it all." Kash Patel today:

Kash Patel v @Kash_Patel
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The conspiracy theories just aren't true, never have been. It's an honor to serve the President of the United States @realDonaldTrump — and I'll continue to do so for as long as he calls on me.
2:26 PM • 7/12/25 • 3.8M Views

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Cheesles @cheesles.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

"In short, deportations are a stagflationary impulse to the economy, resulting in lower employment growth and higher wage inflation." #econsky www.apolloacademy.com/the-economic...

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The Economic Effects of Immigration Restrictions - Apollo Academy

If 3,000 unauthorized immigrants are deported every day, the labor force will decline by roughly 1 million people in 2025....

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/07/2025

We reelected the bleach injection guy. We will have terrible disaster response as long as he is in office.

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The Finance Leftist @thefinanceleftist.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

The tariffs are back baby!! #Econsky As Trump's mood swings one way, the tariffs resurface but won't take effect until August 1st. Rational for these seem to be based upon worries that these countries will be used to launder Chinese goods. Who knows how long this will last this time 🤡

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