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PWakkinen

@pwakk.bsky.social
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Retired..Former IT data center & data networks project manager. Golfer, walker, snowbird in Phoenix during Minnesota winters. Moms Demand & free speech TV supporter. Increasingly worried about our kids and grandkids futures.

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Norma Ballingall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 @balr0g.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
In a nutshell. 😊
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Keep Walking The Walk,Mayor Mamdani.......
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Americans are dead. Prices are skyrocketing. The Middle East is on fire. Civil war is brewing in Iran. And for what? A war that will leave the same hardliners in charge? A war that can't actually destroy their nuclear program? This is incompetence. Plain and simple.
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PWakkinen @pwakk.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
substack.com/@reallyameri...
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Really American (@reallyamerican)
Fellow VA nurses pay tribute to ICE shooting victim Alex Pretti.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/01/2026
By the way, did anyone else notice that ICE officer almost shot his fellow officer as well? Untrained, dangerous thug.
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PWakkinen @pwakk.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS TWIN CITIES” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS TWIN CITIES · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
This level of corruption is not normal or acceptable. Even if we are exhausted by each report of it going further and further, we can never grow numb to it.
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Trump Family Amasses $5 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch
The WLFI token traded far above its previous value, confirming—at least on paper—a huge windfall for the president and his sons.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
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Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 28/08/2025
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
“I won on groceries — very simple word: groceries. Now we’re going to lose the midterms. I have another simple word: cheating. We’re going to cheat like hell.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas House—decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselves—they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Appreciation post for this incredible American showing up in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s own district to say HELL NO to the chaos, cruelty, and coverups. When grandmas are grabbing neon signs and oxygen tanks to speak truth you know the tide is turning.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/08/2025
This is moving. Kamala Harris feels the pain we feel. Not just from her loss, but from the trauma and abuse our country is living through. What could have been…
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 01/08/2025
"How can we communicate with optimism about the future … when we're living in the here and now where American democracy is in peril? … And we're supposed to ignore it? Leave it to others to wrestle with …? No no no no no. … "That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."
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Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Coffee prices rise as Trump imposes tariffs on top exporter Brazil for prosecuting a criminal who violated their laws www.staradvertiser.com/2025/07/31/b...
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Coffee prices rise as U.S. imposes tariffs on top exporter Brazil | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
LONDON >> World coffee prices rose today, but gains were muted overall as traders continued to hold out hope that the United States could exempt coffee from its 50% trade tariff on most Brazilian good...
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Keep The Republic 🏳️‍🌈 @keeptherepublic.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
That certainly takes balls to cut 17 million people off health care and then announce you're spending $200 million to build a new ballroom. Let them eat cake.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Releasing the grand jury testimony is not the same as releasing the Epstein list. It’s not the same as releasing the flight logs. It’s a distraction. Whatever they’re planning to put out is not going to be the whole story. It’s still a fucking cover-up.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 28/06/2025
If Jeff Bezos can afford to rent Venice for a $50 million wedding, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.
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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
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She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.
How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Per the @nytimes.com: “Vance Boelter will face federal charges. The charges will be announced at a news conference at 11 a.m. local time, officials said in a news release, and he will then make an initial appearance in federal court in St. Paul at 1:30 p.m.”
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
"It's like the U.S. was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy." #ResistTrump
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social
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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
PLEASE REPOST THIS CALL TO MARCH. What’s up with blueskys algorithm when I can’t break 300 reposts or likes?
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
SCOOP: The Trump administration has halted research activities at NIH's Integrated Research Facility, one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Institutions are learning the hard way, but they might be learning.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
NEWS Congressman Ritchie Torres’ office tells me that in response to the Oval Office meeting between President Trump and the President of El Salvador, Torres is introducing the “RESCUE Act.” Rescue: Repatriation of Expelled Sovereign Citizens and Unjustly Exiled Act
Under the bill, if a U.S. court orders the return of someone wrongfully deported—whether a U.S. citizen, green card holder, or noncitizen who had lawful status at the time (including asylees, refugees, TPS holders, Special Immigrant Juveniles, Deferred Action recipients, or those with pending bona fide asylum or immigration cases)—and a foreign government refuses to comply, the United States is required to take action. 

The bill requires the U.S. to suspend diplomatic ties, foreign aid, and visas for that country’s government officials and their immediate family members until the person is returned to the United States.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The president of the United States and the president of El Salvador have conspired to kidnap a man and hold him hostage in an El Salvador prison. This criminality ignores the rule of law and thumbs its nose at a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate his return.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
HANES is exporting their products from their 350,000-square-foot El Salvador textile plant to the US. — you do not get to stand by and watch human rights violations. What’s next? Hanes using prisoners as their labor force? Return Garcia to America! #BOYCOTTHANES !
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Colleen Crone @witchycronegirl.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke. It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 09/04/2025
As a criminal defense attorney, the vast majority of my cases were NOT immigrants. So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House. The hypocrisy is outrageous.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Important @rwpusa.bsky.social ! It’s a very dangerous situation he analyzes👇
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I obviously disagree w the Roberts Court decision that the groups in the probationary employees case don’t “presently” have standing But the door isn’t closed—& we’ll be back in trial court tomorrow w other groups developing more grounds for relief We will keep going!
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
BREAKING: the heroes at Susman Godfrey sue the Trump administration over the illegal retaliation against them They have more integrity in their pinky finger than these other firms that have been capitulating have in their entire partnerships And kudos to the team at Munger for representing them
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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The economy is crashing. Americans are watching their 401Ks turn into 201Ks. Grocery prices are through the roof. And what’s Donald Trump doing? Golfing. Mr. President, get your ass off the golf course and face the people! #Handsoff
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PackerGal Traci 💙✨️ @packergal.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
📣🙌💪💙✨️🫶 A great rally thread by @dittie.bsky.social #HandsOff #RESIST #TakeBackOurDemocracy
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/04/2025
obscene lying from Stephen Miller on Fox News as he claims the economy was in "depression" thanks to Biden when Trump took office (the American economy was in fact the envy of the world three months ago ... )
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
EVERYTHING IS SO STUPID
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
(2,2) Thousands are still sick and will die. The decisions by this administration to cut staff carrying out the 9/11 health program will cause many of our American heroes to suffer and die without help that they had been receiving up until yesterday.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
(1,2) On behalf of every first responder in America and the families who love them, FUCK YOU @RobertKennedyJr AND DONALD TRUMP. My brother Dr. Michael Guttenberg died in 2017 from cancer related to 9/11. He is one of thousands to have become sick and or die. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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'Delay and deny care' to 9/11 survivors. Trump HHS cuts World Trade Center Program staff
In February, the administration restored cuts to the World Trade Center Health Program's budget, but new staff cuts threaten the program.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It’s a day ending in Y so of course we’re finding out that RFK Jr. fired another brilliant doctor/scientist….this time it’s Dr. Peter Stein….the doctor that saved Trump’s miserable life when he got COVID
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
In October 2024 the Economist said the US economy was “the envy of the world.” Now stock market futures plummeted after President Trump announced 10% tariffs on all imports to the US with higher rates on others. From Recovery to Recession. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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April 2, 2025 (Wednesday)
Just five months ago, on October 19, 2024, The Economist ran a special report on America’s economy.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
“When McKinley, most famously, put tariffs on in 1890, they lost 50% of their seats in the next election,” Rand Paul said. “When Smoot and Hawley put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years. So they’re not only bad economically, they’re bad politically.”
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GOP Sen. Warns Trump Tariffs Could Spell Electoral Catastrophe for the Republican Party
“They’re not only bad economically, they’re bad politically,” Rand Paul warned on Capitol Hill.
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