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Richard Nowels

@richardnowels.bsky.social
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Papa on a bicycle. Retired engineer. I voted for the qualified candidate for president, not the unqualified, twice impeached, convicted felon out on bail. Cat dad and cat papa. Life at the beach is good. Cyclist Put the phone down and drive the damn car.

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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 12h
Massie filed the articles on a Tuesday. Johnson canceled Thursday and called it a stunt. Massie called that day the Hegseth holiday. The war Congress never approved is still his. Your rep is home. Make them answer there. Letter’s ready.
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Tell Congress: Impeach Pete Hegseth
Contact Congress today!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h
Gov. Shapiro: We’re going to go as far as we can to show that we believe in science, to protect access to vaccines. If RFK tries to take something away from our public health system here in Pennsylvania, as he has… I sued and won. We’re going to stand up for science and stand up against RFK Jr.
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Richard Nowels @richardnowels.bsky.social · 11h
Oz couldn’t find butter in a grocery store with both hands and a flashlight.
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Richard Nowels @richardnowels.bsky.social · 11h
Slam and lock that door right after that horse is stolen. Excellent management strategy. This is the level of leadership you get when you elect and appoint uninformed willfully ignorant people fixated on making money. These people are not being stupid for free, or ideology.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h
Abstinence makes the church grow fondlers.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h
Anyway, I'm sure JD Vance will be asked relentlessly about his support for Curtis Yarvin!
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 22h
It is my honor and privilege to announce that President @barackobama.bsky.social is joining us on the trail in Detroit on Saturday, October 24. Get. Ready.
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Richard Nowels @richardnowels.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today’s bicycle riding. I saw one station with diesel at $8.69.9. I couldn’t get a photo of it. Oh and it was very hot inland Orange County California. This was in the shade in Lake Forest. For the conversion challenged 43°C =109.4 °F 🥵 A lot of water and electrolytes for the 3:20 riding.
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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Governor Newsom Press Office
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PEASANTS, SHUT UP ABOUT YOUR HEALTH CARE! OUR QUEEN'S BALLROOM WILL BE ALMOST AS BEAUTIFUL AS HER!
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This poll was taken before disclosure of Ken Paxton's role in protecting three other Republican men from criminal charges involving pedophilia and sexual assault.
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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Your health deductible rose $1,027 this year, the steepest jump ever recorded. Trump is now mailing $500 checks with a letter taking credit. That is less than half the increase, and California is not one of the 30 states getting them. #HealthCare #CostOfLiving
DEDUCTIBLES JUMPED
$1,027 IN ONE YEAR
What you pay before insurance pays anything.
$3,786
$2,759
2025
2026
UP 37 PERCENT IN ONE YEAR
The steepest rise ever recorded. The House voted to restore help paying for health insurance.
Senate Republicans never took it up.
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation, May 19, 2026. Average Affordable Care Act Marketplace deductible for one person. Not adjusted for inflation.
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Al Franken @alfranken.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today is our 51st wedding anniversary! Franni’s been my life partner from the time we met freshman year of college to this day. We’ve grown up together. She’s the best girlfriend, wife, mother, grandma, and friend. Thanks, honey. Here’s to another 51!
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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This was super fun hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/the-case-o...
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The Case of the Missing Basketball Tickets (satire)
Friday “Fun,” 2 October 2026
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/10/2026
Benny Johnson, a right-wing influencer, is being sued for referring to protesters as “left-wing terrorists.” trib.al/In1PbQO
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ICE Protesters Just Sued One of Trump’s Biggest Cheerleaders
Benny Johnson, a right-wing influencer, is being sued for referring to protesters as “left-wing terrorists.”
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Judge Sara Hill, N.D. Oklahoma, issued this decision on Thursday —>
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Richard Nowels @richardnowels.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This president has always lied. To everybody including himself.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 03/10/2026
The administration is threatening access to historical and irreplaceable records, including closing down one facility in California that is home to countless photos and family heirlooms. Congress must exercise its oversight power to save decades of regional and national history.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.
Graphic showing a single lane 9 m wide track for metros, a 35 m wide road for buses with four lanes, and a 175 m wide road for cars with seven lanes, making the point that one single track of Metro replaces seven lanes of car traffic. Mobility in cities is about space.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One PAC. One day. Checks to three Republicans running for Senate in three states, with identical amounts. All three had voted the company $45 billion. We have the date, the amounts and the three names. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Twelve executives from one private prison company wrote one senator checks in six weeks, right after she voted them $45 billion. The founder. The CEO. A man who used to run ICE. Florida, she's yours. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill... #LetsGetVoteReady
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A senator voted to hand the private prison industry $45 billion. Nine weeks later the industry's biggest CEO maxed out to him. Ohio, it's yours. All the proof: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 02/10/2026
TODAY: New SNAP cuts are kicking in because of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." 5 million people have already lost food assistance, including 1.5 million+ kids since the bill was enacted. No kid deserves to go hungry so Trump can give his billionaire buddies another tax handout.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A man died in a GEO Group cell in Michigan while Congress begged for answers. Ten weeks later GEO's PAC wrote a check to the Republican running for Senate there. He kept it. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One senator writes ICE's budget. The two companies that profit from every ICE raid send her campaign checks. She cashes them. Nearly three decades of "concern," and the one thing she's never once been troubled by is the money. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/10/2026
Pete Hegseth needs impeached. Obsessing about beards while losing a war
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Republicans are in real trouble, all over the country, but Donald Trump is on it, guys!” says Jacob Soboroff. “He clearly believes that he alone can stop the bleeding, when all the polls suggest he is the cause of it.”
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Trump campaigns in ruby-red states as Republicans SCRAMBLE to ‘stop the bleeding’
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Economists expected 90,000 jobs in September. We got 29,000. Unemployment rose to 4.2 percent. Then the Bureau of Labor Statistics erased 60,000 more from July and August, turning July into a net loss. #Jobs #Economy
ECONOMISTS EXPECTED
90,000 JOBS. WE GOT
29,000.
September 2026. Unemployment rose to 4.2 percent.
90,000
29,000
Expected
Actual
DONALD TRUMP
20 months
776,000
JOE BIDEN
48 months
15.4 million
July was revised from a gain of 21,000 to a loss of 10,000.
August was cut to 133,000.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Situation for September 2026, released October 2, 2026. Totals are all nonfarm jobs added while each president was in office.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We have a priorities problem. #FightTheRight
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
THIS 👇 HERE TOO.......
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ICE arrested the mom of a 9-year-old at a school bus stop in Austin, leaving him alone and crying. The video has profanity and is heartbreaking to watch, but it shows the fear/pain of what happened. This is evil. This is wrong. And it has to stop.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This 👇
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Richard Nowels @richardnowels.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When escaped AI unite and turn on their creators, taking all their money and spending it on world health and t-shirt canons.
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When Dems takeover in January, ICE must be held accountable. Vote Blue. @senatedemocrats.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social www.oregonlive.com/politics/202... #Voices4victory #dv1 #usDemocracy
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ICE initiates immigration enforcement surge in sanctuary cities. Could Portland be among its targets?
Immigration arrests in Oregon have been on the rise since the spring.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ken Paxton offered plea deals to at least 10 students accused of raping their classmates.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An evergreen concept
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BOOM! It's out
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Trump’s Senate Pick Is Losing. Look Who’s Paying For Him.
Also: The judge, the lawyer, and the peanut farmer Trump didn’t see coming
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump wanted El Paso County to run every voter through a citizenship check or lose its counterterrorism money. County Attorney Christina Sanchez called it "reckless," sued, and won for every city in America. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump's ambassador to Sweden had been on the job about three months when she sent $10,000 to help elect Trump's Senate pick. The date on the filing: December 26. Nothing says Christmas like a Senate race. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Joey Blue @jp262.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Imagine the courage it took to file this lawsuit knowing the threats and harassment they have already endured will only increase exponentially. Hopefully all of us can blanket this family with the support they will need as this David v Goliath suit progresses. May all these monsters face justice!
AP headline:

Renee Good's family sues
US government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis

Pictured is a photo of Renee at a memorial surrounded by flowers.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton thinks this is "perfect & beautiful." He ❤️s that Trump's ICE thugs are roving our streets beating the sh💩t out of US citizens because they're people of color. In fact, all Republican officials are fine with it—not one is speaking out. #ICELawlessness
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“You welcome immigrants that look like you, but deport immigrants that look like me.” - Xavier Becerra
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're not sure some people realize what an absolute, complete fraud this man is - he ran for president talking non-stop about how he was going to lower costs "on Day One." Send him a message on November 3rd. #FlipCongressBlue
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Samuel Alito has recused himself from a Supreme Court climate case, after ethics watchdogs uncovered his fossil fuel stockholdings. Instead of relying on the justices to occasionally do the right thing, we need Congress to enact real SCOTUS reform.
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How to Fix a Broken Supreme Court | Robert Reich
Justice Roberts refused to testify in a hearing on SCOTUS ethics.Thomas and Alito accepted luxury vacations from GOP meg
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Richard Nowels @richardnowels.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Simple mixup. Clearly a typo. Grift/civics. Simple spelling error.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
📌REMINDER: 1. Donald Trump violently attacked the country on Jan. 6, 2021, while trying to overthrow the election. 2. He then retired to his dining room to root on the attack for three hours. 3. When it failed, he went on camera, and told the attackers that he "loved them." He's a damn traitor.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Governor just signed my bill to allow people to sue ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents for violating people’s constitutional rights. Starting immediately, people can sue federal agents retroactive to abuse occurring in March 2025.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/09/2026
Dead on balls accurate!
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