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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 48m

Funny this, considering he adores Bobby Lee, Stonewall Jackson, A.P. Hill, and all of the other Confederate bearded “warriors.”

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 14h

I still have VOA (Voice of America) saved on my internet “radio.” Americans at home may not realize what was illegally destroyed by Trump’s regime: VOA was founded in 1942 to fight fascist propaganda and ACCURATELY report what we are to millions who may never visit the US. Now, they hear silence.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 20h

As I understood it, felon Trump was looking to strip the mail-in vote from civilians living abroad, but not from active duty military based abroad. The former tending historically to lean more Democratic, while the latter have leaned Republican, of course probably had nothing to do with it.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

😂😂😂 Says the 34x felon who has tried to grave rob and affix his name to “The John F Kennedy *MEMORIAL* Center for the Performing Arts” and who has bulldozed the East Wing. Every president does the Oval Office as they wish. The all had better taste than 3rd-rate bankrupt Atlantic City casino.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’d be a bit more specific and call it a “neo-Confederate” problem.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Definitely. Especially given Dan Quayle has spent his entire life since 1992 just re-spelling “potato,” and did not accuse the kid who spelled it correctly on the blackboard of committing perjury.

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Excited to see how the Atlanta Hawkeyes do this year and whatnot.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When I last received a new passport via the London embassy, it came by embassy courier, was delivered to my front door, and I had to sign for it personally. Instead of spending 24/7 negotiating peace everywhere, this is what this Thomas Jefferson successor is reduced to. Talk about "undignified."

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So presumably Utah "Republican" Senator Mike Lee would have no problem, then, if we, say, also bulldozed the Brigham Young Historical Park and demolished its memorials?

From Instagram. Photo of front of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. Metal fencing blocks off the access. Trees are to the right.

Text:

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The Washington Post
@washingtonpost

A bipartisan effort to ban the demolition of
presidential memorials -including the Kennedy
Center - was blocked Monday night in the Senate
by an objection from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).

GOP senator blocks bill to stop Trump from demolishing Ke ...
From washingtonpost.com

Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd31rqfRls3/

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm positive that if a Democrat mixed up the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes we'd never hear the end of how they're lame and un-American for not knowing anything about sports.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Actually, they were in Europe this summer in bigger numbers than ever. The jump in Americans’ travel here may have been partly about getting away from *him* briefly. But seeing our allies in person can counteract MAGA/Fox propaganda and may also be spurring a desire for changes at home.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If a sentence in your newscast starts with “President Trump says…” you’re failing your audience.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sulla? Marius? They were also great (and brutal) soldiers. Trump will not be on foot, waving a sword over his head, leading U.S. legions into Tehran. Trump is closer to Crassus - thieving rich guy, militarily arrogant, captured by the Persians who killed him by pouring liquid gold into his mouth.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When they don't have actual evidence (yet) of actual terrorist intent?

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Vaughn Meader could brilliantly do JFK, Phil Hartman similarly Reagan, and so many other comedians have well-done all other presidents. Maybe it’s my personal taste, but I can’t say I have ever found any Trump impressionist to be truly satirical/funny. It is not the comedians’ fault, though…

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If this quote is accurate, Heather Cox Richardson is misreading the situation. There is no Republican Party in Congress that is independent of felon Trump. That party existed in 2016. But by now that "Republican" name is a legacy facade meant to deceive and imply that separate entity still exists…

Instagram post. Photo of the top of Trump’s face, ending just above his lips.

Text:

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A SUPERPOWER IS DYING BY SUICIDE BECAUSE THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS IS TOO COWARDLY TO STAND UP TO TO THE MAD KING.
THIS IS ONE OF THE WILDEST MOMENTS IN ALL OF GEOPOLITICS EVER.
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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No, they do NOT hate us. Do not have second thoughts about visiting Europe. They actually need to see decent and thoughtful (non-MAGA) Americans. #travel #tourism

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Do NOT Cower At Home

Do NOT cower at home in the U.S. If you can manage it, do not hesitate to travel abroad, especially here to Europe.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

True, if someone who writes doesn’t publish they are still technically a writer. But to what end? If a writer does not cross the Rubicon to becoming an *author*, thus enabling us out here to see their writing, they are basically just keeping a diary. #WritingCommunity #Booksky #5amWritersClub

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social

To write a story & To publish a story are two different endeavors. You do not have to publish to be a writer.

3:50 PM • Sep 25, 2026 ® Everybody can reply

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It should be no shock if we awake to learn Trump has ordered an invasion of Cuba… before November 3.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Goebbels had Germans listening to propaganda on radio, reading it in papers, and seeing it in cinemas. He pushed it at them. Listening to foreign radio became illegal. He would have loved cable TV, and been stunned to learn US fascists get viewers who *willingly* won’t just change the channel.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born today in 1896. #writingcommunity

Photo of front cover of “Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald,” by David S. Brown.

The book is on a desk. To the left is part of a PC keyboard. Top two-thirds of the book cover is a photo of Fitzgerald in a jacket and a tie, looking at the camera. Below his photo is the book title and its author’s name.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Possibly the best example of American democracy and governance in the era of Trump.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Re: Europe. At Slapton (Devon), Normandy, and Bastogne, you see US flags. They don’t hate us. Danish friends remain so… because I loathe Trump. Most Europeans are baffled, and some angry, so many Americans back him. But only idiots in MAGA hats shouting they want Greenland will get a bad reaction.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reminder: Felon President Donald J Trump has threatened to level the Kennedy Memorial, torn down a good chunk of the White House, and has threatened to launch a military attack on *Denmark*.

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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This “Donald who?” attempt by GOP candidates is going to be hilarious.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Burnham looks like he wishes the floor would open to allow him to escape. I’m trying also to picture Thatcher’s reaction as she sat there listening to this blathering idiot.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An “Executive Order” placing ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and FOX under the US Agency for Global Media is being prepared as we speak.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It has also not dawned on Trump and flunkies that triumphal arches are found mostly in FAILED empires: Napoleon's was not finished until long after his defeat and death; Marble Arch is in a London that's no longer an imperial capital; and the Arch of Titus is just off the ruins of the Roman Forum.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There was a time most Americans never heard the President's voice or, going back even more, never even saw him in a still photo. Could we consider this now something of a return to, uh, "originalism?"

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Originalism - Wikipedia

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

To sum up: This convert "falangist" (but don't you dare speak Spanish around him) demands media in (what's left of) the White House only applauds and fawns over "Dear Leader," 1st Amendment be damned.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I did not want most friends/relatives (aside from my wife) to know about my novels. But a cousin stumbled on them, word “spread,” and others have since PAID for them like anyone else. (The exception was my now late uncle, to whom I emailed pdfs.) That seems true “support," really. #writingcommunity

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The world outside the U.S. does not get that the U.S. is going through a “cold civil war.” Felon Trump and an exceedingly corrupt, neo-Confederate, neo-fascist “party” are trying to replace the 1787 Constitution with a “Putin regime”; and most Americans don’t want it. The “battles” are ongoing.

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There is a moral line and we all know it when we see it. I am happy to debate, say, “20%” tax v. “45%,” or having an NHS v. for-profit healthcare. I absolutely draw my line at breaking bread with anyone who feels those lacking a visa should be drowned or machine-gunned by masked thugs.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

UK citizens should have to pay tax on all worldwide income above, say, "£1 million", which would leave out "normal" expats, but catch guys like these. Much as US citizens have to do. Or these guys can choose to surrender their passports and find some other citizenship.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It is not just the BBC. Regularly, @classicfm.com frames news updates as if Farage is the main opposition leader. Earlier today it reported on Burnham preparing to face “Farage and Badenoch” - in that order. Objectively, Farage’s “party” has 8 seats and simply does not merit that prominence.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is stuff pushed at idiot “United Statesians” who have no idea why there is (English) Canada in the first place. Ask them about Canada’s founding and you will get blank looks. They have no clue “1776” “loyalist” refugees helped do so precisely because they did NOT want to be “United Statesians.”

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Pardon power was one of anti-federalist George Mason’s objections to the Constitution… in 1787. And in 1787 most everyone, including Mason, KNEW the president would likely be George Washington, whom they trusted to observe the spirit of all laws. The big worry was, what happens AFTER Washington?

Photo from “Part One” of the two Library of America volumes: “The Debates on the Constitution.”

Opening title page and initial text from “George Mason, Objections to the Constitution.” November 1787.

Highlight from Library of America volume, “George Mason, Objections to the Constitution.” November 1787.

Highlighted text:

"The President of the United States has the unrestrained power of granting pardons for treason; which may be sometimes exercised to screen from punishment those whom he had secretly instigated to commit the crime, and thereby prevent a discovery of his own guilt.”

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My absentee ballot arrived (by email) on Friday. Printed it out. Will vote and put it in the actual postal mail on Monday. Earliest I have ever voted in a November election in my life.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

White House correspondents, D.C. bureau chiefs, and media execs: The German government expelled Dorothy Thompson from the country in August 1934. She's remembered and respected today for her important coverage and analysis over the next decade of the German regime. Be like Dorothy Thompson.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If there was nothing wrong with it, why pay back the Putin crony who infiltrated the Trump family? And can we see a copy of the check? www.HowRussiaWon.com

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In international affairs, others believing your word means something is vital. By now, no one outside of the U.S. really *trusts* a damn thing the Trump regime says and/or promises. The felonious neo-Confederate meatball has destroyed U.S. credibility globally. What a flaming disaster.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Anything “Trump says” is not to be trusted. (And, remember, he rips up deals “days” after agreeing them.) In this case, only listen to the Danes.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Constitutions do fade out or even fail. The Articles of Confederation did not work, so we got the 1787 Constitution. That next proved much better, but felon Trump has shown it relies far more than we realized on the Executive not being “John Gotti.” It appears there needs to be a new constitution.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The first novel I recall reading outside of a school assignment, I was 14: “Last of the Mohicans.” A teacher mentioned it in a history class and I got it from the library. I will never forget my (now late) mom, seeing me with it, warned me the ending might not be what I expected. (She was right.)

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One characteristic that Farage shares with Trump is their love of cruelty. Both revel in the discomfort, and worse, of those they despise.

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R(obert). J. Nello @rjnello.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Of course it’s a Putin guy with the Caps. I’d been a lifelong Isles fan and knew there were some thickos playing, but if they kept it to themselves… uh, okay. But when US men Olympians laughed when Trump insulted the women, I was done with the NHL last year. I still am. Now I follow the PWHL Sirens.

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