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VG Witmer

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92, Democrat, marched against Vietnam War; teacher, musician, linguist; Fulbright scholar, Paris. Lived on a small boat in France for 10 years, including Iraq debacle. Politics always, family history. As a child was involved in the “war effort” of WWII.

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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 23m
@forwardblue.bsky.social Downtown Chicago, 92, ICE sirens 24/7, writing postcards with Indivisible, mailing 1025—12 and 14 October. Have stamped and mailed thousands since Dobbs (my last rally), and preparing for run-offs. How many know that postcard stamps are now $.65 apiece?
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 16h
@ahylton26.bsky.social Sorry, but Little Marco, grand child of American Sugar Co., wants to take over Cuba. Castro turned to Russia to help free his country from American exploitation. That’s MR’s bkgd. I had a friend on both sides. Vietnam turned to Moscow also, only it was to be rid of the French.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 19h
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social While Khalil is speaking, ICE Chicago is picking up Catholics trying to go to mass in downtown Chicago where this 92-yr old (remember Rachel on the Japanese?) lives. Thank you and him.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 20h
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social Bravo to you and Liz Holzman! Would buy her book if I weren’t flat broke from buying postcard stamps $.65 apiece for 1000 (100 to finish) GOTV postcards. Writing while listening to ICE forbidding Sunday mass to any immigrants in my downtown Chicago community. Cards=sanity.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social Forgive me, but please imagine listening to your reporting on rape with endless ICE sirens in the background. (92, Chicago, remembering Mengele, Russians arriving in Berlin 1945, the reaction to Kavanaugh.)
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social I watched the Kavanaugh hearing. The testimony, plus the face of an alcoholic horrified me. Watching hizz honner” since has been part of long American nightmare for 92-yr old with memory.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social Beccaria, 15th century Italian, wrote that executions did nothing to deter crime. Most of Europe does not execute. Can we become civilized? Victor Hugo: “Les Miz” and “The Last Day of a Condemned Man” was part of the French movement against capital punishment.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social Please get one of your colleagues to obtain a photograph of the photos af Xi and Putin reported to be in the White House. Still cannot believe I heard it. There’s no limit? (92, GOTV postcard writer for Indivisible.)
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social Thank you for this report on the life of our (Russian, German) gulags-concentration camps. Bringing in Germans because some Americans will remember concentration camps and neither Siberia nor the Lubyanka may be meaningful. (92, Chicago, ICE sirens 24/7, gulag.)
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social You might bring in Putin and Ukrainian children in this context. It’s another indication of US criminality. Apparently a lot of US don’t notice.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@jenpsaki.bsky.social Just heard about photos of Xi & Putin in the White House? Why isn’t that information being shouted from the roof tops? Do we need any more proof of the dictatorship (mafia boss, mafia rule) of DT and his mob?
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Forward Blue @forwardblue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The look on Katie Britt's face while Eric Schmitt humiliates himself at the Jack Smith hearing is just too good.
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Forward Blue @forwardblue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and JD Vance, have spent the last 216 days lying to the American people and Congress about the War in Iran. When Democrats take back the House and Senate this November, we WILL hold them accountable.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@maddow.bsky.social MSNOW is running a commercial for Navy Pier Chicago which, with the presence of ICE here, could amount to torture for the Hispanic and other cultures in hiding here. Can you listen and perhaps get it modified or suppressed? Thank you. (92, ICE sirens 24/7, gulag.)
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@stephruhle.bsky.social Do NOT FAIL to read Heather Cox Richardson today. Compilation of DT horrors!
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@nicollewallace.bsky.social We have whistles in Chicago. I hear them often. (92, Chicago, ICE, gulag.) Hoping this entraps our Himmler and his wife.(Exile?)
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@nicollewallace.bsky.social Bless you for what you’re doing today and bless her family for suing. (92, Chicago, ICE sirens 24/7, gulag.)
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@whitehouse.senate.gov Reading McKibben.Just saw your name! Wanted you for president from 2016, 1st time seeing you on TV for your intelligence, humor, and size (😆GW). But learning of you from McKibben—what joy. Saw in France how nuclear can work and why it works there. Love sheep on solar farm!
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@stephruhle.bsky.social Meanwhile DT is destroying windmills. Don’t forget that, please. Time to talk solar energy.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@jonlemire.bsky.social Thank you, Jonathan. Hogsbreath has shown yet again his ignorance. His example is Stalin who had only one general left when the Germans marched in in 1941. Actually Stephen Miller is our prize Stalinist, but the “secretary” is a complementary version of tyranny.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@stephruhle.bsky.social Stalin purged all his generals. When the Germans invaded he had only one general left: Zyuchov. Will we have one when Hogsbreath finishes his purge?
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@mikabry.bsky.social Will Hogsbreath leave US a Zhukov? Putin will be watching that. Hearing from his own lips that he’s fluent in English (I’d long suspected it) gives the 90-minute phone calls DT brags about, more weight.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@mikabry.bsky.social At 92, Chicago, ICE sirens 14/7/, gulag, which you may know about. Nazi America is slowly destroying my sanity as I write GOTV postcards to try to remain healthy to write them. Anand’s book is important, but a pebble in the sea of impoverishment.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social Saw Corey Booker’s speech and wrote thanks immediately. Thank you for replaying it. (92, Chicago, ICE sirens 24/7, gulag.)
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@anandwrites.bsky.social It’s the Good Samaritan, as Pope Leo pointed out today. We are all our bothers’ keepers. The human assignment for other humans is a huge one in this very screwed up world. Thank you for the book which may be part of alleviation. (92, Chicago, ICE sirens 24/7, gulag.)
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@schiff.senate.gov Thank you for your speech today. It helps to hear truth boldly spoken. (92, Chicago, ICE sirens 24/7 gulag, writing GOTV postcards with Indivisible and TonyTheDemocrat.)
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@booker.senate.gov Thank you for your speech to Grassley et al. today! It was truly a helping moment for this 92-yr old GOTV postcard writer who remembers 12/7/1941. Some days the news plus 24/7 ICE sirens gets truly hard to stomach. Yesterday was such a day. Then there was Senator Kennedy… .
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🍏Toxins out of our food 🧑‍🌾Farmers first, not chemical companies ❌Break up corporate concentration in agriculture 💧Clean water, guaranteed 🍽️School meals that nourish 💸Public dollars should buy public health ⚕️Food as medicine ⚖️Accountability for polluters, not immunity
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Puerto Rico is in a water crisis, as a US board slashes the island's social/infrastructure spend to protect corporate bondholders, and a developer tries to build a $2.5B private city on acres of untouched coastline. As one councilmember explains, much of this exploitation can be traced back to NYC.
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How Do You Protect Puerto Rico From NYC's Vulture Capitalists?
City Councilmember Alexa Avilés is urging the state government to rein in New York's "vulture funds" and opportunistic developers, while calling on Congress to dismantle the island's financial oversig...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On Friday, October 9th, @endcitizensunited.bsky.social President Tiffany Muller and I are holding a town hall in Lansing to discuss the fight against corruption and the affordability crisis in Michigan. Join us.
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ECU Town Hall with Abdul El-Sayed and ECU President Tiffany Muller · End Citizens United// Let America Vote Action Fund
Join ECU President Tiffany Muller and Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed for a town hall conversation about what it will take to fix the corruption and corporate influence in Washington. Together, they w...
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Charlie Sykes (@sykescharlie)
My advice: Democrats shouldn’t wait until January. Their first item of business in the lame duck session should be the impeachment of Pete Hegseth. From today’s “Lewis & Sykes.”
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@esglaude.bsky.social You hit it, dear sir! It’s greed and racism will bring US down. Exceptionalism is disaster.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@weissmann.substack.com Is there a security FBI person who doubts that DT is a useful idiot or that Putin is not the true DT “papa”? No one is talking about the 90-minute phone calls lately. Or what DT is doing to the national debt. (92, ICE sirens 24/7, writing GOTV postcards with Indivisible.)
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@weissmann.substack.com Got annual book from Social Security today saying “go online.” Tho’ certainly my numbers are all online, why would I add another? Living as I do, ICE sirens 24/7, local gulag (Chicago), this afternoon my carefully managed fear is eating my patriotism.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@maddow.bsky.social Can MSNOW please have a price for 92-yr olds who have Social Security (threatened) and $.65 postage stamps for hundreds of postcards? Can no longer give $3 or $5 to anybody and afford stamps. Have shilled all I can given food prices. (Chicago, ICE sirens 24/7, too old to march.)
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@stephruhle.bsky.social Ok, Steph, but it’s not just money. Also getting back in the world. Ossoff can do the money, but we need Whitehouse in the White House to get our allies back. That’s the pair for 2028. Thank you for Tester today! 92, Chicago, ICE sirens 24/7, gulag (thank you, Putin).
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social The ad about the pregnant woman:: unsaid: no abortions, so with 2-yr old, 8 mos pregnant and can’t afford medical care. Please add that. Maybe Anand.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@democracydocket.com
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social “…He is the clown” as his best friend the senator, was a court jester. Do you know that Hugo also wrote a book against capital punishment?
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social The words “illegal aliens” should be stricken from the national vocabulary! I see Hiler and Goebbels. The World Court is where Stephen Miller, Gregory Bovino, and Tom Homan belong. Thank you for your statements. (92, Chicago, ICE sirens 24/7, local gulag.)
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@arimelber.bsky.social Hey, Ari, my mother sang WWI songs. I sang WWII songs. Do you know “We did it Before and We Will Do It Again” or the rest of the old service songs? My public school sang all of them during WWII. Bruuuuce! is best now.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 26/09/2026
💪 Prosecutors from across the country banded together to form the Fight Against Federal Oversight, or FAFO — the acronym an intentional nod to the slang phrase “F— Around and Find Out.” Here’s how they’re working to prepare for the possibility of federal agents at or around poll sites ⬇️
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The local prosecutors who fought ICE are ready to combat federal election interference
“I think what I can say is that we’re going to be ready for anything,” one district attorney said. “And whatever that scenario is, it’s going to be kind of plug-and-play to have the place we’re going ...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Latvian authorities say there’s been deliberate damage to surveillance cables and equipment along the Latvia-Belarus border. Border Guard chief Guntis Pujāts called it a targeted action to disrupt border surveillance.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@ahylton26.bsky.social You have film of DT saying “we’ve killed a lot of people too.” In 2016, an interview with MSNBC.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social Thsnk you for getting Gelernt back! Remember him and he needs regular appearances. Our crimes need all the exposure you can give them! (92, Chicago, ICE sirens 24/7, gulag.) Learned Russian prisons from novels, recognize Papa Putin in current events. Stephen Miller exiled?
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social It’s not just money, it’s the risk of death. As long as there is no “space” for miscarriages, pregnancy becomes higher risk. Then there’s climate change. Food supply much reduced. Now surrogacy. Must read the book. UN count for people vs planet: 2.2 in 1977. What now?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...
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The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe
Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 26/09/2026
Huge crowds of people gathered on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris as Pope Leo XIV arrived for the biggest event of his weekend visit to France, an outdoor Mass drawing an estimated 700,000 people
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Huge crowds gather in Paris for outdoor mass with Pope
Huge crowds of people gathered in central Paris as Pope Leo XIV arrived for the biggest event of his weekend visit to France, an outdoor Mass drawing an estimated 700,000 people.
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