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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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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23h
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M.K.McDaniels @mkmcdaniels.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Telling Iran to take out LA or San Diego is about as an unhinged statement a American president could possibly make. I wish he would get the hell out of our lives.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 4h
This 👇
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 5h
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 2h
Chicago: ICE 24/7. Nightmare downtown.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 3h
NEW: Over the past year, ICE investigated — and considered sending undercover agents against — hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, new records revealed. The probes were part of Trump's extensive search for noncitizen voting ahead of the midterms.
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ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 2h
@stephruhle.bsky.social Listen to the guy and know that Miller is our Himmler.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 4h
@jenpsaki.bsky.social But Jen, couldn’t you have a senior rate for seniors who are unemployable? At 92, writing (and stamping) GOTV postcards, wondering about Social Security cuts, I need you to keep my spirits up in a world of ICE sirens. (92, downtown Chicago.)
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 5h
@mikabry.bsky.social Chicago downtown is a nightmare of ICE. The thugs will pick up anyone. I worry about my Hispanic neighbors, though they seem to be managing well so far, as things get worse …? Sunday was double nightmare. (92, GOTV postcard writer for Indivisible.)
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 15h
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the economy is getting worse. And those who don’t are wrong.
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The Republican candidates walking a Trump tightrope
Some running in November's elections are deciding whether to distance themselves from an unpopular president who still dominates his party.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 6h
Try French healthcare 2002-2011. Incredible by US standards.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 15h
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22h
New York City, wetin dey sup? It was a joy to commemorate 34 years of the Nigerian Day Parade alongside the many Nigerian New Yorkers who fill our city with life.
Mayor Mamdani and community leaders speak from a stage / excited onlookers and parade attendees cheer.People dressed in green and white watch the Nigerian Day Parade.A woman holds and a child holding a tiny Nigerian flag.
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Nicolas Tenzer @nicolastenzer.bsky.social · 13h
Twenty years ago, on October 7, 2006, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered by Putin’s henchmen. She had warned about the true nature of the russian regime and urged that it not be allowed to continue until it was too late. Western leaders chose to listen to the appeasers—or succumbed to corruption.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A simple, factual, and effective message.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 21h
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 16h
Election deniers want the Trump administration to use false claims that voting machines are compromised as justification to seize voting machines. They believe that the commerce secretary already has authority to do that — a view that legal experts say is way off base: demdock.com/4BaDLxl
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 18h
Seriously 👇
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Forward Blue @forwardblue.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 6h
@mikabry.bsky.social Reminder: Russell Vought wrote Project 25. He doesn’t get enough attention! Good going, Morning Joe! Keep US on our toes. (92, Chicago, ICE sirens 24/7, gulag.)
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 16h
@chrislhayes.bsky.social Hooray for your description of the Musk! What is his relationship to Putin? Too busy writing GOTV postcards to check that one. But for the rest…excellent exposé!
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 16h
@arimelber.bsky.social Listening to Horowitz, thinking France, our mother, better example. Look at the LePens, father and daughter. She has spent time with Putin, but does not seem to be the “useful idiot” that DT is. The lessons of history are more important in Europe
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 18h
@arimelber.bsky.social Can barely wait to see your segment on “Europe’s having something to teach US.” After 10 years in the French countryside during the Iraq war, saw US as the “bad teenagers on the block,” so waiting to see if we have learned from our parents. Thank you.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 19h
@nicollewallace.bsky.social Michael Lewis is so fascinating that I stop writing GOTV postcards to WI to look at him! Thank you to both of you. Please continue. it’s got me like a fairy tale when I was a child—only worse because it’s real.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@davidcorn.bsky.social Little Marco wants to take over Cuba. Remember when American Sugar Co.ran the country and the only help was Russia? Rubio’s family fled to FL and now he sees his chance to take over and maybe go “home” and be powerful again.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@davidcorn.bsky.social Thank you, David Corn. Having followed the whole disaster with Russia, including everything MSNBC showed US in 2016, it’s not news to me, but nightmare. Ukraine’s suffering at Soviet hands will only be repeated as long as the country is kept out of NATO. A pox on Kushner&Co!
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@nicollewallace.bsky.social Do I need to remind you that Kushner’s father was jailed for monetary “irregularities”? Made him perfect partner for Ivanka Trump.
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@nicollewallace.bsky.social While you talk, the ICE sirens in downtown Chicago are very loud and I write GOTV postcards to survive. Can we send Stephen Miller to one of his gulags? Or send his children to a gulag for kids? You and the rest of MSNOW help save my sanity. (92, member of Indivisible.)
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@normeisen.bsky.social Apologies. As one who, having given up an EXXON heavy portfolio over EXXON Valdese, whose father’s hobby was fishing, I am remembering FDR and WWII, when “the American people” seemed to a small child in public school to be equal. You work so hard for US. We are “the people.”
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VG Witmer @vgtw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@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 · 04/10/2026
@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 · 04/10/2026
@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 · 04/10/2026
@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
Thank you Marc. And HCR lays out the horrors today. Be well and keep the courts honest. Will have finished 1025 GOTV postcards for various states MI and WI by 10/14.
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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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