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Dave Fowler

@dcfowler1.bsky.social

Academic, national security Democrat, world traveler, hopeful for a saner America.

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My political hot take is that US voters should be able to recall elected representatives via petition - at any time.
No more hiding behind election terms.

11.11.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 9564    πŸ” 1610    πŸ’¬ 385    πŸ“Œ 127
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It’s not a cult

12.11.2025 03:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2443    πŸ” 399    πŸ’¬ 181    πŸ“Œ 35

25th Amendment, now.

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The Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago, once considered our Nation’s BEST, now has a more than 28% vacancy factor, and is ready to call it quits unless something is done about the murder and crime, which is prevalent throughout the City. CALL IN THE TROOPS, FAST, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! β€œJust the News”

The Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago, once considered our Nation’s BEST, now has a more than 28% vacancy factor, and is ready to call it quits unless something is done about the murder and crime, which is prevalent throughout the City. CALL IN THE TROOPS, FAST, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! β€œJust the News”

Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores

You can’t make this shit up, folks

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Happy Veterans Day to the millions of Americans who have honored our nation with their service and sacrifice.

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All of this

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Opinion | He’s a citizen with a Real ID. ICE detained him anyway. Twice. Leo Garcia Venegas’s experience shows why Trump’s immigration raids are unconstitutional.
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UK investigates remote β€˜kill switch’ on Chinese-made buses β€” The Times and The Sunday Times The UK is investigating a security loophole that could allow hundreds of Chinese-made electric buses to be remotely deactivated. Government officials are working with the National Cyber Security Centr...

"Everything that China does is covered by the national security law in China, and that means every single company has to co-operate with the Chinese authorities in handing over data."

Shock, horror, China flexes its muscles and puts backdoors in foreign products.

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Then why’d you cave?

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Maybe we need a new rally sign:

NO KINGS

and

NO QUISLINGS

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Meanwhile, back in a country that still prosecutes leaders who abuse them...

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Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani, others involved in efforts to overturn 2020 election, pardon attorney says | CNN Politics President Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of his political allies for their support or involvement in alleged plans to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to the Department of Jus...

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Trump Pardons 75+ Alleged Coup Plotters in Second-Most Obscene and Corrupt U.S. Presidential Pardon Ever, After His Pardon of 1,600+ Insurrectionists; New Pardon Is Confirmation That President Is Traitor to the United States

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πŸ’―. It wasn't about just the ACA subsidesβ€”it was about those and … everything else.

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Do not vote into office people who literally do not understand how negotiations work

What an utter embarrassment Shaheen is to the entire state of New Hampshire

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Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

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None of the Dem Senators (or Democratic-caucusing) who voted yes on the CR are worried about reelection:

β€’ Dick Durbin – IL – Retiring 2026

β€’ Catherine Cortez Masto – NV – Up 2028

β€’ Jacky Rosen – NV – Up 2030

β€’ John Fetterman – PA – Up 2028

β€’ Maggie Hassan – NH – Up 2028

1/2

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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

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A future vote on the ACA tax credits is not enough.

The American people about to lose their health care need results, not votes.

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Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy.

For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.

The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.

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So what if MAGA lonely hearts never find love? There's a reason those "swiping left on Trump supporters" stories won't go out of style.
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Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.

"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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Thanks to @mostmuscle.bsky.social

www.opensecrets.org/orgs/america...

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This is really telling! It doesn't work like that anymore, bud. None of it works like that β€” even if it did on Jan. 19.

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This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

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Hunger is not a good strategy if you want to maintain the peace and your base…

β€œThere are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy” β€” Alfred Henry Lewis

Makes you wonder if that’s their goal.

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@democrats.senate.gov You sold us out. Shall we send the bills for our new health insurance premiums to your offices? People will end up using the ER for their health care. Some people will go bankrupt or even die. Deeply disappointed

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80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate.

Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?

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Tonight was a very bad night.

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Never forget who sold us out:

Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen

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