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Nick Schwarzenbach

@nickschwarzenbach.bsky.social

Snark and sometimes foul language informed by a career on the front lines of US national security. Veteran. #Resist OG Never Trumper

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Keep Your Head Up – The Fight for America Isn’t Over-It's ON Remembering the Generations Who Fought Before Us – and Why We Can’t Be the One to Let This Experiment Fail

Every generation has its defining test. This is ours. Don’t burn out – pace yourself, live your life, and keep pushing. We’re the torchbearers now.

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/keep-your-...

07.05.2025 22:37 — 👍 21747    🔁 5661    💬 580    📌 273

Russia has been winning for months

30.04.2025 17:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To the delight of Russia, America stands shamed before the entire world.

27.03.2025 12:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To the delight of Russia, Trump’s people communicate sensitive information with each other on their phones in public spaces.

To the delight of Russia, ignorant Americans returned this known enemy of everything American to our highest office.

27.03.2025 12:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

To the delight of Russia, Trump destroyed Voice of America.

To the delight of Russia, Trump decimated USAID

To the delight of Russia, Trump installed Kremlin assets to lead US intelligence, giving them access to our most sensitive secrets.

27.03.2025 12:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It doesn’t matter your income or your job status, you have had a catastrophic impact on your bottom line under Trump. It will get worse, and your kids will live in a less prosperous, less free, less respected nation, but at least your guy won. As they say, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

24.03.2025 09:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It doesn’t matter your income or your job status, you have had a catastrophic impact on your bottom line under Trump. It will get worse, and your kids will live in a less prosperous, less free, less respected nation, but at least your guy won. As they say, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

24.03.2025 09:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not if our President would decline to respond to an invocation of Article 5 by an ally. At that point, and we may be there already, we no longer deserve to lead NATO

21.03.2025 13:03 — 👍 20    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

To everyone who gets angry because it feels insulting to their intelligence when we say Trump is obviously a Russian shill who was always going to dismantle the American economy. Too bad, you’re not smart people and we don’t care that it hurts your feels to hear that

16.03.2025 17:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My Foreign Service social media groups are full of people from USAID advising that they’ve received RIF notices that they have been fired. The notices say they were classified as Schedule F. From me: a hearty FU to everyone who believed the orange idiot when he claimed not to know of Project 2025

24.02.2025 06:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

democracy, while destroying its robust economy.

That’s been obvious for a very long time. What was not obvious to me was how Americans could look at this miserable loser and vote for him again

22.02.2025 16:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The lesson that Trump took from observing Putin: Putin went from middle class nobody to being the richest man in the world while destroying Russia’s fledgling democracy and wrecking its already middling economy.

Trump saw that and thought: just think how rich I could get wrecking the world’s oldest

22.02.2025 16:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

And double cheeseburgers with fries every meal.

22.02.2025 14:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Weekly Newsletter #5 | Angry Staffer Get more from Angry Staffer on Patreon

I don’t normally advertise when I post a newsletter—because all the folks who have signed up for it already get notified—but I wanted to make sure the folks over here knew where to find them.

Just posted: Weekly Newsletter #5 - unlocked for everyone

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03.12.2024 23:42 — 👍 2022    🔁 411    💬 46    📌 7


She also wrote: “I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.”

30.11.2024 03:13 — 👍 16737    🔁 4301    💬 661    📌 252

It’s threadbare

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What kind of convoluted, pretzel-brain bullshit is this?

If the US was invading Mexico, I would fully expect Mexico to use any weapons they had at their disposal.

If Russia doesn’t want to be bombed, the simple answer is to get the fuck out of Ukraine.

19.11.2024 20:32 — 👍 13579    🔁 2480    💬 402    📌 82

Do you have to be a sex predator to be in Trump’s cabinet or is it just preferred?

19.11.2024 11:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I guess it's stranger than Justice Barrett's cult, but just by a bit

16.11.2024 17:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Indeed: A man whose 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 substantial experience with the criminal justice system and law enforcement—and, seemingly, the legal and judicial system generally—is his having been investigated for sex trafficking.

16.11.2024 00:04 — 👍 5043    🔁 897    💬 134    📌 21
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Trump’s transition team caught off guard by Hegseth allegation | CNN Politics President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team was in the middle of announcing new Cabinet picks this week when they were informed of a sexual assault allegation about one of his previous selections, ...

Trump vetted Hegseth in 2017; past allegations came up and scuttled a VA nom. This time Trump axed the normal vetting processes, hired a private firm, didn’t wait for a report, selected Hegseth. Now his team says it was blindsided. Uh, no—it got caught. This is why media needs curatorial journalism.

16.11.2024 07:55 — 👍 8098    🔁 2248    💬 195    📌 71

When you think about it, it’s quite on brand for the GOP to seek to protect alleged pedophiles among them by preventing the truth from ever seeing the light of day.

Eh hmm, Jim Jordan (cough).

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The DOJ needed a bulldog for the past 4 years, but we had a labradoodle

16.11.2024 10:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Missed the sale, next time. Already have it in print

16.11.2024 03:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not a “skeptic” of vaccines. He has said there are no safe or effective vaccines. He is a foe of vaccines.

15.11.2024 14:19 — 👍 50560    🔁 7841    💬 1566    📌 444

He's already eyeing Mullah Baradar for that job

15.11.2024 14:20 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Update: His health guy doesn't believe in medical science. His law guy is a sex trafficker. His intelligence gal is a Russian asset.

You're all caught up.

15.11.2024 13:52 — 👍 55828    🔁 11826    💬 1705    📌 514

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