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Patrick Hickey

@pmh706.bsky.social

I'm a musician and a student of history, politics and economics. As a middle aged married white male, I’m deeply concerned about the authoritarian direction our nation has taken.

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Absolutely agree with Timothy Snyder!!!

25.01.2026 22:47 — 👍 26    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

This is exactly what we need to continue doing

22.01.2026 03:19 — 👍 13    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

This exactly what we need to continue doing. I just retired from my local electric utility after 25 years and we have been adding a lot of wind, solar and BESS to the generation portfolio to meet increased data center demand. Renewables are cheap and clean, so we should accelerate this.

22.01.2026 03:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is great as in this attorney is standing up for her clients and showing these thugs that we are still a nation of laws and that the Constitution still matters.

21.01.2026 05:34 — 👍 17    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Governor Newsome tells it like it is. We are dealing with an unhinged nutcase

20.01.2026 16:45 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Exactly!!!!

19.01.2026 21:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No we did not vote him in. He barely got in my a hair as in he did not get over 50%. What got him in was surgical voter suppression efforts in key swing states. Most of us despise him and want him out now, but his republican enablers continue to allow him to wreak havoc on our county.

19.01.2026 00:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Exactly!!! Mr. Ross needs to be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law

13.01.2026 16:51 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

I stand with Chairman Powell and I stand of an independent Federal Reserve.

12.01.2026 04:34 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Post from Amanda Gorman’s Instagram that says 

amandascgorman
Minneapolis, Minnesota
For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026
by Amanda Gorman
They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns.
If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we've been.
Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love
* better angels of our nature.

Post from Amanda Gorman’s Instagram that says amandascgorman Minneapolis, Minnesota For Renee Nicole Good Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026 by Amanda Gorman They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose. Iced wheels flinched & froze. Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns. If for us she arose, Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power, The howl where we begin, Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we've been. Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour & bitter anger of our neighbors Is moved by the love * better angels of our nature.

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

09.01.2026 02:54 — 👍 12623    🔁 4674    💬 146    📌 240
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I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.

09.01.2026 00:15 — 👍 35398    🔁 9104    💬 1159    📌 526
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LIVE: Jack Smith Testimony DISSECTED as Trump Crimes Unravel YouTube video by MeidasTouch

It’s taken 3 days, but the MSW team has prepared what I think are the 34 most important exchanges of the Jack Smith testimony, and @meidastouch.com has been kind enough to have me present them to you TODAY at NOON PT/3 ET. See you there! youtube.com/live/6a1TCDY...

03.01.2026 17:21 — 👍 1307    🔁 463    💬 44    📌 14

I'm really worried too. The best we can do now is to bring on Maria Corina Machado is the legitimate President and the US needs to get out. As bad as Maduro, it wasn't our place to take him out. There should be congressional and even UN authorization before this move was made.

04.01.2026 00:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He said what needs to be said

21.12.2025 19:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

HCR is so AWESOME!!! I had regretted not majoring in history, but now with all of her videos, I am getting a great education as is everyone else who watches her. My wife and I really enjoy her videos as she makes us feel good putting things into historical. Nate is a zero.

14.12.2025 04:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.

10.12.2025 15:30 — 👍 13641    🔁 4453    💬 416    📌 258

I really like her!! She is absolutely correct that she and her family are much wealthier than the trumps could ever hope to be because there is a lot of love in their family and they give that love to everyone.

08.12.2025 20:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It’s the anti-woke felon in chief

04.12.2025 01:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We should do this in every state

29.11.2025 16:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell.

Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.

27.11.2025 15:30 — 👍 4446    🔁 1306    💬 158    📌 52
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Senator Ruben Gallego didn't mince words. Read the full daily bulletin: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

24.11.2025 23:38 — 👍 11870    🔁 3406    💬 535    📌 253
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We can consider how to move forward much more productively if we don't fabricate the facts of where we are and what we need.
#ProudBlue

21.11.2025 21:49 — 👍 213    🔁 117    💬 12    📌 1
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Crow: "It just tells us everything that we need to know that reminding people to obey the law, reminding people to obey the Constitution, is somehow criminal in Trumpworld and should be responded to with death threats. It's very, very telling."

20.11.2025 21:26 — 👍 16409    🔁 5157    💬 275    📌 174
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SugarRhi~ (@sugarrhi) 👏 👏 👏

She schooled Megan Kelly and I hope she runs for office in 10 years. This girl is so inspirational that it gives me hope for the future. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles!

15.11.2025 12:45 — 👍 879    🔁 272    💬 28    📌 21
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Burns: The Old Testament says there’s nothing new under the sun. On July 4th, 1776, there was. Everybody up to that point had been under authoritarian rule. It was in the interests of their rulers that they be uneducated, that they be superstitious, that they be distracted by conspiracies…

14.11.2025 21:45 — 👍 6669    🔁 2302    💬 210    📌 139

Exactly!!! We really need to accelerate our transition to renewables rather than slowing it down.

10.11.2025 18:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ohh that's RICH
@ohhthatsrich.bsky.social

08.11.2025 00:02 — 👍 1101    🔁 386    💬 48    📌 37
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Stephen Colbert - CSI: Criminal Sandwich Investigation

07.11.2025 05:03 — 👍 849    🔁 199    💬 29    📌 11

This is a great motivator to ensure a democratic victory and MAGA defeat. I would love to see Mr. Bannon dressed in an orange jumpsuit. I’ll settle for stripes

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