Nancy J Hess
@nancyjhess.bsky.social
Org Dev Consult; Publisher, MuniSquare.substack.com; Host, PCC Local Time Podcast; #LocGov; Observer of #work; Lover of #art #dance; Advocate for fams with #HuntingtonsDisease
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Take your time watching and listening to this. She was only 16 years old. She is still being abused by this horrific DOJ and this idiotic trump regime. Still. Stop the abuse. Impeach trump and his cabinet of abusers.
We just interviewed Epstein survivor Anouska de Georgiou. This is one of the most powerful and important interviews we have ever posted on the channel. Everyone needs to hear Anouska's story and what she has to say about Epstein, Maxwell, Trump, the DOJ, and more.
🚨Survivor REVEALS ALL to MEIDAS on EPSTEIN HORRORS!!!
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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February 6, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Take your time watching and listening to this. She was only 16 years old. She is still being abused by this horrific DOJ and this idiotic trump regime. Still. Stop the abuse. Impeach trump and his cabinet of abusers.
All I can say is...Are we living inside a David Lynch movie? What we see is some other version of reality.
February 6, 2026 at 5:20 PM
All I can say is...Are we living inside a David Lynch movie? What we see is some other version of reality.
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'erroneously'
Trump flack Leavitt brushed off anger over Trump racist post as "fake outrage," now a staffer is blamed for it and it's been taken down.
February 6, 2026 at 5:15 PM
'erroneously'
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30 states across the country have a higher minimum wage than Pennsylvania — including 9 of our neighbors.
The time to raise the minimum wage is now.
The time to raise the minimum wage is now.
February 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
30 states across the country have a higher minimum wage than Pennsylvania — including 9 of our neighbors.
The time to raise the minimum wage is now.
The time to raise the minimum wage is now.
Ask any woman. She will tell you about being admonished for not smiling or being nice when she is simply doing her job. "You should really smile more" is a parting insult. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
Trump Scolds CNN’s Kaitlan Collins for ‘Not Smiling’
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Ask any woman. She will tell you about being admonished for not smiling or being nice when she is simply doing her job. "You should really smile more" is a parting insult. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
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This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 3, 2026 at 8:46 PM
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
This makes my skin tingle in a good way.
Bad Bunny's critics didn’t seem to have concerns when other performers born outside the United States—U2, Rihanna, the Rolling Stones, Shakira—got the Super Bowl honor. But the MAGA acolytes are right to be worried about one thing."
Get Ready for Bad Bunny’s Explosive Super Bowl Trump Protest
“He will have the room to be as political as he wants to be.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:29 PM
This makes my skin tingle in a good way.
The number of elderly and young people cared for by people now being rounded up is incalculable.
February 2, 2026 at 10:20 PM
The number of elderly and young people cared for by people now being rounded up is incalculable.
There is a clear tie between a community where safety is a priority and trust in law enforcement. So much is at stake. In the words if city mayors, both Rep ans Dem.... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
9 Mayors Discuss Safety and Trust in Their Cities Under Trump
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:51 PM
There is a clear tie between a community where safety is a priority and trust in law enforcement. So much is at stake. In the words if city mayors, both Rep ans Dem.... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
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“It takes a long time to sound like yourself.”
— Miles Davis
— Miles Davis
January 31, 2026 at 11:08 PM
“It takes a long time to sound like yourself.”
— Miles Davis
— Miles Davis
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Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter, co-founder of De Stijl, who sought 'the pure reflection of life', died #OTD 1944; his distinctive works composed of verticals, horizontals & primary colours influenced 20th Century design.
Tate | Rijksmuseum
Tate | Rijksmuseum
February 1, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter, co-founder of De Stijl, who sought 'the pure reflection of life', died #OTD 1944; his distinctive works composed of verticals, horizontals & primary colours influenced 20th Century design.
Tate | Rijksmuseum
Tate | Rijksmuseum
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"...that may have the ability to weaken, intimidate, or kill an enemy over time and without leaving evidence."
January 31, 2026 at 1:39 PM
"...that may have the ability to weaken, intimidate, or kill an enemy over time and without leaving evidence."
The report said: “The National Security Agency confirms that there is intelligence information from 2012 associating the hostile country to which Mr. Beck traveled in the late 1990s with a high-powered microwave system weapon ...” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...
Michael Beck, 65, Dies; First to Report Symptoms of ‘Havana Syndrome’
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:39 PM
The report said: “The National Security Agency confirms that there is intelligence information from 2012 associating the hostile country to which Mr. Beck traveled in the late 1990s with a high-powered microwave system weapon ...” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...
Juxtaposition - woman in scrubs and slipper facing a battalion of masked men wih war weapons. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis
Our reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who deployed twice to Afghanistan as a Marine and later was our Kabul bureau chief, looks at the battlefield technology used for an immigration arrest at a home in Mi...
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Juxtaposition - woman in scrubs and slipper facing a battalion of masked men wih war weapons. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Kyle Rittenhouse brought a gun to a protest, shot three people, killed two and was found not guilty. His legal defense was supported by Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/s...
Kyle Rittenhouse Is Once Again a Lightning Rod Online
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January 27, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Kyle Rittenhouse brought a gun to a protest, shot three people, killed two and was found not guilty. His legal defense was supported by Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/s...
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Bessie Coleman became the first African American woman and first Native American woman to hold a pilot's license, achieving this historic feat in 1921 after being denied entry to U.S. flight schools due to her race and gender, leading her to study in France.
#Aviation #Engineering #WomeninSTEM
#Aviation #Engineering #WomeninSTEM
January 26, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Bessie Coleman became the first African American woman and first Native American woman to hold a pilot's license, achieving this historic feat in 1921 after being denied entry to U.S. flight schools due to her race and gender, leading her to study in France.
#Aviation #Engineering #WomeninSTEM
#Aviation #Engineering #WomeninSTEM
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Cities as a technology are systems for managing conflicting interests.
On this date in 1888, Toronto Street Railway reached a compromise with shopkeepers over snow removal. The company had often cleared the tracks by shovelling snow onto the sidewalk, blocking access to the shops ...
January 26, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Cities as a technology are systems for managing conflicting interests.
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"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
January 24, 2026 at 9:14 PM
"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
"We are no longer having a political debate, we are having a moral debate."
Gov. Walz: "What side do you want to be on? The side of an all-powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace, and kidnap its citizens off the street, or the side of a nurse for a VA hospital who died bearing witness to such government?"
January 25, 2026 at 9:04 PM
"We are no longer having a political debate, we are having a moral debate."
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Helsingborg, Sweden (pop 150k), and digital city services (or the lack of them). H/t @vassb.bsky.social
theconversation.com/europe-wants...
theconversation.com/europe-wants...
Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology
As the US increases political pressure on Europe, it’s possible to imagine the continent losing access to key computing services.
theconversation.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Helsingborg, Sweden (pop 150k), and digital city services (or the lack of them). H/t @vassb.bsky.social
theconversation.com/europe-wants...
theconversation.com/europe-wants...
Will the National Parks survive this administration? inthepublicinterest.org/not-out-of-t...
Not Out of the Woods
Will the National Parks survive this administration?
inthepublicinterest.org
January 23, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Will the National Parks survive this administration? inthepublicinterest.org/not-out-of-t...
Right out of a freakin' movie. I mean that in a somber way. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/w...
Barron Trump Called U.K. Police After Witnessing Woman ‘Getting Beat Up’ on Video Call
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Right out of a freakin' movie. I mean that in a somber way. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/w...
"Her painstaking calculations and programming helped transform raw satellite data into precise geodetic models, enabling reliable satellite-based navigation."
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 thezebra.org/2026/01/18/d...
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 thezebra.org/2026/01/18/d...
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org
January 23, 2026 at 1:56 PM
"Her painstaking calculations and programming helped transform raw satellite data into precise geodetic models, enabling reliable satellite-based navigation."
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 thezebra.org/2026/01/18/d...
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 thezebra.org/2026/01/18/d...
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Repeat after me - the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy, among which is the rule of law
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
January 22, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Repeat after me - the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy, among which is the rule of law
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Im Englischen gibt's die Formulierung Rise to the moment, und das haben die Leute, die diese Rede geschrieben haben, und der Mann, der sie ins Gesicht des Hegemon gehalten hat.
Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
paulwells.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Im Englischen gibt's die Formulierung Rise to the moment, und das haben die Leute, die diese Rede geschrieben haben, und der Mann, der sie ins Gesicht des Hegemon gehalten hat.