Nicki Heskin (she/her)
bruingrad.bsky.social
Nicki Heskin (she/her)
@bruingrad.bsky.social
Professor of Production Management, AEA Stage Manager, Director, Writer, Mom, Wife, Unapologetic Liberal, Friend, Lifetime Learner
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If Republicans were forced to tell the entire truth 100% of the time, they'd never win an election. They'd never even win a freaking argument.
Here's an example:
June 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Demonizing homeless people isn't some sort of heroic truth-telling.

It's a political tactic meant to divert attention from the poverty wages, unaffordable housing, and engineered neglect that created America's homelessness crisis.
May 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Any democratic nation that seeks to avoid its “negative history” rather than to learn from it will not be a real democracy very long

The internment of Japanese AMERICANS happened. It’s important to understand HOW — what was the fear, reality, panic of that time /1

www.sfgate.com/california-p...
Signs to police 'negative' history went up at Manzanar. Historians are nervous.
"It sends a pretty clear message that your story is not welcome here."
www.sfgate.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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This is how it’s done.
Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws

Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.

Gov Mills: See you in court
February 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Let's say their names:

* General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: FIRED FOR BEING BLACK

* Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE

* Admiral Linda Fagan, Coast Guard Commandant: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE

All replaced by less qualified white guys.
its genuinely insane that they're firing CJCS for being black and CNO for being a woman. that is what's happening here
February 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM