Nick Hawkins
nickthedad.bsky.social
Nick Hawkins
@nickthedad.bsky.social
Tea enthusiast, father of two awesome little girls, and husband to @shivanihawkins.bsky.social.
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BREAKING:

TIM WALZ: "If you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record."

"Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans, not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution."
January 15, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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January 8, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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John Oliver and Co did a great explanation of what public media does, and who exactly the funding recission actually hurts (Hint: it's not liberal elites.) Also very proud to see my old friend and former WBEZ reporter Lauren Chooljian featured for her amazing work.

youtu.be/yknMJOgy2pA?...
Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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📽️ WATCH: Student Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs.

Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.
August 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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A poem from this morning.
August 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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I think I've found a way to articulate what bothers me about the trajectory of the modern tech industry (and to some extent... society).

We are on this Earth to provide for each other. That's the "mission" of humanity as I see it.

This is incompatible with what the tech industry seeks to do.
February 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.
February 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM