Wyatt Nordvik
@wyattnordvik.bsky.social
Progressive | Californian
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"Are you so wise as to have forgotten that compared with your mother and father and all the rest of your ancestors your country is something far more precious, more venerable, more sacred, and held in greater honor both among gods and among all reasonable men?"
Plato
Plato
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Trump Org’s income in the first half of 2024 was $51 million.
In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million.
A massive percentage came from foreigners.
It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics.
But few even care. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million.
A massive percentage came from foreigners.
It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics.
But few even care. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine
The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that cash came from foreign sources as Donald Trump's sons touted their business on an international investor roadshow.
www.reuters.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Trump Org’s income in the first half of 2024 was $51 million.
In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million.
A massive percentage came from foreigners.
It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics.
But few even care. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million.
A massive percentage came from foreigners.
It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics.
But few even care. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Bertrand Russell once received letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, inviting him to a debate. Russell not only declined but replied quite generally that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Bertrand Russell once received letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, inviting him to a debate. Russell not only declined but replied quite generally that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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this woman single-handedly has more courage than the entirety of the gop
AOC during Zohran for Mayor rally: "There are people out there who say, 'If you go out and make this endorsement, your political career will be over.' And to that I say: I don't care. We will never get to a better place if everyone is just worried about themselves. If it's over, so be it."
June 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
this woman single-handedly has more courage than the entirety of the gop
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Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene appear to have two very different definitions of 'America First'
June 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene appear to have two very different definitions of 'America First'
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Literally begging you to tell your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers, your family.
People have vaguely heard of “the one big beautiful bill,” but very few people know Rs are WEEKS away from uninsuring millions - and will do it unless we can get a groundswell of opposition to stop them.
People have vaguely heard of “the one big beautiful bill,” but very few people know Rs are WEEKS away from uninsuring millions - and will do it unless we can get a groundswell of opposition to stop them.
Congress is WEEKS away from kicking more than 10 million people off their health insurance via $1 trillion in health care cuts.
It passed the House and is now in the Senate - which is planning to vote in a few weeks. Then back to the House to be re-passed.
We have only a few weeks to stop this.
It passed the House and is now in the Senate - which is planning to vote in a few weeks. Then back to the House to be re-passed.
We have only a few weeks to stop this.
June 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Literally begging you to tell your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers, your family.
People have vaguely heard of “the one big beautiful bill,” but very few people know Rs are WEEKS away from uninsuring millions - and will do it unless we can get a groundswell of opposition to stop them.
People have vaguely heard of “the one big beautiful bill,” but very few people know Rs are WEEKS away from uninsuring millions - and will do it unless we can get a groundswell of opposition to stop them.
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Good thing for Putin he has such a good friend in WH to run cover for him while he continues to bomb civilians.
May 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Good thing for Putin he has such a good friend in WH to run cover for him while he continues to bomb civilians.
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The way they are exploiting this woman’s suffering to try to justify sending a random guy to an El Salvadoran gulag is truly sick
April 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM
The way they are exploiting this woman’s suffering to try to justify sending a random guy to an El Salvadoran gulag is truly sick
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Yeah, why did Zelensky start the war? Why did Poland invade Germany in 1939?
Trump has fully turned on Zelenskyy: "He's always looking to purchase missiles. Listen, when you start a war, you gotta know you can win a war. You don't start a war against somebody that's 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles."
April 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Yeah, why did Zelensky start the war? Why did Poland invade Germany in 1939?
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Lololol. "Whatever." Love it.
TAPPER: You're imposing a 10% on the Heard and MccDonald islands. They have zero human inhabitants. Why are you putting tariffs on islands entirely populated by penguins?
ROLLINS: Whatever. Listen, the people leading this are serious, intentional, patriotic, the smartest I've ever worked with.
ROLLINS: Whatever. Listen, the people leading this are serious, intentional, patriotic, the smartest I've ever worked with.
April 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Lololol. "Whatever." Love it.
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I could not agree more. I see this everywhere. People are losing their reasoning capabilities.
An underrated factor in how we got ourselves into this mess is that Americans are increasingly relying on computers and the internet instead of their own critical thinking faculties (AI is making this even worse), and as a result are uninformed and easy to manipulate.
April 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I could not agree more. I see this everywhere. People are losing their reasoning capabilities.
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Being able to heat your home in the winter is not a luxury. It is a matter of life and death.
Trump and Musk’s decision to arbitrarily fire every worker in the office that helps working class and low income people heat their homes is outrageous.
Trump and Musk’s decision to arbitrarily fire every worker in the office that helps working class and low income people heat their homes is outrageous.
April 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Being able to heat your home in the winter is not a luxury. It is a matter of life and death.
Trump and Musk’s decision to arbitrarily fire every worker in the office that helps working class and low income people heat their homes is outrageous.
Trump and Musk’s decision to arbitrarily fire every worker in the office that helps working class and low income people heat their homes is outrageous.
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TCI -
Amazing protest…we have the best group of people, the energy was amazing, not a bad way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
We’re told it was around 800 in attendance. Give yourself a pat on the back.
Tag us with your pics, we’d love to see them.
Thank you to every one of you! 🇺🇸
Amazing protest…we have the best group of people, the energy was amazing, not a bad way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
We’re told it was around 800 in attendance. Give yourself a pat on the back.
Tag us with your pics, we’d love to see them.
Thank you to every one of you! 🇺🇸
April 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
TCI -
Amazing protest…we have the best group of people, the energy was amazing, not a bad way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
We’re told it was around 800 in attendance. Give yourself a pat on the back.
Tag us with your pics, we’d love to see them.
Thank you to every one of you! 🇺🇸
Amazing protest…we have the best group of people, the energy was amazing, not a bad way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
We’re told it was around 800 in attendance. Give yourself a pat on the back.
Tag us with your pics, we’d love to see them.
Thank you to every one of you! 🇺🇸
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Keep downplaying the protests at your own peril.
Keep threatening Americans.
The protests will only get bigger.
Trump is hated.
Musk is hated.
The political winds have shifted.
People are fed up.
This is only the beginning.
Keep threatening Americans.
The protests will only get bigger.
Trump is hated.
Musk is hated.
The political winds have shifted.
People are fed up.
This is only the beginning.
April 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Keep downplaying the protests at your own peril.
Keep threatening Americans.
The protests will only get bigger.
Trump is hated.
Musk is hated.
The political winds have shifted.
People are fed up.
This is only the beginning.
Keep threatening Americans.
The protests will only get bigger.
Trump is hated.
Musk is hated.
The political winds have shifted.
People are fed up.
This is only the beginning.
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Hands off Social Security.
Hands off Medicaid.
Hands off veteran care.
Hands off our kids’ education.
Hands off our rights.
We’re going to fight like hell to defend our democracy from Donald Trump. #HandsOff
Hands off Medicaid.
Hands off veteran care.
Hands off our kids’ education.
Hands off our rights.
We’re going to fight like hell to defend our democracy from Donald Trump. #HandsOff
April 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Hands off Social Security.
Hands off Medicaid.
Hands off veteran care.
Hands off our kids’ education.
Hands off our rights.
We’re going to fight like hell to defend our democracy from Donald Trump. #HandsOff
Hands off Medicaid.
Hands off veteran care.
Hands off our kids’ education.
Hands off our rights.
We’re going to fight like hell to defend our democracy from Donald Trump. #HandsOff
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Nature's resilience: A tree finds its way through the ruins of Schloss Putzar, Germany.
March 31, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Nature's resilience: A tree finds its way through the ruins of Schloss Putzar, Germany.
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This particular gay barber was abducted by the US government
Falsely accused of being a terrorist
And-without due process-summarily deported to a gulag known for its numerous violations of human rights
All while the government insists he doesn't even have the right to question their actions
Falsely accused of being a terrorist
And-without due process-summarily deported to a gulag known for its numerous violations of human rights
All while the government insists he doesn't even have the right to question their actions
WATTERS: You've been talking about this gay barber from El Salvador with some stupid tattoo for weeks. Weeks, Jessica. It's just a gay barber.
GUTFELD: He's not into you.
GUTFELD: He's not into you.
April 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This particular gay barber was abducted by the US government
Falsely accused of being a terrorist
And-without due process-summarily deported to a gulag known for its numerous violations of human rights
All while the government insists he doesn't even have the right to question their actions
Falsely accused of being a terrorist
And-without due process-summarily deported to a gulag known for its numerous violations of human rights
All while the government insists he doesn't even have the right to question their actions
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Sick stuff
“The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return.”
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
www.theatlantic.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Sick stuff
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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The group chat is one of those omnipresent media forms that don't get five percent of the attention of a TikTok or Twitter
March 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The group chat is one of those omnipresent media forms that don't get five percent of the attention of a TikTok or Twitter
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AOC: We need to be taxing the rich on the floor of the Congress
We need to be establishing guaranteed healthcare on the floor of the Congress
We need to be passing a living wage on the floor of the Congress
We need to be establishing guaranteed healthcare on the floor of the Congress
We need to be passing a living wage on the floor of the Congress
March 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
AOC: We need to be taxing the rich on the floor of the Congress
We need to be establishing guaranteed healthcare on the floor of the Congress
We need to be passing a living wage on the floor of the Congress
We need to be establishing guaranteed healthcare on the floor of the Congress
We need to be passing a living wage on the floor of the Congress
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Sanders: Does anybody think it makes sense that we have a campaign finance system where one man (Musk) can put $270 million to get Trump elected and then his reward is that he becomes the most powerful person in government?
That is not democracy. That is oligarchy.
That is not democracy. That is oligarchy.
March 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Sanders: Does anybody think it makes sense that we have a campaign finance system where one man (Musk) can put $270 million to get Trump elected and then his reward is that he becomes the most powerful person in government?
That is not democracy. That is oligarchy.
That is not democracy. That is oligarchy.
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1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
March 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
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So much horrific news. But also yesterday, the oaks were leafing out and the grass was maximum green. The Bay Area dresses up in drag as Ireland this time every year, and happy St. Patrick's to all you anticolonialists and arborists.
March 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
So much horrific news. But also yesterday, the oaks were leafing out and the grass was maximum green. The Bay Area dresses up in drag as Ireland this time every year, and happy St. Patrick's to all you anticolonialists and arborists.
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So awesome to be in this creative NYT piece with many budget experts i respect. Good on the Times for willing to go their and explain the wonky baseline issue that's may bust the budget (again).
Other folks quoted in this killer article include @brendanvduke.bsky.social, @econwonk.bsky.social, @marcgoldwein.bsky.social, @jessicabriedl.bsky.social, and others who are not (yet) on the site.
Read @sangerkatz.bsky.social & @aliciaparlap.bsky.social's piece here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Read @sangerkatz.bsky.social & @aliciaparlap.bsky.social's piece here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
So awesome to be in this creative NYT piece with many budget experts i respect. Good on the Times for willing to go their and explain the wonky baseline issue that's may bust the budget (again).