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Rick Stengel

@rickstengel.bsky.social

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Former Under Secretary of State in Obama admin & Editor of TIME. Author of “Information Wars: How We Lost the Battle Against Disinformation” & the audiobook, “Mandela: The Lost Tapes.” Analyst @MSNOW

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@rickstengel.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 10:46 PM

Not a surprise. We have a president who condones violence against his opponents. Election officials are heroes and patriots. We honor them by voting.

@rickstengel.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 1:43 PM

Classic blame-the-victim strategy. Oil prices have shot up because a certain president invaded Iran, not because of Ukraine's attacks against Russia. In fact, this president is supporting the aggressor, Russia, in defiance of law and morality and what should be American values. Voters see this.

@rickstengel.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 7:57 PM

Trump relaxing sanctions on Russia to import oil to America to reduce diesel costs is like FDR announcing in 1939 that he is importing coal from Germany to bring down heating costs.

@rickstengel.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 8:56 PM

Trump's thoughtless invasion of Iran was meant to project American military power—instead, it has retrenched it, with American forces retreating from dozens of bases around the world and giving our adversaries a roadmap of how to resist US power.

@rickstengel.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 12:35 PM

The Global Engagement Center was started by a bi-partisan act of Congress to investigate and fight foreign disinformation and propaganda. It engaged with foreign mis-and-disinformation, not domestic voices. Its destruction is damaging to American interests, as this powerful piece shows.

@rickstengel.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 11:00 AM

The worst negotiator in the world tells his adversary that arms sales to Taiwan are "a very good negotiating chip" thereby nullifying the value of that chip.

@rickstengel.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 1:27 PM

No one wants non-citizens to vote. But the administration would rather harm the rights of actual naturalized citizens in a dangerous quest to find the almost non-existent illegible voter. Dangerous and undemocratic. Vote!

@rickstengel.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 6:33 PM

Conservatives and Republicans used to zealously try to shield voters from the federal government invading their privacy. Now they are authorizing the government to abuse privacy to try to catch some phantom ineligible voters. Dangerous, risky, irresponsibl. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

@rickstengel.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 12:17 PM

Judge essentially says the White House's claims of national security concerns is just an after-the-fact mask for the president's dislike of his coverage.

@rickstengel.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 8:22 PM

Trump at UN: "To the victor belongs the spoils." General Colin Powell: "The only land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those who did not return."

@rickstengel.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 3:37 PM

Going back to the Sedition Act of 1798, administrations have unconstitutionally tried to criminalize dissent. Mostly this happened during wartime, but this administration is falsely claiming national security in order to suppress free speech in violation of First Amendment protections.

@rickstengel.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 11:58 AM

Classic Trump. Make absurd, extreme, maximalist demands and then settle for less than he would have gotten in a civil negotiation.

@rickstengel.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 3:42 PM

The member nations of the UN are looking at the post-Trump world and the post-American world he is hastening. People wonder who the audience for his speech is? Himself. The boasts, the falsehoods, the hyperbole, all to make himself feel better.

@rickstengel.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 8:12 PM

Bravo to the networks—and especially Fox—for invoking their own Article 5 (an attack on one is an attack on all) and collectively suspending pool coverage. Government cannot abridge freedom of speech or of the press—that's the First Amendment.

@rickstengel.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 1:18 AM

Everything he touches he destroys.

@rickstengel.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 9:16 PM

Trump’s lack of understanding of the First Amendment is so extreme as to be comical. He doesn’t understand that it bars government from abridging freedom of the press. He thinks freedom of the press is for the news that he likes.

@rickstengel.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 2:11 PM

America First means American isolated and America poorer. I know people don't vote on whether the US is the world's reserve currency, but the current administration is damaging the economy in ways that will take years to repair. Vote for change in November.

@rickstengel.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 5:07 PM

He doesn't just say the quiet part out loud, he says the depraved part. Reps have rightfully been running away from the racist Willie Horton ad for 35 years, but the president of the United States embraces it to try to make crime an issue in North Carolina, where it is down in every single category.

@rickstengel.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 1:50 PM

America First means American Alone. He has alienated our largest trading partner (the EU) and our third largest (Canada). Canada is the largest trading parter of 27 of our states. If you were actually trying to wreck the economy, this is what you would do.

@rickstengel.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 3:24 PM

Bravo to the high court, but corruption does not have an off switch. They have no regard for law, so have a back-up plan to vote in case.

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