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Gene Vricella

@ginodc.bsky.social
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From DC, living in Madison, WI. Nature, traveling, music: 🎷 🪈& uke, languages [IT,FR,SP,PORT], former Pan Am 🌐, gardening, birding, & human rights for all. Frequently in Hawai’i тяцмр is a traitorous convicted felon. 🟧 🌻 🇺🇦 No DMs, please. No crypto.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I suspect 9 of 10 Americans are unaware that the Hmong are here because they aided the US in the Vietnam war, and then had to flee as refugees afterwards. Quite the “thank you” we’re giving them 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her. Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; none exists now, Justice Dept. says
After the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis, FBI agents launched a civil rights probe into the shooting. The Justice Department says no such case now exists.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/10/2025
NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Apparently, they don’t hand out a Nobel Peace Prize to those who negotiated a ceasefire they had sabotaged a year ago just to get elected.
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NPR @npr.org · 14/10/2025
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb
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Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.
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DMC ❌👑🐸 @dcombes.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
#NoKings see you in the streets Saturday! 10/18 Join us✊🏼 Find your event⬇️ www.nokings.org
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19/08/2025
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: “Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/06/2025
They demand Zohran Mamdani be deported for offering free childcare. They cream their jeans over the thought of an Alligator Alcatraz. Truly evil, vile, miserable people that only want the worst for everyone.
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Gene Vricella @ginodc.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Bravo to the courageous people of Budapest. 🏳️‍🌈
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Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
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Gene Vricella @ginodc.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Cruel and unusual punishment for people who have never even been before a judge!
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KMark1969 @kiwimark1969.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I agree.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/06/2025
Such a good point on SCOTUS hypocrisy when it comes to Trump vs Biden: They let a nationwide injunction kill Biden’s student loan relief when they had a chance to rule on it. 5 months into Trump’s presidency, suddenly nationwide injunctions are a grave threat to executive power and they must rule.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The number of manifestly psychologically unwell people in the highest levels of this administration should be unsettling to the world.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/06/2025
Enjoy your canned vegetables for Thanksgiving, people. This is only going to get worse.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 10/06/2025
Watching the right now oppose the part of the second amendment that guarantees a well regulated militia under state control is… something.
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Gene Vricella @ginodc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The fascists are out of control.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/06/2025
CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news. But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest? Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 10/06/2025
Crowds at the LA Football Club chanting Fuck ICE! Music to my ears!
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
ICE crossed a line in LA
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/06/2025
Ahem.
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I love this disrespect.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/05/2025
NEW: Everything wrong in America is because of the ultra-wealthy. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/its-the-ol...
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It's The Oligarchy, Stupid
We're staring down the barrel of the largest transfer of wealth in the history of the world. Let's get on the same page.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Trump isn’t taking his losses well tonight. Instead of throwing ketchup, he started pardoning gang members, murderers, and convicted felons. Guess he didn’t want to taco ’bout it.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I can’t stop laughing about the fact that the Pope is now holding a huge event in Chicago on the same day as Trump’s small-in-the-pants birthday parade.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Electricians and plumbers were precisely the people her boss routinely refused to pay back when he was a shady, failed real estate guy. And f--k her for her her gratuitous homophobia.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Musk lashes out at an interviewer for pressing him on DOGE, then attacks Bill Gates. He’s definitely losing it. He also claims Tesla sales are “rebounding,” but the numbers say otherwise. The boycott of Tesla is working.
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Gene Vricella @ginodc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
So very sorry, Marc.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The very definition of evil is incarcerating for life in one of the worst hellholes on Earth men who did everything right. But it’s beyond evil—beyond demonic—to then not try to do anything to save the men you consigned to Hell, *and* to in fact libel and slander them daily when they cannot reply.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/05/2025
I'm SUPER proud of all the folks joining the independent media revolution: @klasfeldreports.com @katiephang.bsky.social @jimacosta.bsky.social @contrariannews.org @joyannreid.bsky.social ... there are too many to name, but thank you for all your work!! Three cheers for independent media!!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/05/2025
MAKE NOISE ON THIS ONE‼️ They didn’t just deport him—they sent him to CECOT in El Salvador. Agelviz came here legally through the refugee resettlement program—fully vetted. But when he landed in Houston, CBP snatched him over a tattoo: a clock and a rose. No charges. No record. Just a suspicion.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/05/2025
Abortion providers confront a new wave of extremism
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Report: Abortion providers confront a new wave of extremism
"It shouldn't take someone being murdered for a law to be enforced."
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(Lizzie)🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @pip-kin.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Bezos has the same interest in Democracy as he has hair folicles. The WaPo has already died in Darkness
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Gene Vricella @ginodc.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Well, taste is very personal. I found the sound completely muddled, overly loud, and crashing. I might like the unplugged version of this piece.
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Jim's Blue Wave Tsunami 2026🌊🌊⚡⚡8647 @jimdjimp1959.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
#ImpeachTrump
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/05/2025
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Coloradan Trisha Calvarese is working to unseat Lauren Boebert. A longtime fierce progressive and dear friend of mine is working on this campaign, and I'm excited to see someone with a real chance to consign Boebert to the cesspit of political history.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 05/05/2025
Nothing says teacher appreciation like gutting the Department of Education and firing half of the people that make the agency run.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/05/2025
JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
___coyotl___ Raphael Coyotl
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