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Mike Gerik

@ictmike.bsky.social
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Boeing retiree, genealogy dabbler, Grandpa, ham radio latecomer. Living the good life in Wichita, KS.

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✨ Clyde ✨ @clydepowell.bsky.social · 3h
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) vowed Saturday to force a House vote to block Russian oil purchases, challenging President Trump's diesel deal with President Vladimir #Putin. #Trump #NoKings ✨ VOTE EARLY ✨ #RussiaOilDeal
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House Republican, invoking Reagan, moves to block Trump's Russia oil deal
Already, outgoing Republican Rep. Don Bacon said he'd sign the petition.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 4h
Astonishing. 48 hours ago the NYT reported on a Treason scandal exponentially bigger than Benghazi, at the center of the Iran War, and involving Trump agents hiding the deaths of Americans in service of a foreign power—and besides the NYT the only outlet I see covering it is PROOF (my pinned post).
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 12h
For almost 2 years now, DHS has repeatedly told me they're not detaining U.S. citizens It's simply not true So @propublica.org published the receipts: a searchable database of the 500+ citizens detained by immigration agents during this Trump administration projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 5h
“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Our Common Defense @ourcommondefense.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump was never pro-Farm, pro-Farmer he was always just pro-Trump
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h
We are becoming more like our ally Russia every day under the Trump Regime. Vote his Republican enablers and supporters out of office next month. Our Republic is being shredded and our credibility all over the world is completely gone.
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Mary @mfbrodie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Fellow Texans - our property taxes increased 85% under Greg Abbott. 85%! Sure, we don't have income tax, so you have to get money from somewhere. But we have a $27B surplus. That's our money! @ginafortexas.bsky.social wants to make Texas affordable again and stop increasing property tax.
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Texans work hard for what they earn. That’s why our constitution bans an income tax.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 1h
Senator Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican, is a sleaze who refused to pay a bakery bill he owed to a small business owner. Of course, as soon as the bakery's post went viral, he paid. This is the same guy who tormented people who couldn't pay their medical bill. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/u...
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A Senator Facing Re-Election Settles a Bakery Bill, 6 Years Later
Senator Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican in a difficult race, paid an old campaign debt for cookies, muffins and brownies after a baker’s story went viral online.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h
Still nothing yet from Darlene Graham about Trump pissing on the Lindsey O. Graham Russia Sanction Act.
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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 21h
Friends, Sad news! Our dear friend #MajorJasonWatson will face a historic general court-martial, the military's most severe trial! He remains in pretrial confinement. His attorney told @cnn.com the conditions amount to "cruel and unusual" solitary confinement. Want to help? Keep posting about him!
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Attorney: US moving forward with general court martial of airman | CNN Politics
Air Force Major Jason Watson will face a historic general court-martial—the military’s most severe trial—following his high-profile July arrest for calling for President Trump’s impeachment in uniform...
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PANDA™ @pandanook.bsky.social · 9h
If you're a republican voter ask yourself this question: Since Donald Trump controls the House the Senate The Supreme Court and The White House, why hasn't he just given you the $5,000 already? The same reason he hasn't given you the $2,000 the other $5,000 the other $1,500 etc—because he's a liar.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h
Trump wants the US to fund Putin’s evil regime.
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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 20h
Former Israeli war chief Yoav Gallant admitted that Israeli forces killed their own civilians and soldiers during the Hamas' attack on October 7, 2023. He revealed that the Hannibal Directive was issued, leading the Israeli army to indiscriminately fire at people Don't think you will see that in MSM
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WIRED @wired.com · 11h
To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections. buff.ly/ZDw8NA4
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It Daily
To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 1h
Trump tells Russia he will lift sanctions and buy lots of Russian oil. Of course, Putin responds to the influx of American money by refusing to negotiate the end of his attack on Ukraine. Then Trump tells Ukraine they need a different president. No, we do! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/w...
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Rebuking Ukraine Over Oil Strikes, Trump Says It Should ‘Get a New President’
Hours after President Trump said the United States would buy Russian diesel, the Kremlin said there would be no immediate resumption of discussions to end the war.
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 1h
Common.. He is a reptilian
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h
Trump is the great destroyer. Killing 500 healthy trees.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h
Ken Paxton’s records do not show a business purpose for travel to Albania, Aruba, Australia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Poland, South Africa or Taiwan. with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1h
As FT's reporting makes clear, the sole role played by Kushner and Witkoff throughout this process has been to advocate whatever Putin seeks, while helping themselves to lucrative private commercial deals he offers up. www.ft.com/content/7fd4...
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US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing
Trump suggests Volodymyr Zelenskyy should be replaced after Ukraine’s leader criticised diesel deal with Moscow
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h
“.. Administration officials are discussing whether she should be removed, and a decision is expected by President Trump soon, aides said.” @wsj.com 🇬🇷 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 13h
What kind of degenerate, rapist, pedophilescumbag would do business with Putin to boost his poll numbers? If you guessed “Donald Trump”, you’d be right every time.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 8h
Trump ❤️ Putin. www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-put...
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Trump’s Putin Deal Is a Disgraceful Act of Betrayal
Sam Stein and Catherine Rampell give their takes on Trump’s decision to buy oil from Putin, just weeks after Trump signed Lindsey Graham’s Russia sanctions bill into law.
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 23h
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h
This was two years ago. And yet the senator who runs on Fox to condemn every Democrat who doesn’t unconditionally support Netanyahu has nothing to say right now.
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Sport Ponies 🐎🐴🍁 @sportponies.bsky.social · 13h
Country music icon #WillieNelson has officially endorsed #JamesTalarico in the 2026 #Texas U.S. Senate race, urging Texans to vote for the Democratic state representative. #FedUpWithRepublicans #Change #TurnTexasBlue 💙💙 #VoteBlue facebook.com/share/p/1A5y...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4h
The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.
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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 4h
Pete Hegseth’s public execution of a man in a wheelchair perfectly sums up the vileness that is MAGA. This is about celebrating cruelty, fascism and racism--all that is MAGA. My video and discussion with subscribers who are outraged by this VILENESS! youtu.be/lKxV2MhJEDg
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Pete Hegseth’s public execution of a man in a wheelchair perfectly sums up the vileness that is MAGA
YouTube video by The Dean Obeidallah Show
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Roadrunner33 @roadrunner33.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump is proving why he has said over and over and over and over Russia Russia Russia Because that’s who he is beholden to Lifting sanctions on Russia and Trump agreeing to purchase their fuel lets Putin keep funding his genocidal war against Ukraine Where is Congress? Vote them out
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 10h
Asked if he approved of the public execution,Trump said, “Absolutely.” After all, he’s been imagining executions since at least 1989 when he bought a full-page newspaper ad demanding that the Central Park Five be put to death. open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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How Much Lower Can Hegseth and Trump Go?
A Saturday Prompt
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Nita Cosby @5-2blue.bsky.social · 5h
UN Says Trump-Hegseth Livestream of Execution Would Breach ‘Absolute Prohibition of Torture’ “The livestreaming of an execution is tantamount to a public execution and would breach the absolute prohibition of torture." www.commondreams.org/news/death-p...
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UN Says Trump-Hegseth Livestream of Execution Would Breach ‘Absolute Prohibition of Torture’ | Common Dreams
Outrage erupts as Trump admin plans to livestream execution of Nidal Hasan, violating international laws against torture. Is this the new low for America?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1h
Sunday Telegraph: Donald Trump has just shown us, unambiguously, that he is Putin's man. Time to wake up to that fact. www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h
He knew. He intentionally stiffed them because he’s an arrogant prick who sues his OB/GYN patients. They repeatedly tried to get the bill paid. Then someone posted their pleas on social media. A bunch of us retweeted it. It went viral. ONLY THEN did this scumbag pay.
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 12h
Cartoon by Bill Bramhall
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 2h
Yes to Pete and yes to getting rid of the electoral college! Count the votes nationwide, and that's the winner.
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 2h
This is the energy we need, DAY IN AND DAY OUT!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h
Before you cast your midterm ballot, look at this graph and think about what Republicans are letting Trump get away with.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h
One year ago.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 09/10/2026
We are officially in for James Talarico! It's time that Gen Z Texans get a Senator who'll fight for them. couriertexas.com/news/politic...
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James Talarico endorsed by nation’s largest Gen Z group
Voters of Tomorrow—which reached more than 34 million voters last cycle—is launching phonebanks and new outreach efforts to bring young Texans to the polls.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 7h
You know it’s bad when even the bloviating sack of lies that was our Prime Minister becomes a sensible voice in a conversation.
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Karen Sue Waters @karensuew.bsky.social · 8h
Why do the feeble-minded minions, and especially the Orange Loser, try to verbally joust with someone as brilliant as Abdul?! An exercise in futility. I've never been happier to vote for anyone in my life as I was for Abdul. I'm so proud of him and my home state of Michigan I can't even stand it.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
With Republicans facing increasingly dire prospects in the midterms, some of President Donald Trump’s most desperate supporters have urged him to declare a national emergency and seize control of the elections from the states. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers say an obscure rule on Wi-Fi routers means Trump can decide how votes are counted. Here’s why they’re wrong
"The Commerce secretary doesn't have more power than the president. The president has zero power over elections in the United States.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h
Such a class act that Kimberly is: She expressed fury at not being on the list for the dinner, which was being organized by Greek House Davos. “You don’t have the f—ing U.S., you know, ambassador to Greece not come. She should be kissing my f—ing ass,” Guilfoyle said of the event’s organizer.
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Exclusive | At Davos, Kimberly Guilfoyle Boasted of Private Jet Trips, Luxury Stays
A recording captured the U.S. ambassador saying that Greek businessmen were paying for her travels and pleading for an invitation to an event with Eric Trump.
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Professor Peacock @jmpeck4.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I have lived in Texas for over 20 years. I have been amazed at the buffoons, cons, and crooks Texans will vote for as long as there is an (R) behind their name. Case in point, Texas voted for lying Ted Cruz (R) over Beto O'Rourke (D). #VoteBlue #VoteTalarico
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 9h
🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 8h
NBC News surveyed 90 of the largest food banks across the country. The responses from 48 food banks, representing 35 states and Washington, D.C., were dire. nbcnews.to/3VGPH9A
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12h
Despite ongoing lawsuit seeking to stop Trump overhaul of DC's East Potomac Park, the National Park Service has notified the court that it's going to take down nearly 530 trees at the site Team Trump is pursuing plan to redevelop the golf course on site
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h
Like the Fire Department in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Todd Blanche's DOJ exists to perpetrate serious crimes, not to prevent them.
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Justice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage
Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was looking into whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5h
How long until they cave and put money in his pocket? Or at least hold a black tie dinner in his honor?
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10h
We went from $200 million and you will pay for absolutely none of it to $600 million *at a bare minimum* and you will pay for almost all of it No president has ever stolen more money from the American people
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h
Under Trump and his Republican enablers, the richest Americans and biggest corporations have made out like bandits. Average working Americans are paying dearly for what the bandits have stolen. The grift and the graft must end.
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