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J. A. Tony Figueroa

@illini67.bsky.social
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Progressive thinker and a Christian. US veteran, 22 years, with a tour in Vietnam. Illini, Bears, Cubs, Bulls fan. BS in engineering, MBA in finance. A constitutional Patriot! 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

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Leigh Booker @leighbooker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
WOKE is mainly about being aware of social and racial injustice in our nation. Our government is locking up and/or deporting people without trials. Others are being shot in the streets. Social programs are being cut for no reason. I'm WOKE as f##k.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Growing up in the 50s and 60s, the father worked, mom stayed at home. We didn't need food stamps or Medicare. We paid rent or were able to buy a modest house. We lived in a working class neighborhood. Not today. All wealth is accumulated at the top, no "trickle down".
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have always said "Voting is a duty that every citizen has to exercize." You have a duty to your family, to your country, and a duty to yours.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When the Dems win the midterms in November, what makes anyone think things will change. Trump will continue to defy congress and orders from judges. DJT will issue more executive orders and use the DOJ to do his bidding. Dems will investigate, with zero results. We need the GOP to help impeach him
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Listen to "For What its Worth" by Buffalo Springfield. Where are the protests against this corrupt administration? I don't get it.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Trump administration keeps taking credit for the stock market doing well. The truth is corporations are buying their stock with the tax and tariff credits they are getting. Im still waiting for my checks.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Trump administration keeps taking credit for the stock market doing well. The truth is corporations are buying their stock with the tax and tariff credits they are getting. Im still waiting for my checks.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Now we have the petroleum companies using the war as an excuse for price gouging. They are making billions more in profits. Don't tell me they are not price fixing.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Can someone please tell Hasan Piker to shut TFU. Who is this guy anyway?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
👀 MUST WATCH: This video is so well done — and absolutely hilarious! 🤣🤣
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Let me get this right? There’s been a massive number of lynchings in the US over the past year and we are not hearing about this from the NYT, WaPo, LA Times, or any other major outlet? Can we get @propublica.org to cover this?
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
He didn’t change. They did.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Scott Jennings always has that smirky smile that just drives me nuts. It says "I'm smarter than you". His talking points are always out of the Trump book of lies and BS.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Tommy Tuberville is a radical racist bigot. Iam being redundant on purpose. Name calling is what MAGATs do best. When they have nothing substantial to say, they resort to name calling, like DJT.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Im a Democrat! I can't understand why working class families are voting with the GOP. The GOP is anti worker, anti aging, anti youth. Let's bring back the working class to the Democratic party.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Im a Democrat! I can't understand why working class families are voting with the GOP. The GOP is anti worker, anti aging, anti youth. Let's bring back the working class to the Democratic party.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
We have to vote as if the future of our democracy depends on it, because it does!
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SassySenora701 @sassysenior70.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We have Democrats who are far left, progressives, center, conservative democrats, independents etc... they are all democrats and we must pull them all into our tent or we give the election to Rs. Stop comparing and quarreling and by all means do not let them separate us with bs
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The president of the United States is a mentally deranged con man and a pathological liar.
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The Liberal Curmudgeon @liberalcurmudgeon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Our thoroughly corrupt electoral system.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
RFK just got "BASHED". 🤣
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I recommend everyone read the book: "The Rise and Fall of Great Powers" by Paul Kennedy. We are destroying our country from within. This administration is utter chaos. The corruption is unfathomable at every level.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
We learned a lesson in Vietnam. The US decimated and obliterated North Vietnam's military targets with our bombs. Yet, we lost that war due to the tenacity of Vietnamese ground troops.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In Vietnam, we bombed the hell out of the north and lost the war. Have we not learned nothing yet. Please, don't send in ground troops. Iranians are dug in waiting. It would be a huge mistake. Trump has no idea what he is doing.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The GOP party that plotted to send fake electors from 7 states are telling us how important election integrity is… So fucking laughable, isn’t it?! 😎✨
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Van Jones just called the GOP regressives. I used that comparison two years ago. That's ok, I hope it catches on.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Trump's decision to attack Iran had one purpose. That was to pay back the US military industrial companies for their campaign support. The war against Uran was a mistake and has destabilized the region. And now Trump's family is making millions in contracts.
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Paul van der Meer @paulvandermeer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Jon Ossoff sums it up: “This is the cruelest & most arrogant group of people who ever ascended to high office - their cruelty & arrogance are only matched by their incompetence."
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Just Another Mike @mwmarshall.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
It’s your right and your obligation to call out corruption and abuse.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Spain also helped the young nation win the war of independence. Don Bernardo de Galvez raised a 20,000 man army to fight the British. Spain also supplied arms and other resources. Ultimately it was the Americans that won.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
“I think we are seeing a hunger that is not just felt by New Yorkers, but frankly by Americans from coast to coast, for a new kind of politics, one that puts working people at the heart of it.” —Mayor Zohran Mamdani
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I contrast to the "Midas Touch", everything Trump touches turns to poop. The economy, foreign relations, world peace, elections, world hunger-aid, the reflecting pool, etc, all going to hell in a hand basket. What a loser!
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I learned a long time ago, " If it's not broken, don't fix it". There was nothing wrong with the reflecting pool. Trump decided to give a donor a no-bid contract for $14 million. What a mess.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I can't forgive all the folks that stayed home and did not cast their vote, that did not have their voices heard. Voting is a right, but also an obligation as a citizen.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Trump is running off at the mouth again. The lies are flowing like Niagara Falls. He has zero credibility.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 13/06/2026
Trump lies constantly and he is desperate for the Iran war to be over. So desperate that he’s giving Iran 20 times the money Obama did, and getting nothing in return, except an open strait that Iran will charge a “maintenance fee” to all ships. Well done, bozo
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Yarwanaw @yarwanaw.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
History will reveal the truth. It will also record the lies & names of the LIARS.💯‼️💯
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Beautiful yellow whatever?
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
So called evangelical Christians profess they don't worship the golden statue of Trump, however, they do worship what he does and his corrupt policies.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Aren't there any independent networks that could pick up "60 Minutes" as part of its programming? Or are they afraid of Trump doing to them what they've done to CBS and the others? The freedom of the press is being threatened.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Yes, maybe that will happ. However, what about that MAGA cult? There is a movement in this country made up of conservative extremists and pseudo Christians that needs to be dealt with. We also need to do away with corporations controlling politicians. Thise in Washington should serve US the people.
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dark @darkswordsman.com · 25/05/2026
Don't forget to vote as hard as you can this year for governors and congresspeople that you care about. I have a lot of projects but my hope is to make it easier to help people find resources on voting this year and finding the candidate that fits them.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I have faith in the real patriots. Those of us that still believe in the American dream and not in MAGA anarchy. The VOTE will end this nightmare, but it will take all of us to fight back.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
So called evangelical Christians profess they don't worship the golden statue of Trump, however, they do worship what he does and his corrupt policies.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"86" the new ballroom. We need health care, child care, etc
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The president just put his name on the national institution for peace. How utterly ridiculous. I don't know whether to laugh or scratch my head in wonder at the hypocracy coming out of this administration.
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Trump keeps saying hoe great the economy is doing because of the stock market. CEOs are buying back thier stocks with the tax breaks they are getting. Many pay zero tax. That demand drives up stock prices and the market. DJT is twisting the truth. The economy sucks now, thank you donny!
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J. A. Tony Figueroa @illini67.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I'm wondering if the mentalist at the WHC dinner was able to read Trump's mind. If so what was he thinking? Just asking!
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