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Patrick Rolland

@prolland.bsky.social
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Teacher, Learner, Gardener, Dog Walker. Just another guy on a bike.

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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Things always get a little weird when we go to Astoria for Crab and Wine Fest. This year was no exception.
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
He's still going strong. Only about an hour away from breaking the record.
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Seventeen hours in and still going. If you aren't following this, you should be.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
😡😡
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge
“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I've devoted over 20 years to teaching persuasive writing to international students. Regardless of your politics, this is a great article. The article was intelligent, respectful, and thoughtful. These qualities should be commended, not criminalized. www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
tuftsdaily.com
Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions - The Tufts Daily
The independent student newspaper of Tufts University
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I keep reading these bleeding heart think pieces about how I should feel empathy and understanding for people who voted for Trump and now are feeling the pain of his policies. Let me be clear about this. I feel no empathy for them whatsoever.
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I’m strongly considering moving to Canada. Would they have us or do they hate us all now? I wouldn’t blame them.
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Read the Alt Text
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/03/2025
‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The whole point is not just the state disappearing whoever they want, it's you being in the habit of accepting the state choosing whom to disappear, without question. It's submission to the state. Same as with Gitmo after 9/11. The state's judgment must not be questioned.
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I woke up to find Alan Dershowitz reacted to a five-year-old comment I made about his defense of Trump during the impeachment hearings. What do you make of this? Is it an "I told you so," or is he having 2nd thoughts? Why might he be reading old comments on stories about him today of all days?
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Chasten Glezman Buttigieg @chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
If Linda McMahon and the Department of Education believe in "efficiency and accountability" (after laying off half of the department), then I'm sure they'll gladly publish a list of every position that has been eliminated and why that position is no longer needed.
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
They talk openly and proudly of cutting entitlements and then deny it when you call them on it. If you wouldn't cut SS, why do you keep saying will? Do you think those cameras pointed at you don't work, or do you think we're too dumb to hear the words coming out of your mealy little mouth?
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
When we repeat the mistakes of the past, it's like failing an open book test.
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Greg Spotts @spottnik.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“Zero deaths of people biking in 2024. Deaths of people walking halved compared to 2021. A full eight years of safety investments in construction or getting lined up at SDOT. We can do this.”
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Seriously, who would ever trust us again once we show that every eight years, we will tear up our treaties and sell out our friends.
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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 06/03/2025
The Seattle library online resources webpage is a trebuchet in a world of paywalls. www.spl.org/online-resou...
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I'd like to take this moment to send a very special "Go fuck yourself!" to Donald Trump and every last asshole who voted for him. I hope you all choke to death on cheap bird flu eggs.
reuters.com
Exclusive: Trump plans to revoke legal status of Ukrainians who fled to US, sources say
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation.
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Here's looking at you, "The Washington Post."
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I agree.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Great news for money launderers!
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Now that English is our official language, can Republicans be legally compelled to learn what pronouns are?
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Union Thug™️ @theunionthug.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
America, just in case you thought Friday went well here’s how the London Times saw it …..
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Kurt Vonnegut writing about the hypocrisy of so-called Christians. #Vonnegut #Writing
Image of text in a book that reads:

For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.

"Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break.
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I've read God's book, so I know he's seen some disgraceful acts of betrayal in his time.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Says it all.
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This is fucking shameful! www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...
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Watch tense Oval Office argument between Zelensky, Trump and Vance | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky devolved into a shouting match, with the US president telling Ukraine’s leader “make a deal or we’re out” durin...
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
You can understand almost all of American politics with just two numbers: 71% of Republican voters oppose Medicaid cuts. 100% of House Republicans are trying to cut Medicaid right now.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/02/2025
Tenth Circle Added To Rapidly Growing Hell theonion.com/tenth-c...
Tenth Circle Added To Rapidly Growing Hell
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Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, Nikki Haley, paragon of moral clarity.
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andymlevy.bsky.social @andymlevy.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
So close. Trump just missed it by one letter. They are supposed to RUN the government, not RUIN the government. He just can't stop putting "I" in everything.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/02/2025
Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope. THIS is good trouble! Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...
Hegseth had previously taken aim at Brown. “First of all, you gotta fire, you know, you gotta fire the chairman of Joint Chiefs,” he said flatly in a podcast in November. And in one of his books, he questioned whether Brown got the job because he was Black.

“Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt — which on its face seems unfair to CQ. But since he has made the race card one of his biggest calling cards, it doesn’t really much matter,” Hegseth wrote.Caine’s military service includes combat roles in Iraq, special operations postings and positions inside some of the Pentagon’s most classified special access programs. However, it does not include key assignments that were identified in law as prerequisites for the job, with an exemption for the president to waive them if necessary in times of national interest.
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” -Dick the Butcher Henry VI, Part 2
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
People have been saying "call it fascism" lately and I just feel the general public may not have a clear picture of what fascism IS. It's not a scare tactic to use the word; it's descriptive. www.openculture.com/2024/11/umbe...
openculture.com
Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
Creative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland One of the key questions facing both journalists and loyal oppositions these days is how do we stay honest as euphemisms an...
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
With great power comes great responsibility, or something.
theonion.com
English Professor Suddenly Realizes Students Will Believe Literally Anything She Says
LINCOLN, NE—Midway through her 9 a.m. Intro to American Literature course Thursday, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Professor Elizabeth Mabrey suddenly realized that her students would accept, without ...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025
my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I don't think most Americans understand how close we are to having our government completely fall apart in the next few months. I know we've been close to government shutdowns before, but this one seems different as there doesn't seem to be any clear pathway to avert it or willingness to find one.
time.com
We're 1 Month From a Government Shutdown—The Talks Are a Mess
The U.S. has roughly one month until the government runs out of money, and the talks to avoid that are a mess, writes Philip Elliott.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Republicans for much of 2024: "How DARE you call our candidate Mr Trump a fascist?" *President* Trump in 2025:
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Patrick Rolland @prolland.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I thought he said he was only going to be a dictator on day one.
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