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Ray Butler

@raybut.bsky.social
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Security focused seasoned IT Pro, Husband, Father, Dog Dad, regular guy who loves technology 💻, movies 🎞️ ,astronomy 🔭 and Star Trek. No DMs.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Signs you’re a war criminal: You attack the court that goes after war criminals
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Nashville Resist 🗳️ Against Authoritarianism @nashvilleresist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
With deep sorrow and regret I must report that President Donald J. Trump did not win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. I know how devastated all of you must be. But inevitably, someday, in the not-too-distant-future, he will give the world something much greater to celebrate.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The crimes continue! These prosecutors simply love lying to and withholding evidence from this judge, who told them they will face contempt charges if they keep doing this. I actually don’t believe she’s going to stand for this anymore. They’re clearly hiding something truly insidious.
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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The entire country being run like a poorly managed, broke, racist, fraternity right now.
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Conrad 4 Congress @conrad4congress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
BREAKING: Mike Johnson just told Fox that he might start a lawn business if he loses the gavel. He doesn’t want you to know he’s also fighting for his own seat. When he loses that too he can cut the grass instead of Medicaid. I’m Conrad Cable and I’m running to make it happen.
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Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 09/10/2026
Here is the time lapse being taken on that iPhone in the picture. Enjoy the first moments of a monarch butterfly
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A House Candidate Says She Was Raped While Campaigning. It’s a Horrific Account—and an Urgent One. #Slate
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A House Candidate Says She Was Raped While Campaigning. It’s a Horrific Account—and an Urgent One.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All of NYC stands with the mayor on this. This ICE office is guilty of reckless endangerment of a 5-year-old and a raft of other felonies. He should be in prison. bsky.app/profile/mayo...
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I’m no Trump fan but it’s not fair/necessary for his physician to reveal that the President has what most closely resembles a custom-built mobile bathtub that’s “just for diarrhea” and that the secret service are responsible for making sure he’s “never more than 30 feet from it.”
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The President has 2 settings: diarrhea and asleep
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am sick and tired of seeing this shit. DOGE was not a "missed opportunity," it was an intentional effort by billionaire oligarchs to destroy the federal government's capacity to do good things for the American people.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 09/10/2026
Mike Collins reportedly said old people need to get off Social Security and back into the workforce, though the bracketed quote in this meme looks heavily edited. If true, tell the 78-year-old with bad knees who paid in for 50 years to go greet at Walmart. Fuck that.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Here's a nearly 10-minute supercut of Troy Jackson taking it to Susan Collins during their debate tonight, including Jackson telling her "you can't eat road salt" and "Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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tenaciousoyster.bsky.social @tenaciousoyster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So, we have a plague outbreak in Siberia.
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The only thing the headline should say is 'dennis hastert, pedophile, dead (but not soon enough).'
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 05/10/2026
And just when I thought I couldn’t love Phil Collins more. ❤️🥹 #SheShed
Phil Collins seated onstage holding a microphone. Text quotes him criticizing Donald Trump’s manner, saying presidents have historically been eloquent and elegant and calling Trump “nasty.”
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Stonekettle.com Jim Wright aka Stonekettle. Wright as usual.
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Sunkissed Peaks @sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Dr. Jake Turner 📡🧲🪐 @astrojaket.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🌟Aurora Alert Tonight 🌟🔭 Happy Stargazing! 😊
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God @thegodshow.com · 04/10/2026
How many checks has he promised now and not delivered?
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Thou Shalt Not Believe Trump’s Lies
Your check is not in the mail.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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MingTheMerciless @mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And he didn't do it alone.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exactly 😤😡
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No bad trade deals. End dumb tariffs. Stop the wars. Invest here. Build things in Michigan. Watch our latest ad:
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Otter Run @otterrunkennel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Weeks before the midterms, Trump is buying votes. His admin is sending $500 government checks to nearly one million Americans with a letter blaming Biden for high healthcare costs. Most of the money is going to 13 battleground states with the most competitive Senate and governor races in November.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
FACT CHECK: TRUE
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Breathe easy, Americans. Republicans are laser-focused on bringing down prices!
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Turnabout is fair play... grab 'em by the paycheck.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Free to read: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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How a Cornell Student Went From Shame to Action (Gift Article)
The woman known as “Jane Doe” was initially embarrassed about what happened at a fraternity party in 2024, but soon concluded: “I was assaulted.”
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump gifted $155,000 to 4 White House aides for holiday bonuses. Natalie Harp and two other young female staffers,each received $45,000 in addition to their six figure salaries. A disgusting abuse of power & waste of our tax dollars.
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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Republicans have held total control of Indiana's governorship and entire legislature since 2011, with a Republican in the governor's office since 2005. This is the record they're running on, and they're asking for your vote to fix this mess.
INDIANA
X High infant mortality remains a
Voter participation: 48th, 51.5%
major problem
Early childhood education: 41.7%
Drug overdose deaths: 25.7 per 100,000
Adverse childhood experiences: 18.3%
Child mortality: 35.8 per 100,000
* Child firearm deaths: 7.7 per 100,000
Children in poverty: 15.4%
* Household smoke exposure: 13.1%
Women in poverty: 16.4%
* No state minimum wage above $7.25
Food insecurity: 12.2%
* Smoking age 65+: 11.0%
Public health funding: 48th, $73 per person
* Preventable hospitalizations 65-74:
Air pollution: 45th, PM2.5 at 9.1 g/m'
1,695 per 100,000
Physical inactivity: 24.6%
* Early deaths ages 65-74: 2,098 per 100,000
High-speed internet: 46th, 94.7%
X Overall senior health rank: 37th
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NYT: In a phone call days before Oct. 7, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Hamas was considering a major attack. Days later, on Oct. 1, 2023, Netanyahu met with his security chiefs but never mentioned the warning www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/w...
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Netanyahu Said to Have Been Warned by Emirati Leader About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7 (Gift Article)
The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel’s security establishment, Israeli officials sai...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild 🤔
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My three-year-old was at the Ed Sheeran concert when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why isn't the nice white rapper performing?" And when I told her "Because an old guy who visits teen-aged prostitutes had him cancelled," she started crying.
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Reflecting Pool saga seemed like it couldn’t get stupider—until now
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Reflecting Pool saga seemed like it couldn’t get stupider—until now
The Reflecting Pool has served as a highly visible record of Trump’s grifty, lazy defacement of our nation’s capital, and that doesn’t seem to be stopping any time soon.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump spent the week insisting his regime was above the law and untouchable. From stolen land and illegal loyalty oaths to military censorship, the four massive federal court smackdowns that just shattered his agenda: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-just...
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When you are totally for sale, people buy you. Cheap. The entire family is a national security hazard. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There’s nothing stopping the orange felon from giving Americans $5,000 checks right now considering he gave $40B to Argentina without blinking an eye. It’s called a lie, the same lie that feeds his rabid idiotic MAGA cult.
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 14/09/2026
Trump believes people are stupid enough to blame Ukraine and not him and Netanyahu for record high diesel prices!
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Preznit Fuckwit wasted millions of dollars on a stupid Irish playdate with Natalie. if he wants to play patty-cake with his weird, braying diaper nurse, let him do so at home. thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I go ballistic. link is here: bit.ly/3TyRxZr
so, who pays for all that? you and me, that’s who. all so Donny and Natty can play patty-cake in a different time zone.

fuck that. if Dear Leader wants to hang with the Carrier of the Royal Diaper Bag, and watch her bray like some love-smitten hyena, let him do it at home. if he’s so horny to be at one of his golf motels, he’s got plenty of them right here in the good old US of A.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously: 404media.co/cops-search-...
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Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
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