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Ray de Groat

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US Citizen in Sweden.

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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
@marypeltola.com No Mary
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
@ossoff.bsky.social No Jon
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/w...
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They Fled to Safety in Palestinian Territory, Then Settlers Attacked Again
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Marie In Atlanta @marie-atl.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Thank you Swedish Friends for supporting our fight against dictatorship! #NoKings 🇺🇸💙🇸🇪
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Democracy NOT dictatorship! No Dictators protest in Stockholm, Sweden @demsabroad.bsky.social @iceoutstockholm.bsky.social #ICEout #NoDictators #NoKings #DemocratsAbroad
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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 28/03/2026
'No Kings' protests, the third of their kind, are happening across the country today, including in Atlanta. Here are event locations.
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'No Kings' protests happening today in Atlanta. See event locations
'No Kings' protests, the third of their kind, are happening across the country today, including in Atlanta. Here are event locations.
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
This is my house rep from California. He’s not perfect, but neither am I
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. News of Noem firing amounts to a nothing burger. Are they still chewing their Noem nothing burger on CNN? US media is part of the problem. Meanwhile Dominion owned by Republicans. The fix for the midterms is in.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 30/01/2026
Let’s give him credit…. At least the corruption isn’t hidden. He’s doing it right out in the open. The name “Trump” will be treated like Benedict Arnold’s name within the decade
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · 10/12/2025
NEW: We took a deep dive into ICE's data dragnet: the data brokers, biometrics tools, and license plate readers powering Trump's deportation effort. Some of the contracts are for tools previous administrations deemed too intrusive.
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Trump’s immigration data dragnet
The US is pulling in vast amounts of personal information in its drive to deport 1mn people this year
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CarnivalMan @carnivalman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
We are here.
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o... The New York Times Editorial Board: Truth is a line of demarcation between a democratic government and an authoritarian regime.
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Opinion | The Trump Administration Is Lying to Our Faces. Congress Must Act.
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-lo...
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Ukraine looks back with regret at 1994 deal requiring it to give up nukes
Ukrainian officials call the Budapest Memorandum 'a monument to short-sightedness in strategic security decision-making' and ask for a NATO membership
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/10/2025
Miners and their advocates are begging the administration to enforce a Biden-era rule meant to protect them.
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Black lung keeps killing America's coal miners. Does Donald Trump even care?
Miners and their advocates are begging the administration to enforce a Biden-era rule meant to protect them.
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
www.youtube.com/shorts/fD5GM...
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In 2013, Trump Said the President is Always to Blame for Government Shutdowns
YouTube video by NextGen America
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Trump attacks Tom Hanks after West Point cancels event honoring actor - The Guardian apple.news/AK6S5e0r9TaW...
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Trump attacks Tom Hanks after West Point cancels event honoring actor — Guardian US
President calls Hanks ‘woke’ in vitriolic post after US Military Academy calls off ceremony with little explanation
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Hot mic picks up Putin and Xi discussing organ transplants and immortality. "Human organs can be continuously transplanted. The longer you live, the younger you become, and (you can) even achieve immortality." Creepy. apple.news/AiW_IUEpxSe-...
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Hot mic picks up Putin and Xi discussing organ transplants and immortality — Reuters
(This Sept 3 story has been corrected to withdraw videos, with no changes to text)
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
And you're on again in less than an hour. www.youtube.com/live/MPX0WEU...
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Trump DOJ Pressures States, Demanding 2020 Voting Machines Despite Local Pushback 9/4/25
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
National ownership of factories (the means of production) is the definition of socialism. If you’re confused by this, it’s because they’ve been falsely conflating socialism with welfare. Like corporate welfare.
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Vladimir Putin will face “very severe consequences” if he does not agree a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine at his summit with Donald Trump in Alaska, the US president said on Wednesday. Well? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Putin faces ‘very severe consequences’ if no Ukraine truce agreed, Trump says
US president also says he would push for three-way summit with Volodymyr Zelenskyy if Alaska meeting goes well
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Save Our Country (we/us) 🇺🇸 @rlab53.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Remember: The purpose of a museum is to exhibit, history, culture, art and science, some of which may not always be in alignment with what the president wants. White House orders review of Smithsonian exhibits to ensure alignment with Trump directives - CNN apple.news/A6xSTDR1hS0C...
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White House orders review of Smithsonian exhibits to ensure alignment with Trump directives — CNN
The White House is conducting a comprehensive internal review of exhibits and materials at the Smithsonian Institution in an effort to comply with President Donald Trump’s directive about what should ...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Newsom: If California, one of the most un-Trumped states in America, is not successful, it’s at our peril. We may not get this back. I’m telling you, we may not. He is rigging this next midterm election before one vote is cast. He tried to wreck our democracy after the last vote was cast last time.
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
ICE arrests 6 people in Oakland home, including a minor, attorney says - San Francisco Chronicle apple.news/AqIQjvvY0QyO...
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ICE arrests 6 people in Oakland home, including a minor, attorney says — San Francisco Chronicle
Federal immigration officers raided an East Oakland home on Tuesday and detained at least six people, including a minor and a person with a severe disability, according to an immigration attorney.
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Convicted Jan 6 rioter who called for the killing of police officers now employed by DOJ. Trump is trying to rewrite the history of the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol www.npr.org/transcripts/...
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Trump is trying to rewrite the history of the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol
President Trump has tried to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In the latest example, the Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who urged rioters to "...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/08/2025
I'll be going LIVE with Rick Wilson in about 45 minutes to discuss my lawsuit against the DOJ for the Epstein files training videos. This'll be our first time chatting, believe it or not! Hope to see you there! open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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LIVE SOON: AG and Rick Wilson on Epstein Lawsuit
Starting Aug 8 at 5:00 PM EDT
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Harris is a stark reminder of what most Democrats would very much like to put behind them — an era when Harris dedicated herself to serving a deceptive White House that hid the realities of Biden’s cognitive decline while maintaining support for Israel’s actions in Gaza. apple.news/Ax7GBIdkATZe...
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Kamala Harris should not run for president in 2028 — The Hill
While the Democratic Party was in great need of appealing to voters fed up with defenders of the existing order, Harris opted to emphatically represent the status quo.
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Nearly 12,000 children under five in Gaza have acute malnutrition, WHO says - Reuters apple.news/AbDJbKhBKTqe...
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Nearly 12,000 children under five in Gaza have acute malnutrition, says WHO — Reuters
Around 12,000 children aged under five in Gaza are suffering from acute malnutrition, and hunger-related deaths are rising, the Director General of the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
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MikeM3 @mikeg80.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/08/2025
The US attacks on Iran have backfired horribly – but a path to peace is still possible | Simon Tisdall
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The US attacks on Iran have backfired horribly – but a path to peace is still possible | Simon Tisdall
Executions by a vengeful regime in Tehran are soaring. The west must pursue a different strategy, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Here is the result from 16 years of failed Netanyahu policy in Israel: France, U.K., others plan to recognize a Palestinian state. Not the outcome he had hoped for. www.npr.org/2025/08/01/n...
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France, U.K., others plan to recognize a Palestinian state. What does that change?
The recent push by several countries to recognize a state of Palestine is largely symbolic, but it carries diplomatic and potentially legal weight.
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Americans are in a struggle for their democracy. Help them and help yourselves EU by standing up to authoritarians, not by bowing down to them
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Use open source solutions. Problem solved. #opensource #openinfra
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
A Little League team from Venezuela was denied entry to the United States for the Senior League Baseball World Series, according to Little League International. apple.news/A5t_drezxRVq...
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Venezuelan Little League team denied travel visas to U.S. for World Series — The Washington Post
The Cacique Mara Little League team from Maracaibo, Venezuela, will not be able to participate in the Senior League Baseball World Series in South Carolina this year.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/07/2025
Epstein survivor Teresa Helm: "I saw framed photos of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein with presidents in their homes."
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Starlink is a US military contractor. It just sabotaged a US security partner and ally Ukraine, currently at war with a well known US adversary, Russia. Sounds like the definition of treason to me.
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia - Reuters apple.news/AGjjTaodMTpG...
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Special Report: Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia — Reuters
A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's ...
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
American freed from Venezuela in prisoner swap was convicted of triple murder - ABC News apple.news/AMNvBQTLxRPS...
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American freed from Venezuela in prisoner swap was convicted of triple murder — ABC News
Dahud Hanid Ortiz was convicted of killing three people in a Madrid law office.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"A moral failure of unspeakable proportions, the Gaza war is also the result of a tactical, strategic and military failure. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza because it has proved unable to defeat Hamas by force of arms." www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
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When a Gaza cease-fire is signed, Israelis will have to face just how much we lost the war | Opinion
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
So happy to know these poor people will be taken in off the streets. And before the winter. Trump signs order pushing cities and states to remove people who are homeless from streets - USA TODAY apple.news/A3-Mt6WsLTSC...
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Trump signs order pushing cities and states to remove homeless people from streets — USA TODAY
President Trump wants to make it easier for cities and states to move homeless people to treatment centers under new executive action he's taking.
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Thank you Mehdi! I think you did a great service by participating in this debate. I had no idea MAGA was this awful. You brought that to light thank you. I also learned what not to do during a debate.
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Thank you Mehdi! I think you did a great service by participating in this debate. I had no idea MAGA was this awful. You brought that to light thank you. I also learned what not to do during a debate.
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Bernie Sander's shares thoughts on the Epstein Files. youtu.be/I9R3Kp5kcUM?...
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My thoughts on the Epstein files | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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Ray de Groat @raydegroat.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I didn't think this group would be worth debating but I was wrong. My biggest take away: Don't help your opponent derail your argument by getting sidetracked.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22/07/2025
So congress going home for vacation early! Because of Epstein. Demand a town hall now, they have free time!
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