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RayHether

@rayhether.bsky.social
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I’m a former high school drop out who was rescued by federal social service programs (Upward Bound). Ultimately completed MBA in finance and retired in 2021 after years in retail, energy, and state regulatory positions.

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RayHether @rayhether.bsky.social · 51m
www.startribune.com/hot-dish-min...
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The five biggest takeaways from the Minnesota Poll
Plus: Is a DFL wave about to crash on Minnesota?
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RayHether @rayhether.bsky.social · 1h
Russian stuff blowing up: Devastating strike on Russian air base destroys six jet fighters www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Russian stuff blowing up: Devastating strike on Russian air base destroys six jet fighters
Ukraine launched a devastating strike on Russia’s Borisoglebsk airfield, destroying six Su-34 fighters. Borisoglebsk is about 450 km northeast of Belgorod. Zelenskyy has no more fucks left to give.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 8h
Agree With Governor Newsom.....
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RayHether @rayhether.bsky.social · 2h
Red alert! Trump DOJ Now Targeting Ballots, Not Just Voter Rolls talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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Trump DOJ Now Targeting Ballots, Not Just Voter Rolls
A Quick Heads Up For transparency reasons, I like peeling back the...
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 18h
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BlueStormRising1 🧢🦋💙🌫️ #BlueConnects #Blues @firestormz1.bsky.social · 5h
Who would like to be in my Zelensky starter pack? Repost #Blues #Ukraine #Zelensky
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RayHether @rayhether.bsky.social · 3h
Noooooo!!!
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 13h
So in the past few days Trump has taken sanctions off Russia’s energy, asked to buy diesel from Russia, restricted SpaceX Starlink, stopped sharing intel on incoming missiles, & asked Europe to unfreeze Russian assets to give to Russia. Hope Americans aren’t confused on who he works for
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US floats unfreezing some Russian assets to restart Ukraine peace talks
European officials balked at proposal made by Donald Trump’s negotiators during meeting in Miami
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16h
Can we please not nominate another “neutral” attorney general in 2029? Go scorched earth.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h
As I said 5 months ago, diesel going up makes everything more expensive for everyone, which is reflected in this month’s inflation numbers coming in above estimates. They will get worse next month and worse the month after that.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 17h
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RayHether @rayhether.bsky.social · 3h
And Vought, too!
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La Luna-ticky @breathe2.bsky.social · 3h
Couldn't wish for a better outcome
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Hal @heyfriend-1.bsky.social · 3h
“The violent MAGA assault on a woman in our city that the police saw and let happen unaccounted for is starting to get national media attention” www.reddit.com/r/youngstown...
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From the youngstown community on Reddit: The violent MAGA assault on a woman in our city that the police saw and let happen unaccounted for is starting to get national media attention
Explore this post and more from the youngstown community
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 3h
Slava Ukraine. #RadioFreeAmerica #politics www.nbcnews.com/world/ukrain...
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‘We’re done’: Ukraine resumes strikes on Russian oil refineries as anger at Trump mounts
Satellite internet functionality via Starshield — the military version of the SpaceX service — was being at least partially restored Thursday morning, according to a source in the Ukrainian Defense Mi...
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Rollie 🤬 @architecturenerd.bsky.social · 3h
Just over half of candidates in key US Senate races say they will accept results, others hedge - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Just over half of candidates in key US Senate races say they will accept results, others hedge
Just over half of major party candidates in the most competitive US Senate races told Reuters they will accept election results regardless of the outcome, while some signaled a degree of uncertainty l...
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Jonah Blank @jonahblank.bsky.social · 4h
I realize that nobody who reads my posts needs to be told this, but: ♦️This is not actually happening.
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 3h
It has now been 300 days since the DOJ was legally required to release the entirety of the Epstein files.   We’re not going to give up our fight to hold this administration accountable for their coverup and give the victims the justice they deserve.   Release the files.
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Rollie 🤬 @architecturenerd.bsky.social · 3h
Trump donor leading Caucasus fund has major Armenia holdings, Russia business history - www.reuters.com/business/med...
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Trump donor leading Caucasus fund has major Armenia holdings, Russia business history
US President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a $201 million investment fund in the Caucasus holds major telecom and mining interests there and formerly ran a Russia-focused investment firm that touted clo...
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#BlueStormComin1🌪️🦋🇺🇸 #Resistance 🦋🙌🏻 #Blues @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social · 3h
🤬 #Blues
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RayHether @rayhether.bsky.social · 3h
Nationalize SpaceX
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 3h
www.mainepublic.org/climate/2026... The Greater Augusta Utility District is suing the owners of four paper mills on the Kennebec River for allegedly contaminating one of its drinking water wells downstream with toxic "forever chemicals."
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Augusta water district sues paper mills for PFAS contamination
The district claims toxic forever chemicals discharged into the Kennebec River flowed into one of its wells downstream.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 12h
Shameless liar says what?!
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Robin Roar @robinroar.bsky.social · 5h
DONE!!!!! 15 Min in line. Saw 1 dude poll watching, with Republican lanyard. Giving off small dick energy. Lots of Grey Hairs (like me) heard a group saying it's easy Democrat for everything. 😊 💙 😊 Didn't take Lucy even tho I wanted too. But came home & got kisses for doing it alone 🐺 #NCVote
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RayHether @rayhether.bsky.social · 3h
Nationalize SpaceX
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 4h
Fat loser. Go spend your dough and fuck off.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 4h
😳😳😳
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ACLU @aclu.org · 3h
Banning these creepy AI-surveillance cameras is the only way to keep us safe. Join us to take action in your community today.
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Get The Flock Out
Automatic license plate reader (ALPR) companies like Flock Safety are quietly trying to build a nationwide mass surveillance system. If there are Flock cameras in your city, they are tracking, logging...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 3h
The Trump administration is reportedly using a War on Drugs-era program to demand license plate data from police across the country. The DEA has fought to keep this program out of the public eye, so we don't even know how many jurisdictions are affected.
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Are Police in Your Community Laundering License Plate Data Through Federal Drug Programs Into a Secretive Central Database? | ACLU
New report suggests this is a question local communities fighting against mass surveillance should be asking their elected officials
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 5h
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Corpsy @corpsepilot.bsky.social · 3h
These are the contents of the house that fear and ignorance built.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15h
Treason, thy name is Trump.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 19h
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 5h
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h
The person who trained the officer testified that ICE does not consider pulling a gun on someone a "use of force" and that ICE has no policies expressly banning pointing guns at other motorists. However, he was so evasive on the stand that the judge considered disregarding his whole testimony.
ICE training officer John Parodi, who trained Morgan, testified that displaying or pointing a firearm is not a “use of force,” and standard police restrictions, like not pointing firearms at motorists, do not apply to ICE.

“There is no tit-for-tat matching force; there is no policy that limits or forces the agent to react to a specific defined force or specific defined response,” Parodi said. “Our officers have the ability to judge and deploy a reasonable level of force.”

Under cross-examination, Minnesota offered department policy stating officers may use force only when no safe alternatives exist — exhaustively questioning Parodi on what constitutes force, if a firearm is a lethal weapon and how officers are trained.

Parodi, who noted he is under a Touhy demand, often said he could not comment on agency protocols or insights into training beyond general concepts, though his shifting testimony drew sharp criticism from Brasel.

“This witness is all over the place in terms of what he answers and what he doesn’t,” Brasel said. “I can’t discern any line. I’m really close to just disregarding his entire testimony.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h
The ICE officer who faces charges for road raging in Minneapolis (pulling a gun on a random motorist who blocked him from driving his unmarked SUV on the shoulder) broke into tears on the stand and said he was under a lot of stress, ok?
Morgan, who was abruptly called up to the Twin Cities from Washington, D.C., said he did not want to join the surge because he was unfamiliar with the area and had heard reports of animosity toward immigration officers.

“I’m not used to that, I’ve never seen something like that in policing,” he said.

The agent broke down in tears while testifying about feeling unsafe and overwhelmed during Operation Metro Surge, describing the atmosphere as a “riot” where he faced relentless harassment, racial slurs and threats of death.

Through a shaky voice, Morgan described the toll his brief deployment took on him and his family.

“I’ve never experienced something like this before,” he said. “I had to take my daughter out of school… because I did the job I’m supposed to do.”

Morgan’s second-degree assault charges stem from a Feb. 5 incident during the surge, when state prosecutors say he illegally drove an unmarked SUV on a Minneapolis freeway shoulder before pointing a firearm at the occupants of a white Cadillac that repeatedly swerved to block him.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 5h
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 4h
"The company said that in 2024, it spent $13.8M/mo on AI compute; in 2025, it spent $10M/mo on AI compute. The company’s subscription revenue peaked at $2.8M/mo, but at times was less than $1M/mo. Its revenue from all sources, including ads, has peaked at $5.3M/mo." www.404media.co/character-ai...
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Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work
Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 6h
Zelensky personally criticized his U.S. counterpart for sucking up to authoritarian leaders. “He speaks about it openly and loudly that he loves such people and he respects such people,” “Because for him people who can be leaders 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, it means they can be very strong.”
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 4h
"..who have benefited from regulatory decisions, govt contracts & in ca1se, a pardon for fam member. Nvidia & Apple each $25 mil, top contrib amt, the list shows. Adelson fam, 1 of GOP’s lgest donors, same sum, as did billionaire Charles Ergen, co-founder/chair of Dish Network" Gift link:
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Secret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroom
The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity.
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Susy Q 🗽🌎🌻 @missjujubes.bsky.social · 9h
Bravo Major Jason Watson. We stand with you. 👏
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 6h
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Matt McNeil Show @mattmcneilshow.bsky.social · 17h
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RayHether @rayhether.bsky.social · 5h
The Gang Gets Back Together to Save John Eastman talkingpointsmemo.com/the-brief/th...
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The Gang Gets Back Together to Save John Eastman
Eastman Wants Vindication As Donald Trump tried to overturn the election in...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18h
This ICE goon was caught driving drunk. He crashed multiple times and put hundreds, if not thousands of lives in danger. How are these the people keeping our country safe???
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