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Ray Phillips

@rayphillips.bsky.social
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Retired botanist and IT administrator. Trumpet player. Grampy of twin boys. UCC church member. New Mexican. I stand for democracy, which is why I could no longer be a Republican. With fear for our democracy, I dissent as well. Dump 47. No DMs.

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cruel, sadistic, and predictable from the partisan hacks on the Roberts Court.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A bitter (indicted) war criminal.
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Ray Phillips @rayphillips.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Donald Trump hates democracy. He hates free speech & a free press. He hates free & fair elections. He hates an independent judiciary & its duty to justice & the law. Yet he adores murderous dictators, particularly Putin. Who exactly is the enemy of the people? American voters have one more chance.
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Ray Phillips @rayphillips.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/photography/... I wish I could take a trip to see this now. Rare opportunity. Gift article.
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Photos: Wildflowers Bloom in the Atacama Desert
Javier Torres, a photojournalist with AFP, recently visited the Atacama Desert in Chile, capturing images of a desert in bloom after a spell of unusually wet weather.
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yah-boo.bsky.social @yah-boo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Electing this guy to a second term was seriously the dumbest thing a modern electorate has done in recent history. This guy is genuinely an embarrassment to evolution.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The tragedy has been so knowable. This from seven years ago — and we’re still paying for so many Americans letting it happen.
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People Power United @peoplepowerunited.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🦅 Tribal Nations are governments. Their sovereignty, treaty rights, cultures, and connections to ancestral lands matter in decisions affecting national forests. Add your voice: actionnetwork.org/letters/usd... #IndigenousRights #PublicLands
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People Power United @peoplepowerunited.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🌲 These forests are more than lines on a government map. They include ancestral homelands, sacred places, gathering areas, and subsistence resources. Make your voice part of the public record: actionnetwork.org/letters/usd... #TribalSovereignty #PublicLands
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Ray Phillips @rayphillips.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m worried about vaccines. I’m worried that because too many people are not vaccinated we are all at risk, especially new born children. Being anti-vaccine is anti-life. These are horrible diseases. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
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RFK Jr. says Americans worried about vaccines have a ‘friend at the White House’
Since being confirmed as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made clear he wants to overhaul the nation’s immunization system.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The U.N. confirms what we all already knew: the Trump admin targeted a girls school and killed 178 civilians, most of whom were girls — and it was an action catalyzed by preventable negligence. God help us. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/w...
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U.S. Strike on Iranian School May Have Been War Crime, U.N. Report Says
Mistakes that led to the deaths of more than a hundred children “went beyond negligence,” investigators said. They also cited a separate strike the same day that killed a reported 22 civilians.
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Ray Phillips @rayphillips.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just so everyone is clear on how we in New Mexico view the latest absurdity…
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HawaiiDelilah™ 🌊 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧 @hawaiidelilah.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This has been Trump's plan all along: - Foment violence and chaos in the streets of cities and states that did not vote for him - Implement the Insurrection Act - Declare Martial Law - Suspend elections That's how he can rig the 2026 midterms. Recognize it and resist it. #ResistTrump
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Ray Phillips @rayphillips.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Dawn. Just now. I love New Mexico.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🗞️As a former Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes I can tell you it is the most important newspaper in the world because it exists to inform and protect our troops from people like the despicable Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump who do not believe they — or anybody for that matter — are owed the truth.
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Stars and Stripes editor says he has been fired for insubordination after doing interview
The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired him as well as its publisher and a reporter.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It's always projection.
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Ray Phillips @rayphillips.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service Write a letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service
Contact Congress today!
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano begged for a doctor for a week while he coughed up blood. Nobody came. He slipped into a coma… so ICE “released” him and said he’s not their problem. He died July 24. That’s not policy. That’s a body dump with paperwork. F*ck ICE. F*ck Trump.
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Darrin Hall @darrinhall15.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I think she should be disbarred for suborning perjury to the grand jury. These charges never should have been brought in the first place.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
APPLEBAUM: Trump is using tools of American power to enrich himself and his family. That's real, profound abuse of American power. For example, when Witkoff and Kushner were negotiating with Russians over war in Ukraine, they weren't negotiating on behalf of America.
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Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I’m old enough to remember that Trump was actually arrested for election fraud.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Abolish ICE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/o...
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Opinion | My Son Was Killed by ICE. I Want Accountability.
I deserve accountability and transparency, and so does the public.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
📌Trump's done more to harm the integrity of our vote than any foreign adversary in history.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Abolish ICE, prosecute the murderers, FFS. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...
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Man Killed by Federal Agent in Houston Was Not the Target of ICE Search
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
ICE agents must be tried for the murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Ray Phillips @rayphillips.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’ve watched most of the FIFA WC matches and been thrilled by it all. Until Sunday I took pleasure in the USMNT success. When 47 did the unthinkable, I could not even cheer for them. He tainted any win. 47 would demand that he be recognized as a member of the team and be given the trophy. Despicable
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Ray Phillips @rayphillips.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Sad little man So desperate for someone to just stand with him. substackcdn.com/image/fetch/...
Trump standing alone at G7
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
📌Using this Juneteenth to remind everybody how damn far we still have to go to truly be a free and decent country, and that DEI is about fairness not favoritism. And to all you phony universities, corporations, and politicians who caved to the bigoted Trump on this extremely important issue: SHAME!
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Maya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
As we commemorate #Juneteenth let’s do it right - Let’s demand we get our history in schools, on library shelves and from trusted sources. It matters today as we fight for #civilrights in a time of whitewashing white supremacy. www.rogerebert.com/features/the... o
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Then They Will Learn: The Truth Behind Juneteenth
A personal reflection on the history and meaning of Juneteenth.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
If there is a silver lining, it is that the “only we know best” Trump regime inevitably commits humiliating self-owns on virtually all policy fronts — from a disastrous war and even more disastrous ceasefire deal to failed revenge prosecutions to inflation.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The regime tried to use a "white-out pen" on American history by stripping exhibits about slavery, civil rights, and women’s suffrage from national parks. A federal judge just ordered every single sign put back by July 3. Read the ruling: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-nam...
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Ray Phillips @rayphillips.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Because it is National Best Friends Day…
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
*when someone denies legal rights to a group I don’t belong to* Suck it up buttercup, free speech bitch, MURICA *when someone denies legal rights to a group I belong to* This is wrong. This is discrimination. How can you so this bsky.app/profile/andy...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.
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Ray Phillips @rayphillips.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Evergreen post for this horrible four years.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The Iran War, the slush fund, now this Wake up, everybody. You are living in a dictatorship
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The shame of what our government has done will endure and must be taught for generations to come.
Screenshot of a post from @KenRoth (Kenneth Roth) on X, with a Follow button visible, reporting that a new analysis suggests more than 100,000 children have been separated from their parents during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, with roughly three-quarters of those children likely being U.S. citizens. The post links to an NYTimes.com article. Below is a photo showing the back of an adult cradling a young child with their hand gently holding the child's head, set against a green leafy background. A caption at the bottom reads "Brookings Institution Report: Over 100,000 Family Separatio..."
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
American Taxpayers Funded a White Nationalist Rally for Trump Trump and his cabal of Christian Nationalists used taxpayer dollars to host a rally in the nation's capital in honor of their corrupt King and Daddy, who will bring forth Christian Domination. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
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Ray Phillips @rayphillips.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Exactly!!!!!
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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Every damn one of you needs to follow @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social People are already forgetting in the USA and doing the run up to the next mass murder. Learn history folks.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
📌We are but one serious virus away from a catastrophe, and not near enough is being made about the fact that a former heroin addict and anti-vaxxer, who has ZERO training in medicine, academia, or scientific research would be leading the response. IT IS ABSURD.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
“The next chapter following the midterms…cannot be defined by simple redemption with a quick and welcoming embrace. It must be defined by investigations, prosecutions and—when justice and the law proves—convictions and imprisonments.” www.americaamerica.news/p/on-trust-a...
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On Trust and Tucker Carlson's "Remorse"
It's not enough to say you're sorry, not after what America has been living through
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"Republicans can no longer deny the depth of the president’s cognitive decline and should act for the good of the party. Imagine he worked in a bank. Or as an airline pilot. Or as your local solicitor or GP. In none of these roles would he be allowed to keep working." More: bit.ly/4tnf38m
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Oh ffs. Let's please make this the lowest rated WHCD in history. And shame on any reporter who attends.
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