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Ric

@ric80.bsky.social
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80yo retired rational thinker (progressive) very concerned for our country. Extremely important to understand history to understand present. Co-founder in 2001 of Fistula Foundation to treat women with obstetric fistula in Ethiopia

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💙💙💙💙Blue wave resistance💙💙💙💙 @eliminatethegop.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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Ric @ric80.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
OK, so the delusional DJT just told those at hit 100 day rally that he was going to assure that the US would be putting MAN ON MARS VERY SOON. He also said “promises made, promises kept “ over his first 100 days. TIME FOR THE 25th Amendment as he is certifiable 😱😱😱😱🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
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Howard Beck @howardbeck.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Stephen Curry has won the NBA's Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year Award, which "recognizes...selfless play, on- and off-court leadership as a mentor and role model to other NBA players, and commitment and dedication to team."
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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
"He might have a pen, and he might have a phone, but what he does not have is the constitutional power to run this country like a dictator." - Barack Obama
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Senator Tammy Baldwin's @baldwin.senate.gov statement on the arrest of Judge Dugan (posted elsewhere):
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
LET’S. DO. THIS. 😎✨
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Ric @ric80.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
GREAT CREATION 👏👏👏👏
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🇨🇦 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝑺𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 @ssessions.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Let’s stop pretending your movement is about “freedom.” It’s about rage. It’s about grievance. It’s about power—and a deep-seated loathing for anyone who holds a mirror up to your ignorance. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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Just to Be Clear: You Don’t Get to Wave Hate and Pretend It’s Patriotism Danny I.P. – No Retreat. No Surrender. April 22, 2025
Let’s get something straight—because far too many people in this country think that vulgarity equals bravery, and waving a flag covered in filth makes them freedom fighters.
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Ric @ric80.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
So Trump likes to say he solves everything and eggs are plentiful and down 87%! Well, I just came from Trader Joes where prices are usually low. Here are the receipts showing Trump lying. Still scarce and still pricey 😱😖😖😖😖😖
Dozen eggs normally $4Not plenty yet
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Agreed! Very Well Said….
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Mojo @ryblove.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Please don’t forget about Andry Hernandez Romero. He is in the gulag in El Salvador where he is suffering from torture. He is not a criminal and was kidnapped by ICE for absolutely no reason other than he was Venezuelan. Please repost because all the men in the Gulag had no due process.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“5 years ago today. .. maybe the dumbest day ever.” - @wutangforchildren.bsky.social
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Bryan Dawson @bryandawsonusa.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Senator Ossoff on Trump. We need more of this. A lot more. @ossoff.senate.gov
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
#WeStandWithUkraine
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alli111.bsky.social @alli111.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
www.aol.com/finance/marr...
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Marriott’s CEO spoke out about DEI. The next day, he had 40,000 emails from his associates
After Trump’s executive order banning DEI, Marriott CEO Anthony Capuano stood by the hotelier’s values.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The only thing that’s going to get you fired from a Trump 2.0 cabinet is disloyalty to Trump. No act of incompetence, mismanagement, criminality, or malfeasance can get you fired. As long as you are loyal to Trump, you can pretty much do anything.
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Just Lynn 💙🦋✌️🇺🇦 @shoredweller7.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
#Chain #reaction setups are called Rube Goldberg machines, named after the American cartoonist who first illustrated them in the early 1900s. Built for fun or challenge
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Ric @ric80.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
We know that Trump and his WH will lie and commit fraud in order to convince his followers that he is right and Garcia is a terrorist. When he finally gets his day in court, he will have an opportunity to show Trump to be the liar he has ALWAYS BEEN 😖😖😖😖😖😖😖😖
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Ric @ric80.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Time for the 25th amendment 😖😖😖😖😖😖😖😖
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Ric @ric80.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
If you want to understand today’s Republican Party members in congress and their absolute fealty to a soulless leader, just remember the 918 people who drank the KoolAid in Jonestown. Don’t let America become the next Jonestown 😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰
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HelenResists @helenresists.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
#50501 Rochester, NY
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Do you want #dueprocess if you get arrested? Does every person have the right to defend themselves before a court of law if charged with a crime? #NoKings
Just so we're clear... the 5th Amendment says "No person... shall be denied life, liberty, or property without Due Process." Not "no citizen," not "no person with exceptions for those in the country illegally." NO PERSON.
NO. PERSON.
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Ric @ric80.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Great point. Oh, they were pardoned by Trump 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We must expect and demand that the executive branch follow the law. We must expect and demand that the executive branch comply with court orders. To expect and demand anything less is a form of obeying in advance. Defeatism is a form of surrender.
Acting like they wont equally just ignore an arcane statute as opposed to a SCOTUS order is willfully ignorant.A statute is actually just a piece of paper, and as such cannot force anything at all to happen, let alone force powerful people to do something they dont want to doVery cool, what happens when the administration says "nah?"
Y'all don't get it. Until there's actual consequences for these people NOTHING will happen. NO laws will help us unless they're backed with force of some kind.The Judciary has no enforcement arm, the DOD, DOJ, and Federal Marshall service works for and takes orders from The Executive. The Court can't force The Executive to do anything at all. It's time we start using the correct language.
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Ric @ric80.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Muscle vs. blubber 😱🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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evangeline63.bsky.social @evangeline63.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
TOTALITARIAN REGIMES LIKE MAGA DONT JUST CONTROL PEOPLE BY FORCE,THEY SHAPE REALITY ITSELF. THEY REWRITE HISTORY, ERASE/ DISAPPEAR DISSENTERS, AND CREATE A WORLD WHERE QUESTIONING THE SYSTEM IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH. WHEN PEOPLE STOP QUESTIONING AUTHORITY THE BANALITY OF EVIL CONSUMES THE SOCIETY.
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Ric @ric80.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Is there a Dummies for BlueSky that will help me learn how to make posts more interesting to see? Thanks
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen is going to El Salvador to check on the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Thank you, Senator Van Hollen!
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Ric @ric80.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Let’s not forget Trump was going to get “groceries” prices down immediately. Well, I went to a grocery store and while there are plenty of eggs, the price is now almost $10 per dozen. Hmmmm 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
I am sure the Orange Man has not been to shop for eggs recently
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Who else SUPPORTS Senator Van Hollen?! 🤚
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💙💙💙💙Blue wave resistance💙💙💙💙 @eliminatethegop.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Trump now wants to punish universities for allowing political speech he disagrees with. This isn’t about taxes—it’s about silencing dissent. Authoritarianism doesn’t come all at once. It creeps in, one threat at a time. We have to call it out.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
We need more of this—and more solidarity: “No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - Harvard President Alan Garber www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
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The Promise of American Higher Education
No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Checkmate…👇 Trump. Is. Screwed. Either. Way. 😎✨
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Ric @ric80.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
CONGRATS TO HARVARD AND ITS LAW FIRMS 👍👍👏👏👏👏👏
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Ric @ric80.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
SHUT DOWN THE SENATE AND ANY APPOINTMENTS NOW
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Wow. Harvard University says they will not comply with Trump’s demand to “audit” the viewpoints of their student body or else be defunded. More of this.
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Harvard says it will not yield to Trump’s demands - The Boston Globe
Lawyers for Harvard University said Monday the school will not comply with a list of expanded demands from the Trump administration.
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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
It’s a COUP We have lost Due Process Once legal immigrants are being declared “Dead” ICE with faces covered are stalking Schools and Churches WAKE UP Keep Reposting
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Ric @ric80.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
#BLUECREW. We need to accept that with the Republican majority in Congress we cannot impeach Trump. BUT we can cripple him by creating not a blue wave next year, but a #BlueTsunami with majorities in both House and Senate. We don’t want his removal from office because that would leave asshole JD
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💙💙💙💙Blue wave resistance💙💙💙💙 @eliminatethegop.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Ric @ric80.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Trump proposes paying every Greenlander $10k/year. 500 million, while he cuts benefits to American citizens. He just wants to pillage their environment just like he opens half of our national forests to corporations. He may also build resorts 😰😰😰😰😰
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Kate @kateretired.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I’m one of seven kids. If my mom hadn’t received Social Security and Veterans benefits after my dad died, I don’t know how we would have survived.
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Ric @ric80.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The DJIA down 1000 points shows the market doesn’t trust Trump after he played his game yesterday 😱😱😱😰😰😰😰😰
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Ric @ric80.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It is now becoming clear that SCOTUS has become part of the Trump fascist administration as it continues to overturn federal courts to enable his autocratic government. Our best hope is to keep protesting and get congressional support 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
GRIFFIN: “.. it’s going to cost you 20%, 30%, 40% more for your groceries, for your toaster, .. for a new car. .. Even if the dream of jobs coming back to America plays out, that’s a 20-year dream. It’s not 20 weeks. It’s not two years. It’s decades.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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