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Ric Caric

@riccaric.bsky.social
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Husband, dad, retired prof, blue dot in KY, embracing multicultural democracy, first time author with first-rate book coming out from Bloomsbury Academic in January.

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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 50m
www.politico.com/news/2025/06... Now that he's a (highly compensated!) adviser to Coinbase, David Plouffe shouldn't be given any time on MS_Now programs like "All In" with Chris Hayes.
politico.com
Democratic strategist David Plouffe to become Coinbase’s newest adviser
The former aide to Kamala Harris and Barack Obama is jumping into an industry tightly embraced by Donald Trump.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 7h
www2.thedailybeast.com/trump-goon-s... Trump insult comic Steven Cheung launches a weak attack on Jack Smith but I suspect that he's accumulating material on Trump for an future "Trump's a Lot Worse Than You Think" tour.
www2.thedailybeast.com
Top Trump Goon Unravels Over Jack Smith’s T-Shirt
The president’s vitriolic director of communications laid into the former special counsel as a “partisan attack rat.”
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 21h
If companies like Palantir are doing protester surveillance, Dems should find a way to eliminate their computer assets and surveillance files. I think the best approach is for a Dem administration to declare a state of emergency and then confiscate surveillance assets from companies involved.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
To be fair to Elon Musk, he is the most important Nazi since Hitler.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If Trump lives until 2029, I have a feeling that the Venezuelan oil money will be the thing that trips him up and lands him in jail.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Among his other faults, Trump is REALLY cheap and examples are LEGION!
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.ctvnews.ca/video/2026/1... Trump complains about the new leaders of the free world.
ctvnews.ca
Trump says Canada is being ‘taught a little lesson’
U.S. President Donald Trump criticized Canada, accusing it of taking advantage of the U.S. for many years under 'stupid leadership'.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When the Democrats win in 2028, they will have to either confiscate or declare eminent domain over all of Elon Musk's national security assets. Among other things, Musk is a Nazi and therefore a national security threat who should be blocked from any involvement with the American military.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the United States, murdering people with impunity is a big part of the Republican id going back to segregation in the post-Civil War South and police treatment of Black people and immigrants in Northern cities. Trying to be funny, Waters reveals a big dimension of white conservative commitment.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is so brilliant. Uncommon.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Don't threaten me with a good time! The House GOP should have been investigating abuses by these figures all along.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Completely agree. I Fucking HATE HATE HATE sports gambling. That Lebron Polymarket ad makes me want to vomit.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From NBC video of our rural hospital's response to covid pandemic five years ago--my wife working the night shift as a nurse. She's since retired, but I'm still low-key bitter about the lack of credit hospital personnel received for their heroism during the height of the pandemic.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Donald Trump is America's No. 1 National Security threat, and I doubt he would disagree.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And it gets worse over time. Peter Thiel has deteriorated just as much as Elon Musk. He sounds like a total moron now.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Evidently, Peter Thiel's next project will be completing the book on "A Moron on Ethics for Morons" that Leo Strauss was rumored to be writing before he died.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Trump isn't prepared, doesn't negotiate, doesn't address issues, and probably doesn't smell that good. He can't get into the dictator's club either. What he wants is to "visit with some of the guys in a very cool club," but Xi, Putin, and Kim won't let him in.
theatlantic.com
Trump Should Stop Hosting Summits
He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Musk is a Nazi threat to American national security who also exercises a dangerous amount of control over American defense assets. The next Democratic administration needs to exercise eminent domain over Musk investments in Starlink, Space X, and other defense companies.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.politico.com/news/2026/09... Donald Trump is world's foremost searcher of "hills to die on." Unless this is the beginning of Trump's long-awaited second coup (Jan. 6 being the first), it sounds like yet another futile effort.
politico.com
POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.politico.com/news/2026/09... Donald Trump is world's foremost searcher of "hills to die on." Unless this is the beginning of Trump's long-awaited second coup (Jan. 6 being the first), it sounds like yet another futile effort.
politico.com
POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
😂 😜 🤣
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don't think it's a coincidence that Trump is banning news outlets the week before a court's deadline for Todd Blanche to release interview notes with underage girls Trump is alleged to have raped and threatened. He'd rather we talk about his censorship than his pedophilia.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump's appearance and fading tough guy act reminding me more and more of Leonid Brezhnev who served as Soviet dictator from 1964 to 1982.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
More like state terrorism.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've talked readily about growing up in an abusive family ever since the first time I told someone I was in therapy. That was in 1979 and I think it's been helpful to people in my orbits.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Aren't the Trump people good at anything. The White House neglected to substitute their own audio for the broadcasters who now refuse to provide coverage for Trump. They're useless at war, finance, the economy, and generally incompetent at managing the fascist gangster state they always dreamed of.
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lissa @unraveledlissa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Conditioned Whiteness. This is a mind shattering essay. The kind that wakes you up from a coma that you didn’t even know you were living in. The White Matrix, literally. open.substack.com/pub/christia...
open.substack.com
The Empty Trauma of Whiteness: How Colonialism Stole Europe’s Soul
Christian ZacaTecho Ortiz
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Agreed and the threat needs to be met aggressively. Ai-based surveillance systems should be declared "threats to national security" and confiscated by the government if the Dems win in 2028.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pete Hegseth back to doing what he loves best--murder on the high seas.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Worked a campaign table today for Iva Markecevic Daly, the Democratic candidate for Kentucky House in my Kentucky district.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti... Andrew Tate--such a sensitive guy.
yahoo.com
Andrew Tate says guards are being rude to him, details roach infestation
Andrew Tate said he is being held in "filth" and increasingly harsh conditions in a solitary confinement unit at a Miami jail.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No reason to ban the NY Times though.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Proofing is now done for "Occupied Bodies, Recognition, and Riot" and I've already gotten head shots and arranged a couple of promotional events around my Morehead, KY home. January 21 is coming.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
apnews.com/article/carn... Mark Carney of Canada emerges as the leader of the free world while Donald Trump isn't even a positive for the authoritarian alliance he'd like to be part of.
apnews.com
Carney embraces EU associate membership proposal as Trump pushes Canada closer to Europe
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has embraced the prospect of his country becoming the European Union’s first associate member.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-... Too bad the elephants only killed one of the poachers.
dailystar.co.uk
Poacher tried to shoot rhinos but was trampled to death by elephants instead
An armed rhino poacher in South Africa’s Kruger National Park was trampled to death when a herd of elephants charged as he lined up a shot for the animals’ lucrative horns
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Winnie Frolik @winniethewitch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Perhaps in no small part because of the brunt of family responsibilities still fall on women. As the cliche goes men say they want a baby the way kids say they want a puppy. Motherhood is also notoriously expensive and leaves you more financially vulnerable.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Most think this is about Trump's dumb ideas on trade, but I think Trump's taking the economy hostage to blackmail the Fed into lowering interest rates. International trade is 25% of our. economy and cutting off trade would throw it into a tailspin. It's basically a threat of collective punishment.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
newrepublic.com/post/215493/... Fox News is already into the 2028 election. My guess is that they assume Tucker Carlson will launch an anti-Trump, anti-war candidacy and are setting up Fetterman to run as an independent who would ding the Democrat in return. Not likely but more gambits sure to come.
newrepublic.com
What Was John Fetterman Doing at a Retreat With Fox News Executives?
The Democratic senator keeps hanging out with powerful Republicans.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
newrepublic.com/post/215493/... I see a Tucker Carlson anti-Trump, anti-war, candidacy in 2028 and I can also see Fox New setting up Fetterman for an independent candidacy. But Carlson would damage Vance much more than Fetterman can ding the Dems.
newrepublic.com
What Was John Fetterman Doing at a Retreat With Fox News Executives?
The Democratic senator keeps hanging out with powerful Republicans.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Notice how those “apolitical” people ALWAYS end up siding with the oppressors
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We need to face the fact that this post has enough correct grammar that it was probably written by Natalie Harp and ask ourselves whether she really needed Trump's approval to send it out.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mitch McConnell beginning the Weekend at Bernie's part of his Senate career. They'll have to wait till McConnell's hards are even colder and deader before he gives up his seat.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Natalie Harp's response to the Supreme Court decision on voting by mail.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/mitch-mcconn... Mitch McConnell taken to Congress so he can lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda.
rawstory.com
McConnell resurfaces in Senate after vanishing for months — and refuses to take questions
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) described a "long and often frustrating process" of recovery after returning to the Senate on Monday.It was the first time that the former Republican majority leader had be...
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/bil... Do there have to be stories on Bill Maher every week. He's not the only substandard comedian out there.
thedailybeast.com
Bill Maher, 70, Uses Trump’s Favorite Insult Against Him
The president’s biggest obsession became a point of humiliation this week—something Maher was happy to call out.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yesterday, gas rose from $3.85 to $4.19 around my town in Kentucky--almost a 10% leap in one day.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I bet it will eventually turn out that Trump got a slice of that $100 million--maybe 10%, not big money but big enough to give Trump the warm, fuzzy feeling that he screwed somebody over.
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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Bari Weiss talks like one of her NY Times op-eds and that is a very dull, very mediocre place to be.
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