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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dr. El-Sayed explains how to pay for Medicare for All in a split screen with Mike Rogers empty podium.

Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

No running outside for me today. No doing anything outside. It's only been the last few years that Canadian wildfires are so bad they've affected the air here in the Midwest. This was not an issue in the 1970s, 80s, 90s or 2000s. Climate Change for the win!

Screenshot from https://www.airnow.gov/ from the the Lansing Monitor point, saying the Primary Pollutant is PM2.5 at a Hazardous level of 430 (highest AQI in the area), PM10 at a Very Unhealthy level of 289, and Ozone at a Good level or only 17.

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Bailey is straight up unethical.

Screenshot of the following text:
"But ROGD continues to be of key interest to the researchers. In 2023, Bailey published a paper about ROGD in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior based on data he said he received from a member of ParentsofROGDKids.com, which describes being trans as an “epidemic” among youth.

The journal retracted it less than 3 months later, with the editor-in-chief, Kenneth Zucker, and the publisher noting that the study’s authors failed to get consent from survey subjects to share their information. They also noted that the authors didn’t have approval from an Institutional Review Board, which monitors the ethics of human subject research. Bailey said in an interview with the Sun-Times that he thought those were “bogus reasons” for the retraction."

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

No, Forward Blue. I don’t approve of transphobe Gavin Newsom. Next question.

Screenshot of an email from Forward Blue (whoever they are I have no idea how I got on their email list) with the subject line “Do you approve of Gavin Newsom” followed by the text:
“Governor Gavin Newsom has been at the center of some of the most important fights in the country - from defending reproductive rights to standing up to Trump and his far-right extremists.
So we want to know:
Do you approve of the job Gavin Newsom is doing as governor?
NO »
YES»
UNSURE »
Forward Blue is running a quick approval poll to gauge where grassroots Democrats stand on…”

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

This old metalhead laughed out loud and way too long when he first read this headline way back when: Yngwie Malmsteen Officially Changes Middle Name To 'Fucking'

Onion Headline "Yngwie Malmsteen Officially Changes Middle Name To 'Fucking'"
Below the headline is a photo of fast-fingered musician Yngwie Malmsteen in a black jacket, several necklaces around his neck, and dark sunglasses. He's holding a guitar. His long, curly mane of dark hair frames his white face.
Published: September 7, 2000

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? I am so fucked as a pawn in Hal’s geopolitical games.

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Freezing Rests his head on a pillow made of concrete, again Oh, feeling Maybe he'll see a little better, set of days, ooh yeah Oh, hand out Faces that he sees time again ain't that familiar, oh yeah Oh, dark grin He can't help, when he's happy he looks insane, hm yeah

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

It's Friday and I am enjoying Nine Inch Nail's TRON: ARES soundtrack.

The word "original motion picture soundtrack
TRON: ARES
Music by
Nine Inch Nails" in glowing blood red on a none-more-black background.

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

What's the point of the US Constitution if the Supreme Court doesn't think it applies to Trump?

Amendment 4 of the Constitution of the United States of America.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

1) The Ask. 2) My reply. I do not give money to transphobes.

Long ass text from Gavin Newton asking me for money, all under a picture of him and his slimy hair pointing at Trump, the worst President in our nation’s history.

The end of long ass text of Newsom asking me for money, with my reply: “Fuck you. I don’t give money to transphobes”

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

As we say in Chicago, "What trees do you plant?" The groping former governor of New York needs to keep his hands away from our city.

Tweet from Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced sexual-harassing governor of New York, that says "Chicago is proof that incompetent leadership can turn a deep-dish city into a half-baked mess
From long before we built the Erie Canal to compete with Chicago, New York has always been about making things happen
I believe in government that works. I have done it time and time again for the people of New York. Let's do it again."

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I never had to worry about wildfire smoke in the Midwest when I was a child.

Screenshot of the Current Air Quality map of the Midwest, centered on Michigan, updated at 5:00pm today, Aug 3. Most of Wisconsin, Michigan, the Canadian province of Ontario, and northern Illinois are coded in Orange and Red, meaning unhealthy air quality for most people.

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

All the tariffs and out of work people in Tech and other industries finally injecting some reality into the stock market.

Dow Jones industrial average line chart in red with small peaks and valleys over the last month-long period, and a steep drop (of 600+ points) today.

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

On this Independent Bookstore Day, I picked up Becky Chambers’ “A Psalm for the Wild Built” and the first volume of Martha Wells’ “The Murderbot Diaries”, and a fun keychain from @schulerbooks.bsky.social

Two books next to each other. The one on the left is titled, “A Psalm for the Wild Built” by Becky Chambers. The one on the right shows a faceless humanoid robot and is titled, “The Murderbot Diaries” by Martha Wells. On top of the books is a small keychain that is a stack of books.

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Harvard told Trump to fuck off. When you tell a bully to fuck off other people will also get the courage tell the bully to fuck off. When you get enough people telling the bully to fuck off, the bully has no choice but fuck off with his miserable self.

A screenshot of POTUS Donald Trump's latest Truth Social rant: "Everyone knows that Harvard has "lost its way." They hired, from New York (Bill D) and Chicago (Lori L), at ridiculously high salaries/fees, two of the WORST and MOST INCOMPETENT mayors in the history of our Country, to "teach" municipal management and government. These two Radical Left fools left behind two cities that will take years to recover from their incompetence and evil. Harvard has been hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and "birdbrains" who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called "future leaders." Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States States Congress. When it got so bad that they just couldn't take it anymore, they moved this grossly inept woman into another position, teaching, rather than firing her ON THE SPOT.
Since then much else has been found out about her, but she remains in place. Many others, like these Leftist dopes, are teaching at Harvard, and because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning, and should not be considered on any list of the World's Great Universities or Colleges. Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

That would be a fun drop if it was a rollercoaster.

Red graph showing one week of the Dow Jones with very steep drops over the last two days. Underneath the chart is a CNBC headline in all caps "DOW DROPS 2,000 POINTS AS TRUMP TARIFF MARKET ROUT DEEPENS" with the face of a gloomy-looking white man, and a Simply Wall Street headline "Iovance Biotherapeutics (NasdaqGM:IOVA) Drops 10% Over The Week In Market Correction" next to a photo of a masked and goggled face next to microscope.

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

We had great turnout on a very very cold day in Lansing, Michigan. Glad I dressed in layers.

Image of the dark cream colored Michigan Capitol building under a hazy blue sky with hundreds of protesters gathered in front, on the sidewalk and snow.

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

#50states50protests rally at the Capitol building in Lansing, Michigan.

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Why the hell is this in my inbox? The House Minority Leader is asking for money while Elon Musk and his minions have control of the Treasury department? WTF GET YOUR ASS TO THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT RIGHT NOW AND THROW ELON AND HIS MINIONS OUT!

Picture of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries with the following, poorly-timed, ill-conceived text from a fundraising email:
"I was officially sworn in as House Democratic Leader. Now, I’m asking you to help me lead Democrats in a historic fundraising day – 3,000 donations before midnight – to show we stand ready to hold MAGA Republicans accountable and win back the House majority for Democrats. I can’t tell you how much it would mean to see your donation >>

Richard, as Democratic Leader, I want to take a moment to share our priorities this Congress.

House Democrats will work with anyone to lower the high cost of living in the United States of America once and for all.

As Democrats, our promise to the American people is that we will fight hard to make sure that no one takes away Social Security or Medicare from the American people that they earned – not now, not ever. No means never.

Our position is that it is not acceptable to cut Social Security, cut Medicare, cut Medicaid, cut veterans’ benefits or cut nutritional assistance from children and families to pay for massive tax breaks for billionaires and wealthy corporations.

I’m leading House Democrats forward as we fight for opportunity in every single zip code and an economy that works for everyone. We’re not wasting a single second getting to work.

That's why I'm asking for a historic surge of support – 3,000 Democratic donations..."

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

No, I will not be turning on Apple Intelligence.

Screenshot of the Apple Intelligence & Siri panel, marked as BETA, in MacOS settings with a button that reads "Turn on Apple Intelligence".

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

My book haul this year. Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁 📚

A stack of books on a table with the following titles from top to bottom:
Entitlement by Rumaan Alam
Metal from Heaven by August Clarke
Hope You Are Satisfied by Tania Malik
The Books of Earthsea: the Complete Illustrated Edition by Ursula K. Le Guin, Illustrated by Charles Vess

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

If you see this, post a concert photo you took

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Drinking from this mug right now.

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Seen on my Facebook feed yesterday.

Two posts from Facebook. The one on top shows a graph from Peter Sinclair that illustrates how global temperatures have increased since 1880 with this year being the highest and reaching above 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The post below is from Reuters and it says that the oil companies Chevron and Exxon Mobil posted better-than-expected third quarter profits thanks to record United States oil production.
Yes, these two stories are most certainly related.

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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

These are typical of the unhinged mailers from GOP organizations to our 20-year-old son here in Michigan. The Democrats are against nicotine patches? Really? Also the targeting is way off; he’s a sophomore at Sarah Lawrence College.