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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318)

@riktex.bsky.social
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Native NYer, grew up in Florida, now in Austin for many years. Love it, but need to get out of this damn state, the "leadership" sucks. NO DMs please.

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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Opinion | Billionaires Love This School Policy. Many Regular Parents Hate It. (Gift Article)
In Texas and Iowa, Democrats are successfully tying universal school vouchers to corruption.
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Epstein @genelisadaily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Peter Thiel gave $250,000 to Save Missouri Values, the super PAC behind Eric Schmitt's 2022 Senate run. Per Axios, he also backed Josh Hawley in 2018 and wants to grow the nationalist wing Hawley leads. Two Missouri senators, one billionaire backer.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Family blames Texas' "merciless" abortion ban for woman's death, files lawsuit targeting Paxton, doctors
The family of 37-year-old Tierra Walker filed a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and others, saying she was denied an abortion that could have saved her life.
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Why Dolly Parton Never Became a Billionaire
She could have spent her time engaging in space tourism or basking in her fans’ adoration. Instead, she dedicated herself to using her money in a way that could do the most good for the most …
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Sergey Brin and 11 Tech Leaders Fighting California's Billionaire Tax - Business Insider share.google/XcGYQkWiASCJ...
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Sergey Brin and 11 other billionaires and tech elite lined up against California's proposed billionaire tax
Google cofounder Sergey Brin has poured $82 million into an effort to undercut California's proposed billionaire tax. He isn't alone in the fight.
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
UAE is reportedly bombing Iran right now. Iran says they aren’t going to negotiate on nuclear weapons at this stage. Close to a peace deal, my ass.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/05/2026
War is peace
NEW: US military just carried out strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Port and Bandar Abbas: Senior US official tells me, but this is NOT a restarting of the war.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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With Trump Novices, Can the U.S. Win the ‘Art Olympics’?
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl... Amazing.
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'How Not To Drown'
Donald Trump is taking no part in leadership: he was always an absentee POTUS (his disastrous Executive Orders and goofy Resolute Desk ‘media time’ notwithstanding), but he seems to have lost any appe...
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Mark214 #FDT💙💙 @mark214.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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Alligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began, court docs say
One attorney wrote in a sworn declaration that officers broke a detainee’s wrist and “pepper sprayed everyone.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
We are living in a timeline so dumb it's exhausting.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/04/2026
The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/03/2026
Marco Rubio on ABC refers to "the war," but then catches himself and repeatedly says "this operation"
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This might be the most unhinged thing he’s ever tweeted, and that’s saying something. He’s flailing. Has no idea how to get out of this war cleanly.
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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'Gutter racist': Outrage swamps Hegseth as news that he snubbed Black colonel spreads
In what’s being called an “exceedingly rare” move, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotion of two Black and two female colonels to one-star generals.The New York Times reported Fri...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2026
the country is at war and the president is leaving DC this afternoon for a weekend at his private club in Florida that he'll spend with his paying customers
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 13/03/2026
Attorney General Bondi thinks she can play hide-and-go-seek with the Epstein Files, but the law is clear and mandatory. She must release the Files in their entirety so we can end this massive coverup and elite protection for predators.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?
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Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate
Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”
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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This is important and a scarily prescient warning
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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Of course this is awesome Im getting a mustard yellow tee
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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This is really fun🎓📖📗📙
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 04/03/2026
Alex Pretti and Renée Good were murdered by federal agents. Soon after, Secretary Noem labeled them 'domestic terrorists.’ I gave her the chance to recant and apologize for the pain she's caused their families with these outrageous lies. She refused.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Please, I urge you to spend 45 minutes listening to these brave women who expose how ICE and Customs and Border Patrol exist to torture, terrorize, and kill, and how they operate with impunity. Now, they're coming after American citizens. thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-can-we...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Americans are dead. Prices are skyrocketing. The Middle East is on fire. Civil war is brewing in Iran. And for what? A war that will leave the same hardliners in charge? A war that can't actually destroy their nuclear program? This is incompetence. Plain and simple.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/03/2026
Kelly: "You could pick a random group of people off the street tonight here in DC and they could probably do a better job than our government is doing right now. They don't have a goal, there's no strategic plan. And what this is likely to lead to is, again, a long war with a lot of dead Americans."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/02/2026
REP. STEIL: Some Dems demands put at risk the safety of members of law enforcement CNBC: You mean like taking off their masks and having a badge that shows who they are? STEIL: Well, they're known to their supervisors CNBC: No other law enforcement officials in the US are allowed to wear masks
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/02/2026
Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Bad Bunny’s Halftime History Lesson
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I don't think we have a money market account -stocks, bonds.
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Keith D Johnson❌👑🇺🇦🇺🇸💚#TerraformEarth1st @keithdjohnson.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Texas, where the War On Women is merely tradition.
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NightFire @nightfire55.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
After Texas banned abortion in cases where embryonic cardiac activity could be detected, Texas saw a 12.9% increase in infant deaths, compared with 1.8% for the rest of the country.
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I am glad you ducked
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
We still have 2 places - one is rented out. We would have to sell both. It is just a pipe dream right now. Probably wouldn't be for a couple of years.
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Oh yes, I remember now hearing that.
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I probably shouldn't do it at all since I don't know enough.
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Kayla might be moving to the Bay Area, and I'm thinking if both kids are there, why should we stay in Texas. Nice areas are very expensive there even in Oakland.
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Yes, Seth knows. He said if it was something I really wanted to try, I could take a small amount of $. Well, I also thought about becoming a professional pojlker player! But that isnt going to happen. They are probably similar
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
It was actually a waiter, ha ha! He mentioned that he doesn't need to work anymore, but does it occasionally to see people.
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Nope! Someone I met recommended it to me
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Maybe I could make some $?
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Do you know anything about futures trading?
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Rikelle (formerly jeepster318) @riktex.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Quite true
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