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Rip615

@rip615.bsky.social
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Moderate, Middle-of-the-Roader, Dog Lover, Animal Lover, NH Resident looking to explore more of the world (wanna come?) particularly Europe & Caribbean, semi-retired but still active.

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Rip615 @rip615.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
... and burning what are certainly already very battered brain cells on renaming the Department of Defense to the War Department. Once again, taking us back a century.
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Rip615 @rip615.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Just another Trump-era portrait of corruption.
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wordman71.bsky.social @wordman71.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
BREAKING: Governor Pritzker just completely destroyed Trump.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
🤘🙂☕ stevenwilhelm555 Steven
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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Truth Art! #arresttrump #art
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 13/05/2025
Let’s clear something up: SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the LARGEST federal program to fight hunger in the country! It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
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EvilBunny Pottymouth Resists The Cultists every day! @mrsquirrel.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
A BUILDING OCCUPIED BY RUSSIANS IS WIPED OUT BY 'BABA YAGA' HEAVY DRONES || 2025 YouTube video by Warthog Defense 🚨Cool! - EB www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzvp...
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A BUILDING OCCUPIED BY RUSSIANS IS WIPED OUT BY 'BABA YAGA' HEAVY DRONES || 2025
YouTube video by Warthog Defense
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14/05/2025
With mandatory spending like say, Medicaid, congress doesn’t appropriate it. It’s automatic. But the CUT it they have to change the law, and that’s what they want to do. The truth about spending youtu.be/EHPk1c-LhqA
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What Politicians Won’t Tell You About Federal Spending
YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
McGovern: You guys make Marie Antoinette look down to earth. Trump’s cabinet is like an episode of the lifestyles of the rich and famous. These people are totally clueless. They don’t shop for their own groceries. They don’t buy their own food.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Like Pritzker's approach to this more and more!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
In addition to sharing beautiful images from her science, the Harvard scientist Trump jailed, Kseniia Petrova, has this to say about doing science in Russia and the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
The political environment in Russia made it hard to do science because everything was unpredictable. The war in Ukraine affected scientists’ ability to get funding and materials; we worried that our male colleagues might be conscripted. That type of uncertainty is incompatible with science, which requires the ability to plan what type of experiments and research you will do a year into the future. I fear that if I return to Russia I will be arrested.

I am hesitant to comment broadly on what it’s like for scientists now in America because I have only limited information about what is going on outside of this detention center. What I do know is that my colleagues, many of whom are, like me, foreign scientists, are terrified of being detained or having their visa status revoked.
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EvilBunny Pottymouth Resists The Cultists every day! @mrsquirrel.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Welcome! @grippycaballeros.bsky.social @swichbiatch.bsky.social @truebluekat.bsky.social @radioman49.bsky.social @margaretvb.bsky.social @floatallboats.bsky.social @sherilynn1.bsky.social @morethaneverblue1.bsky.social @wacrinviolet.bsky.social @mamabell3.bsky.social @gwestw.bsky.social
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𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 12/05/2025
Crazy how long this conversation has been going on
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The $400M flying palace Qatar gifted Trump is unconstitutional for a number of reasons & it’s just a part of the story Look at Trump’s crypto conflicts too—more emoluments! I discussed @thebeat.msnbc.com
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NEVER TRUMPER @jennyfmtheblock.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
We have a voice America! June 14th🇺🇸 we march, loud & proud against the most corrupt administration this country has seen in modern times. Mark your calendars, make your signs, gather friends/family & RISE UP in every city/town except DC (ignore his military parade that day) #50510 mobilize.us
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Tony Negron @tnite02.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I never get tired of this.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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Rip615 @rip615.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
AG Pam Bondi is proving to be quite the scumbag.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
So many layers of corruption.
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Mary R Morrow @marymorrow.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I agree with this statement 👌🏾 we definitely need this kind of Law 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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Rip615 @rip615.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
💯%. There will be a lot to repair or restore. And the laws must be adjusted to make sure no similar clown can dismantle our society like this clown has done, is doing and will do more of.
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No Pasaran @bradykenda.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I absolutely agree with this. I dont believe in erasing history but I do believe in learning from it and fixing it.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/05/2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.
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RFK Jr. Swims in Washington Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria
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shoutletitallout.bsky.social @shoutletitallout.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
www.wavy.com/news/vcu-gra...
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VCU graduates walk out of commencement ceremony in protest as Gov. Youngkin began keynote speech
A group of graduates and others walked out of Virginia Commonwealth University’s commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 11 as Governor Glenn Youngkin took the stage to give the keynote speech…
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ReverendTimeTraveler @timetraveler.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I absolutely love the young people.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Paul: They started out at 145% got down to 80% now 30%. It is 30% more than we have on currently. It will be a 30% rise in goods coming from China, and somebody will pay that, it will be the consumer.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
By exactly whom John? www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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Rule of law is ‘endangered,’ chief justice says
Speaking at Georgetown Law, Chief Justice John Roberts denounced “ad hominem” criticism of the justices.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
2028 can’t come soon enough.
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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Art of the Deal!!
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Aaaand there it is.
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Vivian O’Blivion🏴‍☠️ @obliviating.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
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nonijoni3.bsky.social @nonijoni3.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
“These are two of the ICE agents who participated in that absolutely heinous arrest in Worcester this week. If you know their names please amplify. If you don't please share so someone can identify them.” www.instagram.com/p/DJfhWNGS4r...
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Rip615 @rip615.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
These 'ICE agents' should be ashamed of themselves .. shoving grandmothers and throwing mothers to the pavement. Shameful.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This week SCOTUS hears the birthright citizenship case. But not exactly. The issue isn’t whether Trump can undo the 14th Am’s guarantee of citizenship to anyone born in the United States; it’s whether a district judge can issue a nationwide injunction joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
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The Week Ahead
May 11, 2025
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The Dark Lord Cthulhu @logic-king.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Anyone in Congress who allows this is complicit in a violation of the constitution. It is time to take this country back.🖕
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Gert @theonlygert.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
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Ed Duco @hardboilededdie.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
THIS Qatar?
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Erika Raye 🐚 @erikaraye.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This is so gross. This admin makes my skin crawl. Adding an additional link for an AP article on the same topic if anyone wants it apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump company strikes Qatari golf resort deal in a sign it's not holding back from foreign business
The Trump family company has struck a deal for a luxury golf resort in Qatar. It's a sign that the company has no plans to hold back from foreign dealmaking during a second Trump administration.
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Jean Ibosh @fedup90611.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
We need to let everyone know it’s a “ quit pro quo”. Call your Congress members.
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Rip615 @rip615.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
If this jet is going to the Trump Presidential Library in 2029 (assuming he doesn't have to be evicted from the WH), then it's going to be for Trump's private use which means it's a gift. This is a violation of the Emoluments clause - illegal! Not allowed! & what's in the Trump Library? Comic books?
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The gift is bad enough on its own, but can we talk about how insane it is to use a foreign-gifted jet as *Air Force One* Air Force One has a lot of capability that a luxury jet simply doesn’t, and that’s before we even consider the obvious spying/bugging/security concerns.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/05/2025
Rep. Menendez: "They had over 20 armed ICE HSI officers, they were heavily armed, their faces were covered, and they wearing no identification. So this is who they chose to have come engage with the mayor of Newark and 3 elected members of the House of Representatives."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
"You get two dolls and some pencils. I get a golden 747 jumbo jet. See? You get more things than I do. When was the last time you said 'Thank you, Mr. President'?"
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