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rklantian

@rklantian.bsky.social
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Retired. Lapsed academic. Then nonprofit leader (large national business association). Lifetime of work on China. Opposed to the echo chamber. Unsentimental but not paranoid. At home in the US and global China field. Raised East, but many years in PNW.

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WmReddy @wmreddy.bsky.social · 11h
"The task for a party holding Congress and facing a hostile president with no regard for laws, norms, or the Constitution and its separation of powers—and a Supreme Court that has unleashed him—will be daunting. If Democrats in the majority don’t handle it well, their majority may not last long…"
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Shanlon Wu @shanlonwu.com · 11h
Excellent comprehensive blueprint for Democrats if they take the majority - @normornstein.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House
If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base.
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Just my thoughts 🇨🇦 @bc60.bsky.social · 3h
Strong man and strong language … and he’s right
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 4h
Call to Activism 🚨HOLY SHIT EVERY WORD OF THIS! DeNiro: “When that coward, that fucking piece of shit Donald Trump tries to take our voice and power away. What do we tell him? Your fucking hands off our vote.” DeNiro is a national treasure!
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 7h
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h
🚨 NEWS: A 28-year-old researcher at a Russian anti-plague institute has died following a suspected lab accident in Siberia. Nearly 200 people are reportedly under observation and hospitals have been quarantined amid concerns over possible pneumonic plague.
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Russian Lab Worker Dies After Suspected Plague Accident as Quarantines Expand
A 28-year-old worker at a Russian anti-plague institute has died following a suspected laboratory accident in Siberia, with nearly 200 people under observation and conflicting accounts emerging from R...
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 10h
Schmitt: Did you attend a concert wearing an anti-Trump shirt? Smith: I wore a “No Kings” shirt. It used to be a bipartisan American sentiment.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Files.. I'll stop posting this neverending post when they finally all get released and we learn the results one way or the other Sound like a plan? #TrumpEpsteinFiles
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Love @celiebug.bsky.social · 14h
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Simply caring about victims can change everything.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 15h
America is literally deporting people to countries they have no connection with, countries they’ve never been to. This is wildly unlawful. It’s cruel. It’s un-American. It’s evil.
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Mourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 15h
Just when we think it can’t get worse … it does.
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Ann 🦋💙🗳️💙 @annokla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Can you imagine how many children he raped to start a War as a distraction? Release all the Epstein files.
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TarlinaUT @tarlinaut.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Files.. I'll stop posting this neverending post when they finally all get released and we learn the results one way or the other Sound like a plan? #TrumpEpsteinFiles
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026
"The 'strategic' choice within authoritarian regimes—whether examining Arendt's portrait of Eichmann, the lead-up to the Rwandan genocide, South African apartheid, or the atrocities of centuries of colonialism—almost always pointed toward complicity." (from April 2025)
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Against Strategy: The Moral Stands We Need Today
Today's hollow strategizing leaves politicians endlessly calculating the precise polling impact of every statement while refusing to defend basic democratic principles.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Insanity 😡
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
From accelerating Epstein file disclosures to reinstating illegally fired U.S. Attorney Roger Rogoff, DDF & DDA scored 5 major court wins this week A microcosm of how we're holding this administration accountable Full list in my weekly column @ContrarianNews.org 👇 -TN
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We Object! DOJ’s Latest Attack on our Heroic Federal Judges
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rklantian @rklantian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just remember, seniors: your vote is worth a half tank of gas to this strange mutant (at Mutant Prices).
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The Buffalo News @buffalonews.com · 03/10/2026
ICYMI: Ontario tourism officials will light up the Horseshoe Falls in red, white and blue tonight to say “thank you” to the Bills, fans and Visit Buffalo for singing the Canadian national anthem. A fireworks display in the same colors is also planned. buffalonews.com/news/local/a...
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Niagara Falls to light up as a thank you to Bills fans for Canadian anthem singing
On Saturday, Ontario tourism officials will light up the Horseshoe Falls in red, white and blue to say “thank you” to the Bills, Buffalo fans and Visit Buffalo for singing the Canadian national anthem...
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Dyan London @dyanlondon444.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐎𝐛𝐚𝐦𝐚, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 03/10/2026
RFK Jr. should be FIRED or RESIGN immediately. PREDICTABLY: He’s STILL rubbing elbows with anti-vaxxers and lifting the same conspiracy theories that are getting kids killed.
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inthelou.bsky.social @inthelou.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Show us the Epstein files now!
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rklantian @rklantian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Airman, report your Faith Code. www.stripes.com/branches/air...
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Airmen, guardians must update their religious affiliation under narrowed list
Airmen and Guardians must update religious affiliation records by Oct. 16 as the Pentagon streamlines nearly 180 faith codes into 31 standardized categories.
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rklantian @rklantian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hello, Seniors!!! If you get Trump's check, just remember -- for Trump, you and your vote are worth about a half tank of gas.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Count on it 👇
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rklantian @rklantian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Beat me to it, Jim. A double-take moment.
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rklantian @rklantian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You go,, Katie!
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🦋 C.G., PhD 🐸 (🪖"Prima" AKA "Battle" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
WE WILL!! ✊🏾 #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory
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Jlou @wehearvoices.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Judge Alito said overturning #RoeVWade took courage? What it took was corruption and haughtiness. Courage is a woman whose life is in danger b/c of an ectopic pregnancy and has to leave her state to get medical help. STFU, cowardly Alito. You are the danger! #Voices4Victory #DV1 #Pinks #SheShed
Picture of Judge Alito and his interview written in text about how taking away RoeVWade lost friends and he has gotten threats, etc. over the decision.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨🚨 OVER ON TWITTER Politico.. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito CONFIRMS he is CONSIDERING RETIREMENT 🚨🚨 IF SO. . . REALIZE HOW IMPORTANT YOUR VOTE THIS NOVEMBER IS WE MUST TAKE CONTROL OF THE SENATE
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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 03/10/2026
icymi Hegseth just reopened a can of worms when he did his little vanity project to make Musk happy and I am HERE FOR IT
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 02/10/2026
Remember the Epstein files? Remember Trump is mentioned in them 38,000 times? Now he feels bad for the Cornell rapists. That alone is enough for you to register to vote & make him & his corrupt cronies pay at the ballot box. Go to Vote411.org now. #LetsGetVoteReady
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VOTE411
Election information you need. Brought to you by The League of Women Voters Education Fund.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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rklantian @rklantian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Now, I will lead you all in a round of 'Onward Christian Soldiers.'" This guy is indistinguishable from the usual money-grifting TV preachers.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They took away Medicaid from my 82 year old mom. They don't answer the phone and when she showed up in person, they refused to talk to her and told her to go home and call them. She got her low income senior housing because she qualified for Medicaid.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
STATEMENT ON JUDGE'S DISMISSAL WITH PREJUDICE OF CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST DAVEY HEARN
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Judge had the discretion to dismiss WITHOUT prejudice but in a censure of how prosecutors played loose & fast with what they knew to be the evidence in this case, has dismissed WITH prejudice. The gov’t is out of business in this one.
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DianaResists @dianaresists.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 👇
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rklantian @rklantian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Learned from impeccable source this morning. As of today, 14,000 completely legal Medicaid participants in WA state are kicked off the Medicaid rolls. When they need care, they will have to rely on emergency rooms. Rural hospitals in key agro areas of Central and Eastern Washington will be stricken.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mentions on Fox shows of the very newsworthy confrontation between Schmitt and Jack Smith: Ingraham (7-8pm): 0 Watters (8-9): 0 Hannity (9-10): 0 Gutfeld (10-11): 0 Fox & Friends this AM: 0
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Eric Foltz @ericfoltz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We should probably thank the Republicans for the brilliant idea of holding these hearings right before the election and reminding everyone that Trump is a criminal. They really are a bunch of morons.
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Covid cave dweller @mariablack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can someone please hack or leak the Epstein files today with the headline "We have this stuff" That really needs to happen
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rklantian @rklantian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We'll need a new POTUS for that, but it's something to aspire to and work for.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I stand with Jack👏👍
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
👏👇
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
36 minutes before the hearing started.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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