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Ryan Conrad

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#Dad to 3 awesome kids. Husband to the man of my dreams. KU #Jayhawks fan. Progressive #Christian. #ESFJ. Resurrection UMC member. #LGBTQ #gaydad linktr.ee/rlconrad7

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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Ryan Conrad @rlconrad7.bsky.social · 20h
The Midterm Senate Fight Spreads to a Surprising New Battleground www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u... #Kansas #AdamHamilton
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Kansas Senate Race Is a Surprising New Midterm Fight
Republicans are suddenly racing to defend a seat in Kansas, where Democrats are trying to win a Senate race for the first time in nearly a century.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
> @cnbc.com #Tariffs www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/i...
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Russ @pappyparki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A dementia addled doddering failure announces to the world that his "big brain" with its "highest IQ" has discovered super secret double hidden tarriffs that no one knew about until he found them that Canada has been charging US for years. Vote in Nov. This must stop www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...
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Trump Claims Canada Has Been Imposing Secret Tariffs on the US: ‘Nobody Knew’ Except Me
President Donald Trump insisted that Canada has been secretly imposing tariffs on the United States, boasting that “nobody knew” about them except him.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sen. Thom Tillis calls his vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth his “biggest regret” and says Hegseth should resign.
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Let books be. Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, an annual observation started more than 40 years ago in response to a sudden surge in attempts to censor or remove books in libraries, schools, and bookstores. Sound familiar? Find ways to get involved and spread the word: bit.ly/4yvixbB.
LET BOOKS BE. Various line drawings related to libraries and books, including a hand holding a sign made of an open book that reads "Freed for ALL to Read," a tote bag that reads "Totes Resist" carrying a book, a full book cart with the head and tale of a horse with text that reads "A Wild Ride," and a closeup of two feet standing on a stack of books that say "A Soap Box" on their spines. Text at bottom reads "Protect the freedom to read. Banned Books Week, October 4-10, 2026." American Library Association. ala.org/bbooks
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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They say they hate “woke,” but they really hate Black people, and any meaningful lingo we produce to critique and challenge white supremacy
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Ryan Conrad @rlconrad7.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz)
This is why more survivors of sexual assault don’t come forward; because they know that in doing so, they will find themselves facing violence and indignities from strangers that compound their wounds...
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Boots on the Ground Midwest @bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We will be tabling and joining the celebration at JoCo Pride for their Coming Out for Community Event! Join us!!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Saturday, October 10th | 10am to 1 pm | Grace United Methodist Church Olathe | johnsoncountypride.org
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Ryan Conrad @rlconrad7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.wired.com/story/how-to... #surveillancepricing #greed #pricegouging #consumer
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How to Beat Surveillance Pricing Before It Bleeds You Dry
Consumer advocate Lindsay Owen’s new book, Gouged, traces how corporations use software—from ever-changing prices to opaque algorithms—to squeeze every penny from you.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026
1/ On @lastweektonight.com, John Oliver cited our reporting w/ @texastribune.org about how Ken Paxton appeared to have violated Texas law. Paxton used an address where his estranged wife said he no longer lived while voting in 6 elections in the past 2 years: www.propublica.org/article/ken-...
John Oliver (on right) gestures with his hands as he speaks. On left, a Texas Tribune headline from July 7, 2026 reads: “Ken Paxton vowed to crack down on 'illegal voting.' He may have violated Texas election law.” An article excerpt below says: "... appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections ...”
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Polly Curley @pollycurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That's the new business model, When you "buy" a game for your Playstation, or a book for your Kindle, or an album on Spotify, you don't "own" it. The owners of the platform can revoke or restrict your access, at any time. I can see a return of paperbacks, and cds. Screw the Broligarchy.
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Budha-Tang @budha-tang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ratchet!
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: LLms are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You won't want to miss this. 📺
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Johnson and Rivera used their own money—often earned through sex work—to fund food and rent for those living in the shelter. STAR House was of personal importance to Johnson and Rivera, as they had both spent much of their youth experiencing homelessness and destitution.” #HispanicHeritageMonth
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June 2025 Cover Story: Marsha P. Johnson: The Trailblazing Icon Who Sparked A Movement - IN Magazine
During Pride Month, it’s especially important to remember trailblazers like Marsha P. Johnson, a trans icon and one of the most prominent figures of the gay rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s in N...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#HispanicHeritageMonth: Sylvia Rivera, LGBTQ rights pioneer and along with Marsha P. Johnson co-founder of the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, one of the first organizations addressing the needs of unhoused LGBTQ youth ✨
Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera at the 1989 Pride March in New York
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JD Vance's Christianity is unloving, inhumane, and Jesus-less. He and his morally inverted brethren have been bending the knee to their vile, belligerent, spray-tanned savior so long that the actual teachings of Jesus aren’t really a concern at this point. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/jd-vance-e...
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JD Vance Embodies MAGA's Heretical, Heartless, Jesus-Less Christianity
JD Vance claims to be a follower of Jesus.
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Amintegrity @amintegrity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
abcnews.com/Politics/wir... "Action by Watchdogs: Organizations like Public Citizen stated that taxpayer-funded political advertisements violate anti-propaganda laws and the Hatch Act." Not the Roberts FREAK SCOTUS-Not a subservient and cowardly Republican congress will protect the American people.
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Trump administration begins airing 2024 Trump campaign ad in latest taxpayer-funded messaging
The Trump administration is using taxpayer funds to air a television advertisement from Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign in the latest in a series of ads promoting the president ahead of the ...
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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ok ... good chat
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.reuters.com/business/hea... Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche outlined plans to move towards autonomous AI labs to ​speed up research and development discovery. Company ​said it is on track for its AI tool Target Nexus to contribute to ​80% of research portfolio decisions by the ​end ⁠of 2026.
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Roche outlines plans to move towards autonomous AI labs
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche outlined plans to move towards autonomous AI labs to ​speed up research and development discovery at ‌its pharma investor day on Monday.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Americans can’t afford food, gas, housing, healthcare. This tired GOP playbook is a fail. VOTE
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump tax is real. We’re all paying for his pointless war.
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 28/09/2026
If approved by voters on Nov. 3, Missouri Amendment 3 would repeal abortion rights guaranteed in the state Constitution. It also would ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth — something that's already prohibited by state law.
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Missourians will vote again on abortion in November
If approved by voters on Nov. 3, Missouri Amendment 3 would repeal abortion rights guaranteed in the state Constitution.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Trump on his Iran war: "You have a higher gas -- it's a very inexpensive price to pay for what we've done. Remember that. It's a little more. Frankly, even if it was a lot more."
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The cost of diesel fuel has increased by nearly 100% since Trump attacked Iran “What we’ve done” is lost 18 troops, injured 813 more, spent about $35 billion and depleted our munitions-while conceding the Strait of Hormuz and crippling our economy And STILL we don’t have Iran’s nuclear material
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ron White to Joe Rogan: Talarico didn't cost this state $6 million in fines and lawsuits, and that happened with Ken Paxton. Guess who paid that $6 million? You and me paid the $6 million for his bribery. His own party impeached him. He's a criminal. He's a piece of shit.
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GlacierLil1776 @glacierlily.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Help prevent a Constitutional Crises on January 3rd: Ask your U.S. Representative to publicly commit NOW, and until January 3rd, to a PEACEFUL transfer of power and certification of elections in their respective states. newrepublic.com/article/2151...
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The Final Battle for America’s Democracy
Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
To every reporter who stands there as Trump shouts down one of your (almost always female) colleagues with insults and bullying behavior without standing up for them -- you know the rest of us can see and hear you, right?
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Analisa Swan (she/her) @analisaswan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 (9/11), terrorist attacks in New York, Virginia & Pennsylvania, we remember the lives lost, courageous 1st responders, folks that helped save lives, cleanup, health impact, & resilience of Americans in the aftermath of devastating loss & destruction.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/09/2026
Promoting an illegal war in the Middle East by fear mongering over weapons of mass destruction on the 9/11 anniversary is a little on the nose
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Ryan Conrad @rlconrad7.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz... #911 #Sept11 #September11 #terrorism @adamkinzinger.substack.com
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Twenty-Five Years Later, September 11th Is Still Asking Something of Us
The call we answered on September 12th, 2001 has not changed. We're just further from it than we ever thought we'd be.
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Beth Humphreys 🌺 @producrgrl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🤬🤬🤬👇👇👇
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
BREAKING: diesel history is about to be made. $6/gal nationally — never seen before, days away, it's now in the pipeline, unavoidable.
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 09/09/2026
3.5 million pages. 3,437 volumes. The #EpsteinFiles, printed and bound, are now on display in Dallas. 3.5 million pages while the PEDOPHILES and those who enabled them walk free. No more excuses. The survivors deserve justice. ⚖️ #SheShed
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Ryan Conrad @rlconrad7.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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The Supreme Court Deals Trump Crushing Blow Ahead of Midterms
Justice Kavanaugh refused to override a Missouri Supreme Court ruling that killed Trump’s midterm redistricting play.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump’s illegal war on Iran has cost the average U.S. household more than $760 in higher energy costs. That’s on top of the military spending an estimated $1B per DAY to keep waging it, with no end in sight. Trump is losing his own war of choice — and we’re paying for it.
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Iran war drives $100 billion in extra energy costs for U.S. consumers
The average cost burden is more than $760 per household.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This week is the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk's shooting. We can safely say now that his legacy is a joke. His face is mostly dumb memes. His alleged friends use his killing as cheap entertainment. Erika clearly failed. I look at why. www.salon.com/2026/09/08/w...
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Why Erika Kirk failed as Turning Point USA’s leader
One year after Charlie Kirk's death, the organization is a joke — even on the right
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Apple still hasn’t changed it. Lake Ontario is Lake Ontario. Google folded in 48 hours. That’s not “following official sources.” That’s bending the knee the second a toddler with a Sharpie starts renaming lakes to feel bigger. This isn’t about maps.

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 30/08/2026
Trump has revived a never-before-used provision of a Depression-era trade law to impose 50% tariffs on some Canadian goods. The other sections of the Smoot-Hawley tariff are widely regarded as having made the Depression much worse.
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US-Canada trade war deepens as Trump revives Depression-era trade tool – what’s at stake for consumers and the midterms
Trump’s use of a trade tool created during the Great Depression helped trigger a trade war between the two border countries, with few signs of de-escalation in sight.
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Ryan Conrad @rlconrad7.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
thiswillhold.substack.com/p/cybersecur... #election #elections #midterms #democracy
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Cybersecurity Analysis of the 2024 Election: Risks, Vulnerabilities, and Protecting the 2026 Midterms
Following our August 23 Zoom call, many subscribers asked for more details about the security vulnerabilities in our current voting system.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In a country so deeply divided, isn't it nice to have something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheFiles-BeginTheTrials ⚖️
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🖕💯👊 Netanyahu appeared shaken as most UN delegates walked out of the General Assembly hall, while he was booed. #cdnpoli
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/08/2026
NEWS: Two unvaccinated people in Pennsylvania have died from measles, according to state health officials. They are Pennsylvania’s first measles-related deaths in 35 years and the first reported measles deaths in the U.S. this year.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
When there is a problem with our food, the first step is usually tracing the issue back to its cause. In most cases, this will be a particular farm or meatpacking plant. But this year’s many food problems can all be traced back to to *one* cause: A WHOLLY INCOMPETENT ADMINISTRATION.
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Beth Humphreys 🌺 @producrgrl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
👇👇👇
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Deranged and heartless
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Incredible @angieforfl.bsky.social Nixon pic 🔥
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🔥 FLORIDA State Rep. @AngieNixon : “If believing a mom shouldn’t have to work 3 jobs to keep a roof over her head is extreme, call me extreme… Ashley Moody can call me whatever she wants— but in November she’ll be calling me ‘SENATOR’.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
FLASHBACK — @angieforfl.bsky.social nixon grabbed a Tennessee Three-style bullhorn to protest Florida’s unconstitutional seat-stealing redistricting Now she’s the Democratic nominee for U.S. senate Bottom line: The people want fighters
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