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K Ruud

@ruudke.bsky.social
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Grandmother, IC retiree, dog and cat mom, crafter, #resist

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K Ruud @ruudke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Who’s running against her this November? Is Mr Johnson out campaigning for her opponent?
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Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost @frost.house.gov · 08/10/2026
The nation’s largest food distributor, Sysco, is buying Restaurant Depot—a deal that could drive up costs for restaurant owners and, ultimately, consumers. I’m calling on the FTC and DOJ to put a pause on this merger and protect independent restaurant owners and the communities they serve.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles on the way. You want to see a horror show? Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles. You want to see some bad things happen?"
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 07/10/2026
For the first time, South Carolinians will be able hear directly from me and Mrs. Graham Nordone directly — my vision for a South Carolina we can afford and Darline's DC consultants' vision for whatever they want her to say. I hope you'll join me in Columbia before I take the stage Sunday evening.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s October and the neighbors are back with #SkeletonCrew. Strong start!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Alarming — 🇺🇸 Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social denied access to military facilities in the Middle East: “Unprecedented. Hegseth is trying to cover up the extent of the damage from a war spiraling out of control. This should be unacceptable to everybody, Republican or Democrat.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
UPDATE: Trump just awarded another $3 BILLION military contract to a company backed by his son Don Jr. (and Peter Thiel) — what skilled businessmen these Trumps are! Robbing the American taxpayer in broad daylight.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, Pete Hegseth is so incompetent that our troops go without necessary medical care, but at least they are called "warriors" now while they go untreated. So it all evens out . . .
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Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed them
Some U.S. soldiers gravely wounded in the deadliest Iran strike on American troops say the military medical system failed them.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Clever twats
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K Ruud @ruudke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It takes 60 votes in the Senate to actually remove him from office if the House votes to impeach. Very unlikely to happen as we saw after January 6th
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K Ruud @ruudke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Meanwhile, they’re kicking millions off of Medicaid and the ACA
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 04/10/2026
4 men in plain clothes kidnap a woman—they claim to be ICE. Woman's name is Angel Zhao. She lives in Huntington Beach, California—originally Shanghai, China.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SEN. WARREN: "They cut taxes and they always say ‘it's really going to pay off for you’ — every time academics come back say ‘What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.’.. this is the 20.0 version of this.” (H/T @atrupar.com )
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/09/2026
THIS WAS MONEY FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE. A Florida grand jury found $10 MILLION meant to help provide health insurance for poor children was misappropriated for political purposes. Moody & DeSantis took money meant for kids. #GOPWarOnHealthcare
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Trump regime is set to open open an ICE facility for migrant kids at an airport in Alexandria, Louisiana, to speed up deportations. abcnews.com/US/democrats...
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Democrats press HHS over legal representation of migrant children
Congressional Democrats are pressing health officials following the government's decision to end a contract with groups that provide legal support to migrant children.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
ICE IS ABOUT TO MAKE YOUR GROCERY BILL EVEN WORSE Cattle groups in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas say ICE raids are creating a “massive chilling effect” on legal, documented workers, disrupting meatpacking and delaying the processing of thousands of cattle. They’re reporting millions in losses.
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TonyHQ @tonyhq1985.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sen Van Hollen shuts down Netanyahu’s vicious lies about Mayor Mamdani
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 23/09/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by ICE agents after working in the U.S. for 35 years. His sons, Ronaldo and Lorenzo Jr., testified before Congress and reminded us that this rogue agency MUST be held accountable for its horrific actions.
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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They all knew ahead of time who he is...
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LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The view from there: SNL UK's "Weekend Update" tackles Macklemore's removal from Ed Sheeran's U.S. tour.
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KB @bkeithb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The jewish NFL owners who reportedly backed Robert Kraft’s push to remove Macklemore from Ed Sheeran’s tour have been revealed: ✔️David Tepper Carolina Panthers ✔️Arthur Blank from the Atlanta Falcons ✔️Jeffrey Lurie from the Philadelphia Eagles TMZ Via @theAxisofTruth (Telegram)
The jewish NFL owners who reportedly backed Robert Kraft’s push to remove Macklemore from Ed Sheeran’s tour have been revealed:

✔️David Tepper
 Carolina Panthers

✔️Arthur Blank from the  
Atlanta Falcons

✔️Jeffrey Lurie from the    
     Philadelphia Eagles

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🔥@theAxisofTruth
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
RFK Jr. received "more than $250,000 worth of free flights to Fiji and Greece as well as use of a vacation home in Washington, D.C. from Gavin de Becker..." de Becker has been described as Jeff Bezo's "top security staffer" www.wsj.com/politics/rfk...
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Exclusive | RFK Jr. Got Free Flights to Fiji and Greece From a Top Donor
The health secretary disclosed over $250,000 in gifts from security specialist Gavin de Becker.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The corruption never ends.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was not losing “hundreds of millions” or “sometimes hundreds of billions,” as Trump claimed on Wednesday. In 2024, the Kennedy Center reported more than $306 million in revenue and $558 million in net assets, according to that year’s tax return.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration granted more than 180 polluting facilities nationwide a two-year pause on compliance with Clean Air Act rules. All they had to do was send an email. (Published May)
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Trump Exempted Some of the Nation’s Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.
In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A massive diesel spill at a New Jersey data center has dumped roughly 5,000 gallons of fuel into wetlands connected to the Meadowlands. Local officials say a “computer glitch” caused the backup generator system to keep calling for fuel. The diesel entered Anderson Creek,
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
He’s got a point!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Insane. The most corrupt president in American history, with no close 2nd. 🏆 🇺🇸
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it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Michelle Obama gets a big welcome at the #USOpen #OurForEverFirstLady
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Paul Scarpelli @paulscarpelli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don't know ANYONE on the Right who fact checks.
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K Ruud @ruudke.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
How can he do that without congress? Perhaps the GOP shouldn’t have let the ACA subsidies expire??
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/09/2026
NEW: A new audit by the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General found a lack of training for post office staff, deficiencies in how ballots were tracked and errors leading to delays. Experts say it raises questions ahead of the midterms.
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U.S. Postal Service Failed to Properly Handle Some Ballots During This Year’s Primary Elections, Audit Finds
An inspector general’s audit found a lack of training for post office staff, deficiencies in how ballots were tracked and errors leading to delays. Experts say it raises questions ahead of the midterm...
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GodlessPrimate @godlessprimate.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
They have bought our government.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 10/09/2026
This guy is a senator up for re-election, and he had multiple patients arrested for unpaid medical fees as low as $114 and ranging up to a few thousand dollars. One women who couldn’t pay had lost twins. She asked fees to be waived. Her request was denied. He’s a millionaire.
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Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator. (Gift Article)
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
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ALT Fish and Wildlife Service @altfws.altgov.info · 04/09/2026
Worth a read— 36% reduction in staff during this regime. Three weeks after the Trump administration announced the largest expansion of hunting and fishing opportunities in USFWS history, new records reveal FWS has lost more than one-third of its staff between 2024 and 2026.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Has Lost 36% of Its Workforce Under the Second Trump Administration
Meanwhile, even with fewer staff, the agency just completed the largest expansion of hunting and fishing access in its entire history
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Garcia: We are going to hold the Postmaster General and anyone at USPS, particularly those that are at the management level, that are implementing this, accountable for what we view as an illegal action by USPS.
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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Target paid its CEO $21.8M last year — 794x the median Target worker's pay of $27,506. Target has also spent $13.9B on stock buybacks since 2019, while remaining among the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients in America. This is what I mean by a rigged economy.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.
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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
SisiiRose (on IG/Tt), an indigenous woman was brutally taken down by ICE. The traser was stuck in her bone, her BONE! She was maced in the face and throat! When will enough be enough? Now is the time! Stand up! #ProudBlue #GTS 📹: statuscoup/IG
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NorthSquatch-News 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @northsquatch.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Every news channel should be screaming about his corruption, but the rich protect the rich.
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K Ruud @ruudke.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Watching MSNBC report of pentagon firing Editor and reporter for saying the Stars & Stripes should remain independent and would not capitulate to publish propaganda dreamed up by the Pentagon. Sad day for our military and families. I’ve been a reader since 1981 when stationed at Patch Barracks.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trump and McMahon's "revamping" of the federal student loan system forced borrowers into expensive repayment programs. And for what? To pay for $1 trillion in tax breaks for the wealthy and big corporations. I write about this hidden affordability crisis in my column ⬇️ www.aft.org/column/stude...
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Student debt: The hidden affordability crisis
This is a five-alarm fire exacerbating America’s affordability crisis.Summer should be a time to take a well-earned vacation and enjoy being with family and friends. But for millions of Americans, sum...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/08/2026
This is crazy. Alex is from Brazil, why would they deport him to Guyana? He’s a longtime West Hollywood resident who has been following his immigration requirements. He wasn’t hiding. He wasn’t on the run. He showed up for his required ICE check-in. And that’s where they detained him.
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