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@rwillemann.bsky.social
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Husband, dad, V Vet. All in all been pretty lucky. Profoundly dismayed by US's rapid decline.

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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 3h
Sort of woke negative. Woke seeks decency and inclusiveness while negative woke seeks...well...it's opposite. And so on.
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 3h
Thanks for posting this David. I am tempted to share it with my grandchildren to demonstrate that they have options, but as you point out, exercising these options is very risky in the US.
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a courageous and honorable man!!
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AfD Youth is posting about unification of German people. Belive them, when they say who they are. Not far right, not nazi like but actually exactly like nazis. P.S And yes, they are Putins favorite party in Germany
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A disgrace.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Well put
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Summary of where the right wing is trying to lead us.
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This 80 year old & wife, here in a purple district are trying to remove a skilled Trump supporter from Congress. As we march, most support us but are amazed at how many thumbs down or frowns we get. It is going to be close in Nov.
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...
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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals
YouTube video by MS NOW
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The US continues to support routine war crimes
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The US continues to support routine war crimes
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a metaphor -- No one is home
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you’re not on X you won’t appreciate the extent to which virulent racism against Indians has become THE rallying call of the far right.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hard to understand how they supported Trump in 16. Even more so in 20. How a sentient person could vote for any GOP above dog catcher in 24 boggles the mind. In a 100 yrs there will be more books about this era than on the civil war.
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The entire Trump cohort despise their supporters.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Or that many blue collar jobs are physically destructive and if you want to support blue collar work you don’t tie healthcare to employment (many blue collar tradespeople are independent contractors)
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
wired.com
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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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No.
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Newt? Don't do that to me
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
EASILY the most gob smacking thing — and fail — I’ve witnessed in more than two decades of covering Congressional hearings youtu.be/akMKzlfoEac?...
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GOP Hearing with Jack Smith Goes OFF THE RAILS
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel optimistic about the midterm elections, just over five weeks away. But my stomach aches when I think of what’s at stake. Call me nauseously optimistic. How do you feel? robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-t…
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fiction pales next to reality
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Markets are the great aggregator of preferences, but they don't tell us whether that aggregate is fair or whether society should accept that outcome. We need democracy for that. youtu.be/OAGV50CDgno
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"I immediately thought of Viktor Orban as soon as I saw this last ad because they were the same type of thing he did before finally losing his last election earlier this year. He spent 235 million euros of Hungarian taxpayer money on propaganda campaign material." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
open.substack.com
Donald Trump’s latest impeachable offense
Just before noon today, the President of the United States was standing just inches away from the trophy at the Medinah Country Club outside Chicago, wearing an extra-large suit that bulged along his ...
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AI is a colonialist project, which is why many of its leaders are literally trying to colonize Earth & outer space. Hallmarks of colonialism: * getting rich via expropriation (theft as below) * exploitation (cf: participation in AI bros' simulated-rape galas as a condition of career advancement)
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David Veit 🇺🇦🌻 @daves-not-here-man.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"His summits are a national hazard precisely because Trump apparently does not understand that he is representing the United States; instead, he seems to think he’s just having a visit with some of the guys in a very cool club of which he’d very much like to be a member."
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Stop saying “the planet is dying.” It’s not. It’s being deliberately destroyed by corporations and executives who choose short-term profit over life. This isn’t a natural crisis. It’s a greed crisis with names and addresses. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My personal view is that it’s even worse than that. This whole approach to AI is inherently flawed. There isn’t a responsible way to do it with this model. It’s inherently privacy-invasive, inherently irresponsible.
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Thank you sir. May I have another"
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
How will you know that you are living through a Solar revolution? There will be signs… "Solar panels have become so cheap that they are being used to build garden fences in the Netherlands" I talked geo-economics of Solar Hockey Stick of Hope will post slides in this thread bsky.app/profile/madi...
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gas is $4 a gallon and Tommy Tuberville wants to talk about furries flying airplanes. ✈️ 🦊
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thank god I can get unfiltered Dr K directly without NYT
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well, this Nov (the elections) and Jan (seating of the new Congress) we will learn whether such caving is the high water mark of US fascism or another wave sweeping away our democracy.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Empire Suicide chapter 12
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
theintercept.com
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And in Nevada, of the total of 185 supposedly noncitizen voters the DHS identified, the Republican state government just reported that every single one of them, 100%, were in fact U.S. citizens.
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Have been buying its great ice cream for a while and yes we avoid Goya whenever there is a substitute the owner is MAGA
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
DHS got every one of their original assertions wrong!
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It will most likely be a combination of 2/3 -- We give up on US hegemony and muddle OUT over an undefined period of time while claiming victory.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Heads of state, governors, mayors visit Trump, he drags them to his golf club, makes them eat steak with ketchup. They visit Mamdani, he gives them a bus tour and they go meet some adorable second graders.
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No, you cannot make this up.
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R. @rwillemann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
James, are you certain this entire Tuberville segment wasn't created using "Super Intelligence?"
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