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Ryan F.

@ryfor401.bsky.social
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History nerd 📚, Rhode Island resident ⚓️, Star Trek fan🖖, comic book enthusiast & Jewish lay leader ✡️🕍 He/him

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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I can't wait to talk about the Blizzard of '26 like my parents and grandparents did for the last 48 years about the Blizzard of '78. #Blizzard
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The spouse and I decided to unwind last night by watching an episode of Wonder Man. What was supposed to be one episode quickly turned into bingeing three. What a great show! Highly recommend. #WonderMan #Marvel #Disney+
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Reminds me of when I hoard and never use potions, coins, and arrows in an RPG because "just in case"....
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is the quintessential #Thanksgiving movie.
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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
It's so interesting to me how consistently students describe Pharisees with the word "strict", even when a gospel story is simply a matter of "how" to observe a given commandment. The idea of legalism is ingrained early. Then you introduce them to the Talmud...surprise! flexibility!
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Joint Statement from the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island and the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center on the recent antisemitic incident at Smithfield High School. #Antisemitism #RhodeIsland www.jewishallianceri.org/news/a-joint...
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A Joint Statement Regarding the Antisemitic Hazing Attack at…
Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island serves the entire Greater Rhode Island community, come see what the Alliance has to offer you and your family.
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The only music playlists I have been listening to this summer are #Sinners and #KPopDemonHunters.
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Life Updates: • We are in the Top 5 for our group of #AmericasFavoriteCouple from Variety. • Group Finalists are decided on Thursday, August 7th, at 7PM PDT / 10PM EDT. Please vote 🗳 & share: americasfavcouple.org/2025/the-kni...
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Vote for The Knibb-Formans as America's Favorite Couple!
One couple will appear in an advertorial in Variety and take home $20,000.
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Does anyone else get paper letters in the mail from their federal elected officials with hyperlinks in them? A hyperlink...on a physical piece of paper....
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Today votes count 2x for #AmericasFavoriteCouple. If you haven't voted for Jana & me, now is the time as it will have a double impact! Thank you all so much. ❤️ Vote here: americasfavcouple.org/2025/the-kni...
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Vote for The Knibb-Formans as America's Favorite Couple!
One couple will appear in an advertorial in Variety and take home $20,000.
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Celebrating the 4th of July by watching #Sinners on HBOMAX.
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Jana and I are part of America's Favorite Couple, from Variety and powered by Colossal. Voting is now open. 🗳 You can visit the link here: americasfavcouple.org/2025/the-kni...
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Vote for The Knibb-Formans as America's Favorite Couple!
One couple will appear in an advertorial in Variety and take home $20,000.
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Not my TV dying in the middle of streaming #Ironheart! 😭😭😭 I just spent like 2 hours with tech support because I'm not #RiriWilliams
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Jana & I have entered to be America's Favorite Couple. Below is a link to our page, sharing some of our story and many of our pictures. Voting begins 6/30 for #AmericasFavoriteCouple: americasfavcouple.org/2025/the-kni...
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Vote for The Knibb-Formans as America's Favorite Couple!
One couple will appear in an advertorial in Variety and take home $20,000.
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Didn't win Mega Millions. Guess I have to go to work in the morning. Oh well. 😮‍💨
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Deep Space Nine scene. Jadzia Dax and Dr. Bashir are in their blue uniforms sitting in the operations center. Bashir is gazing lovingly at Dax. Dax is looking at something else entirely not named Bashir. Closed caption reads, "Men are far too emotional to be leaders."
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Remember when we described them as a death cult?
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
This Day in Labor History: May 30, 1937. Chicago police opened fire on strikers in front of the Republic Steel mill, killing 10 workers. This was Little Steel's successful attempt to resist unionization. In response to the last major violence against American unions, FDR did nothing! Let's talk!
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
YOOOOO! I am here for this. I'd probably go see it for a third time, too. #Sinners #SinnersMovie
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Sinners Retook The #1 Box Office Spot From Thunderbolts Just 2 Weeks After The MCU Movie's Release
Sinners is #1 again!
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
#Sinners is a perfect movie. Ryan Coogler deserves all the mf'n awards.
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Happy May Day!
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Wanted to try this #Passover dish that was printed in the local Jewish paper. Might be a little late, but it turned out well! Our variation of klops uses Impossible ground beef, onions, 3 hard-boiled eggs, and matzo meal. Leftover matzah on the side.
Two slices of meatloaf, called klops, sit on a blue & white paper plate with a broken board of matzah - unleavened bread typically eaten during Passover. One slice has a hard-boiled egg slice visible in it.A meatloaf variety called klops rests as a whole loaf on parchment paper in a Pyrex pan.
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Watching Pharaoh's heart harden on national TV during Passover.
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Listen, I just finished #G20, and it was amazing. Run, don't walk, run to stream this movie. We all recognize that Viola Davis is a badass, especially after The Woman King, and this movie takes it to the NEXT level!
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We just got word from the committee. Jana has had her dissertation accepted and been awarded her Ph.D. from RIC-URI Co-Doctoral Program in Education! 🎉🎉🎉
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Jack Black is hosting #SNL this weekend, and I hope he does a Chad Gaya skit. youtu.be/M7_2WtzqvzM?...
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Jack Black - Chad Gadya
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“Attempts to legislate the erasure of a nation’s past are characteristics of fascist regimes…leaders appeal to history to replace the actual historical record with a glorious mythic replacement that…can serve their political ends and their ultimate goal of replacing facts with power.” —Jason Stanley
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
These leopards are going to be obese.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This Day in Labor History: March 22, 1914. Mary “Mother” Jones was arrested on a train in southern Colorado for her work in fighting for the coal miners on strike that area. Let's talk about this brave woman and her fight for justice for Colorado miners!!!
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
In honor of #MarchMadness, let's talk about how all 8 men's teams playing in Providence this week are threatened by the Musk/Trump Admin. If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!!
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities
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'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Your regular reminder— To you, about yourself & to you, about other people That “being smart” & “having information” are not the same thing. Lots & lots of very intelligent people don’t have information about things. (Also some struggle to speak English. & some have obvious disabilities. And…)
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This week is so LONG! How is it ONLY Tuesday?!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
These numbers are complete lies but the underlying argument — that Democrats are paying illegal immigrants to come here and become voters — is 100% Great Replacement Theory. He’s spouting the exact same racist conspiracy that inspired mass shootings in Pittsburgh and Buffalo.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Rewatching Ken Burns’s The US and the Holocaust, because, if y’all need a step-by-step warning…
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The office just upgraded to the bougie Purell hand sanitizer stations. Nothing has confirmed my belief that another pandemic is on the way more than this.
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Ian Donnis @iandonnis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
@peterfneronha.bsky.social after Judge McConnell grants preliminary injunction against President Trump’s freeze on appropriated money to states: “We don’t have kings in this country, and today’s preliminary injunction reaffirms that”
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
If it walks like a Nazi, talks like a Nazi, and salutes like a Nazi… Keep the online pressure up, friends. And boycott Tesla. Find out more about local protests at teslatakedown.com
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
We're watching #TheOscars on our newly made Koala couch.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Mr. Hegseth has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his “woke” focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military. Replaces a Black four-star fighter pilot with a white man who does not meet the statutory qualifications supposedly over DEI.
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Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Flurry of Dismissals at Pentagon
The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot, upends a tradition in which the Joint Chiefs chairman traditionally remains in place as administrations change.
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projomike.bsky.social @projomike.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Patinkin’s response is typical mush. He’s the victim. And yes, as he writes, I did call him out for “journalistic malpractice” because he didn’t do his homework. All he can say in response is “Yikes.” And NOW he reaches out to a trans person? Shoot first, aim later, I guess.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
What if I told y’all that race is, in fact, not an immutable characteristic? It is a construct created to parce power, opportunity and economic advantage. A person racialized as Black might be 10% African or 100%, but regardless of genetics, they share a common history of exclusion.
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is an appreciation post for @yitz.io, @rabbisandra.bsky.social, and Illana Kaufman. Thank you all for being great leaders in the Jewish community.
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Creamy Mushroom Soup with Thyme + Garlic Bread! #HelloFreshPics #SoupDay #ThymeIsOnMySide #GarlicBread @hellofresh.bsky.social
Creamy Mushroom Soup with Thyme in a blue bowl with garlic bread on paper plate.
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
What was such a perfect casting for character in a movie? For me, it was Tim Curry as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island.
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Going to the market on a Saturday before a snowstorm and the Superbowl may not have been the smartest idea. 🤷‍♂️
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Remember. It’s never: We fight for (these people) because maybe we’re more at risk if we don’t. No more Niemölling. We fight because they are coming for anyone. Every single person matters. Each and every human being’s life and safety is worth the fight.
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Ryan F. @ryfor401.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Roger Williams is also famous for promoting the separation of Church & State, but I guess ChatGPT missed that for the president's speech.
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