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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

NY21 should be shown as contested, with an outstanding candidate, dairy farmer Blake Gendebein, running. blakegendebienforcongress.com

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Blake Gendebien for Congress

Join us to send a dairy farmer to Congress

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

What’s wrong with pre-empting the inevitable campaign ads that portray all Democrats as pro- defund police and pro- open borders? The target isn’t rank and file Democrats or progressives, it’s independent voters who could be swayed by those ads in, say, Michigan, Texas, Iowa, or Maine.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I’m waiting for a book Profiles in Cowardice. JFK found examples of courage from the previous ~150 years for Profiles in Courage. Today examples of cowardice can be found in just the last 10. Mitch McConnell would be the best cover boy.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The only reason he’s still alive is that he’s white.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I saw him at a No Kings rally in Portland last year and was really inspired by him. He’s the real deal.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

He’s one of two out of 80,000 in the stadium thinking only of himself. The other was the prima donna sitting on the field sulking because he didn’t get another trophy.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

My dad, a farmer, had a bumper sticker on his combine: Chappaquiddick 1, Three Mile Island 0; Go nuclear! For context, my dad and I had different politics. I agreed with him on nuclear power, but I think Kennedy later went on to be one of the greatest legislators we’ve had.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

What a strange thing to say. He’s very progressive. Bernie, AOC, and Mamdami are all very progressive and all very charismatic, in the best way, meaning they appeal to people.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

So many here know nothing about Maine, and have no idea what they’re talking about. I saw Troy Jackson at a No Kings protest in Portland, and he’s the real deal - a logger and union man from Allagash, and former president of the Maine Senate. He’s every bit as charismatic as Platner.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I’m struck by the distinction between the two parties as one favoring the personal rights of men, the other favoring property rights. Citizens United was the clearest possible expression of the latter as the core principle of today’s Republican Party. La plus ça change, la plus ça mème chose.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Maybe so, but their craven cowardice exceeds their hatred of him.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Good for them. I like that only 2 are smiling, and only barely. These protests aren’t a party, and I get tired of activists talking about “joy” and “celebration”. There’s no joy in immigrant concentration camps, and no celebration in countries where 100s of thousands have died from USAID cuts.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Not just the internet era, but all but the very beginning of the Industrial Revolution - the railroad, telegraph, telephone, automobile, electricity, aviation, and space ages.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The Senate doesn’t impeach. The House won’t impeach with a R majority. Ask again in January.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

You have more courage than all the R’s in the House and Senate put together.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

When he and his colleagues return from the holiday weekend, they’ll find a way to cave to the regime. They ALWAYS do.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Thomas Jefferson said "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots..."

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I’m not holding my breath. They always find a way to cave.

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💙Patrice for Democracy 💙🦋🏖️♓️♻️ 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇵🇸🌈🐶🐱🐴🐾✝️🫶🏻☮️🥳🍷🎭⛴️🏈💙💚 @davis23patrice.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Pls. remember. ICE cannot be at polling places because of a statue. 18 U.S.C. § 592 is a fed law prohibiting military or civil officials of the U.S. govt from stationing troops or armed personnel at any general or special polling place. Violations can result in fines, up to five years in prison.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The SC ruling said it’s still a violation of the Voting Rights Act if racially discriminatory redistricting is intentional. How much more intentional could it be than cancelling a primary election so that you can eliminate majority minority districts?

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The fact that you’re asking makes me wonder if you’ve been asleep for 15 months.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

True story: in about 1976, I took an undergrad anthropology course at Harvard called “Interplanetary and Intercontinental Cultural Diffusion and Contact”. The first word of the title was a tongue in cheek hook that worked. The course itself was a fascinating, if a bit mundane, anthropology course.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Swalwell now has the credentials to run for president … as a Republican.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Biden is a good man, but his vanity is why we’re in this huge mess.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

8 million No Kings protesters Zero police officers beaten Zero police officers killed Zero feces smeared on walls.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Great to see the huge turnout, but the next time I hear someone talk about “joy”, I’m going to violate the guidelines of not being violent. There’s nothing joyful in these times. Defiant, determined, royally fucking pissed off, yes. But this isn’t party time.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Hey Paul Ryan, where the hell are you? And come to think of it, where are all the other Republicans who just walked away bcuz they wouldn’t sell their souls to Trump? This weekend’s piece.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

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Hey, Paul Ryan…Where Are You?

And you too, Pat Toomey. And you too, Trey Gowdy. And you too, Jeff Flake. And you too…

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Your postings all lack a period at the end of the first sentence, which at best is kinda weird, and at worst, confusing.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Yes, and if you don’t take your shoes off, they’ll execute you.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : "The White House put a video on social media that depicted this war as a video game… When 🇺🇸 service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries… it speaks to the moral rot of this administration." (H/T @atrupar.com )

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Marie Follayttar @mariefollayttar.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

While a social worker filmed ICE & was called a domestic terrorist in South Portland the SoPo chief of police tells ICE they are doing “nice work.” www.pressherald.com/2026/03/12/r...

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Read all of the texts between Portland, South Portland police and immigration agent

A Homeland Security Investigations special agent reached out to the South Portland police chief and a Portland police major about local protests.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The answer is found in the question. With the Orange Menace, all roads lead to Putin.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Time to close the agency that reports labor statistics.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

You’re preaching to the choir here. The problem will be when federal agents show up in large numbers in blue precincts in swing districts, intimidating just enough low commitment, low information voters (not the people in this forum) to be safe by staying home.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I didn’t even know this is a thing. From here on, I’m cheering for Britain, Norway, and Sweden.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

“Even Trump must be alarmed”? Where have you been for the last 10 years? Her testimony was directed at him, and him alone. He wasn’t alarmed. He was flattered by the sycophancy, as usual.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I speak reasonable Spanish, but didn’t understand much of it, so don’t worry! Caribbean accents can be pretty challenging.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The only English was when he said “God bless America”, and then named all the countries in America, with a parade of flags. Not too subtle “in your face” to the xenophobes in this country.

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

🚨 Epstein survivors release this powerful PSA in advance of the Super Bowl demanding answers from the Justice Department. This is the Super Bowl ad every American should see. Spread it everywhere.

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Ted Russell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @samiam1955.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This isn’t funny. It’s strong evidence that they’ve censored content beyond names of victims.

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