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Rod Proctor

@rpwpb.bsky.social

Retired print reporter/editor. Veteran, Army and Air Force. University of Oklahoma. Political center-left. Resume includes The Palm Beach Post, UPI, Tulsa World, Japan Times, Japan’s Nikkei, Stars and Stripes, the New York Post and Newsmax. Boomer Sooner!

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A friend of mine who makes regular humanitarian visits to Cuba tells me that the island’s loss of Venezuelan oil is the final straw for the tottering regime, and the popular expectation there is that within two months it will be gone.

18.02.2026 19:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Alternate headline: “47% lie to pollsters”

18.02.2026 15:06 — 👍 7345    🔁 1505    💬 539    📌 120
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Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader Who Sought the Presidency, Dies at 84

Jesse Jackson, Charismatic Champion of Civil Rights, Dies at 84 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

17.02.2026 14:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@schumer.senate.gov Read the latest New Republic “What Is a Democrat For?” To rebuild our working class coalition, polls demonstrate, YOU need to fight - create conflict - over taxing the wealthy and taking on big corporations that are nickel-and-diming us to death.

17.02.2026 14:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Selling your soul has consequences.

16.02.2026 23:27 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Here's how. Like most Republicans all he cares about is staying in power.

16.02.2026 23:29 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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The open racism you guys have emboldened, megyn

16.02.2026 22:22 — 👍 17131    🔁 3063    💬 749    📌 171

Little Marco proved to possess little character. He decided proximity to power “trumped” any patriotism, religious faith, or judgment he may have once had.

16.02.2026 23:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You Know What? Maybe the Time Is Right for an AOC Presidential Bid She’s only 36, and there’s a good argument that she should run for Senate and bide her time. But she also could be a formidable White House candidate.

The worst case scenario for an AOC presidential run in 2028 is that she’s setting herself up for 2032 or 2036.

She is going to be president someday—it’s just a matter of time.

16.02.2026 14:13 — 👍 17065    🔁 2438    💬 1614    📌 312

So you're saying ICE is incompatible with the rule of law as practiced in this nation from the founding?

Think I see a pretty easy solution here, champ.

16.02.2026 20:07 — 👍 8500    🔁 1859    💬 129    📌 22
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Warehouse owner won’t sell Dallas County property to ICE for migrant detention center The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or...

"The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that ICE had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government.

“God answered our prayers,” the Hutchins Mayor said after learning of the decision...

www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...

16.02.2026 20:45 — 👍 21079    🔁 5369    💬 555    📌 335

Trump consistently gets away with these bogus “announcements” because his supporters are so very ignorant, and more importantly, because what’s left of the mainstream media allows it, unchecked.

16.02.2026 23:36 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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That's not the way it works. Again, it's a political move with midterms not based on any sort of financial or legal reality.

#propertytaxes

16.02.2026 22:12 — 👍 8621    🔁 2074    💬 2500    📌 510

A win! A federal judge has instructed the Interior Department to restore signage and video exhibits at George Washington’s former Philadelphia residence that explain his ownership of enslaved people.

16.02.2026 19:56 — 👍 11373    🔁 2225    💬 122    📌 78
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Massie not backing down.

16.02.2026 20:26 — 👍 21561    🔁 5638    💬 556    📌 234
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 on X: "Republican Party Chair arrested for waterboarding teen child—police call it "rare torture." He beat his daughter because she did not "completely clean" her room—leaving her with "visible bruising." The MAGA Trump supporter was released on $10K bail—despite his daughter saying, https://t.co/nIsEQelIVf" / X Republican Party Chair arrested for waterboarding teen child—police call it "rare torture." He beat his daughter because she did not "completely clean" her room—leaving her with "visible bruising." The MAGA Trump supporter was released on $10K bail—despite his daughter saying, https://t.co/nIsEQelIVf

x.com/longtimehist...

16.02.2026 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Robert Duvall, Oscar-Winning Actor, Dies At Age 95 - Vanity Fair

16.02.2026 18:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Whatever This Is, It Isn’t Anti-Zionism

Whatever This Is, It Isn’t Anti-Zionism www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/o...

16.02.2026 04:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Ro Khanna Is Shaken by What He’s Learned From the Epstein Files

Ro Khanna Is Shaken by What He’s Learned From the Epstein Files www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/o...

16.02.2026 03:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Welcome to the Plutocracy

14.02.2026 02:03 — 👍 10861    🔁 3495    💬 228    📌 179
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Frost: We just can't trust them to investigate themselves because they've shown us time and time and again that they're not interested in justice and they're interested in covering their own asses from the Epstein investigation to ICE and DHS

14.02.2026 02:34 — 👍 7535    🔁 1985    💬 124    📌 50
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Karoline Leavitt Was a Bad Bunny Fan Before MAGA Made Him the Enemy White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has spent months publicly berating one of the biggest pop stars on the planet.

Social media erupted this week after users spotted that Leavitt’s end-of-year Instagram recap featured a song by reggaeton superstar Bad Bunny — the same artist she has repeatedly criticized in public. The discovery triggered a wave of mockery online and reignited the broader culture-war feud

14.02.2026 01:36 — 👍 123    🔁 21    💬 5    📌 4
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Judge rules ICE likely violated Minnesota detainees’ constitutional rights A federal judge in Minnesota found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) isolated detainees in Minnesota from seeing their attorneys, ruling the action likely violated their constitutional…

Judge rules ICE likely violated Minnesota detainees' constitutional rights
#ICEOUT #Whipple #FDT #Epstein #GTFO
thehill.com/regulation/c...

14.02.2026 02:06 — 👍 10421    🔁 2979    💬 567    📌 190
Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie are some of the dumbest retards ever to be in Congress. They knowingly and willfully ruined the lives of innocent people who had nothing to do with Epstein.

Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie are some of the dumbest retards ever to be in Congress. They knowingly and willfully ruined the lives of innocent people who had nothing to do with Epstein.

Both twitter accounts at work here are paid for by taxpayers

14.02.2026 00:47 — 👍 5902    🔁 1429    💬 762    📌 167

The people who are telling you they are withdrawing ICE from Minnesota are the same people who told you a year ago they would release the Epstein Files in full.

They are not to be trusted. They are allergic to truth and incapable of decency.

Stay vigilant.
Stay united.
Keep fighting.
We will win.

14.02.2026 04:37 — 👍 3200    🔁 963    💬 51    📌 29
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Law enforcement officers can be seen holding up a sheet as they execute a search warrant on a vehicle this evening in the case of the abduction of Savannah Guthrie’s mom, Nancy Guthrie.

14.02.2026 07:06 — 👍 140    🔁 26    💬 7    📌 3
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get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

13.02.2026 22:28 — 👍 41607    🔁 7452    💬 1367    📌 2476
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Senator Ruben Gallego: A New Marshall Plan A new op-ed from Senator Gallego as part of the Meidas Defense initiative

Senator @gallego.senate.gov warns that Trump’s "mob boss" foreign policy is driving our closest allies straight into the arms of China. While Trump picks fights with neighbors, Beijing is building the future of the Americas. Read the full op-ed:

13.02.2026 20:52 — 👍 2046    🔁 675    💬 85    📌 29
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5 European nations say Russian opposition leader Navalny was poisoned and blame the Kremlin Five European countries say tests confirm Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a lethal toxin, and they blame the Russian state.

5 European nations say Russian opposition leader Navalny was poisoned and blame the Kremlin
** US Rep Thomas Massie clearly fears a similar fate at the hands of the Trump regime given his recent post.
apnews.com/article/russ...

14.02.2026 14:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Joe Rogan is completely flipping out over the recent Epstein files disclosures. He told his listeners those documents "scare the shit out of me" and are "definitely not a hoax."

“Literally demonic human beings that are running the world and don’t give a fuck about human lives,” he added.

14.02.2026 04:50 — 👍 199    🔁 42    💬 23    📌 0

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