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Karyn Rybacki

@hawk1814.bsky.social

Iowa PhD Rhetorical Theory & Argumentation. Retired Prof, 43 years on the South Shore of the Big Lake they call Gitchigumie, now back in Iowa. Humanist, Wife, Hawkeye fan, Reader, Textbook author, Democrat, taught 1st Amend. Antifascist. Slava Ukraini πŸΊπŸ…πŸ’

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Looks like a Vegas version of a "luxury" suite.

31.10.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): β€œIf this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

31.10.2025 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 27901    πŸ” 10156    πŸ’¬ 403    πŸ“Œ 350
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#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Pinks
Good morning, friends! Its the 31st day of the shutdown. The 2nd longest shutdown in history with the 1st being in DJT’s 1st term. While he is globe trotting, many will lose SNAP benefits tomorrow. GOP doesn’t care, we must help. Donate to your area food bank.

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Broadwaybabyto (@broadwaybabyto) ICE kidnaps a woman at the airport in Salt Lake City while she screams for help She can be heard repeatedly shouting β€œI have my papers!” While plain clothes masked men drag her away. If you see th...

substack.com/@broadwaybab...

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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

31.10.2025 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 9054    πŸ” 3905    πŸ’¬ 422    πŸ“Œ 762
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Mr. Sniffers, keeping an eye out for this new caturd. At 18 lb. Mr. Sniffers is convinced he can bury the turd in his new litter box.

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And they will only leave if they're physically removed..

After all the law breaking, history burning, military command removal and WH reconstruction, together with making Taxpayers their own ATM.. anyone that thinks they have plans to ever leave, are utterly naive.

It's a coup in the open!

31.10.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming
We're suddenly on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio

30.10.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Unbelievable!

This is a US Border Agent chasing a Canadian couple heading towards the border back to Canada.

He yells at them:

β€œNever come to the US again”

🚨 DO NOT GO TO THE US
IT IS NOT SAFE.

#Canada
#FascistUSA
#BoycottUSA

27.09.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 396    πŸ” 236    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 80
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When you can’t pay your bills. When you skip physicals and stretch your prescriptions. When your kids don’t have enough to eat and you can’t afford to turn on the heat and there are soldiers in your streets…

Remember these faces.

Suffering brought to you by the compromised, callous, twisted GOP

30.10.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2138    πŸ” 855    πŸ’¬ 88    πŸ“Œ 36
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BREAKING NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Epstein Survivors Send Letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson Demanding that Adelita Grijalva is Sworn In. I just received this letter from survivors of child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein demanding that House Speaker Mike Johnson immediately swear in Arizona representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.

More than a dozen Epstein survivors, along with the family of Virginia Guiffre, send a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson demanding he call the House back into session and swear in Adelita Grijalva.
@jimacosta.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

30.10.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3693    πŸ” 1493    πŸ’¬ 108    πŸ“Œ 49

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

30.10.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 36407    πŸ” 13740    πŸ’¬ 537    πŸ“Œ 610

LIAR

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This is where we are , America. This is what you were warned about. It’s fucken here.

Volume πŸ†™

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Kristi Noem is a liar

30.10.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He’s a petty pathetic pedophile

30.10.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

For sure! It’s definitely snowballing. I don’t think many Americans understand the tidal wave of effects the SNAP cuts will do to the economy, not just those using it or stores accepting it. Let alone the no paychecks. Banks have borrowed over 50 billion from Fed in last two weeks. πŸ†˜

30.10.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DOJ indicts Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh over ICE protests Abughazaleh called the charges "yet another attempt by the Trump administration to criminalize protest and punish those who dare to speak up."

Germany 1935-1945.

We . Are . Now . There

The current Regime is now a full blown Fascist takeover.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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ICE GOONS forcibly abduct an elderly man from a Walmart in Portland, OR, as he cries out for help.

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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

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Hunger and poverty aren't motivating to children but debilitating. Taught at an inner-city preschool where we had hot lunch because, as the lead teacher explained, it might be all they got. Malnutrition causes physical and mental decline in kids. That's debilitating not incentivizing.

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SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr The highly unorthodox personnel change affects a critical government research role.

SCOOP: The decorated rear admiral who was heading the critically important Office of Naval Research, and who brought lengthy experience in Navy tech-leadership to the job, "is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience."

www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

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If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.

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The series "The Man in the High Castle" shouldn't remain in the fiction category.

29.10.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Thinks About Hitler, Putin, and Apartheid The next step in Musk’s propaganda machine

Elon Musk’s new competitor to Wikipedia says apartheid wasn’t that bad, cites the Kremlin, and gives legitimacy to β€œwhite-genocide theory.”

Musk is constructing a parallel universe in his own image.

29.10.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1108    πŸ” 545    πŸ’¬ 133    πŸ“Œ 65

Oh my god.

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