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Rick Geissal

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Reader/writer, one-time litigator, current events aficionado, St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan, romantic, have written a memoir about child abuse and resulting damage/PTSD: Damaged: A Life in 5 Parts rickgeissal.substack.com

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I remember when the first few guys began wearing baseball caps backwards; their rationale was that they were rejecting the norm. I get rejecting norms, but I am a baseball purist and know that the bill is in front to keep the sun and the rain out of the eyes; so I have always looked askance at it.

25.11.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Totally Normal, Stable Genius Regime Peace, Son-in-Law, Pigs, Forgery, Water

Totally Normal, Stable Genius Regime
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24.11.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep

24.11.2025 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Of course, later I suspect our daughter resented that I/we lied to her. Truth is I was afraid she would be crushed if I/we admitted that we had been lying to her, and I couldn't face it.

23.11.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Daughter #2, in 2nd grade, one day brought up the subject and said, "some of the kids say Santa Claus isn't real, but I know he is because you two would never lie to me ....... would you?" Linda and I looked at each other, and I slowly responded that He. Is. Real.

23.11.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I appreciate all that you wrote. I did not handle the Santa issue so well. My then-wife-mother-of-our-2-daughters and I did Santa-for-kids, as typical in the late 80's-early 90's. Daughter #1 grew past Santa at a typical time (age 6-7?).

23.11.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Civil Litigation and Settlements:

The estate faced numerous lawsuits from victims.
The estate paid $105 million to the U.S. Virgin Islands in settlement of civil racketeering charges against the estate.

23.11.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The VCP was created to resolve sexual abuse claims against the estate
The fund has awarded over $121 million to 135 survivors (as of its reported conclusion). Accepting payment from the VCP generally required victims to waive their right to file a future lawsuit against the estate and its employees

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@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social @jvl.bsky.social @timmiller.bsky.social
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Victims' Compensation Program (VCP): The estate's co-executors established the Epstein VCP as a voluntary, confidential, and non-adversarial alternative to litigation for survivors of his sexual abuse.

23.11.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Tommy Tuberville is an absolute idiot, which makes him a beatable candidate. And Doug Jones is karmically owed after getting passed over for USAG to the detriment of all of us.

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Amazing!

23.11.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Did Kristi and Kash get to Vegas in one of Kristi's Gulfstream G700 private jets taxpayers paid $200,000,000 for or did they use a $60,000,000 FBI private jet that taxpayers also paid for? These are incompetent fools only on the job for the attention and theft.

23.11.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2110    πŸ” 791    πŸ’¬ 148    πŸ“Œ 53

That is heartening ... and we sure as hell need "heartening."

23.11.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A row of dark trees against low mountains with a fog bank between. Mackerel clouds illuminated pink and purple.

A row of dark trees against low mountains with a fog bank between. Mackerel clouds illuminated pink and purple.

Good morning!

I heard perhaps a poor-will when I took this.

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"Quiet, Piggy"

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Rows floes angel hair ice cream castles in the air Joni Mitchell & "Quiet, Piggy"

Rows floes angel hair ice cream castles in the air
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23.11.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Marxist philosophy!?

23.11.2025 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I will never forgive the existence of Windows Vista ... and hope that the MS official who gave it the final green light is still in prison for fraud-against-humanity!😁

23.11.2025 02:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These countries have intelligence agencies too.

23.11.2025 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 255    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

The first major error Obama made was, "look forward, not backward," and we have been living with its results ever since.

23.11.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I did, wish I had not!

23.11.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember.

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Vaccine Safety
MENU V
For Everyone
NOV. 19, 2025
KEY POINTS
β€’ The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
β€’ Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.
β€’ HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism,
including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

Vaccine Safety MENU V For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS β€’ The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. β€’ Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. β€’ HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.

Period.

This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.

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Racial profiling is all they do. Lawless.

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I Write My Congress Members, Part 3 Trump Beyond the Pale

I Write My Congress Members, Part 3
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21.11.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well done, Jen!

19.11.2025 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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427 - 1. Hmmmm And the 1 was, of course, from Lu'Zana

427-1. Hmmmm
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18.11.2025 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Extra points for the butcher's MacBeth handwashing gestures:
'Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine
Making the green one red.'

18.11.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 393    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 4

I write my Congressman, who happens to be the Majority Leader of the House ... AND MIGHT HAVE DONE SOMETHING.

"427 - 1 ... after how many months? Hoax? Nobody cares?

Think of all the time you could have saved the country ... please.

RG"

18.11.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They accepted her offer, she did it and thrived; they admitted her, she got her Ph. D. & went on to success and then tenure and a long career at a prestigious institution.

18.11.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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