Richard

Richard

@sablue52.bsky.social

73 years old; pro-democracy. I hate Nazis and fascists. Fighting so my daughter and every young person can have decent lives. Putin is an existential threat. The price of housing is a national disgrace.

4,633 Followers 352 Following 2,429 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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I mean, they’re not wrong. #draftkaitrump

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Afghan asylum-seeker dies in ICE custody, US advocacy group says Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal is at least the 12th person to die ​in ICE detention this year.

He wasn't just an asylum seeker. Paktyawal was an Afghan special forces soldier who worked with the U.S. Army's 3rd Special Forces Group. He was evacuated on August 30, 2021, entered the U.S. legally and had a pending case with a work permit and social security number. Killed by ICE maggots.

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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.

It doesn't have to be this way.

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JoJoFromJerz (@jojofromjerz) Trump’s shoe ritual is humiliation theater staged by a man who heard someone summarize one paragraph of a dominance-psychology book, treated it like the Rosetta Stone of dickishness, and decided to ma...

Trump’s shoe ritual is humiliation theater staged by a man who heard someone summarize one paragraph of a dominance-psychology book, treated it like the Rosetta Stone of dickishness, and decided to make it the operating system of the executive branch.

substack.com/@jojofromjer...

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The Iranian regime is filled with terrible people. Among their many crimes: 1) They kill protestors in the street. 2) They meddle in elections and won't accept unfavorable results. 3) They don't understand irony.

by Donald J. Trump

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Israeli forces kill Palestinian mother, father and 2 children in West Bank Ali Bani Odeh, 37, His Wife and Two of Their Children, 5 and 7, Were Killed in the West Bank's Tammun When Israeli Forces Fired on Their Car. Two Other Children Survived the Attack. The Justice Minist...

Israeli forces killed a mother, father, and two children—a 5-year old and a 7-year-old—by shooting them in the head while they were driving in the West Bank.

A surviving 12-year-old child told media that, when the IDF was interrogating him afterward, one soldier said, “We killed dogs.”

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Huge crowds today in Budapest, Hungary. They are calling for a new government under Peter Magyar and an end of Orban's rampant corruption.

Source: P. Magyar

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I'm in!

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Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney: “Canada is not participating in the offensive operations of Israel and the United States and will not ever."

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‘Murika

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Workplace Amputations Are on the Rise in Texas and Nationwide Over a decade, an average of seven U.S. workers a day suffered workplace accidents that caused or led to amputations. Those numbers are expected to go up with reduced federal oversight under the…

From Public Health Watch: Accidents causing amputations are on the rise after dropping off during the COVID-19 years, increasing more than 6 percent from 2021 to 2024.

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The Russian capital have reportedly been targeted by Ukrainian UAVs for the last 24h, forcing Russian authorities to turn off the mobile internet. Technicals have once again been positioned around the government quarter of Moscow.

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The Three Priorities of Donal Trump: Decoration, Retribution and Corruption. And of course, he likes Corinthian, of course. Tackiest column style by far.

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What a crock of shit ..

"I came to America because I heard the streets were paved with gold. When I got here, I found out three things: First, the streets were not paved with gold. Second, they weren't paved at all. Third, I was expected to pave them"

#SheShed

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Last week: "We don't need your help, you stupid jerks!"

This week: "We demand your help, you stupid jerks!"

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Let us imagine if Obama or Biden had bragged about forcing people to be fired from Fox News.

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GOP, fearing tough fight for Texas Senate seat, paints Democrat as radical Talarico, who is looking to flip Texas blue in his quest for the U.S. Senate, says the attacks from Republicans are a distraction from real issues.

They’re scared

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Does anyone know if the hospital ships Trump promised have reached Greenland yet?

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The hardest part of today’s politics isn't the ignorance; it’s the malice. People aren't just misinformed; they’re finding genuine joy in the suffering of others.

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Again, 6 democratic and all republican senators voted to confirm this bumbling numbnut motherfucker.

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Iran is fighting a war of attrition in an asymmetric power situation, so it sees time as being on its side.

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Is This the Way the World Ends? ChatGPT has been all over the media, and none of the news is good.

Trump is going all in with toxic tech bro Sam Altman on AI killer technology.
This as more and more studies come out on the phenomenon of chatGPT psychosis.
I've seen this movie. I've seen the whole series.
My latest.

substack.com/home/post/p-...

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WELKER: If you were prepared, why is the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed right now?

CHRIS WRIGHT: Because it's right near the Iranian shoreline

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why is Trump econ adviser Kevin Hassett on TV talking about the war against Iran?

(this is a rhetorical question -- the answer is that nobody in the Trump administration has real job duties)

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We need help to open the Strait that is already open to help protect it from the enemy we actually already defeated 100%

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Trump Calls for Allied Warships to Secure Strait of Hormuz President Donald J. Trump said Saturday that allied nations could deploy warships alongside the United States to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, signaling a potential multinational naval effort to r...

Almost like it was a mistake to alienate all of our allies with idiotic trade wars, and then launch an actual hot war where we needed their help gcaptain.com/trump-calls-...

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To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.

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Buttigieg: "We lived through a war that was sold to us on false pretenses when I was younger. This war has not been sold on any pretense. The president just went ahead and did it."

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