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Lyle Derrenbacher

@lylebutch.bsky.social

Husband, father, grandfather, poet, writer, retiree, and believer in the golden rule. I am against name calling, defamation, and violence. I believe what we need as a nation is courageous empathy, a quote from Senator Booker.

17 Followers  |  15 Following  |  126 Posts  |  Joined: 20.01.2025  |  2.0711

Latest posts by lylebutch.bsky.social on Bluesky

The rich won't leave if you tax them. Norway put a 78% tax on fossil fuels and oil companies still begged them to drill. Don't fall for it.

The rich won't leave if you tax them. Norway put a 78% tax on fossil fuels and oil companies still begged them to drill. Don't fall for it.

12.11.2025 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5251    πŸ” 1577    πŸ’¬ 121    πŸ“Œ 40
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Major IQ differences in identical twins linked to schooling, challenging decades of research A new study in Acta Psychologica reveals that schooling largely explains IQ differences in identical twins raised apart. When their educations are very dissimilar, their IQ scores can be as different ...

This important.

So, very different schooling DOES produce significant differences in IQ after all. IQ is not just some inborn "merit."

And that means denying kids the best possible education is a crime that _the kids_ will pay for lifelong, not the perpetrators.

www.psypost.org/major-iq-dif...

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A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

13.10.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 10396    πŸ” 2970    πŸ’¬ 315    πŸ“Œ 202

Can we add Trump to those words

28.09.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gaslighting and it’s worst

09.07.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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According to a new report, defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon have raked in over HALF of Pentagon spending since 2020.

Trump's new $1 trillion annual DoD budget will pad their pockets even further as he cuts the social safety net.

War is a racket.

09.07.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1459    πŸ” 468    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 17

Mamdani is not allowed to get very high SAT scores. And Rufo is allowed to either publicly lie or publicly misunderstand how SAT scoring works.

09.07.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1704    πŸ” 331    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 7
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It is obscene to give tax breaks to the top 1% by throwing more than 16 million people off health care, cutting nutrition for hungry kids and making it harder for working class young people to go to college.

That is exactly what Trump's budget reconciliation bill does.

30.06.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4631    πŸ” 1169    πŸ’¬ 133    πŸ“Œ 49

Group-think is the worse form of government. If the leader doesn’t think he or she is ever wrong, its negatives are exponentially increased. God help those who are blind to this!

30.06.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The World Cup meets Trump's travel ban If the United States bans citizens from a quarter of the world’s countries from entering, a boycott of the 2026 World Cup games in the U.S. might be in order.

The World Cup meets Trump's travel ban .. a nightmare. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

24.06.2025 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 265    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 4

All he knows is to lie and he only knows how to operate from a position of strength. Such a pathetic leader!

24.06.2025 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They told me if I voted for Kamala we'd have Middle East war, inflation, an economic slump, weaponization of DOJ, no peace in Gaza or Ukraine and incompetents all over govt. Well, sure looks that way now.

19.06.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1369    πŸ” 320    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 19

He has been chicken little for decades

20.06.2025 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The video is indisputable! How can he lie so blatantly?

15.06.2025 03:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Criminals do not seek hard labor jobs!

13.06.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
From Cian Westmoreland

    If you are
Active Duty military
         or
National Guard

and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO FOLLOW THOSE ORDERS

Call the GI Rights Hotline
1-877-447-4487
https://girightshotline.org/

The GI Rights Network is a private, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that answers thousands of calls from military personnel & their families.

From Cian Westmoreland If you are Active Duty military or National Guard and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens YOU DO NOT HAVE TO FOLLOW THOSE ORDERS Call the GI Rights Hotline 1-877-447-4487 https://girightshotline.org/ The GI Rights Network is a private, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that answers thousands of calls from military personnel & their families.

Make thisπŸ‘‡ phone# visible on NoKings day!
Remind them that someone who is employed/USED by a criminal, a dictatorial tyrant
is NOT a law-enforcer;

● WHEN (because they will) the trials come,
"I was only following orders"
will NOT save you.

& don't forget to fly the US flag:
Take back your country!

13.06.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Peaceful protests like MLK had. No yelling. No obscenities. Let the opposition be the villains. Don’t give them justification for actions!

11.06.2025 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There is a reason we are all born with two eyes and two ears but only one mouth! Discussion relies on listening more than talking!

09.06.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why is there less alarm about the Big Beautiful Bill negating enforcement of contempt and blocking restrictions on AI laws? This is also major!

09.06.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Former U.S. attorney Damian Williams leaves Paul Weiss for Jenner & Block The former prosecutor is leaving a firm that made ​a deal with the Trump administration for one that fought it.

"The former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan is leaving the law firm Paul Weiss to join Jenner & Block, defecting from a firm that struck a deal with the Trump administration to sign on instead with one that fought it in court..."

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

09.06.2025 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5229    πŸ” 866    πŸ’¬ 117    πŸ“Œ 28

What happened to state rights and state self-governance?

09.06.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Democracy allows EVERYONE a voice in being governed. Democracy REQUIRES everyone to ALLOW everyone to speak! I believe I now see the problem.

09.06.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Ripples of Engagement We’ve grown so used to measuring political discourse by conversions and victoriesβ€”by who came out on top or who changed their mind on the spot. But that’s not how people work. That’s not how learning ...

Everyone wants to be understoodβ€”few want to understand. But democracy isn’t built on agreement; it’s built on our willingness to stay in the room with difference.
www.noacttoosmall.com/post/the-rip...

08.06.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 468    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 4

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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⬇️ ⬇️

08.06.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2798    πŸ” 949    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 41

Make this viral

09.06.2025 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

08.06.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 47183    πŸ” 14612    πŸ’¬ 2983    πŸ“Œ 1381

There is no mass-deportation campaign going on right now. Deportation is a process.

This is kidnapping and human trafficking.

08.06.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 25305    πŸ” 6788    πŸ’¬ 309    πŸ“Œ 202

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