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Richard Hudak

@drwh0.bsky.social

Contingent, itinerant, and hopefully not mendicant sociology professor. I’m a yogi and a cyclist to keep my soul and body free. https://provisionalunderstanding.substack.com/

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I cannot vote for Democrats because their excessive regulations hamper free enterprise. Here’s why I’m revamping my company’s entire operations to appeal to Donald Trump’s ego.

15.02.2026 18:13 — 👍 509    🔁 72    💬 11    📌 1
Eliza Gilkyson
 He Waits for Mc
 Eliza Gilkyson
 I have seen love's wings
 of grace
 Cross his fallen-angel face
 Baby walks a wire
 so perilous
 Offers up his hope like a
 prayer for us
 To finally feel love's
 worldly weight
 Lean up against my
 garden gate

Eliza Gilkyson He Waits for Mc Eliza Gilkyson I have seen love's wings of grace Cross his fallen-angel face Baby walks a wire so perilous Offers up his hope like a prayer for us To finally feel love's worldly weight Lean up against my garden gate

“To finally feel love's worldly weight
Lean up against my garden gate”

These words from Eliza Gilkyson resonate strongly with me this Valentine’s Day.

14.02.2026 19:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.

The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

11.02.2026 23:57 — 👍 10990    🔁 5419    💬 508    📌 580

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:

“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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BREAKING: Twenty-four survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes have issued an emotional and urgent appeal to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, demanding that Congress vote to release the long-awaited Epstein files. meidasnews.com/news/survivo...

14.11.2025 18:39 — 👍 23822    🔁 7631    💬 467    📌 270
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Jesus became a refugee. Matthew’s Gospel insists that how we see the vulnerable reveals whether we truly see Christ. Faithfulness requires recognition, especially when fear or a despotic leader distorts our vision in seeing the "least of these." #Matthew25 #JesusTheRefugee #ImageOfGod #HumanDignity

31.12.2025 19:19 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

01.02.2026 15:49 — 👍 67392    🔁 16145    💬 2579    📌 1833
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The FBI's Fulton County raid was based on debunked claims by election deniers The evidence provided for seizing 700 boxes of ballots was shockingly thin.

A newly released affidavit from the FBI reveals what experts have long warned:

The Trump administration is purposely recycling thoroughly debunked lies about the 2020 election in an effort to “take over” the handling of the midterms.

11.02.2026 19:30 — 👍 306    🔁 140    💬 12    📌 4
JACK
 SAVORETTI
 SINGING TO
 STRANGERS
 SPECIAL
 EDITION

JACK SAVORETTI SINGING TO STRANGERS SPECIAL EDITION

Listening to “Human (Live at the SSE Arena, Wembley)” by Jack Savoretti & Ward Thomas

Great cover of the song by the Killers. https://youtu.be/KFiAHwx4fHE?si=ltcQZI1mKNp4gmb4

10.02.2026 12:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
MARE AMBRICA
 GREAT AGAIN
 MAGA wins the
 Crybaby Bowl
 show us on the doll where Bad Bunny hurt
 you
 everyone is entitled to my own opinion
 WWW.JEFFTIEDRICH.COM

MARE AMBRICA GREAT AGAIN MAGA wins the Crybaby Bowl show us on the doll where Bad Bunny hurt you everyone is entitled to my own opinion WWW.JEFFTIEDRICH.COM

https://bit.ly/4ahxPpq

09.02.2026 16:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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MAGA wins the Crybaby Bowl show us on the doll where Bad Bunny hurt you

here's today's post: "MAGA wins the Crybaby Bowl" — show us on the doll where Bad Bunny hurt you.
thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

09.02.2026 16:18 — 👍 1088    🔁 203    💬 32    📌 6
"da quanto tempo vendi
 ciambelle? AH AH,
 fantastico."
 Jeff Tiedrich
 let's all watch annoying idiot Couchfuck McGee get booed
 at the Olympics
 WWW.JEFFTIEDRICH.COM

"da quanto tempo vendi ciambelle? AH AH, fantastico." Jeff Tiedrich let's all watch annoying idiot Couchfuck McGee get booed at the Olympics WWW.JEFFTIEDRICH.COM

https://bit.ly/4rBRnMj

08.02.2026 16:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

12 birds yet to do in my “Rebel Bird for all 50 States” project, but who’s counting?

SPOILER: It’s me. It’s me who’s counting. :)

07.02.2026 14:26 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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At NYT, Pretending You Don’t Know Makes You a Real Reporter Even when you have examples of people being shot down on video by federal agents, the paper has to pretend there's a valid case for justifying murder.

"Federal officials have maintained that the agent acted in self-defense, while state and local officials have disputed that account." The @nytimes.com reporter is unable to tell you whether Renee Good needed to be killed or not.

fair.org/home/at-nyt-...

04.02.2026 23:54 — 👍 12    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
brooks/williams
 NorTH
 FROM STATESBORO

brooks/williams NorTH FROM STATESBORO

Listening to “Faces Of Light” by Brooks Williams.

03.02.2026 23:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Greenpeace calls on MPs to halt export of armoured vehicles to U.S. immigration agency ICE  - Greenpeace Canada Toronto – Greenpeace activists unveiled a banner saying “No Canadian Arms for ICE” at the Brampton headquarters of the Canadian company that is building armoured vehicles for the U.S. Immigratio...

"Canada cannot claim to defend human rights while exporting armoured vehicles that will be used to terrorize communities”: @greenpeaceca.bsky.social calls on MPs to halt export of armoured vehicles to U.S. immigration agency ICE
www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/pr...

02.02.2026 19:37 — 👍 9009    🔁 2294    💬 248    📌 141

Source?

03.02.2026 11:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Body Cameras Cory Booker was body cams.

https://open.substack.com/pub/provisionalunderstanding/p/body-cameras?r=5l1h7&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=poster

03.02.2026 01:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ICE commits atrocities knowing they’re being filmed. They don’t care. They act with impunity.

This is an agency that’s rotten to the core. Dismantle ICE.

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Democrat Christian Menefee Wins Election For U.S. House, Narrowing GOP's Slim Majority The seat representing the heavily Democratic Houston-based district has been vacant for nearly a year.

Democrat Christian Menefee has won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election, narrowing Republicans’ already-slim majority

01.02.2026 04:23 — 👍 3456    🔁 726    💬 38    📌 70
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Flourishing After Disaster: Patrice Francis + Selah Moonie “‘Sweet are the uses of adversity, and our life finds songs in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.’ [—Shakespeare]

open.substack.com/pub/provisio...

01.02.2026 16:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Gordon Hitchcock • Follow
 19h •
 During the darkest days of the AIDS
 crisis, we buried our friends in the
 morning, we protested in the
 ajternoon, and we danced all night.
 The dance kept us in the fight
 because it was the dance we were
 fighting for. It didn't look like we
 were going to win then and we did. It
 doesn't feel like we're going to win
 now but we could. Keep fighting,
 keep dancing.
 — Dan Savage

Gordon Hitchcock • Follow 19h • During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the ajternoon, and we danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for. It didn't look like we were going to win then and we did. It doesn't feel like we're going to win now but we could. Keep fighting, keep dancing. — Dan Savage

Grief and rage can be strategic partners. #trot #theResresearchOnThat

01.02.2026 13:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
"No doubt there is a great documentary to be
 made about Melania Knauss, the ambitious
 model from out of Slovenia who married a New
 York real-estate mogul and then found herself
 cast in the role of a latter-day Eva Braun, but the
 horrific Melania emphatically isn't it. It's one of
 those rare, unicorn films that doesn't have a
 single redeeming quality. I'm not even sure it
 qualifies as a documentary..."
 Richard Hudak
 Melania
 PROVISIONALUNDERSTANDING.SUBSTACK.COM

"No doubt there is a great documentary to be made about Melania Knauss, the ambitious model from out of Slovenia who married a New York real-estate mogul and then found herself cast in the role of a latter-day Eva Braun, but the horrific Melania emphatically isn't it. It's one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn't have a single redeeming quality. I'm not even sure it qualifies as a documentary..." Richard Hudak Melania PROVISIONALUNDERSTANDING.SUBSTACK.COM

https://open.substack.com/pub/provisionalunderstanding/p/melania?r=5l1h7&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay

01.02.2026 12:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Yes, Texas! 🗳

01.02.2026 04:09 — 👍 529    🔁 162    💬 32    📌 5
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Democrat Christian Menefee wins election for US House, narrowing GOP's slim majority Democrat Christian Menefee has won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority.

BREAKING: Democrat Christian Menefee wins special election for Texas U.S. House seat, narrowing GOP's slim majority.

01.02.2026 04:06 — 👍 16039    🔁 3727    💬 311    📌 306

What do these corporations have in common?

-Amazon
-AT&T
-Home Depot
-Microsoft
-Palantir

They all reaped billions in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill — and are actively collaborating with ICE's deportation machine.

Always follow the money.

01.02.2026 00:26 — 👍 6051    🔁 2505    💬 176    📌 96
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A red hat, inspired by a symbol of resistance to Nazi occupation, gains traction in Minnesota A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant commu...

Where are all my knitters at? https://n.pr/3NPBZ0o
(Edited 12:15 PM via @skeetsapp.com)

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