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Rylan Dray

@vilsky03.bsky.social

Chronically unemployed, formerly homeless PhD. Original subversive cabaret songs (YouTube). Capitalism is the problem. Free Palestine.

53 Followers  |  126 Following  |  63 Posts  |  Joined: 08.10.2025  |  1.7359

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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

05.11.2025 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24543    ๐Ÿ” 9236    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 494    ๐Ÿ“Œ 413
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Federal Judge is about to issue a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against Immigration and ICE regarding Broadview. The TRO will require ICE to utilize Broadview as intended, specifically as a holding facility, and not as a prison.

05.11.2025 02:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2861    ๐Ÿ” 768    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 22
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FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICEโ€™s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

NEW: FBI warns that ICE impersonators are harming ICE's image in immigrant communities, quietly urges ICE agents to identify themselves, as revealed in an intelligence document we obtained and shared w/ @dell.bsky.social / @carolinehaskins.bsky.social / @wired.com #FOIA www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

04.11.2025 21:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 83    ๐Ÿ” 46    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

05.11.2025 04:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17569    ๐Ÿ” 4180    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 161    ๐Ÿ“Œ 350
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Iโ€™m Reem, from Gaza๐Ÿ’”
Iโ€™m suffering from severe malnutrition and anemia my body is getting weaker every day. I often feel dizzy from hunger, and I barely have the strength to stand.
Winter has already begun, and I still live in a torn tent cold, hungry, and sick.

gofund.me/de96cb50

05.11.2025 08:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 61    ๐Ÿ” 83    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
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Worse than useless

They only work for their rich donor buddies

04.11.2025 23:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 122    ๐Ÿ” 40    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Nearly half of Americaโ€™s childrenโ€”48.9%โ€”now grow up in families considered poor, according to Oxfamโ€™s 2025 inequality report. Itโ€™s a statistic that should shake the nation to its core: in the wealthiest country in human history, almost one in two kids are struggling to meet basic needs.

03.11.2025 21:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 283    ๐Ÿ” 153    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25
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Dick Cheney Has Died. The War Criminal in His Own Words 10 quotes from a former vice president who pushed for a murderous invasion of Iraq, lied about the WMD threat, and defended torture.

"Dick Cheney Has Died. The War Criminal in His Own Words"

10 quotes from a former vice president who pushed for a murderous invasion of Iraq, lied about the WMD threat, and defended torture โ€“ by @mehdirhasan.bsky.social.

READ:
zeteo.com/p/dick-chene...

04.11.2025 15:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 297    ๐Ÿ” 72    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

The failure of the โ€œblue no matter whoโ€ crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesnโ€™t it?

04.11.2025 17:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10356    ๐Ÿ” 1910    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 222    ๐Ÿ“Œ 112

SNAP benefits will be gone, small businesses will suffer, insurance premiums will double, air traffic will be delayed/halted: All of these things are happening because when the gov't shutdown ends, the Epstein Files get released.

04.11.2025 21:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17117    ๐Ÿ” 5295    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 416    ๐Ÿ“Œ 196

Dick Cheney also steadfastly defended warantless mass surveillance programs and the use of torture against detainees of the so-called war on terror.

04.11.2025 22:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Let us remember who Dick
Cheney really was.

Me for Zeteo, with ๐Ÿงพ:
zeteo.com/p/dick-chene...

04.11.2025 17:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 526    ๐Ÿ” 99    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Dr Assal Radโ€”

"The Onion ๐ŸคŒ๐Ÿฝ"

03.11.2025 17:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 56    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Grijalva: I do think that Speaker Johnson misplayed his hand.

There are people all over this nation who were out there with signs that said, โ€œSwear her in.โ€ They wouldnโ€™t have even known about me otherwise.

Thank you for highlighting how corrupt the system youโ€™re protecting really is.

04.11.2025 00:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23137    ๐Ÿ” 6482    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 276    ๐Ÿ“Œ 198
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โœ… Mamdani Is Right. Israel Not Only Has VERY Deep Ties to the NYPD, But to Hundreds of American Police Departments This isnโ€™t antisemitism. It's fact. Itโ€™s a system connecting New York and hundreds of U.S. departments to Israeli tactics, tech, and doctrine.

www.thenorthstar.com/p/mamdani-is...

03.11.2025 20:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 78    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
Mike Johnson: โ€˜My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poorโ€™

Mike Johnson: โ€˜My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poorโ€™

Mike Johnson: โ€˜My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poorโ€™

03.11.2025 22:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29683    ๐Ÿ” 7829    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 874    ๐Ÿ“Œ 511

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103.

12 days of work in 103 days.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

03.11.2025 10:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21784    ๐Ÿ” 8399    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 764    ๐Ÿ“Œ 441

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

03.11.2025 19:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28425    ๐Ÿ” 8272    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2124    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2356
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Dear Western media - 'Israel' killing scores of Palestinians is definitely a ceasefire violation Ceasefire coverage lays bare the Western mainstream mediaโ€™s true colours โ€” blue, white, and definitely complicit

www.thecanary.co/global/world...

03.11.2025 08:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 74    ๐Ÿ” 35    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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The USDA is the fail safe for SNAP.

They have a contingency fund to ensure itโ€™s covered in the event of a shutdown.

Theyโ€™re refusing.

Grocery stores stepped up to try and help by offering discounts to any SNAP recipients and the USDA told them they had to stop.

Starvation as a policy choice.

03.11.2025 08:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8125    ๐Ÿ” 3520    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 280    ๐Ÿ“Œ 192
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Zionists are the terrorists.

03.11.2025 05:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 88    ๐Ÿ” 35    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
"You will never find Justice in a world where criminals make the rules."
~ Bob Marley

"You will never find Justice in a world where criminals make the rules." ~ Bob Marley

03.11.2025 12:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5230    ๐Ÿ” 1777    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 63    ๐Ÿ“Œ 51
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Hegseth bars military officials from discussing drug boat strikes with Congress without prior approval | CNN Politics The Office of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has disemminated a broad list of topics that DoD personnel are now required to seek prior approval on before engaging with Congress, which includes any ...

Itโ€™s really quite simpleโ€ฆ if you have to bar people from speaking to Congress about an operation, thereโ€™s a high likelihood that operation is not legal or morally defensible.

In the case of the boat bombings in Southcom, it appears to be straight up murder.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/02/p...

03.11.2025 10:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 144    ๐Ÿ” 58    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Top 10 US billionairesโ€™ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year โ€“ report Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights โ€“ but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap

$698 Billion. Thatโ€™s how much more wealth the 10 wealthiest Americans have just this year, as SNAP funds remain frozen. #unconscionable www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

03.11.2025 12:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 193    ๐Ÿ” 114    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21
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Influencer calls for feeding โ€˜prison loafโ€™ to poor people instead of SNAP benefits โ€” and sparks internet firestorm โ€œNutraloaf provides the correct incentives: you wonโ€™t starve and youโ€™ll be motivated to earn enough money to eat real food again,โ€ she added.

Serving suggestion: Prison loaf as punishment for being poor. #SNAP #foodstamps
nypost.com/2025/11/02/u...

03.11.2025 11:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Writers Against the War on Gaza proposes a boycott of the New York Times The exposure and discrediting of theย <em>Times</em>ย is an important task of political and intellectual hygiene, indispensable to the development of socialist consciousness.

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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