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Igor Ristić

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Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Adjunct Faculty at Johns Hopkins University. Posts, likes, etc. my own. igorristic.com (he/him)

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Latest posts by igorristic.bsky.social on Bluesky

Karoline Leavitt is a complete disgrace.

Her violent and unhinged rhetoric is going to get someone killed.

These extremists are sick people.

16.10.2025 22:27 — 👍 17970    🔁 4424    💬 1140    📌 258
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Pentagon chief Hegseth more interested in pushups than talking with Illinois leaders, Pritzker says The governor said the Trump administration is keeping him in the dark about immigration enforcement and National Guard deployments.

Pete Hegseth was busy ignoring his job and doing pushups as part of a show for the Guinness Book of World Records while Illinoisans are being invaded by Trump’s military troops.

08.10.2025 00:05 — 👍 2423    🔁 597    💬 163    📌 34

Republicans control the White House, Senate, and House.

This government shutdown is on them.

02.10.2025 15:46 — 👍 5854    🔁 1566    💬 172    📌 48
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It was the worst flight of his life. Then he met his future wife | CNN When Anesu Masube’s mother passed away, he booked a last minute flight home. On board, he struck up conversation with fellow passenger Hannah Brown and the two found unexpected happiness in the wake o...

Positive story in these trying times.

02.10.2025 14:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | The Real Stakes of the Shutdown

“President Trump is seeking to deprive millions of Americans of their health insurance, and Senate Democrats are refusing to acquiesce.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

02.10.2025 03:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tribes and Students Sue Trump Administration Over Firings at Native Schools More than one quarter of the staff members at the only two federally run colleges for Native students were cut in February.
10.03.2025 02:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“With the White House’s betrayal of Ukraine capping a month of authoritarian chaos in America, Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us. “

01.03.2025 05:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Records show how DOGE planned Trump’s DEI purge — and who gets fired next A DOGE team plans to fire federal workers who are not in DEI roles and employees in offices that protect equal rights, internal documents show.

A team of workers from the U.S. DOGE Service developed step-by-step plans for carrying out President Donald Trump’s order to purge diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives from the federal government — and over the next six months intend to expand that campaign dramatically.

15.02.2025 14:14 — 👍 277    🔁 138    💬 71    📌 11

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11.02.2025 20:27 — 👍 123    🔁 68    💬 0    📌 13

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