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Rick Schrenker

@rickschren54.bsky.social

Retired clinical engineer. Focus risk mgmt and systems engr. 40+ yrs at Hopkins and Mass General. Married 50+ yrs. 3 kids, 6 grands. ELCA Lutheran. Social democrat. Indivisible postcard writer.

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Post image 12.02.2026 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 10329    πŸ” 2945    πŸ’¬ 185    πŸ“Œ 102

Good God, Governor.

They all have to go.

11.02.2026 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congress needs to grow a pair and release the freaking Epstein Files, damnit.
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein,
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein,
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein,
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein,
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein,
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein,
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein.

10.02.2026 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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10.02.2026 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 17287    πŸ” 3796    πŸ’¬ 1134    πŸ“Œ 702

I think Shakespeare said it best.

What assholes these Republicans be …

09.02.2026 04:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The problem is AI treated the story as factual.

09.02.2026 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Make America Great Again Inc PAC Donors Individual donors gave Individual donors gave 387 large ($200+) contributions to Make America Great Again Inc PAC in the 2023-2024 election cycle. See the details.

They won’t give up their hate. They can’t without having to come to terms with they were taken for fools and used again.

But … if they DO figure out that Trump and MAGA Inc used them, they will gi after MAGA Inc with a vengeance.

www.opensecrets.org/political-ac...

09.02.2026 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No. Everyone does not necessarily remember. Trump makes up shit every day, and they believe him.

We won’t change that dynamic by stating what we believe to be obvious in an echo chamber.

09.02.2026 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tell Amazon: End contracts with ICE! On Cyber Monday 2025, Amazon workers rallied outside of Amazon’s NYC headquarters to demand that Amazon stop fueling mass deportations through Amazon Web Services’ contracts with ICE and DHS. ICE can...

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09.02.2026 00:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jury awards $28M to man beaten β€˜senseless’ in prison in custody of CoreCivic β€’ Tennessee Lookout GREAT FALLS, WYOMING β€” A federal jury in Great Falls unanimously found CoreCivic liable for failing to protect a former inmate who was β€œnearly beaten to death” at its Shelby prison and awarded the man...

They have a history. Look it up and share it.

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09.02.2026 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
CoreCivic Lawsuit | American Diabetes Association

Plenty more where this came from:

diabetes.org/advocacy/kno...

09.02.2026 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Settlement In Forced Labor Case Against Private Prison Company Operating Immigration Detention Center Plaintiffs allege CoreCivic forced them to work for as little as $1 per day by threatening punishment, including solitary confinement and deprivation of basic necessities

Plenty more like this:

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09.02.2026 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NEW EPSTEIN SURVIVORS AD: β€œ3 million files still not released β€” stand with us. Tell AG Pam Bondi to release the files. It’s time for the truth.”

08.02.2026 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 7142    πŸ” 2714    πŸ’¬ 117    πŸ“Œ 94
Malcolm Butler Super Bowl Interception Radio Calls
YouTube video by Colin Fitzgerald Malcolm Butler Super Bowl Interception Radio Calls

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08.02.2026 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

08.02.2026 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 38035    πŸ” 14356    πŸ’¬ 1392    πŸ“Œ 748
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ICE’s Private Prison Contractors Spent Millions Lobbying to Force Banks to Give Them Loans Major banks have denied financing to ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic β€” but a bill pushed by companies could force their hand.

@warren.senate.gov @moulton.house.gov

Do NOT permit passing legislation forcing banks to fund these purveyors of death. None of your vote trading games or bullshit..

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Monitor them!

theintercept.com/2026/02/05/p...

08.02.2026 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Releasing it to where?

How will people not in social media echo chambers see it?

08.02.2026 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’d like to report a VP candidate.

07.02.2026 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

… to …

07.02.2026 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yet more evidence to support the argument that β€œsoftware engineer” is an oxymoron.

07.02.2026 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Vivien Thomas: Something the Lord Made | About the Hero American surgeon who fought through racial prejudice and the Great Depression to become a medical research assistant and create the surgical procedure to cure "blue baby syndrome."

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07.02.2026 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In a democracy, we are supposed to feel like we have control over our lives because the people control the government.

But in the U.S., people feel like our lives are out of control because the people don’t control the federal government.

06.02.2026 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 14367    πŸ” 2726    πŸ’¬ 584    πŸ“Œ 147
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Opinion | The Real Threat Isn’t Trump. It’s the MAGA Apparatus.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

07.02.2026 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The US is traumatizing thousands of kids in detention camps. But we are also traumatizing *millions* of kids who are in hiding or fear their parents being snatched.

Like how we have tens of thousands of kids who have survived school shootings, and a whole generation shaped by active shooter drills.

06.02.2026 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 7479    πŸ” 2288    πŸ’¬ 299    πŸ“Œ 104

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07.02.2026 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I block them

07.02.2026 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Finneas and Billie

Finneas and Billie

Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.

06.02.2026 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 40259    πŸ” 9259    πŸ’¬ 354    πŸ“Œ 273

The leaders of the Democratic Party go to $25,000 a plate dinners. The people who pay for those plates would not be happy if said Democrats passed the kind of legislation you want them to.

For now, they’re the best way out of this morass. But they’re not change agents.

07.02.2026 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They should get to visit the Hague

06.02.2026 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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