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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 6m

You’re right: shame on those dumbass Dem voters for growing sick of party whose leaders brunch on Martha’s Vineyard while they eke by, foisted ACA on them & declared it nirvana, helped murder 20K Gaza children, cosseted predatory lenders, oligarch thieves, etc, then brayed: “It’s us or worse, saps!”

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 20m

Jesus. In the annals of multilevel gross injustice, this is among most heartbreaking & shriek-inducing worst. WTF is wrong w gov apparatchik monsters who orchestrated multipart travesty? Original DA? ICE Gestapo? Pandering pols who legislate LWOP? smhifd I hope this guy gets huge payout.

Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 4h

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 5h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 40m

The Biden FBI used a time machine to teleport back & oppress the God-fearing & law-abiding marauders who stormed the Capitol?🤔

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 56m

😂😂😂 Kleptocristan

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 57m

2/2 The five are Alito, Barrett, Kavanaugh, Roberts, & Thomas. (Gorsuch was raised Catholic but now attends Episcopal church.) However, they put aside their religious teachings abt death penalty abomination, compassion for oppressed/suffering, etc when these clash w heartless GQP goals.

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 57m

1/2 This shld worry the Gestapo: “What we have been able to do for detainees for the past several years, which is written into Illinois law, was refused by this current Federal Government.”

The church taking a Christian position here wld also be significant: 5 FedSoc Sup Ct Justices are Catholic.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 6h

God I love Seattle—you all are crazy.😂

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 6h

💯Blinken shld never be able to show his face in public again—no restaurants, no theaters, no thanksgiving day gatherings, no Starbucks lattes: wherever he appears, he shld be forced to leave immediately, the b*****d. Same goes for other Biden gang war criminals.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 8h

High school newspapers are treated with more respect.

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 13h

Let’s be clear, the whole article is dubious. bsky.app/profile/ricf...

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 19h

Cowards: lifetime tenure, can say what they want where it shld be said, *their rulings,* not in anonymous “surveys.” Many ppl face grave risk defending rule of law w/o protections these “shadow critics” enjoy: let them speak openly. Best part was J. Wilkinson close, non sequitur, but always a treat.

Now the branches come too close to grinding irrevocably against one another in a
conflict that promises to diminish both. This is a losing proposition all around. The Judiciary will lose much from the constant intimations of its illegitimacy, to which by dent of custom and detachment we can only sparingly reply. The Executive will lose much from
a public perception of its lawlessness and all of its attendant contagions. The Executive
may succeed for a time in weakening the courts, but over time history will script the tragic
gap between what was and all that might have been, and law in time will sign its epitaph.
It is, as we have noted, all too possible to see in this case an incipient crisis, but it may present an opportunity as well. We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos. This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the
best that is within us while there is still time.

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, genocide is morally superior to barbarism.🤬

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 14h

100%. This is also why chances of actual civil war—yes, I said it & mean it—are dramatically increasing: masked goons are pitting our decency & compassion against desire to avoid armed conflict. Eventually, ppl will have had enough of watching our neighbors roughed up—enough of g.d. Kavanaugh stops.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16h

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 16h

May she rest in power. The Ukrainians get Viktoriia Roshchyna, Russians get Anna Politkovskaya. Maltese get Daphne Caruana Galizia. Hong Kong gets Jimmy Lai. We get Bari Weiss.

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 18h

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 18h

This is so beautiful, not ashamed to say it brought tears to my eyes. Pls just read it, anything I said wld only diminish it. But anyway here’s to better days ahead for all, no exceptions.🙏🏾🌹❤️

Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 19h

I tried to write about what these two years have done to us, on being human after Gaza and the 7th October

Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 19h

“For two whole years we have watched, seemingly helpless, as so little has been done and words, shouted in opposition, have been rendered silent,” writes @aloner.bsky.social.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 19h

Another great segment: militarization of “war on drugs” is here now & poses additional grave peril to the rule of law. At the risk of seeming contrarian, Machado receiving Nobel likely moves us closer to the invasion of Venezuela that Trump is salivating for: she practically invited him to attack.

Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 1d

Great to speak with @akelalacy.bsky.social and
@radleybalko.bsky.social on Trump's efforts to bring the War on Terror to the Caribbean -- and maybe the United States

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 1d

“There are a lot of parallels between what Trump is doing with immigration now and what we saw during the 1980s with the drug war. There was an effort to bring the military in.”

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 1d

Did you do this, @nytpitchbot.bsky.social?🤔

The New York Times
"As someone who played a part in the compact's initial formulation," the financier Marc Rowan writes of the Trump administration's plan for universities, "I would like to offer what insight I can into the motivation and need for the compact."
Opinion | Trump's 'Compact' With Universities Is Badly Needed
The government should not

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 19h

The guy who shld have won the Nobel prize, Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh, is still being held in an Israeli dungeon: *bring him home.*

Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh faces down an Israeli tank.

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 19h

3/3 *even James herself.*

Those warnings are now *literally* borne out.

So yes, Trump’s behavior is repugnant, Bondi is a disgrace, & we shld stand w James—*but it’s for same reason we shld have called out James & Bragg: prosecutors playing politics undermine the rule of law & that harms us all.*

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 19h

2/3 2018 on campaign to “get Trump” then mined for evidence to support dubious charge: “defrauding” lenders who knew Trump’s tricks & were repaid every penny he owed. Alvin Bragg also conjured up dubious charge.

At the time, many of us warned that *anyone* cld be “charged” by vindictive prosecutor,

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 19h

1/3 Am abt to lose followers here, but I’d rather keep my integrity, so this must be said, not for mob relishing Trump’s vindictive pursuit of Letitia James via weaponized DOJ, but for those who share w me revulsion at Trump’s horrible vendetta—but who, unlike me, ignore James’ past.

James ran in

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 19h

P.S. Beyond non sequitur, it warns of the very undermining of trust in judiciary this “survey” fuels. To be clear: IMO, entire fed judiciary shld be overhauled, FedSoc banned, Sup Ct stacked, number of judges tripled (every level), & civ pro rules overhauled to allow 99% back into court.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 19h

Cowards: lifetime tenure, can say what they want where it shld be said, *their rulings,* not in anonymous “surveys.” Many ppl face grave risk defending rule of law w/o protections these “shadow critics” enjoy: let them speak openly. Best part was J. Wilkinson close, non sequitur, but always a treat.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 1d

Did you do this, @nytpitchbot.bsky.social?🤔

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 1d

For the same reason Obama never played hardball: he cynically calculated that allowing Netanyahu & the Kahanists to commit unspeakable atrocities on the Palestinians wld net the Dems more votes than it wld lose, a conclusion that was both politically wrong & morally bankrupt.

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