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Rob Rasmussen

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Adherent of biologically-inspired engineering for medical and sustainability causes; immunology/vaccinologist; lifetime cyclist; mis-information is spread thru fear and rage. Not a blue dot in a red state but I am Yankee fan living in Boston

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Rob Rasmussen @roba83.bsky.social · Feb 17

Do not forget that Trump's first action was to release 1,500 violent criminals who once fought for him and now owe him. So in true gangster regime style, he started all this with an army of thugs who could threaten, overtly or tacitly, anyone (and their families) in his way. GOP capitulation anyone?

Rob Rasmussen @roba83.bsky.social · 3h

A perfect time to have fired 1000 CDC employees....and to have cut funding on alternative antibiotic research

Rob Rasmussen @roba83.bsky.social · 3h

Will airlines now have "reclining sections" and "non-reclining" sections a la smoking/non-smoking from yesteryear? I suppose behind the non-reclining section will be the pew, or bench, section of the airplane and at the back, the strap-hangers?

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12h

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

Rob Rasmussen @roba83.bsky.social · 19h

I think this will become THE major issue next year, 2nd only to the quickly arriving recession: the incessant lying and fabrications of "reality" that has been going on for 4 decades by the GOP (see "Trickle-Down Economics") to indirectly (see "Side-Issue Politics") make the rich richer.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

This Is Fascism

Rob Rasmussen @roba83.bsky.social · 1d

You have to actually face a real offense to claim you have a great defense. Broncos faced NO offense today.

Rob Rasmussen @roba83.bsky.social · 1d

I'm ALMOST okay with Trump's false facade, but have a real problem with full-out #FoxNews broadcasting it AS reality for 10 yrs & the entire GOP speaking out that this bullshit IS the truth when it is not.
This non-reality TV show dictating policy for half our government & country has got to end.

Leonard Goldberg @leonardgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. It's his strategy to use democrats as his foil - he and his supporters are patriots, democrats are terrorists and enemies of the state. The division creates space for him to roll back freedoms and make a buck for his family.

Rob Rasmussen @roba83.bsky.social · 2d

Afraid to be called a "very nasty person"? Ask about reality...ask why he won't tell the truth.

Rob Rasmussen @roba83.bsky.social · 2d

...and THIS is supposed to make us great again?

Nope, it makes us feeble and crude

Rob Rasmussen @roba83.bsky.social · 2d

La-di-da, La-di-da

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Rob Rasmussen @roba83.bsky.social · 2d

Hey #NYTimes, how about:

"Trump and Allies, Eager to Confirm their Views on the City, Amplify Influencers LIES"?

There - I fixed it for you so stop with your damned false equivalence suggesting bylines

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

Rob Rasmussen @roba83.bsky.social · 2d

Trumps just LOVES his style.....

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

Rob Rasmussen @roba83.bsky.social · 2d

To half the country that is living in an alternate universe of lies that support their beliefs, his criminal activity and crimes are commendable!

Rob Rasmussen @roba83.bsky.social · 2d

But not to worry - Trump Cabinet members easily beat out the degree of obsequiousness North Koreans show their leader. Kim Jong Un is probably jealous of the reflexive ass-kissing Trump receives from his Cabinet.

Rob Rasmussen @roba83.bsky.social · 3d

And the effects on the lives of those personnel???? Trump gave it no thought, and certainly no empathy because the lazy fuck has never had to fucking apply for, let alone work, a job in his life!

Rob Rasmussen @roba83.bsky.social · 3d

Not just Trump. We have an entire political party supporting this facade of reality, each having rehearsed and memorized their lines for so long to support the biggest gaslighting grift ever that they now live in that altered reality - all character actors living their roles.

Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 3d

You should not control a nuclear arsenal if you cannot tell the difference between fiction and reality. The story needs to be told through the lens of mental illness

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 3d

Trump has gone totally mad. It's 25th Amendment time all day, every day. He's living in a totally invented, fictional world. And he's old and in ill-health.

It's outrageous, reckless, choose your word that Republicans haven't done more to deal with this.

Rob Rasmussen @roba83.bsky.social · 3d

I never thought myself a terrorist but seems I will be gaining that moniker....proudly

Rob Rasmussen @roba83.bsky.social · 3d

Trump-released-from-Federal-prison Proud Boys just doing what they gotta do....

For the next 50 years, the rest of the world will think of and picture in their minds Trump, Trump and more Trump when they are asked for their 1st thought when they think of the U.S!

How the fuck did we get here?

Rob Rasmussen @roba83.bsky.social · 3d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

This is well beyond Big Brother. This is well beyond invasion of privacy. This is the stuff of sick minds.

The E.P.A. Followed Up on an Unusual Request About Abortion Pills

www.nytimes.com

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scubapopeye.bsky.social @scubapopeye.bsky.social · 8d

Hate to break it to you sunshine but if you or anyone you know has been on the fence for the last year you need to pick a side.

Are you going to side with people who zip tie babies and drag black and brown people away ?

Or are you going to side with the rest of us?

Pick a side.

Now!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

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Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov · 5d

Ran into Speaker Johnson and told him exactly how I feel about Republicans shutting down the government to protect pedophiles and jack up health care costs for 24 million Americans.

Rob Rasmussen @roba83.bsky.social · 4d

Everything has to be like it was when he was a kid, when non-whites knew their place like his father taught him.

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Howie @howardbr.bsky.social · 5d

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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 18d

Especially when 70M people as stupid vote for them…