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Did Epstein’s Knowledge of Trump Become Putin’s Most Dangerous Weapon Against Ukraine?

January 11, 2026 at 4:35 PM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

Did Epstein’s Knowledge of Trump Become Putin’s Most Dangerous Weapon Against Ukraine?
hartmannreport.com/p/did-epstei...

From the halls of Mar-a-Lago to the ruins of Ukrainian hospitals, the toxic bond between Trump, Putin, and Epstein may have reshaped the world and cost the lives of countless children…

What? Really? Elon demands a $1 trillion pay package

November 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

Is Elon Worth It?
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Is he a net positive for humanity or a net negative?

NO KINGS Corona · Mobilize

October 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Corona” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

NO KINGS - Indivisible Inland Empire · Mobilize

October 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS - Indivisible Inland Empire” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

The Grave Danger—and Blinding Idiocy—of Trump's NSPM-7 | Common Dreams

October 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

The Grave Danger—and Blinding Idiocy—of Trump's NSPM-7 www.commondreams.org/opinion/what... scary stuff!

We cannot predict exactly how this authoritaruan presidential memo will be implemented or provide legal advice on the specific questions groups and individuals may have, but here, we lay out what the ...

William G Russell on Letters from an American

October 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

October 15, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... feelings 200%✌️❤️🤙

I'm a peace loving physicist and nature lover. I live in a MAGA community. Among the sea of red I'm a blue dot. I'm planning on arming myself. I hate guns! Hell I'm a white American indian! But ...

NO KINGS Riverside · Mobilize

October 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Riverside” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

Plenary Power: The Final Step in Trump’s American Autocracy

October 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

Plenary Power: The Final Step in Trump’s American Autocracy
hartmannreport.com/p/plenary-po...

How the Insurrection Act could become the 21st-century Enabling Act, with six justices and the GOP standing by…

NO KINGS Riverside · No Kings

October 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Riverside” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

The DOJ Just Hired a Man Who Cheered for Cops to Be Killed

September 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

The DOJ Just Hired a Man Who Cheered for Cops to Be Killed
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

He called Capitol police “Nazis” and screamed “Kill ’em!” Now he’s working at the Department of Justice.

It's Come To This on Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

August 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

It’s 1984
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

One of the most disturbing aspects of our new, disturbed reality is that our legacy media now regularly pick up stuff like this firing of a competent civil servant, reprint it, re-broadcast it, re-pub...

Bribes, Bias, and South Park: Trump’s Authoritarian Agenda Hits Primetime

August 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

Bribes, Bias, and South Park: Trump’s Authoritarian Agenda Hits Primetime
hartmannreport.com/p/bribes-bia...

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Urgent Message to Progressives: Infiltrate Your Local Democratic Party Before It's Too Late | Common Dreams

July 31, 2025 at 12:48 AM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

Urgent Message to Progressives: Infiltrate Your Local Democratic Party Before It's Too Late www.commondreams.org/opinion/tran...

Take over the party from the inside, from the bottom up.

Bribes, Bias, and South Park: Trump’s Authoritarian Agenda Hits Primetime

July 30, 2025 at 2:24 AM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

Bribes, Bias, and South Park: Trump’s Authoritarian Agenda Hits Primetime
hartmannreport.com/p/bribes-bia...

A Daily Newsletter of Renaissance Thinking about Progressive Politics, Economics, Science, and the Political News Issues of Our Day

Colbert, The Washington Post, Columbia University … and on it goes

July 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

The silencing open.substack.com/pub/robertre... This is how democracy dies!

The silencing

Families First with SEIU and Friends in Riverside! · Families First Mobilizations

July 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

I'm attending Families First Mobilizations's event, “Families First with SEIU and Friends in Riverside!” - sign up now to join me! #FamiliesFirst www.mobilize.us/familiesfirs...

On July 26, Americans in every corner of the country will come together in peaceful marches, rallies, and actions to say: our families come first—not billionaires, not authoritarians, and not corrupt ...

First thing this morning, Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X a statement from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying that under Bondi’s direction, he had talked to the lawyers for Ghislaine M...

July 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

July 22, 2025
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July 22, 2025

The three ways Trump is shafting his base

July 23, 2025 at 7:13 AM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

The three ways Trump is shafting his base
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

It’s the economy, stupid

Death Rattle of a Cult: Trump, Epstein, and the Long Knives of the Right...

July 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

Death Rattle of a Cult: Trump, Epstein, and the Long Knives of the Right...
open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

With Fox sharpening the blade and MAGA losing its grip, America teeters on the edge of a political Jonestown...

Trump Praises Jesus, Then Attacks Immigrants and the People Defending Them | Common Dreams

July 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

Trump Praises Jesus, Then Attacks Immigrants and the People Defending Them www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

We are not sure what Bible President Trump is reading. But it bears no resemblance to the sacred text we have studied and loved for our entire lives.

GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: Corona, CA · John Lewis Actions

July 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

I'm attending John Lewis Actions's event, “GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: Corona, CA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-a...

Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration and to remind them that in America, the power lie...

The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny

July 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny
www.telos.news/p/luttig-the...

Twenty-seven truths about America, our Democracy and Rule of Law, and our rights, freedoms, and liberties.

www.telos.news

July 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM

Raymond Edwards

@rayedwards.bsky.social

A remarkable message
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

A remarkable message

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