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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 1m

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 · 2h

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 3h

“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 · 2h

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 · 18h

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 · 22h

“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 · 8h

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 · 2h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 8h

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

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 9h

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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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 18h

JFC: Bill Kristol quoting *Dylan Thomas* on “resistance” & being shared by progressives, as if he’s not abettor of unspeakable harms inflicted on countless souls, all non-white or poor. WTF does it take for ppl to understand how this sits w those who endured his blows for decades? smhid

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwa... • 1h
"So we fight on just the same.
With Dylan Thomas, we refuse to go quietly into that good night, but rather rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Or, as another poet put it, 'Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.'"
open.substack.com/pub/ thebulwa...

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 18h

I wouldn’t characterize it that way at all: more like our version of the Reichstag fire being lit & stoked right before our eyes.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 19h

Correct: bsky.app/profile/ricf...

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent overview. “Witch-hunt” is overused. But farcical mobilization against manufactured antifa “threat” is modern equivalent: mob w pitchforks have no clue what it is or how it’s being used by cunning politicians. Trump/GQP keep finding new preposterous ways to tighten our national spiral.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely merits sending in US troops. Lord Farquaad’s glorious ICE agents will not be mocked this way.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah, shame on the press for forcing Adams to engage in fraudulent campaign finance bundling, accept lavish gifts from Turkey, “forget” his iPhone passcode (😂😂😂), & cut a deal w Tom Homan trading assistance on Trump anti-immigrant policies for dropping criminal charges: it’s all the media’s fault.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 21h

Does Bigelow have any Arabs or Muslims tortured again?🤔

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 1d

Reposting deleted post: "María Corina Machado, who just won Nobel, says Thatcher is her hero, wants to privatize Venezuela’s oil co, & says outside military intervention only way to oust Maduro. Trump may have lost Nobel but won easier path to invasion he so covets." Looks like I deleted too soon?

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 1d

We went from one genocidal sundowner surrounded by enabling sycophants to another. God help us.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely merits sending in US troops. Lord Farquaad’s glorious ICE agents will not be mocked this way.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 1d

“The fired diplomat discussed the relationship while being secretly recorded by another woman he met through a dating app who was working undercover for a site run by the conservative media figure James O’Keefe.” JFC. Reprehensible monsters.

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 1d

Only in Dumbassistan.🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

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