Rick Schrenker
@rickschren54.bsky.social
Retired clinical engineer. Focus risk mgmt and systems engr. 40+ yrs at Hopkins and Mass General. Married 49+ yrs. 3 kids, 6 grands. ELCA Lutheran. Social democrat. Indivisible postcard writer.
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Think about all the good we could do if we halved our military budget.
December 6, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Think about all the good we could do if we halved our military budget.
This
Chaos Is Coming
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
If we can't get this destructive, asinine regime out of power soon they will permanently damage our relationships around the world. This damage will not only hurt us strategically, but financially as well.
#MAGATraitors #CongressionalCowards
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If we can't get this destructive, asinine regime out of power soon they will permanently damage our relationships around the world. This damage will not only hurt us strategically, but financially as well.
#MAGATraitors #CongressionalCowards
Chaos Is Coming
America helped keep the (relative) peace for 80 years. Not anymore.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @moulton.house.gov @aoc.bsky.social @ayannapressley.bsky.social @ilhanmn.bsky.social
PLEASE call him out on this.
Ask him how his position reflects his Christian values.
Don’t just post to this echo chamber. And get your colleagues involved.
Make Healthcare Matter!
PLEASE call him out on this.
Ask him how his position reflects his Christian values.
Don’t just post to this echo chamber. And get your colleagues involved.
Make Healthcare Matter!
Poor people affording health care is "sinister."
Mike Johnson on the ACA: "I wish we could rip it out from the roots and start over but it's so deeply ingrained. It's sinister in that way. But it has broken the system and what we have to do is go in and reform in. We have lots of ideas."
December 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @moulton.house.gov @aoc.bsky.social @ayannapressley.bsky.social @ilhanmn.bsky.social
PLEASE call him out on this.
Ask him how his position reflects his Christian values.
Don’t just post to this echo chamber. And get your colleagues involved.
Make Healthcare Matter!
PLEASE call him out on this.
Ask him how his position reflects his Christian values.
Don’t just post to this echo chamber. And get your colleagues involved.
Make Healthcare Matter!
Hell will freeze over before our free press says the quiet part out loud.
We are governed by the 21st century’s equivalent of the Nazi party.
We are governed by the 21st century’s equivalent of the Nazi party.
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Hell will freeze over before our free press says the quiet part out loud.
We are governed by the 21st century’s equivalent of the Nazi party.
We are governed by the 21st century’s equivalent of the Nazi party.
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Pete Hague-seth seems to think the expression "The Fog of War" is literal. It is not. It is a metaphor, and one that would not excuse executing shipwrecked passengers you can clearly see on your video screen.
December 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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#Trump pardoned Tim Leiweke — who his own DOJ indicted in July for rigging a public university’s arena bid—
It’s all a grift — Saudis to crypto to pardon seekers — everything gets turned into a revenue stream. With 1,500+ pardons already, clemency is a monetized market
It’s all a grift — Saudis to crypto to pardon seekers — everything gets turned into a revenue stream. With 1,500+ pardons already, clemency is a monetized market
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
#Trump pardoned Tim Leiweke — who his own DOJ indicted in July for rigging a public university’s arena bid—
It’s all a grift — Saudis to crypto to pardon seekers — everything gets turned into a revenue stream. With 1,500+ pardons already, clemency is a monetized market
It’s all a grift — Saudis to crypto to pardon seekers — everything gets turned into a revenue stream. With 1,500+ pardons already, clemency is a monetized market
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3 Questions:
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
December 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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3 Questions:
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
3 Questions:
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
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Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.
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The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
Why am I reminded of the WMDs that weren’t in Iraq?
Because there’s no evidence to support bombing those boats, either.
And by assuring the boats are destroyed and sunk at sea, Hegseth is ensuring that, unlike in Iraq, a search for evidence cannot occur.
The United States has become a WMD.
Because there’s no evidence to support bombing those boats, either.
And by assuring the boats are destroyed and sunk at sea, Hegseth is ensuring that, unlike in Iraq, a search for evidence cannot occur.
The United States has become a WMD.
The Secretary of Defense taking extrajudicial killing requests from podcast hosts
December 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Why am I reminded of the WMDs that weren’t in Iraq?
Because there’s no evidence to support bombing those boats, either.
And by assuring the boats are destroyed and sunk at sea, Hegseth is ensuring that, unlike in Iraq, a search for evidence cannot occur.
The United States has become a WMD.
Because there’s no evidence to support bombing those boats, either.
And by assuring the boats are destroyed and sunk at sea, Hegseth is ensuring that, unlike in Iraq, a search for evidence cannot occur.
The United States has become a WMD.
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Reports now said that Kegbreath told Admiral Holsey that the military will follow all order & not to question any of them. Holsey stated the strikes are illegal & Kegbreath said do it or step down & retired. Holsey step down & retired.
allaboutlawyer.com/admiral-alvi...
allaboutlawyer.com/admiral-alvi...
Admiral Alvin Holsey Retires Friday After Clash With Hegseth Over Venezuela Strikes
Admiral Alvin Holsey retires December 12, 2025 after one year leading SOUTHCOM. Breaking news on tensions with Hegseth over Caribbean strikes.
allaboutlawyer.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Reports now said that Kegbreath told Admiral Holsey that the military will follow all order & not to question any of them. Holsey stated the strikes are illegal & Kegbreath said do it or step down & retired. Holsey step down & retired.
allaboutlawyer.com/admiral-alvi...
allaboutlawyer.com/admiral-alvi...
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Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map
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The whole play of Trumpism: convincing working class people to blame other working class people—so billionaires can keep robbing us all.
Donald Trump Jr-backed start-up scores $600mn US federal government deal
President’s son’s fund 1789 Capital poised to capitalise from father’s administration
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The whole play of Trumpism: convincing working class people to blame other working class people—so billionaires can keep robbing us all.
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Well...the mere fact that U.S. has the 5th largest number of incarcerated people per capita in the world after countries which republicunts would consider "shitholes" and the largest number among Western countries, makes U.S. the *last* country in the world to lecture about freedom.
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Well...the mere fact that U.S. has the 5th largest number of incarcerated people per capita in the world after countries which republicunts would consider "shitholes" and the largest number among Western countries, makes U.S. the *last* country in the world to lecture about freedom.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle. - POLITICO Magazine share.google/EAjwwGvMJgAj...
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle. - POLITICO Magazine share.google/EAjwwGvMJgAj...
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"I don't think I'm going to come to these anymore. People are putting words in my mouth."
December 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
"I don't think I'm going to come to these anymore. People are putting words in my mouth."
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He can start a nuclear war.
Do any of you get that?
He can start a nuclear war.
Do any of you get that?
Reading this feels like being yelled at by a calculator having a stroke.
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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He can start a nuclear war.
Do any of you get that?
He can start a nuclear war.
Do any of you get that?
Evil incarnate:
Trump
Hegseth
Kennedy
Noem
And others who get less press coverage.
Trump
Hegseth
Kennedy
Noem
And others who get less press coverage.
There is absolutely no bottom. They will kill and murder and steal and break the law and laugh at every rule and institution until they are stopped. They think they are all-powerful and all conventional rules of morality and legality do not apply to them.
December 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Evil incarnate:
Trump
Hegseth
Kennedy
Noem
And others who get less press coverage.
Trump
Hegseth
Kennedy
Noem
And others who get less press coverage.
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Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?