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Pete Dominick @petedominick.bsky.social · 1d

Always great to be a guest on the Rick Smith show!

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“Laughing in the Face of Authoritarianism: How Comedy Just Beat Trump’s FCC”
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“Laughing in the Face of Authoritarianism: How Comedy Just Beat Trump’s FCC”

On the Rick Smith Show, comedian and podcaster Pete Dominick offers a mix of levity and urgency in addressing America’s political crisis.

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 1d

“Laughing in the Face of Authoritarianism: How Comedy Just Beat Trump’s FCC”
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“Laughing in the Face of Authoritarianism: How Comedy Just Beat Trump’s FCC”

On the Rick Smith Show, comedian and podcaster Pete Dominick offers a mix of levity and urgency in addressing America’s political crisis.

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 1d

Graham Trainor, President of the @oregonaflcio.bsky.social joins me to Expose Trump's Authoritarian Power Grab Against American Workers
#PortlandIsNotBurning
#PortlandProtests
#portlandstrong

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“Trump’s Troops in Portland? Union Leader Exposes ‘Authoritarian Power Grab’ Against American Workers”

On the Rick Smith Show, Graham Trainor, president of the Oregon AFL-CIO, talks about the Trump administration’s attempt to federalize National Guard troops from Texas and other states to deploy in Por...

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 2d

Labor lawyer David Borer talks about Trump's Secret Plan Kill Guaranteed Pay After Shutdown

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#WarOnWorkers

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“Federal Workers Betrayed? Secret Trump Plan Could Kill Your Guaranteed Pay After Shutdown”

On the Rick Smith Show, Rick speaks with labor attorney David Borer of Gilbert Employment Law about the Trump administration’s latest attack on federal workers through the manipulation of shutdown pol...

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 2d

For every person in the comments making dumbass comments about these soldiers. F$%king stop it. Your anger should be directed at those who sent these people into this mess. Let's unite around the idea that there is 1 a-hole in this situation and these people are NOT the one.

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 3d

Alex Lawson Exposes Trump's Attack on Social Security

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Alex Lawson Exposes Trump's Attack on Social Security

On the Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, about how the Trump administration’s government shutdown and Project 2025 agenda are being used to dis...

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 3d

RI @aflcio.org president Patrick Crowley is suing the Trump administration over Trump's assault on future investments and his War on Workers. Watch here.
#waronworkers #1u #union

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RI AFL-CIO President Patrick Crowley Sues Trump Administration

On the Rick Smith Show, Rick speaks with Patrick Crowley, president of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO, about the Trump administration’s targeted dismantling of clean energy initiatives through a calculated ...

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 3d

I can't get Moon Unit Zappa's "Valley Girl" song out of my head. Especially the line, "Barf me out
Gag me with a spoon!"

This is Kristi Neom, the head of Homeland Security. I know I feel safer.

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 3d

By new legal analysis he means we just made shit up.

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Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 4d

Need something to get your rage going? Check out my conversation with @weareliuna.bsky.social president Brent Booker

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LIUNA President Brent Booker talks War on Workers

On The Rick Smith Show, LIUNA President Brent Booker addressed the profound impact of the Trump led government shutdown on construction workers and the nation’s infrastructure.

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 8d

High school never ends.

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 9d

Check out my conversation with @bbkogan.bsky.social budget guru @americanprogressaction.org about the #govermentshutdown

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Bobby Kogan Breaks Down Shutdown

On The Rick Smith Show, Rick interviews Bobby Kogan, Senior Director of Budget Policy at the Center for American Progress, about the looming government shutdown and the misinformation circulating arou...

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 9d

Check out my conversation with @pogo.org analyst @virginiajburger.bsky.social as we discuss whatever that was that Hegseth & Trump did in front of America's rop military leaders.

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Sr. Defense Analyst Virginia Burger Explains the Trump Quantico Circus

On The Rick Smith Show, Virginia Burger, Senior Defense Policy Analyst at the Project on Government Oversight, critically dissected the recent Trump-Hegseth “dog and pony show” at Quantico, where hund...

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 9d

This. Bad.

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Trump Administration to Withhold $18 Billion for N.Y.C. Transit Projects

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 9d

Why is MAGA upset about Bad Bunny? Didn't they give up on the NFL when taking a knee was their outrage candy?

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 9d

Welcome to the shutdown Trump and the GOP wanted.

a stamp that says epic fail in red letters

ALT: a stamp that says epic fail in red letters

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 10d

Which is most worthless?
A) Donald Trump's word
B) Donald Trump's handshake
C) a signed contract with Donald Trump
D) All of the Above

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 10d

Check out my latest interview with RI @aflcio.org president Patrick Crowley as we talk big win for workers.

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Rhode Island AFL-CIO President Patrick Crowley Explains Historic Worker Victory

On The Rick Smith Show, Rhode Island AFL-CIO President Patrick Crowley celebrated a landmark labor peace agreement between SouthCoast Wind and New England labor unions, marking a first in the U.S.

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 10d

The movie Idiocracy was not meant to be a documentary or aspirational challenge.

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 10d

You have to give Trump credit for the genius of word salad insanity. There are so many half thoughts, whiny grievances, self aggrandizing, and imaginary history in one speech that there can be no focused attack on it. If there were ever a moment where the 25th Amendment was used now is it.

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 10d

25th amendment NOW.

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 10d

Honest question. WTF is Trump talking about and don't our military leaders have anything better to do? Maybe they could borrow the yellow vests from the National Guard in DC to take out the trash.

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 10d

I Love Trump's comedy genius. His telling of animals on the ground shooting at firemen in trees way up there on ladders is pure comic gold.

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Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 10d

I am curious what my friends who served in the military think of Donald Trump's Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's speech today? Is the military too weak and woke?

Rick Smith Show @ricksmithshow.bsky.social · 10d

Watching Pete Hegseth's performance, I prefer Jack Nicholson's version.

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