@ripplepost.bsky.social
True Blue. Vote to win, not to "make a point". Unicorns don't exist.
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Yes, Trump’s cruelty IS staggering.
November 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Yes, Trump’s cruelty IS staggering.
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When @wired.com made FOIA-based stories free, subscriptions went up.
When @404media.co published public records reporting without a paywall, new sources came forward.
We spoke to both about why dropping paywalls like this is good for journalism — and for business.
When @404media.co published public records reporting without a paywall, new sources came forward.
We spoke to both about why dropping paywalls like this is good for journalism — and for business.
Wired and 404 Media make FOIA reporting free. Other news outlets should too
We spoke to Katie Drummond of Wired, Joseph Cox of 404 Media, and Lauren Harper of Freedom of the Press Foundation about the case for unpaywalling public records-based reporting
freedom.press
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"Trump Administration Finds Money For Troops, Says It's Too 'Difficult' To Pay Food Benefits"
They also are able to find money to deploy thousands of ICE agents into Democratic cities.
They also are able to find money to deploy thousands of ICE agents into Democratic cities.
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
"Trump Administration Finds Money For Troops, Says It's Too 'Difficult' To Pay Food Benefits"
They also are able to find money to deploy thousands of ICE agents into Democratic cities.
They also are able to find money to deploy thousands of ICE agents into Democratic cities.
People that support Trump think Pete Hegseth is a clown.
Let that sink in for a minute.
How bad do you have to be for MAGA to think you're incompetent?
Let that sink in for a minute.
How bad do you have to be for MAGA to think you're incompetent?
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
People that support Trump think Pete Hegseth is a clown.
Let that sink in for a minute.
How bad do you have to be for MAGA to think you're incompetent?
Let that sink in for a minute.
How bad do you have to be for MAGA to think you're incompetent?
www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...
I wish this was the Onion I'm linking and not the HuffPo. Just fucking insanity in the WH now. They are dismissing veteran journalists with middle schoolyard insults. It's embarrassing.
I wish this was the Onion I'm linking and not the HuffPo. Just fucking insanity in the WH now. They are dismissing veteran journalists with middle schoolyard insults. It's embarrassing.
White House Gives Wild Response To A Simple Question Asked By HuffPost Reporter
A simple query about Trump's choice of location for his upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin set off the president's spokespeople.
www.huffpost.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...
I wish this was the Onion I'm linking and not the HuffPo. Just fucking insanity in the WH now. They are dismissing veteran journalists with middle schoolyard insults. It's embarrassing.
I wish this was the Onion I'm linking and not the HuffPo. Just fucking insanity in the WH now. They are dismissing veteran journalists with middle schoolyard insults. It's embarrassing.
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They could easily stop these boats, arrest these suspected drug runners.
Instead they summarily execute them. No evidence, no trial, just death. And they are not committing a crime that is punishable by death in the US. This is a rogue administration.
www.huffpost.com/entry/hegset...
Instead they summarily execute them. No evidence, no trial, just death. And they are not committing a crime that is punishable by death in the US. This is a rogue administration.
www.huffpost.com/entry/hegset...
Hegseth Announces Latest Strike On Boat Near Venezuela After U.S. Declares ‘Armed Conflict’ With Cartels
Those strikes followed a buildup of U.S. maritime forces in the Caribbean unlike any seen in recent times.
www.huffpost.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
They could easily stop these boats, arrest these suspected drug runners.
Instead they summarily execute them. No evidence, no trial, just death. And they are not committing a crime that is punishable by death in the US. This is a rogue administration.
www.huffpost.com/entry/hegset...
Instead they summarily execute them. No evidence, no trial, just death. And they are not committing a crime that is punishable by death in the US. This is a rogue administration.
www.huffpost.com/entry/hegset...
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If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
October 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
All this time, NATO just had to buy Trump a private, luxury jumbo jet to get him on board...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Quietly Grants Defense Guarantee To Autocracy That Gave Him A Luxury Jet
Maybe Ukraine should have just given him a gold-plated 747.
www.huffpost.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
All this time, NATO just had to buy Trump a private, luxury jumbo jet to get him on board...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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One person having the power to upend entire industries and economic sectors on a whim every day that puts companies out of business and workers out of jobs with no legislative input is an autocracy, regardless of whether that person initially acquired power through an election.
September 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
One person having the power to upend entire industries and economic sectors on a whim every day that puts companies out of business and workers out of jobs with no legislative input is an autocracy, regardless of whether that person initially acquired power through an election.
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This has been on my mind since January 20. Trump is not acting like a man who has ANY concern about ANY future election(s). And I think that means exactly what we think it means.
Crow: They’re doing things that are deeply unpopular. Their approval ratings continue to go down—that is, Republican members of Congress and this administration—and yet they don’t seem worried about it.
Which raises the obvious question: what are they going to do?
Which raises the obvious question: what are they going to do?
September 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This has been on my mind since January 20. Trump is not acting like a man who has ANY concern about ANY future election(s). And I think that means exactly what we think it means.
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Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move.
1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year.
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year.
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
September 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move.
1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year.
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year.
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
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Three tariff announcements tonight, each one is dumber than the last. I don’t even know how to read this except as a way for the White House to exempt US pharma multinationals (who import a lot but are always building *something*) and push out smaller foreign competitors.
September 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Three tariff announcements tonight, each one is dumber than the last. I don’t even know how to read this except as a way for the White House to exempt US pharma multinationals (who import a lot but are always building *something*) and push out smaller foreign competitors.
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The Brits have such a way with words. You know. Those things with letter that help you define and say stuff about things.
September 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The Brits have such a way with words. You know. Those things with letter that help you define and say stuff about things.
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Preach! A reporter brave enough to call it what it is.
MSM, @cnn, @msnbc.com, @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy… take notes.
MSM, @cnn, @msnbc.com, @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy… take notes.
COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.
September 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Preach! A reporter brave enough to call it what it is.
MSM, @cnn, @msnbc.com, @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy… take notes.
MSM, @cnn, @msnbc.com, @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy… take notes.
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Election theft in broad daylight. 5 alarm fire🔥.
We are over the cliff. 🇺🇸
We are over the cliff. 🇺🇸
August 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Election theft in broad daylight. 5 alarm fire🔥.
We are over the cliff. 🇺🇸
We are over the cliff. 🇺🇸
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Here’s a 🔥🔥exchange between me and Mick Mulvaney during @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's brilliant interview of Mulvaney on Al Jazeera's Head to Head. The whole episode is worth a watch, and you can find it on @aljazeera.com's YouTube channel.
August 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Here’s a 🔥🔥exchange between me and Mick Mulvaney during @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's brilliant interview of Mulvaney on Al Jazeera's Head to Head. The whole episode is worth a watch, and you can find it on @aljazeera.com's YouTube channel.
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dan balz upon retiring his column after 47 years at the washington post:
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
August 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
dan balz upon retiring his column after 47 years at the washington post:
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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How can anyone trust anything that emerges from the BLS when the person in charge of the agency will almost certainly have to come up with data to Trump’s liking?
Answer: They cannot.
Trump has destroyed the credibility of this extraordinarily important source of information.
Answer: They cannot.
Trump has destroyed the credibility of this extraordinarily important source of information.
August 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
How can anyone trust anything that emerges from the BLS when the person in charge of the agency will almost certainly have to come up with data to Trump’s liking?
Answer: They cannot.
Trump has destroyed the credibility of this extraordinarily important source of information.
Answer: They cannot.
Trump has destroyed the credibility of this extraordinarily important source of information.
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I've been thinking about Starmer's response to Trump here since I saw the clip two days ago—the way he's just incapable of resisting him in any way.
TRUMP: I'm not a fan of your mayor. I think he's done a terrible job. The mayor of London. A nasty person.
STARMER: He's a friend of mine
TRUMP: I think he's done a terrible job
STARMER: He's a friend of mine
TRUMP: I think he's done a terrible job
July 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I've been thinking about Starmer's response to Trump here since I saw the clip two days ago—the way he's just incapable of resisting him in any way.
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uh…hunter biden for president?
Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.
July 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
uh…hunter biden for president?
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"Trump is a rapist and a con man, and yet the entire Christian church seems to be treat him like he’s their poster child and it’s unreal. I don’t understand it," said Alan Ritchson in a front page interview for The Hollywood Reporter.
Thank you Alan Ritchson.
Thank you Alan Ritchson.
July 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
"Trump is a rapist and a con man, and yet the entire Christian church seems to be treat him like he’s their poster child and it’s unreal. I don’t understand it," said Alan Ritchson in a front page interview for The Hollywood Reporter.
Thank you Alan Ritchson.
Thank you Alan Ritchson.
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"In each civilization some men run wild. If we're lucky, we control them early. If not . . . ."
Hoo boy. I'm reading James Michener's 1963 novel Caravans. This scene, which takes place in 1946, is between a former Nazi and an American diplomat. The Nazi calls it. 🧵
Hoo boy. I'm reading James Michener's 1963 novel Caravans. This scene, which takes place in 1946, is between a former Nazi and an American diplomat. The Nazi calls it. 🧵
July 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"In each civilization some men run wild. If we're lucky, we control them early. If not . . . ."
Hoo boy. I'm reading James Michener's 1963 novel Caravans. This scene, which takes place in 1946, is between a former Nazi and an American diplomat. The Nazi calls it. 🧵
Hoo boy. I'm reading James Michener's 1963 novel Caravans. This scene, which takes place in 1946, is between a former Nazi and an American diplomat. The Nazi calls it. 🧵