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Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸

@whirob15.bsky.social

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Gen X dad & spouse 4 honesty and truth in media and politics, freedom, democracy, sustainability, humanity, and altruism. Stop the treasons of the tyrannical! No to crypto-crookery, #Protect #MotherEarth #Solidarity! #NoKings #OneMillionRising 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

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Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸 @whirob15.bsky.social · 29d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

Witkoff and Trump crypto and ai UAE World Liberty Financial
#corruption #nyt #reporting #documentation

Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.

www.nytimes.com

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 3d

New column:

Palestinians’ Fate: Victims of Genocide While Alive, Vastly Uncounted By the Media When They Are Killed - Ralph Nader

By Ralph Nader October 10, 2025 Ben Hubbard, the long-time Middle East correspondent for the New York Times, is known for his high standards. So too is Karen DeYoung, the long-time reporter and foreig...

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Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸 @whirob15.bsky.social · 1m

Was Humpty pushed?

I went past a church with a billboard that said, “Humpty Dumpty was pushed.”

"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty together again.”

Screenshot of Internet search about whether Humpty was pushed or fell accidentally

Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸 @whirob15.bsky.social · 5m

Sloppy Jim

Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸 @whirob15.bsky.social · 1h

Do tariffs equal taxation without representation

Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸 @whirob15.bsky.social · 3h

newsom2028.substack.com/p/defend-dem...

Governor Pritzker is ringing an alarm bell, and he hopes you will heed the call.

#NoKings

Defend democracy on October 18

It's time to stand up for democracy, or we become victims of tyranny.

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Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸 @whirob15.bsky.social · 3h

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Active v. Inert citizenship

Trump’s Shutdown: Can The Democrats Save Healthcare? w/ Sen. Chris Murphy

YouTube video by This is Gavin Newsom

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · Aug 19

My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.

I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.

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Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸 @whirob15.bsky.social · 6h

Do you think Fox is talking about this in the national talking heads shows?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21h

"Support the troops, y'all!"

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Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸 @whirob15.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks, I wanted to encourage her support for Graham Plattners run.

Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸 @whirob15.bsky.social · 8h

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Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸 @whirob15.bsky.social · 8h

Ms. Governor Janet Mills — please 🙏 reconsider your decision to split the field, and consider supporting the younger candidate.
#solidarity

Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸 @whirob15.bsky.social · 8h

Ms. Governor Janet Mills — please 🙏 reconsider your decision to split the field, and consider supporting the younger candidate.
#solidarity

Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸 @whirob15.bsky.social · 8h

Gov. Janet Mills of Maine to Run for Senate, Aiming at Senator Susan Collins www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Gov. Janet Mills of Maine to Run for Senate, Aiming at Senator Susan Collins

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21h

Let's be clear: If North Carolina Republicans gerrymander their already illegal map further, they will be sued and they will lose.

I never bluff and I usually win.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23h

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸 @whirob15.bsky.social · 9h

Can’t imagine how people are carrying on traveling like usual in light of the fascism.

Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸 @whirob15.bsky.social · 9h

In other words he will be going on a racist witch hunt to find some black and brown people to subject them to wrongful termination.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes, air traffic controllers must show up for work without pay, but Congress can take the day off. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he’ll be making “necessary cuts” to the department, because nothing fixes staffing shortages quite like firing more people.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

It’s genuinely alarming that the official DHS account is talking like this. This isn’t a parody account, it’s a federal agency using the tone of an online teenage bully to respond to fair public criticism.

DHS Twitter account responding to Maria Cardona

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Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸 @whirob15.bsky.social · 9h

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Seems like Trump White
House tariff scheme is a
Good place to look for
A place to blame for
harm to the global
Economy.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 4d

Thou shalt not shoot pastors in the head with smoke bombs. I shouldn’t have to say this.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

The Atlantic is the latest news organization that refuses to sign the Pentagon's new press pass policy.

Editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg says the new restrictions violate the First Amendment and the rights of Americans to know how the taxpayer-funded military is being deployed.

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Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸 @whirob15.bsky.social · 9h

“Israel needs to deliver”: Europe’s private fears over Trump’s plan for Gaza - POLITICO

Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸 @whirob15.bsky.social · 14h

Let’s not wait for them to further gerrymander before suing them!!!

All these red states that have illegal gerrymandering’s it would be great to go after them and hold them accountable. Power to the people!

Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸 @whirob15.bsky.social · 14h

I just wanna know why netandYahoo supported Hamas and didn’t stop the October 7 attack before it occurred!

Rob Whitlock 🚫👑🇺🇸 @whirob15.bsky.social · 14h

I’m glad that hostages are being exchanged. But I don’t trust Netanyahu and I don’t trust Trump. Gaza from what I have seen in photos is decimated, all but completely razed. So what now. #winter #Israel #Palestinians

(Still need a two state solution. With equality and justice under the law.)

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