Howard Roark
@howardroark8669.bsky.social
Ex-GOP classical liberal. Be kind to others #NeverTrump from day 1 until the end of time
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Howard Roark
@howardroark8669.bsky.social
· Nov 10
If you are a refugee from X/ Twitter welcome to Bluesky
Rule #1 don’t feed the trolls
Rules #2 use blocklists
Rule #1 don’t feed the trolls
Rules #2 use blocklists
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I will vouch for Akiva. We don’t agree on everything but his arguments are always well reasoned and in good faith. He wants to make the US better and just this morning was advocating for single payer healthcare.
December 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I will vouch for Akiva. We don’t agree on everything but his arguments are always well reasoned and in good faith. He wants to make the US better and just this morning was advocating for single payer healthcare.
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immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
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Miami will have its first Democratic mayor in 30 years
December 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Miami will have its first Democratic mayor in 30 years
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What if there was, like, a single payer?
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
What if there was, like, a single payer?
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After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"
December 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
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Well, American farmers are not being put before Argentine farmers in either time or amount.
December 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Well, American farmers are not being put before Argentine farmers in either time or amount.
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I always get frustrated when Europeans - in some misguided attempt to seem agreeable and open-minded to visiting Americans - behave like everything is normal. Everything is not normal, and Americans need to hear this loud and clear every time you talk to them.
Good prime @theguardian.com on European reactions to the US National Security Strategy, including comments from @maxbergmann.bsky.social, @mijrahman.bsky.social, @alanderminna.bsky.social and me:
European Council president warns US not to interfere in Europe’s affairs
The new US national security strategy codifies a seismic shift in transatlantic relations, say experts
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I always get frustrated when Europeans - in some misguided attempt to seem agreeable and open-minded to visiting Americans - behave like everything is normal. Everything is not normal, and Americans need to hear this loud and clear every time you talk to them.
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This dog is me, But I'm actually trying to be happy. Cause I'm tired of being mundanely sad.
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This dog is me, But I'm actually trying to be happy. Cause I'm tired of being mundanely sad.
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So the GOP had no health care plan for 15 years (their plan has always been to repeal the ACA and replace it with nothing). But now some Republican politicians and pollsters have warned them that they’d better at least say they have a plan. And presto!
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
thehill.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
So the GOP had no health care plan for 15 years (their plan has always been to repeal the ACA and replace it with nothing). But now some Republican politicians and pollsters have warned them that they’d better at least say they have a plan. And presto!
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
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Why wouldn’t she repeat what Trump said? That’s never stopped her before!
December 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Why wouldn’t she repeat what Trump said? That’s never stopped her before!
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Arsonist says she’s been receiving threats
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"
December 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Arsonist says she’s been receiving threats
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Trump has ordered the killings of over 80 people in the Caribbean Sea for allegedly bringing drugs into the U.S., yet he pardoned someone who trafficked in infinitely more drugs than any of these people he’s illegally killing. trib.al/3HP7yud
And it gets worse.
And it gets worse.
December 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Trump has ordered the killings of over 80 people in the Caribbean Sea for allegedly bringing drugs into the U.S., yet he pardoned someone who trafficked in infinitely more drugs than any of these people he’s illegally killing. trib.al/3HP7yud
And it gets worse.
And it gets worse.
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another day spent learning about a new lunatic working in the trump administration
December 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
another day spent learning about a new lunatic working in the trump administration
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Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."
December 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."
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Newsmax host to Leavitt on Trump's farm bailout: "It's not funded by tax dollars. It's funded by tariffs."
"That's right," Leavitt replies
(Tariffs are taxes on American importers)
"That's right," Leavitt replies
(Tariffs are taxes on American importers)
December 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Newsmax host to Leavitt on Trump's farm bailout: "It's not funded by tax dollars. It's funded by tariffs."
"That's right," Leavitt replies
(Tariffs are taxes on American importers)
"That's right," Leavitt replies
(Tariffs are taxes on American importers)
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“When a player leverages his power, it’s a scandal,” Jemele Hill writes. When a college coach does the same thing, “it’s just business as usual”:
The Most Egregious Double Standard in Sports
For college coaches, greed is just business.
bit.ly
December 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
“When a player leverages his power, it’s a scandal,” Jemele Hill writes. When a college coach does the same thing, “it’s just business as usual”:
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Get ready for another 99 victim tweets from this crazy person.
A police investigation has faulted Nancy Mace for a profanity-filled outburst at Charleston Airport in October, saying her behavior escalated a minor miscommunication into “a spectacle.”
www.postandcourier.com/politics/nan...
A police investigation has faulted Nancy Mace for a profanity-filled outburst at Charleston Airport in October, saying her behavior escalated a minor miscommunication into “a spectacle.”
www.postandcourier.com/politics/nan...
December 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Get ready for another 99 victim tweets from this crazy person.
A police investigation has faulted Nancy Mace for a profanity-filled outburst at Charleston Airport in October, saying her behavior escalated a minor miscommunication into “a spectacle.”
www.postandcourier.com/politics/nan...
A police investigation has faulted Nancy Mace for a profanity-filled outburst at Charleston Airport in October, saying her behavior escalated a minor miscommunication into “a spectacle.”
www.postandcourier.com/politics/nan...
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We had to do something to get him to shut up.
~ FIFA
How about just telling him to STFU?!
~ everyone else
~ FIFA
How about just telling him to STFU?!
~ everyone else
December 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
We had to do something to get him to shut up.
~ FIFA
How about just telling him to STFU?!
~ everyone else
~ FIFA
How about just telling him to STFU?!
~ everyone else
Sleepy Donnie
December 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Sleepy Donnie
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Guess who was awake until 2:45am shitposting again?
December 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Guess who was awake until 2:45am shitposting again?
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It's not bean bag, Cheryl. They understand that there is a death count that results from his and Trump's irresponsible decisions.
A death count.
A death count.
Cheryl Hines has admitted she was “surprised” to see friends peel away over her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s endorsement of Trump.
Cheryl Hines ‘Surprised’ Friends Dropped Her Over RFK MAGA Conversion
She says politics “divided” longtime pals and Democrats “really attacked” her husband.
trib.al
December 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
It's not bean bag, Cheryl. They understand that there is a death count that results from his and Trump's irresponsible decisions.
A death count.
A death count.
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Here's the thing: Unlike other issues, there's no consensus on the right as to what to do about healthcare. They can't even successfully jam Ds on the issue because they can't pass a bill out of the House or Senate.
Republicans had 15+ years to come up with a decent healthcare plan. It’s not coming.
Don’t believe them.
Don’t believe them.
December 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Here's the thing: Unlike other issues, there's no consensus on the right as to what to do about healthcare. They can't even successfully jam Ds on the issue because they can't pass a bill out of the House or Senate.