Pete Rivard
@peterivard.bsky.social
Semi-retired graphics pro & teacher. Active musician. I pay attention. I DO recall. And I vote.
Border Patrol agents also abducted two American citizens yesterday who worked at Richfield, MN Target, one of whom had his passport on him. Both were Hispanic. ICE and Border Patrol both are explicit racists And thugs.
Today my pastor of several years was detained by ICE at the lawful demonstration where ICE officers murdered Renee Good.
Three times they taunted and asked him if he's afraid yet. They let him go because he's white, saying, "Well you're white and it wouldn't be any fun."
This is his story:
Three times they taunted and asked him if he's afraid yet. They let him go because he's white, saying, "Well you're white and it wouldn't be any fun."
This is his story:
January 9, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Border Patrol agents also abducted two American citizens yesterday who worked at Richfield, MN Target, one of whom had his passport on him. Both were Hispanic. ICE and Border Patrol both are explicit racists And thugs.
Truth.
It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.
January 4, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Truth.
Wonder what Finland and maybe the EU are thinking as this #Venezuala conversation continues to be peppered with #IsGreenlandNext questions?
January 4, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Wonder what Finland and maybe the EU are thinking as this #Venezuala conversation continues to be peppered with #IsGreenlandNext questions?
No legal expert but I would imagine that Maduro will lawyer up and make short work of Trump and his clownish DOJ in court.
BASH: There's no question that Maduro was a destabilizing force in the region. People are celebrating in the streets all over. Is it fair to say there's some benefit in him not being in power?
CHRIS MURPHY: What changes? You just heard Sen. Cotton not be able to explain who's running the country
CHRIS MURPHY: What changes? You just heard Sen. Cotton not be able to explain who's running the country
January 4, 2026 at 5:43 PM
No legal expert but I would imagine that Maduro will lawyer up and make short work of Trump and his clownish DOJ in court.
So, is this military exercise in #Venezuela just practice for a military takeover of Greenland?
Venezuela has oil to be sure. But #Greenland has rare earth elements (uranium, zinc, copper, gold, etc) and a ton of real estate for AI and Bitcoin data centers.
Can't discount anything with the...
Venezuela has oil to be sure. But #Greenland has rare earth elements (uranium, zinc, copper, gold, etc) and a ton of real estate for AI and Bitcoin data centers.
Can't discount anything with the...
January 3, 2026 at 4:55 PM
So, is this military exercise in #Venezuela just practice for a military takeover of Greenland?
Venezuela has oil to be sure. But #Greenland has rare earth elements (uranium, zinc, copper, gold, etc) and a ton of real estate for AI and Bitcoin data centers.
Can't discount anything with the...
Venezuela has oil to be sure. But #Greenland has rare earth elements (uranium, zinc, copper, gold, etc) and a ton of real estate for AI and Bitcoin data centers.
Can't discount anything with the...
How is this action not straight up kidnapping? What part of it abides by international standards and rule of law?
Oh, and we are SO skilled at regime change.
Oh, and we are SO skilled at regime change.
Tactically done well by our military, strategically, political and probably unlawful stupidity by the administration. This is a mistake that once again will end up harming our country’s reputation already diminished by Trump. Distraction from Epstein.
Tony
Tony
January 3, 2026 at 4:26 PM
How is this action not straight up kidnapping? What part of it abides by international standards and rule of law?
Oh, and we are SO skilled at regime change.
Oh, and we are SO skilled at regime change.
How offensive and embarrassing for an artless, illiterate bumpkin like Trump to affix his odious name onto the #johnfkennedycenter.
Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
December 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
How offensive and embarrassing for an artless, illiterate bumpkin like Trump to affix his odious name onto the #johnfkennedycenter.
It's people like Musk who are so socially askew that they regard #GlengarryGlenRoss as an inspiring motivational training video.
This is the best takedown of Musk I’ve ever read. From a beloved author around my age no less, Joyce Carol Oates.
November 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's people like Musk who are so socially askew that they regard #GlengarryGlenRoss as an inspiring motivational training video.
October 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
DJT didn't win the #NobelPeacePrize so he threw a #TariffTantrum.
October 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
DJT didn't win the #NobelPeacePrize so he threw a #TariffTantrum.
Donald Trump has issued 191 executive orders in 7 months. Joe Biden issued 161 in 4 years. Math says Trump is issuing 9 for every 1 of Biden's
#NoKings #FuckBothSidesism
#NoKings #FuckBothSidesism
August 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Donald Trump has issued 191 executive orders in 7 months. Joe Biden issued 161 in 4 years. Math says Trump is issuing 9 for every 1 of Biden's
#NoKings #FuckBothSidesism
#NoKings #FuckBothSidesism
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin
August 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin
How do my wife, daughter and I collect our $300 million? We can use that dough since Trump is tanking my 403b.
April 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
How do my wife, daughter and I collect our $300 million? We can use that dough since Trump is tanking my 403b.
Keep it up @adamkinzinger.bsky.social! Every week it's a new record. Total HOF trajectory!
This means I now have negative 4 security clearances
Adam Kinzinger’s security clearance is revoked every weekend. Deeply bizarre stuff.
March 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Keep it up @adamkinzinger.bsky.social! Every week it's a new record. Total HOF trajectory!
Let's add nepotism as yet another example, along with incompetence, excessive drinking and abusive treatment of women, of why Pete Hegseth is wildly unfit for SoD.
Hegseth’s younger brother is serving in a key role as liaison and senior adviser inside the Pentagon
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office confirms that his younger brother is serving in a key position inside the Pentagon as a Department of Homeland Security liaison and senior adviser.
apnews.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Let's add nepotism as yet another example, along with incompetence, excessive drinking and abusive treatment of women, of why Pete Hegseth is wildly unfit for SoD.
Hahahahaaaah! Exactly, @dougsaunders.bsky.social
I’d like to announce my forthcoming US history book, covering a decisive but tumultuous era in that country’s history, titled “The trade policies of the United States: 10:30 am to 1:30 pm on Friday, March 7, 2025” It will be 400 pages.
March 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Hahahahaaaah! Exactly, @dougsaunders.bsky.social
What do these six canceled MSNBC hosts have in common? Can't seem to put my finger on it.
All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.
February 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
What do these six canceled MSNBC hosts have in common? Can't seem to put my finger on it.
Here's one way to wrap your mind around the idea of a billionaire: If you make $100,000/yr AND you had worked every year of the 5,000 years of recorded human history AND you saved every penny, never spent a dime, WHY you'd be halfway to your first billion.
All you'd have to do is... 1/2
All you'd have to do is... 1/2
February 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Here's one way to wrap your mind around the idea of a billionaire: If you make $100,000/yr AND you had worked every year of the 5,000 years of recorded human history AND you saved every penny, never spent a dime, WHY you'd be halfway to your first billion.
All you'd have to do is... 1/2
All you'd have to do is... 1/2
Done.
I think we should all do this. Really jam up the works for someone at Google.😉
February 13, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Done.
Hello Bluesky. Transitioning from X. Migrating to Bluesky. Finally woke up. Sorry for the scary words.
February 7, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Hello Bluesky. Transitioning from X. Migrating to Bluesky. Finally woke up. Sorry for the scary words.