Rick
rickr.bsky.social
Rick
@rickr.bsky.social
Grew up in Little Rock. Despite that, I'm a liberal. Lives in the Atlanta area and post about politics, music, the Razorbacks, Red Sox, and food. Among other things. Friday is my 2nd favorite F word. Go see some live music.
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There are many lessons to be learned from @TimothySnyder.bsky.social’s “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century”.

Lesson 1: #DoNotObeyInAdvance.

Drink from Timothy’s wise #CupOfJoe.
February 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Hey @cnn.com So you ran off Jim Acosta because you wanted to put him on the graveyard shift when no one watches. He was one of the very few people you have that actually asks questions and gets answers. When are you changing your logo to FoxNews? Oh, how's that subscription thing going for you?
January 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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today in identity politics
🚨 Trump will instruct the federal government tomorrow via an executive order to not recognize that transgender people exist and exclusively recognize people as their sex assigned at birth.

www.thefp.com/p/trumps-day...
EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Day One Executive Order on ‘Male and Female’
The White House strikes out at gender ideology and pronouns. Also: ends housing of biological men in women’s prisons; self-ID on passports; and more.
www.thefp.com
January 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Please read.
January 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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accidentally like a martyr - warren zevon open.spotify.com/track/4SQOwN...
Accidentally Like a Martyr
Warren Zevon · Preludes · Song · 2007
open.spotify.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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join me in l.a. - warren zevon open.spotify.com/track/70uZuq...
Join Me in L.A.
Warren Zevon · Warren Zevon · Song · 1976
open.spotify.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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grieving with & appreciating & pulling for you Los Angeles open.spotify.com/album/5wY8fZ...
Warren Zevon
Warren Zevon · Album · 1976 · 11 songs
open.spotify.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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A crucial, urgent read in this moment of fascist acceleration:
“Williams penetrated a new generation of paramilitary leaders, which included doctors, career cops and government attorneys… It was a world where a man would propose assassinating politicians, only to spark a debate about logistics.”
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
www.propublica.org
January 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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December 28, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Anyone else not seeing anything on any mainstream media sites or broadcasts about Musk writing the op-ed supporting the neo-fascist & racist AfD party in Germany? Hey bsky.app/profile/cnn.... bsky.app/profile/nbcn...
bsky.app/profile/cbsn...
do your job. Quit obeying in advance!
bsky.app
December 29, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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This is amazing!
Roger Waters - Pigs (Three Different Ones) (Live)
YouTube video by Roger Waters
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2024 at 5:53 AM
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December 19, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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Nice win for the Hogs in NYC! WPS!
December 11, 2024 at 4:21 AM
Go see AA whenever you have a chance. You will have a great time!
The final leg of THE FEAR OF STANDING STILL tour starts this Saturday night in Atlanta. Snag a ticket, tag a friend and make plans to come hang when we roll through town!!! Who’s coming?!??

www.americanaquarium.com/tour
December 2, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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November 30, 2024 at 6:20 AM
Don't know anyone with polio? You soon will.
November 15, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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Alright Bluesky, due to developments in the news that some of you may have noticed, I’m back on this platform to give it another try and see if it can be a Twitter alternative 🤷🏽‍♂️

How’s everyone finding it so far? Who do I know here? 😉
November 11, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Where did that shirt come from? I need one!
October 20, 2023 at 10:59 PM
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October 20, 2023 at 10:56 PM
They want to change the administrative state because their goal is to turn America into a nation that uses the bible to dictate laws and morals. Read American Theocracy. It lays it all out.
October 5, 2023 at 1:53 PM
*Christian
Sorry about the typo
September 28, 2023 at 7:28 PM
If people want to have a better understanding about a lot of what is going on with the GQP and the hard line Christain conservatives, I highly recommend that you read American Theocracy by Kevin Phillips. We are well on our way to becoming one.
September 28, 2023 at 7:27 PM
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NEW: Ohio progressives are suing over the GOP Secretary of State's rewrite of their abortion rights ballot measure, arguing that changes like swapping "fetus" for "unborn child" aim to mislead and bias voters against the initiative. www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
August 29, 2023 at 1:25 PM
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Groups like Moms for Liberty need to portray their right-wing vision of parenthood as "normal," and their opponents as weird elitist deviants. It's statistically the exact opposite!

That and more in the new MomLeft (a new newsletter for moms on the left): momleft.substack.com/p/theyre-not...
They're Not With Us
The right wants to cast itself as the "party of parents." Its vision of parenthood is objectively unpopular.
momleft.substack.com
August 28, 2023 at 12:00 AM