Ryan Thomas
@ryan76thomas.bsky.social
researcher, hokie, former USAF officer, father, presbyterian, bicyclist
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Truly incredible to go now back and read that Bari Weiss NYT resignation letter, where she whined about “self-censorship” and “fitting a predetermined narrative” and “satisfying a narrow audience rather than allowing a curious public read” stories: www.bariweiss.com/resignation-...
December 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Truly incredible to go now back and read that Bari Weiss NYT resignation letter, where she whined about “self-censorship” and “fitting a predetermined narrative” and “satisfying a narrow audience rather than allowing a curious public read” stories: www.bariweiss.com/resignation-...
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but Venezuela is on the same continent?
December 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
but Venezuela is on the same continent?
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Just to get ahead of this: Print the post out and bring it to the next Mike Johnson presser. You already know what his move will be. There’s no excuse to not be prepared for it.
December 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Just to get ahead of this: Print the post out and bring it to the next Mike Johnson presser. You already know what his move will be. There’s no excuse to not be prepared for it.
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They don't care about abortion, or taxpayer funding for it (which doesn't exist), they only care about not extending the ACA subsidies.
Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., says there won’t be any ACA funding extension unless Democrats agree to beef up Hyde/abortion language tied to the money. “We will not fund abortion with taxpayer money,” he says. “And if that becomes the issue for them, then we'll go to the mat on it.”
December 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
They don't care about abortion, or taxpayer funding for it (which doesn't exist), they only care about not extending the ACA subsidies.
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He literally was in an air conditioned office when they killed the survivors.
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
He literally was in an air conditioned office when they killed the survivors.
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i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
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Our annual posting of Snoopy at the 1988 Thanksgiving parade.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Our annual posting of Snoopy at the 1988 Thanksgiving parade.
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
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With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
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Oh, do I have an anecdote for that. I served with the 82nd Airborne and XVIII Airborne Corps. We were nothing special, a comms unit, but since we put in early gen field sat phones we got to go and do thing in places in support of some seriously tough dudes. So deployments to the Balkans, Sinai,
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Oh, do I have an anecdote for that. I served with the 82nd Airborne and XVIII Airborne Corps. We were nothing special, a comms unit, but since we put in early gen field sat phones we got to go and do thing in places in support of some seriously tough dudes. So deployments to the Balkans, Sinai,
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Neither the military nor scouting is an all-male safe space, and Pete Hegseth can cry all he wants about that! (Scouting is also not a paramilitary organization. I'm very involved, and I had to read this story to find out what links Scouting America has to the U.S. military in the first place.)
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts n.pr/3M48mr2
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. Military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formally known as the Boy Scouts
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November 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Neither the military nor scouting is an all-male safe space, and Pete Hegseth can cry all he wants about that! (Scouting is also not a paramilitary organization. I'm very involved, and I had to read this story to find out what links Scouting America has to the U.S. military in the first place.)
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I’m having that thing where you log on to social and everyone is reacting to the new thing but the reactions are vague, aghast, angry enough that you’re struggling to figure out exactly what the new thing is. German must have a word for this.
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I’m having that thing where you log on to social and everyone is reacting to the new thing but the reactions are vague, aghast, angry enough that you’re struggling to figure out exactly what the new thing is. German must have a word for this.
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I told y’all
the future after Trump spends 30 min with Mamdani
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I told y’all
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U.S. legislators: "Soldiers and sailors, if you are ordered to kill someone and you believe the order is unlawful, don't do it. Remember your oath to The Constitution.
U.S. President: "Kill the legislators."
Am I missing something? Anything at all?
I still have characters left, if so.
U.S. President: "Kill the legislators."
Am I missing something? Anything at all?
I still have characters left, if so.
November 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM
U.S. legislators: "Soldiers and sailors, if you are ordered to kill someone and you believe the order is unlawful, don't do it. Remember your oath to The Constitution.
U.S. President: "Kill the legislators."
Am I missing something? Anything at all?
I still have characters left, if so.
U.S. President: "Kill the legislators."
Am I missing something? Anything at all?
I still have characters left, if so.
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Funny how cost never gets challenged when building any infrastructure that is car related, but the minute that design focus is shifted towards the human scale, suddenly everyone's a budget hawk.
“That’s not just about the design, the welcomingness, the openness, but also the activation overall,” he said, because pedestrian spaces promote browsing in shops, stopping for coffee or spontaneous conversations."
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November 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Funny how cost never gets challenged when building any infrastructure that is car related, but the minute that design focus is shifted towards the human scale, suddenly everyone's a budget hawk.
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This practice was endorsed by a Supreme Court Justice.
#KavanaughStop
#KavanaughStop
US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This practice was endorsed by a Supreme Court Justice.
#KavanaughStop
#KavanaughStop
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FWIW, I've reached out to the Alliance Defending Freedom and the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty — groups that have long touted their support for religious freedom — about things such as the treatment of clergy, alleged inability of ICE detainees to access religious rites, etc.
No response yet.
No response yet.
The Christian right for decades has fear-mongered that federal agents (under Dem presidents) would "criminalize" Christianity and literally prevent them from worshipping.
Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets
Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets
Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
FWIW, I've reached out to the Alliance Defending Freedom and the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty — groups that have long touted their support for religious freedom — about things such as the treatment of clergy, alleged inability of ICE detainees to access religious rites, etc.
No response yet.
No response yet.
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Funny how the “only guilty people run from the police” crowd is sudden championing the benefit of the doubt.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
November 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Funny how the “only guilty people run from the police” crowd is sudden championing the benefit of the doubt.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
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ICE is at the Waverly Giant, Baltimore friends. Beware.
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
ICE is at the Waverly Giant, Baltimore friends. Beware.
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We're mostly fine, we'd honestly rather see people find their own ways to serve than get thanked for our service, whether it's one day a year or every day.
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
We're mostly fine, we'd honestly rather see people find their own ways to serve than get thanked for our service, whether it's one day a year or every day.
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On the one hand, the "harm" suffered to government if it cannot immediately require trans people with new passports (although not those with existing passports) to misidentify themselves is "none"
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
On the one hand, the "harm" suffered to government if it cannot immediately require trans people with new passports (although not those with existing passports) to misidentify themselves is "none"
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We are retroactively losing the Civil War, WWII and the Cold War thanks to white identity politics.
October 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We are retroactively losing the Civil War, WWII and the Cold War thanks to white identity politics.