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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 7h

I give you the future of higher education in Texas: the University of Austin.👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 17h

The human race lived down to its resume. The best among us lived up to theirs—epitomized, I’ll never stop saying, by righteous Jews, including brave Israeli genocide scholars—among first to raise alarm: Amos Goldberg, Omer Bartov, Raz Segal, Lee Mordechai. Even Ted Meron called for Netanyahu arrest.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 10h

Someone wld do well to remind the lackeys named by Trump to replace lawyers deemed insufficiently obedient that they, unlike Trump, must answer for criminal acts & that in any case, his pardon power does not extend to disbarment proceedings that will surely follow if they do his criminal bidding.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 10h

Go ahead & call me alarmist, but I have to say again, nazi collapse of rule of law centered on compromising lawyers & judges. Trump is hollowing out legal institutions that have been a firewall protecting rule of law. Once they're gone, we'll enter a spiral that we may not be able to pull out of.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10h

This was a big honking red flag when it happened. But it also wasn't a terribly surprising move after the Senate confirmed a guy who defended war criminals to be Secretary of Defense.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 6d

“[M]ilitary lawyers & legal experts told Military.com the administration's firings of the Air Force, Army & Navy's top judge advocates…sets an alarming precedent for a crucial job in the military, all as…Trump has mused about using the military in unorthodox & potentially illegal ways.” 2/25/25…1/

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 10h

Was hilarious, provocative, poignant—skewered fascists, but not bc it's "anti-fascist," rather, bc they're so deserving of contempt. Also skewered revolutionary true-believers, but differently, more gently, & more hilariously. Among best movies of the year.

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 10h

"Celebrate?" F**k you, NYT: as if Srebenica victims wld "celebrate" if told slaughter wld be paused—within earshot of genociders braying & giving themselves standing ovations, refusing to acknowledge a shred of responsibility or commit to any future equitable peace, waiting only to kill some more.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 15h

What does “used a public phone without paying” mean?

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 16h

That's supposed to be a gift article link, but just in case, here's gift link again: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...

Opinion | Someone Tipped Me Off About a Crypto Story. What I Found Was Crazy.

www.nytimes.com

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 16h

Mobs with torches & pitchforks, social media era version. The preposterous abuses of Charlie Kirk's death are the stuff of surrealist fiction.

NPR @npr.org · 16h

Alexandra is among the people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship."

She posted about Charlie Kirk's death. Within eight hours, she was fired

Alexandra is among the people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship."

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 16h

More horror, indefatigable @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social reports. (Thank you, President Brunch on Martha’s Vineyard, for letting Gitmo kidnappers, rapists, & torturers walk.)

Fragments of 2003 Cable Detail Torture in a Secret C.I.A. Prison www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...

Fragments of 2003 Cable Detail Torture in a Secret C.I.A. Prison

www.nytimes.com

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 16h

No paywall: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...

Opinion | Someone Tipped Me Off About a Crypto Story. What I Found Was Crazy.

www.nytimes.com

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 16h

💯Do not miss this riveting, unbelievable story, ppl—it’s as if Eric Ambler himself wrote it. And for heaven’s sake, UAE, threw this guy to the wolves over a g.d. tourism post? Peddling their new chocolate & nuts brand isn’t enough? JFC…🤦🏻‍♂️

Philip Shishkin @philip-shishkin.bsky.social · 8d

Someone Tipped Me Off About a Crypto Story. What I Found Was Crazy. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...

Opinion | Someone Tipped Me Off About a Crypto Story. What I Found Was Crazy.

www.nytimes.com

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 17h

😂😂😂“one of the most respected originalist scholars in the country, comes out against the unitary executive interpretation of the Constitution”

Rank casuistry. These ppl call to mind “learned Portia” “dazzling court” w “erudition.”

👉🏾Stop dignifying this outcome-driven idiocy as if it were serious.

"But in truth, [originalism] is little more than arrogance cloaked as humility." Justice William Brennan

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 17h

Holy mackerel: first inkling that just maybe latest charade won’t be another sham. Genocider excluding himself & participation of nations other than just US idiots might actually allow reason to prevail—but I wld never bet on it: US is too adept at bungling away opportunity to hold out much hope.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 21h

Hostage release is 2YRS overdue, shld never have been seized. And here is 2d reminder Israel will continue genocide—1st was Kushner over weekend describing Pals as barbarians—guy who advocates ethnic cleansing. Anyone who trusts Netanyahu or Trump is a fool. God help the poor Pals in Gaza & WB.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

As hostages are being handed over to IDF, Israeli defense minister tweets about bombings to follow

Israel's great challenge after the phase of returning the hostages will be the destruction of all of Hamas's terror tunnels in Gaza, directly by the IDF and through the international mechanism to be established under the leadership and supervision of the United States.
This is the primary significance of implementing the agreed-upon principle of demilitarizing Gaza and neutralizing Hamas of its weapons.
I have instructed the IDF to prepare for carrying out the mission.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 17h

2/2 And make no mistake, Biden, Harris, Blinken, Power, Obama, the Clintons, & others in the Dem Party genocide-abettor wing also will be rendered speechless, having all played a role in creating the Trumpian nightmare national & global debacles we now all face.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 17h

1/2 Now the sick, twisted irony begins, wait for it: while King Donald & execrable Netanyahu separate their shoulders patting each other on the back, our worthless Dem leaders—Schumer & Jeffries—will stay stupidly & complicitly silent, unable to keep in step w base that rejected their genocide.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "What we're doing now, it could've happened a long time ago, but it was strangled and set back almost irretrievably by the administrations of Barack Obama and then Joe Biden. There was a hatred toward Israel."

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 17h

Will this corrupt pig be wearing the collar & leash his US/Israeli masters use for him?🤔

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 17h

The human race lived down to its resume. The best among us lived up to theirs—epitomized, I’ll never stop saying, by righteous Jews, including brave Israeli genocide scholars—among first to raise alarm: Amos Goldberg, Omer Bartov, Raz Segal, Lee Mordechai. Even Ted Meron called for Netanyahu arrest.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 18h

This cld work out well: get names then later show them the door.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18h

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 18h

Holding up signs was inappropriate. This is how you treat a genocider.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 18h

Mind boggling. Thank you.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 18h

“There are some spectacles before which satire herself stands mute.” (Orwell)

Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 19h

"The hostage families who arrived for Trump's speech discovered they were given a side room for viewing. All the seats in the gallery were allocated by Ohana to heads of authorities from Likud and vote contractors in the Likud center", according to @haaretzcom.bsky.social l's Chaim Levinson

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 18h

Srebrenica perpetrators applaud each other, give each other awards, compound their genocide by dehumanizing victims, *not even acknowledging 67K they killed & child amputee & orphan wasteland they leave behind.* Soulless ghoul Biden & his genocide brigade shld be there too, also basking in glory.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20h

Israel has awarded Donald Trump the country’s highest honor — the Presidential Medal of Honor, per office of Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

Netanyahu also presented Trump with a golden dove of peace.

Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 18h

#KavanaughStop

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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