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Rory Roberge

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Town Council Member in Normal, Illinois Husband to an amazing wife; Father to two incredible children USNA Class of 2010 - B.S. in History He/Him - 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Ally #BLM 🇺🇸 Navy Veteran ⚓️✈️ #FTTB 🚫 Crypto Peddlers Get Blocked 🚫

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Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · Nov 11

I would never ask someone to do anything I wouldn't do myself, especially if it involves pain. So here is a picture of me donating platelets.

If you are able to, please consider donating whole blood, plasma, or platelets. You just might save a life.

Picture of me hooked up to a blood platelet donation machine in June, 2020

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 20h

This is a red alarm fire. Please listen to Marc Elias.

After the primaries are over, all Democrats must vote for Democrats. I don't want to hear any of the "I stayed home because the Democrat didn't check all my boxes" crap.

And every Dem must vote. Every last one of us.

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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 9h

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Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 4h

Nothing says, "Freedom of Speech" like a government official without any oversight saying his goons will murder people for saying things he doesn't like.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Homan: "If the hateful rhetoric continues, there will be bloodshed. People are going to die ... there is going to be more bloodshed unless this hateful rhetoric stops."

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 7h

WTF did I just read?

Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 21h

They're on sports broadcasts like white on rice

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Joel Eisenberg @joeleisenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Good Morning.

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Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 1d

Ours might go up right after Halloween.

It's that kind of year

Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 1d

All of the people who called progressives alarmist for referring to Trump as a Nazi can pound sand.

Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 1d

Just because Republicans hire protestors, audience members, and seat-fillers doesn't mean that everyone does

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Ron Johnson on the No Kings protest: "One of the things I hope Kash Patel and Pam Bondi are looking into is the funding of these groups. Who pays for the busses to bus a lot of these folks in?"

Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 2d

That post has some real, "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength." vibes

Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 2d

The only entity on Earth that may be more corrupt than the Trump Regime is FIFA

Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 2d

Isn't this basically the plot of The Island?

Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

“Patrek Chase, kidney transplant program director at Parkland Health in Dallas, claimed that patients at his hospital – which generally serves a poorer population – were passed over for a healthy organ in favor of patients at UT Southwestern Medical Center, which generally helps the affluent.”

Whistleblower claims Dallas hospitals kept kidneys from poorer patients

Kidneys that were deemed unsuitable for patients at Parkland hospital were allegedly given to others at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

www.texasstandard.org

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Terzilla Ford @bassdiesel.bsky.social · 2d

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Voice of Reason @raggapegs.bsky.social · 2d

Let's give her some more work on October 18th. 😅🤣

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Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 2d

Mike is the epitome of playing dumb

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Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 2d

Definitely not a cult

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Johnson: "Together with my friend Speaker Ohana of the Israeli Knesset we're going to rally speakers and presidents of parliaments around the world so we will jointly nominate President Donald J Trump for next year's Nobel Prize. No one has ever deserved that prize more & that is an objective fact."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 2d

Here's my little boy as a puppy, sitting on the air conditioning vent because he loves the cold.

A small white dog with one blue and one brown eye, sitting on an air conditioning vent to stay cool

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 3d

Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Jim Paul @jimpaul.bsky.social · 3d

None of us are equal unless everyone is equal.

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Caffeine 🇺🇦 @caffeine.fellas.army · 3d

Billionaire donating to a cause that wouldn’t have to exist if they were taxed fairly. No need to thank me

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