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Richard Silvia

@yesrising.bsky.social

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Writer of dreams, music and inclusiveness. YESRISING TOGETHER —Civil Society is Us! Curiosity, Critical Thinking, Education, and Empathy are pathways to a better future. 🏳️‍🌈 Thinkers 👉🏻 https://linktr.ee/YesRising

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Richard Silvia @yesrising.bsky.social · Jun 14

I’m proud of my country today!
The Signs: Springfield, MA
No Kings

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Q: You talked about the Hudson River Tunnel in NYC. Is the funding terminated?

TRUMP: Right now there is no funding. Because it's up to me

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Strider @reluctantranger.bsky.social · 10h

Which is *exactly* what some of us have saying he would do.

Oh, and he’s funneling NATO intelligence to Russia.

Trump is a Russian asset and a traitor.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 12h

"The US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier"
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Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia

US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting

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Richard Silvia @yesrising.bsky.social · 3h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024.

Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.

The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year.

Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M

See the problem?

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 8h

Our pro-democracy movement is surging. Now it’s up to each of us to channel this incredible energy into the organizing power it will take to win.

Join us on Tuesday for a mass call of movement leaders and activists to discuss what’s next: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... #NoKings

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Richard Silvia @yesrising.bsky.social · 5h

Or slept together.

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Richard Silvia @yesrising.bsky.social · 5h

Or slept together.

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Richard Silvia @yesrising.bsky.social · 6h

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drnorton on Instagram: "Organize. Prepare. We only need 11M people to go all-in.View all 1,102 comments"

Organize. Prepare. We only need 11M people to go all-in.View all 1,102 comments

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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 8h

22 arrests.
All Maga.
Including this armed terrorist with a gun who assaulted a woman.
I think we know who the violent ones are.
#NoKings

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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 7h

I don't wanna hear shit about "George Soros" from the party that constantly has their mouth wrapped around Harlan Crow's teet.

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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: No King's Day numbers are approaching the critical key 3.5%... Political scientists' "3.5% rule" states that no government has EVER held power after 3.5% of voters took to the streets. Let's go!!!

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Democracy Dave™ @guitardave.bsky.social · 7h

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! 🔥 #Epstein

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 8h

🧵Guarantee it's the Epstein money trail that's spooking Trump more than the child rape.

As soon as Trump took office, he immediately blocked the 4-year congressional investigation into Epstein's assets.

He also immediately revoked access to all sensitive docs.

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Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 7h

And while you’re at it, could you also ask Trump when he’s going to release the Epstein files and prove he’s not a child rapist.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 7h

In Giuffre's 2015 civil case against Maxwell, she named:

"All staff and employees at Mar-a-Lago during 1999-2002" as individuals who may have knowledge of Maxwell's crimes.

Shown here, paragraph 91

7 other Epstein survivors also can be placed at Mar-a-Lago

Giuffree not the only one

#Epstein

#1090, Att. #41 in Giuffre v. Maxwell (S.D.N.Y., 1:15-cv-07433) – CourtListener.com

***STRICKEN DOCUMENT. Deleted document number [1090-38 and 1090-41] from the case record. The document was stricken from this case pursuant to 1091 Order Striking Document from Record, . (yv) NOTICE o...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

"Dumps brown liquid."

Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · 11h

HEY New York Times,

IT WAS SHIT HE DUMPED ON PROTESTERS!

If he can post it, the least you can do is write it!

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 9h

The so-called Homeland Security Secretary is a corrupt and malignant fraud.

This video she sanctioned is fake.

Manipulated by cowards who hide behind masks while violating the law.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10h

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Apr 10

In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.

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SERVING SALEM, KEIZER
AND THE MID-VALLEY
"If you don't say anything, you're accepting it."
Mari Jensen, McMinnville resident
OUT OF MY
LOUR
WALLET
CHOICES
LIMIT GOVERNMENT
Oregon Taxpayers United
FREEDOM
gat
TIMOTHY J. GONZALEZ | Statesman Journal
Alan Grosso (center) of Happy Valley joins in chanting under the window of the speaker of the House on Wednesday during the Salem Tea Party protest at the Capitol.
Protesters slam Fed spending
Hundreds gather at Salem Tea Party to rally against bailouts, state-level taxes
BY DENNIS THOMPSON JR.
Statesman Journal
Hundreds of people uneasy over the future of their country gathered on the state Capitol steps on Wednesday to protest federal spending and state-level taxation.
Oregon State Police estimated more
SCRAP THE CODE
than 1,000 people attended the Salem Tea Party protest, which ran from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Organizers placed attendance at more than 2,000 people.
The rally was passionate but peace-ful, although many people carried handmade signs bearing stark and angry messages. A fake wooden pitchfork read "Politicians take note. We the people are about to revolt." Anoth er sign read "200+ years to build the Republic, 3 mos. to destroy it."
Many attendees said they were motivated to protest by the billions in stimulus spending and bailouts that have been doled out in recent months.
Willy Lowman of Falls City wears a label on his head that reads "Scrap the Code" at the tea party protest.
West Salem resident Steve Albin said he
came to protest federal bailouts of banks and automakers.
"They need to fail. That's what capitalism is all about," said Albin, who had a tea bag dangling from the brim
See Protest, 2A
Inside
Protesters take part in Tea Party events across the nation, Page 2A
Supporters to push for immigration reform, Page 2A
• ONLINE: See photo galleries and a video from the protest at StatesmanJournal.com.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16h

Lying Mike Johnson claims the last government shutdown was in 2013. The last TWO federal shutdowns were during Trump’s last term. Trump has been responsible for close to 2/3 of all federal shutdown days in US history.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Mike Johnson: "We congratulate them on an apparently violent-free speech exercise ... but if President Trump was a king, the government would be open right now ... by the way, the Mall was open because President Trump hasn't closed it."

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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 9h

Trump posted an AI video of the BOMBING of my friend @harryjsisson.bsky.social with FECES and I can't find any instance of corporate media mentioning it

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 10h

🚨New
Trump just announced the U.S. will halt all subsidies to Colombia, calling President Gustavo Petro “an illegal drug leader.”

More ⬇️

Still taken from the video of the submarine strike with the word unclassified at the top.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 16h

Watch how the media reports yesterday’s march.

Outlets that don’t report it, or dramatically downplay it are showing you precisely who they are.

When it matters.

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Richard Silvia @yesrising.bsky.social · 10h

The @apnews.com still refuses to post anything about No Kings?

This, cough, news source has capitulated and fallen far from grace. Shame.