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Patrick Rizzo

@prizscisurf.bsky.social

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Peabody Award-winning journalist NBC, Reuters, AP | Writer | Ex-Environmental Science PhD student | Dad, hubby, surfer, cat butler 🚫Bitcoinbros 🚫MAGA 🚫pornbots 🚫Climate Change deniers #Science #Climate #Journalism #Surfing #BLM #Women'sRights #Ally

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Patrick Rizzo @prizscisurf.bsky.social · 2h

That makes ICE and its leadership look weaker and stupider than ever.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 3h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Patrick Rizzo @prizscisurf.bsky.social · 5h

Open carry states are filled with the most terrified people in the country ... and I'm talking about the people carrying the guns.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h

Here is the students' @idsnews.bsky.social report out of Indiana University, where the student media director was fired today. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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Patrick Rizzo @prizscisurf.bsky.social · 22h

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Patrick Rizzo @prizscisurf.bsky.social · 23h

Just vile, vile people.

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Annette @ladywaterood.bsky.social · 23h

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Bombshell report reveals leaked GOP chat filled with racist jokes and rape fantasies
Source: Raw Story share.newsbreak.com/fgbnr4p7?s=i16

Bombshell report reveals leaked GOP chat filled with racist jokes and rape fantasies - NewsBreak

A treasure trove of leaked Telegram chats among the leadership of the Young Republicans exposed a mixture of racist comments, rape fantasies, and suggestio

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 1d

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Antifa is an adjective.

Antifa isn't a thing; it's a thing you are. It's a mindset.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 1d

Just wondering-how is this making America great… It feels like dehumanizing hate speech.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Young Republicans joke about rape and gas chambers, use slurs, and talk about how much they love Hitler.

This isn't an exaggeration. These are the current and future leaders of the Republican Party, all who have 10x the funding of Dem youth orgs.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Kevin ANTIFA Ressler 💙🐈‍⬛ @kevinressler.bsky.social · 1d

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump has always been a deeply damaged, stupid man, so his mental deterioration was difficult to gauge, but no longer.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 1d

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For all who don’t believe us (Jewish Americans): deny this if you can.

You tried to break me yesterday with your vitriol over the freed hostages. It wont work. We’ve survived worse.

2,900 pages expose Young GOP leaders’ racist, antisemitic, violent chat: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Patrick Rizzo @prizscisurf.bsky.social · 1d

Required reading. What vile creatures. Trump's little orcs. #GOP #YoungRepublicans
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

Patrick Rizzo @prizscisurf.bsky.social · 1d

S. Miller, Stronzo

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Which Republican genius came up with the talking point to label millions of ordinary Americans peacefully protesting their government as paid Marxists who hate America?

That’s really what you are going with?

That we hate the United States of America?

Fuck you.

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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 2d

Again, Eric, I'll believe it when I see it. But I'm keeping my fingers and toes crossed. 🤞🙏

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adeadmanwalking.bsky.social @adeadmanwalking.bsky.social · 2d

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Patrick Rizzo @prizscisurf.bsky.social · 2d

They are terrified that it's going to be huge.

Patrick Rizzo @prizscisurf.bsky.social · 2d

Israel has killed so many journalists over the past two years. I hope the ceasefire holds and becomes a lasting peace, but I'm not optimistic.
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Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi shot dead in Gaza City clashes

Sources say the 28-year-old was killed by members of Israel-linked 'militia' fighting Hamas in the Sabra neighbourhood.

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Patrick Rizzo @prizscisurf.bsky.social · 2d

True, but Trump's autocratic, racist, antidemocratic, antiscience tendencies far exceed anything Kissinger ever did. The Nobel committee has made mistakes and acted hypocritically in the past. They may do so again. But Trump stands against everything the prizes stand for.

Patrick Rizzo @prizscisurf.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I know. I used to cover the prizes years ago. Nothing he's done would negate his autocratic, anti-democratic, anti-science actions and ideas.

Patrick Rizzo @prizscisurf.bsky.social · 2d

And that's why he never could have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Imagine giving it to a sociopathic autocrat devoid of a soul.

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Patrick Rizzo @prizscisurf.bsky.social · 2d

This is why I think they're becoming increasingly dangerous. They're getting backed into a corner and running out of time. Now, more than ever, is the time for peaceful resistance and dilemma disset. #TrumpIsFailing #LoserinChief
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Trump Might Be Losing His Race Against Time

The president is gambling that he can consolidate authority before the public turns too sharply against him.

www.theatlantic.com

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Patrick Rizzo @prizscisurf.bsky.social · 3d

He has been a liar and a cheat most of his adult life. I blame the people who believe his bullshit.