Ray Phillips
@rayphillips.bsky.social
Retired botanist and IT administrator. Trumpet player. Grampy of twin boys. UCC church member. New Mexican. I stand for democracy, which is why I could no longer be a Republican. With fear for our democracy, I dissent as well. #HoldFast!!
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So maybe we killed victims instead of just drug traffickers?
I guess we'll never know.
I guess we'll never know.
6/ 🚨 Per CURRENT and former US officials, there are strong reasons to believe some people on board the Sept 2 boat were people being trafficked.
(That is consistent with prior NYT reporting)
(That is consistent with prior NYT reporting)
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
So maybe we killed victims instead of just drug traffickers?
I guess we'll never know.
I guess we'll never know.
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This piece took me over 2 months to write.
It’s about a man given illegal orders that is impossible not to obey.
Please read.
open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
It’s about a man given illegal orders that is impossible not to obey.
Please read.
open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
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A Story About Illegal Orders
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This piece took me over 2 months to write.
It’s about a man given illegal orders that is impossible not to obey.
Please read.
open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
It’s about a man given illegal orders that is impossible not to obey.
Please read.
open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
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Donald Trump incited an insurrection on J6. He should never have been able to run for public office again. What a failure of justice to not hold this man accountable.
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Donald Trump incited an insurrection on J6. He should never have been able to run for public office again. What a failure of justice to not hold this man accountable.
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ICE will provide huge financial incentives to bounty hunters who help Trump hunt down immigrants. My latest on how private contractors could earn up to $281 MILLION dollars serving as de facto law enforcement.
No $ for SNAP, but Trump has millions for bounty hunters.
youtu.be/7AT-dwgAKms?...
No $ for SNAP, but Trump has millions for bounty hunters.
youtu.be/7AT-dwgAKms?...
Trump’s ICE Offers MASSIVE REWARD in SHOCKING Scheme
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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November 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
ICE will provide huge financial incentives to bounty hunters who help Trump hunt down immigrants. My latest on how private contractors could earn up to $281 MILLION dollars serving as de facto law enforcement.
No $ for SNAP, but Trump has millions for bounty hunters.
youtu.be/7AT-dwgAKms?...
No $ for SNAP, but Trump has millions for bounty hunters.
youtu.be/7AT-dwgAKms?...
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The fucking irony of this Jew to cape Third Reich white supremacist talking points BECAUSE his grandparents could assimilate into US culture when whiteness expanded just enough for them.
(One day he might find that this same conditional whiteness he was granted is more conditional+ less secure.)
(One day he might find that this same conditional whiteness he was granted is more conditional+ less secure.)
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The fucking irony of this Jew to cape Third Reich white supremacist talking points BECAUSE his grandparents could assimilate into US culture when whiteness expanded just enough for them.
(One day he might find that this same conditional whiteness he was granted is more conditional+ less secure.)
(One day he might find that this same conditional whiteness he was granted is more conditional+ less secure.)
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Writer @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social has described Witkoff as Trump's "best friend."
Three things about the Witkoff tapes:
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Writer @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social has described Witkoff as Trump's "best friend."
US diplomacy today:
“What we have here is a rich bouillabaisse of incompetence, mendacity, stupidity, tragedy, farce, and diplomatic blunder.”
Charlie Sykes, Nov. 23, 2025
“What we have here is a rich bouillabaisse of incompetence, mendacity, stupidity, tragedy, farce, and diplomatic blunder.”
Charlie Sykes, Nov. 23, 2025
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
US diplomacy today:
“What we have here is a rich bouillabaisse of incompetence, mendacity, stupidity, tragedy, farce, and diplomatic blunder.”
Charlie Sykes, Nov. 23, 2025
“What we have here is a rich bouillabaisse of incompetence, mendacity, stupidity, tragedy, farce, and diplomatic blunder.”
Charlie Sykes, Nov. 23, 2025
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If we enforced the law he wouldn't be allowed to keep these. Fortunately for Trump, the law is only selectively enforced now, apparently based entirely on what Trump wants.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
If we enforced the law he wouldn't be allowed to keep these. Fortunately for Trump, the law is only selectively enforced now, apparently based entirely on what Trump wants.
We don’t even need AI to generate an image that defines “Oblivious”
November 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
We don’t even need AI to generate an image that defines “Oblivious”
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Share widely.
Watch this.
Open your eyes to this brutality.
ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man.
Now share this.
Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back.
You have power.
Even sharing this video exerts that power.
Open your eyes to this brutality.
ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man.
Now share this.
Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back.
You have power.
Even sharing this video exerts that power.
October 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Share widely.
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Warren: The only movement these Republicans can manage is bowing down to Trump. When you ask them about today, they claim the No Kings Rally is anti-American. They’re wrong. Hundreds of thousands of people protesting peacefully for what they believe in—that is deeply American. That is patriotism.
October 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Warren: The only movement these Republicans can manage is bowing down to Trump. When you ask them about today, they claim the No Kings Rally is anti-American. They’re wrong. Hundreds of thousands of people protesting peacefully for what they believe in—that is deeply American. That is patriotism.
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It really doesn't get any more American than millions of Americas protesting against a tyrannical wannabe king.
Warren: The only movement these Republicans can manage is bowing down to Trump. When you ask them about today, they claim the No Kings Rally is anti-American. They’re wrong. Hundreds of thousands of people protesting peacefully for what they believe in—that is deeply American. That is patriotism.
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It really doesn't get any more American than millions of Americas protesting against a tyrannical wannabe king.
No Kings demonstration in McKinney,TX. Big, loud, lots of cars honking in support. Great signs.
This looks like true patriotism to me. Speaker Johnson is completely wrong, as usual. #NoKings
This looks like true patriotism to me. Speaker Johnson is completely wrong, as usual. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
No Kings demonstration in McKinney,TX. Big, loud, lots of cars honking in support. Great signs.
This looks like true patriotism to me. Speaker Johnson is completely wrong, as usual. #NoKings
This looks like true patriotism to me. Speaker Johnson is completely wrong, as usual. #NoKings
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This is utter nonsense that shows fear and weakness. The truth is that the No Kings rallies are a broad cross section of freedom-loving Americans who want to see their country live up to the highest ideals of our Constitution: freedom, the rule of law, and the founding American idea of NO KINGS.
Mike Johnson: "Saturday, they're gonna be parading around the National Mall. They call it the No Kings Rally- we call it the Hate America Rally. They're gonna have all the Marxists, antifa people, BLM remnants, the pro-Hamas wing of the Democrat Party, they're gonna be out here screaming & wailing."
October 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This is utter nonsense that shows fear and weakness. The truth is that the No Kings rallies are a broad cross section of freedom-loving Americans who want to see their country live up to the highest ideals of our Constitution: freedom, the rule of law, and the founding American idea of NO KINGS.
Moonrise just now over the Ortiz Mountains behind Placitas from Rio Rancho. New Mexico is truly the Land of Enchantment. #NewMexicoTrue
October 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Moonrise just now over the Ortiz Mountains behind Placitas from Rio Rancho. New Mexico is truly the Land of Enchantment. #NewMexicoTrue
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"What kind of monsters grab children & take them outside without clothes? Who does that? What kind of govt permits its agents to abuse American citizens & non-citizens w/o the slightest concern for their rights, their well-being, indeed their basic humanity?"
www.americaamerica.news/p/got-a-minu...
www.americaamerica.news/p/got-a-minu...
Got a Minute or Two?: The Attack in Chicago
The night-time raid on a Chicago apartment building and its residents is an ugly escalation by an immoral regime—and an attack on all decent people
www.americaamerica.news
October 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"What kind of monsters grab children & take them outside without clothes? Who does that? What kind of govt permits its agents to abuse American citizens & non-citizens w/o the slightest concern for their rights, their well-being, indeed their basic humanity?"
www.americaamerica.news/p/got-a-minu...
www.americaamerica.news/p/got-a-minu...
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Bad enough that the Supreme Court has taken Temporary Protected Status from over 300,000 Venezuelans-abrogating established law in the process
But taking such draconian action-which will harm so many families-through the shadow docket is almost like the Court’s own form of denying them due process
But taking such draconian action-which will harm so many families-through the shadow docket is almost like the Court’s own form of denying them due process
October 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Bad enough that the Supreme Court has taken Temporary Protected Status from over 300,000 Venezuelans-abrogating established law in the process
But taking such draconian action-which will harm so many families-through the shadow docket is almost like the Court’s own form of denying them due process
But taking such draconian action-which will harm so many families-through the shadow docket is almost like the Court’s own form of denying them due process
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Can we all make the October 18 No Kings protest the biggest ever!!
October 4, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Can we all make the October 18 No Kings protest the biggest ever!!
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Elon Musk’s Twitter feed is the farthest-right, most hateful and disinformation-forward social media feed I’ve seen of any person who doesn’t openly identify as a member of a hate group. It’s toxic at a level that in any other era would have led to *anyone* in business ceasing all dealings with him.
October 4, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Elon Musk’s Twitter feed is the farthest-right, most hateful and disinformation-forward social media feed I’ve seen of any person who doesn’t openly identify as a member of a hate group. It’s toxic at a level that in any other era would have led to *anyone* in business ceasing all dealings with him.
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"What kind of monsters grab children and take them outside without clothes? What kind of govt permits its agents to do this?..The answer can only be a fascist regime that has abandoned any moral code as it seeks to intimidate, stoke fear and do violence." www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
Snapshot: The Attack in Chicago
The night-time raid on a Chicago apartment building and its residents is an ugly escalation by an immoral regime—and an attack on all decent people
www.americaamerica.news
October 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"What kind of monsters grab children and take them outside without clothes? What kind of govt permits its agents to do this?..The answer can only be a fascist regime that has abandoned any moral code as it seeks to intimidate, stoke fear and do violence." www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
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I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort
September 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort
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I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation
September 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation
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Kennedy contributed more towards the current state of the nation than 99.9999% of the population. This is the America he worked for decades to create.
Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."
Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
September 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Kennedy contributed more towards the current state of the nation than 99.9999% of the population. This is the America he worked for decades to create.