Ric Fouad
@ricfouad.bsky.social
New here. But anyway adjunct prof (legal ethics) Fordham Law & Temple Law (Tokyo Campus), attorney, child welfare advocate, Foster Care Alumni of America, Milton Hershey School alum (7YRS).
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to the 70% of Americans who live paycheck-to-paycheck & keep electing politicians who erase taxes on the wealthy & erode all public services & safety nets relied on by our neediest & most vulnerable citizens.👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Surprise! You have a $100 million trust fund. That’s the message at “trust reveal” meetings hosted by wealthy families and advisers around the U.S.
Inside the ‘Trust Reveal,’ Where the Superrich Pass on Generational Wealth
Wealthy families and their cadre of advisers meticulously coordinate plans to make their money last for the next century and beyond.
on.wsj.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to the 70% of Americans who live paycheck-to-paycheck & keep electing politicians who erase taxes on the wealthy & erode all public services & safety nets relied on by our neediest & most vulnerable citizens.👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Some outrages demand our constant attn. Horrific war on 12M of our neighbors—hardest working & most law-abiding among us—is one of them. We need Dem leaders who will run on full amnesty & takes matter head on, not run from it or join GQP in nativism, othering, & pandering.
This has nothing to do with public safety. The sole focus is cruelty.
These actions make everyone less safe.
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These actions make everyone less safe.
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‘I’m losing everything:’ Babson College freshman speaks out about her deportation to Honduras ahead of Thanksgiving - The Boston Globe
In an interview, Any Lucia Lopez Belloza said she is now trying to pick up the pieces of a life she and her family have built in the United States for more than a decade.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Some outrages demand our constant attn. Horrific war on 12M of our neighbors—hardest working & most law-abiding among us—is one of them. We need Dem leaders who will run on full amnesty & takes matter head on, not run from it or join GQP in nativism, othering, & pandering.
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Breaking News!
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As of November 25th, Arctic sea-ice extent just hit a new record daily low and is now more than 32,000 km² below the previous record low for the date, set in 2016.
Current extent is more than 1,360,000 km² below the 1991-2020 average.
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As of November 25th, Arctic sea-ice extent just hit a new record daily low and is now more than 32,000 km² below the previous record low for the date, set in 2016.
Current extent is more than 1,360,000 km² below the 1991-2020 average.
November 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Breaking News!
Code Yikes!
As of November 25th, Arctic sea-ice extent just hit a new record daily low and is now more than 32,000 km² below the previous record low for the date, set in 2016.
Current extent is more than 1,360,000 km² below the 1991-2020 average.
Code Yikes!
As of November 25th, Arctic sea-ice extent just hit a new record daily low and is now more than 32,000 km² below the previous record low for the date, set in 2016.
Current extent is more than 1,360,000 km² below the 1991-2020 average.
What a treat, Arlo Guthrie on Alice’s Restaurant. “The newspapers and political leaders at the time were suggesting that if we didn't stop the communists in Vietnam, they would be in New Jersey in two weeks. Well, 60 years later, they haven't been to New Jersey yet.”
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It's been 60 years since Arlo Guthrie was arrested in Massaschusetts. You may have heard the story.
Arlo Guthrie was arrested in Massachusetts 60 years ago and his tale became the unnofficial song of Thanksgiving.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
What a treat, Arlo Guthrie on Alice’s Restaurant. “The newspapers and political leaders at the time were suggesting that if we didn't stop the communists in Vietnam, they would be in New Jersey in two weeks. Well, 60 years later, they haven't been to New Jersey yet.”
www.boston.com/news/environ...
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And we live in a world where this emotionally deformed cyclops & moral monster was allowed to sentence ppl to die globally & wreak havoc everywhere, including here in US, recklessly destroying safety nets ppl need to live & get by w even a shred of dignity. I’ll stop there…
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Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
And we live in a world where this emotionally deformed cyclops & moral monster was allowed to sentence ppl to die globally & wreak havoc everywhere, including here in US, recklessly destroying safety nets ppl need to live & get by w even a shred of dignity. I’ll stop there…
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Have to repeat: AI bubble burst & crypto pyramid scheme collapse cld combine to unleash a megatron market dislocation unlike anything seen before—& there are certainly clever ppl on Wall Street gaming this out right now & deploying strategies premised on just this kind of catastrophic event.
James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Have to repeat: AI bubble burst & crypto pyramid scheme collapse cld combine to unleash a megatron market dislocation unlike anything seen before—& there are certainly clever ppl on Wall Street gaming this out right now & deploying strategies premised on just this kind of catastrophic event.
Appellate ruling was relatively mild, sugarcoated conclusion upholding sanctions, spared Habba skewering (e.g., omitted what this fool said to Fox News, as quoted by Judge Middlebrooks).
So another milestone: Trump & Habba are, respectively, first Prez & US Atty to face $1M sanctions judgment.
So another milestone: Trump & Habba are, respectively, first Prez & US Atty to face $1M sanctions judgment.
Trump and Alina Habba's $1M fine for filing a “frivolous” lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, James Comey, and others has been affirmed. trib.al/xTE4rVQ
And Trump’s $475M defamation lawsuit against CNN was dismissed last week, as was his $15B defamation lawsuit against The New York Times in September.
And Trump’s $475M defamation lawsuit against CNN was dismissed last week, as was his $15B defamation lawsuit against The New York Times in September.
Judge Roasts Trump’s “Frivolous” Lawsuit Against Hillary Clinton
An appeals court panel upheld a sanction against Donald Trump and Alina Habba.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Appellate ruling was relatively mild, sugarcoated conclusion upholding sanctions, spared Habba skewering (e.g., omitted what this fool said to Fox News, as quoted by Judge Middlebrooks).
So another milestone: Trump & Habba are, respectively, first Prez & US Atty to face $1M sanctions judgment.
So another milestone: Trump & Habba are, respectively, first Prez & US Atty to face $1M sanctions judgment.
1/ We’re in moral/memory twilight zone, where “lessons” are never learned, moral travesties are repeated, & today’s shameless are draped in actual courage of past legit heroes.
Hugh Thompson was a hero—& paid for it w lifetime ostracism.
William T. Calley was a villain—& suffered zero consequences
Hugh Thompson was a hero—& paid for it w lifetime ostracism.
William T. Calley was a villain—& suffered zero consequences
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How one person stopped a U.S. Army massacre in Vietnam by someone else just "following orders,"
How one person stopped a U.S. Army massacre in Vietnam by someone else just "following orders,"
The Catch-22 around Trump’s illegal orders | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, Pennsylvania chooses a budget over the planet.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
1/ We’re in moral/memory twilight zone, where “lessons” are never learned, moral travesties are repeated, & today’s shameless are draped in actual courage of past legit heroes.
Hugh Thompson was a hero—& paid for it w lifetime ostracism.
William T. Calley was a villain—& suffered zero consequences
Hugh Thompson was a hero—& paid for it w lifetime ostracism.
William T. Calley was a villain—& suffered zero consequences
Watch this guy, my fellow Americans, UK once-in-a-generation leader, w talent/drive/easy charm of Mamdani, meeting moment, as fascism poised to seize on Labour abysmal failures: Greens=last hope of avoiding catastrophe—points to our own course correction as we seek to be rid of worthless Demosaurs.
The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population.
How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?
They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.
How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?
They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Watch this guy, my fellow Americans, UK once-in-a-generation leader, w talent/drive/easy charm of Mamdani, meeting moment, as fascism poised to seize on Labour abysmal failures: Greens=last hope of avoiding catastrophe—points to our own course correction as we seek to be rid of worthless Demosaurs.
Mind-boggling: US to Gitmo pipeline of torture, abuse, false confessions, & upended justice continues. I don’t think our surrealistic nightmare will end. Instead, its victims, perpetrators, & enablers will all die & future generations will sort it out, in complete disgust.
During an unusual evidentiary hearing Monday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, former Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi accused a retired CPD detective of orchestrating a horrific program of torture.
Former CPD detective accused of crafting ‘sadistic’ interrogation plan used at Guantanamo
During an unusual evidentiary hearing Monday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, former Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi described abuse by a former CPD detective while giving testimon…
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November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Mind-boggling: US to Gitmo pipeline of torture, abuse, false confessions, & upended justice continues. I don’t think our surrealistic nightmare will end. Instead, its victims, perpetrators, & enablers will all die & future generations will sort it out, in complete disgust.
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Mark Kelly (& Elyssa Slotkin) trashed ICC for issuing arrest warrant for Netanyahu & supported horrific crimes against humanity in Gaza. His (their) public statement is hypocritical grandstanding: let him answer to largest child amputee population in recorded history, then he can talk int’l law.
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Mark Kelly (& Elyssa Slotkin) trashed ICC for issuing arrest warrant for Netanyahu & supported horrific crimes against humanity in Gaza. His (their) public statement is hypocritical grandstanding: let him answer to largest child amputee population in recorded history, then he can talk int’l law.
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A pyjama-clad Kavanaugh stop?🤔 Our Supreme Court is a disgrace.
Kirakosian: We have this Border Patrol agent and he’s literally in his pajamas… he takes it upon himself to march down the street to confront these kids. And then he confronts our client and he points his loaded firearm directly at the 17-year-old…
November 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
A pyjama-clad Kavanaugh stop?🤔 Our Supreme Court is a disgrace.
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So we can be the ugly Americans at home & abroad? Another Trump achievement: passport checks & citizenship proof at national parks.
a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face while sitting at a table with his eyes closed .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face while sitting at a table with his eyes closed .
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November 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
So we can be the ugly Americans at home & abroad? Another Trump achievement: passport checks & citizenship proof at national parks.
Easy to overlook this amidst crypto pyramid scheme avalanche: commerce secretary’s family also benefiting wildly from pyramid scheme-friendly policies of current administration. World hurtling toward major dislocation when scam collapses or financial never never land flooded w make-believe “money.”
Cantor Fitzgerald, the former firm of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, has long been an afterthought on Wall Street. Now it is having its best year ever.
Howard Lutnick’s Former Wall Street Firm Is Having Its Best Year Ever
Now run by three co-CEOs and Lutnick’s two elder sons, the firm is reaping rewards from early bet on crypto.
on.wsj.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Easy to overlook this amidst crypto pyramid scheme avalanche: commerce secretary’s family also benefiting wildly from pyramid scheme-friendly policies of current administration. World hurtling toward major dislocation when scam collapses or financial never never land flooded w make-believe “money.”
A pyjama-clad Kavanaugh stop?🤔 Our Supreme Court is a disgrace.
Kirakosian: We have this Border Patrol agent and he’s literally in his pajamas… he takes it upon himself to march down the street to confront these kids. And then he confronts our client and he points his loaded firearm directly at the 17-year-old…
November 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
A pyjama-clad Kavanaugh stop?🤔 Our Supreme Court is a disgrace.
BBC poltroons: WTH?
Rutger Bregman
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November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
BBC poltroons: WTH?
Devastating, must-read piece, no paywall link shared here (thank you, Valerie). Question I had is why not fire every guard who joined illegal strike, end union contract, hire replacements who’ll do the job w/o brutality or holding up taxpayers w guns & ski masks?
From Jan Ransom and Bianca Pallaro -Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards’ Brutality Grows
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November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Devastating, must-read piece, no paywall link shared here (thank you, Valerie). Question I had is why not fire every guard who joined illegal strike, end union contract, hire replacements who’ll do the job w/o brutality or holding up taxpayers w guns & ski masks?
Good lord, what fresh new preposterous hell is this?🤔
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, already mothballed by embarrassing clown leading it—Russ Vought—orders bank examiner staff to recite ‘Humility Pledge’ before starting bank investigations.🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, already mothballed by embarrassing clown leading it—Russ Vought—orders bank examiner staff to recite ‘Humility Pledge’ before starting bank investigations.🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
Consumer Bureau’s Bank Examiners Criticize New ‘Humility Pledge’
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November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Good lord, what fresh new preposterous hell is this?🤔
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, already mothballed by embarrassing clown leading it—Russ Vought—orders bank examiner staff to recite ‘Humility Pledge’ before starting bank investigations.🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, already mothballed by embarrassing clown leading it—Russ Vought—orders bank examiner staff to recite ‘Humility Pledge’ before starting bank investigations.🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
Phenomenal convo. Say what you will abt competing positions, Guru-Murthy led thoughtful, informative, civil debate, really helps show differences in these three parties (w hooligan party in wings). We in US never get this level of discourse & civility. Bravo all around—Zach again carries day.
Debate today with a Labour MP on the economy.
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
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Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
Is Labour being outflanked by Polanski and Farage? Reeves budget debate
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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November 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Phenomenal convo. Say what you will abt competing positions, Guru-Murthy led thoughtful, informative, civil debate, really helps show differences in these three parties (w hooligan party in wings). We in US never get this level of discourse & civility. Bravo all around—Zach again carries day.
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Steven Cash gives a two minute primer on the Central Intelligence Agency. #holdfast #steadystate
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The Steady State Two Minute CIA Primer
YouTube video by The Steady State
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November 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Steven Cash gives a two minute primer on the Central Intelligence Agency. #holdfast #steadystate
youtu.be/tR20ogbyG1U
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So this is what we’ve come to? Guy with 340K+ followers calling on nurses to harm a patient? And no one in the mentions points this out? (But some in nursing endorse the thought.) No one wins in a race to the moral bottom…
November 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
So this is what we’ve come to? Guy with 340K+ followers calling on nurses to harm a patient? And no one in the mentions points this out? (But some in nursing endorse the thought.) No one wins in a race to the moral bottom…
Marvelous reporting, two sides of undocumented immigrant/identity theft coin. Points to obvious solution: bring these 12M souls out of shadows, legalize status, stop collective denial & ugly nativism. (No paywall.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Two Men. One Identity. They Both Paid the Price.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Marvelous reporting, two sides of undocumented immigrant/identity theft coin. Points to obvious solution: bring these 12M souls out of shadows, legalize status, stop collective denial & ugly nativism. (No paywall.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
"...May there come across the waters
A path of yellow moonlight
To bring you safely home."
(John O'Donohue, To Bless the space between us: A book of Blessings)
A path of yellow moonlight
To bring you safely home."
(John O'Donohue, To Bless the space between us: A book of Blessings)
November 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"...May there come across the waters
A path of yellow moonlight
To bring you safely home."
(John O'Donohue, To Bless the space between us: A book of Blessings)
A path of yellow moonlight
To bring you safely home."
(John O'Donohue, To Bless the space between us: A book of Blessings)