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Rick Schrenker

@rickschren54.bsky.social

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Retired clinical engineer. Focus risk mgmt and systems engr. 40+ yrs at Hopkins and Mass General. Married 49+ yrs. 3 kids, 6 grands. ELCA Lutheran. Social democrat. Indivisible postcard writer.

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Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 5h

I agree. But do you believe you’re going to change minds with this rhetoric?

Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 12h

The most hilarious part is he can launch a nuclear war.

A real knee slapper, that.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22h

Grijalva: I do think that Speaker Johnson misplayed his hand.

There are people all over this nation who were out there with signs that said, “Swear her in.” They wouldn’t have even known about me otherwise.

Thank you for highlighting how corrupt the system you’re protecting really is.

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Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 12h

… crap and focus on describing his behavior in terms of his motivation.

He’s a megalomaniacal mob boss who recognizes the danger he faces, and he’s doing anything and everything he can to remove the danger.

Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 12h

The comments on this thread don’t ask why he’s doing things like inciting more violence from ICE.

My guess is he knows that if the Epstein files get released, he’s in quickshit he can’t get out of. So he’s looking to institute a dictatorship before that can happen.

So stop with the “crazy pants” …

Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 13h

Which makes me wonder why our actual state and local law enforcement agencies aren’t arresting them when they break state and local laws.

Their fingerprints will lead right to their criminal pasts.

Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 13h

… up to, they’ll demand justice.

Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 13h

We need to form a coalition with them to remove the fascists from power and then begin the hard work of addressing how we got here.

When people in the middle (yes, they exist) realize what the Silicon Valley billionaires (like Peter Thiel) and far right ideologues (like Curtis Yarvin) have been …

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Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 13h

All Americans won’t and never will.

Many more will, however, when the Epstein files are released. Many of them will claim “We never knew!” in a desperate attempt to hide their shame, just like so many Germans did after WW2.

We should let them deal with their shame, not hammer them with it.

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Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 13h

We white people are all alike, right?

Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 13h

A lot don’t care. Maybe even most. But the trend in approval ratings demonstrates that some do. That needs to continue.

Doxxing will lead to violence that will give Trump the Reichstag Fire he so desperately desires. We’re fucking idiots if we don’t recognize that.

Drive his ratings into the dirt.

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Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 13h

Is this the Onion?

Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 23h

It’s past time Christians in general and church leaders in particular who have actually acquainted themselves with the New Testament challenge that duplicitous power hungry hypocrite.

It’s not enough to just oppose Christian nationalism in the abstract. It’s time to name names and quote Gospel.

Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 1d

@warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

This is an excellent idea!!!

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 1d

Follow the money

Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 1d

I believe it would be more strategic to expose that the government is lying when they say they vet the people they hire.

ICE isn’t “removing the worst of the worst”. They’re HIRING them. They WANT to knock older people to the ground. They WANT to terrorize kids. Why?

They’re lifelong LOSERS.

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Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 1d

What he knows is we won’t stop him

Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. And without a warrant, smashing windshields is destruction of property.

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Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 1d

Portland Police should be protecting their citizens.

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Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 1d

Including arresting lawbreaking ICE agents.

Unmask them, fingerprint them, and search their criminal backgrounds.

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Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 1d

They should indeed, which begs the question why they haven’t.

The Portland Police Department should be asked why they permit anyone to break state laws.

ICE agents who commit crimes should be arrested like anyone else would be.

Unmasked and fingerprinted. Criminal records searched. Etc.

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Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 1d

Pedophile
Incentivized
Goon
Squads

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Ian Kremer @leadcoalition.bsky.social · 1d

Fund SNAP. Reverse the Medicaid cuts. Restore USAID.

(image cia @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social)

"Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings." ~ Nelson Mandela

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Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 1d

They’re state TV. They have to interview him.

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