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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks, Kimbi! Keep on travelin'

Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 21h

We didn't vote for this — and right now, Americans need to stand together in solidarity and, in one voice, from sea to shining sea, demand "No kings!" Please — find your local #NoKings event at www.NoKings.org and be there...for the love of America.

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.NoKings.org

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 21h

He's ignoring long-established norms, the rule of law, and our Constitution. And with the help of the Supreme Court, the newly unprincipled Republican Party, and his Project 2025 crew, he's playing hardball and aiming to end our democracy.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 21h

Trump isn’t governing. He's ruling like a king: threatening and prosecuting his opponents, attacking free speech, and dispatching soldiers to our cities.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 21h

On October 18th, millions of Americans will come together across all 50 states to tell President Trump that our country is a democracy — with no room for dictators or kings: www.NoKings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.NoKings.org

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 21h

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Last June, more than 5 million Americans joined #NoKings rallies across the country, protesting President Trump's authoritarianism. And this Saturday, with your help, it's going to be even bigger and better.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks for this, Jack. Keep on travelin'!

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 23h

Happy travels!

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 1d

Planning a trip to Italy? My newest guidebook, "Rick Steves Rome, Florence & Venice," hits the shelves today: store.ricksteves.com/shop/p/rome-...

I've spent a lifetime exploring these cities, and this book includes all my favorite tips and discoveries. Happy travels!

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 4d

Happy travels!

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 4d

This is just one entry in a 16-part Bluesky series sharing what I learned about smart development aid while filming my 2020 public television special “Hunger & Hope: Lessons from Ethiopia and Guatemala.” The full hour is streaming free & ad-free on the @pbs.org app and at www.ricksteves.com/hunger.

Hunger and Hope: Lessons from Ethiopia and Guatemala

In his new hour-long special available February 1, 2020, Rick Steves travels through Ethiopia and Guatemala to learn about extreme poverty — the more than 700 million people who struggle to live on le...

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 4d

Before Trump began dismantling USAID, polling showed that the average American voter thought that ~25% of our federal budget went to foreign aid. But that figure was only 1%—and our foreign aid contributions represented a much smaller share of our Gross National Income than other wealthy countries.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 4d

Being in Ethiopia in person to observe the joy and love on display as mothers cradled their adorable children made me a believer in the value of smart aid as a practical investment of U.S. taxpayer dollars.

Health Posts Bring Care to the Neediest

The extremely poor, who are often extremely remote, have little access to health care or health education. United Nations’ health posts bring that service to people living off the grid.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 4d

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The world’s extremely poor are also often extremely remote, with limited access to healthcare & health education. In many developing countries, the government—often with the help of the UN and, until this year, USAID—maintains health posts that bring these services to people living off the grid.

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patrickcarlson @pjcarlson.bsky.social · 5d

✋ raise your hand if your life has been saved by medical research.

Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 5d

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A year ago yesterday was a very happy day for me. I had lost my prostate. It was good riddance, as it was riddled with cancer. I’m now cancer-free — and thankful for the tax-funded technology that saved my life.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you, Niajo. Keep on travelin'!

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, I am cancer-free. On the first anniversary of my successful robotic prostatectomy surgery, here’s to taxpayer-funded medical research and expertise — and a future, for so many of us, filled with happy travels!

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 5d

For God’s sake, take the politics out of funding medical research, embrace science, pay for it with taxes…and only then can you truly call yourself “pro-life.”

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 5d

Alzheimer’s, cancer, future pandemics, vaccines, you name it…We need science. Healthcare and medical technology are great equalizers. Science saves lives — blue lives and red lives, rich lives and poor lives, travel writers with cancer and, yes, the lives of people not even born yet.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 5d

Billions of dollars have already been invested in work that was on the verge of life-saving breakthroughs. And for no good reason, that funding has been ended, and all that promising work-in-progress is callously being tossed away.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 5d

Doctors and nurses and scientists — people who’ve dedicated their lives to advancing public health — are befuddled, stymied, and demoralized by the Trump administration’s extra-constitutional determination to stop American medical research in its tracks.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 5d

Countless Americans who, like me, are alive today because of medical research; funding that powered scientific breakthroughs that all of humanity has benefited from; and treatments and cures for life-threatening maladies that just one generation ago were a death sentence.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 5d

To the single-issue voters who made (and make) President Trump possible, I’m speaking up on behalf of:

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 5d

...not to mention compromise the environment their children will inherit, abandon poor and hungry people at home and abroad, and take away their very freedom (all “pro-life” causes they might support but don’t) — all for the sake of abortion politics.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 5d

There are millions of Americans who, apparently, are willing to support a government that will defund medical research...

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