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Lives in the Divided States of America Happily married retired SW Engineer, disappointed that we cannot tell right from wrong and a convicted felon from a former prosecutor and fact from fiction. 🚫 DMs 🚫 Glam gals 🚫 Cr*pto 🚫 M*G*

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · Feb 15

It’s 2025 in the U.S. and we can no longer rely on the safety of our:

Food
Water
Air and train travel
Air quality
Civil rights protections
Workplace protections
Consumer banking protections
Health and vaccine protections

MAGMA

“Make America Great My Ass”

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PhillipUSA @phillipusa.bsky.social · 6h

So let’s get this straight…Republicans are hiding the Epstein Files because Bill Clinton is in them. 🧐😂
We are not MAGA stupid.

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 6h

Bondi will fork over the cash to him, won’t she? You have to admit his brass balls are the biggest and shiniest on earth.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h

🚨BREAKING: The State of Arizona filed a lawsuit accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of violating the Constitution by refusing to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. The plaintiffs argue that Johnson’s delay has deprived hundreds of thousands of Arizonans of representation.

News Alerts

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 6h

There are handy dandy MAGA block lists that if you subscribe, all the incoming cockroach accounts will automatically be blocked for you. You can then enjoy your timeline without harassment, vulgarities and ignorance.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11h

"The White House account has drawn only around 12,000 followers. More than 100,000 users have the account blocked."

makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: Inside the Trump Administration's Bluesky Invasion

Spoke with some administration officials who said the move was about "reaching new audiences." It's amounted to trench warfare.
www.wired.com/story/inside...

Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 9h

Scurried like a rat.

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 9h

I’ve been wondering lately if George W. Bush has any regrets in appointing two of the most corrupt Supreme Court Justices in U.S. history in Alito and Thomas.

Probably not, but that will be another huge stain on his legacy in addition to the Iraq war.

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 9h

Technically, I agree that your posts are 100% correct and HE has no control over the elections to an extent. Right now he is directing states to gerrymander districts to boost GOP chances and is calling for the elimination of mail-in ballots.

If those efforts fail, he will get desperate.

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 9h

Texas NG to Chicago? Marines deployed to L.A.? Boundaries were blatantly pushed.

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 10h

And I never thought a President would be allowed to deploy military to a state that wasn’t called for by the Governor of that state and without just cause. Imma going to bookmark this.

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 10h

Ummm, you have been witnessing what he has been doing the last 8 months, right? No rules apply to this guy and if cases reach the corrupt Supreme Court, they back him.

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 10h

Tapper had a data expert on his show from the Soc Sec Admin who quit over concerns about data security. Jake continuously mispronounced the word data, as the expert continuously pronounced it correctly, which is “day-ta”. As a retired data engineer, this drives me nuts.

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 11h

His personal army is preparing for November 2028 when he suspends the election after declaring Martial Law.

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 11h

Laura will not pass go and collect her $200 on her direct, one way ticket to hell.

Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 11h

Where is @jaketapper.bsky.social and his dementia research when you need him?

a man with a beard is holding a cup of coffee

Alt: a man with a beard is holding a cup of coffee

media.tenor.com

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Jean @jsxena.bsky.social · 12h

I'm sharing this because the order has been given to stop sharing photos of the "destruction" of the White House. Feel free to disobey.

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 12h

Putin got what he wanted from Trump. No Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. Our Orange Lizard is getting played expertly by the Russian dictator.

Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 13h

I see another Trump EO being drafted.

Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 13h

Can’t the Dem governor of NC veto this?

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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 1d

New 20 just dropped to commemorate the Trump presidency

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 14h

Waste like handing over 40 billion dollars to a country just because the leader of that country stroked our President’s massive ego?

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 14h

I remember when Emmer was considered one of the “normal” Republicans in the house.

Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 16h

Halligan appears to be another rank amateur prosecutor like so many others that now litter the DOJ. Professionalism is a lost art in our Justice system and it will take years to recover from this incompetence.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 16h

There is the angle that Trump did this to appease Greene and Boebert, to persuade them to switch their votes on releasing the Epstein Files.

Me? I just think he has a soft spot in his rotting heart for fellow grifters and fraudsters.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

You know it’s bad when this is like the 4th or 5th worst Republican scandal of the day.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

Oh, oh, I know who committed the crime! Ask me, ask me!! 🙋🏻‍♂️

Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 17h

The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean was released by authorities in Ecuador after prosecutors said they had no evidence he committed a crime.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Ecuador says it has no evidence that survivor of US strike in Caribbean committed any crime

He was released by authorities in the South American nation.

www.politico.com

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