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Rory Roberge

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Town Council Member in Normal, Illinois Husband to an amazing wife; Father to two incredible children USNA Class of 2010 - B.S. in History He/Him - 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Ally #BLM 🇺🇸 Navy Veteran ⚓️✈️ #FTTB 🚫 Crypto Peddlers Get Blocked 🚫

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Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · Nov 11

I would never ask someone to do anything I wouldn't do myself, especially if it involves pain. So here is a picture of me donating platelets.

If you are able to, please consider donating whole blood, plasma, or platelets. You just might save a life.

Picture of me hooked up to a blood platelet donation machine in June, 2020

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Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 20h

That post has some real, "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength." vibes

Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 20h

The only entity on Earth that may be more corrupt than the Trump Regime is FIFA

Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 20h

Isn't this basically the plot of The Island?

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

“Patrek Chase, kidney transplant program director at Parkland Health in Dallas, claimed that patients at his hospital – which generally serves a poorer population – were passed over for a healthy organ in favor of patients at UT Southwestern Medical Center, which generally helps the affluent.”

Whistleblower claims Dallas hospitals kept kidneys from poorer patients

Kidneys that were deemed unsuitable for patients at Parkland hospital were allegedly given to others at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

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Terzilla Ford @bassdiesel.bsky.social · 1d

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Voice of Reason @raggapegs.bsky.social · 1d

Let's give her some more work on October 18th. 😅🤣

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Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 1d

Mike is the epitome of playing dumb

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Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely not a cult

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "Together with my friend Speaker Ohana of the Israeli Knesset we're going to rally speakers and presidents of parliaments around the world so we will jointly nominate President Donald J Trump for next year's Nobel Prize. No one has ever deserved that prize more & that is an objective fact."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 1d

Here's my little boy as a puppy, sitting on the air conditioning vent because he loves the cold.

A small white dog with one blue and one brown eye, sitting on an air conditioning vent to stay cool

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 1d

Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Jim Paul @jimpaul.bsky.social · 2d

None of us are equal unless everyone is equal.

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Caffeine 🇺🇦 @caffeine.fellas.army · 2d

Billionaire donating to a cause that wouldn’t have to exist if they were taxed fairly. No need to thank me

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Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 2d

Authoritarian takeovers don't like armed resistance. This was always part of the plan

Tweet and quote tweet from Gun Owners of America's Twitter account about the Supreme Court allowing the US Attorney General to have the means to make a registry of gun owners

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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 4d

Puppy Killer Kristi Noem is a joke…

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

The IRS is laying off people during the shutdown, even though it was rehiring staff it previously fired because it was so shorthanded.
This one stands out because firing IRS employees costs the government money, since they bring in about $6-8 for every dollar spent on tax enforcement

IRS Halts Layoff Plans, Begins Rehiring Amid Staffing Shortages
The agency is attempting to rebuild its workforce and restore public confidence.

Treasury Department: Treasury cut 1,446 employees on Friday. Two Internal Revenue Service employees confirmed layoffs were taking place at the tax agency, which has already shed more than 25,000 employees. One employee who was laid off was working Friday and exempt from shutdown furloughs.

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 4d

IRS layoffs are costly for the U.S., redistributing wealth to the top 1% (who lie on their taxes at jaw-dropping rates).

The bottom 99% generally pay their taxes. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Taxes evaded as a percent of taxes owed from a study showing that the 99th wealth percentile and above evade significantly more taxes than everyone else. The richest evade 25% of the taxes they owe on average. The bottom 95% evade less than 3% of their taxes on average. While these data are from Scandinavia, similar patterns are likely in other countries, including the U.S.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine that

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Bob Lawrence 💙 @trumpluvsobama.bsky.social · 4d

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 4d

Insurance probably doesn't have their plates on file. The only way to get their insurance involved would be to file a police report as part of the claim with your carrier. Insurance companies usually help each other out if they can get a hold of driver info.

Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 4d

The craziest part of all of this is that it came about because a black man wanted everyone to be able to get healthcare

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Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 4d

Democratic Extremists want everyone to have Healthcare

Republican Extremists want a nation with only white people

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 4d

Benny Johnson is a well known plagiarist, grifter, & Christian nationalist who was being paid by Russia - to the tune of well over a $100,000 a month - to push Russian propaganda on the American people - the perfect bio for a MAGA influencer. We no longer have a Justice Department.👇

Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 4d

Would it exclude Kid Rock?

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