Rutsch
@rutsch.bsky.social
Retired teacher of American History, US Government, Psychology. Also a Principal and counselor. Veteran. Pissed off about the turn the country has taken and a believer that good will ultimately prevail. Happily married, dad, grandfather. Love UCLA.
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Trump has separated us from the world. He’s sided with Russia & now he plans to tear our country apart/destroy our economy. So, at what point are we going to fight back against this tyrannical fascist dictator? He has an illegal court behind him granting unlimited unitary executive power.
September 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Trump has separated us from the world. He’s sided with Russia & now he plans to tear our country apart/destroy our economy. So, at what point are we going to fight back against this tyrannical fascist dictator? He has an illegal court behind him granting unlimited unitary executive power.
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GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Facts are stubborn things… Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas…. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? — He isn’t focused on crime & violence. It’s about an expression of authoritarianism.”
(H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
(H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
August 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Facts are stubborn things… Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas…. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? — He isn’t focused on crime & violence. It’s about an expression of authoritarianism.”
(H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
(H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
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Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
July 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
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“He always looks like he just saw the Epstein files”
July 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
“He always looks like he just saw the Epstein files”
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Republican lawmakers want to change or reduce key social safety net programs that provide healthcare, food benefits, and financial assistance for millions of children.
What children in poverty could lose from the 'Big Beautiful Bill'
Republicans want to change or reduce key social safety net programs that provide healthcare, food benefits and financial assistance for millions of children.
n.pr
June 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Republican lawmakers want to change or reduce key social safety net programs that provide healthcare, food benefits, and financial assistance for millions of children.
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Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.
May 22, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.
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Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…
April 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…
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“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help.
If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."
- Pope Francis 🕊️
If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."
- Pope Francis 🕊️
April 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help.
If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."
- Pope Francis 🕊️
If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."
- Pope Francis 🕊️
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Shout out to all the finance bros who didn’t give a shit about democracy, human rights, racism, homophobia, misogyny, the future of the planet or basic human decency and voted for the conman they thought was gonna be good for the economy. You guys are geniuses.
April 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Shout out to all the finance bros who didn’t give a shit about democracy, human rights, racism, homophobia, misogyny, the future of the planet or basic human decency and voted for the conman they thought was gonna be good for the economy. You guys are geniuses.
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Met Sam Elliot the other day, told him how much I loved him, all his work, and in particular "1883", told him it was poetry for my soul. He asked my name, shook my hand, thanked me, could not have nicer...given the world situation now, this totally brightened my day.
April 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Met Sam Elliot the other day, told him how much I loved him, all his work, and in particular "1883", told him it was poetry for my soul. He asked my name, shook my hand, thanked me, could not have nicer...given the world situation now, this totally brightened my day.
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One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months.
I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
April 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months.
I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
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Mark Kelly: "This is not surprising. Here's a guy who told Americans to inject bleach into their bodies, who sent a mob to Capitol Hill. And now I think it's fair to say he stands out as singlehandedly destroying more wealth with his bad decisions than anybody else who has ever lived on this planet"
April 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Mark Kelly: "This is not surprising. Here's a guy who told Americans to inject bleach into their bodies, who sent a mob to Capitol Hill. And now I think it's fair to say he stands out as singlehandedly destroying more wealth with his bad decisions than anybody else who has ever lived on this planet"
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Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary.
I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.
I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.
March 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary.
I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.
I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.
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Donald Trump's executive order would make it harder for millions to register to vote, would disenfranchise voters Trump doesn't like, and give power to election deniers to overturn elections they don't win.
This is the greatest threat to democracy right now and it must be stopped.
This is the greatest threat to democracy right now and it must be stopped.
March 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Donald Trump's executive order would make it harder for millions to register to vote, would disenfranchise voters Trump doesn't like, and give power to election deniers to overturn elections they don't win.
This is the greatest threat to democracy right now and it must be stopped.
This is the greatest threat to democracy right now and it must be stopped.
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The Trump admin is detaining students and faculty without charges, withholding federal dollars from universities, blackmailing institutions into silence with witch hunts masquerading as investigations, and violating the Constitution. We cannot be silent. youtube.com/shorts/JyNTa...
The Trump admin is detaining students and faculty without charges.
YouTube video by Senator Markey
youtube.com
March 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The Trump admin is detaining students and faculty without charges, withholding federal dollars from universities, blackmailing institutions into silence with witch hunts masquerading as investigations, and violating the Constitution. We cannot be silent. youtube.com/shorts/JyNTa...
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Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
March 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
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This is really the whole ball game right now, *particularly* among the institutions that make up civil society.
(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
March 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This is really the whole ball game right now, *particularly* among the institutions that make up civil society.
(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
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Our Secretary of Defense almost certainly has more threatening/extremist tattoos and has more credibly been accused of sexual assault than almost all of the people being sent to El Salvador. No exaggeration.
March 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Our Secretary of Defense almost certainly has more threatening/extremist tattoos and has more credibly been accused of sexual assault than almost all of the people being sent to El Salvador. No exaggeration.
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Thank you, Prime Minister Trudeau. For your hard work, for your leadership, and for your great service to our country.
March 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Thank you, Prime Minister Trudeau. For your hard work, for your leadership, and for your great service to our country.
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I am just as ill at ease over the way this administration has hijacked American democracy...and taking basic competence with them.
But for a number of reasons I'm done with outrage. These people no longer get my anger. Just my determination to replace it and chaos with justice and kindness.
But for a number of reasons I'm done with outrage. These people no longer get my anger. Just my determination to replace it and chaos with justice and kindness.
January 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I am just as ill at ease over the way this administration has hijacked American democracy...and taking basic competence with them.
But for a number of reasons I'm done with outrage. These people no longer get my anger. Just my determination to replace it and chaos with justice and kindness.
But for a number of reasons I'm done with outrage. These people no longer get my anger. Just my determination to replace it and chaos with justice and kindness.
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Trump cares so much about childhood cancer that he and his family stole money from a children's cancer charity.
March 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Trump cares so much about childhood cancer that he and his family stole money from a children's cancer charity.
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French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."