Rick Vecchio
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Rick Vecchio
@bklynsoutham.bsky.social
· Mar 15
“We know it’s a tough time to be a journalist, but I think what strengthens all of us is that there is probably no better time to be a journalist because this is when we live our values and we live our mission.”
— Maria Ressa
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— Maria Ressa
Support fact-based journalism.
@mariaressa.bsky.social
Conservative estimate: ~80% of US billionaires are white men.
And one of them, the extremist Peter Thiel, is the ideological and financial benefactor to Vice President JD Bowman or Woods or Bates or whatever the F his name is.
I'd be perfectly happy if our government was led by women of color.
And one of them, the extremist Peter Thiel, is the ideological and financial benefactor to Vice President JD Bowman or Woods or Bates or whatever the F his name is.
I'd be perfectly happy if our government was led by women of color.
A lot of people think "DEI" is lame diversity seminars or racial slogans at NFL games. In reality, it was a deliberate program of discrimination primarily against white men. This is an incredible piece that describes the evil of DEI and its consequences:
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
The Lost Generation
For fifteen years I’ve scalped tickets to pay the bills. But in January 2016 I almost managed a real career.
www.compactmag.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Conservative estimate: ~80% of US billionaires are white men.
And one of them, the extremist Peter Thiel, is the ideological and financial benefactor to Vice President JD Bowman or Woods or Bates or whatever the F his name is.
I'd be perfectly happy if our government was led by women of color.
And one of them, the extremist Peter Thiel, is the ideological and financial benefactor to Vice President JD Bowman or Woods or Bates or whatever the F his name is.
I'd be perfectly happy if our government was led by women of color.
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Before the Nuremberg Laws and the Final Solution, the Nazis started with the "Law on the Revocation of Naturalization and the Annulment of German Citizenship" on July 14, 1933. They targeted Eastern European Jews who had become German citizens after World War I.
Trump is a Fascist to his core.
Trump is a Fascist to his core.
Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Before the Nuremberg Laws and the Final Solution, the Nazis started with the "Law on the Revocation of Naturalization and the Annulment of German Citizenship" on July 14, 1933. They targeted Eastern European Jews who had become German citizens after World War I.
Trump is a Fascist to his core.
Trump is a Fascist to his core.
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Urgent update.
Our bipartisan petition to force a vote on a straightforward extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits now has 218 signatures.
Mike Johnson should bring the bill to the floor immediately.
Our bipartisan petition to force a vote on a straightforward extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits now has 218 signatures.
Mike Johnson should bring the bill to the floor immediately.
December 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Urgent update.
Our bipartisan petition to force a vote on a straightforward extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits now has 218 signatures.
Mike Johnson should bring the bill to the floor immediately.
Our bipartisan petition to force a vote on a straightforward extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits now has 218 signatures.
Mike Johnson should bring the bill to the floor immediately.
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Michelle Obama on the loss of Rob and Michelle.🕊️
December 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Michelle Obama on the loss of Rob and Michelle.🕊️
Which is deadlier to humans in Peru: the Bothrops pit viper or the venomous Trumpapillar?
Fact-checking President Trump’s Peru viper tale
Which is deadlier to humans in Peru: the Bothrops pit viper or the venomous Trumpapillar? By Rick Vecchio ✐ Peruvian Times Contributing Editor* Applying Trumpian logic, pit vipers cause more than six ...
www.peruviantimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Which is deadlier to humans in Peru: the Bothrops pit viper or the venomous Trumpapillar?
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Publish your article and get smeared.
That’s the message Dan Friedman came away with after he emailed the Pentagon for comment on a story and soon received a message from Pizzagate promoterJack Posobiec threatening to publish a scurrilous story about him.
That’s the message Dan Friedman came away with after he emailed the Pentagon for comment on a story and soon received a message from Pizzagate promoterJack Posobiec threatening to publish a scurrilous story about him.
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
www.motherjones.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Publish your article and get smeared.
That’s the message Dan Friedman came away with after he emailed the Pentagon for comment on a story and soon received a message from Pizzagate promoterJack Posobiec threatening to publish a scurrilous story about him.
That’s the message Dan Friedman came away with after he emailed the Pentagon for comment on a story and soon received a message from Pizzagate promoterJack Posobiec threatening to publish a scurrilous story about him.
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So that dementia Don can find his way.
December 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
So that dementia Don can find his way.
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The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year.
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year.
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
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No parent wants this text. Thinking of the Brown University community.
December 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
No parent wants this text. Thinking of the Brown University community.
Oh perfect! Measles, polio, AND AI with zero guardrails.
Nothing says "visionary leadership" like unleashing once-eradicated diseases paired with unregulated superintelligence. Iron lungs AND killer robots. Let's bundle the extinction-level threat into a CDO?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/t...
Nothing says "visionary leadership" like unleashing once-eradicated diseases paired with unregulated superintelligence. Iron lungs AND killer robots. Let's bundle the extinction-level threat into a CDO?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/t...
Trump Signs Executive Order to Neuter State A.I. Laws
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Oh perfect! Measles, polio, AND AI with zero guardrails.
Nothing says "visionary leadership" like unleashing once-eradicated diseases paired with unregulated superintelligence. Iron lungs AND killer robots. Let's bundle the extinction-level threat into a CDO?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/t...
Nothing says "visionary leadership" like unleashing once-eradicated diseases paired with unregulated superintelligence. Iron lungs AND killer robots. Let's bundle the extinction-level threat into a CDO?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/t...
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#GVerse #FuckICE detain U.S. citizen for "looking" Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
December 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
#GVerse #FuckICE detain U.S. citizen for "looking" Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
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How women experience Peru when they travel on their own — the joys, the challenges, and the practical safety tips you wish someone had told you in advance.
www.fertur-travel.com/blog/2025/so...
www.fertur-travel.com/blog/2025/so...
December 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
How women experience Peru when they travel on their own — the joys, the challenges, and the practical safety tips you wish someone had told you in advance.
www.fertur-travel.com/blog/2025/so...
www.fertur-travel.com/blog/2025/so...
Travelers from Visa Waiver Program countries, our closest allies like the United Kingdom, France, and Norway — would be subjected to MORE invasive screening than travelers from non-VWP countries who undergo full visa interviews. i.e. moronic destruction of business travel and tourism, writ large.
U.S. plans to ask visitors to disclose 5 years of social media history
The proposal would affect travelers from countries on the visa waiver program, including Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Japan and South Korea.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Travelers from Visa Waiver Program countries, our closest allies like the United Kingdom, France, and Norway — would be subjected to MORE invasive screening than travelers from non-VWP countries who undergo full visa interviews. i.e. moronic destruction of business travel and tourism, writ large.
Listen to her description of how Hugo Chavez systematically dismantled Venezuela's democracy. What she can't say for the sake of expediency:
Right-wing authoritarian kleptocracy is exactly as horrifically wrong as Left-wing authoritarian kleptocracy. They're the same.
Right-wing authoritarian kleptocracy is exactly as horrifically wrong as Left-wing authoritarian kleptocracy. They're the same.
December 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Listen to her description of how Hugo Chavez systematically dismantled Venezuela's democracy. What she can't say for the sake of expediency:
Right-wing authoritarian kleptocracy is exactly as horrifically wrong as Left-wing authoritarian kleptocracy. They're the same.
Right-wing authoritarian kleptocracy is exactly as horrifically wrong as Left-wing authoritarian kleptocracy. They're the same.
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me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight
Helloooo! The 2016 Steele Dossier, compiled as raw intelligence about alleged Russian objectives, reads like a blueprint for Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Helloooo! The 2016 Steele Dossier, compiled as raw intelligence about alleged Russian objectives, reads like a blueprint for Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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Trump figured out murdering people would get the Epstein files out of the news cycle.
December 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Trump figured out murdering people would get the Epstein files out of the news cycle.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
Clear. Unambiguous.
That the six corrupt cronies in black robes are even entertaining a hearing of Trump's B.S. is terrifying.
Clear. Unambiguous.
That the six corrupt cronies in black robes are even entertaining a hearing of Trump's B.S. is terrifying.
December 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
Clear. Unambiguous.
That the six corrupt cronies in black robes are even entertaining a hearing of Trump's B.S. is terrifying.
Clear. Unambiguous.
That the six corrupt cronies in black robes are even entertaining a hearing of Trump's B.S. is terrifying.
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Warning: dog bite images
Tacoma ICE agents lured Wilmer Martinez out of his home, released their dog on him, he received bites and gashes, was denied medical attention for hours.
Senator Murray @murray.senate.gov is demanding his release. Stop this inhumanity
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OeyB...
Tacoma ICE agents lured Wilmer Martinez out of his home, released their dog on him, he received bites and gashes, was denied medical attention for hours.
Senator Murray @murray.senate.gov is demanding his release. Stop this inhumanity
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OeyB...
Sen. Murray urges release of man allegedly mauled by ICE dog
YouTube video by KING 5 Seattle
m.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Warning: dog bite images
Tacoma ICE agents lured Wilmer Martinez out of his home, released their dog on him, he received bites and gashes, was denied medical attention for hours.
Senator Murray @murray.senate.gov is demanding his release. Stop this inhumanity
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OeyB...
Tacoma ICE agents lured Wilmer Martinez out of his home, released their dog on him, he received bites and gashes, was denied medical attention for hours.
Senator Murray @murray.senate.gov is demanding his release. Stop this inhumanity
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OeyB...
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The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow