Rick Maywald
@rickmaywald.bsky.social
Worked 30+ years, M. A. Psychology/Crisis/Archetypal/MHP
Writer of poems, painter of images
Recently accepted into PLU/Tacoma RWW MFA.
NJ Born, raised there till age 26
WA Resident since 1983, 40 in Olympia
Currently living in Lewis County Hillbilly land
Writer of poems, painter of images
Recently accepted into PLU/Tacoma RWW MFA.
NJ Born, raised there till age 26
WA Resident since 1983, 40 in Olympia
Currently living in Lewis County Hillbilly land
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New Epstein files pic just dropped
December 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
New Epstein files pic just dropped
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The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
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Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
I've updated the iPhone and iPad to the new better than ever iOS 26 whatever. Besides hiding shit that worked perfectly well for years and making a squishy thing happen with the screen, something the 11 yr old in me thought was cool for about 11 seconds. I'm sure there are security measure but it's
December 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I've updated the iPhone and iPad to the new better than ever iOS 26 whatever. Besides hiding shit that worked perfectly well for years and making a squishy thing happen with the screen, something the 11 yr old in me thought was cool for about 11 seconds. I'm sure there are security measure but it's
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Cheap Nation Falling Apart https://theonion.com/cheap-nation-falling-apart-1850156543/
December 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Cheap Nation Falling Apart https://theonion.com/cheap-nation-falling-apart-1850156543/
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Ask Dr. Oz how much he'd pay to get his back.
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Ask Dr. Oz how much he'd pay to get his back.
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Hey MAGA friends?
I hope y'all are ready to blindly support more special treatment for a convicted child rapist - bc Trump thinks he can get you there.
I hope y'all are ready to blindly support more special treatment for a convicted child rapist - bc Trump thinks he can get you there.
A day before the redacted Epstein Files are set to be partially released, Ghislaine Maxwell has asked a federal court to vacate or amend her conviction and 20-year prison sentence, a move seen as an attempt to delay or disrupt the release of the Epstein files. #OpDeathEaters
December 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Hey MAGA friends?
I hope y'all are ready to blindly support more special treatment for a convicted child rapist - bc Trump thinks he can get you there.
I hope y'all are ready to blindly support more special treatment for a convicted child rapist - bc Trump thinks he can get you there.
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Thanks, Oprah.
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Thanks, Oprah.
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Opinion | Stephen King: Why I Hugged Rob Reiner After Watching ‘Stand by Me’
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Centralia, Lewis County, where this is located is the most polluted county in the entire state of WA. Hundreds of train cars roll through city center every day with a noise pollution equally bad. Massive tRump support, of course.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
DOE orders WA coal plant to continue operating despite state ban
A state law requires Washington utilities to stop using coal-fired electricity beginning next year.
www.seattletimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Centralia, Lewis County, where this is located is the most polluted county in the entire state of WA. Hundreds of train cars roll through city center every day with a noise pollution equally bad. Massive tRump support, of course.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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If fentanyl is a weapon of mass destruction then what is unleashing measles across vulnerable populations in the United States
December 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
If fentanyl is a weapon of mass destruction then what is unleashing measles across vulnerable populations in the United States
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This threatened military action directly contradicts what Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth told my Senate colleagues and I today about the mission and goals of their operations in the Caribbean. 1/2
December 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This threatened military action directly contradicts what Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth told my Senate colleagues and I today about the mission and goals of their operations in the Caribbean. 1/2
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Fuck you.
The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Fuck you.
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I am asking people to please stop being ridiculous. The powerful white woman knew she was on record. Y'all think a person who ran a successful fascist Presidential campaign is naive about interviews and especially politics? Come on.
December 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I am asking people to please stop being ridiculous. The powerful white woman knew she was on record. Y'all think a person who ran a successful fascist Presidential campaign is naive about interviews and especially politics? Come on.
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Lol... Ron DeSantis insults Canada and says things have never been better in Florida.
Sure Ron, sure.
The boycott remains strong.
Sure Ron, sure.
The boycott remains strong.
December 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Lol... Ron DeSantis insults Canada and says things have never been better in Florida.
Sure Ron, sure.
The boycott remains strong.
Sure Ron, sure.
The boycott remains strong.
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Hegseth repeatedly misled the public about this strike.
The boat was headed for Suriname, not the U.S.
It wasn't carrying fentanyl.
The survivors didn't "radio for backup."
This strike was illegal, and Hegseth is trying to cover up what happened by refusing to release video.
The boat was headed for Suriname, not the U.S.
It wasn't carrying fentanyl.
The survivors didn't "radio for backup."
This strike was illegal, and Hegseth is trying to cover up what happened by refusing to release video.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that the Pentagon will not publicly release unedited video of a strike that killed two survivors of an initial attack on a boat allegedly carrying cocaine in the Caribbean. https://to.pbs.org/4pZJb8p
Hegseth says he won't publicly release video of boat strike that killed survivors in the Caribbean
Hegseth said that members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committee would have an opportunity this week to review the video, but did not say whether all members of Congress would be allowed to ...
to.pbs.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Hegseth repeatedly misled the public about this strike.
The boat was headed for Suriname, not the U.S.
It wasn't carrying fentanyl.
The survivors didn't "radio for backup."
This strike was illegal, and Hegseth is trying to cover up what happened by refusing to release video.
The boat was headed for Suriname, not the U.S.
It wasn't carrying fentanyl.
The survivors didn't "radio for backup."
This strike was illegal, and Hegseth is trying to cover up what happened by refusing to release video.
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I've been saving the vf article for after dinner and I didn't know there would be all these layers to it!
I’ve been working all day and am only halfway through to the Vanity Fair pieces, but I had to stop to give @andersonphoto.bsky.social props for managing to photograph Karoline Leavitt the day (perhaps the minute?) she got her lips injected.
December 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I've been saving the vf article for after dinner and I didn't know there would be all these layers to it!
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
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who needs opposition research when you have Trump's chief of staff?
December 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
who needs opposition research when you have Trump's chief of staff?
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I'm waiting for the day...
a group of men are carrying a coffin while dancing
Alt: a group of men are carrying a coffin while dancing
media.tenor.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I'm waiting for the day...
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This is a view I can get behind.
December 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is a view I can get behind.
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For the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined.
~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending.
We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending.
We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
December 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
For the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined.
~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending.
We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending.
We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
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As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
December 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
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I pick up my mail each afternoon in the faculty lounge -- at an Ivy League institution, no less! -- and I've never heard anything discussed there that's been picked up by the Democratic Party.
Stop repeating Republicans' lies about your own party.
In fact, John Podesta -- please just stop talking
Stop repeating Republicans' lies about your own party.
In fact, John Podesta -- please just stop talking
i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting
December 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I pick up my mail each afternoon in the faculty lounge -- at an Ivy League institution, no less! -- and I've never heard anything discussed there that's been picked up by the Democratic Party.
Stop repeating Republicans' lies about your own party.
In fact, John Podesta -- please just stop talking
Stop repeating Republicans' lies about your own party.
In fact, John Podesta -- please just stop talking