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drkhe.bsky.social
A former electrical engineer; former urban planner; former geography professor; … what’s he now? More at: https://substack.com/@ksriram
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In 2025, with #trump and #musk and the #GOP screwing us all, will @dandrezner.bsky.social repeat that "when the world seems like an uncertain place and you’re looking for some guru to help explain ..., please remember: Nobody. Knows. Anything."? Or, ... 😁 www.washingtonpost.com/posteverythi...

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#DOGE in #Oregon I still cannot understand how @repvalhoyle.bsky.social was so enthusiastic enough to join the DOGE caucus in the House! www.opb.org/article/2025...

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"Throughout his presidency, #Obama consistently underestimated the challenge posed by Putin’s regime. His foreign policy was firmly grounded in the premise that #Russia was not a national security threat to the United States." www.the-american-interest.com/2018/02/28/d... #Ukraine #putin

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SO HOW EXACTLY ARE YOU FIGHTING BACK, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ???

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This New Yorker cartoon seems to have foretold the #trusk presidency, with planes crashing and more planes crashing!

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Two stories one below another at BBC News ... on #trusk, #bannon and the #Nazi movement it is rapidly becoming

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If #trump voters in the east side of my home state of #Oregon are getting angry, then we should prepare for a turbulent spring and summer. Looks the resistance has begun 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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"According to experts, McConnell’s retirement means that Rand Paul will become the worst person in Kentucky." www.borowitzreport.com/p/mcconnell-... We laugh when we can before #trusk ends humor too!

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"Fear is the common denominator in all of this—palpable, paralyzing, and quite justifiable fear. Fear now stalks the land. This is the most visceral indication that America has entered an existential era for the future of democracy." www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-ame... #trump #dictator #musk

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This past election seemed to be a referendum more on the price of eggs than the price of freedom; one winces to recall Ben Franklin’s proclamation that “those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... #trump #NoKing

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Next, the #musk boys rewriting the #FAA software will bring down planes in your backyard! www.bbc.com/news/article... #spacex #doge

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Attn. @repvalhoyle.bsky.social & @wyden.senate.gov #DOGE in Oregon: These federal cuts will not only affect fire suppression, but also fire prevention work like prescribed burns, setting up the country for a potentially catastrophic fire season. www.opb.org/article/2025... #Wildfire #Firefighters

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Hey @repvalhoyle.bsky.social & @wyden.senate.gov, #DOGE in Oregon: “I patrol dispersed areas to, first and foremost, make sure terrain, campsites and visitors are safe,” she noted. “I’ve called in over 100 abandoned campfires since I started in 2016.” www.klcc.org/politics-gov...

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YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE OUR NEWS SERVER. Do something. Mobilize and lead the opposition, dammit!

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Protests in my hometown, #Eugene Many carried signs decrying President Donald #Trump and his administration’s policies, while others expressed frustration with the influence of #Musk, a key Trump ally www.registerguard.com/story/news/l... #Democracy

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This interview with Anthony Romero, the ACLU executive director, is reassuring in so many ways. For a few years now, I have been donating $15 every month to @aclu.org. Maybe you can also become a contributor? www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-... #trump #musk #BirthrightCitizenship #Resist

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What #Reagan started has now reached its atrociously logical ending with #musk and #trump: "Whole academic programs in California and across the country he found similarly suspect. Taxpayers, he said, shouldn’t be “subsidizing intellectual curiosity.” www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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What #Reagan started has now reached its atrociously logical ending with #musk and #trump: "Reagan lowered his heel. When he lowered his heel on PATCO, everybody in the United States that was a member of a union took a long, hard look at what happened to us." www.npr.org/2021/08/05/1...

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Oh, you mean this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSaH...

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Bill #cassidy and the #measles kid. A blockbuster. Coming soon to a hospital near you www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #rfkjr #vaccines

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Love this cartoon Angry though that this is where we are in 2025

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“Investment now in the Ukrainian critical minerals sector could make a lot of sense. But President Trump’s initial offer seems unreasonable, exploitative and unlikely to help end the war. This is not a good way to promote American interests.” 🎁🔗: wapo.st/40ZiEwv #Ukraine #putin #trump

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I love, love, love this idea of a daily Democratic press conference with Pete Buttigieg Make it happen, please!

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I didn't know about this legal backstory to the #KennedyCenter political drama, and the reason why there has not been a court challenge either. 🎁🔗: wapo.st/41eDCZG #trump

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Aha. That’s why they are doing this in broad daylight, @crampell.bsky.social

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"Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, a #polio survivor and the former G.O.P. leader, voted no, the lone Republican to oppose Mr. #Kennedy." Ah, I see, unless it is absolutely about his own self, rest be damned, #mcconnell will always support #trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u... #rfkjr #HHS

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"Nevertheless, she persisted" 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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I don't care for you to deliver the news, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Use this platform and other platforms to tell us and the world what you are doing to oppose them. YOU are the leader of the opposition, remember?

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Ahem, @shikhadalmia.bsky.social , doesn’t this remind you of our old country with “aya Ram, gaya Ram”? We didn’t imagine this to happen here! 😡

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"the opposition can win only if it stays in the game." I hope my senators @wyden.senate.gov and @jeff-merkley.bsky.social read this essay and are upping their game to fight for liberal democracy. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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Yep, this!!!

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I re-read this sentence ... am still flummoxed: "Allies of the president are leveling attacks on religious groups, including Catholics and Lutherans, and questioning their efforts to help migrants." Don't all religions mandate to help the under-privilged? wapo.st/4gBaDDR

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Of all the things ... there is no way I saw this coming! #trump Says He Will Dismiss #KennedyCenter Board Members and Install Himself as Chair www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u... I wanted to find out who is on the Board, and ... this screenshot!!!

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"A power-mad president possessed of radical theories of executive authority and convinced of his own royal prerogative has given de facto control of most of the federal government to one of the richest men on the planet, if not the richest" @jamellebouie.net: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o... #musk

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"Authoritarian leaders have criticized the bureau’s work, which includes significant democracy promotion programs, and they would welcome any erosion of its authority." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/w... #USAID #musk #trump #Coup

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“We would rather die in #Gaza than leave it. We will stay here until we rebuild it. #Trump can do as he pleases, but we firmly reject his decisions." www.bbc.com/news/article... #Palestinians #EthnicCleansing

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“This president can only spew this fanatical bullshit because of bipartisan support in Congress for funding genocide and ethnic cleansing.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/... #trump #Gaza #Palestinians

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“I think people are unhappier than they’d like to be, and can’t figure out why.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/m...

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Quite a blood and soil rhetoric!!!

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"Brennan rejected Texas' argument that the illegal aliens were somehow not the persons within the "jurisdiction" of the states described in the Constitution as beneficiaries of the 14th Amendment." What a blast from the past! wapo.st/3E7fnn4

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My home state #Oregon joined Washington, Illinois and Arizona in a lawsuit asking for an immediate stop to President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. www.registerguard.com/story/news/p...

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"The argument for total acceleration of technological development is not about optimism, except in the sense that the Andreessens and Thiels and Musks are certain that they will succeed. It’s pessimism about democracy — and ultimately, humanity." www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/o...

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Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel talk about the moral limits of markets and the future of the left, and what liberals would have to do to counter a rising tide of nativism. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...

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Wait, is this satire or news? 😁

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ICYMI!!! #trump, who did not formally concede the presidency to #Biden, "snubbed the #inauguration ceremony, in a departure from longstanding precedent." He was the first president not to attend his successor's inauguration since 1869. www.bbc.com/news/world-u... #MichelleObama

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Tennyson's poem, "Ulysses" in the age of #trump 2.0 www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/...

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