Colin McRoberts
@colinmcroberts.bsky.social
Running for Congress in the Big First District in Kansas. My own posts.
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If I'd voted for this the aftermath would haunt me for the rest of my life.
I doubt the people who did vote for it have looked at the numbers even once, or experienced a second of empathy.
I doubt the people who did vote for it have looked at the numbers even once, or experienced a second of empathy.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
If I'd voted for this the aftermath would haunt me for the rest of my life.
I doubt the people who did vote for it have looked at the numbers even once, or experienced a second of empathy.
I doubt the people who did vote for it have looked at the numbers even once, or experienced a second of empathy.
November 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This is why Congress exists--to be a check and a balance.
Time to elect some congressmen who remember that.
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Time to elect some congressmen who remember that.
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The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics
President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This is why Congress exists--to be a check and a balance.
Time to elect some congressmen who remember that.
www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
Time to elect some congressmen who remember that.
www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
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An American degree is our greatest export and universities and colleges are the backbone of flourishing cities and communities. This is like setting fire to silo after silo of grain, burning the fields, poisoning the ground. America is currently in a war to survive its own federal government.
In 2017, the US exported about $14B in 'education services' to China, with well over 300,000 Chinese students attending US universities.
In that same year, we exported $12.3B in soybeans.
Attendance by Chinese students is sharply down (-20% v. 2017) & that's going to worsen our trade deficit.
In that same year, we exported $12.3B in soybeans.
Attendance by Chinese students is sharply down (-20% v. 2017) & that's going to worsen our trade deficit.
So many own goals.
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product
October 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
An American degree is our greatest export and universities and colleges are the backbone of flourishing cities and communities. This is like setting fire to silo after silo of grain, burning the fields, poisoning the ground. America is currently in a war to survive its own federal government.
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This is the worst defense from Tuberville since he gave up 40 fucking points to Tulsa
Tuberville on Trump's third term: "He might be able to go around the Constitution, but that's up to him."
October 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This is the worst defense from Tuberville since he gave up 40 fucking points to Tulsa
The theme of the midterm simply has to be putting Congress back in order. Everything follows from that.
Says it all, right here
“Republican leaders have made it clear that they view their role as subordinate to the president”
As Shutdown Drags and Trump Flexes, Congress Cedes Its Relevance www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
“Republican leaders have made it clear that they view their role as subordinate to the president”
As Shutdown Drags and Trump Flexes, Congress Cedes Its Relevance www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
As Shutdown Drags and Trump Flexes, Congress Cedes Its Relevance
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October 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The theme of the midterm simply has to be putting Congress back in order. Everything follows from that.
Two $20 billion gut punches to American ag, already suffering under illegal tariffs. And not only do we have nothing to show for it, it's looking more and more like we're going to be bailing them out for the third or fourth time. This month.
The third or fourth time *this month.*
The third or fourth time *this month.*
Trump didn’t just take billions of taxpayer dollars and give it to Argentina with no legal process to help a politician he likes avoid losses in domestic elections and hook up a billionaire he knows who made a bad bet on Argentina.
He gave away billions of Americans’ money and it didn’t even work.
He gave away billions of Americans’ money and it didn’t even work.
Things are not going well in Argentina, official exchange rate has now decoupled from the market-implied exchange rate to the tune of about 8%
October 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Two $20 billion gut punches to American ag, already suffering under illegal tariffs. And not only do we have nothing to show for it, it's looking more and more like we're going to be bailing them out for the third or fourth time. This month.
The third or fourth time *this month.*
The third or fourth time *this month.*
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Kansas has much potential. Plains people quickly tire of the bullshit. And @colinmcroberts.bsky.social is stepping up in Kansas. colinforkansas.com
Home - Colin for Kansas
Colin for The Big First District
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October 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Kansas has much potential. Plains people quickly tire of the bullshit. And @colinmcroberts.bsky.social is stepping up in Kansas. colinforkansas.com
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Farmer Gibbs: These cows have a question for Donald Trump.
Trump bailed out Argentina with 40B dollars of US taxpayer money, so Argentina could sell their soybeans to China. Now Trump wants to buy Argentinian beef?!
Trump screwed Ag.
#AmericaFirst? #TrumpTradeWar #TrumpHatesFarmers
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Trump bailed out Argentina with 40B dollars of US taxpayer money, so Argentina could sell their soybeans to China. Now Trump wants to buy Argentinian beef?!
Trump screwed Ag.
#AmericaFirst? #TrumpTradeWar #TrumpHatesFarmers
OG @ sl65000
October 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Farmer Gibbs: These cows have a question for Donald Trump.
Trump bailed out Argentina with 40B dollars of US taxpayer money, so Argentina could sell their soybeans to China. Now Trump wants to buy Argentinian beef?!
Trump screwed Ag.
#AmericaFirst? #TrumpTradeWar #TrumpHatesFarmers
OG @ sl65000
Trump bailed out Argentina with 40B dollars of US taxpayer money, so Argentina could sell their soybeans to China. Now Trump wants to buy Argentinian beef?!
Trump screwed Ag.
#AmericaFirst? #TrumpTradeWar #TrumpHatesFarmers
OG @ sl65000
Last weekend I put down my stump speech.
No one should be more focused on checks and balances than Congress. But no one is more eager to bend the knee than Congressional Republicans today.
Put Congress back to work.
#nokings #colinforkansas #kansas
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No one should be more focused on checks and balances than Congress. But no one is more eager to bend the knee than Congressional Republicans today.
Put Congress back to work.
#nokings #colinforkansas #kansas
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October 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Last weekend I put down my stump speech.
No one should be more focused on checks and balances than Congress. But no one is more eager to bend the knee than Congressional Republicans today.
Put Congress back to work.
#nokings #colinforkansas #kansas
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No one should be more focused on checks and balances than Congress. But no one is more eager to bend the knee than Congressional Republicans today.
Put Congress back to work.
#nokings #colinforkansas #kansas
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Meeting up and making connections with K-State Young Dems.
Organized, effective, and motivated!
Organized, effective, and motivated!
October 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Meeting up and making connections with K-State Young Dems.
Organized, effective, and motivated!
Organized, effective, and motivated!
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This isn't the Trump Shutdown this is the Epstein Shutdown and I think Dems should call it that
KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right?
MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.
MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.
October 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This isn't the Trump Shutdown this is the Epstein Shutdown and I think Dems should call it that
Small No Kings event puts love ahead of politics in rural Kansas town where immigrants are detained
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Small No Kings event puts love ahead of politics in rural Kansas town where immigrants are detained • Kansas Reflector
Kay Krause hosts a "love in action" rally at her house in Cottonwood Falls as part of the 42 No Kings events that were planned across the state as part of a nationwide uprising.
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October 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Small No Kings event puts love ahead of politics in rural Kansas town where immigrants are detained
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Newsom or Pritzker should loudly signal that people who have clean records who quit because this isn’t what they signed up to do will get their careers back when the winds change.
A former ICE director says agents have been put "in a terrible position" and are being tasked with operations "in a city where they don't belong."
Ex-ICE director says Trump's immigration crackdown putting agents in "terrible position"
Federal agents deployed tear gas on a crowd in Chicago, prompting a judge to ask the agents to wear body cameras.
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October 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Newsom or Pritzker should loudly signal that people who have clean records who quit because this isn’t what they signed up to do will get their careers back when the winds change.
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Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings
Remember back in January when all these sage politics-knowers were writing about how there had been a vibe shift and now the resistance was over?
lol. lmao.
lol. lmao.
October 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings
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No kings except Godzilla.
October 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
No kings except Godzilla.
Stopped on my way home from Democracy Fest and the No Kings rally in Hays, Kansas to admire Kansas and talk about why I'm running for Congress.
#colinforkansas #nokings #election #kansas
#colinforkansas #nokings #election #kansas
October 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Stopped on my way home from Democracy Fest and the No Kings rally in Hays, Kansas to admire Kansas and talk about why I'm running for Congress.
#colinforkansas #nokings #election #kansas
#colinforkansas #nokings #election #kansas
I'm in Hays, Kansas on a tour of the towns in the district where I'm running for Congress. After our speeches and hearing from the people here we're heading out to our local NK.
Red states are full of people who want better for their neighbors and their country.
Red states are full of people who want better for their neighbors and their country.
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'm in Hays, Kansas on a tour of the towns in the district where I'm running for Congress. After our speeches and hearing from the people here we're heading out to our local NK.
Red states are full of people who want better for their neighbors and their country.
Red states are full of people who want better for their neighbors and their country.
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Tim Walz: "Here's what I'd challenge Trump to do: find three soybean farmers who will stand with you and say that's okay. Just three. I challenge you to do that because you're not gonna find them."
October 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Tim Walz: "Here's what I'd challenge Trump to do: find three soybean farmers who will stand with you and say that's okay. Just three. I challenge you to do that because you're not gonna find them."
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It turns out that what Todd Gilbert meant by "that escalated quickly" is that he was unwilling to support a grand jury investigation into the origins of the Trump/Russia case. I'm surprised and impressed that Gilbert took this stand. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
October 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
It turns out that what Todd Gilbert meant by "that escalated quickly" is that he was unwilling to support a grand jury investigation into the origins of the Trump/Russia case. I'm surprised and impressed that Gilbert took this stand. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
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“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”
Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.
Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.
Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’
Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs
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October 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”
Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.
Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.
A supporter reminded me the other day that Trump ran on the promise that he'd be his supporters' retribution. They were worried that if we take the same approach, we'll lose our soul. I think that's right.
Our promise is to rebuild, not revenge. Accountability, not retribution.
Our promise is to rebuild, not revenge. Accountability, not retribution.
We were in Dodge City and Abilene yesterday with gubernatorial and senate candidates, along with some impressive local and union leaders.
A thousand conversations and a hundred speeches and you're just getting started. A long road but it goes where it needs to.
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A thousand conversations and a hundred speeches and you're just getting started. A long road but it goes where it needs to.
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October 13, 2025 at 2:58 AM
A supporter reminded me the other day that Trump ran on the promise that he'd be his supporters' retribution. They were worried that if we take the same approach, we'll lose our soul. I think that's right.
Our promise is to rebuild, not revenge. Accountability, not retribution.
Our promise is to rebuild, not revenge. Accountability, not retribution.
We were in Dodge City and Abilene yesterday with gubernatorial and senate candidates, along with some impressive local and union leaders.
A thousand conversations and a hundred speeches and you're just getting started. A long road but it goes where it needs to.
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A thousand conversations and a hundred speeches and you're just getting started. A long road but it goes where it needs to.
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October 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
We were in Dodge City and Abilene yesterday with gubernatorial and senate candidates, along with some impressive local and union leaders.
A thousand conversations and a hundred speeches and you're just getting started. A long road but it goes where it needs to.
www.facebook.com/share/v/14MR...
A thousand conversations and a hundred speeches and you're just getting started. A long road but it goes where it needs to.
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