RileyP
@rileyp6.bsky.social
Canadian. Paying attention.
"...when feeling decreases.. apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible."
"...when feeling decreases.. apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible."
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Here's the plan: Simply assume that there's a well-functioning market for health insurance and then let people buy insurance in that imaginary market.
Dr Oz: "If you had a check in the mail, you could buy the insurance you thought was best for you"
November 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Here's the plan: Simply assume that there's a well-functioning market for health insurance and then let people buy insurance in that imaginary market.
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Trump's Homeland Security Department is diverting resources intended for fighting child abuse, sex trafficking, and terrorism toward deportations. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Trump's Homeland Security Department is diverting resources intended for fighting child abuse, sex trafficking, and terrorism toward deportations. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
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epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump
November 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump
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Happy Sunday everyone!
November 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Happy Sunday everyone!
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No one should have to face such threats.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
No one should have to face such threats.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
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secretary breakfast gin is having a phallic one
November 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
secretary breakfast gin is having a phallic one
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Take the Operation out and these could all be novelty condoms
November 16, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Take the Operation out and these could all be novelty condoms
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How White Suburban Moms Are Standing Up to Border Patrol With Whistles & Phones | “We have white skin, we were born here, there’s a level of privilege we have. We have comfortable lives here ... there is a safety that we have & that privilege we can use to do some good,” said mom Savanna Essig-Fox.
How White suburban moms are standing up to Border Patrol with whistles and phones | CNN
Women in suburban Chicago are using what they call their White privilege to be the face of dissent in their communities on behalf of neighbors of other races and setting examples for their own childre...
edition.cnn.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
How White Suburban Moms Are Standing Up to Border Patrol With Whistles & Phones | “We have white skin, we were born here, there’s a level of privilege we have. We have comfortable lives here ... there is a safety that we have & that privilege we can use to do some good,” said mom Savanna Essig-Fox.
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WTF, BC?
Oh hi there, Canadian Poligeeks!
There will be no election from this budget.
Have a fantastic Saturday.
#cdnpoli
There will be no election from this budget.
Have a fantastic Saturday.
#cdnpoli
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
WTF, BC?
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Tennessee! Early voting is under way in the 7th Congressional District. We have a great candidate, Aftyn Behn, and a real chance at flipping this seat. She has served the state well in the General Assembly. Let's help her get to Congress!
Elect Aftyn Behn
Tennessee's 7th Congressional District
Elect Aftyn Behn
Tennessee's 7th Congressional District
November 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Tennessee! Early voting is under way in the 7th Congressional District. We have a great candidate, Aftyn Behn, and a real chance at flipping this seat. She has served the state well in the General Assembly. Let's help her get to Congress!
Elect Aftyn Behn
Tennessee's 7th Congressional District
Elect Aftyn Behn
Tennessee's 7th Congressional District
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It's too easy to be distracted by the economic story of the day. The more important story is of our system fraying: The rule of law is decaying, Bribery spreading, crony capitalism normalized. It won’t show up in next quarter’s data, but when our kids try to build their lives.
November 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It's too easy to be distracted by the economic story of the day. The more important story is of our system fraying: The rule of law is decaying, Bribery spreading, crony capitalism normalized. It won’t show up in next quarter’s data, but when our kids try to build their lives.
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Two truths about the shutdown:
• Macro: Government is a small slice, many feds are “essential,” so the GDP dip is small and temporary.
• Micro: Wasting billions is pointless, and it still hurts real people.
Both can be true at once.
• Macro: Government is a small slice, many feds are “essential,” so the GDP dip is small and temporary.
• Micro: Wasting billions is pointless, and it still hurts real people.
Both can be true at once.
November 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Two truths about the shutdown:
• Macro: Government is a small slice, many feds are “essential,” so the GDP dip is small and temporary.
• Micro: Wasting billions is pointless, and it still hurts real people.
Both can be true at once.
• Macro: Government is a small slice, many feds are “essential,” so the GDP dip is small and temporary.
• Micro: Wasting billions is pointless, and it still hurts real people.
Both can be true at once.
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The scale at which the President is profiting from his post is staggering. Perhaps past presidents and their self-dealing snuck out with a million or so — a briefcase full of cash. This time, it's billions, which you should visualize as a fleet of school buses filled with Benjamin Franklins.
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The scale at which the President is profiting from his post is staggering. Perhaps past presidents and their self-dealing snuck out with a million or so — a briefcase full of cash. This time, it's billions, which you should visualize as a fleet of school buses filled with Benjamin Franklins.
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"What can I, as a citizen, do to counter this descent into authoritarianism? The No Kings rallies were one answer. The 2025 elections were another. And now, the next step is coming into focus." www.thebulwark.com/p/its-time-t...
It’s Time to Pivot to 2026 Election Security
Don’t underestimate how Trump and his allies will attempt to control the outcome of the midterms.
www.thebulwark.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
"What can I, as a citizen, do to counter this descent into authoritarianism? The No Kings rallies were one answer. The 2025 elections were another. And now, the next step is coming into focus." www.thebulwark.com/p/its-time-t...
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Another way of looking at this is if each of the US’s 19,000 cities, towns & villages had their own solar thermal plant, THE MEAN AVERAGE would be 2sq km or .77sq miles.
Less than a square mile doesn’t seem so bad, does it.
Less than a square mile doesn’t seem so bad, does it.
One ~182km x ~211km solar thermal plant could provide all of America’s electricity, including a fully-electrified land transport sector.
100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land.
That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.
100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land.
That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.
November 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Another way of looking at this is if each of the US’s 19,000 cities, towns & villages had their own solar thermal plant, THE MEAN AVERAGE would be 2sq km or .77sq miles.
Less than a square mile doesn’t seem so bad, does it.
Less than a square mile doesn’t seem so bad, does it.
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People used to throw rocks at you until you died for this kind of stuff
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
People used to throw rocks at you until you died for this kind of stuff
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In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.
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She had to lie a lot yesterday.
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
She had to lie a lot yesterday.
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in tribute to @charliebrowntc.bsky.social , a king among cats, let us have a thread of Great Departed Cats, to show the angels that are now greeting him.
this is my baby Fez, who left us in 2022. one time some butter fell off the counter onto his side and Sandal chased him for like twenty minutes.
this is my baby Fez, who left us in 2022. one time some butter fell off the counter onto his side and Sandal chased him for like twenty minutes.
November 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
in tribute to @charliebrowntc.bsky.social , a king among cats, let us have a thread of Great Departed Cats, to show the angels that are now greeting him.
this is my baby Fez, who left us in 2022. one time some butter fell off the counter onto his side and Sandal chased him for like twenty minutes.
this is my baby Fez, who left us in 2022. one time some butter fell off the counter onto his side and Sandal chased him for like twenty minutes.
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By the way, Olivia Nuzzi employer Vanity Fair is owned by Condé Nast ... which recently fired four employees for union activity www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
Condé Nast abruptly fires 4 staffers after HR confrontation
The firings were an unsubtle message to its employee union that the publisher was taking a harder line in its dealings with employees.
www.semafor.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
By the way, Olivia Nuzzi employer Vanity Fair is owned by Condé Nast ... which recently fired four employees for union activity www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
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Why are Republicans in the House and Senate so afraid to bring Jack Smith before their committees to testify in public under oath before the American people? Isn’t that what MAGA wants? Don’t you want to “expose” him? What’s going on here?
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Why are Republicans in the House and Senate so afraid to bring Jack Smith before their committees to testify in public under oath before the American people? Isn’t that what MAGA wants? Don’t you want to “expose” him? What’s going on here?
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This is what intelligence and critical thinking sound like:
VIA hana.clio
What is there to debate?(for myself)
VIA hana.clio
What is there to debate?(for myself)
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This is what intelligence and critical thinking sound like:
VIA hana.clio
What is there to debate?(for myself)
VIA hana.clio
What is there to debate?(for myself)
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
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Americans know the truth about Trump’s economy.
Grocery bills and health insurance premiums don’t lie.
Grocery bills and health insurance premiums don’t lie.
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Americans know the truth about Trump’s economy.
Grocery bills and health insurance premiums don’t lie.
Grocery bills and health insurance premiums don’t lie.
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my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia