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Yup, it's Dave posting mostly Thorin!
@daverankin.bsky.social
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His name is Thorin Oakenshield GPR. NYC based pops, husband, cat dad, and civil rights attorney. 🚲🗽🌃🎸 (he/him) https://www.blhny.com/david-rankin
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daverankin.bsky.social
We represent both these families. Going to be a tough Thanksgiving without them at the table.

www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/26/f...
Families of two men who died in NYC custody file notices to sue
Christopher Nieves, 46, died Aug. 28 in police custody at Brooklyn Criminal Court after being arrested for allegedly stealing food. His family’s lawyers claim he begged for medical help but h…
www.nydailynews.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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esqueer.net
A trans teen in Iowa completed suicide after severe bullying by classmates and teachers.

"Miles’ death came a day after a substitute teacher refused to use his preferred pronouns."

It's the type of bullying @thefireorg.bsky.social and @aricohn.com support.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/17/m...
Heartbroken family of trans teen speaks out about how bullying led to his death
The family of trans Iowa student Miles Phipps has spoken out about bullying following losing their son to suicide. He was just 15-years-old.
www.thepinknews.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
daverankin.bsky.social
He's mostly sleeping. #cat #catsofbluesky #catface #mainecoon
November 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
daverankin.bsky.social
I'm the most interesting cat in the world and I like splashing my drinking water. Picture by Lucas. #cat #catsofbluesky #catface #mainecoon
November 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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esqueer.net
Elizabeth Warren has urged Harvard to oust Larry Summers after revelations that he solicited advice from Jeffrey Epstein on how to abuse his position and coerce his mentee to have sex with him.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Urges Harvard to Cut Ties With Summers After Epstein Emails Surface | News | The Harvard Crimson
Sen. Elizabeth A. Warren (D-Mass.) urged Harvard to cut ties with former University President Lawrence Summers after newly released emails revealed years of personal correspondence between Summers and...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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nickpinto.bsky.social
Kind of a big deal that @hellgatenyc.com can confirm that NYC First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro used his position to cancel Kehlani's SummerStage concert in order to punish the artist for their political speech on Palestine:

hellgatenyc.com/randy-mastro...
How Randy Mastro Killed the Kehlani SummerStage Concert—And a Whole Lot More
With Mayor Adams thinking about his next act, the former first deputy mayor to Rudy Giuliani is now "guiding every conceivable aspect of this administration."
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November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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grainne.bsky.social
Every time I reread the Jeffrey Epstein Larry summers exchange I feel freshly enraged. About everything. My life. Obama. Men women. Just everything. I despise Larry summers and have forever.
November 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
daverankin.bsky.social
The indignity. #cat #catface #catsofbluesky #mainecoon
November 14, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Trump administration fighting tooth and nail to starve children!
November 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
daverankin.bsky.social
I love my new cat pad. I'm not mad, you're mad. #catface #cat #catsofbluesky #mainecoon
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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clancyny.bsky.social
"To most NYC voters, Mamdani is known for his smile, his charisma, and his wish to make the city a more affordable place."

WSJ: ran >50 editorials & op-eds attacking him.

NYT: We do not believe that Mr. Mamdani deserves a spot on New Yorkers’ ballots.

WaPo: Zohran Mamdani’s success is a warning.
November 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.

He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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garnethenderson.com
In addition to the fact that Cuomo is a creep, he devised a system to keep Republicans in control of the NYS legislature for years. He constantly fucked over New York City as governor, even though we are 45% of the state’s population, because he was so preoccupied with upstate conservatives.
November 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
daverankin.bsky.social
This is how I found him. Then bellyrubs. #cat #catface #catsofbluesky #mainecoon
October 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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bdlimm.bsky.social
Governor Kathy Hochul is speaking on stage, but the crowd keeps interrupting to chant #TaxTheRich

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
daverankin.bsky.social
Good morning! It's Thorin! #catface #catsofbluesky #cat #mainecoon
October 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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dmassey.bsky.social
It is absolutely mind boggling to me that there is not a matter of fact story prominent in every news outlet that:

President posts video of himself as king dumping feces on US cities

How??
October 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Feeling dehydrated? This quenched my thirst. www.wsj.com/us-news/zohr...
New York's Richest Ask 'how Dare He?' as Mamdani Closes In on City Hall The city's 1% realize their influence is waning: It's hard to be chill and relaxed' It was just after finishing a set of pelvic floor exercises that a Pilates instructor on the Upper East Side recently brought up one of the least popular men in the neighborhood: New York City mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani,. All of a sudden the class, which costs $50 a pop, became something of a political confab. In between sets, some women strategized about helping former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who they see as more palatable, pull off an upset. Others gushed about a recent New York Post cover depicting Gov. Kathy Hochul, who had recently endorsed Mamdani, as a devotee of Mao Zedong. New York's richest residents can't stop talking about Mamdani, the Democratic nominee. To many of the city's uber-wealthy, his sustained popularity has been a shock. The 33-year-old, self. described Democratic Socialist is the overwhelming favorite to win City Hall next month, on a platform that includes free buses and free child care--programs that, the moneyed are well aware, somebody needs to shell out for. "I hope Mamdani is going to give out free Xanax," said Caroline Leventhal, a lifelong Upper East sider who co-founded 'Mic'd and Medicated," a podcast that dissects the lifestyle of cosmetic surgeries and private ski instructors. "It's hard to be chill and relaxed."
October 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
daverankin.bsky.social
I do fit on my mat. Yes, I sleep like this, what of it? (I swear that cat is asleep). #cat #catface #mainecoon #catsofbluesky
October 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
daverankin.bsky.social
Yup, it's my chair. I hope my human doesn't post any more pictures of me sleeping, how embarrassing. #cat #catface #catsofbluesky #mainecoon
October 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
daverankin.bsky.social
I do fit, I swear. #catface #catsofbluesky #cat #mainecoon
October 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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newyorkstateag.bsky.social
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
October 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
daverankin.bsky.social
Catface. It's sunny, why don't my humans let me out? #cat #catsofbluesky #mainecoon
Cat looking menacing down. Cat looking up.
October 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM