Ric Manns
@ricmanns241.bsky.social
I am a retired educator, coach and historical gamer. I feel very blessed to have worked in my hometown schools & served as a city councilman. Thankful to live in a small town in southern Indiana.
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Column: Indiana is No. 1, the Big Ten champion and will be the top playoff seed. Fernando Mendoza might have won the Heisman. All of that is impossible. Curtis Cignetti is authoring the most incredible story in college football history. bit.ly/48oInDB
Indiana Caps Unthinkable Rise From Losingest Program to Top CFP Seed
Heisman hopeful Fernando Mendoza delivers on Curt Cignetti’s bold vision as Hoosiers win first Big Ten title in 80 years.
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December 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Column: Indiana is No. 1, the Big Ten champion and will be the top playoff seed. Fernando Mendoza might have won the Heisman. All of that is impossible. Curtis Cignetti is authoring the most incredible story in college football history. bit.ly/48oInDB
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This is the time and place for the Cincinnati #Reds - Steve Phillips on Kyle Schwarber's free agency
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This is the time and place for the Cincinnati Reds - Redleg Nation
Former GM Steve Phillips says that now is the time and the place for the Cincinnati Reds to make a splash and bring Kyle Schwarber to town.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This is the time and place for the Cincinnati #Reds - Steve Phillips on Kyle Schwarber's free agency
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We are so proud of these two kids. They played their hearts out.
If you are from Scott County, IN-you know that Thanksgiving starts @ the County Rivalry games.
We all competed on the court and now we gather as families and communities to give thanks for all of our blessings. HAPPY THANKSGIVING 🦃🍁
If you are from Scott County, IN-you know that Thanksgiving starts @ the County Rivalry games.
We all competed on the court and now we gather as families and communities to give thanks for all of our blessings. HAPPY THANKSGIVING 🦃🍁
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We are so proud of these two kids. They played their hearts out.
If you are from Scott County, IN-you know that Thanksgiving starts @ the County Rivalry games.
We all competed on the court and now we gather as families and communities to give thanks for all of our blessings. HAPPY THANKSGIVING 🦃🍁
If you are from Scott County, IN-you know that Thanksgiving starts @ the County Rivalry games.
We all competed on the court and now we gather as families and communities to give thanks for all of our blessings. HAPPY THANKSGIVING 🦃🍁
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Real pros.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Real pros.
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Trump never had a fan base.
He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.
It’s as stupid as it sounds.
He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.
It’s as stupid as it sounds.
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Trump never had a fan base.
He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.
It’s as stupid as it sounds.
He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.
It’s as stupid as it sounds.
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Burns' six-part documentary uses voiceover, reenactors and drone footage to tell the story of America's founding. And it reminds viewers that the quest for a more perfect union is far from over.
Ken Burns' 'American Revolution' will make you think differently about U.S. history
Burns' six-part documentary uses voiceover, reenactors and drone footage to tell the story of America's founding. And it reminds viewers that the quest for a more perfect union is far from over.
n.pr
November 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Burns' six-part documentary uses voiceover, reenactors and drone footage to tell the story of America's founding. And it reminds viewers that the quest for a more perfect union is far from over.
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"Timothy Snyder: Russian invasion is on a world war scale, but Ukraine alone is fighting it, keeping us in a 1938-like historical moment"
#BlueSkyFriends Call your Senators & House Member & demand they work against this outrageous betrayal of Ukraine & Europe.
Stand With Ukraine 💙💛
#You'reNotAlone
#BlueSkyFriends Call your Senators & House Member & demand they work against this outrageous betrayal of Ukraine & Europe.
Stand With Ukraine 💙💛
#You'reNotAlone
November 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"Timothy Snyder: Russian invasion is on a world war scale, but Ukraine alone is fighting it, keeping us in a 1938-like historical moment"
#BlueSkyFriends Call your Senators & House Member & demand they work against this outrageous betrayal of Ukraine & Europe.
Stand With Ukraine 💙💛
#You'reNotAlone
#BlueSkyFriends Call your Senators & House Member & demand they work against this outrageous betrayal of Ukraine & Europe.
Stand With Ukraine 💙💛
#You'reNotAlone
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Interview with Timothy Snyder about the war in Ukraine
YouTube video by United24 News
m.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Bears regroup, overcome Vikings 19-17 on late field goal reut.rs/3M5UmwT
Bears regroup, overcome Vikings 19-17 on late field goal
Cairo Santos drilled a 48-yard field goal as time expired, and the Chicago Bears escaped with a 19-17 win over the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Bears regroup, overcome Vikings 19-17 on late field goal reut.rs/3M5UmwT
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🚨 Adam Kinzinger is right.
The GOP has a choice to make:
Stand up against child trafficking — even when it involves their own leader —
or admit they’re willing to look the other way as long as he hates the same people they do.
There’s no middle ground. Silence is complicity.
There’s no middle ground. Silence is complicity.
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
🚨 Adam Kinzinger is right.
The GOP has a choice to make:
Stand up against child trafficking — even when it involves their own leader —
or admit they’re willing to look the other way as long as he hates the same people they do.
There’s no middle ground. Silence is complicity.
There’s no middle ground. Silence is complicity.
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💯
If ICE agents begins harassing voters on the way to vote on Tuesday, we need local prosecutors to charge the ICE officers with state law crimes. We need to send a message for 2026 that they will be swiftly arrested.
November 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Rally the Troops has added yet another World War I game to the line up: Verdun 1916: Steel Inferno. This is a CDG about the trench warfare around Verdun during World War I, designed by Walter Vejdo, with illustrations by Tardi.
rally-the-troops.com/verdun
rally-the-troops.com/verdun
October 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Rally the Troops has added yet another World War I game to the line up: Verdun 1916: Steel Inferno. This is a CDG about the trench warfare around Verdun during World War I, designed by Walter Vejdo, with illustrations by Tardi.
rally-the-troops.com/verdun
rally-the-troops.com/verdun
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BREAKING: Trump doesn't remember/believe/understand HE was president on January 6, 2021
This is how unstable, how mentally unbalanced, how much of a dangerous mixture of dishonesty and insanity Trump is:
"Biden's FBI?" By Jan. 6 2021, TRUMP had run the FBI for 1,448 days #25A
This is how unstable, how mentally unbalanced, how much of a dangerous mixture of dishonesty and insanity Trump is:
"Biden's FBI?" By Jan. 6 2021, TRUMP had run the FBI for 1,448 days #25A
October 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
BREAKING: Trump doesn't remember/believe/understand HE was president on January 6, 2021
This is how unstable, how mentally unbalanced, how much of a dangerous mixture of dishonesty and insanity Trump is:
"Biden's FBI?" By Jan. 6 2021, TRUMP had run the FBI for 1,448 days #25A
This is how unstable, how mentally unbalanced, how much of a dangerous mixture of dishonesty and insanity Trump is:
"Biden's FBI?" By Jan. 6 2021, TRUMP had run the FBI for 1,448 days #25A
Let’s go HOOSIERS!!!!! www.thedailyhoosier.com?fbclid=IwRlR...
The Daily Hoosier
Daily IU Athletics News, Analysis, Opinion and History
www.thedailyhoosier.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Let’s go HOOSIERS!!!!! www.thedailyhoosier.com?fbclid=IwRlR...
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Jack Posobiec, of “Pizzagate” fame, has been voting in Pennsylvania for nearly a decade while living in Maryland. trib.al/myCdQpd
It Sure Looks Like This MAGA Influencer Is Committing Voter Fraud
Jack Posobiec keeps voting in a swing state he doesn’t live in.
trib.al
October 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Jack Posobiec, of “Pizzagate” fame, has been voting in Pennsylvania for nearly a decade while living in Maryland. trib.al/myCdQpd
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Vladimir Putin knows he cannot defeat NATO in a stand-up fight. The Russian leader instead aims to corrode the West from within. The alliance must expose everything—and improve its resilience
Vladimir Putin is testing the West—and its unity
NATO must resist Russia’s efforts to corrode it from within
econ.st
October 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Vladimir Putin knows he cannot defeat NATO in a stand-up fight. The Russian leader instead aims to corrode the West from within. The alliance must expose everything—and improve its resilience
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Column: Curt Cignetti stopped himself from trash talking Saturday night. He didn’t have to. Indiana’s obliteration of Illinois spoke volumes — the Hoosiers are playoff contenders again.
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Indiana Makes Loud Statement in Beatdown of Illinois: Respect This CFP Contender
Curt Cignetti and the Hoosiers heard the noise and delivered their most convincing proof yet that last season was no fluke.
bit.ly
September 21, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Column: Curt Cignetti stopped himself from trash talking Saturday night. He didn’t have to. Indiana’s obliteration of Illinois spoke volumes — the Hoosiers are playoff contenders again.
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bit.ly/4nG7E0M
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Go HOOSIERS!!!!!
September 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Go HOOSIERS!!!!!
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If you're a person of faith, it's a serious test of that faith to pray for someone you detest. That's a good reason to try and do it.
Not celebrating but no thoughts or prayers for him either.
My thoughts & prayers are reserved for those who want to implement common sense gun laws to protect all, especially children.
My thoughts & prayers are reserved for those who want to implement common sense gun laws to protect all, especially children.
September 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
If you're a person of faith, it's a serious test of that faith to pray for someone you detest. That's a good reason to try and do it.
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The only reason why Putin would send drones into Poland would be that he doesn't believe Donald Trump would ultimately honor America's commitment to NATO and he wants to test that proposition.
September 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The only reason why Putin would send drones into Poland would be that he doesn't believe Donald Trump would ultimately honor America's commitment to NATO and he wants to test that proposition.