Bob Howe
@rwhowe.bsky.social
Retired ornithologist/conservation biologist at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Packer fan. Traveler. Passionate about natural history and ecology.
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Welcome to Rip-Off Britain.
A country remade by privatisation.
Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life.
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A country remade by privatisation.
Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life.
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September 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Welcome to Rip-Off Britain.
A country remade by privatisation.
Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life.
🧵
A country remade by privatisation.
Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life.
🧵
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How will Trump’s attacks affect higher education?
Let’s look to history
Germany's universities were the world's premier research institutions
Hitler destroyed them
How long did they take to recover?
They haven’t
Let’s look to history
Germany's universities were the world's premier research institutions
Hitler destroyed them
How long did they take to recover?
They haven’t
August 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
How will Trump’s attacks affect higher education?
Let’s look to history
Germany's universities were the world's premier research institutions
Hitler destroyed them
How long did they take to recover?
They haven’t
Let’s look to history
Germany's universities were the world's premier research institutions
Hitler destroyed them
How long did they take to recover?
They haven’t
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This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
July 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
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The rich go free with no consequences.
July 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The rich go free with no consequences.
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There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem
Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines
Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall
zurl.co
July 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Think about how insane this is. I know we normalize every abnormal thing Trump does, & he floods the zone & numbs us, but a leading media organizing rolling over & agreeing to pay $16m to the president because he didn’t like how they edited an interview?? What country is this?
BREAKING
Paramount has settled the lawsuit President Trump filed against it for the 60 Minutes interview of Kamala Harris.
Paramount will pay $16 million in total including fees and expenses.
The money, minus fees and expenses, will go to President Trump’s future presidential library.
Paramount has settled the lawsuit President Trump filed against it for the 60 Minutes interview of Kamala Harris.
Paramount will pay $16 million in total including fees and expenses.
The money, minus fees and expenses, will go to President Trump’s future presidential library.
July 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Think about how insane this is. I know we normalize every abnormal thing Trump does, & he floods the zone & numbs us, but a leading media organizing rolling over & agreeing to pay $16m to the president because he didn’t like how they edited an interview?? What country is this?
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Seniors in Salt Lake City heading out for a #nokingsprotest in front of their assisted living facility.
June 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Seniors in Salt Lake City heading out for a #nokingsprotest in front of their assisted living facility.
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When was the last time we wondered about who puts things on shelves?
Today, those invisible ones are seen only to be criminalized for fleeing poverty and oppression.
Are they really stealing a glamorous life from us?
Pass it on if you stand with those who work in the shadows.
#OnYourSide
Today, those invisible ones are seen only to be criminalized for fleeing poverty and oppression.
Are they really stealing a glamorous life from us?
Pass it on if you stand with those who work in the shadows.
#OnYourSide
June 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
When was the last time we wondered about who puts things on shelves?
Today, those invisible ones are seen only to be criminalized for fleeing poverty and oppression.
Are they really stealing a glamorous life from us?
Pass it on if you stand with those who work in the shadows.
#OnYourSide
Today, those invisible ones are seen only to be criminalized for fleeing poverty and oppression.
Are they really stealing a glamorous life from us?
Pass it on if you stand with those who work in the shadows.
#OnYourSide
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Good morning
Thank you @joncooper-us.bsky.social
America
What have we become
Why are they masked
With no identification
With no warrants
With no marked vehicles
With no due process
Grabbing WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND MEN
Who are not criminals
Call Congress
202 224-3121
This MUST STOP
Thank you @joncooper-us.bsky.social
America
What have we become
Why are they masked
With no identification
With no warrants
With no marked vehicles
With no due process
Grabbing WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND MEN
Who are not criminals
Call Congress
202 224-3121
This MUST STOP
June 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Good morning
Thank you @joncooper-us.bsky.social
America
What have we become
Why are they masked
With no identification
With no warrants
With no marked vehicles
With no due process
Grabbing WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND MEN
Who are not criminals
Call Congress
202 224-3121
This MUST STOP
Thank you @joncooper-us.bsky.social
America
What have we become
Why are they masked
With no identification
With no warrants
With no marked vehicles
With no due process
Grabbing WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND MEN
Who are not criminals
Call Congress
202 224-3121
This MUST STOP
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Donald has spent the last week pardoning his friends who defrauded Medicare, union pensions, banks, and more. This is what “fraud and abuse” actually looks like.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Trump commutes sentence of Miami healthcare exec convicted of Medicare fraud
He and his girlfriend pocketed more than $87 million in the scheme.
www.miamiherald.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Donald has spent the last week pardoning his friends who defrauded Medicare, union pensions, banks, and more. This is what “fraud and abuse” actually looks like.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
May 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
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Seeing completely unqualified people rise to the top of U.S. health agencies is a deep insult to the doctors who have dedicated their lives to improving public health. It also reflects a failure of our institutions to effectively communicate the importance of evidence-based care.
May 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Seeing completely unqualified people rise to the top of U.S. health agencies is a deep insult to the doctors who have dedicated their lives to improving public health. It also reflects a failure of our institutions to effectively communicate the importance of evidence-based care.
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whewww this is some high test racism right here
An innocent man who committed no crime but is the same race as the person who murdered your daughter should have to spend the rest of his life in a concentration camp is the argument?
April 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
whewww this is some high test racism right here
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The IRS will be on its fifth Commissioner since January. It turns out that the new acting Commissioner, announced 2 days ago, was selected by Musk.
Bessent, the Treasury Secretary who oversees IRS, was not told. He persuaded Trump to reverse the decision. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/this-tax-d...
Bessent, the Treasury Secretary who oversees IRS, was not told. He persuaded Trump to reverse the decision. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/this-tax-d...
April 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The IRS will be on its fifth Commissioner since January. It turns out that the new acting Commissioner, announced 2 days ago, was selected by Musk.
Bessent, the Treasury Secretary who oversees IRS, was not told. He persuaded Trump to reverse the decision. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/this-tax-d...
Bessent, the Treasury Secretary who oversees IRS, was not told. He persuaded Trump to reverse the decision. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/this-tax-d...
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This is RIDICULOUS. Why ON EARTH would they do this??? I swear, they want to bankrupt us. And that should make it clear they do NOT have the best interests of Americans at heart.
NEW: The Trump administration plans to end the IRS Direct File program for free tax filing.
He’s not only raising your taxes, he wants to make them harder and more expensive to file.
He’s not only raising your taxes, he wants to make them harder and more expensive to file.
April 17, 2025 at 5:13 AM
This is RIDICULOUS. Why ON EARTH would they do this??? I swear, they want to bankrupt us. And that should make it clear they do NOT have the best interests of Americans at heart.
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One of the most chillingly evil things I've ever read.
Just a split second decision to be completely evil, wholly indifferent to the innocent life you know you're devastating—along with the lives of those connected to him.
The banality of evil, indeed.
Just a split second decision to be completely evil, wholly indifferent to the innocent life you know you're devastating—along with the lives of those connected to him.
The banality of evil, indeed.
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
April 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
One of the most chillingly evil things I've ever read.
Just a split second decision to be completely evil, wholly indifferent to the innocent life you know you're devastating—along with the lives of those connected to him.
The banality of evil, indeed.
Just a split second decision to be completely evil, wholly indifferent to the innocent life you know you're devastating—along with the lives of those connected to him.
The banality of evil, indeed.
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I would add to that list "isolation" - convincing viewers that other media are biased and therefore untrustworthy and those sources must be actively avoided.
April 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I would add to that list "isolation" - convincing viewers that other media are biased and therefore untrustworthy and those sources must be actively avoided.
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Fourteen Propaganda Techniques Fox “News” Uses to Brainwash Americans truthout.org/articles/fou...
Fourteen Propaganda Techniques Fox "News" Uses to Brainwash Americans
When access to quality information is willfully or unintentionally obstructed, democracy itself is degraded.
truthout.org
April 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Fourteen Propaganda Techniques Fox “News” Uses to Brainwash Americans truthout.org/articles/fou...
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Every one of the last 4 Republican presidents increased the deficit. Every one of the last 4 Democratic presidents reduced the deficit.
Republicans are not the party of fiscal responsibility... they are the party of class warfare for the rich, and they’re winning.
youtu.be/x367fzEuQXU
#TrickleUp
Republicans are not the party of fiscal responsibility... they are the party of class warfare for the rich, and they’re winning.
youtu.be/x367fzEuQXU
#TrickleUp
Annual Deficits since Reagan: "The economy does better under the Democrats" - Donald Trump
YouTube video by BryanDawsonUSA
youtu.be
November 25, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Every one of the last 4 Republican presidents increased the deficit. Every one of the last 4 Democratic presidents reduced the deficit.
Republicans are not the party of fiscal responsibility... they are the party of class warfare for the rich, and they’re winning.
youtu.be/x367fzEuQXU
#TrickleUp
Republicans are not the party of fiscal responsibility... they are the party of class warfare for the rich, and they’re winning.
youtu.be/x367fzEuQXU
#TrickleUp
It's amazing we've been able to survive in Wisconsin with so many criminals on the streets released early or exonerated by both Supreme Court candidates! Fighting fire with fire; congrats to Crawford, Wickler and other strategists for not letting Republicans win the (mostly false?) narrative.
April 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It's amazing we've been able to survive in Wisconsin with so many criminals on the streets released early or exonerated by both Supreme Court candidates! Fighting fire with fire; congrats to Crawford, Wickler and other strategists for not letting Republicans win the (mostly false?) narrative.
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