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Karyn Rybacki

@hawk1814

Iowa PhD Rhetorical Theory & Argumentation. Retired Prof, 43 years on the South Shore of the Big Lake they call Gitchigumie, now back in Iowa. Humanist, Wife, Hawkeye fan, Reader, Textbook author, Democrat, taught 1st Amend. Antifascist. Slava Ukraini πŸΊπŸ…πŸ’

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There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.

He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.

07.03.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 2899 πŸ” 1422 πŸ’¬ 273 πŸ“Œ 113
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06.03.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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06.03.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is the man who is supposed to replace Kristi Noem.

Democrats need to show this video during Markwayne Mullins’ confirmation hearing. And a lot more. He’s a piece of work.

06.03.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 1187 πŸ” 596 πŸ’¬ 194 πŸ“Œ 73
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I had my right knee done six weeks ago. My kitty has been the same. He checked on me frequently, studying and sniffing the incision.

06.03.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes. Let's all print out stickers that say "Trump did this" and start sticking them on gas pumps like the magats did with the Biden stickers...

06.03.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I don’t even have any words left for this.

@repmoskowitz.bsky.social has left me 🀣🀣🀣

Oh, it’s so good to have a laugh.

05.03.2026 22:15 πŸ‘ 219 πŸ” 106 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 12
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Minnesota sues to block Trump administration's withholding of $243 million in Medicaid funds Minnesota's attorney general says his office has a strong track record of fighting Medicaid fraud.

Trump cutting off Medicaid in Minnesota for political purposes is deliberately denying medical care and imposing collective punishment on a civilian population. Policies that intentionally deprive people of essential healthcare are a crime against humanity. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

04.03.2026 00:30 πŸ‘ 888 πŸ” 331 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 14

We love war crimes! 🀬

05.03.2026 22:17 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Wow

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BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ... there's info on who to complain to to try to stop this at the end of the article, lets share this message and try our best to stop it.

03.03.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 2516 πŸ” 1953 πŸ’¬ 208 πŸ“Œ 190
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Trump just fired Noem and is appointing Markwayne Mullin.

05.03.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.

05.03.2026 13:14 πŸ‘ 12567 πŸ” 4056 πŸ’¬ 510 πŸ“Œ 195

Honestly sickening. Like dialog from a bad B movie

04.03.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Call me crazy, but American soldiers who die while serving DESERVE to be front page news. It is literally one of the least things we can do to honor them. God, I cannot stand that people in charge of our military don’t care a whit for the actual people who comprise it.

04.03.2026 13:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

οΏΌ the reality is there are still US citizens over there. They can’t get home and I think it was Marco Rubio, who said that well we don’t control the skies the airspace but Hegseth just said we control it yes or no do we or don’t we

04.03.2026 13:32 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The reality is the trump administration is an extremist christofascist/taliban-esque terrorist organization that is killing indiscriminately.

04.03.2026 13:46 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

As the great Vince Lomardi said, "Hope is not a strategy."

04.03.2026 14:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hegseth says Kushner and Witcoff are the two best negotiators. We are in it now. They aren't even pretending this isn't a war. Too late, Congress. This reeks of the Sixties Vietnam bravado. "Charlie can't beat us. Bomb them back to the Stoneage."

04.03.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So then what was the point of this war?

Bibi wanted me to do it and Pete Hegseth really wanted to blow things up

03.03.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He sounds like Westmoreland in the early stage of Vietnam. More disturbing is his glee at blowing things up, like he's triumphant in a video game.

04.03.2026 13:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The big war fighter on Jan 6.

04.03.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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03.03.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

Kash wasn't in the loop about the war? Well, I wouldn't put him in the loop, either.

03.03.2026 01:18 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran

03.03.2026 03:25 πŸ‘ 8576 πŸ” 3404 πŸ’¬ 334 πŸ“Œ 258
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Pic of Marky in combat.

03.03.2026 13:36 πŸ‘ 257 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 1
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A shipment of Chevy Tahoes was delivered to the Whipple building yesterday, which means they will be terrorizing our streets in the next few days. Still waiting on that drawdown...

Credit to @bluey.rue on Tiktok

03.03.2026 14:08 πŸ‘ 261 πŸ” 168 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 19

bsky.app/profile/darr...

03.03.2026 14:09 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm waiting to find out how the administration will blame illegal immigrants and liberal white feminists for this new Middle East war.

03.03.2026 14:09 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

The maggots are at War with each other. Trump's rash -- syphilis, shingles, pre-skin cancer? Looks
a lot like shingles to me.

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