Ray de Groat

Ray de Groat

@raydegroat.bsky.social

US Citizen in Sweden.

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Marie In Atlanta
@marie-atl.bsky.social

Thank you Swedish Friends for supporting our fight against dictatorship! #NoKings 🇺🇸💙🇸🇪

Ray de Groat@raydegroat.bsky.social

Democracy NOT dictatorship! No Dictators protest in Stockholm, Sweden @demsabroad.bsky.social @iceoutstockholm.bsky.social #ICEout #NoDictators #NoKings #DemocratsAbroad

Ray de Groat
@raydegroat.bsky.social

This is my house rep from California. He’s not perfect, but neither am I

Eric Swalwell@ericswalwell.bsky.social

Kristi Noem’s firing couldn’t happen fast enough. But unless the policy of terrorizing our immigrant communities changes, I’m not voting to give them a penny.

Ray de Groat
@raydegroat.bsky.social

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. News of Noem firing amounts to a nothing burger. Are they still chewing their Noem nothing burger on CNN? US media is part of the problem. Meanwhile Dominion owned by Republicans. The fix for the midterms is in.

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger.substack.com

Let’s give him credit…. At least the corruption isn’t hidden. He’s doing it right out in the open. The name “Trump” will be treated like Benedict Arnold’s name within the decade

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George Takei
@georgetakei.bsky.social

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Ray de Groat
@raydegroat.bsky.social

And you're on again in less than an hour. www.youtube.com/live/MPX0WEU...

youtube.comTrump DOJ Pressures States, Demanding 2020 Voting Machines Despite Local Pushback 9/4/25YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
The Mark Thompson Show@themts.bsky.social

We’re on!! 1st Bruises & Now, Amid Denials of Health Rumors, a Surprise Trump Annou... www.youtube.com/live/rmHYlwG... via @YouTube

youtube.com1st Bruises & Now, Amid Denials of Health Rumors, a Surprise Trump Announcement from the Oval 9/2/25YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
Ray de Groat
@raydegroat.bsky.social

Remember: The purpose of a museum is to exhibit, history, culture, art and science, some of which may not always be in alignment with what the president wants. White House orders review of Smithsonian exhibits to ensure alignment with Trump directives - CNN apple.news/A6xSTDR1hS0C...

apple.newsWhite House orders review of Smithsonian exhibits to ensure alignment with Trump directives — CNNThe White House is conducting a comprehensive internal review of exhibits and materials at the Smithsonian Institution in an effort to comply with President Donald Trump’s directive about what should ...

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Acyn
@acyn.bsky.social

Newsom: If California, one of the most un-Trumped states in America, is not successful, it’s at our peril. We may not get this back. I’m telling you, we may not. He is rigging this next midterm election before one vote is cast. He tried to wreck our democracy after the last vote was cast last time.

Ray de Groat
@raydegroat.bsky.social

Convicted Jan 6 rioter who called for the killing of police officers now employed by DOJ. Trump is trying to rewrite the history of the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol www.npr.org/transcripts/...

npr.orgTrump is trying to rewrite the history of the 2021 attack on the U.S. CapitolPresident Trump has tried to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In the latest example, the Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who urged rioters to "...
Ray de Groat
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Harris is a stark reminder of what most Democrats would very much like to put behind them — an era when Harris dedicated herself to serving a deceptive White House that hid the realities of Biden’s cognitive decline while maintaining support for Israel’s actions in Gaza. apple.news/Ax7GBIdkATZe...

apple.newsKamala Harris should not run for president in 2028 — The HillWhile the Democratic Party was in great need of appealing to voters fed up with defenders of the existing order, Harris opted to emphatically represent the status quo.
Ray de Groat
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Americans are in a struggle for their democracy. Help them and help yourselves EU by standing up to authoritarians, not by bowing down to them

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Europe’s trade deal with the US was dead on arrival – it needs to be buried. Here’s how to do it | Georg Riekeles and Varg Folkman

theguardian.comEurope’s trade deal with the US was dead on arrival – it needs to be buried. Here’s how to do it | Georg Riekeles and Varg FolkmanNothing is agreed until everything is agreed. The EU should now steel itself and reject the terms imposed by Donald Trump, say Georg Riekeles and Varg Folkman of the European Policy Centre
Ray de Groat
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Use open source solutions. Problem solved. #opensource #openinfra

Nick Tsergas@nicktsergas.ca

"Without stronger privacy laws or purpose-built Canadian cloud infrastructure, we risk ceding control of our population health data to the hostile hyperpower in our basement." Probably my favourite line in this week's roundup (story 5). canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...

canadahealthwatch.caIs the Carney government abandoning national pharmacare?The Liberals campaigned on it. Why do they now seem to be backing away from it?
Ray de Groat
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A Little League team from Venezuela was denied entry to the United States for the Senior League Baseball World Series, according to Little League International. apple.news/A5t_drezxRVq...

apple.newsVenezuelan Little League team denied travel visas to U.S. for World Series — The Washington PostThe Cacique Mara Little League team from Maracaibo, Venezuela, will not be able to participate in the Senior League Baseball World Series in South Carolina this year.
Ray de Groat
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Starlink is a US military contractor. It just sabotaged a US security partner and ally Ukraine, currently at war with a well known US adversary, Russia. Sounds like the definition of treason to me.

Ray de Groat@raydegroat.bsky.social

Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia - Reuters apple.news/AGjjTaodMTpG...

apple.newsSpecial Report: Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia — ReutersA previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's ...
Ray de Groat
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Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia - Reuters apple.news/AGjjTaodMTpG...

apple.newsSpecial Report: Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia — ReutersA previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's ...
Ray de Groat
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So happy to know these poor people will be taken in off the streets. And before the winter. Trump signs order pushing cities and states to remove people who are homeless from streets - USA TODAY apple.news/A3-Mt6WsLTSC...

apple.newsTrump signs order pushing cities and states to remove homeless people from streets — USA TODAYPresident Trump wants to make it easier for cities and states to move homeless people to treatment centers under new executive action he's taking.

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Ray de Groat
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Thank you Mehdi! I think you did a great service by participating in this debate. I had no idea MAGA was this awful. You brought that to light thank you. I also learned what not to do during a debate.

Ray de Groat
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Thank you Mehdi! I think you did a great service by participating in this debate. I had no idea MAGA was this awful. You brought that to light thank you. I also learned what not to do during a debate.