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Rod Proctor
Rod Proctor
@rpwpb.bsky.social
Retired print reporter/editor. Veteran, Army and Air Force. University of Oklahoma. Disillusioned idealist. Resume includes The Palm Beach Post, UPI, Tulsa World, Japan Times, Stars and Stripes, the New York Post and Newsmax. Boomer Sooner!
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He’d Be the First Openly Gay Man in the Senate. He Rarely Brings It Up. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/u...
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The corruption we know of is already staggering. Imagine the corruption we don't know about.
NEW: The Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a large stake in a Venezuelan company, some of whose owners and investors are shielded from public view. The exact details of the agreement over oil fields had remained unclear — until now.
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'There ain't no way': Shock as GOP-aligned poll shows Dem winning ruby red state www.rawstory.com/texas-polls-...
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* So much for “the world’s largest democracy”. Is the world’s oldest taking a similar path? India detains thousands, locks down Delhi to foil election chief protest - www.reuters.com/world/india/...
This is what we would expect from Russia or the old apartheid South Africa. Not the United States we once knew. Trump Administration Hits International Criminal Court With Severe Sanctions www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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The plague has entered the chat. And Trump is killing science. Trump’s Plan to Corrupt American Science: OMB’s Russell Vought would bring all federal research grants under direct political control, to align with ‘the president’s agenda.’ VOTE prospect.org/2026/07/14/t...
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Memo to Democrats: you can't win the public's trust if you drink from the same corporate trough as the Republicans. Reject Big AI Money (and all corporate campaign contributions) and regulate AI. https://www.commondreams.org/news/ai-election-spending-toxic
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NYC ICE shooting draws protests at Marble Hill scene after Mamdni says man and child were in car An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot a man in New York City on Thursday, according to Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYPD. Mamdani noted ICE agents surrounded a man and a 5-year-old…
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Texas GOP Already Know They're Losing 29 Days Out Luke Macias, voice of Tim Dunn's Billionaire Oil funded machine, admits Democrats have the energy and Republicans are discouraged. Now he's pointing fingers. Ignoring his own culpability. #TexasBlueWave 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...
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#STEPHENMILLER WARNS ON @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy : "IF THE #DEMOCRATS REGAIN POWER, IT'S GAME OVER. THEY'RE GOING TO PUT #TRUMP IN PRISON” #BlueWaveTsunamiIsComingSoon #RemoveTheRegime @larrycolvin.bsky.social @baron333.bsky.social @jaybird54.bsky.social @bluthrunthru.bsky.social
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What Macias Said On his Texas Scorecard show, Macias concedes what pollsters have said for months: Democrats are fired up, Republicans aren't. He cites cost of living and gas prices, starts to blame the Iran war. He omits who set Texas policy. youtu.be/ZyLjr4jOohY?...
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‘Chaos and cruelty’: the kids trapped in Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign
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Bassam al-Hassan, who oversaw Syria's chemical weapons program and was a senior advisor to former President Bashar al-Assad, moved to Beirut after fleeing Syria following the Assad regime's collapse in 2024.
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Trump Says You're The Enemy If You Don't Use His New Preferred Term #HuffingtonPost
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Umm, *I was the “somebody”! www.c-span.org/clip/house-c...
El-Sayed: "When Mike Rogers was in Congress, he literally told somebody from the stand, 'If you don't know your privacy is being violated, is it really being violated?' It's like the peeping tom vote you're going after."