Rick Petree
@RickPetree
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Header photo is a close up of an old Turkish düven (threshing board).
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Joined June 2013
RT @LuisMorenolg: This is how much of every tax payer dollar goes to Foreign Aid. Feeds countless, saves lives from HIV/AIDS, promotes econ…
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Excellent thread.
🧵 A strong historical parallel to the Trump administration’s dehumanization of trans people can be found in the Nazis’ treatment of LGBTQ+ individuals, particularly in their persecution of homosexual and gender-nonconforming people. One event that stands out /2
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RT @allenanalysis: BREAKING: A government worker reports that fresh-faced 19, 20, and 21-year-olds from DOGE are running 15-minute kangaroo…
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RT @kevin_snapp: "A Jewish Kurdish woman from Northern Iraq arrives in Israel with her son, 1951." (Google Translate; H/T @RickPetree ) T…
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RT @nadirfotograff: Kuzey Irak'tan bir Yahudi bir Kürt kadın oğluyla birlikte İsrail'e geliyor. 1951
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RT @stavridisj: 15 years ago,I strongly encouraged my daughter to take a commission in the USN. She served proudly on active duty for 5 yea…
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RT @kevin_snapp: Re Rubio's "minder." I called this USSR level shit. Rick is more articulate. :)
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@NastyOldWomyn @Harvard_Law @DavidZippel @FOBowman3 @JohnBarrowMC @arenella1 I don’t remember HLS that day but do remember walking along Brattle St., which was incredibly beautiful.
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RT @ackocher: Incredible. I just had a convo at a bar with someone in government who said that the Musk Memo asking people to resign was fo…
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RT @capitolhunters: @emptywheel Or actively compromised. Has anyone ever resolved what happened after Musk passed out cold at a lunch with…
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RT @KyivPost: Denmark just revoked Russia’s free pass and will now inspect its ‘shadow fleet’ tankers, marking its first policy shift since…
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RT @WickyDubs2: There it is. DOGE is telling NOAA to reduce its staff by 50% and funding to the agency by 30%. They weren’t “auditing” the…
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RT @Rep_Magaziner: 🚨I am hearing from community health centers all across Rhode Island that their federal funding has been cut off today.…
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RT @ChrisMurphyCT: This isn't complicated to understand. Elon Musk's Starlink was denied a license in South Africa and so he's been on a r…
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RT @GregTSargent: And here it is: NYT reports that internal emails show that DOGE officials gaining access to Treasury data wanted to use i…
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