Ray Phillips #WithFearForOurDemocracyIDissent

Grandpa; Ret coll admin (IT Services) & faculty (Biology), UCC church member, trumpet player. I have departed Xwitter for bluer skies: @rayphillips.bsky.social

[Ray Phillips #WithFearForOurDemocracyIDissent @RayPhillips207]

@meenaharris @sendavidperdue #MyNameIs Ray, named after my grandfather, a missionary social worker in South Africa. He mentored Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at the school of social work he founded.

In 2019, I accepted on behalf of Ray and Dora Phillips the Order of the Baobab from President Cyril Ramaphosa.

[Ray Phillips #WithFearForOurDemocracyIDissent @RayPhillips207]

@lippyent I remember working with my Dad to built Heathkit amplifier and receiver units. I helped sort the transistors that he soldered on the circuit board. Connected a turntable for which he made a wood case. Speakers were large. We used that system for many, many years. Good system.

[Tim Hannan @TimHannan]

Never forget.

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

The same media getting hysterical about RFK destroying public health platformed people who gave us RFK-like talking points like 'covid is just the flu' and now none of them will tell you 4,745 Americans died of covid this September and just 125 died of flu.

[Victoria Brownworth @VABVOX]

So does this mean we can also charge the Commander in Chief who authorized the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan with treason?

[Ray Phillips #WithFearForOurDemocracyIDissent @RayPhillips207]

@JerasIkehorn Nought Cuisine

[Ray Phillips #WithFearForOurDemocracyIDissent @RayPhillips207]

@AmiDar The Trump Presidency will end finally on Jan. 20, 2029. Something to look forward to.

[Ray Phillips #WithFearForOurDemocracyIDissent @RayPhillips207]

@VABVOX 💙👏🏻

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Daily Reminder: Medicare for All would save $650 billion and 68,000 lives each and every year.

[Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles) @SophiaCycles]

For some unfortunate reason, complaining, rejecting, or fearing something strengthens your sense of ego & makes you feel like you are important. You contract back into your small and false self, and from there, unfortunately, it becomes harder and harder to reemerge.~Richard Rohr

[Ray Phillips #WithFearForOurDemocracyIDissent @RayPhillips207]

@lippyent Is that a Silver Cloud III

[Just saying @kangaroos991]

🎯 Drop a 💙 (or two) for the vets! 🙏💙💙

[Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath]

It’s kind of wild we witnessed multiple bomb threats traced to foreign adversaries and targeting polling stations in key swing states, and we’re all kind of like, “Well, that’s just a thing that happens now.”

[Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath]

I realize the tension of engaging in discourse about how @TheDemocrats can win future elections when we’re facing the prospect of a future in which elections as normal might not continue.

But, for now, we need to prepare for every potential future, including the better case one.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Malcolm X’s family filed a federal lawsuit on Friday claiming that the New York Police Department, CIA and FBI played a role in his assassination at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan nearly 60 years ago. https://t.co/XPN3ThtWRA

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

Stephen Miller’s uncle, Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump . . . Do I detect a pattern?

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

In my thread on biological sex, multiple people argued that as a statistician I shouldn't be concerned with "outliers" meaning men and women at the extremes of the distribution and intersex conditions.

I call bullshit on that. Real science is driven by the exceptions.

[Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath]

Some of the most powerful energy during the campaign was when Walz spoke to Americans’ desire to be left alone to live their lives free of intrusion.

That kind of populist, broad-based messaging doesn’t necessitate throwing marginalized people under the bus, as is happening now.

[Ray Phillips #WithFearForOurDemocracyIDissent @RayPhillips207]

@BillKristol Romney ought to be in this list but he just wants to preserve his small voice in the GOP.

Of these, I think only Murkowski has the necessary courage.

Collins will just be very concerned.