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!

I say keep hammering him on AIPAC, drive home that “He doesn’t care about you here because, follow the money. He cares only about sending your tax dollars to a foreign country.” It feeds into the corruption message that resonates with independents.

Gift article: Know someone MAGA? Tell them turnabout is fair play. Tell them no one else ever went this far b/c it opens the door to big losses for your team in the future. Everyone else knows taxes are not red or blue. All taxpayers deserve fair treatment. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

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UPDATE: At 9:15am, former US Capitol Insurrection prosecutors will have press conference with Senators to discuss the "refusal of Trump Administration judicial nominees to acknowledge the results of the 2020 election or admit that what happened on January 6"

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 7h ago

ALERT: House Democrats expand their midterm battlefield The cascading impact from Michigan primary And the critically important trial date at a courthouse in Oakland (very critical) Lots of enterprise reporting in DAY AHEAD open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...

UPDATE: I've been sharing that Beshear has until August 4 to appoint a dem to McConnell's seat. That's not correct. There is no cutoff date. The August 4th date came from this language in the KY constitution, but it only applies if Mitch's term wouldn't end this year, and only for special elections.

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Many of us who’d been on the front lines during the pandemic, volunteered to administer the vaccine in places like this. We’d all lost loved ones, including our own colleagues. I took this picture in spring of 2021. The emotion was palpable. Lives were saved on days like this. Thank you, Dr Fauci.

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Apparatchiks have their orders: conjure a Communist threat inside America, associating with it the entire Dem Party, to prepare people to accept whatever authoritarian crackdown the administration may be planning to stop elections from handing them a defeat.