Rick Harrison
@rickharrison.bsky.social
New Jersey expat, cynical idealist. My opinions are my own, not my employer’s. I don’t own a pawn shop.
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Rick Harrison
@rickharrison.bsky.social
· Mar 23
“Yeah, we know that come tomorrow
None of this will be here
So hold tight to your anger…
And don’t fall to your fears”
—Bruce Springsteen
None of this will be here
So hold tight to your anger…
And don’t fall to your fears”
—Bruce Springsteen
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 60,000 times, shame on Biden and the radical left communists and immigrants and
October 6, 2026 at 11:01 AM
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 60,000 times, shame on Biden and the radical left communists and immigrants and
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QUICK QUIZ: Which of these was an actual TV show to air on CBS in 2024:
NCIS: Topeka
Law & Order: Animal Control Unit
Cold Case: Criminal Minds
CSI: FBI
NCIS: Hawai’i
NCIS: No Jurisdiction
FBI: Dubai
US Coast Guard: Vessel Boarding Security Teams (VBST)
NCIS: Topeka
Law & Order: Animal Control Unit
Cold Case: Criminal Minds
CSI: FBI
NCIS: Hawai’i
NCIS: No Jurisdiction
FBI: Dubai
US Coast Guard: Vessel Boarding Security Teams (VBST)
January 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
QUICK QUIZ: Which of these was an actual TV show to air on CBS in 2024:
NCIS: Topeka
Law & Order: Animal Control Unit
Cold Case: Criminal Minds
CSI: FBI
NCIS: Hawai’i
NCIS: No Jurisdiction
FBI: Dubai
US Coast Guard: Vessel Boarding Security Teams (VBST)
NCIS: Topeka
Law & Order: Animal Control Unit
Cold Case: Criminal Minds
CSI: FBI
NCIS: Hawai’i
NCIS: No Jurisdiction
FBI: Dubai
US Coast Guard: Vessel Boarding Security Teams (VBST)
Up until recently, I would say it was usually hyperbole to call a prominent media figure a Nazi. But what else should you call someone who talks like this? Some might say he’s being ignorant or stupid. I don’t think he’s either of those things. Provocative and contrarian, sure. But this is more.
Tucker: “I never understood why 🇬🇧 fought World War 2?” 😕
Rees-Mogg: “It was good vs. evil…We did the right thing…”
Tucker: “Has 🇬🇧 benefitted?”
RM: “We defeated Hitler… We’d all be speaking German…”
Tucker: “Who cares?” 🤔
Rees-Mogg: “It was good vs. evil…We did the right thing…”
Tucker: “Has 🇬🇧 benefitted?”
RM: “We defeated Hitler… We’d all be speaking German…”
Tucker: “Who cares?” 🤔
October 3, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Up until recently, I would say it was usually hyperbole to call a prominent media figure a Nazi. But what else should you call someone who talks like this? Some might say he’s being ignorant or stupid. I don’t think he’s either of those things. Provocative and contrarian, sure. But this is more.
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Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.
September 29, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.
Assuming they aren’t lying (just for fun), how is paying for something you don’t use considered an act of fraud? What even is the concept here?
Assistant AG for Fraud Colin McDonald: "Apparently 35% of people have never even used their Obamacare account for any health services. That is a statistical impossibility and it's because these are not real people seeking real care. These are fraudsters."
September 27, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Assuming they aren’t lying (just for fun), how is paying for something you don’t use considered an act of fraud? What even is the concept here?
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September 21, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump.
www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
September 22, 2026 at 10:23 AM
This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump.
www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
So much of society’s functioning relies on shared faith in the persistence of abstract ideas: Money can be used for goods & services. Laws protect us & punish bad actors. Elected officials should serve the public good. We possess inalienable rights. Fascism is bad. Facts are real.
Seems so quaint.
Seems so quaint.
September 21, 2026 at 5:05 PM
So much of society’s functioning relies on shared faith in the persistence of abstract ideas: Money can be used for goods & services. Laws protect us & punish bad actors. Elected officials should serve the public good. We possess inalienable rights. Fascism is bad. Facts are real.
Seems so quaint.
Seems so quaint.
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Remember when a year felt like a long time?
December 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Remember when a year felt like a long time?
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From the archive:
Just “moving on” past a calamity without examination and accountability invites the next one.
7:20 PM · May 18, 2021
Just “moving on” past a calamity without examination and accountability invites the next one.
7:20 PM · May 18, 2021
January 5, 2026 at 12:39 AM
From the archive:
Just “moving on” past a calamity without examination and accountability invites the next one.
7:20 PM · May 18, 2021
Just “moving on” past a calamity without examination and accountability invites the next one.
7:20 PM · May 18, 2021
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Pretending to go for it on fourth and short just to try to draw the defense offsides is loser crap. It also never works unless you are playing the Jets.
September 14, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Pretending to go for it on fourth and short just to try to draw the defense offsides is loser crap. It also never works unless you are playing the Jets.
It’s possible this video just put five years back onto my life.
September 19, 2026 at 6:56 PM
It’s possible this video just put five years back onto my life.
This is an opinion article filled with observable facts (Gift Link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/o...
Opinion | Trump Has Untethered Himself From Reality (Gift Article)
The president’s distortions have an impact on much more than belief in his claims about what he was doing on Sept. 11.
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2026 at 10:42 AM
This is an opinion article filled with observable facts (Gift Link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/o...
Pretending to go for it on fourth and short just to try to draw the defense offsides is loser crap. It also never works unless you are playing the Jets.
September 14, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Pretending to go for it on fourth and short just to try to draw the defense offsides is loser crap. It also never works unless you are playing the Jets.
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When they do this, it's not enough to reject the demand.
You've got to shove it back in their face, and ask why they never ask Republicans to denounce the racist mass murderer who is their party's top donor and who was given the keys to the federal government to cause mass chaos.
You've got to shove it back in their face, and ask why they never ask Republicans to denounce the racist mass murderer who is their party's top donor and who was given the keys to the federal government to cause mass chaos.
Raskin after Kristen Welker plays him clips of controversial Hasan Piker comments and asks him to react to them: "I think all of that is an irrelevant distraction"
September 6, 2026 at 2:30 PM
When they do this, it's not enough to reject the demand.
You've got to shove it back in their face, and ask why they never ask Republicans to denounce the racist mass murderer who is their party's top donor and who was given the keys to the federal government to cause mass chaos.
You've got to shove it back in their face, and ask why they never ask Republicans to denounce the racist mass murderer who is their party's top donor and who was given the keys to the federal government to cause mass chaos.
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The embarrassing decision to call Lake Ontario “Lake America” is an admission of defeat. If we can’t understand basics of economics and politics, if we must lose a trade war to Canada while we are losing a shooting war to Iran, let us paste our name somewhere.
snyder.substack.com/p/our-trade-...
snyder.substack.com/p/our-trade-...
Our Trade War Against Ourselves
Treating Canada as an Enemy Leaves us Weaker in Every Way
snyder.substack.com
August 31, 2026 at 4:44 PM
The embarrassing decision to call Lake Ontario “Lake America” is an admission of defeat. If we can’t understand basics of economics and politics, if we must lose a trade war to Canada while we are losing a shooting war to Iran, let us paste our name somewhere.
snyder.substack.com/p/our-trade-...
snyder.substack.com/p/our-trade-...
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This is downstream of America's oligarchy problem. The GOP is the party of the top 1% of the wealth distribution, but also the ~25th-80th percentile. Meanwhile, media is the provenance of the 90th-99th%ile where you'll encounter dumb campus leftism, but not Nazism or Christian nationalism.
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
August 30, 2026 at 6:32 PM
This is downstream of America's oligarchy problem. The GOP is the party of the top 1% of the wealth distribution, but also the ~25th-80th percentile. Meanwhile, media is the provenance of the 90th-99th%ile where you'll encounter dumb campus leftism, but not Nazism or Christian nationalism.
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There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.
The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.
August 22, 2026 at 12:52 AM
There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.
Honest Question: What IS the biggest scandal of this presidency?
There’s fresh evidence that the White House hatched a scheme to punish an American state because it didn’t free a convicted felon the president likes.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” a federal judge said. “I’ve never even imagined something like it.”
Why isn't this a bigger scandal?
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” a federal judge said. “I’ve never even imagined something like it.”
Why isn't this a bigger scandal?
New evidence suggests White House took steps to punish Colorado over Tina Peters case
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” a federal district court judge said about a newly disclosed email. “I’ve never even imagined something like it.”
www.ms.now
August 18, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Honest Question: What IS the biggest scandal of this presidency?
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Most major media still won't say directly that the U.S. is sliding toward dictatorship. Will they ever sound the alarm, or will they be part of the most shameful episode of journalism neglect in our nation's history?
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
The media are missing the story of our lives: a looming dictatorship
News outlets’ downplaying of the danger is shameful journalism neglect
www.stopthepresses.news
August 17, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Most major media still won't say directly that the U.S. is sliding toward dictatorship. Will they ever sound the alarm, or will they be part of the most shameful episode of journalism neglect in our nation's history?
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
In the future, when a Democrat does anything remotely similar to these egregious acts of corruption, obfuscation, and outright deception, they will suddenly act like they care. As if their outrage originates from some untouchable integrity. Most will act as though they have forgotten. But not me.
August 16, 2026 at 4:15 AM
In the future, when a Democrat does anything remotely similar to these egregious acts of corruption, obfuscation, and outright deception, they will suddenly act like they care. As if their outrage originates from some untouchable integrity. Most will act as though they have forgotten. But not me.
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Immigration judge to my client in court today:
"Ma'am, the children will need to wait outside--but this shouldn't take long. I don't want you to be separated from your children."
given what the order I knew she was about to issue, the cruelty of this phrasing stopped my breath
"Ma'am, the children will need to wait outside--but this shouldn't take long. I don't want you to be separated from your children."
given what the order I knew she was about to issue, the cruelty of this phrasing stopped my breath
August 13, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Immigration judge to my client in court today:
"Ma'am, the children will need to wait outside--but this shouldn't take long. I don't want you to be separated from your children."
given what the order I knew she was about to issue, the cruelty of this phrasing stopped my breath
"Ma'am, the children will need to wait outside--but this shouldn't take long. I don't want you to be separated from your children."
given what the order I knew she was about to issue, the cruelty of this phrasing stopped my breath
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Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
www.youtube.com
August 13, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
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New York Times: Speaking for Fallen Soldiers, Trump Says They Supported the Iran War”
Mother Jones: “Trump Puts Words in the Mouths of Dead Soldiers.”
From, "The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump’s grip on reality," by @froomkin.bsky.social
presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...
Mother Jones: “Trump Puts Words in the Mouths of Dead Soldiers.”
From, "The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump’s grip on reality," by @froomkin.bsky.social
presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...
The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump's grip on reality, but the press corps won’t go there | Press Watch
Journalists are treating his ‘vandalism’ claim as if it were a normal, disputable argument. But it’s completely delusional.
presswatchers.org
August 8, 2026 at 4:48 PM
New York Times: Speaking for Fallen Soldiers, Trump Says They Supported the Iran War”
Mother Jones: “Trump Puts Words in the Mouths of Dead Soldiers.”
From, "The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump’s grip on reality," by @froomkin.bsky.social
presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...
Mother Jones: “Trump Puts Words in the Mouths of Dead Soldiers.”
From, "The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump’s grip on reality," by @froomkin.bsky.social
presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...
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The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures.
The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning
The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning
August 11, 2026 at 5:35 PM
The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures.
The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning
The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning