Richard Hellinga

@richhell.bsky.social

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Books, running, and coffee. Turtle Mountain Chippewa. Protect trans kids. He/Him

Screenshot from https://www.airnow.gov/ from the the Lansing Monitor point, saying the Primary Pollutant is PM2.5 at a Hazardous level of 430 (highest AQI in the area), PM10 at a Very Unhealthy level of 289, and Ozone at a Good level or only 17.
Screenshot of the following text: "But ROGD continues to be of key interest to the researchers. In 2023, Bailey published a paper about ROGD in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior based on data he said he received from a member of ParentsofROGDKids.com, which describes being trans as an “epidemic” among youth. The journal retracted it less than 3 months later, with the editor-in-chief, Kenneth Zucker, and the publisher noting that the study’s authors failed to get consent from survey subjects to share their information. They also noted that the authors didn’t have approval from an Institutional Review Board, which monitors the ethics of human subject research. Bailey said in an interview with the Sun-Times that he thought those were “bogus reasons” for the retraction."
Screenshot of an email from Forward Blue (whoever they are I have no idea how I got on their email list) with the subject line “Do you approve of Gavin Newsom” followed by the text: “Governor Gavin Newsom has been at the center of some of the most important fights in the country - from defending reproductive rights to standing up to Trump and his far-right extremists. So we want to know: Do you approve of the job Gavin Newsom is doing as governor? NO » YES» UNSURE » Forward Blue is running a quick approval poll to gauge where grassroots Democrats stand on…”
Onion Headline "Yngwie Malmsteen Officially Changes Middle Name To 'Fucking'" Below the headline is a photo of fast-fingered musician Yngwie Malmsteen in a black jacket, several necklaces around his neck, and dark sunglasses. He's holding a guitar. His long, curly mane of dark hair frames his white face. Published: September 7, 2000
The Metaverse avatar of man-baby Mark Zuckerberg; soulless image of Mark Zuckerberg's white face with painted on brown-gold hair, wearing a navy blue henley with a green, placid mountain lake in the background.
The word "original motion picture soundtrack TRON: ARES Music by Nine Inch Nails" in glowing blood red on a none-more-black background.
Amendment 4 of the Constitution of the United States of America. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Long ass text from Gavin Newton asking me for money, all under a picture of him and his slimy hair pointing at Trump, the worst President in our nation’s history.
Tweet from Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced sexual-harassing governor of New York, that says "Chicago is proof that incompetent leadership can turn a deep-dish city into a half-baked mess From long before we built the Erie Canal to compete with Chicago, New York has always been about making things happen I believe in government that works. I have done it time and time again for the people of New York. Let's do it again."
Screenshot of the Current Air Quality map of the Midwest, centered on Michigan, updated at 5:00pm today, Aug 3. Most of Wisconsin, Michigan, the Canadian province of Ontario, and northern Illinois are coded in Orange and Red, meaning unhealthy air quality for most people.
Dow Jones industrial average line chart in red with small peaks and valleys over the last month-long period, and a steep drop (of 600+ points) today.
Two books next to each other. The one on the left is titled, “A Psalm for the Wild Built” by Becky Chambers. The one on the right shows a faceless humanoid robot and is titled, “The Murderbot Diaries” by Martha Wells. On top of the books is a small keychain that is a stack of books.
A screenshot of POTUS Donald Trump's latest Truth Social rant: "Everyone knows that Harvard has "lost its way." They hired, from New York (Bill D) and Chicago (Lori L), at ridiculously high salaries/fees, two of the WORST and MOST INCOMPETENT mayors in the history of our Country, to "teach" municipal management and government. These two Radical Left fools left behind two cities that will take years to recover from their incompetence and evil. Harvard has been hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and "birdbrains" who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called "future leaders." Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States States Congress. When it got so bad that they just couldn't take it anymore, they moved this grossly inept woman into another position, teaching, rather than firing her ON THE SPOT. Since then much else has been found out about her, but she remains in place. Many others, like these Leftist dopes, are teaching at Harvard, and because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning, and should not be considered on any list of the World's Great Universities or Colleges. Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
Red graph showing one week of the Dow Jones with very steep drops over the last two days. Underneath the chart is a CNBC headline in all caps "DOW DROPS 2,000 POINTS AS TRUMP TARIFF MARKET ROUT DEEPENS" with the face of a gloomy-looking white man, and a Simply Wall Street headline "Iovance Biotherapeutics (NasdaqGM:IOVA) Drops 10% Over The Week In Market Correction" next to a photo of a masked and goggled face next to microscope.
Image with James Carville’s bald slimy face at the top above a bunch of text from a text message begging/ demanding money so that Democrats can Never Stop Fighting Trump and Vance and all the MAGA dunces, despite the rotten egghead himself having told Democrats to do nothing until the Fall of this year.
Image of the dark cream colored Michigan Capitol building under a hazy blue sky with hundreds of protesters gathered in front, on the sidewalk and snow.
A row of four tan bookshelves, each with five shelves, overflowing with books.
Picture of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries with the following, poorly-timed, ill-conceived text from a fundraising email: "I was officially sworn in as House Democratic Leader. Now, I’m asking you to help me lead Democrats in a historic fundraising day – 3,000 donations before midnight – to show we stand ready to hold MAGA Republicans accountable and win back the House majority for Democrats. I can’t tell you how much it would mean to see your donation >> Richard, as Democratic Leader, I want to take a moment to share our priorities this Congress. House Democrats will work with anyone to lower the high cost of living in the United States of America once and for all. As Democrats, our promise to the American people is that we will fight hard to make sure that no one takes away Social Security or Medicare from the American people that they earned – not now, not ever. No means never. Our position is that it is not acceptable to cut Social Security, cut Medicare, cut Medicaid, cut veterans’ benefits or cut nutritional assistance from children and families to pay for massive tax breaks for billionaires and wealthy corporations. I’m leading House Democrats forward as we fight for opportunity in every single zip code and an economy that works for everyone. We’re not wasting a single second getting to work. That's why I'm asking for a historic surge of support – 3,000 Democratic donations..."
Screenshot of the Apple Intelligence & Siri panel, marked as BETA, in MacOS settings with a button that reads "Turn on Apple Intelligence".
Close up of the brown-eyed author smiling, and wearing a hat and jacket with a wet sidewalk lined with white snow on both sides. A few barren trees and some evergreens are to the left and behind the author.
A stack of books on a table with the following titles from top to bottom: Entitlement by Rumaan Alam Metal from Heaven by August Clarke Hope You Are Satisfied by Tania Malik The Books of Earthsea: the Complete Illustrated Edition by Ursula K. Le Guin, Illustrated by Charles Vess
Two posts from Facebook. The one on top shows a graph from Peter Sinclair that illustrates how global temperatures have increased since 1880 with this year being the highest and reaching above 1.5 degrees Celsius. The post below is from Reuters and it says that the oil companies Chevron and Exxon Mobil posted better-than-expected third quarter profits thanks to record United States oil production. Yes, these two stories are most certainly related.
The mailer says “we did everything we were supposed to: graduate high school, got jobs, put in the work to get ahead. At every turn the Democrats demonize us. Set quotas at colleges to exclude us, rigged corporate America against us, turned the other way when their economy left us behind.”
Image that says, "Celebrating 10 million users" and informing everyone that I was number and I was number 1,496,099.
Fake bumper sticker, blue background, the word TRUMP at the top with 2024 in small letters under. At the bottom is the slogan "SOFA KING CRIMINAL"
Kamala Harris holding up a copy of the Revolting Cocks' album "Beers, Steers, and Queers." Image was generated by the web site https://kamala-holding-vinyls.glitch.me
AP logo at the top with an "AP FACT CHECK" heading above the satirical headline, "No, JD Vance did not day, "I love my wife Usha even though she's not white." Below the headline is a picture of a bearded, smirking, JD Vance wearing an ill-fitting sport coat over a white collared shirt and no tie.
Former President Trump, a racist con man, is wearing a poorly-fitting suit while sleeping during jury selection at his criminal trial in New York City.
The boyfriend of Taylor Swift, professional football player Travis Kelce, sporting a beard and wearing his Kansas City Chiefs uniform, is standing right next to his coach, Andy Reid, with his mouth wide open as if he is shouting, "I'd rather die than give you control," a lyric by the band NIN.