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Jordan Ryan, former UN Assistant Secretary-General and Carter Center VP, founding member, Diplomats Without Borders. Champions global action for peace.

Atlanta, GA
Joined June 2011
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Now would be a good time to remind everyone of these Trump facts, because apparently some people still need the refresher. Please meet the President of the United States: Flew on Epstein’s plane at least seven times. Just friends, I guess. Pleaded the Fifth more than 400 times in a single deposition. Nothing says “innocent” like refusing to answer a single question about your own business. 34 felony convictions. A record most people would call disqualifying. And 91 criminal charges. Accused of sexual misconduct or assault by at least 26 women. But sure, tell me again how he’s a great guy. 6 corporate bankruptcies. The self proclaimed greatest businessman alive somehow keeps running out of money. 5 draft deferments. Funny how the toughest guy in the room never actually showed up for duty. He said "not for me" when asked to defend his country. 4 criminal indictments. Not two. Not three. Four . 2 impeachments. A club of exactly one president. 2 of his own companies convicted of criminal tax fraud. Convicted. Not accused. Convicted. 1 fake university shut down. 1 fake charity shut down. Even his charity was a grift. Paid 25 million dollars to settle the Trump University fraud lawsuit because scamming people who believed in you costs money eventually. Ordered to pay 5 million dollars in the first E Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict, then hit with 83.3 million more in the second. A jury said it twice so nobody could pretend it was a fluke. Ordered to pay 2 million dollars for looting his own so called charity. Stealing from a charity with his own name on it. Found liable for business fraud and originally slapped with a penalty topping 450 million dollars, later thrown out on appeal while the fraud finding itself stuck to him anyway. First president in modern history to increase the deficit every single year of a full term. Fiscal responsibility, apparently, was always just a talking point. HE PERSONALLY OWNS 30% OF THE NATIONAL DEBT. Kept the debt to GDP ratio above 100 percent for his entire first term. Presided over the largest single day point drop in Dow Jones history at the time. So much for the guy who claimed to be a genius with money. Set the record for the longest government shutdown in US history in his first term at 35 days, then couldn’t resist beating his own miserable record in his second term with a 43 day shutdown, followed by yet another shutdown just months later. Encore nobody asked for. ONLY PRESIDENT WITH THREE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWNS. Added roughly 2.25 trillion dollars to the national debt in his first year back in office alone, pushing the debt past 39 trillion dollars. Somebody remind me who the party of fiscal discipline is again. Pushed through the largest defense budget increase since World War Two while the debt kept climbing anyway. Purged more than 300,000 federal employees in his first year back. Efficient, if your goal is chaos. Pardoned nearly 1,600 January 6 Capitol rioters on his very first day back in office, including Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders convicted of seditious conspiracy. Law and order, except when it’s inconvenient. At least 400 of those pardoned rioters have already been rearrested, charged, or sentenced for new crimes since walking free. Shocking absolutely nobody. His family’s crypto ventures, including a meme coin and World Liberty Financial, pulled in more than 1.4 billion dollars in disclosed earnings while he sat in the Oval Office. Draining the swamp was apparently code for filling his own pockets. Sent the National Guard into American cities at a cost of nearly 500 million taxpayer dollars in 2025 alone. Then bragged about lower crime rates in said states. His own tariffs are projected to cost the average American household more than 2,500 dollars this year. You’re paying for this. Not China. You. No more foreign wars. Peace deal with Russia and Ukraine on Day One. Now sitting at one of the lowest approval ratings of his second term, stuck in the high 30s while inflation and gas prices make everyday life harder. None of this is a conspiracy theory, a rumor, or something you saw in a group chat. It is the actual, documented record, sitting in plain sight for anyone willing to look. So the next time someone tells you to relax and give him a chance, ask them how many more indictments, judgments, and shutdown records he needs to rack up before that chance runs out. Robert S Warner
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Abdul El-Sayed just BODIED Donald Trump and it is GLORIOUS
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I’ve been in this fight my whole life. Don’t ever let them make you feel powerless. When working people stand together, there’s nothing we can’t do. Today is the last day to vote early. Let’s go win this thing, Maine.
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a great pleasure to talk about my recently published 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐬: 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤 with @AmyMullins_ @3RRRFM
🎧 Listen to @AmyMullins_' in-depth interview with Professor John Keane (@jkeaneSDN) on @3rrrfm discussing his latest book, Demagogues and Despots: Democracies on the Brink (out via @NewSouthPublish & @HurstPublishers) 🏛️🗳️ It's up on the #podcast now: rrr.org.au/explore/podcasts/…
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Join Democracy Lighthouse’s Speakers’ Corner, supported by the Toda Peace Institute. Share your perspective on democracy’s challenges and possibilities: speakerscorner.democracyligh…
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I am proud to be part of The Rule of Law Project, officially launched today, which brings together former federal civil rights and corruption prosecutors and investigators along with global human rights leaders to create a nonpartisan organization dedicated to restoring criminal accountability for US public officials who break the law. ruleoflawproject.org/news/pr…
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Americans will cast ballots based on issues like affordability. But what's at stake is far, far more -- it's the pillars of the model that led the US to become the world's most powerful country, and it's today's fragile global order. As Bono told me, "everything we love is on the line." A gift link: nytimes.com/2026/10/24/opini…
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OBAMA: He made a bunch of promises to get costs under control. I think we should examine how did these promises work out? Well, first of all, if you thought everything cost too much before… everything is more expensive now. I want to be fair. As a former president, I can tell you sometimes factors beyond the president's control end up foiling the best laid plans. That is not the case here. This administration's actions are directly responsible for rising costs. The current president chose to make a series of bad decisions. Most importantly, he decided to start an unnecessary war that nobody asked for and nobody voted for
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On #UNDay I think of what the UN looks like from the other side: a tent against the rain, a classroom far from home, the chance to start again after leaving home.. I know what that chance means. It was part of my story. Advancing these values has been the privilege of a lifetime.
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The #UN operates today under conditions for which it was not designed. One is the mismatch between the system’s architecture and the nature of contemporary risks: climate change, pandemics, and advanced technologies are transnational, intergenerational, and intersystemic. They do not fit a state-centric, issue-siloed institutional design. toda.org/projects/reinventin…
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How can the UN act when major powers block collective action? Today the Toda Peace Institute and the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation publish Reinventing the United Nations: eight policy briefs and an introduction on how the UN can recover its capacity to act. 1/5
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Stein Tønnesson and Björn Holmberg, who lead the two institutions, open the collection with a foreword. I convened the research group and wrote the introduction. What would most strengthen the UN's capacity to act? I welcome your views. toda.org/projects/reinventin…
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