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Grit Pump
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Pro democracy, pro nature. No MAGA, fascists, authoritarians, Republicans, corporate Democrats, corporate-owned media or violence advocates need apply. Peaceful protester. DM = block. Photos mine: Lumix G9-II, Leica 100-400 zoom. NO LISTS | NO STARTER PKS
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15h
If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h
NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.
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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 10h
Holy shit! Shooting a minister in the head is OK with him? Is there anything that isn't? Jesus Christ.
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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 18h
Stay peaceful no matter the provocation, wave the US flag, wear stars & stripes, and chant slogans like “No kings here, USA, USA!” That’ll confuse the shit out of those fascists.
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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 18h
He’s a miserable juvenile shitbag troll. Great Presidential material, according to MAGA GQP.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 19h
If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.
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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 19h
They’ve had more than ten years to come up with a plan. The plan is, “No healthcare coverage for you!”
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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 20h
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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 19h
She’s a sofa king. Sofa king high: she’s tripping like crazy right there.
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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 1d
What Does CBP Teach Their “Cops”?
ICE draws weapons on ppl who ask questions.
ICE arrests ppl for legally videoing their arrests.
ICE demands "papers" from 15-yr-olds.
ICE hides their faces & drives cars w/o proper plates.

Why do we let the lawless enforce the law?
digbysblog.net/2025/10/13/w...
Chicago Tribune investigative reporter video.
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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 20h
Important thread. Hoping Senate Democrats hold firm. This is a Trumpublican shutdown, no matter what the MAGA GQP says. Trumpublicans control all the levers of power, and they could open the government today if they wanted to. It’s clear they don’t, and that they don’t care about us.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 23h
Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 20h
"So we read with interest yesterday the news that two Nobel-winning MIT economists are decamping for the University of Zurich next year.

MAGA may be fine with this. But we liked it when America was a magnet for Nobel laureates, not a place they wanted to flee."

www.thebulwark.com/p/is-he-lyin...
Is He Lying or Crazy? Does It Matter?
Living in the world the president dreams up.
www.thebulwark.com
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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 20h
The point here is that these fascist un-American Nazi terrorists are so arrogant and stupid that they are eagerly providing lots of evidence that will directly lead to their own convictions later when they eventually lose power. 🤷
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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed. After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 1d
The camera crews are accessories to the crimes committed by members of Meal Team Six. Let’s hold them accountable in courts as well.
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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 1d
So, ICE is clearly a terrorist organization, no?
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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 1d
Nazi Germany was also obsessed with photographing and filming everything they did. Similar motivations, perhaps. The wisdom of such is questionable, however. Just ask around in Nuremberg.
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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 1d
They are splitting hairs because Tom Whore-man allegedly took the $50K in cash, in a paper sack, before he actually became employed (again) by Tangerine Ovaltine’s regime. It was a “pay me now and I’ll help you later” kind of deal.
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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 1d
Maybe we also chant “USA, USA” while waving those American flags.
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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 1d
The truth has never been an obstacle for Tangerine Palpatine, and he’s become a senile demented lunatic just like his father. So, both. Lying outrageously while not remembering who was President at that time, and while sending DMs to the general public instead of to the intended recipients.
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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d
Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 2d
Trump labeling ANTIFA a terrorist group is all part of his plan to criminalize the Democratic Party and ultimately ban it as a terrorist group. He wants one party rule. We know this because it's exactly what Hitler and Mussolini did when first came to power.
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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 3d
The richer those fuckers get, the more fascist they become. Maybe tax the rich to make them less rich?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d
Just to be clear, this is EXACTLY what Pete Hegseth said, word for word, on video in a formal announcement:

“We’re signing a letter of acceptance to BUILD A QATARI AIR FORCE FACILITY at the Mountain Home Airbase.”
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4d
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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