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Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 5h

Written in 1944 by the VP, it’s a prescient look at what we also face today. #americanfascism #henrywallace

www.stat.cmu.edu/~brian/walla...

Henry A. Wallace | The Danger of American Fascism

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Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 5h

Fuck that asshole, Trump. A small petty tyrant. Thank you, Governor, for stepping into the gap for the whole country, if even in spirit for those of us in far away states.

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Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 5h

That ceiling really is white, I swear! The pepto pink walls will be a slate blue soon! #newhouse #1970schoices

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Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 5h

When Fox News, OAN, CNN, and MSNBC all agree that something is unconstitutional it’s eyebrow raising, at least. #1stAmendment #FuckTrump #FuckHegseth #Tyranny #Censorship

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 6h

"In unison."

Amen.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

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Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 6h

Another US born #citizen #abducted and interrogated by #Gestapo #ICE agents, even though she had her US Passport. They called her a liar. Hope she sues the fuck out of all of the agents and the agency! It’s #Nuremberg Trial 2.0 time very soon, folks. #fucktrump

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ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name

She even had her U.S. passport on her.

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Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 9h

Painting day at the new house! Gonna miss the Cross shadows in the lavender paint and Pepto pink bedroom walls! 😂 1960s fashion at its highest! #homeowneratlast #firsthome

Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 11h

Hope he sues the shit out of each and every agent and agency and goes right back.

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Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 14h

Zoom in on this map to find your local NO KINGS protest! #nokings #fucktrump

www.nokings.org#map

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 15h

Another peaceful US citizen battered and shipped out of state without cause, or notification of kin. #tyranny

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Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

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Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 16h

A citizen, folks. #ice #tyranny #dhs

“Ms Brockman was taken to the ground, battered, handcuffed, and her pants were pulled down exposing her bare buttocks,…No one should be treated like that in this city, in this country or anywhere else in the world.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Chicago TV producer’s arrest in Ice raid ‘alarming and horrifying’, lawyers say

Attorneys for Debbie Brockman, released with no charges, deny agent’s claim she ‘threw objects’ at border patrol car

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Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 1d

At least they get their building with the pool table, bar, and people to bully. Venita and Larry get to have an office while constantly losing elections and alienating members and allies. 🖕

Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 1d

I left active participation in our Richland County Ohio Dem party because of the dysfunction and gaslighting by leadership. Less than a month to go before local election. Candidate signs are rotting at HQ while Republican signs are everywhere. We’ll lose an entire slate again because of leadership.

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Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 1d

JD Vance is cool with it, though.

“I refuse to join the pearl clutching…”

What a fucking #fascist fuck. Doubling down on shockingly violent racist chats, simply for partisan points. Wow. Fuck you, JD. What a waste and embarrassment for Ohio. #jdvance #republicans

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘It’s revolting’: More Young Republican chat members out of jobs as condemnation intensifies

POLITICO report on private Telegram chat filled with racist slurs and tropes ignites debate from New York to Washington.

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Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 1d

There is no “both sides” argument to be made for the two major parties. Republicans are soul and body taken up with MAGA and its disgusting violently #racist and classist ideology. This is the Republican future, folks. It’s much worse. #republicans #youngrepublicans

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are in charge and have the power in DC right now. They choose zero sum non-negotiation tactic that looks and sounds like mafia extortion. The SPEAKER, President, and MAJORITY LEADER are Republicans.

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Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans only operate in pre-written sound bites. Nothing permeates their wall. They don’t care about policy and working for the benefit of constituents.

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Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 1d

Less than 1% of these #abductions and arrests are people with criminal records. It’s mainly hard working people taking care of their families who don’t have legal status. #DHS & #ICE are profiling to get #violent video. This is violent suffering porn for bigots and racists. #fuckice #fuckdhs #liars

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 1d

Epstein introduced them. The First Lady has also been having secret direct talks with the war criminal, Putin, by her own admission. Fuck these fascists. All of them. #epstein #pedophile #melaniatrump #trump

Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 1d

Six more summary executions and war crimes by this president. Any soldier who executed this order should stand trial. The military needs to refuse these illegal orders. Everyone in the chain is in breach of domestic and international law, folks. #warcrimes

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U.S. kills 6 alleged drug smugglers in new strike off Venezuela, Trump says

The operation follows Senate Republicans’ narrow defeat of a measure that aimed to prevent the administration’s actions on legal grounds.

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Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 1d

So glad hostages are released. The deal between #Israel and #Hamas made allowances for remains that havnt been located yet, or cannot be reached under the rubble.

#Netanyahu pretends that it is a surprise. He wants endless #war to hide from the judicial cases against him in Israel and The Hague.

Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 1d

Gym Jordan makes bald faced lies in this letter, attempting to rewrite history. He ignored and enabled sexual abuse at Ohio State protects a pedophile in the White House now. Ohio deserves better. The US deserves better. Fuck Gym Jordan and all these enablers. #pedophileprotector #jimjordan #lies

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

NEW: Jim Jordan wants to question Jack Smith about his search of Mar-a-Lago, but Merrick Garland executed that search months before Jack Smith was even appointed. One of several lies in this letter demanding Jack Smith's testimony. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 2d

That jumped up apartheid oligarch fascist thug, Musk, needs to move back to South Africa and leave the US alone.

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Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 2d

Trump wants an excuse to kill
protestors and declare marshal law. These violent and ignorant federal agents are meant to incite and escalate violence with violence. Fuck these goddamn fascists. #americanfascism #fucktrump #fuckice #fuckdhs

www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of ...

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Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 2d

The president wants a Kent State situation. These MAGAts get a hard-on watching violent encounters. They’d climax with a protestor, press, or bystander shooting death.

Thegrumpybluedot @grumpybluedot.bsky.social · 2d

My amazing go-cart Civic passed 200k today! 🎉🎉I bought it with 2k on the odometer. 😱 Hoping it keeps chugging for at least another year! #hondacivic #commuter

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