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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 1h

He was an asshole then too.

G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 1h

"The Trump administration has SECRETLY authorized the C.I.A. to conduct COVERT action in Venezuela..."

Between the headline and the ongoing clown show that is the Trump administration, it's hard to take reality seriously right now.

I guess the CIA joined Simple Pete in struggling to spell OPSEC.

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 1d

It takes a special kind of stupid to deliberately un-eradicate a disease.

MAGA is proof that the Theory of Evolution is supported by behavior among everything from sub-cellular entities to higher-order primates.

That's right, MAGA voters lose the contest of natural selection to a clump of RNA...

Hawkeye8 @hawkeye8.bsky.social · 1d

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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 2d

I need to cut about 700 more words from this to be able to submit it for publication. Any Sci-Fi loving folks with a fondness for their red pen out there?

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#Editors #Editing

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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 2d

Fox News dug up a professional shill to claim people protesting AGAINST Trump and MAGA tyranny are vulnerable to outside influences trying to tear America apart.

The same Fox News lied about the 2020 election and continue to sling MAGA propaganda while Trump has been suborned by Russia AND Qatar.

‘No Kings’ protest could attract paid agitators and foreign influence, crowd-for-hire CEO warns

Crowd-for-hire CEO Adam Swart cautions that domestic and foreign forces manipulate protests for profit, creating a dangerous "protest industry" in America.

www.foxnews.com

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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 3d

And the incompetence continues...

They brought some back, but NOT the Epidemic Investigative Service staff. They risk their own lives to contain and prevent outbreaks from jumping to the U.S. on a plane.

You'd think COVID would have taught us something, but MAGA thinks COVID was a leftist plot...

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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 3d

To see our government abandon kids who most need help is appalling.

MAGA (and the Christian Wrong) has never understood that the Dept of ED does NOT make curriculum choices. It just evens the playing field for minorities, the disabled, etc.

They just don't like science or loving their neighbor.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 3d

It's not the first time an inexpensive little device helped defeat fascists. The 101st Airborne soldiers who dropped into Normandy on D-Day carried "crickets" that they used to click recognition signals to each other in the dark in order to avoid giving themselves away to the Nazis.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 3d

“We’ll tell our grandkids that we defeated fascism with six-dollar clickers”: how a group of community activists is tracking ICE’s movements in Los Angeles.

The Volunteers Tracking ICE in Los Angeles

How a small group of activists dubbed the “Peace Patrol” stymie the deployment of federal agents in California.

www.newyorker.com

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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 4d

Posted a story on Substack available for everyone!

When we finally travel to the stars, what's the one thing we can't do without? Oxygen, water, fuel, building materials, precious or rare metals... all available out there somewhere.

Read to find out!

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"Treasure Ship" - Pirates, Space Marines, and the most valuable substance in the known galaxy...

Friends,

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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 4d

Attacks on immigrants have devastated the agricultural labor force, cuts to foreign aid threaten the subsidies that many American farmers rely on, while trade wars have made exports like soybeans and sorghum toxic.

Do you think MAGA farmers will realize they've voted against their own interests?

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

www.washingtonpost.com

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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 4d

We're in the middle of a shutdown while responding to an active Ebola outbreak already shorthanded, and this administration fires the people whose job it is to go into hot zones, investigate, and contain the deadly diseases that could spread to the U.S.

Why? Because MAGA doesn't believe in science.

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 4d

They cut programs supporting Jane Goodall's work balancing communities and wildlife, protecting carbon-trapping forests along the Congo River, and managing fisheries to protect jobs and fish stocks, and now they're worried about polar bears?

Why? Because the Buffoon-in-Chief wants to own Greenland.

Trump’s new foreign aid plan eyes $50 million for Greenland’s polar bears

Documents reviewed by The Post show the administration may spend millions to protect vulnerable wildlife, proposals that stunned critics of its moves to gut foreign assistance.

www.washingtonpost.com

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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 5d

MAGA criminals, rapists, thugs, and racists take $8 billion from hungry people and sick babies through USAID, and instead give $20 billion to... Argentina?

How is that America First? Instead of earning goodwill and furthering U.S. foreign policy, it supports another right-wing, criminal president.

US Launches Financial Rescue of Argentina, Treasury Buys Pesos

The US rushed to stabilize Argentina’s economy on Thursday, offering $20 billion in financing and carrying out a rare intervention in currency markets to prop up the peso after weeks of sharp declines...

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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 6d

For anyone who still thinks "it could never happen here" and doesn't realize it's already happening, invoking the Insurrection Act could finally clue them in that what stands between Trump and his MAGA lackeys starting a civil war and ending American democracy are the oaths of U.S. military leaders.

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision isn't expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 7d

Here's what I don't get...

The moment this useless, corrupt human refused to answer, why not ask:

"Are you pleading the 5th? If not, you WILL answer, or you will be held in contempt of Congress. Sergeant at Arms, place Ms. 'I Like Bribes' Bondi in cuffs. You will be jailed until you answer."

A combative Bondi clashes with senators on Epstein, cases against Trump foes

At the attorney general’s first Senate Judiciary Committee hearing since her confirmation, senators pressed her on Jeffrey Epstein and prosecutions of Trump foes.

www.washingtonpost.com

G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 7d

Perhaps the worst thing to happen to U.S. democracy since the Civil War and before Trump.

The idea that corporations (PACs) and their dollars have influence elections is so IDIOTIC that you gotta wonder what the fuck those "justices" were smoking.

1 person = 1 vote

Dollars shouldn't get to vote.

Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 8d

Citizens United allows unlimited spending on political candidates/issues by Super PACs. Dark money in politics gives wealthy donors outsized influence, making candidates dependent for their political power.

Support state-based fair elections legislation.

Support fair elections legislation in every U.S. state

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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 7d

This egregiously flawed decision may be the worst thing to happen to U.S. democracy since the Civil War and before Trump.

The idea that corporations and their dollars should have influence in the electoral space is so IDIOTIC that you have to wonder what the fuck those "justices" were smoking.

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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 8d

Just when you thought Scott Bessent couldn't stick his tongue any farther up Trump's rectum...

“On this momentous anniversary, there is no profile more emblematic for the front of this coin than that of our serving President, Donald J. Trump,” the Treasury Department said in a post on X.

Treasury Defends Lawfulness of Minting a $1 Trump Coin

www.nytimes.com

G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 8d

MAGA rhetoric has it backwards. Our country was founded on the basis of encouraging opportunity for immigrants.

The problem with the immigration system isn't that it's failing to prevent people from coming here illegally. It's that it should be doing better to encourage them to come legally.

#IMAG

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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 8d

The Declaration of Independence:

"He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither."

Immigration and a path to citizenship are fundamental to the U.S.A.

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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 10d

These guys forgot their masks this time. Or maybe the white hood is too hot to wear when you have to work so hard to track down an immigrant coming from an immigration hearing...

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10d

“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 10d

I left this story behind the subscriber wall on Substack inadvertently. It's now available for everyone!

If you've ever known a veteran or anyone else who has struggled with trauma and addiction, please tell me what you think.

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"Common Ghosts" is now available for all!

A story dealing with guilt, trauma, and addiction. And ghosts, of course...

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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 10d

It's not Christian; Jesus wouldn't recognize it. It's American Shariah - it enables men with power to take advantage of women, girls, and boys. Don't forget the boys...

This powerful woman fought back, but you have to wonder who else this predator victimized.

No surprise he got along with Trump.

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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 10d

Their mindset - women should be silent and submissive while "men" talk - is the same as radical Islam, polygamist cultists, and anyone else (Trump and Epstein) who think their self-perceived status entitles them to take advantage of others.

They're masking insecurity by trying to dominate others.

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G.W. Revengér @gwrevenger.bsky.social · 10d

You don't have to be a feminist to know that the current incarnation of the evangelical church and christian (White) Nationalism is dangerous for America, not just women, girls, boys, and anyone else they try to abuse.

They rely on a twisted idea of Biblican submission to hide being predators.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 11d

Has Trump said anything about his former “spiritual leader”, Robert Morris, who was just sentenced to 6 months in prison for sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl? Will the media even bother to ask him?

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