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mrtruscott

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Waging democratic activism via replies. Granddaughter of Gen. Lucian K.Truscott, Jr.; 6th great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson (yes, that one). Mom/wife/grandma, one time author. I used to live for music. Please don’t move to Seattle. It rains

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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · Mar 19

What can I do?
Here’s a To Do list of action items.
The list came from all over. Add, fix, share, run with it.
THE CHAOS AND BLITZ ARE THE STRATEGIES to paralyze and intimidate us.
Don’t let distractions distract us.
Fight now. Stop them. Trials later. -keep reading

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 4h

Don’t forget — we pay her salary.
She works for us.
If you can imagine Bannon et al in the back room snickering ‘this will make the libs go crazy!’ — that’s exactly what happened.
We need to quit falling for it.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 1d

The Coralville Public Library has a donate link in the upper right hand corner of its homepage. Great way to support these kids and their book club.

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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 1d

I’m excited for the supercut with Mike Johnson’s Lying
Pinocchio Nose. Mike is a real little boy, all right — he fits in trump’s pocket.
Oh, and he’s 3rd in line.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 2d

I really hate the ¡gotcha! surprise bills that jump out at you.
You have to declare bankruptcy to go in that haunted house.
Terrifying!!

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 2d

Remember the mean kids in 8th grade? They’re running amok in our country (and the world), and it’s up to us to stop them.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 2d

A chaotic transition would be better than allowing this to continue.
Stop them now.
We can hold the trials later.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 2d

The guy in Issaquah, WA with a big sign in two colors of marker that got fainter and fainter — “Where Do I Even Begin?” was what it said.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 2d

As far as I can tell, maga types are fine with crumbs from the royal table and wages that are pocket lint to Elon et al.
Here’s the example—
At $1 an hour, it takes 11.6 days to make $1 million and 31.7 years to make $1 billion.

We’re less than peons to the rich. We’re fools.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 2d

Dear AI,
please add a huge, lying Pinocchio nose to Mike Johnson forever. Not just in word,
but in deed.
He will never be a real boy, even with Iifts in those shoes.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 2d

Off with its head, Bezos decreed about the bridge that impeded his gigantic yacht. And then he turned his attention to truth and the WaPo newsroom.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 2d

The mean kids from 8th grade are running the country.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 3d

Stop them now—delay, obstruct, protest, boycott, cancel, file suits. Use every peaceful tactic.

Trials later. A chaotic transition would be better than this.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 3d

Basically, every person in the US will have some connection
with a member of the military or veteran (12 million served in WW2 alone—my grandpa was just one, and I’m -not that- old. Hitler, fascists in Italy, the emperor of Japan—that’s who/what we defeated. That trump exists? is beyond belief.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, don’t even get my family going about Trump and Hegseth and their phony warrior ethos and lethality bullsh*t.
My grandfather gave a famous Memorial Day speech at the cemetery at Anzio—he turned his back on the VIPs and apologized to the dead soldiers.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 3d

Disrespected the Gold Star family of Humayun Khan in 2016.
Disrespected the graves at Arlington National Cemetery.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 3d

He and my grandmother are buried at Arlington in Plot 1.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 3d

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 3d

We have now entered the blatant stage of trump term 2. He’s not even pretending to be a real president anymore, and neither is his team of rabid attack dogs. Buckle up.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s my grandpa on the cover of Life Magazine. Not bragging — still, always proud of everything —we—
accomplished in WW2.
America has memory issues.
This is a nightmare glitch we’re living through, because MY country fights tyranny— and wins.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 3d

Approx 12 million (men) served in the US military during WW2.
Boys lied about their age to enlist! Every American with a connection to a WW2 vet should honor their veteran’s service by saying no to the Trump coup. Democracy is more important than political party.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 4d

The other civil rights era slogan — make them make it illegal to be us.
America is a super power, in part, because we’re just too big to invade/attack/control. They’re sure trying. We are the majority. It’ll be obvious tomorrow.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for this!

My grandfather wouldn’t let Pete Hegseth tie his boots.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 4d

My grandfather General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., signed death warrants for Nazis convicted at war crimes trials at Dachau.
This won’t end well for trump or his minions.
Every American with a family connection to WWII should be mad as hell.
America defeats tyrants.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 4d

When I can’t sleep, I visualize the trials, and the day when the weasels are called to take responsibility for their weasel-iness and blatant crimes. Stop them first - trials later.

mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe it’s all that red….