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soonergrunt

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Retired Soldier, Union guy, public lands lover. Capybara fan. Servant to Freddie the Rescue Pup. Utah Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. -Mencken Bluesky Fauxscialists fuck off.

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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · Nov 9

I was reading earlier about a feudal uprising where a Duke's son was killed early on by the rebels. They used trebuchet they'd captured to knock him off the battlements. They were trying to toss the decapitated heads of castle guards and loyal serfs over the wall.
This was a common tactic back then-

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1h

the admin that imprisoned and tried to deport a student over a pro-Palestinian op-ed, calling it anti-semitism, calls outrage over "I love Hitler" texts by young Republicans "pearl-clutching"

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 18h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 2h

The current Supreme Court gets 👍🏼👍🏼 from former Sheriff Joe Arpaio "who oversaw a reign of racialized terror in the most populous county in Arizona for more than two decades."

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 3h

for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
slate.com/news-and-pol...

He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.

Thanks, SCOTUS.

slate.com

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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 2h

"the Lesser Talia" 💀

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 14h

I think most people miss that the source of Trump’s ability to create chaos and to execute his propaganda begins and ends with internet and gaming culture. The memes, videos, language all point to those extremely online

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 3h

He's not wrong.

Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 3h

I do genuinely wonder just how many people crowing about how Biden Could Done This At Any Time are considering the fact that the US is claiming we're putting troops on the ground, *in Gaza* to "stabilize" the area.

I guess folks on the left really *do* love "forever wars" too!

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

A stabilization force in an area with nearly two million people, way too little functioning infrastructure, and armed groups would need something like 100,000 troops.

And that’s assuming both Israel and Hamas are on board with the whole thing, which it doesn’t look like now, let alone indefinitely.

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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 13h

Yes. This is exactly the kind of thing that man who is comfortable with his place in the hierarchy, and the level of respect he gets from his subordinates does.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 13h

I saw him expounding on the future of Infantry and Armored forces in warfare and it was... *something*.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 15h

My understanding is this means he will be elected president next.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 15h

Gavin Wax, the Trump admin official who came up through the ranks at Charlie Kirk's racist TPUSA and gave Politico the chat logs showing that a bunch of his young Republican rivals are Nazis, is also a Nazi. Which has been public knowledge for over 5 years. www.adl.org/resources/ar...

www.adl.org

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17h

SHARKS ON HOVERBOARDS

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 15h

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Daniel Schultz @dandadad.bsky.social · 16h

If you're going to a No Kings protest this Saturday (as why would you not?), I have a little sermon to put in your pocket and take along.

Text is Luke 18:1-8, Jesus' story about the little old lady who bullies a rotten judge into giving her justice: lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts/?y=384...

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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 16h

A couple of them are elected state level office holders.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 16h

Extraordinary NYT story:

Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 17h

wrong Chuck.
@schumer.senate.gov is who you were looking for.
Chuck Tingle, while awesome, is not the Senate Democratic Leader.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18h

what everyone needs to internalize is

picture of Garfield the cat with the text YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

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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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 18h

He really does believe that because the PNW is "above" California on a map, that water flows downhill from PNW to California.

soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 19h

Of all the things that never happened, that never happened the most.

soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 20h

Your semi-daily Freddie says Hi!

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 22h

Please, tell me again how I'm wrong when I say that the GOP isn't just racist, they're genuinely fascist when they think no one is in the room with them.

I'm not paranoid: I just understand the GOP better than the people who tell me I'm wrong. 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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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 22h

"You call everyone you don't like a Nazi!"

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22h

'“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote'

'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'

‘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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Politico @politico.com · 23h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23h

"The richest man in the world and the owner of the most influential social media site in US politics is a nazi who openly supports and amplifies other nazis" would, on its face, seem to be rather newsworthy!

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Hey news people: I know you like to pretend this doesn't exist, but you need to pay attention to the Nazi drama on Twitter. Basically, it seems as if Elon just restored two major neo-Nazi accounts that were banned by his product head, and might be about to fire the product head for banning them

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

the broad public does not like chaos and disorder and everything you can do to emphasize that it is the federal government that is responsible for chaos and disorder is a point in your favor. it’s classic nonviolent confrontation!

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