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gravelgal.bsky.social @gravelgal.bsky.social · 12h

Hague referrals please

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 15h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

gravelgal.bsky.social @gravelgal.bsky.social · 12h

in any other job he’d be fired for this 💩

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 18h

Mike Johnson, a "devout Christian" says this doesn't cross the line

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, color me shocked.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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gravelgal.bsky.social @gravelgal.bsky.social · 13h

Pedos protect one another

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16h

I sense a pardon on its way.

A tweet by Jacob Shamsian reads: “The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown. Inmates say she’s getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.”

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Dennis Koch @dejayk.bsky.social · 1d

Are We the Nazis Now?

How do we meet this moment?

by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Are We the Nazis Now?

How do we meet this moment?

open.substack.com

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gravelgal.bsky.social @gravelgal.bsky.social · 15h

Mikey sold his soul to the devil

gravelgal.bsky.social @gravelgal.bsky.social · 15h

I think we’ve found the terrorist group

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gravelgal.bsky.social @gravelgal.bsky.social · 15h

Shocked again… 🙄🤦‍♀️

Politico @politico.com · 18h

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

gravelgal.bsky.social @gravelgal.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you for confirmatio!!! 😃

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gravelgal.bsky.social @gravelgal.bsky.social · 18h

CO Springs also refusing!

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21h

If anyone wonders why we call them wannabe authoritarians, here you go.

They’re now shitting on the Bill of Rights.

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21h

“Policy says reporters cannot obtain or solicit any information the Defense Department does not explicitly authorize. Any media who does not sign by 5 p.m. Tuesday has 24 hours to turn in their media credentials and clear out.”

Absolute fucking abomination.

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

News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before deadline for signing

The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

www.washingtonpost.com

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gravelgal.bsky.social @gravelgal.bsky.social · 20h

Dumps bapls can’t lick themselves

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gravelgal.bsky.social @gravelgal.bsky.social · 20h

Screw your healthcare and rising prices… dump needs a cookie

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 20h

#priorities

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Johnson: "Together with my friend Speaker Ohana of the Israeli Knesset we're going to rally speakers and presidents of parliaments around the world so we will jointly nominate President Donald J Trump for next year's Nobel Prize. No one has ever deserved that prize more & that is an objective fact."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 22h

MAGA Mike Johnson has kept the House out of session for weeks now (but collecting their pay) to help Trump cover up the Epstein files.
Tell your pro-Trump family and friends, if you have any. They won't hear it from Fox, so tell them.

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gravelgal.bsky.social @gravelgal.bsky.social · 22h

Pretty sure this was how the Nazis started too…

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 22h

Trump’s shutdown layoffs are targeting programs that serve the most vulnerable: students with disabilities, homeless families, and seniors. The admin is slashing the very services that keep people alive, calling it “efficiency,” but this was always the plan from the beginning.

gravelgal.bsky.social @gravelgal.bsky.social · 23h

he told me ProjecT 2025 had nothing to do with Dump. I told him to check his facts and that’s when the all out brawl alknost started… I instead walked away to cool down…

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gravelgal.bsky.social @gravelgal.bsky.social · 23h

And did he pay taxes on it? I’m sure he did… 🙄

Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 23h

The questions remain. Why did White House border czar Tom Homan accept a bag with $50,000 cash? Who was it from? What was promised in exchange? Why did the DOJ close the investigation? How does bribery and corruption make America great? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Pressed on Tom Homan controversy, JD Vance and Pam Bondi struggle to answer

The attorney general and the vice president confronted straightforward questions about the scandal surrounding the border czar. Both Republicans struggled.

www.msnbc.com

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🌹Weegie 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 1d

An August 2025 analysis found that 65% of people taken into ICE detention in fiscal year 2025 had no criminal convictions.

The same analysis indicated that over 93% of those booked into detention had NO conviction for a violent offense.

The criminal is HIM.

Social media post:
Sara Rose @saras76
REPORTER: ICE are making targeted arrests at
courthouses.
TRUMP: Criminals. They're arresting CRIMINALS. I'm
HAPPY about it. I WANT them to arrest criminals!
ARREST MORE

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gravelgal.bsky.social @gravelgal.bsky.social · 1d

You mean like Dump and associates???

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gravelgal.bsky.social @gravelgal.bsky.social · 1d

It’s my understanding that Denver also refuses

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Taxpayers aren’t supposed to deduct losses from something that has no hope of being a profitable business.

But billionaire-owned operations that look like expensive hobbies, like race horses, rack up business deductions by the tens of millions of dollars.

(Published 2023)

Private Planes and Luxury Yachts Aren’t Just Toys for the Ultrawealthy. They’re Also Huge Tax Breaks.

What’s the only thing better than having your own Gulfstream jet? Why, getting to claim millions in tax deductions for it. All you have to do is make a case you’re using it for business, which turns o...

www.propublica.org

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gravelgal.bsky.social @gravelgal.bsky.social · 1d

Since we are supposedly being paid, does anyone know where we go to pick up our checks??? 🙄

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