Grudgie the Whale
@grudgie.bsky.social
Progressive. 🇺🇸. This flag is ours. They wave the Trump flag & the one that celebrates cop violence.
Pinned
My literal life goal is to never actually hear Trump’s voice ever again
Very interested to hear more here
Breaking news: Federal officials have arrested a man believed to have planted pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican national committee headquarters in downtown Washington the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol.
FBI arrests suspect in Jan. 6 pipe bomb case
Federal officials arrested a man believed to have planted pipe bombs in downtown D.C. the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol, according to people familiar with the matter.
wapo.st
December 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Very interested to hear more here
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Well, gosh, what changed?
US Rep. Matt Van Epps (R-Tennessee) was sworn in by Speaker Johnson to succeed Mark Green (R).
Van Epps was elected Tuesday in Tennessee's 7th District.
House now 220R-213D. 2 vacancies (for now): TX-18 (Turner/D) & NJ-11 (Sherrill/D).
Van Epps was elected Tuesday in Tennessee's 7th District.
House now 220R-213D. 2 vacancies (for now): TX-18 (Turner/D) & NJ-11 (Sherrill/D).
December 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Well, gosh, what changed?
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Continued evidence that life's just a scam: A company* that spends more than $60B to create a thing that nobody wants is rewarded when it announces it will pump the brakes on the thing.
*that knows its harmful for kids; contributed to genocide; is a general cesspool
*that knows its harmful for kids; contributed to genocide; is a general cesspool
*META SHARES JUMP 5.5% ON PLAN TO CUT BACK METAVERSE SPENDING
December 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Continued evidence that life's just a scam: A company* that spends more than $60B to create a thing that nobody wants is rewarded when it announces it will pump the brakes on the thing.
*that knows its harmful for kids; contributed to genocide; is a general cesspool
*that knows its harmful for kids; contributed to genocide; is a general cesspool
99.9% of people in public health actually dedicate their lives to improving the lives of others and somehow we have a tiny sliver of freaks who seek to destroy decades of massive advances.
Anti-vaxxer and climate scientist Cynthia Nevison continues to blame immigrants for HBV in the United States.
Whatever is happening at Temu ACIP today is not science or public health.
It is stigmatization of a health condition, something that PH has been fighting to move away from.
Whatever is happening at Temu ACIP today is not science or public health.
It is stigmatization of a health condition, something that PH has been fighting to move away from.
December 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
99.9% of people in public health actually dedicate their lives to improving the lives of others and somehow we have a tiny sliver of freaks who seek to destroy decades of massive advances.
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Anti-vaxxer and climate scientist Cynthia Nevison continues to blame immigrants for HBV in the United States.
Whatever is happening at Temu ACIP today is not science or public health.
It is stigmatization of a health condition, something that PH has been fighting to move away from.
Whatever is happening at Temu ACIP today is not science or public health.
It is stigmatization of a health condition, something that PH has been fighting to move away from.
December 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Anti-vaxxer and climate scientist Cynthia Nevison continues to blame immigrants for HBV in the United States.
Whatever is happening at Temu ACIP today is not science or public health.
It is stigmatization of a health condition, something that PH has been fighting to move away from.
Whatever is happening at Temu ACIP today is not science or public health.
It is stigmatization of a health condition, something that PH has been fighting to move away from.
Trump take jobs
U.S. job cuts have reach 1.17 million this year, the most since 2020.
December 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Trump take jobs
The most interesting part for me is that arrests of criminals is FLAT. They haven’t arrested any more criminals than any other administration.
They’re ONLY expanding arrests on moms & dads.
They’re ONLY expanding arrests on moms & dads.
the @washingtonpost.com reports that 80% of aliens arrested in DC crackdown had no criminal record--932 individuals. (DHS spox Tricia McLaughlin routinely asserts that 70% of those arrested have US criminal records.)
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
December 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The most interesting part for me is that arrests of criminals is FLAT. They haven’t arrested any more criminals than any other administration.
They’re ONLY expanding arrests on moms & dads.
They’re ONLY expanding arrests on moms & dads.
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Not a word about the suspect so I guess they’re white, cisgender and native born.
“The FBI arrested a man on Thursday who investigators believe planted pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters the night before the 2021 US Capitol riot, according to two law enforcement sources.”
www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
FBI makes arrest in DC pipe bomber investigation, sources say | CNN Politics
The FBI arrested a man on Thursday who investigators believe planted pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters the night before the 2021 US Capitol riot, according ...
www.cnn.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Not a word about the suspect so I guess they’re white, cisgender and native born.
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Liver cancer prevention in children. That is what RFK Jr trying to "scale back on" today.
He is a monster.
He is a monster.
Today is the start of 2 days of meetings of RFK Jr.'s ACIP, where vaccines skeptics outnumber actual scientists and medial experts. Their target: the Hep B vaccine, which has a ~90-98% (after 3 doses) effectiveness rate in preventing infection for up to 30 yrs.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Doctors warn delaying hepatitis B shot for newborns could revive a deadly threat
As RFK Jr.'s new vaccine panel ponders changing the hepatitis B vaccination schedule, some doctors recall past patients, including children, who died painful deaths before there was a vaccine.
www.npr.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Liver cancer prevention in children. That is what RFK Jr trying to "scale back on" today.
He is a monster.
He is a monster.
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“the Comet Ping Pong attack was nine years ago today—weeks after Trump’s 2016 win—and inspired by a conspiracy theory promoted by Jack Posobiec, who was recently invited to the White House, demands antifa be designated a terrorist group, and asked questions as “press” at the Pentagon this week”
something I wrote on in 2017 on how everything was becoming Pizzagate, after its promoters first appeared at the White House, leading up to Unite the Right and the murder of Heather Heyer thebaffler.com/latest/the-p...
December 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“the Comet Ping Pong attack was nine years ago today—weeks after Trump’s 2016 win—and inspired by a conspiracy theory promoted by Jack Posobiec, who was recently invited to the White House, demands antifa be designated a terrorist group, and asked questions as “press” at the Pentagon this week”
Very much appreciate Ryan’s clarity on an issue that’s very black and white no matter how many times the government says “kinetic.”
I spoke to the New York Times in this great explainer piece by Charlie Savage
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Very much appreciate Ryan’s clarity on an issue that’s very black and white no matter how many times the government says “kinetic.”
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I defy you to tell me this doesn’t sound like Trump
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I defy you to tell me this doesn’t sound like Trump
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If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder
No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted.
www.thenation.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
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WOW
BREAKING: The FBI makes an arrest in the investigation into pipe bombs placed in D.C. on the eve of the Jan. 6 riot, an AP source says.
FBI makes arrest in investigation into pipe bombs placed in DC on eve of Jan. 6 riot, AP source says
The FBI has made an arrest in its nearly 5-year-old investigation into who placed pipe bombs in Washington before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
bit.ly
December 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
WOW
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MSNBC (1938): Hitler takes a different view on Jews.
MSNBC reporter presents Trump's shameful racism towards Somalis as merely "a different view"
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
MSNBC (1938): Hitler takes a different view on Jews.
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Yesterday, the Deportation Data Project posted new FOIA data on ICE arrests through October 15 and it’s staggering how much it instantly disproves every claim the Trump admin has made about targeting “criminals” during its splashy arrest operations.
Here’s arrests in Illinois since April.
Here’s arrests in Illinois since April.
December 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Yesterday, the Deportation Data Project posted new FOIA data on ICE arrests through October 15 and it’s staggering how much it instantly disproves every claim the Trump admin has made about targeting “criminals” during its splashy arrest operations.
Here’s arrests in Illinois since April.
Here’s arrests in Illinois since April.
Remember: Trump tried to convince May that Putin wasn’t responsible. A super normal thing for an uncompromised President to do!
The report can be found here, and it's worth noting a lot of additional evidence (some of which seems to be directly from the Bellingcat website) can be found in hyperlinks in the footnotes
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Dawn Sturgess Inquiry report
Report on the death of Dawn Sturgess by novichok poisoning in Salisbury on 8 July 2018.
www.gov.uk
December 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Remember: Trump tried to convince May that Putin wasn’t responsible. A super normal thing for an uncompromised President to do!
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The report can be found here, and it's worth noting a lot of additional evidence (some of which seems to be directly from the Bellingcat website) can be found in hyperlinks in the footnotes
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Dawn Sturgess Inquiry report
Report on the death of Dawn Sturgess by novichok poisoning in Salisbury on 8 July 2018.
www.gov.uk
December 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The report can be found here, and it's worth noting a lot of additional evidence (some of which seems to be directly from the Bellingcat website) can be found in hyperlinks in the footnotes
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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the Comet Ping Pong attack was nine years ago today—weeks after Trump’s 2016 win—and inspired by a conspiracy theory promoted by Jack Posobiec, who was recently invited to the White House, demands antifa be designated a terrorist group, and asked questions as “press” at the Pentagon this week
December 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
the Comet Ping Pong attack was nine years ago today—weeks after Trump’s 2016 win—and inspired by a conspiracy theory promoted by Jack Posobiec, who was recently invited to the White House, demands antifa be designated a terrorist group, and asked questions as “press” at the Pentagon this week
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I need the most “Labour’s strategy and its obvious consequences” poll finding you have, and make it snappy!
Labour's perceived stance on Israel divides voters, with Green, Labour and Lib Dem voters tending to see the party as pro-Israel, while Conservative and Reform UK voters see them as anti-Israel
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
December 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I need the most “Labour’s strategy and its obvious consequences” poll finding you have, and make it snappy!
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Consumers also expressed much less of an appetite for holiday gift spending compared with what they said earlier in the season. Consumers often trim their holiday spending plans as the season progresses, to be fair -- but this year’s midseason decline is the largest Gallup has recorded.
December 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Consumers also expressed much less of an appetite for holiday gift spending compared with what they said earlier in the season. Consumers often trim their holiday spending plans as the season progresses, to be fair -- but this year’s midseason decline is the largest Gallup has recorded.
We are not doing the economic anxiety thing anymore. His appeal is racism & cruelty.
December 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
We are not doing the economic anxiety thing anymore. His appeal is racism & cruelty.
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Great thread. I'll add: Bidenomics often emphasized dignity of work/importance of being able to remain in communities of birth. It's no accident this was paired w/major investments in areas Trump said were abandoned by elites. Complicates Douthat's story about liberalism.
As @gregsargent.bsky.social points out this gets quite a bit wrong. It falls victim to what Matt Sleat descrbes as the misrepresentation of liberalism that pervades a lot of post-liberal takes. They assimilate all versions of liberalism together and ignore the more egalitarian strands...
Contra Ross Douthat here, a foundational idea of Bidenomics was that Trumpist authoritarianism was partly fueled by legit grievances over neoliberalism. This heavily shaped their industrial policies. As always, Ross erases the last half century of lib egalitarian theory from his diagnosis. So odd.
December 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Great thread. I'll add: Bidenomics often emphasized dignity of work/importance of being able to remain in communities of birth. It's no accident this was paired w/major investments in areas Trump said were abandoned by elites. Complicates Douthat's story about liberalism.