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PPP Grifter

@pppgrifter.bsky.social

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Tired, cynical, and jaded. Corporate finance (desk jockey), market commentary, die hard band wagon fan, assistant to the minority leader of the people’s republic of Colorado, and other bad posts. 🔧🔧🔧 Go padres go broncos (we suck again…but maybe not!)

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PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 16d

This scene speaks to me. I don’t like Mark Walhberg’s character. I love John goodman’s character. Frankly, I really don’t want to watch the rest of the movie. I would love to watch an entire film on goodman’s character. Make it a TV series even.

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The Gambler - Fuck You (1080p)

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 5h

yeah this is on the level of the iraq war casus belli coverage

choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 5h

The difference bet the way the press handled Biden’s vs Trump’s health issues, as well as the standard to which they hold his conduct is one of the greatest scandals in the history of journalism.

Their conduct, and the knowledge they’ve done tremendous damage to their profession, should shame them.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 5h

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

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PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 4h

They deserve our contempt

PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 5h

This guy was a meme and now he’s a sad meme

onion person @junlper.beer · 5h

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 7h

It looks like a team of henchmen took the night off from crime and went to the Toronto Blue Jays game.

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PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 7h

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PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 8h

Lmfao

You love to see it! The guy has the yips

victoria zeller (buy ONE OF THE BOYS) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 8h

$15M dead cap for the chiefs to cut butker btw

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PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 8h

He’s getting the bag. Good for him!

PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 8h

I’m vaguely aware of who matt is. He seems not smart

PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 9h

This seems fucked up. Masked goons rolling around in panel vans snatching up kids seems fucked up.

I’m just saying that if I saw this happen, I might want to intervene because it seems like these aren’t the good guys.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 10h

Why can’t we just be adults?

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 11h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 10h

Oh, I hadn’t realized how much I hate JD Vance’s voice

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

genuinely trumps funniest bit ever for him to admit that he knows he’s a grifting piece of shit who’s going to hell lol

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 10h

JD Vance should go out into the streets to talk to the people. Let’s see what happens

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11h

dying at rightwingers falling for what looks like an ai generated turning points USA half time show with special guest “measles”

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PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 11h

🤞🤞

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PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 11h

Fingers crossed that it’s terminal

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

As I got to know them, they gave me a $400m plane.

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PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 11h

Good point. Well, you take the good with the bad I guess.

PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 12h

Yesssss hahahahaa

Bullying works

PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 12h

Lmfaooooooooooooooooooooooo

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 14h

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

taskandpurpose.com

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PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 12h

It’ll be fine, probably

PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 12h

Ohh right!! What a clown. I forgot that whole story arc

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Richard Vazquez @pistolero8797.bsky.social · 16h

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PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 12h

This brought a smile to my face