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This guy acts like heâs auditioning for a role getting refused service at a pierogi stand
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This guy acts like heâs auditioning for a role getting refused service at a pierogi stand
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
HOLY FUCK READ THIS
Haydon (@haydonmp.bsky.social) reposted
Yâall this is absolutely wild. You need to read this article. Coordinated targeting of firefighters on a 10% contained wildfire for immigration enforcement under the pretense of *padding their time cards*. This is insane.
Merriam-Webster (@merriam-webster.com) reposted
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh no how completely awful
Scott MacFarlane (@macfarlanenews.bsky.social) reposted
NEW: DC grand jurors reject more Justice Dept cases Former DOJ attorney: âNot only have I never heard of this happening, I've never heard of a prosecutor who's heard of this happeningâ www.cbsnews.com/news/d-c-gra...
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
These are the most apolitical people youâve ever met in your life who are just dedicated to public health and service
KennyMack1971 (@kennymack1971.bsky.social) reposted
The Project 2025 crew was banking on large numbers of Black people being out in the streets ala Ferguson/George Floyd and that was going to be the pretext to declare martial law. Weâre not playing ball and theyâre getting impatient so now theyâre sending troops to where we are.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
Iâm just going to say there are people who seem disturbingly motivated to protect pedophiles
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
No one did more to make the Epstein scandal a central political issue than Donald Trump. But as soon as his minions opened them and confirmed â as AG Bondi did â that Trumpâs name is in them, he did a 180 to insist itâs all irrelevant.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
I think itâs also important how *accepted* that structure is culturally. The wealthy there donât upend everything in search of a little more.
elias isquith (@eliasisquith.blog) reposted
once you realize this it renders 80% of all online left discourse nonsensical and almost phantasmagorical
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
Two step plan for obscene wealth 1) be born rich 2) lack any scruples
The Nation Magazine (@thenation.com) reposted
The Democratsâ addiction to left-marginalization strategies is especially unwarranted in Mamdaniâs case, who does what the same cohort of centrist party leaders tirelessly claim they want to do: He focuses on âkitchen-table issues."
Nitish Pahwa (@nitishpahwa.com) reposted
a scoopy one from me, with an assist from @accountable.us: Bill Pulte is using Palantir to gather "mortgage fraud" accusations and weaponize them against Dems in order to abet Trump's government capture. but, he formerly disclosed owning Palantir stockâand that's not his only potential conflict:
James Downie (@jamescdownie.bsky.social) reposted
This is similar to what's happening in DC, as I wrote about over the weekend: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
Yes because of Trump!
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
Oh my god the one âblack jobâ Trump thinks exists in government
Schooley (@schooley.bsky.social) reposted
Beyond parody.
Martin Austermuhle (@maustermuhle.bsky.social) reposted
A news tidbit: The D.C. Council has hired a lobbying firm to help fight off the growing interference coming from Republicans in Congress. @chmnmendelson.bsky.social has a dedicated staffer for congressional relations, but the council will now have a much more dedicated presence on the Hill.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
I definitely think someone in this conversation is capable of evil
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers
Zeddy (@zeddary.bsky.social) reposted
Since we're murdering suspected narcos in the Caribbean now just felt like brushing up on that time Trump knowingly employed a Cocaine Cowboy as his helicopter pilot. Even sold him a couple million-dollar apartments...while he was in prison...in all-cash deals. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) reposted
âI keep seeing these memes where Indians are bragging about taking our tech jobs,â said Ely, 36. âSo I said, âOh yeah? Well Iâm going to work with these guys that are going to arrest you, slam your face on the pavement and send you home.ââ wapo.st/3VrzEJg
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
The cover up of Trumpâs crimes could not be more obvious
đŞˇMsGrumpyBunny𪡠(@msgrumpybunny.bsky.social) reposted
Giving a predator like Ghislain Maxwell a platform, moving her to a comfortable prison without receiving anything in return except to claim innocence and say youâre nice guyâ when 100âs of children where victimized is a miscarriage of justice. Epstein survivorâââŚShe also participated in the abuseâŚâ
Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) reposted
Wrote about how the governmental health agencies are headed by censorial individuals who spent years screaming falsely about how they were being censored when people just didn't want to promote the nonsense they were pushing. But now THEY are actually censoring critics.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
A union, if you will
Gabe OrtĂz (@tusk81.bsky.social) reposted
Oregon, Washington, California form Western Health Alliance to protect vaccine access: www.opb.org/article/2025...
Lindsay Beyerstein (@beyerstein.bsky.social) reposted
Florida is planning to end all vaccine requirements, like the requirements that you have to be vaccinated against measles and polio to enroll in school. This is bloody-minded madness.
Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) reposted
WaPo is lying. "300,000 missing children" is indeed a "ginned-up figure", but it isn't from "the 2024 campaign". It's from a shitty sociology paper from 2001 which was distorted and quoted endlessly by politicians and media, including WaPo, for two decades to justify attacks on sex workers.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
If you captured drug dealers and put them on trial a guilty verdict would not yield the death penalty. So itâs outrageously illegal to assassinate people only suspected of that crime. Everyone involved should be tried at The Hague.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
Helpful evidence for Hague trials
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) reposted
oh this is amazing
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
âLoving these extrajudicial assassinations!â
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
It should not be possible to win an election as an anti-vaxxer in a sane country
Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted
* FED BEIGE BOOK: MOST DISTRICTS SEE LITTLE OR NO GROWTH
James Downie (@jamescdownie.bsky.social) reposted
"My life is in danger there. My father is dead and my mother does not want me to return." Everyone who signed off on these deportations should rot in jail and/or hell.
Local Government Evangelist (@drnancypearson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Florida to parents: "Why chose between your child dying of a gunshot wound at school, or a preventable disease, when you can have both?"
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social) reply parent
People from other times would not believe how UNsalacious the media is when it comes to Trump. Porn star coerced sex? Yawn. Rape at Macyâs? Yawn. Pedo ring? Yawn.
En Buen Ora (@enbuenora.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
really weird given how the press was OBSESSED with every twist and turn of Bill Clinton's sex affairs and Anthony Weiner's laptop that this stuff is just in the category of 'yeah we'll mention it but we're not *into* it'
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
Why does Trump care so much about this? NYC already pushed him out of town. Just because he cares about getting corrupt allies everywhere?
Philip Bump (@pbump.com) reposted
[jd looks around nervously]
David Roberts (@volts.wtf) reposted
I know I say this almost every day but I truly, truly do not understand the authoritarian personality. I genuinely can not imagine acting like a sniveling apparatchik like this in public and then looking at myself in the mirror at night. What goes on in their heads? Why are they like this?
emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) reposted
One detail an Epstein survivor noted in today's presser: DOJ did not inform Ghislaine Maxwell's victims she was being moved to cozier digs.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social) reply parent
Itâs absolutely fucking vile. Of course the last âDemocrat hoaxâ was COVID. So thatâs worth remembering.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
Heâs saying Epsteinâs victims are perpetrating a hoax
Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) reposted
Donald Trump, speaking almost simultaneously with the Epstein survivors: âThis is a Democrat hoaxâ Just a disgusting lie-in every sense â˘Itâs not the Democrats â˘Itâs not a hoax â˘And he could easily clarify everything by releasing the files But he wonât-and I think we all know why
River_Tam (@rivertam.bsky.social) reposted
One reason the Never Trump Republicans are the most clear-eyed on Trump is that we made peace nearly ten years ago with the idea that our policy ideas aren't going to win.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
He may not be innocent of the most heinous accusations
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
Beyond outrageous they would even touch this
Simon Rosenberg (@simonwdc.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Holy crap is Trump scared. The ghosts of his dark past are clearly haunting him now. This was a huge political mistake, a sign that he is losing it. bsky.app/profile/axio...
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted
I have been saying for months that it is critical to monitor your stateâs vaccine requirements for school entry. They are the only things standing between us and massive infectious disease outbreaks. With Florida ending these requirements, other states are sure to follow.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
LOL COME ON
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social) reply parent
Absolutely possible. FTR I think Biden was completely hands off on all thing DoJ. This is Garland deciding to not touch it.
Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) reposted
We can scare him off.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
Democrats are such Boy Scouts they were sitting on evidence Trump was involved in a pedo ring and didnât use it in the campaign. Itâs crazy making to think about.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
A party-wide cover up of a pedo ring!
Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted
REP. MASSIE: â.. thereâs over 200 Republicans who have not signed this discharge petition. We only need two of them to sign it.â @politico.com #Epstein www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Brad Heath (@bradheath.bsky.social) reposted
The governor of Louisiana can't deploy the FBI or immigration agents, but if he thought New Orleans or other cities needed a National Guard presence, he could do that on his own.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
Florida: come for the measles. Stay for the uninsurable homes!
Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) reposted
When I go through why slavery was bad, "the slaves were too healthy and didn't get sick enough" doesn't make my list.
Second Great Bisexual Awakening (@suesswassersee.bsky.social) reposted
LMAO Pritzker scares the shit out of this coward
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis (@kendrawrites.com) reposted
I met a New Yorker who had more than 80 members of her family in Gaza killed by the Israeli military. How do you speak to that New Yorker, understand their pain and then answer the Q of how a leading candidate for mayor volunteered to defend the leader who effectively killed those family members.
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
"For so many years, it felt like Epstein's criminal behavior was an open secret." âWeâre not going away. Weâre not staying quiet. Weâre not going to give up.â Annie Farmer (Epstein survivor)
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
Every time I get a Trump troll on here they have 4 followers lol. Why bother?
The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) reposted
Congresswoman Nancy Mace was visibly emotional after leaving a meeting with victims of Jeffrey Epstein earlier than planned.
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
Iâm surprised they didnât send Stephen Miller out there with cymbals to disrupt it
Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri.bsky.social) reposted
A source in the Epstein meeting with the survivors and Speaker Johnson told me that powerhouse attorney Sigrid McCawley informed him that there would be the names of other men who trafficked her clients in the DOJ's Epstein files
Philip Bump (@pbump.com) reposted
As it turns out, this does not lower the amount of respect I have for them.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
It seems to me that victims of a Teen Rape Cabal have never held a press conference to condemn a President before. Seems big!
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
Itâs worth noting WHY Epstein survivors are speaking out: Because the Trump Administration is making corrupt deals with their predator and hiding evidence of his accompliceâs crimes.
Robin Kelly, Ph.D. (@robinlynnekelly.bsky.social) reposted
I commend the bravery of the Epstein survivors who came to Capitol Hill this week to share their stories. The exploitation and abuse they endured is horrific. We must stand with them and support their demands for truth and transparency. We can start by demanding that DOJ release the Epstein files.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
Iâm telling you we are on the brink and itâs being masked by Wall St hopium huffing
mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) reposted
A good tell for who in the media wants Trump to win is who goes along with an after-the-fact rebranding like this for their toxically unpopular bill
Brendan Nyhan (@brendannyhan.bsky.social) reposted
Totally insane and wildly dangerous. Children will die, and Florida will export communicable diseases to the rest of the country and the world.
Zach Everson (@zacheverson.com) reposted
đ¨ Breaking: âEric Trump Is Now A Billionaire In His Own Rightâ @kylekhanmullins.bsky.social, @danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social) reposted
If I were a reporter, Iâd be really revisiting the Katie Johnson accusations and how they line up with known Trump/Epstein facts.
The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted
Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: âTogether as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know who were regularly in the Epstein world.â
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
Republicans are against medicine. I really didnât think that could ever be a thing. But they want to go back to 50 year life expectancies.
mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) reposted
they want to kill your kids
Aubrey Gilleran (@aubreygilleran.bsky.social) reposted
There should absolutely be an opening here for a Democratic gubernatorial candidate to run on a public health-based platform to end this madness. Even in Florida. Even if he or she loses, use the race to call national attention to the fact that the GOP wants to kill your kids.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
It boggles my mind that anyone could argue against the idea that systematic racism infects more or less every aspect of American society
Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) reposted
Louisiana has refused to reconsider the conviction of the more than 1000, mostly Black, men sentenced by split juries â even though the Supreme Court ruled that those convictions are based on an inherently racist law
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social) reply parent
Carl how will they ever back out things that donât exist?
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
No wonder Trump is so intent on keeping the files from being released.đ
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social) reposted
Trump is in countless Epstein files. So why is the only one reported his âwonderful secretâ letter? Because the leak didnât come from DoJ. It came from Ghislaine Maxwell. 1/
Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted
Re-upping this thread with facts about sexual predators Trump, Epstein and Maxwell. Please consider sharing it so everyone understands the depravity of these people.
Murshed Zaheed (@murshedz.bsky.social) reposted
Powerful.
Murshed Zaheed (@murshedz.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
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Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
Trump said countless times he was decreasing drug prices by 1200% and not even fucking once did a reporter ask him to explain how thatâs possible
Clara Jeffery (@clarajeffery.bsky.social) reposted
Reminder that Trump's latest deadline to Putin came and went yesterday.... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social) reply parent
The man is always always always talking about himself
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social)
âAnd can you believe that face grease! What about those super long ties! WTF?â
Clara Jeffery (@clarajeffery.bsky.social) reposted
new levels of projection
Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
It's always a little jarring about how much pushback I get to the extremely well-established fact that COVID deaths have fallen since 2022. It's true that clinics stopped routine testing and case/hospitalization data sucks but death reporting is the same as it's always been. Vaccines work!
Gary Legum (@glegum.bsky.social) reposted
I know this isn't an original observation or anything, but God, this man is SUCH a fucking moron.
Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) reposted
Russ Vought admitting that MAGA is now proud of their racism rather than hiding it Cool cool.