Grant b

Grant b

@glarblblarbl.bsky.social

Seattle weirdo. I make media, help others to make theirs, and rebuild/tune pianos

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Expanding the court is the moderate centrist position

Riki Wilchins@rikiwilchins.bsky.social

For the 1st time in US history SCOTUS has more rulings on its shadow docket -- unsigned and with no opinions -- than it has cases where it has heard oral arguments and issued signed rulings. IOW they are hiding their deliberations while stealing our democracy. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

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Killing toddlers by shooting in cars and calling the cops on them for being too good on the soccer pitch is how Black kids live and die too soon. If it's happening to kids, think of what Black people go through during the course of life. Our freedom was never a part of the plan. It still isn't.

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if democrats win one of the biggest strains will be the drive to hold them accountable for holding trump and the gop acountable. every time for the last 40 years when the dems have won they took their foot off the gas and we suffered. we must push them and their boot-licking defenders.

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The political media is visibly chafing at the current situation, where Republicans are glaringly awful, fucking everything up, running deviant candidates everyone hates, and Dems are just being normal & winning. The force is out of balance. They are viscerally eager to go after Dems about something.

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I would love to live in a world where "President faces new rape allegation" isn't treated like a dog bites man story in the major media.

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I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

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Yissss

Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social

I know absolutely nothing about Lula except that i saw someone share a clip on insta of him in celebration kissing a trans woman politician on the cheek and oh my god is that a radical act for a politician in 2026 so lets fucking go

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hm. lula succeeded by out-shouting the right and not begging for the press to do the lift for him and his supporters? wow, wonder who has been saying something like that in america for almost 20 years?

Bruno Dies@brunodias.dev

And credit to him, it worked. A sort of digital levee en masse, literally raising an army to counteract the forces that artificially amplify far-right messaging. He did that through organizing and messaging, both on the streets and online, that was so relentless that he put himself in the hospital.

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The core of everything is corruption. The cruelty, the fascism, the destruction of democracy and reality itself, it's all a means of self-enrichment and empowerment of a class of people that do not give two shits whether we live or die if it means stuffing their pockets. It starts there and expands

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Replying to @jysexton.bsky.social

And if you ever unfortunately come across resistance content, it’s just this. Constant quips, many of them AI generated to boot, that just treat all of this like it’s a giant joke. Is it absurd? Absolutely. But to live in that lens is dangerous, counterproductive, and just disrespectful. It sucks.

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Replying to @jysexton.bsky.social

Democrat fundraising messages are all “I’m so sorry, I’m getting beat so badly and my pants pulled down.” MAGA is completely Freud-coded “Daddy Trump is disappointed in you, do you want Daddy Trump upset with you?” Just truly wretched bullshit trash everyone should be mortified to be a part of.

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Political fundraising emails and text messages are off-the-charts pathetic and insulting. Anyone running for any office should take a long, hard look in the mirror before they sign up for one of those embarrassing ass firms because they literally make you dislike the candidate more with every one.

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American conservatives are constantly bemoaning the decline of aesthetic standards and calling for a return to tailored suits and classical Roman architecture, but are now forced to defend the Cheesecake Factory. A constant tension between the Brooks Brothers patrician and the Kid Rock populist.

what an asshole Safeway drivers are a menace, I saw one last month make an illegal left onto Beacon Ave through the bike signal. easily could have killed someone

West Seattle Bike Blob@westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social

This Safeway semi driver got so frustrated that we were waiting behind a Metro bus that he passed the line using the oncoming traffic lane, honking the whole time, then called the driver in front of me a bitch at the light, flicking them off as they took off. This was next to a community center.

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This election Trump saying the economy is great feels so much like Bush spending 2006 insisting we were winning in Iraq. Every day we’d get the numbers on American and Iraqi deaths and he’d go out there with his dumb fucking mouth and his bloody hands and wail that we were making progress.

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Not only was it truly that prevalent, the buildup to getting to play it was like an upcoming holiday. Oregon Trail day next month! Oregon Trail day in one week! It's Oregon Trail day, I HAVE to go to school today

Americans who went to school in the 90s: did you play Oregon Trail? Did EVERYONE play Oregon Trail? I keep seeing it come up and wonder if it was truly that prevalent

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of all of the people in this administration who deserve to go to jail stephen miller deserves to go to jail the most

Jennifer Shin - WTAF@jennifershin.bsky.social

Miller deserves everything that's coming. He's afraid of state prosecutors because a presidential pardon only covers federal offenses; and beyond prison, there's also future congressional investigations and civil lawsuits. www.rawstory.com/rs-exclusive...

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bring back shame

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW on @zeteo.com — Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his bus tour across Ohio in the closing days of the election. “We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican says. “It’s that damn ad.” From @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social:

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"The path forward is obvious. We let Sauron retain full power for another two years. Let the people experience a little more darkness while we clean house. Get our own ranks in order. Get rid of all those unity-chasing wackos that are tearing our Fellowship apart." buff.ly/9WluK1y

buff.lyWhile I Oppose Sauron, I Would Rather Mordor Win Than Be Held Hostage by the Ents“Honestly, if we end up with two hundred and twenty-five seats on the White Council, I would be disappointed. I would rather Sauron keep control of Middle-ea...

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Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social

Incredible gender difference in voting intention in Brazil.

Grant b reposted

You can't beat fascism by agreeing with fascism. You can't beat fascists by accepting a fascist frame. Corporatist Democratic Party leadership needs to be defeated and jettisoned. We have to fight them, not because we don't want to fight Republicans, but because they refuse to.

Wintersong@wintersong.bsky.social

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC - @electdemocrats.bsky.social) is running anti-trans ads now, so I don't know how you can say the party itself isn't embracing transphobia. There are still some good Dems out there, but transphobia is apparently a party value.

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This person thinks it’s a dunk that i believe in human rights and equality a week before Election Day. Trans rights are human rights, thank you for your attention to this matter

Kevin@anotherkevin7.bsky.social

You've clearly got your eye on the big picture at the critical time.

Grant b reposted

No President Obama, we should boo their asses. We should boo them where they work, boo them where they play, boo them every second of their miserable lives. AND vote. We can do both, we must do both.

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Replying to @mtsw.bsky.social

I encourage any future Dem President to think along these lines and keep pressing until the other side is willing to accept a return of the rule of law. Unilateral disarmament doesn't work bsky.app/profile/gran...

Grant Brisbee@grantbrisbee.bsky.social

imprison all of the pardoned people illegally and pardon the people who jail them, you gotta hit them with the reverse calvinball

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if they attempt to do this and we let it stand, the country is basically over. cooked.

Jeff Stein@jeffstein.bsky.social

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

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If Democrats actually win big because people want a check on Trump corruption I expect every move to do so will be covered in the corporate media as being risky to their 2028 position.

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I need people to understand this selective good ole boy justice — the kind that protects abusers, rewards impunity, and openly flouts rule of law and equal protection under it — is Jim Crow shit, practically speaking. It's how Jim Crow terrorism FLOURISHED. Trump broadened the acceptable targets.

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We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

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There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

this! 1000 times this!

Dante Atkins@danteatkins.bsky.social

The Republican Party has all the values and tactics of a white supremacist prison gang and maybe it's time to stop normalizing them as if they were a modern functioning political party

Grant b reposted

By definition ICE camps are concentration camps because the people being kept in these camps are being denied due process & are being "detained" because of who they are not because of something they did