Greg

Greg

@realgregcruser.bsky.social

Retired Engineer and Purdue Boilermaker. Fan of the Boilers, Dodgers, Celtics, and Browns

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In his (rather dubious) defense, Republican voters have shown him again and again that they love bigotry more than the constitution, the country, the troops, their jobs, drinking water, affordable food, their dignity, their own families, and even their own lives.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump is smearing Ilhan Omar in speeches all over the country now because he is an Islamophobic bigot and he thinks that’s a winning message for Republicans

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How much are power-conference teams paying their 🏀 rosters in 2026? We spent a month talking to 100-plus sources, and we didn't rely on just the coaches for this info. ADs, GMs and even third-party consultants, too. All 80 high-major programs split into seven spending tiers. A CBS Sports exclusive:

cbssports.comCollege basketball's NIL arms race, from $5M to $25M+: Breaking down roster values, spending tiers for 2026-27CBS Sports contacted more than 100-plus sources to discover how much each power-conference hoops program invested this season

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Replying to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

“It’s only fascism if they manipulate elections!” “It’s only fascism if they disappear people off the street!” “It’s only fascism if they take over the media!” “It’s only fascism if they jail their political opponents!” Is there even anything left?

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Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

Remarkable: An Iowa right wing radio host just leaked word that GOP polling shows House Rs in peril even in districts Trump won by +10. The culript? Trump and the war. On the pod, Iowa Dem chair Rita Hart explains why the conditions are ripe for big Dem rural gains: newrepublic.com/article/2158...

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That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

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My unvaccinated brother died of COVID in 2021. I was about a year and a half into my epidemiology career. Healthcare staff did absolutely everything they could but they cannot cure ignorance. They cannot cure an anti-science belief and culture. Thats YOUR responsibility. Not Dr. Fauci’s.

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“Ms. Moreno, the daughter of Senator Moreno ... has said that Mr. Miller scalded her chest and stomach by throwing hot water from a skillet at her body; held a gun to her head; pushed her against a wall and hit her head; and fractured their daughter’s collarbone and bruised her shoulder. ...

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I would like one plank of the 2028 Democratic platform to read: WE ARE GOING TO SEND EVERY ONE OF YOU CORRUPT MOTHERFUCKERS TO PRISON.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

ProPublica: Trump's FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and fellow Republican commissioner Olivia Trusty received pricey gifts valued at tens of thousands of dollars from Paramount while the company had deals pending before the commission.

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Maybe they should just practice locking the door and turning off the lights and remaining silent while hiding under their desks…or is that just appropriate for kindergartners? 

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Correct. Many millions of Americans ceased caring about corruption, lawlessness, unconstitutional power grabs, and habitual lying years ago. Our standards have fallen so low as a nation that Vance can brag about getting away with it and still have a political future. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

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He’s screwed up the reflecting pool. He’s screwed up the White House grounds. He destroyed the East Wing & the Rose Garden. He’s failed in Iran, fouled-up the Mideast & ruined relations with our allies. And yet the Republicans continue to stick with him as if he’s not demented & destroying America.

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March 9: "We're now totally independent of the Middle East. We don't need their oil." April 1: "It doesn't really affect us. We have so much oil, much more than we need." June 17: If I didn't agree to the MOU, we "would run out of reserves at about 4 weeks..."

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Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net

KNICKS IN FIVE KNICKS PRIDE BROOKLYN

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Then they file lawsuits in courts of law and see if they can get a jury to agree with them that they have a case. That is how our system is supposed to work - not have the president’s lawyer play Evil Santa handing out our money to his supporters who committed crimes. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rep. Malliotakis: "I'm willing to hear what the White House has to say in terms of why this fund is needed, and I do believe there are people who have been legitimate victims of weaponization under the Biden administration that deserve to be compensated"

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Only Donald Trump has what it takes to bring triumph to a nation and humiliating defeat to its enemies. Unfortunately that nation is Iran

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social

60 Minutes confirms Iran is bypassing the US blockade and exporting 100,000 more barrels of oil per day than before the war. Most of it is reportedly going to China.

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In the last 72 hours, Taiwan has gotten a heavy dose of the reality that Ukraine, Poland, Denmark and others have seen up close and personal. Just because you have been an ally for decades through admins of both parties, the US is not your friend as long as Trump is president.

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“[Donald Trump] has created a permission structure for people to be their worst selves. He has taught Americans that it’s okay to be selfish and spiteful and hateful and angry and resentful and that is the most toxic thing he has done to the country.”

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We’ve had presidents who didn’t understand economics, foreign policy, diplomacy, and lacked knowledge of historical lessons. But they were advised by people who did and listened to them. Now we have a president who doesn’t understand anything and won’t listen to people who do.

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Thankful for foreign governments telling us what our government is hiding.

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Trump continues to deplete stockpiles of expensive & important weapons, gets bases blown up, troops killed & injured, aircraft damaged & radars destroyed, and throws away billions of dollars on his war of aggression while disrupting the global economy and raising cost of living.

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It sucks that our service men and women and their families have to pay a heavy price for Cadet Bone Spurs’ stupidity while he builds his ballroom, hosts parties, plays golf, pardons drug traffickers and con artists, and grifts billions for himself from foreign sources.

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Punchbowl confirms what I suspected in a post last night. Thune reached a deal with Dems to fund DHS except for ICE and Trump rejected it. DONALD TRUMP is to blame for airport chaos - not Democrats.

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His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

* TRUMP: HOPEFULLY CHINA, FRANCE, JAPAN, S.KOREA, WILL SEND SHIPS @bloomberg.com

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A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas and home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.

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Trump said we were going to war to demand that Iran turn over all their enriched uranium to us, and we also demanded regime change where Trump would choose the new leader. Now Trump is apparently declaring victory after accomplishing none of that.

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The stock market is tanking, gas prices are spiking, the DHS Secretary was just fired after lying under oath to Congress, prices keep going up, Trump refuses to refund tariffs despite a SCOTUS decision, and we are in another war in the Middle East. When does the winning start?

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So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for: - Who takes over; - Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation; - How to defend US bases in the region; - Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and - How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

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Not that anybody asked, but… The first 13 months of Biden’s term, the stock market rose 12%, setting a record high closing of 11 times. The first 13 months of Trump’s second term, the market rose 10%, setting a record high closing of 10 times.

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I think Trump Derangement Syndrome should refer to the miscreants who bend the knee to a corrupt racist pedophile, not those of us who are upset a corrupt racist pedophile wants to rule us like a king.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

This is utterly deranged behavior from a U.S. attorney general

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NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise. BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

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“Donald Trump is a man who represents all the things we teach our children not to be. He’s a liar. He’s a thief. He’s a molester. He has no remorse, no shame, no empathy. He has no loyalty to the law, to the Constitution. This man is the lowest character of all.”

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FOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now? Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests? Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face

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Turns out Americans actually need to see how voting in a 37-count felon, rapist, fraudster, twice-impeached rambling racist lunatic turns out before they can decide it’s not such a good idea. Americans aren’t so good at abstract thinking.

CNN@cnn.com

Democrats continued their run of successes in special elections by flipping a state House seat in Georgia Tuesday, according to a projection from the CNN Decision Desk. Democrat Eric Gisler will defeat Republican Mack “Dutch” Guest in the 121st House District. https://cnn.it/4qjT3cT

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“California Love” turns 30 today “Pac had just gotten out [of prison] and he came by” my home studio, said Dr. Dre. “He heard the beat one time and just went straight to writing — no hesitation .. and did the whole thing in one take. The whole room knew right then it was something special.”

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Trump is like a toddler: time he spends asleep is to be prized, not resented. Every minute he sleeps is a minute he is not tantruming or breaking things or smearing his own shit on things.

CNN@cnn.com

Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise questions about Trump’s on-the-job performance.