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D.J. Grothe

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.
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D.J. Grothe @djgrothe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
53% of Americans cannot read above a fifth grade level in either English or Spanish, and 36 million American adults cannot read, write, or do basic math above a third grade level. One in seven American adults is what used to be called “illiterate.”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Oh, look! Two countries that commit war crimes don't like being held accountable. Who'd have guessed?
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D.J. Grothe @djgrothe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Falls, not cancer or diabetes, are the greatest preventable threat to healthy aging. For those over 65, falls are the leading cause of injury-related death and long term disability.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2026
Jack Smith: "I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime"
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D.J. Grothe @djgrothe.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Lincoln's 1858 remarks on the meaning of the Fourth of July: Immigrants to the United States and those descended from them “have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence, and so they are.”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog-up...
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SC Republican: Clyburn’s District Too Black, Not Conservative Enough
“Jim Clyburn — I like him personally, but he does not represent...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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D.J. Grothe @djgrothe.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
A second by second breakdown makes it clear the White House version is demonstrably false: The ICE agent was not run over, and Renee Good was driving away when she was killed, and he shot and murdered her when he wasn’t even in front of her car www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...
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Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
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Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 08/01/2026
Kristi Noem calling the victim’s actions “domestic terrorism” is propaganda. Full stop. I served as a White House homeland security advisor. I know what that designation means & when it’s misused. A U.S. citizen is dead. She was a mom. This is what ICE impunity looks like. It cannot be normalized.
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This Was Inevitable. And It Is Unforgivable. ICE Owns This.
A warning ignored. A life lost. This cannot become routine.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 06/01/2026
Five years later, January 6 still matters. Not just because of what happened—but because of what happens if we decide we’ve already heard enough. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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January 6 Is Five Years Behind Us. The Threat It Exposed Is Not.
On the fifth anniversary of the attack on the Capitol, I’m participating in a hearing meant to remember what happened. I’m grateful for that—but I worry that as the shock fades, so does our vigilance,
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Not Somali.
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D.J. Grothe @djgrothe.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Once when checking in at a hotel Europe the great English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley listed his occupation in Greek as “democrat, philanthropist, atheist” (δημοκράτης, φιλaνθρωπος, aθεος).
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
The DOJ is trying to get all your individualized voter data (including SS number, DOB, current and previous addresses, voting records, etc.) in order to intimidate and undermine elections. Please listen to this and re-post on all your social media. Email this video to you friends & family members.
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“Five alarm fire!” Justice Department wages WAR with shock move
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Cognitively well people do not go nuts to tell people they are cognitively well.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
A true sign of autocracy. Let's hail Dear Leader over Martin Luther King Jr. www.ms.now/news/trumps-...
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Trump’s birthday replaces MLK Day as a free National Parks day
U.S. residents will be able to enter the parks free of charge on what the Trump administration refers to as “patriotic” days, which will now include Trump’s birthday.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
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D.J. Grothe @djgrothe.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
If you’re older than 50, feeling thirsty is a sign of mild dehydration, because as we age, the thirst signal tends to be delayed and blunted, meaning that a person can be mildly or even moderately dehydrated before they even feel thirsty in the first place. Drink your salty waters!
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D.J. Grothe @djgrothe.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
AI rebellion is far less scary than AI that’s “just following orders.”
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D.J. Grothe @djgrothe.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I’ve been enjoying rereading my old classroom notes from a personality theory course I took in college 31 years ago:
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D.J. Grothe @djgrothe.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I disagree w/ Huxley’s point, or at least feel I ought: “Rooted as they are in the facts of contemporary life, the phantasies of even a second-rate writer of modern Science Fiction are incomparably richer, bolder and stranger than the Utopian or Millennial imaginings of the past.” — Aldous Huxley
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 22/11/2025
Across the country, police departments have adopted AI-driven platforms to assist with data collection and analysis. But without robust safeguards, these data fusion tools risk generating inaccurate results, perpetuating bias, and undermining individual rights. bit.ly/44nxPlx
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The Dangers of Unregulated AI in Policing
New data fusion tools risk embedding biases and chilling free speech.
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 20/11/2025
Home invasions. Child sex crimes. Homicide. Just a couple things that some of the 1500+ January 6 defendants have been convicted of since Trump released them back onto our streets. The GOP isn't the party of law and order. They're the party of lawlessness and violence.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Nikki Haley’s son says naturalized citizens should not be able to hold public office and thinks dual citizenship should be outlawed. His grandparents are from India and his mother dropped her first name Nimarda.
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D.J. Grothe @djgrothe.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A massive longitudinal metastudy of more than 300,000 people over decades found that having a few meaningful relationships is associated with a 50% higher chance of being alive years later compared to people who are socially isolated. This is an effect thats even greater than not smoking or drinking
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D.J. Grothe @djgrothe.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Related: Average reading scores for U.S. high school seniors have hit a 32-year low, reaching their lowest point since the National Assessment of Educational Progress test began in 1992.
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D.J. Grothe @djgrothe.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The science fiction dystopia of the “silver tsunami”: more than 11,000 Americans are turning age 65 every single day in the United States at this point. Put another way, around 5 million Americans are going to turn 65 this year and every year through 2027.
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D.J. Grothe @djgrothe.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Reels and TikToks may be bad to your cognitive and mental health. An analysis of 71 studies and 100,000 people shows that the more short-form videos both teens and adults watched, the more they struggled with attention, self-control, and even stress and anxiety.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The presidency is a side gig for Trump‘s grift.
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D.J. Grothe @djgrothe.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
(We live during that initial single one second of the bright universe before all the light of the universe goes out.)
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D.J. Grothe @djgrothe.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Good morning! The last stars in the universe will die out in a mere 120 trillion years from now, which will then be followed by ten quattuortrigintillion years of just black holes (that’s a number that’s so large it’s a 10 with 106 zeroes after it).
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Another stunning photo encapsulating how far America has fallen
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
MTG: “.. “I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world. .. The man I supported and helped get elected.” @mediaite.com #GA14 www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
How much of a moron do you have to be to STILL, after all the shit that has gone down, remain an enthusiastic shill for this obviously incompetent con man.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2025
Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)
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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
“A federal agent shot and wounded a motorist in Chicago on Saturday morning, according to federal officials, touching off more protests in the city as tensions rose over the Trump administration’s threat to send troops there.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...
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Federal Agent in Chicago Shot Motorist in Confrontation, Officials Say
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
When a president sends troops into American cities to “restore order,” what he’s really doing is testing obedience. Portland and Chicago aren’t war zones…they’re warning shots. Authoritarians don’t announce takeovers. They practice them. One city at a time. However, each practice destroys families.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The obscene face of Christian Nationalism: outlandish untaxed wealth in defiance of Jesus. Oh, and this time, slave laborers, too! Glory! Just remember, for any money you give to Heaven, there is always a 100% handling fee here on Earth.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/10/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2025
Comer: "We care about the people that are gonna lose -- ah, that could potentially lose healthcare. But there are people that can't afford healthcare. We've gotta get people off Medicaid and into the workforce and into private healthcare."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2025
“Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth considered sending an elite U.S. Army strike force to Portland, Ore., to quell protests that President Donald Trump has characterized as ‘lawless mayhem,’ according to images of messages provided to the Minnesota Star Tribune.”
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Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show
A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.
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D.J. Grothe @djgrothe.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
“Of all crimes that human creatures are capable of committing, the most horrid and unnatural is ingratitude.” — David Hume
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Tylenol use is safe in pregnancy, lowest effective dose. Don’t listen to the utter nonsense emanating from the highest office in the land today. Speak to your medical provider.
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Jacob Kaarsbo @jkaarsbo.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Imagine being under daily 🇷🇺 terror attacks and then respond like this👇🏻 Putin won’t control Kharkiv EVER!
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D.J. Grothe @djgrothe.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Do you know your constitutional rights? Why not? (Do you know the “Five Freedoms” guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, by the First Amendment, even for illegal immigrants? Why not?)
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D.J. Grothe @djgrothe.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Do you know your constitutional rights? Why not? (Do you know the “Five Freedoms” guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, by the First Amendment, even for illegal immigrants? Why not?)
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/07/2025
Secretary of Homeland Security on racial profiling by ICE: “That is not true… Don’t you dare ever say that again.” Who the f*ck does Kristi Noem think she is, addressing a legitimate question like that? It is true. Tom Homan admitted it. Noem is a liar.
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