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GrumpySilverback

@grumpysilverback.bsky.social
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Military Veteran. Russian and German Linguist. IT guru. Degrees in International Relations and Philosophy. OG Star Wars nerd. Husband to a fantastic wife, father to three incredible human beings, Silverback for my family. Always Grumpy!

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Qusay Noor @qusaynoor.net · 18/06/2025
#Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/06/2025
Reminder: The State Department's reported plans for an office of “remigration” stem from a far-right policy that calls for “soft-style ethnic cleansing.” It is rooted in the debunked Great Replacement theory and favored by the European far-right and White nationalist extremists.
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The worrying backstory of Trump’s proposed “Office of Remigration”
The State Department is reportedly creating an office for "remigration": a far-right policy that calls for what has been described as "soft-style ethnic cleansing."
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This is so important it hurts. This is the tiny area of a massive sprawling city that Trump is attacking and the entire propaganda machine is churning to make us believe more is happening. Don’t fall for the lies.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Also cannot be emphasized enough: Barack Obama successfully negotiated the shutdown of Iran's nuclear program. It exists today because Trump deliberately tore up that agreement. The deaths happening right now can be laid at his door.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Trump said he wanted a deal with Iran. I guess he couldn’t convince his good friend Netanyahu. No respect. Looks weak.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
If they win on this they won’t stop here. Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, Cuban Americans, Vietnamese Americans, African Americans, they are coming for all of you, too.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
That’s right. They want Mexican Americans to be ashamed of being Mexican. They’re leaning on the implicit racist belief of white people - including too many liberals - that Mexican heritage makes someone presumptively dangerous or criminal. It’s nativism and we shouldn’t give them one single inch.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously
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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
On what planet is this not assault? Deliberate and willful abuse of power by that officer.
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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This tweet aged well. Guess it is ok when the fascists do it!
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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
SUNDERLAND! That was amazing!
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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
This is awesome!
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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I live in the mid-west corn land of southern IL. Land sits ununsed most of the year, between October and May. No cover crops, no winter wheat. Nada. Just cropped off corn stalks.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
You know, maybe I’m too prideful, but if I’d ever tweeted “I’m voting for the leopard, so it can eat the libs’ faces!” I think I would simply not later tweet “noooo the leopard is eating my face nooooo”
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Talia al Ghoul 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
consider, they picked whichever Pope would piss off Vance the most
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
We're starting to get voter file data back and Change's model indicates that the biggest contributor to Kamala losing was new voters entering the electorate breaking heavily toward Trump substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Kamala Harris Didn’t Lose to the Couch
New Voters, Not Drop off, Determined Harris' Defeat
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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I am a government worker. We know where the inefficiencies are, but they are few and far between. The systems work, albeit sometimes slow, but that is for a reason: so we dont break important shit and we get things right 99.867% of the time.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Carl Sagan on sensible military spending and climate change.
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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
FIFA needs to remove the US as a host and give it to Canada and Mexico only.
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
lmao
tweet from Chicago Trib reporter Rick Pearson: Advisory from IL Dem Gov JB Pritzker’s office on planned Wednesday visit of Homeland Security Secy Kristi Noem to Springfield: “We would urge all pet owners in the region to make sure all of your beloved animals are under watchful protection while the Secretary is in the region.”

Can't really think of any Kristi Noem erotica nothing slays horniness faster than Mar-A-Lago face, which is like you took your hands, smush the facial features until their wee tines like Charlie Kirk—also supremely unfuckable—and then add enough lip filler to stuff a narwhal. Anyway, sorry about ruining your sex life.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/05/2025
seems kind of weird that the vice president of the united states is openly supportive of german neo-nazis!
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Rich Swinton @ricosuavejd.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Waltz is using TeleMessage, which archives Signal messages. Meaning all those messages that were supposedly gone from the last investigation might actually exist somewhere...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Honestly this is just incredible content.
Tweet from Charlie Spiering @charliespiering: "Photos show Mike Waltz literally checking Signal during the cabinet meeting (via Reuters)" UNderneath is a zoomed in picture of a phone with the chats open. You can see chats with Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, Tulsi Gabbard, JD Vance, someone whose last name ends with "cheidt," and a group chat labeled "NSC Scheduling." You can see You can see that JD Vance's chat has a text saying "I have confirmation from my counterpart it's turned off. He is going to be here..."
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 29/04/2025
This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Trump is reveling in how he humiliated these big law firms: "You have to ask them, 'Why did you all pay Trump hundreds of millions of dollars?' ... "They just signed whatever I put in front of 'em. I've never seen anything like it. I'm actually surprised myself." abcnews.go.com/US/full-tran...
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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This isnt a lie if you think like a white christian nationalist. Some math: 350M Americans - all the non-white Americans equals? Could it be 258M? Ballparkish? I think it is!!! They are literally telling us their plans on the daily: "we are getting rid of non-whites".
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Not good.
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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Yep, not another dime there.
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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Somewhere, Satan is smiling ...
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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
My Governor! JB striding into greatness!
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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I called this last June after reading Project 2025.
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
CNN Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/p...
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CNN Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades | CNN Politics
Donald Trump won back the Oval Office and took charge of the government amid the strongest poll numbers of his political career, but as the 100-day mark of his presidency approaches, Americans’ views ...
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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
The best story in sports! Our Captain is back! Been waiting for this McGahey call for three years! "Oh Captain, my captain!" #coloradoavalanche #goasshailsatan
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“OH CAPTAIN, MYYY CAPTAIN”
YouTube video by Colorado Avalanche
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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
There are going to be a lot of drunk people in Liverpool tonight! Congrats to the Reds! I still miss Jürgen though. #liverpoolfc
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Forbestonow @forbestonow.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Imagine spending your life as embittered and angry as this pitiful excuse for a human being.
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rhynox.bsky.social @rhynox.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 26/04/2025
he is, of course, an asshole, but this entire paragraph is extremely funny
Among the disappointed was Stephen Fishler, 58, a businessman from New York who arrived with his family in good time for his 6pm slot, but was turned away without explanation. “What does he think he is, special?” complained Fishler, himself a Trump voter. “JD should have waited until the Americans who had tickets had their visit and then gone in.” His wife, Anila, tried to calm him down and blamed the Italians.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The Economist cover 👀
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/04/2025
Many of Trump's decisions make a lot more sense when you remember that Putin owns him.
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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
What insider-insider trading looks like. Almost straight out of Billions!
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Mario Nicolais @marionicolais.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Anyone else think that Hegseth safeguards his eyeliner application technique more closely than military attack plans?
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/04/2025
Trump and Musk are weak, small men. While Musk cowers in fear over his Tesla bleeding money, Trump is getting slapped around by China and Russia. They don't have the cards.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Remember when the economy was booming, stocks were soaring, we weren’t in a trade war with China, we didn’t have a day drunk for a Sec Def, a couch fucking Cabbage Patch doll for a VP or an evil, incurious idiot for a president & we still funded cancer research? Yeah, that was like three months ago.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The MAGA world isn't sending their best.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
We are at least 4-5 stanzas deep in the “first they came for…” poem and there are still not enough people speaking out
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