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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Well, he has to protect Trump at all costs ...

GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

POTUS can direct any military operations they feel necessary without Congressional approval. Only Congress can declare war. After engaging in mil ops, POTUS must seek Congressional approval within 60 days to continue funding allocations. Been this way since the War Powers Act of 73.

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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The only way out now is regime change in Iran. W/o regime change, Iran achieves a nuke pretty rapidly. I expect them to move all things nuke east and prob into one of the Stans. Also, I expect Iran to build and employ dirty bombs due to all of this. None of this ends well.

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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

POTUS doesnt need Congressional authorization to conduct military operations, POTUS is CINC of military. Only Congress can declare war. We arent at war. There is a big difference in these types of mil ops and war. POTUS needs Congress approval to spend money on this within 90 days.

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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

3 decades. He murdered Rabin just to get to this moment.

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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

According to Netanyahu, Iran has been 3 years away from a nuclear weapon since 1994!

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Qusay Noor @qusaynoor.net · 18/06/2025

#Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Ever been to Utah? Full of hypocrites and deplorables. They soak in it!

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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

2/ Netanyahu and the radical zealots in Israel who preach manifest destiny have been the problem there for the last 3 decades.

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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Israels actions respective to both Gaza and Iran are egregious oversteps and clear violations of multiple international treaties and laws. Iran was completely contained, its proxy armies defeated and gone. Iran's military is garbage. Iran cant effectively threaten Israel by any legitimate means.

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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

No, I live in the reality that actually exists. Iran talks shit, that is what they do. They have never acted on any of their rhetoric. Ever. Everything they do is performative to keep the regime in power. Nothing more. Any different assessment of this fact is quite simply wrong.

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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

The Sauds have openly stated, multiple times, they have zero interest in nuclear anything. No other Persian/Arab nation would rush to get one either. Israel acquiring nuclear weapons is what started Iran on this path. Israel started this security spiral. Iran is then simply balancing the system.

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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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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

5/ but this attack now gives Iran a tempo and credence against Israel. Israel cannot stop Iran from getting a nuke. And now Iran has zero reason to negotiate with anyone about it. This was unbelievably stupid by Netanyahu, who has wanted this for decades (after he killed Rabin).

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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

4/ all the bluster of Iran is performative, and always has been. This attack was unnecessary as Iran was fully contained due to the fuck up by Hamas, they and Hezbollah are gone, Iran lost its proxy armies. Syria and Lebanon as well. The only support left is a small band in Yemen.

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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

3/ it is a fantastical lie that if Iran were to achieve nuclear weapons there would be an arms race, security spiral, or that they would use them against anyone in a first strike. Iran has never been expeditionary and doesnt have chem/bio outside of PBAs and riot control type agents.

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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

2/ Pakistan, home to multiple radical jihadist groups, has had nuclear tech and weapons for over 40 years, and it was only via espionage that it left their borders. China and Russia didnt help much either. Funnily, it was France who helped Iran the most, providing material during the sanctions.

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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Saying Iran is a radicalized jihadist nation is an idiotic statement. The Khomenis have always used wild rhetoric to oppress their populace and stay in power, nothing more. Iran's proxy armies engaged in nothing more than needle pricking Israel for that same purpose, to retain power at home. 1/

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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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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Let's hope not. I think Iran will concentrate on military targets as not to escalate further. It will be commensurate in that manner much like the exchange last year.

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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

History also says that the US had nuclear weapons in Turkey, Italy, and West Germany long before the Soviets even thought about Cuba. These egregious actions by Netanyahu will not prevent Iran from creating nuclear weapons, and in fact will most likely accelerate that process.

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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 · 10/05/2025

She just needs another chance to get it right. This time she will hide the corruption better!

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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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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The Joliet Boys mission is complete!

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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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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The likelihood of a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan is extremely small, like below 1% on the probability scale small. Not zero, but very close to zero. MAD is very much a real thing, abstract as it is, and becomes very pointy the closer the clock moves to midnight.

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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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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

You have to look at this statement through the lens of white christian nationalism: take 350M Americans and minus all the non-white Americans, what number does that equal? 258M (ballparkish). They are literally telling everyone the program and not even trying to hide it!

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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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