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Jim Gribble @jimgrybz.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Any attempt to redress historic white-on-black discrimination is racist and illegal, according to our Supreme Court. White people must not be subject to any discomfort even though they enslaved and later marginalized persons of color. Only in America!

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Jim Gribble @jimgrybz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

We were robbed bigtime by his scam tariffs. Do you think there will be justice for the robber?

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Jim Gribble @jimgrybz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

At this very moment all the news networks are live-airing a briefing on the war from the Pentagon, and we cannot believe one word being said.

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Jim Gribble @jimgrybz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

What's the problem?! I mean, better-heeled cronies of Trump are using insider info to make million-dollar bets on Wall Street. This guy's downfall was that he is an ordinary schmuck, with not even enough dough to buy a pardon.

nytimes.com

Soldier Used Classified Information to Bet on Maduro’s Ouster, U.S. Says

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If we are able to rig elections, how did the Republicans get in position to flush the country down the toilet?

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This regime is a grifter's lollapalooza. A veritable cornucopia of insider scams.

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Violent bandits go masked; not upstanding law enforcement officers.

Jim Gribble @jimgrybz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

But somebody in need of a government contract or a pardon will buy it for $50 billion.

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Republicans threw the first punch. Now they're surprised and outraged that the Democrats punched back. Is it arrogance? Raw stupidity? Addiction to miscalculation? Inability to foresee blowback? All of the above.

ms.now

In redistricting fight, Democrats did what Republicans didn’t expect: Fight back (and win)

Last year, Donald Trump and his allies launched a partisan redistricting arms race. They apparently weren’t prepared for the Democratic response.

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Jim Gribble @jimgrybz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

It is crony extractionism, sucking up all the money to the overlords in the clouds, leaving nothing for the little strugglers on the ground. Fouling the land, water and ar. For what? Is this how we define "progress?"

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Live updates: Trump says talks will resume as standoff escalates over Strait of Hormuz

A fascinating development in that the Iranians won't be there. Maybe the American negotiators will have a jolly pep talk among themselves. Or maybe - like Trump - they will happily converse with imaginary people who tell them exactly what they want to hear.

apnews.com

President Donald Trump said U.S. negotiators will be in Pakistan on Monday for round two of talks with Iran as tensions rise over passage in the Strait of Hormuz.

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Would you put Dennis the Menace in charge of an extraction in hostile territory? Good call.

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The church really set a low bar in ever admitting him as a Catholic in the first place. Don't let the door...

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He's right. Participation could well be seen as tacit endorsement of the forward march of American fascism. Have always been bothered by these chummy affairs. They are designed to subtly undermine independence of the truith-telling free press.

Jim Gribble @jimgrybz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

In all but name the pope called out Trump as a war mongerer and vicious autocrat. He also assailed the Republican Party for falsely claiming divine sponsorship of its march toward fascism. A breakthrough moment of the kind I've been awaiting since I left the church in 1972.

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Jim Gribble @jimgrybz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The regime has no plans to pay back consumers the $billions we were scammed by tariff-related pass-through price shocks. All Republican legislators everywhere are complicit. Remember that the next time you vote! The GOP picked your pocket. Will you play the rube and let them get away with it?

cnbc.com

Tariff refunds unlikely to benefit consumers, CNBC CFO Council survey finds

Although the government could pay billions of dollars in tariff refunds, consumers shouldn't expect to see money back, according to a CNBC CFO Council survey.

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Jim Gribble @jimgrybz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

He used to think Hormuz was a brand of el cheapo canned chilli. So this is a step forward.

It's not that they contribute "less than the rest of us." Most of them contribute nothing. They are extrationists of the nation's wealth.

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Could it be the end for TPUSA? Let us pray.

As a young journalist I soon learned that careers in politics attract dodgy people who have no place left to fall and live to lie. It is true of both parties, but a little more so of Republicans nowadays. Incidents like this rarely surprise me. It's a bummer to be so jaded. Next?

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Good luck, because they have a majority of the Supreme Court in their pocket on this stuff. Not worth even bothering.

The odds are much higher that Trump could die suddenly. There would be no Republican votes to remove, so this should be discarded as a distractionist pipe dream.

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If the pope is now supposed to a crime fighter, start by arresting Trump. Not for blasphemy, though. It is one of Trump's lesser offenses. He can't even be excommunicated because he was never baptized Catholic and doesn't even pretend to conform his conduct to Christian ideals.

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ICE agents who kidnapped innocents are foolishly laboring under a false sense of security. There is no statute of limitations on federal prosecution of kidnapping. Most states also lack a kidnapping statute of limitations. The security blanket will be ripped to shreds the moment Trump falls.

Conditions are just as bad as in the Nazi camps for prison laborers. In some cases maybe worse. Still worse, a lot of these people have not been accused or convicted of any crime.

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A war started by a President they support almost untilaterally.

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January 6 summoned the worst of the worst violent lowlifes across the U.S. I saw the bonfire coming a week away.

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A much better future model for us than Orban's evangelical fascist Hungary.

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This tail has been wagging the dog since the day Netanwahoo got elected.

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