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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Opinion | Trump’s War Empowers Extremists in Iran (Gift Article)
Threats to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty are growing in Tehran.
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'Inhumane, Barbaric, Torturous': Christa Pike Survives Twice-Botched Execution in Tennessee www.commondreams.org/news/christa...
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'Inhumane, Barbaric, Torturous': Christa Pike Survives Twice-Botched Execution in Tennessee | Common Dreams
“This event is the worst we’ve seen and unlike any other botched execution in the modern era,” said Robin Maher, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. “There is no precedent....
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Opinion | This Case Has Flown Under the Radar. It Won’t Stay There. (Gift Article)
This case has flown under the radar, but it won’t stay there.
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
US Chamber of Commerce Tour Ignores 250 Years of Socialism www.commondreams.org/opinion/demo...
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US Chamber of Commerce Tour Ignores 250 Years of Socialism | Common Dreams
A new US Chamber of Commerce tour ignores democratic socialism in mixed-economy America.
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Cristin Bishara (@cristinbishara) on Threads
Guys, I turned on Fox News and did you know there’s a CARAVAN OF COMMUNIST TRANS ATHLETES CROSSING THE BORDER WITH SYRINGES OF COVID AND MEASLES VACCINES! A SECOND CARAVAN OF FURRY AIRLINE PILOTS DECL...
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Supreme Court allows Trump to use flawed database to vet voter citizenship
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Supreme Court allows Trump to use flawed database to vet voter citizenship
While the impact on the midterms might be minimal, Justice Jackson warns some eligible voters could be disenfranchised.
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Austin City Council Candidate Misael Ramos Arrested After Protest Against ICE Shooting www.commondreams.org/news/ice-aus...
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Austin City Council Candidate Misael Ramos Arrested After Protest Against ICE Shooting | Common Dreams
Misael Ramos, a democratic socialist candidate for City Council in Austin, was arrested by Texas troopers for protesting ICE's shooting of a local delivery driver.
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New York Times Affirms Haaretz Report: Netanyahu Was Warned About Oct. 7 www.commondreams.org/news/benjami...
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New York Times Affirms Haaretz Report: Netanyahu Was Warned About Oct. 7 | Common Dreams
The New York Times affirmed Haaretz's reporting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned by another world leader about the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack.
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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How Climate Change Is Disrupting Summer Travel (Gift Article)
Once dismissed as occasional inconveniences, climate-related disruptions are now an inescapable fixture of summer travel. How will travelers respond?
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Opinion | Trump Has Finally Lost the Plot (Gift Article)
It is now apparent that many Americans — probably enough Americans — are determined to live within the truth rather than the lie.
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Opinion | This Is Really Bad (Gift Article)
We can no longer pretend that A.I. is safe.
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Opinion | Big Tech Fooled America Once. The Second Time’s Not Going So Well. (Gift Article)
We won’t get fooled again.
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Opinion | Somewhere, Roy Cohn Is Smiling (Gift Article)
Trump needed only one teacher.
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Jared Kushner helped make this mess in Iran while making a mess of money
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Jared Kushner helped make this mess in Iran while making a mess of money
Let's not forget how America's humiliation began.
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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The “Me” Decade and the Third Great Awakening
The new alchemical dream is: changing one’s personality—remaking, remodeling, elevating, and polishing one’s very self.
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Opinion | Wall Street Loved Scott Bessent and Kevin Warsh. Not Anymore. (Gift Article)
We are approaching a credibility crisis with Scott Bessent and Kevin Warsh leading our economy.
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Opinion | We’re in a New Era of Class Warfare. History Points to a Way Out. (Gift Article)
The class-based violence of the past was part of a broader struggle. Today, the violence is the end in itself.
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)
Is Kansas just the beginning?
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Bryan Stevenson on the “Enduring Evil of Slavery” and Trump’s Attempt to Rewrite History
We spend the hour with civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. In 2018, the organization opened the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, t...
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Trump overhaul could gut Head Start preschool standards, leaving states to set the rules apnews.com/article/head...
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Trump overhaul could gut Head Start preschool standards, leaving states to set the rules
President Donald Trump's administration is planning a major overhaul of the Head Start program. Two people familiar with the deliberations tell The Associated Press the Republican administration's pro...
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Clay Welch (@clayfish1) on Threads
Integrity is not a word that passes Donald Trump's lips, much less enters his little brain thing.
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants apnews.com/article/cali...
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White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Linda on Abortion, Every Day
Justice Amy Coney Barrett voted with the 6-3 conservative majority in the Supreme Court case Mullin v. Doe to allow the Trump administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of tho...
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Israeli Settlers Attack Convoy of Journalists & Father of Palestinian American Killed 1 Year Ago
Israeli settlers armed with clubs, rocks and a knife attacked a convoy of journalists in the West Bank on Saturday, the latest targeting of foreign journalists documenting the Israeli occupation. Four...
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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Ilhan Omar Takes Marco Rubio to Task With Call for US to Finally Join International Criminal Court | Common Dreams
"America is strongest when we lead with our values, not when we demand immunity from them."
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Heartland vs. Rimland
The Battle Lines in the War for the Next Global Order
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Check out this article: Streeter: Why I broke up with ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...
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Streeter: Why I broke up with ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’
COLUMN | “The Star-Spangled Banner” is a freedom song written by an enslaver. What are we to make of the national anthem in Baltimore, a city that’s so proud of it?
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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@chichiplus on Threads
Today's trigger. I'm a proud LIBERAL /PROGRESSIVE/LEFTY
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Prairieland Nine: Texas ICE Protesters Get Up to 100 Years in Prison as Trump Targets Anti-Fascists
A group of anti-ICE protesters in Texas were sentenced to 30 to 100 years in jail on Tuesday, after federal prosecutors accused them of being an “antifa terror cell.” The activists attended a protest ...
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Opinion | Trump Was Indicted Under the Espionage Act. Why Can’t We Read the Report?
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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China Could Win Taiwan Without Fighting
The Cost of Trump’s Equivocation
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Trump’s War on Iran Ends with a “Triumphant” Tehran and a Diminished U.S.: Vali Nasr
The United States and Iran have officially signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the war in Iran. The 14-point agreement includes an immediate end to fighting on all fronts including Le...
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Opinion | Christian Nationalism’s Dark Forebears
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Bovino Launches Exploratory Committee for Presidential Campaign With Pledge to Deport 100 Million People www.commondreams.org/news/bovino-...
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Bovino Launches Exploratory Committee for Presidential Campaign With Pledge to Deport 100 Million People | Common Dreams
​Bovino's plan to purge the country of one-third of its population has been described as an "ethnic cleansing." He recently discussed it at a conference with European neo-Nazis.
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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Far-Right Leaders, Including Ex-CBP Chief Greg Bovino, Convene in Portugal for “Remigration Summit”
Hundreds of far-right activists gathered in Portugal on Saturday for the annual “Remigration Summit” advocating for the mass deportation of immigrants. Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovi...
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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It's Time to Hold Catholic Hospitals Accountable
"Her religious beliefs were coming before my life"
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Remember; To "pro lifers", life begins at conception - and ends at birth!
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Democrats: Stop Bro-ing Out With Young Male Voters & Fight for Young Women
5.28.26
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Tens of Thousands Rally in Havana Against US Aggression as Cuba Prepares Citizens for War www.commondreams.org/news/cuba-pr...
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Tens of Thousands Rally in Havana Against US Aggression as Cuba Prepares Citizens for War | Common Dreams
“Here we are prepared to fight imperialism," said Cuban lawmaker Mariela Castro, daughter of Raúl Castro. "Cuba is a small and poor country, but one with experience confronting US imperialism."
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
One Racist Batshit Christo-Fascist Homeland Under God www.commondreams.org/further/one-...
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One Racist Batshit Christo-Fascist Homeland Under God | Common Dreams
In retrospect, Sunday's taxpayer-funded blasphemy fest to "rededicate" America as a Christian nation though it's not and never was looks ever more obscene amidst an unholy regime's mounting crimes and...
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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The Far-Right Cash Machine - The American Prospect
There’s money in bigotry, and specialized crowdfunding platforms are where to get it.
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Home Depot and Lowe’s Downplay Customer Surveillance Threats - The American Prospect
Shareholders are seeking more info about how the companies collect and share data, including automatic license plate readers that cops and federal agents use to hunt immigrants.
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Angeliki T. 💎 in NYC @ellinidata.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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Opinion | CBS Cancels Itself, Not Just Colbert
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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SCOTUS Kicks Mife Back to Lower Court—Access Remains
5.14.26
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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Opinion | Trump Is Fighting the World’s Stupidest Culture War
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Bob Immler @trafficgrunt.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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Opinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’
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