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Courtney Mroch

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Traveler/Expat wannabe. Writer. Horror lover. Pickleball and true crime addict. Cat mom. Cinephile. Bookworm. Cancer survivor. Hoping America survives his MAGAsty. 📚 https://courtneymroch.com/ ✍️ https://substack.com/@courtneymroch

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Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 7h

Holy shit. Check out ALL the No Kings events. I zoomed out to show just how widespread the protests will be. But it’s even more impressive zoomed in. COVERS the U.S.! People are clearly OVER His MAGAsty’s BS.
💪 ✊ 🚫 👑

Screenshot of a map of the U.S., its territories, and even places in Mexico and Central America showing where all the where No Kings events will be.

Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 7h

Whelp, more evidence the GOP is the party of Grand Old Pedophiles…and young ones too. Sickos.

Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 14h

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

🪬🇺🇦🌻 mon petit choufleur 💙🇺🇸🪬 @asassytart.bsky.social · 1d

Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 1d

What balls look like.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll say one thing. We’re living through some “ribitting” times, aren’t we. 🐸

Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 1d

That looks so cathartic. Must get a MAGA flag to rip in half like this.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

This is Antifa. Which, I guess, makes Republicans Profa.

Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 1d

💯 I stick by this.

Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 1d

I swear to god they modeled one of the actors who played a Commander in the Handmaid’s Tale on him.

Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 1d

I swear to god they modeled one of the actors who played a Commander in the Handmaid’s Tale on him.

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Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 1d

It’s been a bit rough around our household lately, but how could I not smile and feel joyful when I returned home to find this beautiful arrangement from a thoughtful and concerned friend waiting on our front porch today?

Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 1d

Do you think Johnson thinks before he speaks?

darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 1d

Lord, grant me strength!

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Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 1d

Lord, hear my prayer.

Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 1d

Grant me the serenity to accept that earth is filled with assholes and fuckery that I cannot change, the courage not to be part of the
assholery and fuckery, and the wisdom to know I'm the shit without shitting on others.
Fuckology

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Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. If they’re eager to make a RIF, that’d be the first place to start. Clearly Mike Johnson is demonstrating what a sham Congress is. As inept as they are inessential at this point. Goes for both sides IMO too.

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 1d

Congress better hurry up and settle the shutdown before everyone figures out they’re nonessential personnel.

Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 1d

PREACH! ✊

Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 1d

Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 1d

Omg. It just continued to get better. Today’s whole NYT Connections is a like a short of summary of Trump’s disaster regime, ways we might celebrate when he’s gone and we ends with the words that should be included in his obituary and summary of his administration.

Screenshot of the New York Times connections puzzle solved from Monday October 13, 2025. The top is the yellow category with words For Potentially Volatile Situations that includes “Can of Worms, Hornet’s Nest, Minefield, and Pandora’s Box.” The second row is the blue category for Words After a Welcome Departure: “About Time, Finally, Good Riddance, Sayonara.” The third row is the green category with words for Bar Events: “Happy Hour, Karaoke, Live Music, Trivia Night.” The fourth row is the purple category with words Ending with Synonyms for Swindle”: “American Hustle, Comic Comic,Golden Fleece, Lucky Stiff.”

Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 1d

Pardon the Connections spoiler, but come on. How could I not share? Sign of the times!

The yellow is the situation we find ourselves in thanks to His Magasty, the Orange Shitler and his henchmen. The blue contains the more polite forms of BYE we’ll all be using when we usurp that F’er.

Screenshot of New York Times (NYT) Connections puzzle with the yellow and blue categories solved. The yellow includes the words “Can of Worms, Hornet’s Nest, Minefield, Pandora’s Box” for “Metaphors For Potentially Volatile Situations.” The blue includes “About Time, Finally, Good Riddance, and Sayonara” for “Words After A Welcome Departure.”

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Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 1d

Really hoping as more and more people, especially the stock-dismissing MAGAts, understand how wrong this is and how rich insiders are getting from plays like this, that there is an uproar and uprising against such gross misconduct and abuse.

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 1d

Just so you are hip to it:

The account that shorted the crypto market 30 minutes before TACO’s Friday tweet about new tariffs on China made more than 80 million dollars in one day.

But yeah… that’s not insider trading at all… because 🤷🏽‍♀️

I mean…I’m not sure that’s illegal because crypto is not

Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 1d

This.👇 All. The. Way.

yolanda7712.bsky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social · 2d

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Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 1d

Psychics don’t exist. Otherwise they would’ve seen this shit show coming. Unless they did and actively decided not to say anything. Either way, they suck.

Courtney Mroch @courtneymroch.bsky.social · 1d

Never understood it back then either. I remember it was much anticipated but oof. Painful to sit through. 😖

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the excuses not to show up to work while still collecting a paycheck, refusing to show up for 2 months so you can conceal info about sex trafficking because the perps are wealthy and powerful can only be conjured up in the toxic mind hive of Trump & House GOP leadership.