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Grant DeLaney

@laney502.bsky.social

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“Fanaticism turns into a means of salvation, enthusiasm into epileptic ecstasy, politics becomes an opiate for the masses... & reason veils her face” -Thomas Mann(1930)* #BLM * Twitter Refugee * #FBR *If you’re part of the #Resistance, I want to follow you

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Grant DeLaney @laney502.bsky.social · 19d

* Let’s go Brendan!
“We can do this the easy way
or the hard way:”

Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 19d

I’m glad Jimmy’s back.

But Brendan Carr still needs to resign.

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Jimmy Kimmel to Return to ABC on Tuesday After Show’s Controversial Suspension

The Walt Disney company in a new statement says the move was made "to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Margaret @purpleaster.bsky.social · 15m

One of my heroes. 🚫👑
#nokings

No Kings — Freedom (video)

Why protest is patriotic

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16h

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15m

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @jesseduquette.bsky.social )

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14h

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 18h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Member of the Chicago press gets arrested by
masked ICE GOONS

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Grant DeLaney @laney502.bsky.social · 6h

Masked Bastards are so obvious.

Fuuukkk ice. Nuts. 🌰

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5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I've always described it as an insurgency. A violent, racist, isolationist, terroristic insurgency to fundamentally change the US into their image using the republican party to legitimize their anti-American movement.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 15h

Time to dust off the Halloween art. I painted this 30 years ago(!).

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Grant DeLaney @laney502.bsky.social · 6h

Down-Low Co-Vid.
Low-Low NaZi

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder: Trump vaccinates himself 👇🏽

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

I keep seeing this get posted. The AZ electors were charged a year and a half ago. The AZ Superior Court ENDED the case five months ago. The AZ AG will have to appeal to the AZ Supreme Court or go back and start again with a grand jury. Please stop sharing this.

Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 14h

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 10h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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LedaEM @mledaloo.bsky.social · 6h

Omg!! 🤬

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 10h

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 1d

United States attorneys offices all have prosecutorial guidelines – amounts of financial loss or property damage, etc. below which they won’t bring a case. I’ve never heard of a financial fraud guideline loss threshold anywhere near as low as 18 K, which is the amount of loss in the James case.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 19h

NEW: So it IS a second home and not an investment property. Motion to dismiss for abuse of the grand jury process in 3...2...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

In the Eye of a Political Storm, a Tiny Yellow House in Norfolk, Va.

www.nytimes.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 19h

I’m old enough to remember the $21M Trump Seven Springs Estates conservation easement tax crime.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 19h

The hush money payoff to Stormy Daniels cost more than house Leticia James bought for her grand niece.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20h

This is important exculpatory evidence bc the indictment accuses James of seeking a “second home” mortgage when in reality she intended to use it as an “investment” home by renting it out.

(James disclosed between $1,000-5,000 in rent during 1st year, but the contract allowed short term rentals.)

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20h

NYT reports that Letitia James’s great niece lives in the home that is the subject of the indictment.

The niece reportedly testified before a *different* grand jury, telling them that she had lived there for many years without paying rent. James visits regularly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Letitia James
Indictment
Read the Indictment
Timeline of Conflict
Indic
But in June, IMs. Thompson testified to a grand
jury in Norfolk that she had lived in the house for years and that she did not pay rent, a person familiar with her testimony said. She was not asked to testify again, and the grand jury that voted to indict Ms. James was not seated in Norfolk, but in Alexandria.
The specter of Mr. Trump's revenge campaign has so far overshadowed the facts of the case, given how he has pushed for Ms. James's punishment. For years, he has railed against her on social media, calling her a "crook" and
"corrunt" Last month. he also appointed Ms.

for a peaceful life after years of turbulence in several cities.
The family, Nakia Thompson and her children, have lived at the address ever since, according to two people familiar with the home, and until this week, the plan for a more lacid existence had largely gone as expected. Several times a year, the people said, a great-aunt who had purchased the house in 2020 with Ms.
Thompson in mind would come for an extended stay.
This week, with the filing of court papers some 200 miles north, the plan came to an abrupt end.
The great-aunt - Letitia James, the New York attorney general - was indicted by President Trump's Justice Department. The yellow house,

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 21h

$47. And that’s if the government isn’t lying about the interest rate. Plus, they will have to prove she intentionally schemed to swindle $47 from the bank - as opposed to just not knowing the difference between a second home and an investment property. Good luck, Lindsay.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22h

The grand jury indictment against New York AG Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased.

James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, the indictment alleges.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Letitia James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, indictment alleges

The grand jury indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased in Norfolk, Virgini

www.nbcnews.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

If I’m reading this right — and I’m not 100% sure I am, given the split order — this would appear to bar Trump from *using* the National Guard in Illinois, but not prevent the Texas National Guard from being deployed to Illinois at the base they’re currently in. They don’t have to go home yet.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 17h

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals PARTIALLY grants the stay sought by the Trump Administration.

The stay is GRANTED as to federalization of the National Guard.

But it is DENIED as to deployment.

So deployment still BLOCKED, but troops "do not need to return to their home states."

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 17h

Another Uber wealthy child sex abuser. Disgusting.

#USDemocracy

www.timesunion.com/news/article...

Hearing moved for Capital Region Chamber VP accused of attempting to lure minor for sex

Bail hearing for Peter Bardunias is now set for Oct. 27.

www.timesunion.com

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