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mrtruscott
@mrtruscott.bsky.social
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Waging democratic activism via replies. Granddaughter of Gen. Lucian K.Truscott, Jr.; 6th great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson (yes, that one). Mom/wife/grandma, one time author. I used to live for music. Please don’t move to Seattle. It rains
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · Mar 19
What can I do?
Here’s a To Do list of action items.
The list came from all over. Add, fix, share, run with it.
THE CHAOS AND BLITZ ARE THE STRATEGIES to paralyze and intimidate us.
Don’t let distractions distract us.
Fight now. Stop them. Trials later. -keep reading
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 13h
Go ahead, normalize this.
Cover it like any other presidential tweet. Oh wait.

He’s performing in the role of president while acting like a petulant prince. (Insult intentional.)

This is not okay.
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 18h
My fall shoe wardrobe?
100% sabots.
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 19h
“The opposite of democracy is apathy.”

-Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) via Jess Craven/Substack
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 1d
Mike Wallace is rolling around in his grave. May he somehow rest in peace?
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 2d
This explains the “BS” in CBS
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 2d
I don’t follow baseball,
but I really
wanted Canada to win
the World Series.
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 8d
US billionaire and hedge-fund manager Rob Citrone…. has “placed large bets on the future of the Argentine economy”. Citrone, the co-founder of Discovery Capital Management, is “a friend & former colleague of Bessent – …. not previously reported in US media outlets.

From MoneyWeek (Bill Bonner)
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 8d
Yeah, no kidding.
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 8d
islandbooks.com/book/9798217...
I am buying this book for every person I know.
Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
A political manifesto for our present moment—part history lesson, part call to save the Republic"Brilliant, galvanizing, and inspirational. A road map to help us find our way out of the darkness." —Ma...
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 14d
Don’t forget — we pay her salary.
She works for us.
If you can imagine Bannon et al in the back room snickering ‘this will make the libs go crazy!’ — that’s exactly what happened.
We need to quit falling for it.
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 15d
The Coralville Public Library has a donate link in the upper right hand corner of its homepage. Great way to support these kids and their book club.

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Home | Coralville Public Library
Search Coralville Public Library Need to Know How do I get a library card? Come to the Circulation desk with an ID and proof of address to get a library car ...
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 15d
I’m excited for the supercut with Mike Johnson’s Lying
Pinocchio Nose. Mike is a real little boy, all right — he fits in trump’s pocket.
Oh, and he’s 3rd in line.
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 16d
I really hate the ¡gotcha! surprise bills that jump out at you.
You have to declare bankruptcy to go in that haunted house.
Terrifying!!
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 16d
Remember the mean kids in 8th grade? They’re running amok in our country (and the world), and it’s up to us to stop them.
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 16d
A chaotic transition would be better than allowing this to continue.
Stop them now.
We can hold the trials later.
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 16d
The guy in Issaquah, WA with a big sign in two colors of marker that got fainter and fainter — “Where Do I Even Begin?” was what it said.
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 16d
As far as I can tell, maga types are fine with crumbs from the royal table and wages that are pocket lint to Elon et al.
Here’s the example—
At $1 an hour, it takes 11.6 days to make $1 million and 31.7 years to make $1 billion.

We’re less than peons to the rich. We’re fools.
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 16d
Dear AI,
please add a huge, lying Pinocchio nose to Mike Johnson forever. Not just in word,
but in deed.
He will never be a real boy, even with Iifts in those shoes.
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 16d
Off with its head, Bezos decreed about the bridge that impeded his gigantic yacht. And then he turned his attention to truth and the WaPo newsroom.
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 16d
The mean kids from 8th grade are running the country.
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 18d
Stop them now—delay, obstruct, protest, boycott, cancel, file suits. Use every peaceful tactic.

Trials later. A chaotic transition would be better than this.
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 18d
Basically, every person in the US will have some connection
with a member of the military or veteran (12 million served in WW2 alone—my grandpa was just one, and I’m -not that- old. Hitler, fascists in Italy, the emperor of Japan—that’s who/what we defeated. That trump exists? is beyond belief.
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 18d
Yeah, don’t even get my family going about Trump and Hegseth and their phony warrior ethos and lethality bullsh*t.
My grandfather gave a famous Memorial Day speech at the cemetery at Anzio—he turned his back on the VIPs and apologized to the dead soldiers.
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 18d
Disrespected the Gold Star family of Humayun Khan in 2016.
Disrespected the graves at Arlington National Cemetery.
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mrtruscott @mrtruscott.bsky.social · 18d
He and my grandmother are buried at Arlington in Plot 1.
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