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Won the Nobel price of love 1922. Chuck Grassley should resign. He should build a time machine and resign 30 years ago.

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Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · Mar 18

I hate to say it folks, but history book, shall the people of the future have any, will likely pinpoint the end of American democracy as March 16th-17th (with it becoming inevitable in November when trump won his 2nd term).

Today, March 18th, we're vey likely living in the "after" time.

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Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 4h

Imagine you're the judge who has to decide whether to send national guards to Oregon or not. On one side, the federal government goes with "dangerous criminals roaming the streets, the city is burning" and on the other, dancing squirrel, frog, chicken, even an eagle in a star spangled banner suit.

jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 11h

Portland, last night.

Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 17h

That reminds me of Mike Pence and gay people. Trump made fun of him "Mike wants to throw them all off the roof."

Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 17h

In agriculture: We know farms are losing business when their workforce get snatched by ICE. But if ICE goes where large concentration of undocumented workers are (large food processing plants) to make their quota, some stock-listed companies are gonna shut down plants overnight.

Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 17h

I've often said "Hey, CEO of large corporation, good luck running a business during a civil war."

Now, this is gonna be different than civil war, but Home Depot is probably losing business, and when they go after Amazon or UPS truck driver, it's gonna be a whole new level of financial damages.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

“This is not sustainable”

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Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 17h

Good news ladies, he's single.

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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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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Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 1d

No they're not. Stop with the BS.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

About to launch OnlyFathers where a priest will give a sermon while he mows the lawn shirtless

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

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Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I admire the correct grammar on the disgraced former governor.
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Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 3d

No one should call Andrew Cuomo the "former disgraced governor". That's grammatically incorrect. The correct way to refer to him is "disgraced former governor." He's still disgraced, he's not a governor anymore.

Actually, we should call him Disgraced Andrew Cuomo. Disgraced is part of his name now.

Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 1d

You can watch this on mute and look at @timmiller.bsky.social 's face change over the course of 120 seconds and you understand all you have to understand.

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Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, some scammer just gave a million to Hakeem Jeffries's campaign so, no, you get to receive scam texts for 500 years.

Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 1d

This is as close as it gets to trump's "the goddam toilets that you need to flush 3 times and the shower with a drip of water" that doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things but win votes because it's annoying AF.

Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Noem: "Sir, there's frogs everywhere. Yesterday it was only Portland, now it's Chicago too. We're afraid there could be thousands of them on October 18th."

Trump: "How do we stop the frogs?"

Bessent: "Well, the costumes are made in China"

Trump:
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Trump proposing 100% tariffs on China

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

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Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 1d

They could also help preventing the use of the word genocide by helping those who want to prevent genocide.

The people who oppose the use of the word always seem to be the people who oppose the act the least.

Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Don't you guys like how China is gonna impose export control on products not even made by them? I guess Xi has mind control or something like that.

Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 1d

How cool of him to wait until markets are closed...

Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Russian spy has communication channel with her handler.

Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 1d

October 18th. Everywhere.

Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 1d

What about all the other madness?

Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Government is shut indefinitely. Things will really break after 2-4 weeks of employee furlough. You think airports don't work now. Wait a couple weeks and you'll want to walk across the country.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

UNREAL

Democratic Whip Notice: The House GOP Leadership have made the following change to the House Floor schedule:

Members are advised that votes are no longer expected in the House on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.

Pending Senate action on FY26 Funding, Members will receive 48 hours' notice prior to any potential votes in the House. Further information regarding the Floor schedule will be provided as soon as it becomes available.

This is a change from the House GOP Leadership's previously announced schedule.

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Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Thiel basically owns JD Vance, who is very very likely to be our next president.

Let that sink in.

Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway this is what the VIX looks like right now.

VIX (volatility index) today. Sharp increase the moment trump posted his weird crap.

Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Markets fell right after this post, but I can't even say it's because of renewed fear of a trade war with China. Some people might just have realized the president's brain is just rotten mash potatoes at this point and it scares them.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

NEWS: Trump accuses China of launching “hostile” export restrictions on rare earths and threatens massive new tariffs and financial countermeasures from the U.S. in response.

Markets quickly dropped after he made this post.

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1d

every dollar you spend for a subscription to a major publication like the times or wapo is better spent on propublica and local and independent media

Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible things are happening, as ever, at The Paper of Record.

two articles in a row that feel like very 2025 slaps in the face:

Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver

‘Democrats Fumbled This a Bit’: 3 Writers Assess Where We Are With the Shutdown

Marc Rowan

Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

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