Gracie Flora
@gracieflora.bsky.social
Editor, writer, pragmatist, humanist
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an actually useful thing that a billionaire mounting a vanity campaign could do would be loudly to keep saying this, basically talking to the electorate like adults for once. Cut pensions, Raise Taxes, let in Immigrants to work. Those are the options. gotta pick one.
the actual suicide of the West will be combining a rapidly aging population with hostility to migrants. however we must give credit to East Asia, especially Japan, for pioneering this model.
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
an actually useful thing that a billionaire mounting a vanity campaign could do would be loudly to keep saying this, basically talking to the electorate like adults for once. Cut pensions, Raise Taxes, let in Immigrants to work. Those are the options. gotta pick one.
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
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“It wasn’t Bill Clinton, it was a different Bubba!”
CHECKMATE LIBS
CHECKMATE LIBS
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
“It wasn’t Bill Clinton, it was a different Bubba!”
CHECKMATE LIBS
CHECKMATE LIBS
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I mean, I go all "News in thrall to capital cannot adequately speak truth to power" all the time, but we're past that where the capital is actively hostile to people knowing the truth in most cases.
Kinda hard to trust news outlets these days!
Kinda hard to trust news outlets these days!
November 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I mean, I go all "News in thrall to capital cannot adequately speak truth to power" all the time, but we're past that where the capital is actively hostile to people knowing the truth in most cases.
Kinda hard to trust news outlets these days!
Kinda hard to trust news outlets these days!
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the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
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You know what's really pathetic? Journalists and other members of the media who are still helping to cover this up even when they weren't even invited to pedo fuck island themselves. I mean have some fucking self respect
November 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
You know what's really pathetic? Journalists and other members of the media who are still helping to cover this up even when they weren't even invited to pedo fuck island themselves. I mean have some fucking self respect
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lmao
"Who do you blame for (X) going up?"
Healthcare Premiums:
🔴 GOP: 47%
🔵 DEM: 21%
🟣 Both: 19%
Costs Generally:
🔴 GOP: 46%
🟣 Both: 21%
🔵 DEM: 19%
Electricity:
🔴 GOP: 38%
🟣 Both: 20%
🔵 DEM: 19%
Navigator / Nov 9, 2025
Healthcare Premiums:
🔴 GOP: 47%
🔵 DEM: 21%
🟣 Both: 19%
Costs Generally:
🔴 GOP: 46%
🟣 Both: 21%
🔵 DEM: 19%
Electricity:
🔴 GOP: 38%
🟣 Both: 20%
🔵 DEM: 19%
Navigator / Nov 9, 2025
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
lmao
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POTUS gave a convicted child sex abuser favorable treatment, and dangled the prospect of a pardon, so she would tell lies about if he was implicated in her crimes. That's not speculative or circumstantial, it's a cold hard proven fact, in and of itself more than enough to demand removal from office.
Ghislaine Maxwell lied about Trump never going to Epstein's house (directly contradicted by her email correspondence with Epstein), and she was rewarded for that lie with a transfer to a cushier prison. The coverup is happening in plain sight.
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
POTUS gave a convicted child sex abuser favorable treatment, and dangled the prospect of a pardon, so she would tell lies about if he was implicated in her crimes. That's not speculative or circumstantial, it's a cold hard proven fact, in and of itself more than enough to demand removal from office.
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20% of the Senate is controlled by 2.5% of the US population
Wyoming — 580,175
Vermont — 648,279
Alaska — 740,339
North Dakota — 811,044
South Dakota — 908,414
Delaware — 1,017,551
Rhode Island — 1,110,822
Montana — 1,112,668
Maine — 1,372,559
New Hampshire — 1,395,647
8.5 vs 340 million
Wyoming — 580,175
Vermont — 648,279
Alaska — 740,339
North Dakota — 811,044
South Dakota — 908,414
Delaware — 1,017,551
Rhode Island — 1,110,822
Montana — 1,112,668
Maine — 1,372,559
New Hampshire — 1,395,647
8.5 vs 340 million
November 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
20% of the Senate is controlled by 2.5% of the US population
Wyoming — 580,175
Vermont — 648,279
Alaska — 740,339
North Dakota — 811,044
South Dakota — 908,414
Delaware — 1,017,551
Rhode Island — 1,110,822
Montana — 1,112,668
Maine — 1,372,559
New Hampshire — 1,395,647
8.5 vs 340 million
Wyoming — 580,175
Vermont — 648,279
Alaska — 740,339
North Dakota — 811,044
South Dakota — 908,414
Delaware — 1,017,551
Rhode Island — 1,110,822
Montana — 1,112,668
Maine — 1,372,559
New Hampshire — 1,395,647
8.5 vs 340 million
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If you read in a history book about a dictator in failing health who cut off money and food supplies from his people, attacked them with violent gendarmes, seemed oblivious to a national public outburst of anger in local elections, and wiled away the days building vast palaces, what would you think
November 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM
If you read in a history book about a dictator in failing health who cut off money and food supplies from his people, attacked them with violent gendarmes, seemed oblivious to a national public outburst of anger in local elections, and wiled away the days building vast palaces, what would you think
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i hate republicans and i hate people who wrap themselves in "christian" then spit efforts to help the poor. but i repeat myself.
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
i hate republicans and i hate people who wrap themselves in "christian" then spit efforts to help the poor. but i repeat myself.
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U.S. employers have announced 1.1 million layoffs so far this year—the largest reading since the pandemic recession.
The layoff totals are on par with 2008 and 2009 job cuts during the Great Recession.
The layoff totals are on par with 2008 and 2009 job cuts during the Great Recession.
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
U.S. employers have announced 1.1 million layoffs so far this year—the largest reading since the pandemic recession.
The layoff totals are on par with 2008 and 2009 job cuts during the Great Recession.
The layoff totals are on par with 2008 and 2009 job cuts during the Great Recession.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
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We are being ruled by absolute losers
November 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
We are being ruled by absolute losers
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Basically the Democrats are health food, the Republicans are methamphetamine, and the news media is your most toxic friend who encourages you to consume the latter over the former because livestreaming you while you're tweaking out gets them the most engagement online.
You can still find videos of the Biden Administration's daily press briefings, and I shit you not, the #1 topic for probably half of them was 'Us and other Dems are awesome at running the economy, Republicans want to make us tailspin into a recession,' and the media would never print a word of it.
It’s funny to see how many people here are insisting that Dems never even try to make this case when I think of it as “Bill Clinton’s favourite stat” which he brings up variations of literally every time he has a chance lol
November 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Basically the Democrats are health food, the Republicans are methamphetamine, and the news media is your most toxic friend who encourages you to consume the latter over the former because livestreaming you while you're tweaking out gets them the most engagement online.
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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Born again christians are completely immoral. They proclaim themselves 'saved' then proceed to lie, cheat, steal, diddle kids, etc.
October 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Born again christians are completely immoral. They proclaim themselves 'saved' then proceed to lie, cheat, steal, diddle kids, etc.
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Hope that plenty of people hammer home on how this is a choice that the admin is making. It is legal for them to send out food stamps and illegal to pay the military. The government has chosen to commit a crime to pay the military but is unwilling to lift a finger to feed people
October 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Hope that plenty of people hammer home on how this is a choice that the admin is making. It is legal for them to send out food stamps and illegal to pay the military. The government has chosen to commit a crime to pay the military but is unwilling to lift a finger to feed people
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Some snippets of citizen sentiment to share: “New polls from Gallup and YouGov show Democrats pulling ahead of Republicans as the party voters trust more to handle the economy…Maybe the situation for Democrats is less dire than pundits think.” +
Polls show voters now trust Democrats more to handle the economy
The issue that sank Democrats in 2024 now threatens to do the same to Republicans in 2025 and the 2026 midterms
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October 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Some snippets of citizen sentiment to share: “New polls from Gallup and YouGov show Democrats pulling ahead of Republicans as the party voters trust more to handle the economy…Maybe the situation for Democrats is less dire than pundits think.” +
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Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
October 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
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Genuine Democratic outrage at real scandals never gets the press saturation of performative Republican outrage at fake scandals.
October 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Genuine Democratic outrage at real scandals never gets the press saturation of performative Republican outrage at fake scandals.
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Low key I want a campaign promise from the next Dem nominee to immediately gut whatever gets built here. What goes inside it I don't really care but everything within gets trashed by the end of February 2029.
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Low key I want a campaign promise from the next Dem nominee to immediately gut whatever gets built here. What goes inside it I don't really care but everything within gets trashed by the end of February 2029.