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Executive Editor of Occupy Democrats, author, journalist and podcaster newsletter.grantstern.com

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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · Nov 10

Here is my starter pack of friends and colleagues. People I know IRL who I suggest you follow here. go.bsky.app/NGoXH7m

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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 2d

If you really want to send Donald Trump into a RAGE, then make this idea go viral across America.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 3d

When the Pope has to come out and say 'no more lies' you know times are f'd.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 3d

Because it takes three people shouting to try and stop one person's truth, and it STILL doesn't work. When Newsmax viewers see the panic, they know I'm onto something.

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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 3d

In my most recent visit, the 3-on-1 pile-on was so gross that the producer actually apologized to me when we went to break. I told him no need. This is why I go to Newsmax, to talk with folks who otherwise wouldn't hear this and I'm expecting the pile on.

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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 3d

Rand proves that even broken clocks are right twice a day.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 3d

Former official advisor to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 3d

MAGA is still fighting

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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 3d

Donald Trump is behaving like Mad King George with his domestic National Guard deployments.

If everybody else is afraid to say it, then I am not afraid to say it.

Even on Newsmax.

America's Emperor has no clothes.

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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 3d

Donald Trump promised his billionaire friends a TRILLION dollars in benefits if they gave his campaign a billion dollars last year.

Now, Trump sent that TRILLION dollars to his friends and doesn't want to pay for YOUR healthcare.

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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 6d

Republicans are LYING about why they shut the government down to make YOUR healthcare more expensive.

Take 30 seconds to watch me BUST THEM bullshitting by smuggling actual facts on Newsmax.

#TrumpsHealthcareShutdown

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d

He’s foaming at the mouth to go full Gestapo.

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 8d

A quick question for Karoline. www.youtube.com/shorts/y_zNS...

So Riddle Me This Karoline

YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly

www.youtube.com

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 8d

ICE agents arrest Alderperson Jessie L. Fuentes (26th Ward of Chicago city council) after she questions them on whether they have a signed judicial warrant to arrest a person at Humboldt Park Hospital.

“He has Constitutional rights.”

“No.”

ICE’s exact mindset: no one is allowed any rights now.

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Polly Kane 🇺🇳💃🏻🇺🇳 @kanekavi.sheshed.rocks · 8d

ICE agents can use geofencing to target you
but
an app that alerts you to nearby ICE raids has been removed by Apple on demands from the Trump administration.

Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 8d

Get found “in seconds”

ICE Records Confirm that Immigration Enforcement Agencies are Using Invasive Cell Phone Surveillance Devices | image: StingRay cell phone surveillance device

LAPD Eyes ‘GeoSpy', an Al Tool That Can Geolocate Photos in Seconds

JOSEPH COX • AUG 13, 2025 AT 8:55 AM

Emails obtained by 404 Media show the
LAPD was interested in GeoSpy, an Al tool that can quickly figure out where a photo was taken.

INSIDE THE NYPD'S SURVEILLANCE MACHINE

Your face is being tracked. Find out where.

TAKE A WALK IN NYC

See how policing tactics intersect

(Image: black and white photo of a large crowd in New York City with red squares around their faces to illustrate surveillance)

Truthout

NEWS ANALYSIS | PRISONS & POLICING

Campus Police Are Using Israeli Spy Tech to Crack Down on Student Protest

Israeli-made surveillance technologies are accelerating the militarization of campus police departments across the US.

By Tara Goodarzi & Brian Dolinar, TRUTHOUT

February 24, 2025

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 8d

Republicans can keep blaming Democrats, but the country understands this is on them‼️

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 8d

Sean Combs got less time than bro who stole a piece of pizza

Latimes.com

Los Angeles Times

California

Pizza Thief Receives Sentence of 25 Years to Life in Prison : Crime: Judge cites five prior felony convictions in sentencing Jerry Dewayne Williams under ‘three strikes’ law.

By ERIC SLATER

March 3, 1995 12 AM PT

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8d

Mike Johnson swore in newly elected Republicans earlier this year when the House wasn’t fully in session.

But now he’s refusing to do the same for Democratic representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 11d

If you’re at all interested in defending democracy or defeating Trump, this is a literal MUST WATCH

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 10d

People are sounding the alarm and ignored by this regime!

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 10d

#Pinks #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited

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Ty Ross @cooltxchick.bsky.social · 10d

I don’t think many realize how prescient and relevant the movie 9 to 5 was, and is. Though blanketed in comedy, the real story of what women had to experience and suffer through in the workplace was overlooked. Mind you, it came out just a few years after women were finally given financial autonomy

Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, and Lily Tomlin

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 10d

"I have yet to find a single military official who was in the audience today who thought that this was a good presentation."

"A ... disbelief that some of them were made to fly from, some of them, Asia, from all over the world ... all the way to Quanico to listen to a "campaign-style stump speech."

'Disbelief': Pentagon reporter can't find one military official who liked Hegseth's speech

www.rawstory.com

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Tiffany Drastic @pdxeleven.bsky.social · 10d

Jim’s Kash Patel impression is the content I didn’t know I needed 😂😂

🚨WATCH🚨

Trump PANICS as America DEMANDS the Epstein Files

YouTube video by The Dangerous Ones

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Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 10d

October 2024: Project 2025…never heard of it.

October 2025:

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10d

Whoa! Employees at the SBA received a template for their suggested “out of office” email. They were advised to blame the Democrats.

🚨 A clear violation of the Hatch Act

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