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Ambassador Greg Delawie

@gregdelawie.bsky.social

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Former FSO, Ambassador, Europe & Balkans guy, arms controller. Still uphold my oath to defend the Constitution "against all enemies, foreign and domestic." @steadystatevets @NSL4America. Views mine.

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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · Apr 21

My take on Soft Power: "What the heck is “soft power” anyway? Namby-pamby power? Woke power? Mickey Mouse power? And should we even care, if it’s just “soft?” You bet!" gregdelawie.substack.com/p/hard-truth...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4h

The reason Mike Johnson is able to keep the House closed and not pass bills to pay the military or fund the government is because Trump is going to circumvent congress and illegally steal that money from other government programs. All to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 5h

Republicans like Vance hate Americans like Pritzker who believe in American values like democracy and rule of law

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

STEPHANOPOULOS: Trump said Pritzker should be in jail. Do you think he has committed a crime?

VANCE: I think Pritzker has certainly failed to keep the people of Illinois safe

S: It's a yes or no question

V: I certainly think he has violated his fundamental oath. That seems pretty criminal to me

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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 8h

Unpaid soldiers at a food bank is on-brand for the Republicans, who thinks our vets are "suckers and losers" in Trump's words.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 21h

Trump issued the order after footage of soldiers lining up at a food bank went viral online.

Pentagon Pete Gets Trump Order to Pay Troops Despite Shutdown

Trump issued the order after footage of soldiers lining up at a food bank went viral online.

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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 9h

The GOP surrenders US leadership in cheap clean energy technologies to China to enrich Republican polluters. “You can keep your disbelief in global warming all you like,” he said, “but don’t deny your people the advantages of the lowest-cost energy on earth.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The real winners of Trump’s attack on clean energy aren’t American

U.S. politics are undercutting clean energy at the same time economics are propelling it forward globally. Can the U.S. afford to sit this out?

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 9h

Republicans are all about unilateral disarmament in the info wars. "The Trump administration has ended key efforts to defend against Russian, Chinese and Iranian targeting of Americans with false claims." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | How foreign powers are gaslighting Americans

Russia, China and Iran pay no price for spreading false claims about the U.S.

www.washingtonpost.com

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

The cruelty is the point

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

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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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 9h

Republicans are determined to prove that government is useless and are doing everything they can to make that so. They don't care how many Americans die in the process.

Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 19h

“CDC will have lost its ability to detect outbreaks and respond to them. It will no longer be able to track diseases, in America and around the globe. That includes infectious threats like flu, foodborne illnesses, and Ebola, as well as chronic diseases and injuries.”
time.com/7325192/cdc-...

CDC ‘Not Functional’ After Trump Administration Orders Mass Firings

The layoffs targeted leaders in departments related to respiratory diseases, chronic diseases and global health.

time.com

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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 23h

Don't worry, republican secretary of health RFK Jr will recite an incantation that will make everybody well

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 2d

#MafiaDon and his thugs are attacking political enemies

William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 2d

Trump and his henchmen think the rest of us are stupid. Mortgage fraud is his version of people falling out of windows—as we’ve seen with Sen. Schiff, Fed Governor Lisa Cook and others. We have eyes and ears and it’s obvious this charge is targeted political retribution.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

America is going to have so many attorneys it needs to disbar when all this is over, and Letitia James will not be one of them

Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 2d

If you had any doubt that the GOP wanted to establish a #Dictatorship in the U.S. this should eliminate them.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d

The Guardian reports that Letitia James has been indicted

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans are destroying #RuleOfLaw in the U.S.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

CNN: We have just learned that Letitia James has just been indicted by the DOJ

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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 4d

He just said it. 100% unironically and unmistakably.

“We took the freedom of speech away.”

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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 3d

Trump's tariffs have caused so much inflation in the United States that the price of gold is up to $4,000 per ounce.

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

Trump defends his price raising tariffs

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Abigail Spanberger @abigailspanberger.com · 3d

My opponent Winsome Earle-Sears wants to ban abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest.

It’s extreme — and frankly, out of touch with what Virginians want and deserve.

Virginia, make no mistake — I will always protect your reproductive freedom.

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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 3d

#DementiaDon

Diane Strickland @autisticannie.bsky.social · 3d

Great watch, if you have half an hour. 💙

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Jim Acosta: Corporate media is paralyzed with fear to report on Trump’s cognitive decline

We need independent media more than ever!

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 3d

Hakeem Jeffries obliterated Lying Mike Lawler: “You’re ripping away people’s health care. People will die in your district.”

Then Creepy Mike Johnson tried to crash a press conference and got exposed for the Epstein cover-up.

Every Democrat should be fighting like this. No excuses. 💥

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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 3d

Trump's tariffs have certainly brought the U.S. inflation, and caused countries formerly at odds to join up against us.

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 3d

He's so desperate to win that prize he's claiming tariffs have ushered in world peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to Hannity: "The tariffs have brought peace to the world. I'm telling you they brought peace to the world."

Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 3d

Once again the NYT implies that Democrats are to blame for the GOP-owned govt shutdown. Shame! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

These Democrats Could Hold the Key to Ending the Shutdown

www.nytimes.com

Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 3d

Republican calls for jailing political opponents. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump calls for Illinois governor and Chicago mayor to be jailed

JB Pritzker and Brandon Johnson both said they would not step down or stop fighting Trump’s efforts to send federal law enforcement to Chicago

www.independent.co.uk

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

McGovern: Republicans love to advocate for more work requirements for poor people… Let's have a work requirement for Republicans to show up to congress and do your god damn job.

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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 3d

Republican pols do not value truth. Apparently, neither do their voters.

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 4d

GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville is now fundraising by lying that the FBI "tapped his phone," a wildly misleading reference to reports of the FBI analyzing some GOP senators' phone metadata -- dates and times of calls, not content of convos -- during its Jan. 6 probe.

Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 4d

Gosh another hypocritical Republican pol. Is there any other kind? www.rawstory.com/josh-schriver/

GOP lawmaker who compared adult websites to heroin linked to graphic hookup site account

A Republican state lawmaker in Michigan who has condemned LGBTQ rights, called oral sex "a crime against God," and introduced legislation to ban pornography in the state has been linked to an account ...

www.rawstory.com

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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 4d

Republicans are delaying the swearing-in of Grijalva in order to protect evidence against a #Pedophile. Remember when this crowd claimed to be the "moral majority"?

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 4d

Watch House speaker fumble question on Epstein cover-up

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Watch House speaker fumble question on Epstein cover-up

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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 4d

This is GOP #Corruption! Under the law, federal employees are supposed to be loyal to the Constitution, not some to-bit demented despot. aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump...

NEWS: Trump Suggests Only Federal Employees Loyal to Him Will Receive Back Pay

Trump suggests only giving loyal federal workers back pay after shutdown, FAA notes major shortages at airports across the country, Pam Bondi refuses to answer Epstein questions, and more.

aaronparnas.substack.com

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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 5d

Loved the "certificate of participation" for Trump. www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-expl...

Trump Explodes with Rage after Gavin Newsom Wins Nobel Peace Prize

The committee recognized Trump with a "certificate of participation."