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Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 32m

Have you called Craig?

Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 37m

Trump has seized complete control over our government. If Congress does not stand up and defend its Constitutional powers over spending, nothing stops Trump from syphoning our entire treasury into the pockets of his family and friends. The oligarchy is complete.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

Trump says he’s ordered Hegseth to pay the troops during the government shutdown.

“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”

Trump: Chuck Schumer recently said, "Every day gets better" during their Radical Left Shutdown. I DISAGREE! If nothing is done, because of
"Leader" Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th. That is why I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th. We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS. I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown. The Radical Left Democrats should OPEN THE GOVERNMENT, and then we can work together to address Healthcare, and many other things that they want to destroy. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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10/11/25, 10:35 AM

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Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 43m

“I watch sports to decompress”

“I run to detune”

“I smoke to relax”

“I drink to take the edge off”

“I read to escape”

Can we normalize just doing things because we like them? It’s ok to like things. Don’t make people justify doing things I like.

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Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 2h

@mattoak.bsky.social was looking for one, I think.

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gj1023 @gj1023.bsky.social · 5h

"Omg, Portland is a hellhole!
Please help!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🫶"

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Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 14h

Trump’s handlers think that the military types are so far on their side that they can get anyone in uniform to blame the Democrats for this. I think they are wrong.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 16h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 14h

All your calls of the series-winning walkoff [Fox, Fox Deportes, KIRO, Radio Sol, WXYT, WDTW]

(auto-transcribed & auto-translated)

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Spike Friedman @spikefriedman.bsky.social · 15h

TIME FOR A FEW SMALL BEERS

a man with his arms outstretched is standing in front of a police car on a road .

ALT: a man with his arms outstretched is standing in front of a police car on a road .

media.tenor.com

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Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 15h

BTW, if you’re not listening to the Mariners radio broadcast, you’re doing it wrong. Very wrong.

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Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 15h

This is the sort of playoff baseball game that the rules should be written to create. Narratives off the charts

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Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 18h

I love social media.

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Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 1d

The actual price for the 747 the Qataris “gave’ to Trump is a Qatari Air Force Base in…Idaho?

That ought to go over well with the racists in that state.

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Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem said that the mayor of Portland cleared the streets and hid the insurrection from her.

Hot take, but if the mayor of Portland has the power and sway to do that, why do we need the National Guard there?

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Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 1d

Do these 1 acre lot-tract home-exurb Trump voters who hate “big city liberals” think they will get to keep their pseudo libertarian lifestyle when all of the immigrants and liberals are gone?

Do they truly have no idea how much their lives are subsidized by us?

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Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 1d

These awful, terrible, illegal actions are nonetheless signs of incredible desperation by terrified people whose house of cards is teetering.

They HAVE to keep the Epstein evidence hidden at any cost.

Ryan @ryanhealy.bsky.social · 1d

If I see this video in the airport tomorrow (or any other day) I might get arrested. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/u...

Video of Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown “rolling out” at TSA security checkpoints across the country | CNN

Travelers waiting in airport security lines across the country will now be met with a video where the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown.

www.cnn.com

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Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I owned stock in inflatable frog costumes.

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Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 2d

Is Portland burning?

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 2d

My freshman research students know in week one that this is not how anything works.

What are we doing?!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 2d

Um. What?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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DocBuglove @docbuglove.smokefleet.net · 2d

Everyone on the fence about A.I., there's something you don't realize.

It's purpose is to eliminate human jobs and human skills.

That's it. That's its single purpose. For companies to no longer pay people or train them in skills.

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Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 2d

No notes.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 2d

We're being ruled by a deaf, blind, dying criminal who doesn't remember anything after 1987 and is being fed information solely through a gorilla channel run by his scheming eunuchs.

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Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 2d

The Resistance is a dude in a $45 inflatable frog costume.

So appropriate for the moment.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 2d

I need all of you who are reading this post to call your parents, aunts, uncles, wacky neighbors, starchy old men at the hardware store and anyone else you can and explain to them how batshit crazy it is that they are making up a fake enemy with a straight face.

This is all just...make believe.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 3d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 2d

Good Christ, man. From the loaded MAGA-coded question to his completely rotted brain grapes, this is the biggest practical joke in history. Right? RIGHT?

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