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Gracipher

@gracipher.bsky.social

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Cycle-breaker, ASL interpreter, disability rights advocate, abuse survivor, cancer survivor, empath, pansexual in hetero-pairing, animal lover. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. All aboard the anxiety express...

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Gracipher @gracipher.bsky.social · Apr 15

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Viagra ad with Donald Trump sitting at table sad and alone, above him the text “too impotent to fix a wrongful deportation?”

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t.

And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks.

Did I get that right?

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ICEBlock Official @iceblock.app · 1d

ICEBLOCK IS STILL OPERATIONAL!

If you have #ICEBlock installed, you and 1.14 million of your friends can still make and receive reports. DO NOT DELETE the app from your iPhone as you will lose access.

While we can no longer provide updates, we encourage everyone to continue the fight. #resist

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Gracipher @gracipher.bsky.social · 7h

[AlertDC] The U.S. Military will conduct an aircraft flyover in the National Capital Region (NCR) over Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, at 11:07AM. This replaces the previously announced flyover time of 11:10AM.

Gracipher @gracipher.bsky.social · 7h

There was a flyover scheduled today, wonder what time he had planned it… [AlertDC] The U.S. Military will conduct an aircraft flyover in the National Capital Region (NCR) over Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, at 11:07AM.

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Gracipher @gracipher.bsky.social · 7h

Do we know what time? There is a flyover planned I got an alert

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

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Gracipher @gracipher.bsky.social · 4d

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Gracipher @gracipher.bsky.social · 4d

Aww reminds me of my boy O’Neill

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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 5d

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d

Good intel on ICE’s new plan to reportedly pressure migrant teenagers into accepting deportation!

Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 5d

I’m so grateful to Priscilla Alvarez for running down what is actually going on here. www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/p...

Trump administration prepares to offer money to unaccompanied migrant teenagers to voluntarily leave US | CNN Politics

The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to offer unaccompanied migrant teenagers in the United States the option to voluntarily leave the country and receive a payment, according to three sou...

www.cnn.com

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NetworkforDemocracy @simple-truth.bsky.social · 4d

Jesse Welles, this generation's Woody Guthrie

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 5d

Even Grok knows the truth and is shouting it in ALL CAPS.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

At a time when federal agents are sowing chaos in Chicago, the Trump administration is holding bipartisan funding hostage.

It’s attempting to score political points but is instead hurting our economy and the hardworking people who rely on public transit to get to work or school.

CTA Red Line Extension funding frozen as Trump administration withholds $2.1 billion from Chicago

Two major Chicago transit projects are in jeopardy after the White House froze $2.1 billion in federal funding over an investigation into racial preferences in contracting.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6d

And while these messages are blatant violations of the Hatch Act, the administration sent out a Hatch Act policy to all federal employees this week to remind them that THEY must follow Hatch Act on Social media. END/

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Marc Turnes @turnesfurnace.bsky.social · 6d

CONSERVATIVES:
The Republican party was furious about being fact checked during the debates.

They demanded debates without fact checking.

Why would you do that if you weren't planning to lie through your teeth?

If they'll do that in the debates, why wouldn't they do that once they were elected?

Vance is a liar saying they want to work across the aisle.

This is a photo of the House floor in the evening before the shut down.

Democrats showed up.

Republicans did not.

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Conservatives -- they think you are stupid. That's why they lie to your face.

The problem is: You're believing the lies and proving them right.

Snap out of it.

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Maggie Reed @mermaidmamamaggie.bsky.social · 6d

There, I fixed it for you. It’s the Republican Government Shutdown!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7d

He was just in the news a couple weeks ago again because he had another warrant issued for his arrest after he missed a court date for yet another driving incident.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE

YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS

PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 8d

This… 👇🏼
#bluesky

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 8d

So…let me see if I have this right. The federal government is gonna shut down in 30hrs, and the party that controls the ENTIRE federal government is trying to blame the party that controls NONE of the federal government for the looming shutdown?

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Gracipher @gracipher.bsky.social · 8d

Damn right- keep fighting

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8d

so I wake up to find that Hegseth summoned the entire brass to tell them we now protect and revere rapists and war criminals in the US military, followed by Trump holding a mini campaign rally and whining about lack of applause, and this is somehow basically the best case scenario

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Gracipher @gracipher.bsky.social · 8d

I really want to see the audience reactions

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9d

What kind of president and administration promotes “maximum pain” to their people?

We need to stop calling this the Trump “administration”… it’s a “regime”‼️
#ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

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