Grant Amsberry
@grantamsberry.bsky.social
Kansas Democrat. Cautious Optimist.
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Any account blaming dems for what repubs have done and what voters did should be treated with suspicion. It's a midterm year and they've come here to suppress the vote.
January 14, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Any account blaming dems for what repubs have done and what voters did should be treated with suspicion. It's a midterm year and they've come here to suppress the vote.
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I’m honestly desirous of a vacation with no internet access. Two weeks ought to do it.
January 9, 2026 at 8:25 AM
I’m honestly desirous of a vacation with no internet access. Two weeks ought to do it.
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We don't have to live like this.
January 7, 2026 at 5:59 PM
We don't have to live like this.
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Bigots don't make things worse to cultivate bigotry.
Bigots make things worse because they are dumb and their beliefs are at odds with the laws of creation.
Trump isn't damaging the economy with tariffs to make people bigoted, he's doing them because he's literally tariff otaku.
Bigots make things worse because they are dumb and their beliefs are at odds with the laws of creation.
Trump isn't damaging the economy with tariffs to make people bigoted, he's doing them because he's literally tariff otaku.
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Bigots don't make things worse to cultivate bigotry.
Bigots make things worse because they are dumb and their beliefs are at odds with the laws of creation.
Trump isn't damaging the economy with tariffs to make people bigoted, he's doing them because he's literally tariff otaku.
Bigots make things worse because they are dumb and their beliefs are at odds with the laws of creation.
Trump isn't damaging the economy with tariffs to make people bigoted, he's doing them because he's literally tariff otaku.
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"It's so weird how Beltway Brian keeps showing up on my suggested list even though I hate him," I say, as I refresh his profile for the fifteenth time this hour.
December 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"It's so weird how Beltway Brian keeps showing up on my suggested list even though I hate him," I say, as I refresh his profile for the fifteenth time this hour.
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Social media really throws into sharp relief many maladaptive behaviors (and also enables and encourages them). People would lead much more tranquil and pleasant lives if they just blocked those who annoy them and stopped thinking about them (or if they exited social media completely).
oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends
December 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Social media really throws into sharp relief many maladaptive behaviors (and also enables and encourages them). People would lead much more tranquil and pleasant lives if they just blocked those who annoy them and stopped thinking about them (or if they exited social media completely).
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The average center-left European is capable of esoteric racism absolutely incomprehensible to the American mind
December 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The average center-left European is capable of esoteric racism absolutely incomprehensible to the American mind
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I've been looking for an excuse to make myself a redaction detection tool based on the open source FreeLaw project. This give me the perfect document to test.
github.com/freelawproje...
github.com/freelawproje...
GitHub - freelawproject/x-ray: A tool to detect whether a PDF has a bad redaction
A tool to detect whether a PDF has a bad redaction - freelawproject/x-ray
github.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I've been looking for an excuse to make myself a redaction detection tool based on the open source FreeLaw project. This give me the perfect document to test.
github.com/freelawproje...
github.com/freelawproje...
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I firmly believe we're going to survive this era -- broken, hobbled, with decades of rebuilding that will not be finished in my lifetime -- but we are going to survive and every asshole who collaborated in the effort to destroy this country will forever wear the stain of it.
December 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I firmly believe we're going to survive this era -- broken, hobbled, with decades of rebuilding that will not be finished in my lifetime -- but we are going to survive and every asshole who collaborated in the effort to destroy this country will forever wear the stain of it.
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The running theme between the Epstein story, banning trans healthcare for minors, religious homeschooling and the complaints about adult children estranging themselves is a fundamental American belief that children are property with no rights of their own
America is a culture of child abuse. Ask any survivor - we find one another, we form networks and communities.
The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.
The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.
Government of pedophiles. They're all tainted with this for the rest of their lives.
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The running theme between the Epstein story, banning trans healthcare for minors, religious homeschooling and the complaints about adult children estranging themselves is a fundamental American belief that children are property with no rights of their own
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immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
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Accountability doomerism is a close cousin to rule-of-law doomerism.
Defeatism is self fulfilling.
Defeatism is self fulfilling.
December 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Accountability doomerism is a close cousin to rule-of-law doomerism.
Defeatism is self fulfilling.
Defeatism is self fulfilling.
Pay attention to how the mainstream media frames the shutdown deal over the next week or so. The more they portray it as Republicans giving concessions to Democrats, the more likely it is that the White House reflexively torpedoes it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Pay attention to how the mainstream media frames the shutdown deal over the next week or so. The more they portray it as Republicans giving concessions to Democrats, the more likely it is that the White House reflexively torpedoes it.
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The Democrats are not at fault for anything going badly in your life right now.
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The Democrats are not at fault for anything going badly in your life right now.
I don’t see how this shutdown could’ve ended much better for us, and I do see a million ways it could’ve ended much worse.
any bsky poaster have a theory of victory aligned with keeping the govt shutdown indefinitely I'm all ears, because again I think I've got a history that's pretty indicative I'm more than supportive of COAs that fuck me over personally if there's a viable path to an achievable end state
Okay so again, you gonna forgo your income for another 13 months?
Because you're asking me and a couple million of your fellow citizens to do that, and I don't think it's too much to ask for a plausible theory of victory aligned with that COA
Because you're asking me and a couple million of your fellow citizens to do that, and I don't think it's too much to ask for a plausible theory of victory aligned with that COA
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I don’t see how this shutdown could’ve ended much better for us, and I do see a million ways it could’ve ended much worse.
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The DNC is openly trashing this deal, the House Dems are calling the Senate "the enemy," yet surely this was all a highly coordinated feint by Schumer who openly opposed it as a shit deal…
a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a board with papers on it .
Alt: a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a board with papers on it .
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The DNC is openly trashing this deal, the House Dems are calling the Senate "the enemy," yet surely this was all a highly coordinated feint by Schumer who openly opposed it as a shit deal…
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GOP calling, GOP calling, your leaders don't care about you! You have no friends or allies anywhere on this Earth! You know they'll cave and surrender anyways, so why bother fighting back? And now, the news.
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
GOP calling, GOP calling, your leaders don't care about you! You have no friends or allies anywhere on this Earth! You know they'll cave and surrender anyways, so why bother fighting back? And now, the news.
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this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.
November 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.
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Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
April 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
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The answer is... Not really. Civilian oversight of policing is mostly akin to asking a sitting dog to sit. It's easier to pretend what the cops do is what you wanted than it is to make them do what you want.
Does the Governor of Illinois have any control over these thugs? They ought to be protecting the protestors from ICE, not the other way around.
October 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The answer is... Not really. Civilian oversight of policing is mostly akin to asking a sitting dog to sit. It's easier to pretend what the cops do is what you wanted than it is to make them do what you want.
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- A beginner's guide to 2025 US political discourse online -
>Something bad happens in the US (it's because of the GOP)
>Large account with 0 concern for their reach posts doom on main
>Gets thousands of likes
>A small minority tries to clear the air (it's pointless)
>Repeat every 2-3 days
>Something bad happens in the US (it's because of the GOP)
>Large account with 0 concern for their reach posts doom on main
>Gets thousands of likes
>A small minority tries to clear the air (it's pointless)
>Repeat every 2-3 days
August 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
- A beginner's guide to 2025 US political discourse online -
>Something bad happens in the US (it's because of the GOP)
>Large account with 0 concern for their reach posts doom on main
>Gets thousands of likes
>A small minority tries to clear the air (it's pointless)
>Repeat every 2-3 days
>Something bad happens in the US (it's because of the GOP)
>Large account with 0 concern for their reach posts doom on main
>Gets thousands of likes
>A small minority tries to clear the air (it's pointless)
>Repeat every 2-3 days