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thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · Jun 1

New live album available now:

gregbucking.bandcamp.com/album/live-2...

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thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 15h

Yes they would. If they put up roadblocks and checked everyone for guns like they did in DC, the gun humpers would throw a fit.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 2d

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Trump will just have to keep murdering fishermen until you stupid jerks give him the peace prize

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

papers like the New York Times actively help right wing propagandists by introducing false claims as something that's open to debate and interpretation, instead of clearly framing them up front as lies pushed by unreliable operators

Turning Point USA is a right wing propaganda op aimed at kids

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 2d

The America we used to live in—the America we want to think we live in—is gone.

We’ll have to build again.

We want to think that the repeated, widespread abuse of basic rights by DHS; the DOJ actions against former officials like James Comey and John Bolton; the presence of 2020 election deniers across congressional and executive branch leaders; the unconstitutional dismantling of federal agencies; the consolidation of old and new media under leadership favorable to Trump; the use of lawsuits and executive branch power to intimidate and silence critics; and the clear attempts to subvert the 2026 and 2028 elections; and Trump’s constant insinuation that he might seek a third term do not all in fact mean that we have crossed the threshold into a competitive authoritarian environment.
But we have. We have passed through the veil. Whatever becomes of American liberal democracy in the near or distant future, it will be a resurrection and not a continuation.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 2d

Relatedly, Dems have to stop ceding any ground on the crime issue. Stop saying Trump has a point or that Rs are right about crime in cities.

First and foremost, they aren’t right. They are presenting a nightmarish hellscape that doesn’t exit.

Second, there’s no compromise here. They want tyranny.

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thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 1d

David Simon keeping it real

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 1d

Read the room you asshole comedians

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 3d

The really need red and black armbands to complete the look

thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 3d

And shitty labor leaders like Sean OBrien saw to it that he would not endorse the candidate that would be an actual advocate for labor. Instead he sucked up to trump and spoke at his convention.

thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 3d

Totally normal country we have here

JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 3d

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 3d

Buy a tuner for $20

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 3d

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

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thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 3d

What a dipshit. And a liar

thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 4d

Agreed. However, some comedians like Jon Oliver and John Stewart have quality staff that actually DO care about details.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d

To be clear those guys are all idiots and the fact that people get their news from comedians who are trying to get a laugh and don't care about a single fucking detail of anything beyond that is very bad

thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 4d

Nice story bro. I especially like the photo from 1982. Just bang up journalism going on

thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 4d

He’s gonna pardon his friend and sex trafficker

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 4d

People can instinctively tell when someone is speaking from a grounding in their morals and values. And people can instinctively tell when someone is speaking from what they have calculated to be what they think other people want to hear.

Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 4d

Last big program I helped run, we targeted AND MOVED a much higher proportion of former Trump voters than much larger, mainstream programs. The same goes for flipping folks in other countries. It's not about left vs mod, it's about whether you're ready to run on values, build a choir, & persuade. /1

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 5d

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 6d

wizard frog is insane

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

I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 5d

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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thegregbucking.bsky.social @thegregbucking.bsky.social · 6d

Beautiful. Needed this

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.