@michaelmcgravey.bsky.social
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C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."
09.10.2025 13:00 — 👍 16814 🔁 4221 💬 1229 📌 318I was working on the story and he just came out and said it
09.10.2025 17:17 — 👍 6226 🔁 1344 💬 339 📌 74Using massive Medicaid and Medicare fraud.
05.10.2025 17:17 — 👍 13352 🔁 4195 💬 1236 📌 380SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
05.10.2025 22:20 — 👍 9284 🔁 4730 💬 938 📌 817fortune.com/2025/10/06/u...
Are we winning yet?!
Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US.
04.10.2025 02:04 — 👍 25241 🔁 6900 💬 663 📌 358You.
Are.
Allowed.
To.
Insult.
The.
Police.
It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences.
That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras.
Rightly confident in his impunity.
Spot on.
04.10.2025 12:08 — 👍 23545 🔁 10738 💬 724 📌 479Some of the nation’s largest law firms warn clients to prepare for politically motivated federal probes stemming from Trump’s domestic terrorism directive, which could be used to stifle dissent and revoke tax-exempt status from left-leaning nonprofits. https://bit.ly/4gXSqC8
04.10.2025 20:32 — 👍 371 🔁 178 💬 15 📌 8The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.
Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.
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04.10.2025 17:05 — 👍 23805 🔁 6522 💬 737 📌 291Trump promised an infrastructure bill for 4 years in his first term.
Said it was coming in 2 weeks many times.
Never delivered one.
Democrats then delivered critically needed funding for crumbling infrastructure.
Now Russ Vought is taking that away.
But only in blue states.
The GOP health care for immigrants lie is an old one. Here’s me six years ago:
03.10.2025 05:43 — 👍 16143 🔁 5248 💬 330 📌 142😂
02.10.2025 11:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social
01.10.2025 15:32 — 👍 22570 🔁 9490 💬 636 📌 550STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that?
MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement
STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement
Are we great yet?
01.10.2025 14:36 — 👍 17692 🔁 5433 💬 922 📌 320Priorities.
01.10.2025 16:38 — 👍 17486 🔁 8533 💬 1308 📌 846Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."
01.10.2025 18:17 — 👍 36204 🔁 12924 💬 1019 📌 682MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too
D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?
J: I didn't see it
D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
Seriously—in any other administration the President telling the SecDef (sorry, "SecWar") that American cities should be used as "training grounds" for the military would kick of impeachment proceedings that same day.
30.09.2025 14:54 — 👍 1811 🔁 493 💬 63 📌 27Congrats to team Europe for winning the Ryder Cup. Historic and well deserved.
Our fans were disgraceful. An embarrassment to the US team and the game of golf.
No class, dignity or grace…just like their cult leader in the White House.
Before we move on to today’s shooting at a Mormon church, let’s not forget that this man killed three people and injured seven when he opened fire from a boat in North Carolina yesterday.
28.09.2025 15:57 — 👍 1792 🔁 902 💬 138 📌 65BREAKING: Multiple victims have been injured following a shooting at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, Michigan, according to police.
28.09.2025 16:12 — 👍 389 🔁 169 💬 80 📌 40More people should be talking about this.
26.09.2025 05:29 — 👍 7548 🔁 3450 💬 441 📌 406A hurricane could be heading for the East Coast right when the government shuts down.
27.09.2025 00:11 — 👍 271 🔁 94 💬 58 📌 20