Greg Sampson
@grandgraffiti.bsky.social
Retired Jacksonville teacher (18 years), former preacher (Baldwin UMC), writer of novels, suffering Jaguars fan, long-time observer of the political scene. Some call me a gardener of sycamore-fig trees.
If you've ever had a parent or elderly relative who has or had dementia, you recognize the signs.
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'Trump will not make it to the end of this term compos mentis' | Psychologist analyses Trump
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November 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
If you've ever had a parent or elderly relative who has or had dementia, you recognize the signs.
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This is the second source I've seen reporting that all SNAP recipients must reapply for benefits.
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 AM
This is the second source I've seen reporting that all SNAP recipients must reapply for benefits.
Trump ought to rethink that loyalty over competence decision he made when staffing his second administration.
If you want to know why a federal court struck down Texas' new congressional map, read this. It is an amazing example of Trump's DOJ utter incompetence. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump DOJ’s ‘Ham-Fisted’ Letter Key to Ruling Blocking Texas Gerrymander
Read more here.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Trump ought to rethink that loyalty over competence decision he made when staffing his second administration.
Rep. Grijalva has signed the discharge petition re: Epstein files. House Rs have pooh-poohed the act saying they already are releasing the material, to wit, the 23,000 files this morning.
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Rep. Grijalva has signed the discharge petition re: Epstein files. House Rs have pooh-poohed the act saying they already are releasing the material, to wit, the 23,000 files this morning.
Now it's the Dems turn to give hell to the Rs. This pingponging will go on for an hour as a debate. Just pass the bill, dammit, and leave the rest for the campaign trail. Just how many people do they think are watching C-Span like kooky me?
November 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Now it's the Dems turn to give hell to the Rs. This pingponging will go on for an hour as a debate. Just pass the bill, dammit, and leave the rest for the campaign trail. Just how many people do they think are watching C-Span like kooky me?
Debate begins on the CR. Let the blame games begin! At the moment, an R is lambasting the Ds.
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Debate begins on the CR. Let the blame games begin! At the moment, an R is lambasting the Ds.
Now it's stand around and talk time, which the House does a lot of. Honestly, if they took that time and used it well, they could get twice the work done in half the time.
November 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Now it's stand around and talk time, which the House does a lot of. Honestly, if they took that time and used it well, they could get twice the work done in half the time.
(Finally!) Rep. Grijalva from Arizona has been sworn in as a member of the House of Representatives.
November 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
(Finally!) Rep. Grijalva from Arizona has been sworn in as a member of the House of Representatives.
If only it were really true: Trump Orders ICE Agents to Pick Crops Unharvested by Deported Immigrants open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Trump Orders ICE Agents to Pick Crops Unharvested by Deported Immigrants
“I didn’t sign up for this,” complained an exhausted ICE officer.
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October 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
If only it were really true: Trump Orders ICE Agents to Pick Crops Unharvested by Deported Immigrants open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Charlotte Joyce shows that she has no leadership to offer as chair of DCPS school board when she pulls a stunt like calling the other board members who voted with her, but did not call the board members who opposed her re: hiring an attorney. www.jacksonville.com/story/news/l...
Duval delegation advances bill amending city charter so School Board can hire its attorney
Duval County School Board offers compromise on change to Jacksonville's city charter that Duval Legislation Delegation backs on 6-2 vote.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Charlotte Joyce shows that she has no leadership to offer as chair of DCPS school board when she pulls a stunt like calling the other board members who voted with her, but did not call the board members who opposed her re: hiring an attorney. www.jacksonville.com/story/news/l...
China Forces Scott Bessent to Embrace Anti-Monopoly Tactics
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China Forces Scott Bessent to Embrace Anti-Monopoly Tactics
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is now taking emergency action to address Chinese monopoly power. He won't admit it, but Lina Khan and the anti-monopoly movement were right.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
China Forces Scott Bessent to Embrace Anti-Monopoly Tactics
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Prince Andrew Announces He Will Move to America Where Government Protects Pedophiles #SussexSquad (This is by an American satirist.) #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Prince Andrew Announces He Will Move to America Where Government Protects Pedophiles
“If you’re a pedophile, Washington is a sanctuary city.”
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October 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Prince Andrew Announces He Will Move to America Where Government Protects Pedophiles #SussexSquad (This is by an American satirist.) #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Don't use plastic containers to heat or transport hot food/drinks. wapo.st/46Zw1Qd
Microplastics are everywhere. You can do one simple thing to avoid them.
The biggest sources of microplastics have one thing in common: Heat.
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October 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Don't use plastic containers to heat or transport hot food/drinks. wapo.st/46Zw1Qd
"Great civilizations, history shows, do not end by fate or old age. They end — or revive — by choice, ..." Johan Norberg.
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Opinion | Is it America’s fate to decline and fall? Here’s what history says.
The American experiment will soon turn 250. Is its time running out?
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October 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"Great civilizations, history shows, do not end by fate or old age. They end — or revive — by choice, ..." Johan Norberg.
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“We’ve known for months that he’s been sick, but the words radiation and treatment hit differently. They landed in a place I didn’t expect. Because it feels like more than just one man enduring.
It feels like a reflection of all of us.”
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It feels like a reflection of all of us.”
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The Only Way Out Is Through
What Joe Biden’s endurance teaches us about America’s own capacity to heal.
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October 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“We’ve known for months that he’s been sick, but the words radiation and treatment hit differently. They landed in a place I didn’t expect. Because it feels like more than just one man enduring.
It feels like a reflection of all of us.”
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It feels like a reflection of all of us.”
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Trump Rallies Angry Supporters Outside Nobel HQ in Oslo
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(Humor alert! This is Borowitz.)
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(Humor alert! This is Borowitz.)
Trump Rallies Angry Supporters Outside Nobel HQ in Oslo
“If you want to win the Nobel Peace Prize, you’ve got to fight like hell.”
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October 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Trump Rallies Angry Supporters Outside Nobel HQ in Oslo
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(Humor alert! This is Borowitz.)
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(Humor alert! This is Borowitz.)
Reposted by Greg Sampson
Bad Bunny, the Super Bowl, and Why People are Really Nervous cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/04/b...
Bad Bunny, the Super Bowl, and Why People are Really Nervous
The Super Bowl has always been more than football. It is a ritual, a spectacle, a national performance. It’s where America tells the world who it thinks it is, and who it wants to be. Which is why …
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October 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Perspective from us old farts about the housing supply. wapo.st/4mTbEKD
Opinion | We’re seniors. It’s not our responsibility to fix the housing supply.
Why older adults are not downsizing.
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October 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Perspective from us old farts about the housing supply. wapo.st/4mTbEKD
When the orchestra stops playing,
The musicians are not paid;
When the conductor stops conducting
The instruments down are laid.
When the music stops its harmony,
The concert hall closes its doors;
When the orchestra stops playing,
The music is no more. (1/3)
The musicians are not paid;
When the conductor stops conducting
The instruments down are laid.
When the music stops its harmony,
The concert hall closes its doors;
When the orchestra stops playing,
The music is no more. (1/3)
October 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
When the orchestra stops playing,
The musicians are not paid;
When the conductor stops conducting
The instruments down are laid.
When the music stops its harmony,
The concert hall closes its doors;
When the orchestra stops playing,
The music is no more. (1/3)
The musicians are not paid;
When the conductor stops conducting
The instruments down are laid.
When the music stops its harmony,
The concert hall closes its doors;
When the orchestra stops playing,
The music is no more. (1/3)
Colbert, Kimmel, who's next? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments
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September 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Colbert, Kimmel, who's next? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
Free Speech and Me Speech: "Free speakers, I think, see the problem with me speakers. Free speakers will not need cults or oligarchs. They will want facts and ideas." open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Free Speech and Me Speech
A helpful distinction
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September 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Free Speech and Me Speech: "Free speakers, I think, see the problem with me speakers. Free speakers will not need cults or oligarchs. They will want facts and ideas." open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The devices don't diagnose concussions, but they report when a player was hit hard enough to possibly have one.
September 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
The devices don't diagnose concussions, but they report when a player was hit hard enough to possibly have one.