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Christo Grozev just now:

November 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM

*Starry-Eyed*JGC

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Paying attention to Christo Grozev's "missing" point #29 about possible investment "sweetener" for Trump's friends and family from the released "peace plan" 🤔

Screenshot of Christo Grozev's comments on X about the Russian "peace plan". He says he saw an early version of this plan about 6 months ago, "purely Russian concept" nearly identical to the one presented now. "However two items glaringingly missing": 1st, a proposal that US investors bail post-war Russia out of a pending recession "like in the 90s". Grozev believes this was an inducement for Trump (possibly as an inducement for his friends and family, not explicit) The 2nd item missing was the offer of a new Russia/US alliance against China, with a lot of "Christian alliance" demagoguery included in the wording. Grozev believes it may have been a 30-point plan, but these last two items were not leaked by Russia.

November 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM

*Starry-Eyed*JGC

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Ryan Girdusky's 1776 Project PAC out of New York is blanketing local school board races in #BucksCounty, Pennsylvania

"Conservative commentaror" Ryan Girdusky also infamous for being thrown off a CNN panel after his racist, threatening comments to a left wing co-panelist.

Emily Mills, who follows school board election shenanigans from the West Coast, notes that Ryan Girdusky, a New York-based conservative activist running a school board election PAC, was also linked to George Santos' campaign through a shared 1776 Project PAC/Santos treasurer.

October 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM

*Starry-Eyed*JGC

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LB does not post over here routinely, so here's her observation from over at the other place:

From twitter account Lincoln's Bible, she writes that she believes that Kristi Noem "initially expanded ICE...through member roles of extremist organizations like the Proud Boys, 3%ers, former Identity Europa, etc. Many of these members were financially struggling during the Biden years... They would be the 1st recruits. This new ICE charter is a dream job for them. This new employment would also explain why the groups no longer gather for public demonstrations... I believe blue state AGs have access to the names of ICE officers in their states. It's time for journalists who were on the alt-right/neo-nazi extremism beats to work their sources and cross reference those names..."

October 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM

*Starry-Eyed*JGC

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3) More from Tony the Democrat's email about this Nov 2025 Pennsylvania Supreme Court election, and why it is so important:

You can help boost awareness (and turn out) to PA's registered Democrats by writing a few postcards this week:
abby.postcardstovoters.org

Tony gives 4 reasons why the PA Supreme Court judge retention election is so critical: The court plays a decisive role in redistricting, voting rights, and interpreting the state constitution. If even one of the three justices is ousted, there could be partisan judicial elections in 2027. Judicial retention elections rarely get media or volunteer energy, so this postcard writing campaign will help get the word out. What happens if we lose one or more of our PA Democratic justices in the retention? Governor Shapiro can appoint a replacement, but only with the current Republican majority PA Senate's approval! And then the seat goes up for open election in 2027-- risky.

September 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM

*Starry-Eyed*JGC

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1) Volunteers needed for writing campaign via #PostcardsToVoters for the Nov 2025 ballot to retain THREE Democratic judges on the #Pennsylvania Supreme Court!

Go to abby.postcardstovoters.org to request some PA addresses to turn out registered Dems for this IMPORTANT off-year election

Postcards written by a volunteer for this Pennsylvania Supreme Court judge election coming up in one month! "Vote YES to keep judges who protect democracy and reproductive freedom. All the retention judges on your mail-in ballot are DEMOCRATS. Turn your ballot over to retain judges that follow the law. Thank you for being a voter."

September 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM

*Starry-Eyed*JGC

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Please don't let my fake moderate #PA01 Congressman (and ex-FBI) Brian Fitzpatrick off the hook, either, on this 2019 call to demand "Antifa" be called a domestic terrorist organization (made to DOJ's Bill Barr). Less than a month after Tarrio's WH petition.

September 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM

*Starry-Eyed*JGC

@jgcocanada.bsky.social

Tom "$50K Sack 'o Cash" Homan at Rod of Iron Freedom Festival last year.

btw the 2025 ROI Freedom Festival is coming up in a few weeks

From a twitter/x post: a photo of Tom Homan, now Trump border czar, speaking at the 2024 Rod of Iron Freedom Festival -- described by independent journalist Amanda Moore as going on a "very bizarre first person rant about how he wasn't paid by the Trump campaign". Rod of Iron is associated with the Moonies cult and Trump-licking Epoch Times.

September 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM

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Photo from Aug2019 inauguration of TPUSA Pennridge in #BuckCounty. Slick professionally printed memes + other swag (t-shirts,etc) provided by outside big dark money funders targeting high school students

It was striking at that Club Day, the other student groups made ads w/ home-made poster boards

Professionally printed stickers and posters from a TPUSA highs school recruiting event in Pennsylvania in 2019. Some of their memes shown here are "Socialism Sucks" "Women Don't Need Government to Succeed" "2nd Amendment Protects the Other 26" and "Hate U.S. Cuz They Ain't U.S."

September 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM

*Starry-Eyed*JGC

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Alex deGrasse is a MAGA troll. Thanks, NYT, for showing his "soft" side 🫠

Screen shot of GOP operative Alex Degrasse on Bannon's War Room, calling for mid-decade redistricting and removal of noncitizens from census

August 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM

*Starry-Eyed*JGC

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Meanwhile, my #PA01 Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick is doing @peoplemag.bsky.social "exclusive" drone photo shoots in French lavender fields with his #FoxNewz girlfriend Jacqui Heinrich

Thank you for your witnessing, Congressman Frost, of the Everglades Internment Camp.

photo of Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (#PA01) with Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich in a lavender field in Provence, France, as Fitzpatrick asks Heinrich to be his next wife. Photo spread, done in part by pre-planned drone filming, exclusive to People Magazine.

July 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM

*Starry-Eyed*JGC

@jgcocanada.bsky.social

Now it all makes sense

Description by Kevin M. Levin at Civil War Memory of early 20th century sculptor Gutzon Borglum. Borglum was (purportedly) a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and served as a sculptor for Stone Mountain and Mount Rushmore.

July 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM

*Starry-Eyed*JGC

@jgcocanada.bsky.social

Chris Pack is a Republican hack operating from the DC-Beltway to attack #PA01 challengers to #FakeModerate GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick.

Fitzpatrick is financially backed by #NoLabels Org.
It's a lucrative relationship for both Fitzpatrick and Pack.

They know that GOP's Medicaid cuts are a debacle.

June 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM

*Starry-Eyed*JGC

@jgcocanada.bsky.social

"Reign, reign, go away" #NoKingsDay

Photo by David Iskra, at the Langhorne, PA #NoKings rally outside J6/Trump-coddler #PA01 GOP Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick's office

June 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM

*Starry-Eyed*JGC

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#PA01 DID YOU KNOW:

Sheriff Fred Harran's #287g deputies would only need to squeak by w a 70% "training" score to graduate,
ready to facilitate scrutiny of #BucksCounty area folks' citizenship status & present them to ICE? 🚨

www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/287...

What training do 287(g)-deputized officers receive from ICE?
"According to ICE, the training program teaches officers about “immigration law, the use of ICE databases, multi-cultural communication and the avoidance of racial profiling.” At the end of the training program, officers must pass examinations with a minimum score of 70 percent in order to become deputized."

April 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM

*Starry-Eyed*JGC

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From the Bucks Voices email today... #BucksCounty #MontcoPA #PA01 area upcoming protest/rally events

#PA01 area rallies include
April 26 noon Tesla protest at Warminster Tesla (hosted by Indivisible MontCo)
May 1 @ 5 PM local Mayday rally focused on immigration/workers' rights (hosted by Indivisible Bucks County)
May 15 @ noon rally Doylestown, N. Main and E. Court (organized by Roy)

April 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM

*Starry-Eyed*JGC

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Sheriff Harran has never met a surveillance technology that he didn't embrace.

"A sign in the Bensalem Police Department reminds officers to ask for a DNA sample from anyone they arrest. Most people give consent." 📸Credit: Mark Makela for NYT

#GiftArticle (2019)
www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/s...

"To collect DNA, police in Pennsylvania must obtain consent from people under arrest. Ninety percent of those asked say yes, said Fred Harran, director of public safety for the Bensalem police; it was Mr. Harran who encouraged the department to take the lead in DNA policing. Asked why so many people would consent to give DNA, he said: “I have no idea. But criminals do stupid things.”

Large blue sign in Bensalem, PA police office admonishes their officers to, "ASK FOR DNA" Most people do not realize that they do NOT *have to* give their DNA sample, even for simple traffic stops, when asked.

April 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM

*Starry-Eyed*JGC

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Still wondering what this was all about in #PA01 with Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick's subpoena to "produce documents in litigation before the DC district federal court 🤔

From November 19, 2024 in the Congressional Record, Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick says that he had been served a third party subpoena to produce documents in litigation before the US District Court for the District of Columbia. He said he would comply. What was the litigation about?

April 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM

*Starry-Eyed*JGC

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From the NYTimes report:

An aide to Bukele staged the drinks 🙄😒

"Mr. Bukele, in a social media post, even crowed that “Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the ‘death camps’ & ‘torture,’” was “now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!” But according to a person familiar with the situation, a Bukele aide placed the two glasses with cherries and salted rims on the table in front of Mr. Van Hollen and Mr. Abrego Garcia in the middle of their meeting in an attempt to stage the photo."

April 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM

*Starry-Eyed*JGC

@jgcocanada.bsky.social

#TariffWars

This is a cool little 🇨🇦Canadian design company called Object/Interface which makes lighting, planters and other fun stuff.

Loved the header on their webpage 🥰
📌 objectinterface.ca

Header for the webpage at Canadian design company Object/Interface, which shows three kimono-wearing beavers working in an atelier, crafting things with little wooden branches. There is a Canadian flag hung above them, with its red maple leaf centred above their work table.

April 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM

*Starry-Eyed*JGC

@jgcocanada.bsky.social

My profile on twitter specifically addresses that Fitzpatrick (who has parlayed his former FBI experience into seats on House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security over his past decade as a Congressman)
has been a longtime #NationalSecurity threat!