Jacob Gries
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Jacob Gries
@jgries2094.bsky.social
In no particular order: Clevelander, Writer, Ohio State Village Idiot, Runner, Sports Fanatic, Reader, Thinker, Listener
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A group of 19 radical Muslims committed a heinous act of terrorism 24 years ago

Therefore all 2 billion Muslims on this earth must be scorned

So Zohran Mamdani must be evil

Charlie Kirk is MAGA

MAGA is racism

And-by the way

This is the same argument they use to justify deporting immigrants
June 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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seen some people complaining that this is a political stunt and lemme say if this was the kind of political stunt more politicians were doing on a regular basis we wouldn't be where we are today

dude is actually putting himself on the line here, fuck off with that shit
Breaking News: Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was detained by ICE agents at an immigration court as he tried to escort a migrant out of the courthouse to prevent his arrest. nyti.ms/4jWkANE
June 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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That's why politicians need to focus on persuasion rather than trying to figure out exactly what their target voters think and then parrot it back.

People are open to different arguments!
May 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Do Democrats need their own crypto dinner?
May 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.
Netanyahu says Israel won’t stop the war until Trump’s plan to remove all Palestinians from Gaza has been implemented, calling the idea ”so correct and so revolutionary.” www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
Netanyahu: Implementation of Trump’s Gaza relocation plan is condition for ending war
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www.timesofisrael.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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The moneybagses could keep brainstorming about how to grow a liberal Joe Rogan in a vat or they could just make Shari Redstone a better offer, buy CBS, and run a network news operation that covers the myriad fuckups and abuses of the Trump administration without watering it down for fake balance
May 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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mind you this is all before things start getting really bad

we are still in the “wow this is gonna suck” stage, economically, we haven’t hit “wow this fucking sucks” yet

whatever you think Trump’s popularity floor is, it’s gonna be tested once we hit a deep recession that is 100% his fault
April 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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He had the wrong opinions. He’s not violent, didn’t break a single law. He had the wrong opinions and he’s in jail for it.
Mahmoud Khalil's attorneys to ICE: "Mr. Khalil's wife has just gone into labor this morning in New York City, eight days earlier than expected. A two week furlough in this civil detention matter would be both reasonable and humane ..."

ICE's reply: DENIED storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 22, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Not sure if the fourth estate is going to be the bulwark of democracy. Also my soul has left my body.
February 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Gov Hochul can fire the mayor. She should have done so when the scope and scale of his cascading congenital corruption career was laid out in federal indictments. She waited for him to go to trial. Now that injustice has taken its course she is the only reason he remains in office. Step up Hochul.
February 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Eric Adams pretty much agreed to sidestep NY sanctuary protections, & make his city's immigrant residents more vulnerable to iCE, in pursuit of naked personal gain & a shield from corruption charges.
February 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.
January 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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One of the big reasons to regulate money in politics isn't that the wealthy are *all* profoundly malicious, but that giving the top 1% free rein over your politics will definitely result handing over huge influence to extremely broken and deeply unreflective people.
Just a profoundly stupid asshole
February 12, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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This profile of Ackman is quite incredible. He went through Harvard and came out an asshole "greed is good" kinda capitalist. His daughter dabbles in Maxism studies and it must be because she was "indoctrinated" and, thus, he has to destroy the system. nymag.com/intelligence...
Bill Ackman Strikes Back
His fight has made him the public face of a billionaire class anxious it no longer rules the world.
nymag.com
February 12, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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truly insane to believe in nominative determinism when your name is literally Ack Man
February 12, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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I am less concerned about whether or not Trump read Mein Kampf and more concerned that he seems to think Hitler made a lot of great points
December 21, 2023 at 4:06 AM
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this place really needs a muted word function so i can ignore the john jacob jingleheimer schmidt discourse on here. i don't care if his name is also your name. stop trying to insert yourself into every conversation. stop singing john jacob jingleheimer schmidt
September 28, 2023 at 5:07 PM
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Unions work. There is nothing else that can do what they do.
September 27, 2023 at 1:07 AM