Nick Griglack
@nickgriglack.bsky.social
I post, I get myself worked up, I stop posting for a while.
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
This was so close to being the funniest possible reason to have to end the government shutdown
An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
This was so close to being the funniest possible reason to have to end the government shutdown
I don't see anyone else saying this so I will. This is all Gerald Ford's fault for pardoning Nixon
October 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I don't see anyone else saying this so I will. This is all Gerald Ford's fault for pardoning Nixon
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There is a difference between righteous anger, directed at injustice, and hateful anger, directed at those who are different. Authoritarian regimes deliberately conflate the two to silence criticism and create false equivalence. It's important we don't let those in power succeed in this endeavor.
September 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
There is a difference between righteous anger, directed at injustice, and hateful anger, directed at those who are different. Authoritarian regimes deliberately conflate the two to silence criticism and create false equivalence. It's important we don't let those in power succeed in this endeavor.
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The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!
September 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!
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Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
August 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
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“He said, ‘We’ll notify next of kin if she dies.’ And at that moment, I knew that I was no longer dealing with humans.” www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...
ICE released this Mass. mom with no phone, 30 miles from home in the rain after detainment for a sealed marijuana conviction
Federal authorities refused to tell the Canton woman's husband or lawyer on what grounds she was being detained until shortly before her release.
www.masslive.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
“He said, ‘We’ll notify next of kin if she dies.’ And at that moment, I knew that I was no longer dealing with humans.” www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...
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Y’all, I can make this conversation about Gavin Newsom easier on my end.
I will not support anyone who is openly anti trans and openly against unhoused people.
You can tell me all your reasons for supporting him, and I will simply say this.
Explain why your rights are more important than theirs.
I will not support anyone who is openly anti trans and openly against unhoused people.
You can tell me all your reasons for supporting him, and I will simply say this.
Explain why your rights are more important than theirs.
August 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Y’all, I can make this conversation about Gavin Newsom easier on my end.
I will not support anyone who is openly anti trans and openly against unhoused people.
You can tell me all your reasons for supporting him, and I will simply say this.
Explain why your rights are more important than theirs.
I will not support anyone who is openly anti trans and openly against unhoused people.
You can tell me all your reasons for supporting him, and I will simply say this.
Explain why your rights are more important than theirs.
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I think really the story of the past ten years was people taking for granted 21st century liberalism was locked in and therefore you could just kinda be fashy for a laugh only to realize a moment too late Skinhead Steve wasn’t joking after all.
August 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I think really the story of the past ten years was people taking for granted 21st century liberalism was locked in and therefore you could just kinda be fashy for a laugh only to realize a moment too late Skinhead Steve wasn’t joking after all.
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This is correct and it's why public opinion doesn't actually do anything on its own. It has to be mobilized. You have to DO politics.
My sense of things has always been that most people do not have strong, deeply felt opinions on a lot of policy issues, and so their opinions can change fairly quickly depending on what’s in the news.
Why do people's opinions on a single issue change with the direction of the wind?
July 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is correct and it's why public opinion doesn't actually do anything on its own. It has to be mobilized. You have to DO politics.
Holy mother fucking shit, six-leaf clover!
July 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Holy mother fucking shit, six-leaf clover!
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Jason Stanley, philosopher and expert on fascism said “You know you're living in a fascist society when you're constantly going over in your head the reasons why YOU are safe.”
July 3, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Jason Stanley, philosopher and expert on fascism said “You know you're living in a fascist society when you're constantly going over in your head the reasons why YOU are safe.”
I've been saying for a while now that one of the main problems with the Democratic Party is that they've abandoned their in person campaign efforts. You can't just fundraise and post and expect to win an election, you need to organize.
the thing that's striking to me, against the backdrop of 'social media savvy' and 'online organizing' and 'data', which takes up so much oxygen in the discourse, is just how old school his whole deal is. show up, meet people where they are, speak to their concerns, be charming, be authentic
June 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I've been saying for a while now that one of the main problems with the Democratic Party is that they've abandoned their in person campaign efforts. You can't just fundraise and post and expect to win an election, you need to organize.
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Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today.
I'm so angry.
I'm so angry.
June 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today.
I'm so angry.
I'm so angry.
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ooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!
May 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
ooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!
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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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On this day in 1911, 146 people, mostly women and young girls, died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The oldest was 43, the two youngest, only 14.
Frances Perkins, FDR’s future Secretary of Labor witnessed the fire and later said it was “the day the New Deal was born.” #OTD #trianglefire
Frances Perkins, FDR’s future Secretary of Labor witnessed the fire and later said it was “the day the New Deal was born.” #OTD #trianglefire
March 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
On this day in 1911, 146 people, mostly women and young girls, died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The oldest was 43, the two youngest, only 14.
Frances Perkins, FDR’s future Secretary of Labor witnessed the fire and later said it was “the day the New Deal was born.” #OTD #trianglefire
Frances Perkins, FDR’s future Secretary of Labor witnessed the fire and later said it was “the day the New Deal was born.” #OTD #trianglefire
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if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
March 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
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Everyone in the US is a female, got it.
Big tell in this Trump order targeting trans people: "at conception"
January 21, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Everyone in the US is a female, got it.
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"Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God."--W.E.B. DuBois on Robert E. Lee, born #OTD in 1807 🗃️
January 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God."--W.E.B. DuBois on Robert E. Lee, born #OTD in 1807 🗃️
Things are kinda shit right now and poised to get worse. Here's a painting I saw a few weeks ago and haven't been able to stop thinking about
January 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Things are kinda shit right now and poised to get worse. Here's a painting I saw a few weeks ago and haven't been able to stop thinking about
Biden didn't get credit because he didn't take credit. His admin was staffed by moderates who were reluctant to enact progressive reform and ashamed to tell anyone
In general, Biden was more accommodating of the left than any Dem president in my lifetime and, to a first approximation, it got him *nothing*. No credit, no support, not even acknowledgement.
December 31, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Biden didn't get credit because he didn't take credit. His admin was staffed by moderates who were reluctant to enact progressive reform and ashamed to tell anyone
RIP to the best President of the 70s and 80s
December 29, 2024 at 11:04 PM
RIP to the best President of the 70s and 80s
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Unionized Starbucks workers are on strike in:
-California
-Colorado
-Illinois
-Massachusetts
-New Jersey
-New York
-Ohio
-Oregon
-Pennsylvania
-Missouri
-Texas
-Washington
The strike could reach “hundreds of stores” by Tuesday, according to @sbworkersunited.org.
-California
-Colorado
-Illinois
-Massachusetts
-New Jersey
-New York
-Ohio
-Oregon
-Pennsylvania
-Missouri
-Texas
-Washington
The strike could reach “hundreds of stores” by Tuesday, according to @sbworkersunited.org.
December 23, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Unionized Starbucks workers are on strike in:
-California
-Colorado
-Illinois
-Massachusetts
-New Jersey
-New York
-Ohio
-Oregon
-Pennsylvania
-Missouri
-Texas
-Washington
The strike could reach “hundreds of stores” by Tuesday, according to @sbworkersunited.org.
-California
-Colorado
-Illinois
-Massachusetts
-New Jersey
-New York
-Ohio
-Oregon
-Pennsylvania
-Missouri
-Texas
-Washington
The strike could reach “hundreds of stores” by Tuesday, according to @sbworkersunited.org.