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Bryn Greenwood

@bryngreenwood.bsky.social
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Writer, even on the days I'm not writing. NYT bestselling author of some books. Grumpy. She/her. Putting the i back in bitch.

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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
You could do a rewrite of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” out of the six months alone.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Why is it I have to search for news about Sudan? It never seems to be top of page or breaking news.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I wish someone would drop a nuke on United Healthcare. Their cruelty is truly boundless, and they continue to use delay, deny, defend to cause their customers to suffer. Imagine having years of back pain caused by several factors. Imagine jumping through hoop after hoop for care. /1
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
They should never have put a brain worm in charge of HHS.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It’s a real shame the Dems aren’t this party 😭
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Oh look GiveSendGo is bragging about how they have Luigi’s fundraiser, but are weirdly quiet about how they’ve also got that racist woman’s fundraiser.
Screenshot of GiveSendGo’s profile, where they say “we have the #Luigi & #Karmelo campaigns”
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Hearing RFK Jr.’s ignorant take on autism, I am reminded of the remains of an early hominid child found in Spain. The child lived 500 thousand years ago and was born with a congenital cranial deformity that would have made some aspects of life more difficult. /1
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This is the Republican way, after all. I saw it constantly when protestors came in for abortions, getting the very same service they wanted to outlaw.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
My mother was an abusive narcissist. She was also really good at solving problems she created.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
One more way in which the US is now diminished: “In the race to save lives after the Myanmar quake, US rescuers are notable by their absence”
apnews.com
In the race to save lives after the Myanmar quake, US rescuers are notable by their absence
Day after day, Chinese rescue teams haul children and elderly people from collapsed buildings. Cameras beam the thanks of grateful survivors around the world.
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We spend so much more on corporate welfare than on the welfare we spend on human beings. Like, stratospherically more. If you want to root out "waste, fraud and abuse", start there.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Crypto is virtual Beanie Babies that you don't even have to have sewn together in China.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I’m up early (for me) at the dentist office and I’ve just heard a country song that I swear had the chorus, “Heeeeeey, Hammurabi.” Is that a thing?
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 23/03/2025
Action Alert from the American Library Association to protect libraries against attacks by the Trump administration: practical stuff everyone can do (reposted to correct link) www.ala.org/faq-executiv...
ala.org
FAQ: Executive Order Targeting IMLS
This set of frequently asked questions is intended to help library workers, library advocates, and library users understand this Executive Order.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Sincerely I appreciate that there’s a Netflix category called Casual Viewing. Thanks for understanding that the current level of chaos and horror mean that I can’t really focus on anything.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Get ready to lose a shit-ton of library services.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This is why I have zero interest in or patience with generative AI. If you tell me you used AI to write your book, I know that your book was made possible through the theft of MY WORK. 3 of my novels are on this list.
theatlantic.com
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Department of Government Efficiency Department at work. An actual government auditor says, ‘DOGE’s intentions may not be geared toward “efficiency” at all. “It’s a con,” they allege.’
wired.com
‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE
WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Post-Selma op-eds: Carville: "Bonehead bridge stunt alienates working class whites" Durbin: "Protesters lack decorum!" Fetterman: Why I'm co-sponsoring Josh Hawley's 'Free the Bridges' act, allowing motorists to run over protesters Jeffries: "God still on the throne" www.npr.org/2025/03/09/n...
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60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're still fighting stubborn segregation, poverty and gun violence.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Texas on the cutting edge, testing the waters for making it illegal to BE trans. But sure us coming down hard on Gavin Newsom is a purity test.
kxan.com
Texas bill could charge transgender people with ‘gender identity fraud’, if passed
A bill filed in the Texas House of Representatives this week threatens to charge transgender Texans with a crime for identifying with a gender that differs from their sex assigned at birth.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
People want to compare our situation to 1939 Germany, bc it lets us think, We won! We beat the bad guys! This more accurate comparison is terrifying to us, bc 25 years later, Russia is still in the thrall of Putin.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Relevant to a lot of what’s happening right now.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This remake of Red Dawn is very different.
Trump’s speech to Congress on March 5, 2025. Trump is at the podium speaking, one hand outstretched. He’s flanked in the rear by Mike Johnson and JD Vance. They all seem to be wearing identical navy suits and maroon ties, like the members of a shitty fraternity. Trump’s makeup appears to be extra orange.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Well this is right on the nose.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
That’s how you know the asteroid is a Democrat. So disappointing.
A computer graphic representing an asteroid hurtling towards earth, backlit by the distant sun. Caption: Asteroid no longer poses a threat to earth, scientists say.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I find that I still can’t get over this. Imagine going on television to clarify that absolutely no country should ever enter a nuclear disarmament deal with the US, because afterwards we will not protect you. Instead we’ll try to shake you down for natural resources & hand you over to an aggressor.
Trump and Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. Trump in his mediocre blue suit and red tie points aggressively at Zelenskyy, dressed all in black, covers his heart with his hand.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I predicted a second Trump term could destroy the Democratic party. I guess I didn't fully understand how eager the Dems were for that destruction.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
As I was reading this, I kept thinking about two things: 1. How many people detained in this situation don’t have the privileges a German tourist does & how bad are things for them? 2. How much profit is in one person’s one month detention for CoreCivic?
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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This country got rich off the labor of people we stole from Africa, and now we are controlled by people so greedy that they're perfectly happy to stand by while African children starve. We have enough to feed so many, but there's no profit in it so we don't?
time.com
What Gutting USAID Means for My Young Patients in Burundi
“To my patients and their mothers, I offered apologies from the American people,” writes Dr. Jennifer Furin.
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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Now, like any time, is a good time to mention that if you want to read about Ukrainian literature in English, @chytomo.bsky.social is now on Bluesky!!
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
To all the white women who voted for Trump: since you don’t seem to care about trans people, wait til you find out they can also declare that cis women are no longer fit to serve, either.
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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The Hungarian govt keeps reiterating that they will ban Pride. The EU is doing exactly nothing as far as I can see. Shared European values!
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
If you haven’t canceled your Post subscription, today is a good day to do it.
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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
📚 🌟 Threading my 2024 poems here 🌟 📚 There's a bunch of them, I'm back to writing poems after a break in 2023. Repost if you liked them, or just tell a friend, this is the best way of getting the word out about poetry.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Someone told me that Hakeem Jeffries is on a book tour! Folks, if that’s true, this man is trying to do his job part time & long distance in the middle of a coup! JFC, when I was on book tour, I almost botched the payroll for a department of 200+ people. Isn’t our country slightly more important?
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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If you are advocating eugenics, however "jokingly" or "this will wake people up," you should not be following me. This is a disability justice account. Unfollow me. I will not entertain eugenicist and ableist ideas, I will not "give grace" to eugenicist ideas, I will not debate you.
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Chris M. Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I just hope everyone who reported the error to Google also called their elected representatives to complain about the important stuff.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
But wait til those midterms, right? 🫤
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
KNOW YOUR
RIGHTS
IN CASE OF ICE:
CONOCE TUS DERECHOS
EN CASO DE ENCUENTRO CON ICE:DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR.
ICE cannot enter your home without a warrant signed by a judge.
Tell the agents to show you the warrant by sliding it under the door.
NO ABRAS TU PUERTA.
ICE no puede entrar a tu casa sin una orden firmada por un juez. Diles a los agentes que te muestren la orden deslizándola debajo de la puerta.ASK THEM
TO LEAVE.
If ICE doesn't have a warrant, tell them you do not consent for them to enter your home and ask them to leave. At work, ICE cannot enter employee-only areas without permission.
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PÍDALES QUE SE VAYAN.
Si ICE no tiene una orden judicial, diles que no das tu consentimiento para que entren a tu casa y pídeles que se vayan. En el trabajo, ICE no puede ingresar a áreas exclusivas para empleados sin permiso.REMAIN SILENT.
You have the right to remain silent.
If the agents ask you questions, tell them,
"I wish to remain silent."
PERMANECE EN SILENCIO.
Tienes derecho a permanecer en silencio.
Si los agentes te hacen preguntas, diles:
"Deseo permanecer en silencio".
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I'm writing (yay me!) and I have just discovered that mascaraed is really a word. Before this manuscript, I've never had a need for that descriptor, but there it is. Sometimes, English can still surprise me.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Sadly, the Dems won't create a shadow government because most of them answer to the very same billionaires and corporations that the Republicans do. I doubt their top donors want them running a shadow government. A third party could possibly become a serious contender, if they created one.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Reminder: the only ideology of this administration is graft and greed.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I don’t even know how to be properly outraged over the president is talking about removing Palestinians from Gaza and turning it into a US-owned resort. That’s what the US does. We murder people and steal their land. But like JFC it is 2025! Have we learned NOTHING?!
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The ugly truth about Guantanamo. “Even if the current administration claims Guantánamo will only be used for adults, or only for people with a criminal record, history shows that this is unlikely to restrain them for long.” Dems need to remember that some of its horrors came under Clinton.
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Bryn Greenwood @bryngreenwood.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I swear I just saw someone complaining that the half time show had “no Caucasians.” Oh nooooo the people of the Caucuses were left out of the Super Bowl? 🙄
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