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D Granke

@dgranke.bsky.social
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Theatre Educator, Director, Fight Director, and Intimacy Director. Spouse, Dog Human, Insufferable Amateur Cook, and Camping and National Park Enthusiast. They all the way. www.dgranke.com

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 6h
Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.
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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2h
i hate digger and i love how much i hate digger. i am going to see the movie again in two days with more friends. it is climate change freddy got fingered
'Digger' review
The first 20 minutes of the film set up a brilliant comedy that skewers our modern lives today. And then it spends about 2 hours making us feel awful for thinking the first 20 minutes were good, on purpose, over and over again. It is a joyless, colorless film that poorly parodies Citizen Kane and Dr.
Strangelove intentionally, making a mockery of essentially all modern American liberal political commentary and comedy. And a parody of a parody is interesting but uncomfortable and challenging to watch.A parody of Donald Trump today is neither funny nor poignant and the movie knows that. By the film's conclusion, you're left wondering whether spending big budgets to make climate films at all makes any sense. It
would be reductive as well to say the film inspires you to take on the actual
catastrophe outside, because its so confident in its future of doom that really, you're only left with a wordless unease about the idea of apocalypse fiction itself. To watch "Digger" is to experience a deeply miserable punk rock waste of more than one hundred million dollars, à la Freddy Got Fingered - but you will not laugh, unless you're laughing at yourself for being in the theater at all.I enjoyed Digger, and then I hated Digger, and then I enjoyed hate-watching Digger, and then I felt weird because the movie flat out told me to feel disgusting for enjoying hate-watching Digger, and to like hating myself, and I didn't want to listen to that part, and that's the point. Andy Kaufman couldn't have done it better. The Wolf of Wall Street tried to pull this trick and failed. Vice and Don't Look Up both tried to pull this trick and failed. So many other meta-media films have tried to do this recently and they're boring because they are entertaining. Digger is so boring, and frustrating, and uncomfortable, and that's why it works, and I hate that, too, which I also love.Digger will be a massive commercial flop and then go to streaming where it'll be remembered as a cult classic forever. I will watch this movie again and again, and I will find new things to hate to love and love to hate. I couldn't recommend it more highly to anyone who wants to see a piece of ridiculous high-budget avant garde mistakenly promoted as a mass appeal "dark comedy" because it stars Tom Cruise. And yet even the inaccurate PR is part of the point of Digger, to reel you in with precisely the bait it wants to chide you for taking.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 2h
“This is for my boy Paul mthrfkr!”
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 4h
So, Russia bombed another bridge in Kyiv today that connects left and right banks . It’s the 5th attack on bridges in Kyiv in these 4 days . People left stranded , can’t get to work or get back home . Nothing military about it . only Russia trying to terrorise us into submission .
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 6h
What an opportunity we missed to rename frankfurters "democracy sausages"
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D Granke @dgranke.bsky.social · 5h
I really dont understand this guys long term political calculus. He obviously has ambition…. Independent run? Centerist Republican maybe? Democrats wont have him. Maybe he just wants a cushy consulting job.
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 6h
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Susie Crimmins 8647 @scrimmins.bsky.social · 11h
Never forget that they are family, or friends, and neighbors and members of our community and that ICE took them from us. www.pressherald.com?p=7734425&uu...
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Family of man shot by ICE agent in Biddeford wants transparency, accountability
Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero's widow and sister said they want people to know he was a good man, 'just working for his family.'
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 15h
The GOP's biggest funder blocked a law to prevent exploitation of women and children on his website Dems should be talking about him and his creepiness. He wants to make fake nudes It's a party of weirdos
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23h
ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 12h
It takes a lot to make Jacob Rees-Mogg the voice of (relative) sanity (and not by a small margin in this case). But by gawd Tucker Carlson is up to the task. Dude's gonna be crazier than Ye ever was soon, and without the excuse of literal manic psychosis.
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 21h
Elon Musk is a very dangerous individual. He’s invaded the privacy of every American thru his DOGE scam and he provides a platform for virulent racism and exploitation of women. Death threats against doctors? Musk will stop at nothing until voters demand accountability from Republicans
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18h
This woman is a real sleaze bag.
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 19h
Regardless of if Apples lives up to it in their own practices, Steve Jobs had a very strong opinion on user privacy in tech
Screenshot from an article on cbs.com “statements look especially prescient in light of revelations that political data firm Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed information on millions of Facebook users.

"Privacy means people know what they're signing up for, in plain English and repeatedly," Jobs said in 2010.

"I believe people are smart and some people want to share more data than other people do. Ask them. Ask them every time. Make them tell you to stop asking them if they get tired of your asking them. Let them know precisely what you're going to do with their data," he added
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Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 22h
"A 20-year-old Amish woman with leukemia got measles and died in Pa.’s largest outbreak in three decades: After measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system."
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A 20-year-old Amish woman with leukemia got measles and died in Pa.’s largest outbreak in three decades
After measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system.
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Ernest Luckman @ernieluckman.bsky.social · 19h
It’s kind of simple. We killed public transportation and built neighborhoods where to get anywhere in reasonable time you need to be able to go at least 20 mph.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 19h
The former Secretary of State, who took Kim Jong Un uncritically at his word, who got irate that Mary Louise Kelly could find Ukraine on a map and he couldn’t, is getting a teaching fellowship at an Ivy League school. Hm.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18h
These hideous Trump ads are outright theft from the taxpayers and election misconduct at the same time. $20 million in OUR MONEY spent on Illegal ads glorifying the would-be king. And his co-conspirators told him it was OK.
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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The tide is turning. The poll finds “more Americans oppose bans on transgender youth care than support them, with the gap narrowing even among Republicans”
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Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Amazing work by @propublica.org and partners illustrating the lack of regulations around microschools in some states. www.propublica.org/article/prop...
In Arkansas, all it took was a few clicks on the Arkansas secretary of state website, $45 and an American flag to form a bona fide private school with the Arkansas Times.
We established a school with Mountain State Spotlight in West Virginia after filing our new school's name and location with authorities on a piece of notebook paper, then exchanging a few emails.
And with The Assembly in North Carolina, we filed an online notice of intent to open a private school at Ponysaurus Brewing Co. in Durham, while perched on its metal bar stools, eyeing glasses of a crisp kolsch.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 02/10/2026
Cory Doctorow @doctorow.pluralistic.net coined the term "enshittification" to describe how the internet is declining in value to its end-users. In this essay he argues that enshittification is spreading to other areas as well—some of which are vital to functioning Western democracies today.
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Opinion: The world has moved on. But it need not stay this way forever
In 2022, the author, Cory Doctorow, coined the term “enshittification” to describe how the internet is declining in value to its end-users, due to the prevalence of monopolies and an emphasis on…
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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D Granke @dgranke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Data and research overwhelmingly show that children in states governed by Republican leadership face higher risk factors than those run by Democrats or members of both parties” Tell me again about protecting the children www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘A persistent crisis’: the 16 children removed from an Ohio family are part of a statewide issue
The case of the Siders family illustrates major shortcomings among Ohio’s political and administrative authorities
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D Granke @dgranke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pokemon for monks
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D Granke @dgranke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone should read this. It includes a measured, clear and convincing breakdown of how the laws must change.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Every California election result is like DEM: 78% REP: 19% Prop 7: Amend state constitution to remove tax exemption for descendents of slave traders to fund removing lead paint from elementary schools YES: 48% NO: 52% bsky.app/profile/yoha...
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D Granke @dgranke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I look forward to the amiable environment created when the poor working sap across from me is in miserable agony. This is such boss brained bs.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Most of the commentary about this concentrates on how it's just an asshole move. And it definitely is. But it's also a violation of ADA
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D Granke @dgranke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes in fact I do. I’m thinking you do too.
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D Granke @dgranke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Okay, I love the source material. Mostly cause of Lee actually, I thought he was pretty cool, but I struggle with the absolute misogyny of making the fmc the literal embodiment of evil. But based on this clip Im in.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i had heard about gamers for years. a lifestyle dedicated to having fun sounded to me like its adherents would form bonds based on positivity, friendship and the joy of fair competition
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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So very true. Explains the unrealistic expectations of what voting once every 5 years or so can actually do. And therefore the continual decline of trust in politics.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What is the point of this stupid country if not that? Pack it up we’ve lost our reason to be
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Erik Killmonger, gesturing downward: Is this your king?
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D Granke @dgranke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Goebbles is rolling in his grave
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Shortly before delivering the sentence, the judge commented that he “loved that AI” but didn’t say from the bench whether the video factored into his decision.”
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes, this is true DOGE knew *exactly* what USAID resources were used for & where those resources went to: health & humanitarian assistance to women & children in low- & middle-income countries Here are 20 projects that Musk killed He knew exactly what he was doing apnews.com/article/usai...
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USAID cuts are already hitting countries around the world. Here are 20 projects that have closed
Countries around the world already are feeling the impact of the Trump administration’s decision to eliminate more than 90% of foreign aid contracts and cut some $60 billion in funding.
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Stacy Kess: the revolution will be accessible. @stacykess.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you had any doubt that the people leading the AI companies were a little bit... uh... okay a lot... uhhh... not okay, well, their first priority is the "mental well being" of their technology, not what happens to humans. So there's that.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Susan Collins to the now convicted felon she sent taxpayer dollars to while pocketing his campaign contributions: "You've seen me deliver." Vote her out.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most corrupt administration in the history of the US by far. You could add up all instances of corruption by every other admin in US history and it will not equal the amount of corruption perpetrated by this one in less than 2 years.
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give NewJeans a gun 🔫🐇🐺 @lostwolfling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If we are going to rehabilitate, heal, or change culture, then those who insist rape, sexual assault, domestic violence, or child abuse are one time errors in judgment they learned from need to be VOCALLY doing the work and holding people accountable. Not drumming up remorse when they're caught.
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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wonder how many times CNN, the NYT, etc have mentioned Posobiec's name versus Piker's, being that the former's connections to vast power are much stronger, direct and sinister.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/10/2026
This kind of stuff really shows how anti-trans sports bans and policies meant to segregate trans people really have nothing to do with "competitive advantage." All this trans girl wanted to do was run for homecoming queen. Like the students would still have to vote for her to even win!
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Seeking to publicly expose the identity of a rape victim who has deliberately remained annonymous is monstrous behavior and anyone participating in that search, regardless of legality or whatever bullshit defense, is a degenerate scumbag who should be pushed out of society.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A new survey finds large majorities of Democratic AND Republican voters support capping prescription drug costs, banning surprise medical bills, and stopping corporate investors from buying up homes. @bedoyausa.bsky.social explains how economic populism can reshape our politics.
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Is It Time For A Populist Revolution? (Ft. Alvaro Bedoya)
Donald Trump wants you to think that the least powerful people in this country are the most responsible for your problem
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
LWT is usually good, but this episode is a standout and worth watching if you don’t already know about the chaotic, and therefore cruel way states administer lethal injection. its only role is to sanitize state-sponsored killings for *us.* so *we* don’t fully register the horror.
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Lethal Injections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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