Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Happy Orban Concession Day to all who celebrate. 🙂💅 000 0
Reposted by Emilie GruchowEv @nerditry.bsky.social · 09/02/2026TELL EM ABOUT THE POWER GRID BENITO 21249164 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 20/05/2025I am basically just on here to repost Shay Stewart-Bouley. Also, please support her on Patreon.patreon.comWe are losing the plot and our humanity | Black Girl in MaineGet more from Black Girl in Maine on Patreon 040 0
Reposted by Emilie GruchowMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Solidarity with all the IMLS staff today. 22770164 0
Reposted by Emilie GruchowShay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 18/03/2025The Republicans think it's business as usual, and they are winning, with no idea they are the foot soldiers advancing a plan that ultimately will end with their demise, too. 19020 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025The footage from CECOT prison in El Salvador is absolutely infuriating (been using that word a lot lately) and heartbreaking. The lie that these men are convicted gang members is 100% a cover for a draconian, demented obsession with hurting innocent people as power theater. (1/2) 550 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Honest recruitment post for the resistance: Are you a high-masking, neurodiverse millennial with CPTSD? Have we got a social anxiety-aggravating hyperfocus for you! 230 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 13/03/2025This is nationwide. The USDA is also ending the Emergency Food Assistance Program, which comprises about 20% of what food banks in Maine distribute. As someone who depended on WIC as a kid in rural Maine, and who moved back here to help other people, Trump and Musk's cruelty is infuriating.mainepublic.orgUSDA ending local purchasing programs for Maine food banks and schoolsGood Shepherd Food Bank said it also recently learned that USDA will stop delivering about 1 million pounds of food through the Emergency Food Assistance Program to Maine. Those deliveries are on hold... 051 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 13/03/2025"They are the plutonium pit of the MAGA bomb. Racism and domination... is not a casual pastime for them, it’s their raison d’etre. Some of the most powerful men in America are tuned in to them. They are the brain trust, the moral... nerve center of the Trump 2.0 movement."open.substack.comMAGA’s Heart of DarknessMusk and Vance’s Favorite Nazi Radicalizer Lives Up in Canada 011 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 10/03/2025The weirdest thing to realize about what's going on right now is that an awful lot of people, across the political spectrum, are responding to the current coup as though it were a kind of Saturnalia, and that once the necessary catharsis has been achieved, things will go back to normal. (1/2) 120 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 07/03/2025As a non-lawyer who has been sneaking into the American Bar Association's Civil Rights Boot Camp today between teaching, it is a fantastic resource for those in the legal field looking to move into Civil Rights/Immigrant Rights advocacy, and members of the public who want to educate themselves.americanbar.orgABA to host free two-day virtual civil rights boot campWASHINGTON, March 4, 2025 — The American Bar Association Civil Rights and Social Justice Section will host a free two-day virtual boot camp titled “The Civil Rights Lawyer Boot Camp.” The webinar is... 010 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 28/02/2025From Ryan DeGooyer's post: "I couldn't figure out why there wasn't more outrage about impending Medicaid cuts.. then saw a lady on TV say she wasn't concerned because she's on Medi-Cal... and realized... some people don't even know THEIR benefits are being cut because states often rename Medicaid": 031 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Midcoast Maine has one of the highest concentrations in the world of retired U.S. secret service professionals, and they have been consistently sounding alarms in conversation about this for the last year. Tl;Dr- The resistance is larger than it looks, but we need everyone off the sidelines. Now.vox.comTheir democracy died. They have lessons for America about Trump’s power grab.Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late. 194 0
Reposted by Emilie GruchowShay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The leader will be whoever has the courage to lead the charge and the willingness to sacrifice everything, including their life, to fight back. Until then, no, there are no leaders. At best, we are shift leaders. 36417 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 16/02/2025This is a fantastic resource for tracking bills in Congress and state legislatures. The text search, in particular, is really helpful for identifying specific initiatives when contacting representatives. (Thanks to Craig for sharing!)legiscan.comUS Congress 2025-2026 119th Congress LegislationBill tracking browser for US Congress 2025-2026 119th Congress legislation 131 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 12/02/2025We need a support group for people on the left who want to be effective participants in the resistance, but whose parent also stormed the Capitol on January 6th, and who are now wavering neurotically between the desire to preserve civil society and the anxiety that we, too, might be batshit insane. 150 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 10/02/2025"If we save some lives, some jobs, some critical government agencies, some measure of press freedom, some medical and subsistence benefits, academic freedom for some schools and universities, and protect... some of our most vulnerable fellow Americans, it will be worth it."open.substack.comDemocracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?Yes. And You Can Too. 020 0
Reposted by Emilie GruchowDylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com · 09/02/2025Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme... 129110964202 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Thinking of starting a group Pilates class focused on breathing, where we all (me included) just hyperventilate into a paper bag while listening to the news. 120 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 06/02/2025This is the health center that I, and 85,000 other Mainers, use for primary care. The center in Belfast, especially, is a remarkable feat of rural medicine, with excellent doctors and staff. The loss of this would be devastating. I don't think I can overstate this. Our neighbors are going to die.newscentermaine.comMaine healthcare workers at risk as federal funds stallIf funding is not accessible by Friday, 25% of the PCHC's workforce will be sent home. 123 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Sincere thanks to the organizers of today's protest in Augusta today. They managed to retrieve a gathering that brought hundreds of people together. Many of the people I talked to had never been to a protest before, and needed this opportunity to be heard. (1/2- and will credit photographer asap) 230 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 04/02/2025For anyone interested in attending the national protest against Project 2025 policy (and the coup in general) in Augusta tomorrow... The organizers have done a really good job of working together and making sure that as many people can attend as possible. (1/3) 441 0
Reposted by Emilie GruchowRusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 03/02/2025Everybody thinks it’s gonna be later, and it’s gonna be somebody else. But it’s not. It’s now, and it’s you. 221245258 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 03/02/2025To everyone who is involved in this, I will happily buy you a beverage of your choice. ❤️dcmediagroup.usFederal Workers Block Doors of Admin Building Over Elon Musk Data Breach - DCMediaGroupNearly 100 Federal employees took part in a protest now into its second day of a takeover by Elon Musk surrogates of the high administration arm of the Federal government. Photo: DCMediaGroup Washingt... 110 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 03/02/2025To all of us who still, somehow, have to get up in front of people today and act normal.🫡 010 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Beautifully explained. (Thank you, Jas, for sharing this with me❤️). 010 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Maine gets 95% of its heating oil from Canada. 1/2 "Trudeau (is) not ruling out energy export countermeasures... Canada is the number one supplier of energy to the U.S., supplying over 99% of U.S. natural gas imports, 85% of electricity imports, and 60% of crude oil imports."ctvnews.caLive updates: Trudeau to announce Canada’s response to Trump’s tariffsU.S. President Donald Trump’s administration imposed sweeping import tariffs on Canada after signing an executive order at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida Saturday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau conven... 131 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Every joke I can think to make right now would land me on a list. 000 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 01/02/2025A random historical event that has been intruding on my thoughts for the last thirty minutes and insisting that it is relevant somehow... Twelve-year-old Louis XVI, in a conversation with his tutor: "As for me, in the place of Charles I, I should never have drawn the sword against my people." 020 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 31/01/2025We went through this last time. And the time before that. The paralysis of millenarian disbelief on the left. Still, it bears repeating. History is not coming to save us. There is no redemptive figure in the wings. Humanity, as it really is, is all we have. We are all we have. Now. What can we do? 010 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Anyone who has helped others access public aid knows that it can feel, at times, like you're desperately trying to hold back death from ripping even more away from them than it already has. That this administration wants to unleash death on millions of innocent people, for fun, is incomprehensible. 020 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 29/01/2025If you have the resources, please stock up on healthy food that doesn't require cooking/refrigeration now. Buy as many canned beans as your budget allows. Food banks/kitchens are going to be more overburdened and underfunded than they normally are. Even if you end up not needing them, someone will. 020 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Present mental health/mutual aid/political resistance strategy. 010 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 29/01/2025All due credit to Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey.👍 020 0
Emilie Gruchow @elgruchow.bsky.social · 28/01/2025My hometown of Wales is one of many impoverished areas in Maine that have benefited from the educational resources that Somali Bantu refugees have introduced to locals. This order is cruel not only to asylum-seekers, but to the millions of Americans whose lives they have improved. 000 0
