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Granny Smith

@grannysmith.bsky.social
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Interested in news, science, history, and the future of our planet. There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter. -Ulysses S Grant

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Granny Smith @grannysmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Alt text from the subject line of this email I refuse to open: "Have Conservatives Taken Sexy Back?" @thenewyorker.bsky.social, go home, you're drunk. Conservatives have never been sexy, therefore there is no taking it back. Please hire some better editors.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
$16 million later, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to be open by July 4. Instead, it looks like this.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/09/2026
this sounds less like a plan to help stay-at-home parents and more like a one to punish working ones www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
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Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
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Petisia @petisia.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
United Nations has backed a resolution to change the way Africa is represented on world maps. The “Correct the Map” resolution was adopted by a vote of 164 to one, with six countries abstaining. The United States was the only country to vote against it.👇🏾 www.npr.org/2026/09/04/n... #PINKS
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Granny Smith @grannysmith.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Reagan was terrible
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is incredibly amazing 💙👇
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton... -Gifted millions of free books to kids -Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits -Helped fund medical research, including the COVID vaccine -Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters -Quietly funded high school band programs We lost an incredible person.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hear me out: The John F. Kennedy and Dolly Parton Memorial Center for the Performing Arts
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/08/2026
Greece battles wildfires, Hungary shuts nuclear power plant due to drought reut.rs/4wdMTgY
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Greece battles wildfires, Hungary shuts nuclear power plant due to drought
Greek firefighters battled on ​Sunday to control a huge wildfire that has destroyed over 100 homes northwest of Athens, while a fresh blaze forced ‌evacuations on the popular tourist island of Kefalonia.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 01/08/2026
#OtD 1 Aug 1834 slavery in the British Caribbean officially ended, and the 800,000 enslaved were "freed". Govt compensated former owners, at taxpayers' expense, paying them £20 million, and the enslaved were forced to work for free for four more years stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8043...
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Granny Smith @grannysmith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If internet searches are going to continue to degrade, we need telephone books back. I can't find anything now. It's all AI hallucinations and trash advertisers.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Meanwhile, the United States has already seen more than 4 million acres burn in 2026, with over 42,000 wildfires reported nationwide. #SaveUSFS
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Granny Smith @grannysmith.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Americans are stupid about maps to begin with, but this is truly beyond the pale
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Accurate. I want faster, better trains.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 25/07/2026
Wait. They all shake hands at the end? What are we even doing here? He's the US President suing you for $20 billion for reporting on the birthday card he sent his friend the pedophile in which he drew a naked girl & mused about secrets. And they all shake hands?
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Granny Smith @grannysmith.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is awful! Again!
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Granny Smith @grannysmith.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I spent two weeks this month fighting with my insurance company. They're terrible, but then, all insurance companies are
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Granny Smith @grannysmith.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. -Eisenhower, April 1953
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Granny Smith @grannysmith.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I've spent the past week and a half in a hot war with my insurance company. We don't have healthcare, we have $20k/yr insurance that doesn't cover care. I have to fight over the basics, and this round of fighting was over a serious issue. This is delay, deny, defend. It must cause deaths.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
👇 are war crimes, Senator
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A 25 and 19 year old dead in another endless Republican Middle East war while Trump played golf, hosted a high dollar fundraiser, and tried to jump on a stage to act like he won the World Cup.
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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 20/07/2026
España hace historia: es el primer país con las dos selecciones absolutas campeonas del mundo al mismo tiempo social.elpais.com/62z…
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:
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The New York Times en Español @nytimeses.nytimes.com · 10/07/2026
Muse Image, un nuevo generador de imágenes con IA de Meta, permite a los usuarios crear imágenes a partir de las fotos de Instagram de otras personas. Cualquier adulto con una cuenta pública de Instagram fue incluido de manera automática. Esto es lo que hay que saber.
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Cómo proteger tus fotos de Instagram de la IA
El nuevo generador de imágenes con IA de Meta, la empresa propietaria de WhatsApp y Facebook, incluye un giro inesperado para los usuarios: permite utilizar imágenes de cuentas públicas de Instagram.
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Anon_girl 🌹🇺🇲💙🇺🇦🌎🇨🇦🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇷 🇫🇷🧿 @roselover772.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Good read
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
NEW from @propublica: Trump pushes out remaining members of bipartisan election commission ahead of midterms www.propublica.org/article/fede...
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Trump Pushes Out Remaining Members of Bipartisan Election Commission Ahead of Midterms
President Donald Trump has fired Benjamin Hovland and Thomas Hicks, the Democrats on the federal Election Assistance Commission, while Christy McCormick, the Republican, was allowed to resign, sources...
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EL PAÍS América @elpaisamerica.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
El debate | ¿Funciona adular a Trump? dozz.es/uf55f3
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El debate | ¿Funciona adular a Trump?
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Granny Smith @grannysmith.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
RIP Alex Jones, who died in 2026 from his head exploding like a balloon full of rancid jam, in his car. Long live The Infowars Elf. #infowars #alexjones #rip #infowarself #ai #swingandamiss @realinfowars.bsky.social
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Infantino looking up bylaws that allow FIFA to reverse R16 results
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Big Book Huge Book
ALT: Big Book Huge Book
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Granny Smith @grannysmith.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
@grahamformaine.bsky.social You fucking asshole. You knew how many skeletons were in your closet. Fuck right the hell off. Susan fucking Collins is a fucking nightmare, and no, Janet fucking Mills was not a panacea, but you are a goddamn liar and fraud. Fuck you and your ginned up regret and growth
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/07/2026
Half of all Americans die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation. (Published 2022 with @newyorker.com)
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The Hospice Hustle
Half of all Americans now die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Sorry to lib out but I guess my thought on the Fourth is that if it wasn’t possible for this country to really be an egalitarian multiracial democracy someday, the most disgusting people alive wouldn’t be trying so hard to foreclose that possibility
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Damn. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Why don't our schools get the funding they need? Because there's not a lobby for public schools. Kids don't have a corporate PAC. We must be willing to take on the political system that always puts corporations over people.
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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Describe the economy in a single sentence
Notice on a vending machine saying: "FYI (OUT OF ORDER) (DOES NOT GIVE YOU ICE CREM BUT IT TAKES MONEY"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2026
Jack Smith: "I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime"
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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Granny Smith @grannysmith.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Republicans and independents who vote Republican are evil. People who don't vote are malignantly ignorant
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I just sent this out to Democracy Docket premium members, but in light of the Postmasters comments this morning threatening voting by mail, I felt it is urgent to post it online for everyone. Please read and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/mail...
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Mail-in voting is under attack. Here's what you can do
The USPS is proposing a rule that would require states to share information about voters who request mail-in or absentee ballots for federal elections.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 22/06/2026
Doctors interviewed for a new study shared dramatic cases of patients stuck in legal limbo while waiting to receive lifesaving medical care.
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Women Are Missing Out On Standard Pregnancy Care Because Of Abortion Bans, Study Shows
Doctors interviewed for a new study shared dramatic cases of patients stuck in legal limbo while waiting to receive lifesaving medical care.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Happy #Juneteenth! On this day we celebrate freedom and our commitment to the fight against racism. Our struggles were born from the same roots. Our struggles are one. Su lucha es mi lucha. Together we are more powerful.
Colorful Juneteenth celebration design with sunburst rays, a red sun, ane a UFW huelga black eagle logo. Text reads 'Happy Juneteenth' in bold letters."
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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Paul Krugman: "We surpassed Gilded Age levels of income and wealth inequality decades ago. We’re now in an era of oligarchy in which the power of great wealth and the abuse of that power by a tiny elite eclipse anything we saw in the late 19th and early 20th century" Chat, is that good?
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Meet the New Bosses, Worse Than the Old Bosses
The second Gilded Age is much uglier than the first
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026
What if we abolished tech, started over with products that served us, instead of things that make us the product?
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no one (spooky👻) @gregory-c-leavitt.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
i’m old enough to remember when comic book supervillains were fictional
The hatemonger gives a speech and (sue storm?) reacts 

WE MUST DRIVE ALL THE FOREIGNERS BACK WHERE THEY CAME FROM! WE MUST SHOW NO MERCY TO THOSE WE HATE!

REED, IT'S UNBELIEVABLE!
HE SEEMS TO HAVE THE CROWD IN A TRANCE!
THEY-THEY'RE ACTUALLY AGREEING WITH HIS UNAMERICAN SENTIMENTS!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Shortly after the 2025 elections, I published a list of seven voting laws every blue state should enact. While I stand by all seven, I want to highlight three. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...
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It’s not too late for states and Congress to stop Trump from subverting the midterms
With only nine months before the midterm elections, Trump is plotting to prevent Democrats from taking control of Congress.
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...
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The U.S. Boat Strike Campaign Has Now Killed Over 200 People
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