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Andrea Grenadier-Batt

@grenadier.bsky.social
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Retired public health communications nerd, Washington DC. Writer/editor/novelist/poet. Here for life itself, music, history, Virginia politics, and the random. Alexandria, VA. ✡️ 🇺🇦

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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Me, right after Yom Kippur.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NYC as city-state: discuss.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I appropriately share a birthday with Clifford Geertz, who speaks volumes to my interdisciplinary American Studies heart.❤️
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Oh, I loved that one! Thanks for reposting!
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
So sexy.🩷
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
And happy early birthday! 🎉 🎉🎉🩷
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
One of my favorite essays I had the honor to write for AmericanStudier. 🩷
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Oh, well.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I did indeed! Thank you! On March 22. And you’re now married, too! 🩷
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The best.🩷 Meredith Willson wrote patter songs for him, and no one did them better.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
If he does them while seated, they’re harder.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It doesn’t get more metaphor-ish than this!
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Surprisingly good form, too.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The amount of ignorance on this thread is really something.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It’s kind of sad, and although I hate using this word, it feels somehow paternalistic, as if they knew what was best for Carver, and were saving him from himself. Not on his terms, but on theirs.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I feel it went well beyond protection and into the realm of complicity, and it’s something we’ll never really know, which is why it’s also intriguing to me. A somewhat similar case to me is the difference between two versions of Hemingway’s A Movable Feast.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The kitty’s coat is so beautiful!
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It feels like rewriting in some places; an almost imperceptible break in the tone that went beyond editing.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I would not use the word “intervention,” especially after seeing a comparison of text before and then after Lish.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Officer, I’d like to report a crime.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Contrapuntally influenced by Bach and 1950s avant-garde composers.🩷 Hearing this back when I was in high school made me think, hmmm, modern Bach.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It never gets old.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I know that guy. He rocks.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This is a perfect song, considering how many have covered it across genres, from Katie Melua to my favorite version by the Infamous Stringdusters.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
It’s truly enchanting!
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
As a new cook, I imagine cookbooks can be so daunting. Many years ago, the Chic Simple people did a cookbook called Cooking; I still use it, and it’s not only beautiful, it’s perfect for a new cook: www.worldofbooks.com/products/chi...
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Chic Simple: Cooking
Part of a series of guides to life in the 90s, this is a cookbook for those people with little time to cook. Guiding the way to creating interesting and healthy food simply in a well-equipped kitchen,...
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
That shot looks like the opening of a Coen brothers film.🤔
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I remember that a friend visiting Germany brought this banger home before it was available here; what a dance party that was!
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
That is so adorable, you’ll be making lobster bisque in no time.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Public health comms person here, and yes; the flour in the dough is the culprit, and can carry bacteria like E. coli or salmonella, since flour’s germs aren’t eradicated when it’s produced.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I’d go ahead and download the Merlin Bird ID right now; it’s inevitable.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Truth; no matter how potentially good she may be, she could find herself sandbagged and sidelined in no time.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This is our conversation every day, and we’re grown-ups!
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Thank you so much for the thoughtful ways you consider your coverage. This has been a devastating week.💔
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I’m grateful for him, too.🩷
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Around the 200th paragraph, I gave up, and in vain, I quietly begged for an editor.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I remember walking into my attorney’s office and seeing on his shelf a very old book entitled “Poisoning.” He said, “Some things never go out of style.”
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
So good!
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Potentially? Dude, it’s there already.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
He eventually switched to private clients and referrals only. I think the guy’s wall collapsing when hanging bookshelves was the final straw.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
My brother was a contractor before retiring, and you wouldn’t believe how many clients would call *after* they mess up, rather than before.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
They’re most likely sensitive until Trump starts blabbing them to hundreds of MAL guests.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I used to say it so often, I put it in my email signature, under my contact info.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I was just helping my kid with their high school Gov homework, and was astonished to learn the United States has a Congress.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Oh, damn, Becky! Will icing help? Anyway, happy vacation!
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Thanks so much for this, Ben! Now that I’m retired, I look back on the many years I spent in public TV to be my favorite work experiences. It’s hard to believe that after all these years of Republicans threatening to cut funding, they finally did it.💔
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
If I had a dollar for every time Taibbi was wrong, I’d be a millionaire. What a clown.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
🩷So sorry; I know it’s crazy.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Before I retired in January, I was forbidden to do a part of my job—social media—which I did for the previous 10 years. The cowardice pissed me off every single day, since posting facts and news was abandoned, in case someone from the administration (or our board🙄) saw it.
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Andrea Grenadier-Batt @grenadier.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Fact: her real name was Tula Ellice Finklea.
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