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Gretchel

@gretchel.bsky.social
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Writer & editor & dog person, Chicagoan, kitchen witch, Midwest & Gen X af. www.gretchenkalwinski.com

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
My friend @gretchel wrote about the Bears going to Indiana and the class issues it’s bringing up in some Chicagoans. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/12/o...
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Gretchen Kalwinski: I’m a Chicagoan from Hammond. Let me clear up some things for Bears fans.
I’m shocked at how few people understand the symbiotic relationship Chicago has with northwest Indiana and Hammond, where I’m from.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
People who sneer at Taylor Swift for wearing fun fan T-shirts with her friends at a basketball game make me want to do the girliest, most enthusiastic shit possible in public
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Gretchel @gretchel.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I got a real bee-in-my bonnet last weekend re the: “Chicago Bears moving to Indiana” kerfuffle & wrote for the Trib about it. Delighted I got to use the phrase “classist monsters” (which I lifted from Ava on ‘Hacks’). 🤣 www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/12/o...
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Gretchen Kalwinski: I’m a Chicagoan from Hammond. Let me clear up some things for Bears fans.
I’m shocked at how few people understand the symbiotic relationship Chicago has with northwest Indiana and Hammond, where I’m from.
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Gretchel @gretchel.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Delighted to publish this in the Trib today
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I don’t buy any of this at all.
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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
He faked another assassination attempt? He's turning "near-death" into a multi-chapter grift. First one was theater, this one's straight fanfic. Bullets are CGI, wounds are makeup, and the only thing getting assassinated is whatever's left of his dignity. He can't even stage a decent hoax anymore.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I know y'all sometimes think, "but her emails," and fair enough, but this is the one that I keep coming back to.
screenshot of donald the dove and hillary the hawk
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💥🪷TruthBeTold🪷💥 @somapsycheyogi.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” ~President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
if it helps - and it genuinely has for me! - try thinking of everything you do to take care of your heart, mind & body to ensure your own well-being as a tiny way to steal his life force, eat up one of his last days on earth and give it to yourself, because you MUST OUTLIVE HIM to dance on his grave
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say the apartheid emerald baron’s son who loves the AfD, is openly white supremacist and antisemitic, turned Twitter into a haven for that content, was sued for racist hiring and workplace practices, and who hates trans people, did the Nazi salute on purpose
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Reading list for what’s to come: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/562246...
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How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt: 9781524762940 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE •...
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NobodySpecial_3 @nobodyspecial3.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Absolutely disgusted with how this played out. I truly thought we were better than this and was looking forward to leaving the violent, hate filled rhetoric of MAGA behind.
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Gretchel @gretchel.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Pic of my Babcia during WWII in a forced-labor camp. She’s defiant & kind of a bitch, despite being categorized as untermensch/subhuman. Epigenetics says my DNA has her grit; all our genes have survived worse than Tr#mp so let’s conjure ancestors & fight. Pls post pics of yr #defiantbitch ancestors
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Christian Ramirez @cramirez.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Share these magical words with your friends and family.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
Mocking someone cruelly in their absence and then being really nice to them in person is, in fact, the Minnesota Way.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
I will never understand the death penalty and I will especially never understand how politicians can sanction the murder of people they know are innocent.
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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
Wrote a whole tome about the joys of being a housewife. Never does any actual housework. www.salon.com/2006/04/12/f...
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The happy hypocrite
I never cared that Caitlin Flanagan calls herself an at-home mother, even though she's a magazine writer with a staff of helpers. But now she's using her battle with cancer to denounce feminism and ex...
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