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Neal Grover, ret’d musician/teacher @groovejones.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Jaffe portrait of James Baldwin, everyone should read his work. Like… now!

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

washingtonpost.com

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

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Neal Grover, ret’d musician/teacher @groovejones.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Please remember compassion and calm are necessary and helpful in EVERY interaction. Noticing it’s WAY TOO easy to carry the unsettled and angry/sad/self-righteous stuff that has lately started to make frequent residence in my head into fresh conversations with strangers and acquaintances. …ungood.

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 07/04/2025

spotted in the toronto star

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The president’s son Eric Trump posted this. Chilling. He deleted it - but here it is

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LaLa @bonekyjo.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Do you miss a peaceful night's sleep like I do?

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

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marty, @numet.al · 22/01/2025

Frank Reynolds played by Danny Devito from the show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia with the caption "you would have to be a real lowlife piece of shit to be proud to be an American."

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/04/2025

This is a United States Senator MACK: I was laid off from HHS and now people aren’t getting social services, especially people with disabilities BANKS: You probably deserved it MACK: Why did I deserve it? BANKS: Because you look like a clown

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thefirstlevel.bsky.social @thefirstlevel.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Kristi Noem billed South Dakota taxpayers more than $640,000 in personal travel-related costs, including a six-day trip to Paris, a bear hunt in Canada, a trip to Houston for dental work to fix her smile, and a book tour. But she can afford a $50,000 Rolex for a prison porn photo op in El Salvador.

apnews.com

Kristi Noem refused to say who financed some of her travel. It was taxpayers who were on the hook

An Associated Press analysis of recently released travel records found more than $150,000 in expenses tied to Noem’s political and personal activity.

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Kim @kim4thebabies.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

THIS ‼️

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Neal Grover, ret’d musician/teacher @groovejones.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Every day I get Dem pacs asking me for campaign money. No days do I get info about what is being done to fight MAGA except from ACLU! The party is as weak as the GOP is heinous! I feel despair. Why would I contribute even one dollar unless it is to Crocket or Greene (who actually take action?)

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Neal Grover, ret’d musician/teacher @groovejones.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

credit to an instagrammer named Steve Hofstedter

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Ladies, is he sexy with masculine energy, or what?! 👇 😂😂😂

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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

priorities

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

seattletimes.com

I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle

“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

“Senator Schumer, I predict that your book tour is going to be a shitshow of epic proportions.”

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 14/03/2025

Donald Trump and Elon Musk want a shutdown to destroy vital government services faster. It would be a disaster. And we have to alert everyone how much pain it would cause the American people. From my interview on @allinwithchris.bsky.social:

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Neal Grover, ret’d musician/teacher @groovejones.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Time to chuck Chuck. Traitorous piece of shit. Bad day to be a New Yorker.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

One of these things is not like the others

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Kimberly Prather PhD @kprather.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Quote by musk...fundamental weakness of western civilization is empathy...this is the start of barbarism.

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Enough @enuffsenuff.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Ruining people’s lives for no reason is criminal.

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CNN @cnn.com · 05/03/2025

Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

cnn.com

A 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn’t come at a worse time for the company | CNN Business

Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Accurate

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Neal Grover, ret’d musician/teacher @groovejones.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Proudly I say I admire Zelenskyy and I stand up in support of Ukraine and its fight to remove invaders. #IStandwithZelenskyy

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 22/02/2025

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The Great Gig in the Sky @thegreatgig8.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Want to see advertisers lose MILLIONS this Sunday? A record-setting low for viewers during the Super Bowl would do that. Money talks and bullshit walks.

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𝑀𝒶𝓎𝓇𝒶°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･🫧 @lepapillonblue.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Donald Trump and Elon want as many casualties as possible.

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Neal Grover, ret’d musician/teacher @groovejones.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Costco, Ulta, Williams Sonoma, Gap. Keep it coming! Simply against monoculture, inequity and exclusion. I demonize MIE

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

✅ DEI Employer of the Day™ Albertsons (Safeway...) "commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging as well as thoughtful people practices are core elements of the company’s philosophy" "We believe that diverse perspectives strengthen and enrich our stores, our company and our society."

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Neal Grover, ret’d musician/teacher @groovejones.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This street scene in Catskill, NY looking like an Edward Hopper painting. iPhone snap, no edit.

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Neal Grover, ret’d musician/teacher @groovejones.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It will never hold up. ACLU brief already filed. (Consider a donation to them.) "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

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Neal Grover, ret’d musician/teacher @groovejones.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Beginning of “a major winter storm” per noaa/nws. (Southeastern NY state)

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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

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