Reposted by Jim GrumanWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The reason not to triangulate against trans people isn't that it's bad politics (although I believe it is) or unnecessary (although I believe it is). It's because YOU MUST NOT ABANDON THE VULNERABLE TO DEPRAVED PEOPLE WHO WILL DO THEM HARM. If we will, what's the point of anything else we do? 231462254
Reposted by Jim GrumanAnnalinda Stewart @anna-linda.bsky.social · 19/08/2026What is Mr. Trump really costing us? A lot. Not the least of which, our daughters. The consequences of his influence are real, tragic and will endure for generations to come. The end of my family's American story is now part of his legacy, and his alone. annalinda2.substack.com/p/narrative-...annalinda2.substack.comNarrative of An American GirlWhat We're Losing 44409182
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 17/09/2026#PositConf2026 we're going to pencil this one in, but only if we can also collect a bunch of the national park stamps at the same time 030
Reposted by Jim GrumanSharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Browse and search positconf::(2026) posts on Bluesky in this Shiny app tracking the hashtags #positconf2026 #positconf26 and #positconf apps.machlis.com/shiny/positc... Written in R, code similar to what's there is on GitHub at github.com/smach/bluesk... 053
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 13/09/2026static.klipy.comMando: This Is The WayAlt: Mando: This Is The Way 000
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 13/09/2026We've decided to remove the carpet from our basement and switch to vinyl snap together flooring. What underlayment should we use? 000
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Sending love, protection, and solidarity to our Muslim siblings today. 001
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Curious what Scouting is all about? Join us for an afternoon of hands-on activities with local Scout leaders and youth. Come see what fits your family, whether that's elementary-age Cub Scouts or Scouts BSA for middle and high schoolers. No experience, no cost, no registration beascout.scouting.org 000
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 10/09/2026finished a diy water heater install this evening. No leaks. so far. Might have "saved" $2k. And the family gets showers. 000
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 05/09/2026@jamesmcmurtry.bsky.social 's storytelling… A song for a moment 25 years ago Annie refers to Ann Compton, who was a reporter for ABC News, who was on Air Force One on 9/11. youtu.be/TmMRtmB51kU?...youtu.beJames McMurtry - Annie [Official Audio]YouTube video by James McMurtry 111
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It's not the kids that are the issue. It's the adults that are wetting their pants over nothing. 020
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Looks like @jamesmcmurtry.bsky.social is coming to Evanston next weekend. open.spotify.com/track/6vN5Xv... 000
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 04/09/2026No surprises here. The NE Iowa would have the "r" in wash and the "t" at the end of across. mydialect.us/quiz-standar... 010
Reposted by Jim GrumanBrittlestar @brittlestar.com · 01/09/2026It’s Nice To Be Disliked By One Of Those 401539697
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I'm originally from Iowa and caught chickens and fished, too. Turek and Sand's hand wavey head wavey dodges on trans kids and concentration camps says a lot about how they are calibrating for the voters there. It also tells me that the place isn't safe for vulnerable people. 000
Reposted by Jim GrumanKevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*. 4935121020
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 22/08/2026had a college friend from Darien that introduced young rural Iowa me to Burning Inside, on Cerwin Vegas Jason struggled with untreated diabetes then. He's gone now, and I wonder what he'd have to say about all this now 000
Reposted by Jim GrumanJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Using AI helps people get higher grades and get their work done faster, but they learn less & suffer on actual exams I saw this in my own large Intro Psych class: -the exam average is 85% -after AI, it shot up to 95% -after I made the final in person it went to 68% www.economist.com/graphic-deta... 14391150
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Power of PFLAG, 2026 Conference of the PFLAG Council of Northern Illinois October 10 whova.com/portal/regis... via whova.com/portal/regis...whova.comPower of PFLAG, 2026 Conference of the PFLAG Council of Northern Illinois Registration hosted by Whova2026-10-10, Naperville, IL 010
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I've got a RAGBRAI image of a side visit to the Wallace home farm from a couple years back. It seems that few Iowans make the pilgrimage there any more, with fascism in vogue now. They've got it all wrong. The latest from Art Cullen artcullen.substack.com/p/commies-in...artcullen.substack.comCommies in the cornfields?Henry Wallace was our leading capitalist and socialist 120
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 17/08/2026New Bike! youtu.be/HzyGNPdOy7o?...youtu.beSaturday Sessions: Punch Brothers perform "New Bike"YouTube video by CBS Mornings 010
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This is what my world looks like. What does yours look like? Sewing on a rainy day. 010
Reposted by Jim GrumanJazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Such an incredible project @albertsun.bsky.social et al dominating the front page of the Times today. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 061
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them. Vaclav Havel 100
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Mementos of the annual summer pilgrimage across my home state on a bicycle during the last full week of July. #ragbrai 260
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Our scouting unit's 2027 annual meeting is tomorrow. The youth will get together and go through a process to choose their monthly program themes. They leave with a sharpie to label their stuff before campouts. beascout.org 010
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 11/08/2026leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2026/08/11/t...leftbrainrightbrain.co.ukThe government could do 100 or more things that could help my adult autistic kid. Reviving the vaccine-causation lie isn’t one of them.Yesterday, Donald Trump, Robert Kennedy and others met in the Oval Office to announce an executive order on vaccines and autism. I have a simple message for them: Don’t pretend that you are h… 000
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 07/08/2026substack.com/@jimgruman/n...substack.comJim Gruman (@jimgruman)If you read 1 piece today, read this: 100
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 06/08/2026it was ugly to wade into the nuances of women's access to health care. Ok, sure. Now dispatching masked thugs to kidnap our neighbors, stealing from us, flooding communities with weapons of war, butchering people overseas, crippling education and opportunity for youth... 100
Reposted by Jim GrumanAryaOrgana @aryaorgana.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Memorable RAGBRAI moment was hugging a mom riding to raise awareness for trans kids, because her son was bullied after transition until he couldn't handle it any more and she lost him. Next day I happened to find a trans equality flag at a Pride booth, so I rode with that. #ProtectTransKids 042
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 30/07/2026So many interesting nuggets from 100 years ago in this Peter @norton.bsky.social piece. "By then, Boy Scouts were a mainstay of public safety campaigns, where they introduced thousands to the word jaywalker and its motor-age definition. 1/3 120
Reposted by Jim GrumanPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 30/07/2026Once upon a time, industry was powered by rivers. Once upon a time, industry was powered by coal. Things change. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar... 34566122
Jim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Girls have always belonged in Scouting America. In 2018 young women were finally recognized as full members. Since then hundreds of thousands of girls have taken the leap into Scouting. And tens of thousands have earned the Eagle Scout rank. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Boy Scouts Let in Girls Almost a Decade Ago. It’s Been a Triumph. (Gift Article)What I know from six years of leading Troop 163 is that these girls invigorate scouting rather than weaken it. 063
Reposted by Jim GrumanRebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Before fascism had a name, it had a history. Final episode out tomorrow! 23411
![With cards, Boy Scouts taught pedestrians to relinquish their customary
rights to the street. Top: This 1921 card, distributed to pedestrians in Hartford,
Connecticut, promoted the redefinition of “jay walking.” (Source: “Boy Scouts
and Kiwanis Club of Hartford Put on Anti–Jay Walking Campaign,” National
Safety News 3 [7 February 1921], 4. Courtesy of the National Safety Council.)
Bottom: Two years later, 600,000 of these cards were distributed in New York
City. (Source: Barron Collier, Stopping Street Accidents: A History of New York
City’s Bureau of Public Safety [New York, 1925], 76. Courtesy of the Barron
Collier Company.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zo4sskscyoa7ym37gbbnujh4/bafkreih7opa6mxjvaulslhin4tzdggtwdiol6bp2xhibtraqva7wn4au7a)
