Reposted by Sonya Gropman🧜♀️ Walking Mermaid ☀️🌊 @walkingmermaid.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Found it 526106082051
Reposted by Sonya GropmanGeorge Hahn @georgehahn.com · 23/07/2025Went to visit my friends at Animal Care Center of NYC up on 110th Street. They’re extremely overcrowded with adoptable dogs and cats. It’s dire. I met Bass, one of dozens of dogs who need a forever home or even a foster. And if you adopt, tell them I sent you and they will waive the adoption fee. 29918237
Reposted by Sonya GropmanPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Brooklyn bus stop ads being replaced with guerilla public service announcements. 164171942733
Reposted by Sonya Gropmanandrewsilverstein.bsky.social @andrewsilverstein.bsky.social · 25/04/2025You can read about how the Forward helped reunite families during and after the Holocaust here forward.com/culture/5552...forward.comHow one newspaper column saved lives, reunited families and changed the course of Jewish historyDuring the Holocaust, the Forward received and published thousands of letters from Jews searching for their family in the U.S. 011
Sonya Gropman @sonyagropman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Gabrielle (aka my mom, not yet on Bluesky) and I co-wrote an article about our recent trip to Munich which hinged on my great-grandfather’s silver cup - confiscated in 1930s Germany - being returned to our family after 80+ yrs in a Munich museum. #silverlevy #GermanJewish #TheForwardforward.comIn Germany, a Jewish family is reunited with a treasured family object — but also a sense of exileFor Gaby and Sonya Gropman, a trip to Munich to retrieve a kiddush cup represented a homecoming to a land where there is no longer a home 021
Sonya Gropman @sonyagropman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025An article about the silver levy in Germany. My family was one of nearly 100 that had a silver object returned through restitution after 85 years - my great-grandfather’s 17th c. kiddush cup. (There’s a photo in the article, it’s truly a beauty.)villagevoice.com 000
Reposted by Sonya GropmanMS NOW @ms.now · 01/04/2025Sen. Booker has crossed the 18 hour mark in his historic Senate speech protesting the Trump administration. WATCH IT LIVE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Nf...youtube.comLIVE NOW: Sen. Booker will go as long as he can in marathon Senate speech to protest TrumpYouTube video by MSNBC 52835165
Sonya Gropman @sonyagropman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025I’ve been writing #postcardstovoters re: the upcoming special election on April 1st. #JudgeSusanCrawford 4 Supreme Court #WI. And two vacant Congressional seats in #FL are being filled. If both go Democrat, the House will turn blue. #JoshWeil #GayValimont Sign up with @tovoters.bsky.social ✍🏼 072
Sonya Gropman @sonyagropman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025I just left voicemails for both my NY Senators imploring them to do every/anything possible to get #elonmusk the hell out of the treasury and out of Wash DC. ⚡️⚡️¡¡¡Make a call!!!⚡️⚡️ ☎️ U.S. Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121 000
Reposted by Sonya GropmanSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/02/2025It’s only February, but this may be the winning post of 2025. 151375212
Reposted by Sonya GropmanGeorge Hahn @georgehahn.com · 29/01/2025This is great. trumpgolftrack.com h/t @adamparkhomenko.bsky.socialtrumpgolftrack.comTrump Golf TrackTracking the number of days President Donald Trump spends his second term playing golf. 18684172
Reposted by Sonya GropmanLiz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025The Air Force has removed videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the military — to comply with the Trump admin’s crackdown on DEI initiatives. apnews.com/article/air-...apnews.comMore DEI fallout: Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilotsThe U.S. Air Force has removed training courses for service members that included historical videos of its storied Black Tuskegee Airmen and Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — female World War ... 1741085628
Reposted by Sonya Gropman@CharlesPPierce @theshebeen.bsky.social · 25/01/2025By 51-50, we now have a deeply compromised, unqualified, D-list Fox host running the US military at the command of a convicted felon who once hosted a reality show. Just as the Founders intended. 542204475
Reposted by Sonya GropmanAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis. 1144474629828
Sonya Gropman @sonyagropman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025About time. #womenssuffragenationalmonumentnytimes.comHow a Monument to Women Finally Won a Place on the National MallThe Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional and other roadblocks. 000
Reposted by Sonya GropmanJames Sergio Crocker @jamescrocker.bsky.social · 20/01/2025AOC: I don’t celebrate RAPISTS, so no, I’m not going to the inauguration tomorrow 546323575026
