Granny Smith
@grannysmith.bsky.social
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There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter. -Ulysses S Grant
There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter. -Ulysses S Grant
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Granny Smith
@grannysmith.bsky.social
· May 19
You can go to your local post office and get a pack of pre-stamped plain postcards, and then write messages on them. Send a couple a day. Send snark. Send scoldings. Send uncomfortable facts. Heck, send interesting number formations. But those postcards must be handled and processed and delivered.
Alt text from the subject line of this email I refuse to open: "Have Conservatives Taken Sexy Back?"
@thenewyorker.bsky.social, go home, you're drunk. Conservatives have never been sexy, therefore there is no taking it back. Please hire some better editors.
@thenewyorker.bsky.social, go home, you're drunk. Conservatives have never been sexy, therefore there is no taking it back. Please hire some better editors.
September 10, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Alt text from the subject line of this email I refuse to open: "Have Conservatives Taken Sexy Back?"
@thenewyorker.bsky.social, go home, you're drunk. Conservatives have never been sexy, therefore there is no taking it back. Please hire some better editors.
@thenewyorker.bsky.social, go home, you're drunk. Conservatives have never been sexy, therefore there is no taking it back. Please hire some better editors.
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$16 million later, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to be open by July 4.
Instead, it looks like this.
Instead, it looks like this.
September 6, 2026 at 10:50 PM
$16 million later, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to be open by July 4.
Instead, it looks like this.
Instead, it looks like this.
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this sounds less like a plan to help stay-at-home parents and more like a one to punish working ones www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2026 at 7:01 PM
this sounds less like a plan to help stay-at-home parents and more like a one to punish working ones www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
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September 5, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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United Nations has backed a resolution to change the way Africa is represented on world maps.
The “Correct the Map” resolution was adopted by a vote of 164 to one, with six countries abstaining.
The United States was the only country to vote against it.👇🏾
www.npr.org/2026/09/04/n... #PINKS
The “Correct the Map” resolution was adopted by a vote of 164 to one, with six countries abstaining.
The United States was the only country to vote against it.👇🏾
www.npr.org/2026/09/04/n... #PINKS
September 5, 2026 at 2:52 PM
United Nations has backed a resolution to change the way Africa is represented on world maps.
The “Correct the Map” resolution was adopted by a vote of 164 to one, with six countries abstaining.
The United States was the only country to vote against it.👇🏾
www.npr.org/2026/09/04/n... #PINKS
The “Correct the Map” resolution was adopted by a vote of 164 to one, with six countries abstaining.
The United States was the only country to vote against it.👇🏾
www.npr.org/2026/09/04/n... #PINKS
Reagan was terrible
Jimmy Carter lost because underhanded Ronald Reagan told Iran that if they held the American hostages until after the presidential election (to make Carter look bad) Reagan would secretly sell arms to Iran. Reagan then used the money from Iran to illegally fund the Contras, a Nicaraguan rebel group.
September 6, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Reagan was terrible
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Federal minimum wage in:
2009: $7.25
2010: $7.25
2011: $7.25
2012: $7.25
2013: $7.25
2014: $7.25
2015: $7.25
2016: $7.25
2017: $7.25
2018: $7.25
2019: $7.25
2020: $7.25
2021: $7.25
2022: $7.25
2023: $7.25
2024: $7.25
2025: $7.25
2026: $7.25
Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
2009: $7.25
2010: $7.25
2011: $7.25
2012: $7.25
2013: $7.25
2014: $7.25
2015: $7.25
2016: $7.25
2017: $7.25
2018: $7.25
2019: $7.25
2020: $7.25
2021: $7.25
2022: $7.25
2023: $7.25
2024: $7.25
2025: $7.25
2026: $7.25
Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
September 5, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Federal minimum wage in:
2009: $7.25
2010: $7.25
2011: $7.25
2012: $7.25
2013: $7.25
2014: $7.25
2015: $7.25
2016: $7.25
2017: $7.25
2018: $7.25
2019: $7.25
2020: $7.25
2021: $7.25
2022: $7.25
2023: $7.25
2024: $7.25
2025: $7.25
2026: $7.25
Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
2009: $7.25
2010: $7.25
2011: $7.25
2012: $7.25
2013: $7.25
2014: $7.25
2015: $7.25
2016: $7.25
2017: $7.25
2018: $7.25
2019: $7.25
2020: $7.25
2021: $7.25
2022: $7.25
2023: $7.25
2024: $7.25
2025: $7.25
2026: $7.25
Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
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This is incredibly amazing 💙👇
August 26, 2026 at 9:15 PM
This is incredibly amazing 💙👇
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Dolly Parton...
-Gifted millions of free books to kids
-Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits
-Helped fund medical research, including the COVID vaccine
-Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters
-Quietly funded high school band programs
We lost an incredible person.
-Gifted millions of free books to kids
-Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits
-Helped fund medical research, including the COVID vaccine
-Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters
-Quietly funded high school band programs
We lost an incredible person.
August 26, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Dolly Parton...
-Gifted millions of free books to kids
-Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits
-Helped fund medical research, including the COVID vaccine
-Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters
-Quietly funded high school band programs
We lost an incredible person.
-Gifted millions of free books to kids
-Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits
-Helped fund medical research, including the COVID vaccine
-Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters
-Quietly funded high school band programs
We lost an incredible person.
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Hear me out: The John F. Kennedy and Dolly Parton Memorial Center for the Performing Arts
August 25, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Hear me out: The John F. Kennedy and Dolly Parton Memorial Center for the Performing Arts
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The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
August 25, 2026 at 7:09 PM
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
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Greece battles wildfires, Hungary shuts nuclear power plant due to drought reut.rs/4wdMTgY
Greece battles wildfires, Hungary shuts nuclear power plant due to drought
Greek firefighters battled on Sunday to control a huge wildfire that has destroyed over 100 homes northwest of Athens, while a fresh blaze forced evacuations on the popular tourist island of Kefalonia.
reut.rs
August 2, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Greece battles wildfires, Hungary shuts nuclear power plant due to drought reut.rs/4wdMTgY
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#OtD 1 Aug 1834 slavery in the British Caribbean officially ended, and the 800,000 enslaved were "freed". Govt compensated former owners, at taxpayers' expense, paying them £20 million, and the enslaved were forced to work for free for four more years stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8043...
August 1, 2026 at 1:10 PM
#OtD 1 Aug 1834 slavery in the British Caribbean officially ended, and the 800,000 enslaved were "freed". Govt compensated former owners, at taxpayers' expense, paying them £20 million, and the enslaved were forced to work for free for four more years stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8043...
If internet searches are going to continue to degrade, we need telephone books back. I can't find anything now. It's all AI hallucinations and trash advertisers.
July 31, 2026 at 12:51 PM
If internet searches are going to continue to degrade, we need telephone books back. I can't find anything now. It's all AI hallucinations and trash advertisers.
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Meanwhile, the United States has already seen more than 4 million acres burn in 2026, with over 42,000 wildfires reported nationwide. #SaveUSFS
July 30, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Meanwhile, the United States has already seen more than 4 million acres burn in 2026, with over 42,000 wildfires reported nationwide. #SaveUSFS
Americans are stupid about maps to begin with, but this is truly beyond the pale
“Nigeria, home to one of the continent’s largest ports, has drifted inland, grown in size and changed shape. It’s not that the map bestows the name on the wrong country; the new landlocked, splat-shaped Nigeria sprawls across Mali, Niger, Algeria and Chad, probably, resembling no existing state”
State Dept. apologizing for Africa map that mislabeled every country
The map, part of a presentation Sunday at the AIDS 2026 summit in Rio de Janeiro, purports to show six African countries that are receiving U.S. health funding. It gets each of them wrong.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 30, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Americans are stupid about maps to begin with, but this is truly beyond the pale
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Accurate. I want faster, better trains.
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
July 28, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Accurate. I want faster, better trains.
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Wait. They all shake hands at the end? What are we even doing here?
He's the US President suing you for $20 billion for reporting on the birthday card he sent his friend the pedophile in which he drew a naked girl & mused about secrets.
And they all shake hands?
He's the US President suing you for $20 billion for reporting on the birthday card he sent his friend the pedophile in which he drew a naked girl & mused about secrets.
And they all shake hands?
Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.
July 25, 2026 at 2:25 AM
Wait. They all shake hands at the end? What are we even doing here?
He's the US President suing you for $20 billion for reporting on the birthday card he sent his friend the pedophile in which he drew a naked girl & mused about secrets.
And they all shake hands?
He's the US President suing you for $20 billion for reporting on the birthday card he sent his friend the pedophile in which he drew a naked girl & mused about secrets.
And they all shake hands?
This is awful! Again!
There's been a shooting with “multiple” victims at the Bite of Seattle food festival, according to the Seattle Police Department
Mass shooting reported at Seattle Center
Police and ambulances were responding to a shooting with "multiple" victims at Seattle Center, according to the Seattle Police Department.
www.seattletimes.com
July 27, 2026 at 2:08 AM
This is awful! Again!
I spent two weeks this month fighting with my insurance company. They're terrible, but then, all insurance companies are
When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied.
You have a right to see this file.
(Published May 2023)
You have a right to see this file.
(Published May 2023)
Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes
Learn how to request your health insurance claim file, which can include details about what your insurer is saying about you and your case.
www.propublica.org
July 27, 2026 at 1:29 AM
I spent two weeks this month fighting with my insurance company. They're terrible, but then, all insurance companies are
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. -Eisenhower, April 1953
July 24, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. -Eisenhower, April 1953
I've spent the past week and a half in a hot war with my insurance company. We don't have healthcare, we have $20k/yr insurance that doesn't cover care. I have to fight over the basics, and this round of fighting was over a serious issue. This is delay, deny, defend. It must cause deaths.
July 23, 2026 at 9:55 PM
I've spent the past week and a half in a hot war with my insurance company. We don't have healthcare, we have $20k/yr insurance that doesn't cover care. I have to fight over the basics, and this round of fighting was over a serious issue. This is delay, deny, defend. It must cause deaths.
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👇 are war crimes, Senator
Hey, Congress, could we cut off funds for Trump's foolish and dangerous war NOW?
July 22, 2026 at 2:19 PM
👇 are war crimes, Senator
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A 25 and 19 year old dead in another endless Republican Middle East war while Trump played golf, hosted a high dollar fundraiser, and tried to jump on a stage to act like he won the World Cup.
July 20, 2026 at 12:12 PM
A 25 and 19 year old dead in another endless Republican Middle East war while Trump played golf, hosted a high dollar fundraiser, and tried to jump on a stage to act like he won the World Cup.
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España hace historia: es el primer país con las dos selecciones absolutas campeonas del mundo al mismo tiempo social.elpais.com/62z…
July 20, 2026 at 10:42 AM
España hace historia: es el primer país con las dos selecciones absolutas campeonas del mundo al mismo tiempo social.elpais.com/62z…