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Alexandra Grabbe

@alexandragrabbe.bsky.social

Author of The Nansen Factor, Refugee Stories. Former talk show host in Paris; former green innkeeper on Cape Cod. Now living in Arlington, MA. Memoir to be published by Koehler Books in March 2026. @AuthorsGuild

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Stupidity in the newest move from White House regarding fossil fueled #Cars.

04.12.2025 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Shocked by the hateful messages sent to the six #Congress people who spoke out over β€œillegal orders” video. #Slotkin

02.12.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”₯ AL GORE: β€œWe already have way too many subservient cowards in Congress, the last thing we need is to send another one (Van Epps πŸ€–) β€” you can make tomorrow the turning point for our country by getting out and voting for Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social .” #TN7

Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...

02.12.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 16800    πŸ” 5002    πŸ’¬ 325    πŸ“Œ 320
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BREAKING: Former NATO Commander Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud - Trump Is Beholden To Putin, Not America In a stunningβ€”and frankly, humiliatingβ€”moment on international television, a former NATO Commander made absolutely clear what so many in the global security community have been whispering for years: D...

BREAKING: Former NATO Commander Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud - Trump Is Beholden To Putin, Not America
open.substack.com/pub/demwinsm...

01.12.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2656    πŸ” 1096    πŸ’¬ 119    πŸ“Œ 45

"...we've got a long period of this administration ahead." "....the use of force really concerns me. I think the groundwork that's being set is for the use of force against Americans in our states, and we're already seeing signs of that."

Frank Kendell, Center For American Progress, Sr. Fellow

02.12.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1315    πŸ” 469    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 23

Of course it’s what he is saying. He is the emptiest publicly known human being on the planet.

01.12.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 901    πŸ” 207    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 1

Avoiding #PFAS is up to us now. Try to eat #organic. Elect politicians who defend the #environment and protest to those in power who do not.

01.12.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.

"In April, he welcomed Witkoff to the St. Petersburg presidential library for another three-hour meeting with Putin. Witkoff took his own notes, relying on a Kremlin translator..."

www.wsj.com/world/russia...

01.12.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1210    πŸ” 416    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 16

#Traindreams, on Netflix, is a great movie. So original!

26.11.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I

As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

22.11.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 15126    πŸ” 5423    πŸ’¬ 376    πŸ“Œ 229

The targeting of Mark Kelly isn’t politics...it’s the sick new normal created by a movement that can’t win arguments, only intimidate. When public servants become targets, freedom isn’t next in line… it’s already in danger. Fortunately, the outrage is intensifying rapidly.

#HOLDFAST

24.11.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5002    πŸ” 1608    πŸ’¬ 159    πŸ“Œ 62

Too many good #sustacks to read these days. No time, no time.

24.11.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace β€œthe American people want” with β€œtroll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

23.11.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 21321    πŸ” 5169    πŸ’¬ 375    πŸ“Œ 257

#Russia is recruiting soldiers in Africa to fight in #Ukraine. How crazy is that? The new β€œpeace plan” is skewed in favor of Russia, the invader. I feel so ashamed my country is siding with the aggressor.

23.11.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A tweet from β€œAdam Mockler @adammockler” reads:
β€œStephen Miller just went on Fox News and said telling troops to refuse illegal orders is an β€˜open act of insurrection.’ He is telling on himself.
They are planning to give illegal orders, and they want a military that will follow them blindly.”

A tweet from β€œAdam Mockler @adammockler” reads: β€œStephen Miller just went on Fox News and said telling troops to refuse illegal orders is an β€˜open act of insurrection.’ He is telling on himself. They are planning to give illegal orders, and they want a military that will follow them blindly.”

This young man has it exactly right.

21.11.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 28124    πŸ” 8197    πŸ’¬ 778    πŸ“Œ 300
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Opinion | Gifts You Can Give That Save Lives

its easy to feel powerless. But each of us has the power to save or transform lives.
@nickKristof’ has done the research. Read his suggestions on gifts we can give that save lives

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

22.11.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 146    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œCaregivers wait too long to ask for help,” said Yvette Nicole Brown at the #Endwell conference today in LA. #letstalkaboutdeath

20.11.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are 120 different forms of dementia. #endwell #letstalkaboutdeath

20.11.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#endwell Sasha Hamdami channeled her grief at her dad’s death into writing. I did too.

20.11.2025 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jamal Khashoggi was a US resident, a journalist & critic of the extremist policies of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. To silence him, bin Salman organized his murder & dismembering with a bone saw.

The lavish welcome of this murderer to our WH is disgusting

19.11.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 683    πŸ” 138    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 10
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CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

18.11.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 29468    πŸ” 12391    πŸ’¬ 1127    πŸ“Œ 666

So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?

18.11.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 17338    πŸ” 5592    πŸ’¬ 1953    πŸ“Œ 450

This is how the depraved, unprincipled Trump excuses the murder of Jamal Khashoggi : blame the victim.

β€œA lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about, whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen,” he says sitting with the culpable MBS.

Sickening and infuriating.

18.11.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1498    πŸ” 472    πŸ’¬ 132    πŸ“Œ 38
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"The rate of warming is showing signs of accelerating" PIK Director Johan RockstrΓΆm gives an analysis of the current situation on climate & planetary boundaries at #COP30. The data suggests the world is heading for global temperatures not seen in millions of years.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnNn...

17.11.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1015    πŸ” 487    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 39

New UK asylum law would stop #migrants from becoming citizens for 20 years.

17.11.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Member of the Queen's Guard breaks protocol to comfort a lost child.
Makes me tear up.
WHat has happened to our humanity, folks?
WHy is it not things like this that we venerate?
Why do we tolerate cruelty all over our land???

16.11.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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16.11.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

If only the Orange King was the backbone of the right wing movement. He’s just a front man. The real danger is behind him, obscured from view. ONE of the biggest problems we have is the Supreme Corruption who broke the Constitution to allow him on the ballot. They have lifetime appointments.

16.11.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6697    πŸ” 1535    πŸ’¬ 352    πŸ“Œ 132

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.

So much work remains to be done.

12.11.2025 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 14022    πŸ” 3782    πŸ’¬ 110    πŸ“Œ 118
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So proud of my friend and fellow Welsh Pembroke Corgi owner @andrewfeinberg.com for asking this question:

β€œWhat was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?"

13.11.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 13809    πŸ” 3026    πŸ’¬ 543    πŸ“Œ 130

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