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@grittygal.bsky.social

Sociologist and avid reader. Traveler, news and puzzle junkie, strong feminist, friend, pumpkin pie baker…

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Latest posts by grittygal.bsky.social on Bluesky

Nine Americans have been shot and killed by ICE agents. Why is it that we know the names of two of them? (I know the answer, I encourage you to find out, too.)

08.02.2026 03:40 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Autistic boys act differently than we expect: autistic girls not so much. I once overheard two elementary school aides agreeing, “she’s such a good girl” and realizing that the quiet girl never talked told me a lot about how ‘good’ is defined differently by our gender expectations.

06.02.2026 14:35 — 👍 19    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Strange…I’m seeing more about the Melania film in my Apple News feed than this story…

31.01.2026 02:11 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Yes! Bluesky is an echo chamber. More Dems need to show up on Fox News to challenge the rigid pro-Trump narrative there.

31.01.2026 02:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please get involved in Maine state politics this year. Pretty please.

30.01.2026 02:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is great!

30.01.2026 02:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Shame on you! You think we’re idiots.

30.01.2026 01:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There are a lot of possible contenders, actually. He might not even run: when asked his intentions by reporters last year he actually said, “Accept the mystery. 2028 is gonna be crazy.”

28.01.2026 13:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Does anyone really think the current Democratic leadership would follow through? Me, no. They don’t want the precedent and are not that fired up tbh.

28.01.2026 13:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

*Normalization* to a wider audience/larger scale. This is Trump’s secret police force mimicking European ones of old. Europeans know it and are mostly horrified, but there *is* some support among white Nationalists, etc..

28.01.2026 13:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dems are losing the war on state gerrymandering. There will be a blue wave in response to this administration, sure, but disenfranchising the voters beforehand means it won’t matter. The position numbers aren’t there.

28.01.2026 13:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Blatant attempt at normalization on a larger scale/wider audience.

28.01.2026 02:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Someone needs to tell this to Fox News, because they still spread the false narrative and they’ve had ample time to correct the record.

27.01.2026 13:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is awesome! Click the link to see a large list of organizations set up to support Minnesotans in a wide variety of ways. There are several at the neighborhood level, even. Wow, blown away at the effort being taken. Nicely done, MN!

27.01.2026 13:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fox News reporting this would be a MaGA turnaround. Online, they do have a comments section—we need to start there and seed the truth instead of lies they are still reporting.

27.01.2026 13:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump tries to break Minnesotans and they show a Midwestern backbone of steel.

27.01.2026 12:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He needs to have a heart-to-heart with Fetterman pronto.

27.01.2026 12:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Instead of “party” substitute “ICE victims,” “rule of law,” and “due process” not to mention, “democracy.” This clown thinks we can’t figure that out. So happy to be a constituent able to vote him out. IF we still have future elections despite well-intentioned people furthering Trump’s agenda.

27.01.2026 12:49 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Because American elected politicians tend to be billionaires. They don’t walk outside in streets anymore; they are driven from point A to point B in chauffeur-driven comfort and get their exercise in private gyms.

25.01.2026 14:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One way they’ll rig the next election.

25.01.2026 14:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’d really like to know who (the artists scheduled) isn’t on board with this. Name names?

31.12.2025 03:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s a fact of Bluesky: the wonderful accounts you follow aren’t usually the ones you are seeing in your feed. Take a few minutes to click on your ‘following’ link and *like* the valuable content they are creating.

30.12.2025 02:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can we talk about ‘cloud dancer’? It seems all segments of the US society are pandering to the pres, out of fear or jubilation. White washing is our year, and it extends literally in paint to Pantone. Time to do better.

18.12.2025 02:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They both look underwhelmed—probably thinking, “she’s too old.”

13.12.2025 15:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nah, just Fox viewers. Not exactly the Bluesky crowd…now if you could get your message on Fox, they might hear your jabs. This…is just an echo chamber.

13.12.2025 02:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I love this, but we’re still going to lose in the next election because of Texas. Our numbers don’t add up. They don’t need Indiana to cheat.

12.12.2025 13:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

From 1883 until 2025’s golden visas:

"Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

12.12.2025 13:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Republican Golden Door: “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

12.12.2025 13:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Hannah Arendt quote.

Hannah Arendt quote.

11.12.2025 02:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for your stellar reporting!

11.12.2025 01:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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