the great grumpkin

the great grumpkin

@grumpnet.bsky.social

ex-journo appalachian dog. waf waf.

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It’s a decision to spend fewer dollars on SNAP while funding random elective wars and ICE and ads for Trump

PBS News@pbsnews.org

More than 5 million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits since President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year. That has meant many more people are turning to food banks for support. https://to.pbs.org/47Sb4rd

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Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

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Replying to @rezekjoe.bsky.social

I think this is what depresses me the most about AI. This person could not even think about her own child for five minutes without help

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So happy for Brazil and the world!! Now for the U.S. !!!!!!!!!! 🤞

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who spared a thought for my country today, who amplified information about the coup d’état attempt, and worried about Brazil’s democratic future—the world’s democratic future. We won! Women won! The Amazon won! Young people won! Democracy won! Hope won!

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Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.

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Interesting what overseas kids Elon sympathizes with and which he throws in the woodchipper.

NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com

❗️Elon Musk says “the endless slaughter of Ukrainians and Russians must stop” and called for sympathy for Russian conscripts. “Those kids have no choice but to fight and die in drone strikes,” he wrote. His remarks come amid an ongoing dispute over restrictions on Starlink and its use by Ukraine.

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"I'm sorry I'm entering a tunnel, the reception got bad."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WELKER: Is a vote for you a vote for the Trump agenda? MIKE ROGERS: Um, I'm apologizing. I'm having some difficultly in my earpiece. But is a vote for you? I'm not sure. I'll tell you what a vote for me is. It's a great day for the state of Michigan

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Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

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"A.i." is a tool of extraction, not liberation. These fucking products are designed to fuck you over, not help you.

The Lever@levernews.com

You asked AI for the cheapest flight. It dug through your emails, decided you could afford more, and suggested a ticket costing $100–$200 extra. Lindsay Owens explains ⬇️

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I sometimes wonder how Lincoln Riley feels about the local community and real estate market in Lubbock, Texas

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Having Sacramento in the MAC and NIU in the Mountain West was definitely worth defiling geography

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This Texas Tech team is just not the same. Also: Lifetime extension time for Scott Satterfield? You're hearing it more and more

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A cow’s liver weighs about 10-15 pounds. A cow weighs 1000-1800 pounds. 40% of the country cannot replace their beef consumption with 1% of the cow.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."

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Correct. Swing voters clearly don’t give a shit how “extreme” any candidate is, as evidenced by the fact that they have cast votes for Trump and thought it was a smart thing to do. They just get pissed when the party in power doesn’t make anything better and switch allegiances every 2-4 years.

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Okay this crap has made me angry. You wanna find some REAL activists who will share things you can actually DO instead of stare at deactivist "A.i." bullshit? Here's a thread of starter packs!

Greg Pak@gregpak.net

I'm blocking @mary1kathy.bsky.social and adding the account to my blocklists. Life is too short and the times are too serious to fuck around with disinformation and "A.i." bullshit. For accountability, here's the screenshot of the video they posted.

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gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social

theoretically there's at least one kid that hadn't really considered being trans until they opened the mailbox, saw the mysterious transgender mailer going around in texas, and went "hey, wait a second"

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This is exactly what vouchers are designed to do. Never forget- scratch a book banner, find a legislator who's working with the anti-public education dark money crowd. Bc it's hard to sell: I don't believe poor ppl deserve an education. But it's easy to sell: public schools are grooming your kids.

ProPublica@propublica.org

Public school enrollment was declining in West Virginia even before its voucher program was established. But things have only gotten worse. Since 2019, 70 public schools have closed in the state, and up to 20 more schools are in jeopardy. w/ @mtnstspotlight.bsky.social