Alisha Grauso (She/Her)
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Books & TV Features Editor & Writer | Pittsburgh sports, literature, history, politics, the weird & dark, ADHD, practicing druid, nature & conservation | Views mine | You can find me among the trees 🌿🌲 https://muckrack.com/alisha-grauso
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Lemme tell you, @aimod.social's AI banner and avatar imagery labeler is doing the Lord's work. So many of you happily RTing shit from people with AI in their profiles without knowing it.
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From a Washington Post story titled "How women feel about Trump’s presidency"
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
From a Washington Post story titled "How women feel about Trump’s presidency"
Enjoy the inevitable lawsuits, you bigoted ghoul.
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Enjoy the inevitable lawsuits, you bigoted ghoul.
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The biggest democracy news of the day and its only 11am! www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Utah Judge Strikes Down GOP Gerrymander, Restores Voter-Approved Fair Map
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The biggest democracy news of the day and its only 11am! www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt is about how to find hope after Democrats caved so massively on health care.
Subscribe today! To mine, if you haven't, but we also have a new one that is a daily Salon round-up! salon.com/newsletter
Music by the Diodes.
Subscribe today! To mine, if you haven't, but we also have a new one that is a daily Salon round-up! salon.com/newsletter
Music by the Diodes.
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt is about how to find hope after Democrats caved so massively on health care.
Subscribe today! To mine, if you haven't, but we also have a new one that is a daily Salon round-up! salon.com/newsletter
Music by the Diodes.
Subscribe today! To mine, if you haven't, but we also have a new one that is a daily Salon round-up! salon.com/newsletter
Music by the Diodes.
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isn't just Trump allies using those words in particular
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
isn't just Trump allies using those words in particular
Random thought: There's been significant growth in people, particularly women, embracing paganism or spirituality in the past 10-15 years (I myself am a practicing druid). And while there are SO many valid, studied reasons for that – rejecting patriarchy, wanting to reconnect with nature, etc...
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Random thought: There's been significant growth in people, particularly women, embracing paganism or spirituality in the past 10-15 years (I myself am a practicing druid). And while there are SO many valid, studied reasons for that – rejecting patriarchy, wanting to reconnect with nature, etc...
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"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
Indivisible Launches its Largest Primary Program in Response to Senate Democrats Surrendering on the Shutdown Vote
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
Sometimes I think about the fact that billionaires are destroying the planet to push a technology whose entire purpose is to be a shoddy imitation of everything *that human beings already do* and I feel like I might start screaming and never stop.
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Sometimes I think about the fact that billionaires are destroying the planet to push a technology whose entire purpose is to be a shoddy imitation of everything *that human beings already do* and I feel like I might start screaming and never stop.
Not gamedev, but *stares in digital media freelancer*
Many freelancers in the United States rely on ACA marketplace plans for their health insurance. In an industry that has already been working overtime to turn gamedevs into gig workers, freelance and contract devs are about to get even more squeezed. This is unacceptable.
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Not gamedev, but *stares in digital media freelancer*
Couple of things:
1. Boy, I'm tired of the people who rant against "socialism" not even understanding what it is and thinking it's the same thing as communism.
1. Boy, I'm tired of the people who rant against "socialism" not even understanding what it is and thinking it's the same thing as communism.
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Couple of things:
1. Boy, I'm tired of the people who rant against "socialism" not even understanding what it is and thinking it's the same thing as communism.
1. Boy, I'm tired of the people who rant against "socialism" not even understanding what it is and thinking it's the same thing as communism.
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late to this but i feel like an underrated part of the musk meltdown over joyce carol oates accusing him of not reading is this musk reply that makes it clear he has never read anything by joyce carol oates
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
late to this but i feel like an underrated part of the musk meltdown over joyce carol oates accusing him of not reading is this musk reply that makes it clear he has never read anything by joyce carol oates
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i've said it before and i'll say it again: joyce carol oates is the main boss of twitter. our finest posters have done some of their best work going after elon, but it's never rattled him like this. she got to him on a molecular level.
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
i've said it before and i'll say it again: joyce carol oates is the main boss of twitter. our finest posters have done some of their best work going after elon, but it's never rattled him like this. she got to him on a molecular level.
*starts shrieking while clawing at my eyeballs*
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
*starts shrieking while clawing at my eyeballs*
When the ear rubs are so good you fart a little
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
When the ear rubs are so good you fart a little
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Chill out and maybe accept the best interpretation of a typo and keep it moving 🤷🏾♀️
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Chill out and maybe accept the best interpretation of a typo and keep it moving 🤷🏾♀️
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I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
"You're not smart and you don't make good decisions" I say to my dumbest cat as he decides he wants to walk into the living room where he knows the giant, territorial Labrador retriever is sitting.
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"You're not smart and you don't make good decisions" I say to my dumbest cat as he decides he wants to walk into the living room where he knows the giant, territorial Labrador retriever is sitting.
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A Russian blogger shared that many Russians do not realize how many Russian soldiers are dying in the war against Ukraine.
"For these two small cities [Pokrovsk and Bakhmut], Russia has already killed 80-100 thousand of its own soldiers. It wasn't Ukraine that killed them, it was Russia," he says.
"For these two small cities [Pokrovsk and Bakhmut], Russia has already killed 80-100 thousand of its own soldiers. It wasn't Ukraine that killed them, it was Russia," he says.
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A Russian blogger shared that many Russians do not realize how many Russian soldiers are dying in the war against Ukraine.
"For these two small cities [Pokrovsk and Bakhmut], Russia has already killed 80-100 thousand of its own soldiers. It wasn't Ukraine that killed them, it was Russia," he says.
"For these two small cities [Pokrovsk and Bakhmut], Russia has already killed 80-100 thousand of its own soldiers. It wasn't Ukraine that killed them, it was Russia," he says.
"What radicalized you?"
Knowing some corporate media consultant was paid an insane amount of money for this.
Knowing some corporate media consultant was paid an insane amount of money for this.
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"What radicalized you?"
Knowing some corporate media consultant was paid an insane amount of money for this.
Knowing some corporate media consultant was paid an insane amount of money for this.
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BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
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Love having no confidence whatsoever in my elected officials to actually represent me and everybody else they’re supposed to represent. Bang-up job everyone, real great work all around, this feeling of powerlessness is just the tops
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Love having no confidence whatsoever in my elected officials to actually represent me and everybody else they’re supposed to represent. Bang-up job everyone, real great work all around, this feeling of powerlessness is just the tops
Is it, Sam? IS it? Democrats will always bail out Republicans, because they're spineless and out of touch.
It is fucking insane to me that senate democrats bailed him out
Trump to air traffic controllers: "For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn’t step up to help the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK"
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Is it, Sam? IS it? Democrats will always bail out Republicans, because they're spineless and out of touch.
We deserve so much better than spineless pieces of shit on one side and malevolent Nazis on the other.
Renovation of our government isn't enough. It has to be torn down. This administration. The GOP. Establishment Democrats. It all has to go.
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
We deserve so much better than spineless pieces of shit on one side and malevolent Nazis on the other.
He's rarely been the man for any moment.
Hard to see @schumer.senate.gov being able to stay in leadership after this or in the senate, he was not the man for this moment
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
He's rarely been the man for any moment.