Renée Graham 🏳️🌈
@rygraham.bsky.social
Boston Globe opinion columnist and associate editor. Lego nerd. NY Mets fan. Rockfordphile. Occasionally seen & heard. She/Her. OUTTAKES newsletter. Subscribe: globe.com/outtakes
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Renée Graham 🏳️🌈
@rygraham.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Imagine what this nation could be if it uplifted Black women the way Black women uplift democracy.
God, Obama just lives rent free in this man's empty head.
Trump: I want the money to go into an account for people where the people buy their own insurance. They will feel like entrepreneurs. Call it Trumpcare… anything but Obamacare. Obamacare is a disaster just like he was.
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
God, Obama just lives rent free in this man's empty head.
A legal marriage between two consenting adults is no one's business but their own. Love live Obergefell! 🏳️🌈
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A legal marriage between two consenting adults is no one's business but their own. Love live Obergefell! 🏳️🌈
CNN: Supreme Court rejects challenge to same-sex marriage
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
CNN: Supreme Court rejects challenge to same-sex marriage
One thing you can say about Democrats — they can always be counted on to crush their own.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
One thing you can say about Democrats — they can always be counted on to crush their own.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Democrats considering voting yes should take their cues from the crowd at the Commanders game who gave Trump what he deserved:
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Democrats considering voting yes should take their cues from the crowd at the Commanders game who gave Trump what he deserved:
Democrats are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It's as if Election Day never happened.
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Democrats are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It's as if Election Day never happened.
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Hell fuckin' no.
🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.”
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Hell fuckin' no.
It goes without saying that if there had been images of Biden "appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event," they would have been "breaking news" for days.
Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media | CNN Politics
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise qu...
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
It goes without saying that if there had been images of Biden "appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event," they would have been "breaking news" for days.
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Imagine if they fought this hard to make housing, healthcare, and daily life more affordable.
Trump administration says states must "immediately undo any steps" to send full SNAP benefits
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in a late-night Saturday memo, also threatened to impose financial penalties on states that did not comply with the government's new orders.
www.cbsnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Imagine if they fought this hard to make housing, healthcare, and daily life more affordable.
"Sitting behind the Resolute Desk on Thursday, the president displayed a constellation of movements familiar to anyone who has attempted to stay awake during a work meeting. He closed his eyes. He put his hand to his temple. He slouched in his chair."
A closer look at Trump’s apparent struggles to fight off sleep in the Oval Office
A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds found that Trump spent nearly 20 minutes battling to keep his eyes open at a recent Oval Office event.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"Sitting behind the Resolute Desk on Thursday, the president displayed a constellation of movements familiar to anyone who has attempted to stay awake during a work meeting. He closed his eyes. He put his hand to his temple. He slouched in his chair."
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An essential piece from @rygraham.bsky.social about the racism that is baked in to the Trump administration and further fueled by the federal shutdown it fully owns: 1/2 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/o...
How Trump’s government shutdown is fueling anti-Black propaganda - The Boston Globe
Under the boot of an administration that would rather foment racism than end its manufactured crisis, the authoritarian president is willing to let millions real people — regardless of race — starve.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
An essential piece from @rygraham.bsky.social about the racism that is baked in to the Trump administration and further fueled by the federal shutdown it fully owns: 1/2 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/o...
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The pardoning criminals/starving children administration.
SCOOP: Trump is pardoning Michael McMahon, a retired NYC cop convicted of acting as an unregistered Chinese agent in a plot to intimidate a Chinese family in NJ.
Prosecutors said it was part of a CCP effort to control Chinese nationals around the world.
The WH says McMahon was tricked into it.
Prosecutors said it was part of a CCP effort to control Chinese nationals around the world.
The WH says McMahon was tricked into it.
Trump Pardons Ex-Officer Convicted in a Chinese Government Plot
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The pardoning criminals/starving children administration.
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The idea that deadnaming someone "expresses a message on a matter of pressing public concern" has to be among the most willfully ignorant and hateful things I have read this week
BREAKING: The Sixth Circuit, in a 10-7 en banc decision, holds that an Ohio school district's anti-bullying policy that requires students to use children's preferred pronouns is likely unconstitutional on these facts.
Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The idea that deadnaming someone "expresses a message on a matter of pressing public concern" has to be among the most willfully ignorant and hateful things I have read this week
Happy that Sean "Sandwich Guy" Dunn was acquitted, but I'll miss the many sandwich-related puns here.
November 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Happy that Sean "Sandwich Guy" Dunn was acquitted, but I'll miss the many sandwich-related puns here.
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BREAKING: A man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington, D.C., is found not guilty of assault.
Man who threw sandwich at federal agent in Washington is found not guilty of assault charge
A former Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington has been found not guilty of assault.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
BREAKING: A man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington, D.C., is found not guilty of assault.
What is even happening here?
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
What is even happening here?
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It's so confusing ... ICE agents are acting like criminals, and criminals are posing as ICE agents.
November 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's so confusing ... ICE agents are acting like criminals, and criminals are posing as ICE agents.
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SNAP-centered racism has been mind-boggling on the right, even as GOP members of Congress daily blame Democrats for preventing funding of what they suddenly call a crucial program. The great @rygraham.bsky.social :
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OUTTAKES: How Trump’s government shutdown is fueling anti-Black propaganda
mailchi.mp
November 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
SNAP-centered racism has been mind-boggling on the right, even as GOP members of Congress daily blame Democrats for preventing funding of what they suddenly call a crucial program. The great @rygraham.bsky.social :
mailchi.mp/bostonglobe/...
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This crap is so exhausting.
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This crap is so exhausting.
Nancy Pelosi to retire at the end of her term.
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Nancy Pelosi to retire at the end of her term.