Grant Alden
@shocko606.bsky.social
Recovering music critic, grunge survivor, No Depression co-founder, book seller, writer of unpublished speculative fiction. Also, goats.
Of the 38.3-million Americans receiving SNAP benefits, only 500,000 qualify for ACA. (If the Google isn't lying to me.)
Maybe it turns out the Dems were uncomfortable asking the poorest, most fragile among us to suffer so more affluent folk could afford health insurance.
Maybe it turns out the Dems were uncomfortable asking the poorest, most fragile among us to suffer so more affluent folk could afford health insurance.
November 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Of the 38.3-million Americans receiving SNAP benefits, only 500,000 qualify for ACA. (If the Google isn't lying to me.)
Maybe it turns out the Dems were uncomfortable asking the poorest, most fragile among us to suffer so more affluent folk could afford health insurance.
Maybe it turns out the Dems were uncomfortable asking the poorest, most fragile among us to suffer so more affluent folk could afford health insurance.
At last this administration is doing something for the environment.
Cutting air travel.
Cutting air travel.
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
At last this administration is doing something for the environment.
Cutting air travel.
Cutting air travel.
He can't really come for NYC, can he? Too much of his actual wealth is tied up in real estate there.
Picture a fleet of code enforcers, tax collectors, fire inspectors...plaguing every property he owns, every property his extended family owns, every property his visible supporters own.
Picture a fleet of code enforcers, tax collectors, fire inspectors...plaguing every property he owns, every property his extended family owns, every property his visible supporters own.
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
He can't really come for NYC, can he? Too much of his actual wealth is tied up in real estate there.
Picture a fleet of code enforcers, tax collectors, fire inspectors...plaguing every property he owns, every property his extended family owns, every property his visible supporters own.
Picture a fleet of code enforcers, tax collectors, fire inspectors...plaguing every property he owns, every property his extended family owns, every property his visible supporters own.
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
The tyrant wants to blow things up so they’ve given him Venezuela.
But who gets the oil when it’s done?
But who gets the oil when it’s done?
October 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The tyrant wants to blow things up so they’ve given him Venezuela.
But who gets the oil when it’s done?
But who gets the oil when it’s done?
Dreamed that I was sleeping.
October 31, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Dreamed that I was sleeping.
He isn't going to follow the rules because nobody can or will make him.
Not Congress, who wouldn't vote to impeach even tho they saw the crime. Not the courts, who have already made clear their allegiance.
Maybe us.
Maybe.
Not Congress, who wouldn't vote to impeach even tho they saw the crime. Not the courts, who have already made clear their allegiance.
Maybe us.
Maybe.
October 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
He isn't going to follow the rules because nobody can or will make him.
Not Congress, who wouldn't vote to impeach even tho they saw the crime. Not the courts, who have already made clear their allegiance.
Maybe us.
Maybe.
Not Congress, who wouldn't vote to impeach even tho they saw the crime. Not the courts, who have already made clear their allegiance.
Maybe us.
Maybe.
Alfred Jarry's absurdist play, "Ubu Roi," gave name to the spectacular Cleveland punk band Pere Ubu. Which means "King shit," and pardon my french.
Could we have a revival of that play, like, everywhere, all at once?
Could we have a revival of that play, like, everywhere, all at once?
October 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Alfred Jarry's absurdist play, "Ubu Roi," gave name to the spectacular Cleveland punk band Pere Ubu. Which means "King shit," and pardon my french.
Could we have a revival of that play, like, everywhere, all at once?
Could we have a revival of that play, like, everywhere, all at once?
If we took the entire ICE budget, melted it down, and spent it on homes, on mental health counseling, on jobs training...how much better could the government make city life?
Just a thought from a country cousin...
Just a thought from a country cousin...
October 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
If we took the entire ICE budget, melted it down, and spent it on homes, on mental health counseling, on jobs training...how much better could the government make city life?
Just a thought from a country cousin...
Just a thought from a country cousin...
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University of Kentucky has revoked support for numerous identity-based student organizations and denied students access to gender-inclusive housing for the upcoming semester.
kykernel.com/118662/news/...
kykernel.com/118662/news/...
UK quietly dismantles gender-inclusive housing and ties to identity-based groups
In the past month, the University of Kentucky has revoked support for numerous identity-based student organizations (IBOs) and denied students access to gender-inclusive housing for the upcoming semes...
kykernel.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
University of Kentucky has revoked support for numerous identity-based student organizations and denied students access to gender-inclusive housing for the upcoming semester.
kykernel.com/118662/news/...
kykernel.com/118662/news/...
Koch pere self-published a sci-fi novel in the '60s in which millionaires got three votes instead of one.
They believe in democracy. Honest.
They just, uh, define it differently.
They believe in democracy. Honest.
They just, uh, define it differently.
October 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Koch pere self-published a sci-fi novel in the '60s in which millionaires got three votes instead of one.
They believe in democracy. Honest.
They just, uh, define it differently.
They believe in democracy. Honest.
They just, uh, define it differently.
No pictures, no kings. 300 of us in eastern Kentucky.
October 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
No pictures, no kings. 300 of us in eastern Kentucky.
Are these the two oldest QBs ever to start against each other in the NFL?
October 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Are these the two oldest QBs ever to start against each other in the NFL?
Really, he just wants to treat American Democrats the way he's now treating Venezuelans in small boats.
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Really, he just wants to treat American Democrats the way he's now treating Venezuelans in small boats.
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This guide says you don’t just argue; you dismantle the cult. From turning its own tactics like slogans and repetition against It and offering dignified exits for followers, it's the best out there. Check it out: https://americanmanifesto.news/anti-maga-messaging-guide-v1
October 8, 2025 at 10:27 AM
This guide says you don’t just argue; you dismantle the cult. From turning its own tactics like slogans and repetition against It and offering dignified exits for followers, it's the best out there. Check it out: https://americanmanifesto.news/anti-maga-messaging-guide-v1
What they did to Joanne’s Fabrics?
That’s the plan for our country: sell it for parts.
That’s the plan for our country: sell it for parts.
October 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
What they did to Joanne’s Fabrics?
That’s the plan for our country: sell it for parts.
That’s the plan for our country: sell it for parts.
Recently drove a lot of divided highways up the gut of Ohio, across Eastern KY, down to southeastern West VA.
Saw one Trump flag.
One.
A whole lot of American flags, which can mean anything.
I don't think this means Trump support is ebbing.
I think it's a rebranding.
Saw one Trump flag.
One.
A whole lot of American flags, which can mean anything.
I don't think this means Trump support is ebbing.
I think it's a rebranding.
October 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Recently drove a lot of divided highways up the gut of Ohio, across Eastern KY, down to southeastern West VA.
Saw one Trump flag.
One.
A whole lot of American flags, which can mean anything.
I don't think this means Trump support is ebbing.
I think it's a rebranding.
Saw one Trump flag.
One.
A whole lot of American flags, which can mean anything.
I don't think this means Trump support is ebbing.
I think it's a rebranding.
Dear gods, now we’re hoping the generals will save us?
The opposition party won’t do squat.
The courts have been bought.
It’s down to us.
Probably should be, too.
The opposition party won’t do squat.
The courts have been bought.
It’s down to us.
Probably should be, too.
October 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Dear gods, now we’re hoping the generals will save us?
The opposition party won’t do squat.
The courts have been bought.
It’s down to us.
Probably should be, too.
The opposition party won’t do squat.
The courts have been bought.
It’s down to us.
Probably should be, too.
In conservative spaces does "subscribed to left wing ideology" translate to...dude was queer?
Because they think being queer is a choice, right, an ideological choice with which we left wingers are ruining their children.
We are in the hopeless place where words don't mean the same to each side.
Because they think being queer is a choice, right, an ideological choice with which we left wingers are ruining their children.
We are in the hopeless place where words don't mean the same to each side.
September 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
In conservative spaces does "subscribed to left wing ideology" translate to...dude was queer?
Because they think being queer is a choice, right, an ideological choice with which we left wingers are ruining their children.
We are in the hopeless place where words don't mean the same to each side.
Because they think being queer is a choice, right, an ideological choice with which we left wingers are ruining their children.
We are in the hopeless place where words don't mean the same to each side.
Let's look down the road 2, 4, 10 years, longer even.
If they win, these white supremacist Christian nationalist oligarchs, what are the things we should be doing now to prepare.
Not giving up.
But the news is grim and the Dems remain feckless and ain't nobody coming to save us.
If they win, these white supremacist Christian nationalist oligarchs, what are the things we should be doing now to prepare.
Not giving up.
But the news is grim and the Dems remain feckless and ain't nobody coming to save us.
September 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Let's look down the road 2, 4, 10 years, longer even.
If they win, these white supremacist Christian nationalist oligarchs, what are the things we should be doing now to prepare.
Not giving up.
But the news is grim and the Dems remain feckless and ain't nobody coming to save us.
If they win, these white supremacist Christian nationalist oligarchs, what are the things we should be doing now to prepare.
Not giving up.
But the news is grim and the Dems remain feckless and ain't nobody coming to save us.
Ah. So now they go after progressive donors, with the full power of the bureaucracy at their disposal.
Dems better be able to raise from small dollar folks, and best have candidates who have that kind of message.
What are the chances?
Dems better be able to raise from small dollar folks, and best have candidates who have that kind of message.
What are the chances?
September 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Ah. So now they go after progressive donors, with the full power of the bureaucracy at their disposal.
Dems better be able to raise from small dollar folks, and best have candidates who have that kind of message.
What are the chances?
Dems better be able to raise from small dollar folks, and best have candidates who have that kind of message.
What are the chances?
NPR is now reporting that the assassin’s roommate/partner is trans.
This is going to get a lot worse than people losing jobs.
This is going to get a lot worse than people losing jobs.
September 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
NPR is now reporting that the assassin’s roommate/partner is trans.
This is going to get a lot worse than people losing jobs.
This is going to get a lot worse than people losing jobs.
So does this all make Kirk Trotsky to Fuentes' Lenin?
September 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
So does this all make Kirk Trotsky to Fuentes' Lenin?