Susan Grundberg
@susangrundberg.bsky.social
Full of rage. Trying to stay calm. Human services, policy, social justice, anti-racist, ally, mom, genX, UMich. Midwest roots. NYC is home. People are suffering. Disruptive stuff—neuroscience, psychedelics, mental health innovation. Also…democracy, obv.
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
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www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
Dept of Community Safety w 5 areas: gun violence, subway safety, mental health crises, public homelessness, and hate crimes.
“NYC is behind the curve on many of these efforts, but Mamdani’s proposal offers a significant opportunity to move forward.”
Dept of Community Safety w 5 areas: gun violence, subway safety, mental health crises, public homelessness, and hate crimes.
“NYC is behind the curve on many of these efforts, but Mamdani’s proposal offers a significant opportunity to move forward.”
Opinion: Mamdani’s proposed Department of Community Safety would be a win for New Yorkers
The proposal is well-grounded in existing best practices, and there is wide support for it among the public and City Council.
www.cityandstateny.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
Dept of Community Safety w 5 areas: gun violence, subway safety, mental health crises, public homelessness, and hate crimes.
“NYC is behind the curve on many of these efforts, but Mamdani’s proposal offers a significant opportunity to move forward.”
Dept of Community Safety w 5 areas: gun violence, subway safety, mental health crises, public homelessness, and hate crimes.
“NYC is behind the curve on many of these efforts, but Mamdani’s proposal offers a significant opportunity to move forward.”
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He bulldozed the White House during a government shutdown to build himself a ballroom, then sent a letter to the states saying that SNAP benefits for 42 million people may not go out in November to those who rely on it to eat.
October 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
He bulldozed the White House during a government shutdown to build himself a ballroom, then sent a letter to the states saying that SNAP benefits for 42 million people may not go out in November to those who rely on it to eat.
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We are all paying for this vanity project
We are all paying for this vanity project
October 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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We are all paying for this vanity project
We are all paying for this vanity project
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🧵 An open letter to the US Open and USTA:
Trump will attend the #USOpen as a guest of ROLEX. Yesterday, Trump declared 'WAR' on Chicago. The USTA has called for media censorship of dissent against Trump today.
I played NCAA tennis many years ago and still play. Today I resign my #USTA membership.
Trump will attend the #USOpen as a guest of ROLEX. Yesterday, Trump declared 'WAR' on Chicago. The USTA has called for media censorship of dissent against Trump today.
I played NCAA tennis many years ago and still play. Today I resign my #USTA membership.
September 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Chilling example of the damage done by DOGE’s recklessness. Great thread. The @propublica.org article is worth a read.
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
August 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Chilling example of the damage done by DOGE’s recklessness. Great thread. The @propublica.org article is worth a read.
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RFK Jr. just fired thousands of federal workers at crucial health agencies, including the FDA, CDC, and NIH.
These are the people who inspect our food, track infectious diseases, and research life-saving treatments and cures.
How is this "Making America Healthy Again"?
These are the people who inspect our food, track infectious diseases, and research life-saving treatments and cures.
How is this "Making America Healthy Again"?
July 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
RFK Jr. just fired thousands of federal workers at crucial health agencies, including the FDA, CDC, and NIH.
These are the people who inspect our food, track infectious diseases, and research life-saving treatments and cures.
How is this "Making America Healthy Again"?
These are the people who inspect our food, track infectious diseases, and research life-saving treatments and cures.
How is this "Making America Healthy Again"?
These people are monsters. Heartless monsters.
The Trump administration has promised to distribute food aid before it spoils. But 500 tons of emergency food in a U.S. warehouse are about to expire and are slated for the incinerator, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports.
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
bit.ly
July 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
These people are monsters. Heartless monsters.
I’ve just never understood why MAGA ever thought Trump and his minions would ever release the files. The million photos of Trump and Epstein together weren’t a clue?
What am I missing?
What am I missing?
July 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I’ve just never understood why MAGA ever thought Trump and his minions would ever release the files. The million photos of Trump and Epstein together weren’t a clue?
What am I missing?
What am I missing?
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Government should work for the people, not whichever giant company or foreign government can dump the most money into the president's future library.
July 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Government should work for the people, not whichever giant company or foreign government can dump the most money into the president's future library.
Overwhelmingly, even toxic twitter proves we’re still just not that into you, Andrew.
Not big fans of the corruption, the bullying and the abuse of women. And we don’t need more cops.
Not big fans of the corruption, the bullying and the abuse of women. And we don’t need more cops.
July 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Overwhelmingly, even toxic twitter proves we’re still just not that into you, Andrew.
Not big fans of the corruption, the bullying and the abuse of women. And we don’t need more cops.
Not big fans of the corruption, the bullying and the abuse of women. And we don’t need more cops.
This is going to hurt the red states a lot. 🤔
One in four nursing homes have said they’ll close facilities because of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” – and they passed it anyway.
Talk to, essentially, ANY families who have moved someone into long term care recently. There’s not exactly a surplus of facilities around today…
Talk to, essentially, ANY families who have moved someone into long term care recently. There’s not exactly a surplus of facilities around today…
July 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
This is going to hurt the red states a lot. 🤔
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NEW: House Republicans in damage control mode after voting to gut Medicaid and it's getting weird.
Their new lie: We didn't cut $1 trillion from Medicaid, we gave it more money! www.huffpost.com/entry/house-...
Their new lie: We didn't cut $1 trillion from Medicaid, we gave it more money! www.huffpost.com/entry/house-...
The GOP Is Doing Damage Control After Cutting Medicaid — And It's Getting Weird
“We are increasing Medicaid expenditures by $200 billion,” Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.) falsely said of Trump’s tax law, which will strip health care from millions.
www.huffpost.com
July 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NEW: House Republicans in damage control mode after voting to gut Medicaid and it's getting weird.
Their new lie: We didn't cut $1 trillion from Medicaid, we gave it more money! www.huffpost.com/entry/house-...
Their new lie: We didn't cut $1 trillion from Medicaid, we gave it more money! www.huffpost.com/entry/house-...
This will get much worse as Medicaid cuts decrease access to critical upstream services.
And no parent should have to relinquish custody to get the help they need.
And no parent should have to relinquish custody to get the help they need.
A 'crisis' of youth landing in emergency rooms or juvenile detention is exacerbated by treatment facility closures.
https://imprintnews.org/child-welfare-2/when-minnesota-parents-give-up-their-kids-to-foster-care-an-imprint-look-at-a-nationwide-predicament/261820
https://imprintnews.org/child-welfare-2/when-minnesota-parents-give-up-their-kids-to-foster-care-an-imprint-look-at-a-nationwide-predicament/261820
July 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This will get much worse as Medicaid cuts decrease access to critical upstream services.
And no parent should have to relinquish custody to get the help they need.
And no parent should have to relinquish custody to get the help they need.
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Hey @MarshaBlackburn any update on this? 🧐
July 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Hey @MarshaBlackburn any update on this? 🧐
Teen Vogue with the best coverage and most important reads, per usual.
www.teenvogue.com/story/trumps...
www.teenvogue.com/story/trumps...
Congress Traded Your Pap Smear for a Billionaire’s Tax Break
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill," argues Kierra Jones, is part of "conservatives’ political crusade to ban abortion and gender-affirming care, and to deprive Americans of their reproductive and bodily aut...
www.teenvogue.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Teen Vogue with the best coverage and most important reads, per usual.
www.teenvogue.com/story/trumps...
www.teenvogue.com/story/trumps...
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PLEASE consider the valid concerns of those who voted this administration into power. Yes, millions of people are going to lose their health insurance and/or jobs now but what if a trans person had won a swim meet?? What if pronouns in bio came to life and bit people who could afford medical care???
July 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
PLEASE consider the valid concerns of those who voted this administration into power. Yes, millions of people are going to lose their health insurance and/or jobs now but what if a trans person had won a swim meet?? What if pronouns in bio came to life and bit people who could afford medical care???
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It’s costing taxpayers $450/M annually & Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp is already flooding. Imagine a hurricane. People are going to die.
There’s always enough money to hurt folks, but when it comes to public transit, low-income housing, schools, or public healthcare, “Sorry, we’re broke.”
There’s always enough money to hurt folks, but when it comes to public transit, low-income housing, schools, or public healthcare, “Sorry, we’re broke.”
July 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
It’s costing taxpayers $450/M annually & Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp is already flooding. Imagine a hurricane. People are going to die.
There’s always enough money to hurt folks, but when it comes to public transit, low-income housing, schools, or public healthcare, “Sorry, we’re broke.”
There’s always enough money to hurt folks, but when it comes to public transit, low-income housing, schools, or public healthcare, “Sorry, we’re broke.”
We knew this regime was going to be bad. But still, the daily and ever intensifying cruelties leave me in a constant state of astonishment.
Inconceivable betrayal.
I guess they think their own kids and families (and parents) are safe. We’ll see.
Inconceivable betrayal.
I guess they think their own kids and families (and parents) are safe. We’ll see.
H.R. 1 Puts Children Last: An Unprecedented Betrayal of America’s Future brucelesley.substack.com/p/hr-1-puts-...
H.R. 1 Puts Children Last: An Unprecedented Betrayal of America’s Future
A Moment of Moral Reckoning
brucelesley.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
We knew this regime was going to be bad. But still, the daily and ever intensifying cruelties leave me in a constant state of astonishment.
Inconceivable betrayal.
I guess they think their own kids and families (and parents) are safe. We’ll see.
Inconceivable betrayal.
I guess they think their own kids and families (and parents) are safe. We’ll see.
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As someone on SSDI, Medicare, Medicaid and SNAP who is chronically ill and disabled, my heart breaks for our country. Medicaid pays for my 38 meds. This is NOT America. The big UGLY Bill that will now be signed into law is cruel, costly, and people will die. I will keep fighting and never give up.🙏💜
July 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
As someone on SSDI, Medicare, Medicaid and SNAP who is chronically ill and disabled, my heart breaks for our country. Medicaid pays for my 38 meds. This is NOT America. The big UGLY Bill that will now be signed into law is cruel, costly, and people will die. I will keep fighting and never give up.🙏💜
If only the Dems could learn from this. 🤔
Wow. The single biggest voting bloc in the NYC mayoral primary was 18-24 year olds.
I’m not sure that has ever happened anywhere.
(📸 Vote Hub US via NYT)
I’m not sure that has ever happened anywhere.
(📸 Vote Hub US via NYT)
July 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If only the Dems could learn from this. 🤔
Rep Don Bacon said he voted to protect the exemption for veterans & foster youth in earlier version. But ultimately, the legislative package was “worth the cost.”
Our kids are expendable.
imprintnews.org/top-stories/... 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Adds SNAP Work Requirements for Foster Youth
Our kids are expendable.
imprintnews.org/top-stories/... 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Adds SNAP Work Requirements for Foster Youth
'Big, Beautiful Bill' Adds SNAP Work Requirements for Foster Youth
Advocates and foster youth leaders pleaded with lawmakers to reinstate a hard-earned exemption for their impoverished peers, who can experience major adversity in early adulthood.
imprintnews.org
July 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Rep Don Bacon said he voted to protect the exemption for veterans & foster youth in earlier version. But ultimately, the legislative package was “worth the cost.”
Our kids are expendable.
imprintnews.org/top-stories/... 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Adds SNAP Work Requirements for Foster Youth
Our kids are expendable.
imprintnews.org/top-stories/... 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Adds SNAP Work Requirements for Foster Youth