Pamela Grenfell Smith
@boreal-rutabaga.bsky.social
Democrat. Episcopal. Mount Holyoke graduate. Really, really old. She/her.
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When Trump saw Mamdani, he didn't see a fellow politician; he saw a fellow charismatic celebrity.
Donald respects people who can get praise and attention, as he values those things far above politics.
Donald respects people who can get praise and attention, as he values those things far above politics.
November 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
When Trump saw Mamdani, he didn't see a fellow politician; he saw a fellow charismatic celebrity.
Donald respects people who can get praise and attention, as he values those things far above politics.
Donald respects people who can get praise and attention, as he values those things far above politics.
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"The essential question is no longer what federal agencies are authorized to do, but what they are capable of doing. Capability now outstrips authority by orders of magnitude... The true danger lies in what the modern American state can do right now."
open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...
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Capabilities, Not Authorities: The Quiet Evolution towards a Panopticon State
The Steady State | By Steven Cash November 21, 2025
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
"The essential question is no longer what federal agencies are authorized to do, but what they are capable of doing. Capability now outstrips authority by orders of magnitude... The true danger lies in what the modern American state can do right now."
open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...
open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...
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Haiti qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 50 years!!! Today is the celebration of Vertières, a Haitian national holiday honoring the final major battle against Napoleon and France during the Haitian Revolution. Seems pretty poetic to me. 💙❤️🔥
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Haiti qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 50 years!!! Today is the celebration of Vertières, a Haitian national holiday honoring the final major battle against Napoleon and France during the Haitian Revolution. Seems pretty poetic to me. 💙❤️🔥
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The Lady’s Call to Adventure is not really the one she wanted. She knows that if she doesn’t choose to slay this dragon, then they are going to give This Call to some Hero who is 22, went to a fancy dragon-slaying school, and whose dad was a famous dragon slayer.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The Lady Hero’s Journey
A woman tries to set out on The Hero’s Journey only to find that Joseph Campbell didn’t believe that women take The Hero’s Journey. She must instea...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The Lady’s Call to Adventure is not really the one she wanted. She knows that if she doesn’t choose to slay this dragon, then they are going to give This Call to some Hero who is 22, went to a fancy dragon-slaying school, and whose dad was a famous dragon slayer.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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Not only this but we’re still told that young men are the real victims of society right now.
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Not only this but we’re still told that young men are the real victims of society right now.
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I get that the end of the hallway ramps up but JFC I can't unsee this. It's visible for like 3 frames and my brain still screams in agony.
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I get that the end of the hallway ramps up but JFC I can't unsee this. It's visible for like 3 frames and my brain still screams in agony.
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every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
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One of the tangential benefits of Trump behaving in a manner genuinely reminiscent of a king is getting to watch in real-time as we learn exactly why so many of our systems are the way they are
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
One of the tangential benefits of Trump behaving in a manner genuinely reminiscent of a king is getting to watch in real-time as we learn exactly why so many of our systems are the way they are
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
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if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.
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The attack on transgender people is not made to solve a problem.
It is fomenting bigotry to take power. Concessions are encouragement to do more attacking.
It is fomenting bigotry to take power. Concessions are encouragement to do more attacking.
November 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The attack on transgender people is not made to solve a problem.
It is fomenting bigotry to take power. Concessions are encouragement to do more attacking.
It is fomenting bigotry to take power. Concessions are encouragement to do more attacking.
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I have watched as so-called "compromise" positions on transgender people's rights have failed over and over--in statehouses, the Biden White House, and in liberal rhetoric. There is no middle ground acceptable to the politicians, activists, and billionaires obsessed with trans people and our lives.
November 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I have watched as so-called "compromise" positions on transgender people's rights have failed over and over--in statehouses, the Biden White House, and in liberal rhetoric. There is no middle ground acceptable to the politicians, activists, and billionaires obsessed with trans people and our lives.
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Guys, I'm starting to think this iteration of automation is heavily tied to the desire to eliminate humans as a factor of concern in social systems dominated by a hereunto unseen cohort of ultra-eugenicist gilded elite.
October 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Guys, I'm starting to think this iteration of automation is heavily tied to the desire to eliminate humans as a factor of concern in social systems dominated by a hereunto unseen cohort of ultra-eugenicist gilded elite.
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles
October 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles
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This was done to the White House, a federal property, by a man who wanted protesters who spray painted a wall arrested for "destruction of federal property."
October 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This was done to the White House, a federal property, by a man who wanted protesters who spray painted a wall arrested for "destruction of federal property."
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The “othering” of America by a cabal of malignant weirdos.
If your kid is on the spectrum, or if you're transgender, or speak Spanish, or just grow a beard, they hate you because you dare to be 'different'
Inside the war on this basic human right -- to not conform -- that is central to Trump's fascist project
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
Inside the war on this basic human right -- to not conform -- that is central to Trump's fascist project
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
From autism to beards, the Trump regime wages war on ‘the different’ | Will Bunch
The Trump's regime's disturbing views on everything from autism to transgender people has a scary 'master race' vibe.
www.inquirer.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The “othering” of America by a cabal of malignant weirdos.
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It cannot get lost in the shuffle, even with so much else going on, that the world's most wealthy people have had their minds absolutely rotted out, just saturated to the dripping point with black mold down to the studs and frame, by the all encompassing unhumanity of their wealth.
October 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
It cannot get lost in the shuffle, even with so much else going on, that the world's most wealthy people have had their minds absolutely rotted out, just saturated to the dripping point with black mold down to the studs and frame, by the all encompassing unhumanity of their wealth.
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I hear the Epstein Ballroom will be illuminated solely by gaslighting.
October 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I hear the Epstein Ballroom will be illuminated solely by gaslighting.
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the US government has arrived on bluesky
October 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
the US government has arrived on bluesky
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National Guard in DC:
October 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
National Guard in DC:
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Prunus pumila var. besseyi, our Sand Cherry, blooming at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge #nativeplant It often has many of its branches buried beneath the sand. This is part of why we see clonal mats of it on dunes here in Colorado.
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to April 18 🌿
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to April 18 🌿
October 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Prunus pumila var. besseyi, our Sand Cherry, blooming at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge #nativeplant It often has many of its branches buried beneath the sand. This is part of why we see clonal mats of it on dunes here in Colorado.
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to April 18 🌿
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to April 18 🌿
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Even after we deal with Trump, we'll be cleaning up the mess he created for decades. Once you mainstream bigotry, it takes a long time and a lot of work to make it shameful again.
every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Even after we deal with Trump, we'll be cleaning up the mess he created for decades. Once you mainstream bigotry, it takes a long time and a lot of work to make it shameful again.