Bryn Greenwood
@bryngreenwood.bsky.social
Writer, even on the days I'm not writing. NYT bestselling author of some books. Grumpy. She/her. Putting the i back in bitch.
You could do a rewrite of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” out of the six months alone.
August 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
You could do a rewrite of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” out of the six months alone.
Why is it I have to search for news about Sudan? It never seems to be top of page or breaking news.
August 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Why is it I have to search for news about Sudan? It never seems to be top of page or breaking news.
I wish someone would drop a nuke on United Healthcare. Their cruelty is truly boundless, and they continue to use delay, deny, defend to cause their customers to suffer. Imagine having years of back pain caused by several factors. Imagine jumping through hoop after hoop for care. /1
June 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I wish someone would drop a nuke on United Healthcare. Their cruelty is truly boundless, and they continue to use delay, deny, defend to cause their customers to suffer. Imagine having years of back pain caused by several factors. Imagine jumping through hoop after hoop for care. /1
They should never have put a brain worm in charge of HHS.
RFK Jr. has just removed every member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
These members review vaccine data and make approval recommendations. This is completely horrifying and will likely delay vaccine approvals.
RFK Jr. must be removed from office IMMEDIATELY.
These members review vaccine data and make approval recommendations. This is completely horrifying and will likely delay vaccine approvals.
RFK Jr. must be removed from office IMMEDIATELY.
June 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
They should never have put a brain worm in charge of HHS.
It’s a real shame the Dems aren’t this party 😭
What I wouldn’t give for a party with the discipline to play a long game of rhetorically pulling his momentum and assistance towards retaking the White House, and then almost immediately springing cuffs on him for his many prosecutable personal and business practices over the decades
June 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
It’s a real shame the Dems aren’t this party 😭
Oh look GiveSendGo is bragging about how they have Luigi’s fundraiser, but are weirdly quiet about how they’ve also got that racist woman’s fundraiser.
May 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Oh look GiveSendGo is bragging about how they have Luigi’s fundraiser, but are weirdly quiet about how they’ve also got that racist woman’s fundraiser.
Hearing RFK Jr.’s ignorant take on autism, I am reminded of the remains of an early hominid child found in Spain. The child lived 500 thousand years ago and was born with a congenital cranial deformity that would have made some aspects of life more difficult. /1
April 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Hearing RFK Jr.’s ignorant take on autism, I am reminded of the remains of an early hominid child found in Spain. The child lived 500 thousand years ago and was born with a congenital cranial deformity that would have made some aspects of life more difficult. /1
This is the Republican way, after all. I saw it constantly when protestors came in for abortions, getting the very same service they wanted to outlaw.
The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.
www.ft.com/content/8459...
www.ft.com/content/8459...
April 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This is the Republican way, after all. I saw it constantly when protestors came in for abortions, getting the very same service they wanted to outlaw.
My mother was an abusive narcissist. She was also really good at solving problems she created.
April 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
My mother was an abusive narcissist. She was also really good at solving problems she created.
One more way in which the US is now diminished: “In the race to save lives after the Myanmar quake, US rescuers are notable by their absence”
In the race to save lives after the Myanmar quake, US rescuers are notable by their absence
Day after day, Chinese rescue teams haul children and elderly people from collapsed buildings. Cameras beam the thanks of grateful survivors around the world.
apnews.com
April 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
One more way in which the US is now diminished: “In the race to save lives after the Myanmar quake, US rescuers are notable by their absence”
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We spend so much more on corporate welfare than on the welfare we spend on human beings. Like, stratospherically more. If you want to root out "waste, fraud and abuse", start there.
April 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
We spend so much more on corporate welfare than on the welfare we spend on human beings. Like, stratospherically more. If you want to root out "waste, fraud and abuse", start there.
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Crypto is virtual Beanie Babies that you don't even have to have sewn together in China.
March 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Crypto is virtual Beanie Babies that you don't even have to have sewn together in China.
I’m up early (for me) at the dentist office and I’ve just heard a country song that I swear had the chorus, “Heeeeeey, Hammurabi.” Is that a thing?
March 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I’m up early (for me) at the dentist office and I’ve just heard a country song that I swear had the chorus, “Heeeeeey, Hammurabi.” Is that a thing?
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Action Alert from the American Library Association to protect libraries against attacks by the Trump administration: practical stuff everyone can do
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www.ala.org/faq-executiv...
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www.ala.org/faq-executiv...
FAQ: Executive Order Targeting IMLS
This set of frequently asked questions is intended to help library workers, library advocates, and library users understand this Executive Order.
www.ala.org
March 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Action Alert from the American Library Association to protect libraries against attacks by the Trump administration: practical stuff everyone can do
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www.ala.org/faq-executiv...
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www.ala.org/faq-executiv...
Sincerely I appreciate that there’s a Netflix category called Casual Viewing. Thanks for understanding that the current level of chaos and horror mean that I can’t really focus on anything.
March 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Sincerely I appreciate that there’s a Netflix category called Casual Viewing. Thanks for understanding that the current level of chaos and horror mean that I can’t really focus on anything.
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Get ready to lose a shit-ton of library services.
March 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Get ready to lose a shit-ton of library services.
This is why I have zero interest in or patience with generative AI. If you tell me you used AI to write your book, I know that your book was made possible through the theft of MY WORK. 3 of my novels are on this list.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is why I have zero interest in or patience with generative AI. If you tell me you used AI to write your book, I know that your book was made possible through the theft of MY WORK. 3 of my novels are on this list.
Department of Government Efficiency Department at work. An actual government auditor says, ‘DOGE’s intentions may not be geared toward “efficiency” at all. “It’s a con,” they allege.’
‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE
WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
www.wired.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Department of Government Efficiency Department at work. An actual government auditor says, ‘DOGE’s intentions may not be geared toward “efficiency” at all. “It’s a con,” they allege.’
Reposted by Bryn Greenwood
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Post-Selma op-eds:
Carville: "Bonehead bridge stunt alienates working class whites"
Durbin: "Protesters lack decorum!"
Fetterman: Why I'm co-sponsoring Josh Hawley's 'Free the Bridges' act, allowing motorists to run over protesters
Jeffries: "God still on the throne"
www.npr.org/2025/03/09/n...
Carville: "Bonehead bridge stunt alienates working class whites"
Durbin: "Protesters lack decorum!"
Fetterman: Why I'm co-sponsoring Josh Hawley's 'Free the Bridges' act, allowing motorists to run over protesters
Jeffries: "God still on the throne"
www.npr.org/2025/03/09/n...
60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're still fighting stubborn segregation, poverty and gun violence.
www.npr.org
March 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Post-Selma op-eds:
Carville: "Bonehead bridge stunt alienates working class whites"
Durbin: "Protesters lack decorum!"
Fetterman: Why I'm co-sponsoring Josh Hawley's 'Free the Bridges' act, allowing motorists to run over protesters
Jeffries: "God still on the throne"
www.npr.org/2025/03/09/n...
Carville: "Bonehead bridge stunt alienates working class whites"
Durbin: "Protesters lack decorum!"
Fetterman: Why I'm co-sponsoring Josh Hawley's 'Free the Bridges' act, allowing motorists to run over protesters
Jeffries: "God still on the throne"
www.npr.org/2025/03/09/n...
Texas on the cutting edge, testing the waters for making it illegal to BE trans. But sure us coming down hard on Gavin Newsom is a purity test.
Texas bill could charge transgender people with ‘gender identity fraud’, if passed
A bill filed in the Texas House of Representatives this week threatens to charge transgender Texans with a crime for identifying with a gender that differs from their sex assigned at birth.
www.kxan.com
March 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Texas on the cutting edge, testing the waters for making it illegal to BE trans. But sure us coming down hard on Gavin Newsom is a purity test.
People want to compare our situation to 1939 Germany, bc it lets us think, We won! We beat the bad guys! This more accurate comparison is terrifying to us, bc 25 years later, Russia is still in the thrall of Putin.
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
March 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
People want to compare our situation to 1939 Germany, bc it lets us think, We won! We beat the bad guys! This more accurate comparison is terrifying to us, bc 25 years later, Russia is still in the thrall of Putin.
Relevant to a lot of what’s happening right now.
Cults work fast when you've got billionaires controlling your algorithms and churches.
March 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Relevant to a lot of what’s happening right now.