Taryn
@thefoxandtheowl.bsky.social
Huckleberry for a good cause; writer, botanist; Indivisible Benton County;
Podcaster: @griftypod
VC, PCP, NL w/ @bentondemocrats
SCC Delegate alternate
Podcaster: @griftypod
VC, PCP, NL w/ @bentondemocrats
SCC Delegate alternate
Have you listened to the new @griftypod.bsky.social episode? 🎧
Don’t miss out on our podcast this week, and when you finish - go ask a friend to listen and ask them what they think.
Have you heard our newest podcast? It features some lore from our host about the D.A.R.E program! Check it out on our substack or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
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November 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Have you listened to the new @griftypod.bsky.social episode? 🎧
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Google's AI is now snooping on your emails - here's how to opt out. (It’s in settings/super quick!)
A new change quietly rolling out allows Google to access your private messages & attachments to train its AI models - without your knowledge.
flip.it/4a2Im9 opt-in as a default should be illegal!!!
A new change quietly rolling out allows Google to access your private messages & attachments to train its AI models - without your knowledge.
flip.it/4a2Im9 opt-in as a default should be illegal!!!
Google's AI is now snooping on your emails - here's how to opt out
A new change quietly rolling out allows Google to access your private messages and attachments to train its AI models - likely without your knowledge. Opting out takes just moments.
flip.it
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Google's AI is now snooping on your emails - here's how to opt out. (It’s in settings/super quick!)
A new change quietly rolling out allows Google to access your private messages & attachments to train its AI models - without your knowledge.
flip.it/4a2Im9 opt-in as a default should be illegal!!!
A new change quietly rolling out allows Google to access your private messages & attachments to train its AI models - without your knowledge.
flip.it/4a2Im9 opt-in as a default should be illegal!!!
So glad to see the @griftypod.bsky.social here!
Hello Bluesky, we’re Grifty.
A weekly podcast by and about false idols, built for anyone clawing their way through late-stage capitalism without selling their soul for a promo code.
We drag scams, tech-bro hallucinations, wellness hucksters, and whatever crawls out of the algorithmic swamp.
A weekly podcast by and about false idols, built for anyone clawing their way through late-stage capitalism without selling their soul for a promo code.
We drag scams, tech-bro hallucinations, wellness hucksters, and whatever crawls out of the algorithmic swamp.
November 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
So glad to see the @griftypod.bsky.social here!
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Don’t forget that most political violence comes from the right! @timemagazine.bsky.social time.com/7317383/poli...
September 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Don’t forget that most political violence comes from the right! @timemagazine.bsky.social time.com/7317383/poli...
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
At least the Courts still seem to understand the 1st Amendment. If only the networks and telecoms did.
At least the Courts still seem to understand the 1st Amendment. If only the networks and telecoms did.
Judge strikes down Trump’s $15bn lawsuit against the New York Times
Judge says US president’s complaint that the newspaper is ‘spreading false content’ about him violates federal rule
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
At least the Courts still seem to understand the 1st Amendment. If only the networks and telecoms did.
At least the Courts still seem to understand the 1st Amendment. If only the networks and telecoms did.
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These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?
September 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?
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‘The forgotten forest’: how smashing 5.6m urchins saved a California kelp paradise
‘The forgotten forest’: how smashing 5.6m urchins saved a California kelp paradise
Pollution, warm oceans and hungry urchins devastated Pacific kelp. Now, thanks to divers with hammers, one of the world’s most successful rehabilitation projects has helped it rebound
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
‘The forgotten forest’: how smashing 5.6m urchins saved a California kelp paradise
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“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.”
Listen to the survivors.
Listen to the survivors.
August 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.”
Listen to the survivors.
Listen to the survivors.
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If less than 2% of mass shootings are by trans people, but nearly all the rest are by cis white men…remind me again why we’re stripping rights from trans folxs instead of talking about gun reform and toxic masculinity?
August 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If less than 2% of mass shootings are by trans people, but nearly all the rest are by cis white men…remind me again why we’re stripping rights from trans folxs instead of talking about gun reform and toxic masculinity?
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In the latest Current Climate newsletter:
🛢️ "Drill, Baby, Drill" isn’t slowing hikes to your electricity bill
🚘 Tesla’s legal woes over self-driving claims
🚊 A new approach to developing California’s high-speed rail project #energy #Tesla #highspeedrail www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
🛢️ "Drill, Baby, Drill" isn’t slowing hikes to your electricity bill
🚘 Tesla’s legal woes over self-driving claims
🚊 A new approach to developing California’s high-speed rail project #energy #Tesla #highspeedrail www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Isn’t Slowing Hikes To Your Electricity Bill
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at Tesla’s self-driving legal woes and a new development approach for California's costly high-speed rail project.
www.forbes.com
August 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In the latest Current Climate newsletter:
🛢️ "Drill, Baby, Drill" isn’t slowing hikes to your electricity bill
🚘 Tesla’s legal woes over self-driving claims
🚊 A new approach to developing California’s high-speed rail project #energy #Tesla #highspeedrail www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
🛢️ "Drill, Baby, Drill" isn’t slowing hikes to your electricity bill
🚘 Tesla’s legal woes over self-driving claims
🚊 A new approach to developing California’s high-speed rail project #energy #Tesla #highspeedrail www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
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This is the rhetoric of dictators — across time & geography — that freedom (for some) must be sacrificed for security, reinforcing the power of the regime. Instead of engaging in fights about crime rates, the opposition to this madness needs to hammer on this authoritarian frame over & over again.
Stephen Miller on DC residents: "For the first time in their lives, they can use the parks, they can walk on the streets. You have people who can walk freely at night without having to worry about being robbed or mugged. They are wearing their watches again."
August 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This is the rhetoric of dictators — across time & geography — that freedom (for some) must be sacrificed for security, reinforcing the power of the regime. Instead of engaging in fights about crime rates, the opposition to this madness needs to hammer on this authoritarian frame over & over again.
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Over an hour of questions today. None about this.
August 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Over an hour of questions today. None about this.
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New Executive Order (Aug. 25, 2025) - despite its name - reaches far beyond DC in potential use of the U.S. military inside and across the United States.
Link: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Highlight of some key provisions⬇️
Link: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Highlight of some key provisions⬇️
August 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
New Executive Order (Aug. 25, 2025) - despite its name - reaches far beyond DC in potential use of the U.S. military inside and across the United States.
Link: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Highlight of some key provisions⬇️
Link: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Highlight of some key provisions⬇️
Let’s go win some seats, Democrats!
📣Text your pals to vote!
📣Text your pals to vote!
I have this week’s election guide!!!!
The biggest story is the IA state Senate, which we could end the Republican super majority, but of course, every single election matters no matter how small of an area is represented!
Tue Aug 26 - AL, CA, GA, IA, MA, SC and TN
Fri Aug 30 - CA
Sat Aug 31 - DE
The biggest story is the IA state Senate, which we could end the Republican super majority, but of course, every single election matters no matter how small of an area is represented!
Tue Aug 26 - AL, CA, GA, IA, MA, SC and TN
Fri Aug 30 - CA
Sat Aug 31 - DE
Election Day is Every Tuesday 8/24-31
Hello!
open.substack.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Let’s go win some seats, Democrats!
📣Text your pals to vote!
📣Text your pals to vote!
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EXACTLY 💯 We must keep AZ07 Blue! #voteBlue
Where is AZ-07?
District 7 stretches along the U.S.-México border and includes parts of six counties: Pima, Santa Cruz, Yuma, Cochise, Maricopa, and Pinal.
It also includes four sovereign tribal nations: the Cocopah, Pascua Yaqui, Quechan, and Tohono O’odham.
#AZ07
District 7 stretches along the U.S.-México border and includes parts of six counties: Pima, Santa Cruz, Yuma, Cochise, Maricopa, and Pinal.
It also includes four sovereign tribal nations: the Cocopah, Pascua Yaqui, Quechan, and Tohono O’odham.
#AZ07
August 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
EXACTLY 💯 We must keep AZ07 Blue! #voteBlue
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Hi, fun and tolerant, Bluesky folks. Today Trump announced that the U.S. government is taking a 10 percent ownership stake in Intel. That’s why I called him a Marxist. I’m not apologizing if you didn’t get that.
August 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Hi, fun and tolerant, Bluesky folks. Today Trump announced that the U.S. government is taking a 10 percent ownership stake in Intel. That’s why I called him a Marxist. I’m not apologizing if you didn’t get that.
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Republicans support a Marxist pedophile. No seriously.
August 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Republicans support a Marxist pedophile. No seriously.
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CW: Sexual assault
Women are being kidnapped and assaulted by men who impersonate ICE agents. This is one of many reasons why we can’t have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Urge your elected officials to take action today: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...
Women are being kidnapped and assaulted by men who impersonate ICE agents. This is one of many reasons why we can’t have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Urge your elected officials to take action today: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...
August 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
CW: Sexual assault
Women are being kidnapped and assaulted by men who impersonate ICE agents. This is one of many reasons why we can’t have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Urge your elected officials to take action today: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...
Women are being kidnapped and assaulted by men who impersonate ICE agents. This is one of many reasons why we can’t have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Urge your elected officials to take action today: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...
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FBI agents executed search warrants at the home & office of former Trump National Security Adviser, John Bolton.
I dive into the legal issues & the burnt bridge background between these two, and why Bolton accurately predicted Trump’s “retribution presidency.”
youtu.be/r1dMPQYvW-s?...
I dive into the legal issues & the burnt bridge background between these two, and why Bolton accurately predicted Trump’s “retribution presidency.”
youtu.be/r1dMPQYvW-s?...
Trump’s FBI PROBE Into Former ADVISOR Reveals SHOCKING Motive
YouTube video by Katie Phang
youtu.be
August 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
FBI agents executed search warrants at the home & office of former Trump National Security Adviser, John Bolton.
I dive into the legal issues & the burnt bridge background between these two, and why Bolton accurately predicted Trump’s “retribution presidency.”
youtu.be/r1dMPQYvW-s?...
I dive into the legal issues & the burnt bridge background between these two, and why Bolton accurately predicted Trump’s “retribution presidency.”
youtu.be/r1dMPQYvW-s?...
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Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
Ketanji Brown Jackson Stops Just Short of Saying the Supreme Court Is Breathtakingly Full of Shit
“Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”
www.ballsandstrikes.org
August 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
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A woman who criticized Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to their facility in an interview has been transferred out to another facility which houses violent offenders. Trump’s DOJ is now punishing people who criticize his sex offender friends. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
August 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A woman who criticized Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to their facility in an interview has been transferred out to another facility which houses violent offenders. Trump’s DOJ is now punishing people who criticize his sex offender friends. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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3. Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, has issued a fatwa instructing Iranians to avoid social and economic interaction with the Baháʼí, a directive reminiscent of the measures imposed by the Nazi regime in the years leading up to the Holocaust.
Iran’s Baha’is informed by text government is seizing their homes
Authorities in the central Iranian city of Isfahan have begun seizing homes and assets from members of the Bahá’í religious minority by text message—an unprecedented move a community spokesperson call...
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August 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
3. Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, has issued a fatwa instructing Iranians to avoid social and economic interaction with the Baháʼí, a directive reminiscent of the measures imposed by the Nazi regime in the years leading up to the Holocaust.
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2. The Baháʼís have long been persecuted by the Islamic Republic through unjust seizures of property and imprisonment, solely on the basis of their religious beliefs.
Iran’s Baha’is informed by text government is seizing their homes
Authorities in the central Iranian city of Isfahan have begun seizing homes and assets from members of the Bahá’í religious minority by text message—an unprecedented move a community spokesperson call...
bit.ly
August 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
2. The Baháʼís have long been persecuted by the Islamic Republic through unjust seizures of property and imprisonment, solely on the basis of their religious beliefs.
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1. NEWS
Authorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran have begun ordering the confiscation of property and bank accounts belonging to members of the Baháʼí community in the city of Isfahan, informing them of the action via text message.
Authorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran have begun ordering the confiscation of property and bank accounts belonging to members of the Baháʼí community in the city of Isfahan, informing them of the action via text message.
Iran’s Baha’is informed by text government is seizing their homes
Authorities in the central Iranian city of Isfahan have begun seizing homes and assets from members of the Bahá’í religious minority by text message—an unprecedented move a community spokesperson call...
bit.ly
August 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
1. NEWS
Authorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran have begun ordering the confiscation of property and bank accounts belonging to members of the Baháʼí community in the city of Isfahan, informing them of the action via text message.
Authorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran have begun ordering the confiscation of property and bank accounts belonging to members of the Baháʼí community in the city of Isfahan, informing them of the action via text message.