vwgrant
@vwgrant.bsky.social
The world through the eye of a needle.
I make the best stitches I can…
Career Firefighter. Gardener. Reader. Digital immigrant. Cancer survivor. Mother to two spectrum 2E sons
I make the best stitches I can…
Career Firefighter. Gardener. Reader. Digital immigrant. Cancer survivor. Mother to two spectrum 2E sons
A devastating, collective howl for seniors and disabled.
Oct 1 Medicare no longer reimburses TeleHealth sessions "if not rural".
How to make the world a harder place.
Call your congress person.
Oct 1 Medicare no longer reimburses TeleHealth sessions "if not rural".
How to make the world a harder place.
Call your congress person.
October 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A devastating, collective howl for seniors and disabled.
Oct 1 Medicare no longer reimburses TeleHealth sessions "if not rural".
How to make the world a harder place.
Call your congress person.
Oct 1 Medicare no longer reimburses TeleHealth sessions "if not rural".
How to make the world a harder place.
Call your congress person.
I took an autism pill this afternoon because I had a headache.
September 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I took an autism pill this afternoon because I had a headache.
Put this in the corporate "pay your soft bribe" pile.
September 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Put this in the corporate "pay your soft bribe" pile.
Put this in the "If you say it often enough, facts don't matter" pile.
Wow. Let’s not blow past this. The administrator of the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY says that climate change is a hoax/con job.
KILMEADE: The president says climate change is a hoax, it's a con job. Where do you fall on this?
EPA ADMINISTRATION LEE ZELDIN: The president is absolutely right
EPA ADMINISTRATION LEE ZELDIN: The president is absolutely right
September 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Put this in the "If you say it often enough, facts don't matter" pile.
Put this in the "Authoritarians support other authoritarians" pile.
A $20 billion life raft to help a foreign crypto scammer gain more power in his own country
This isn’t the “America First” Trump campaigned on, it’s the “Autocracy, Inc.” Anne Applebaum warned us about.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/b...
This isn’t the “America First” Trump campaigned on, it’s the “Autocracy, Inc.” Anne Applebaum warned us about.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/b...
The Argentina bailout is all about propping up a Trump ally | CNN Business
The White House is negotiating a financial lifeline for Argentina, seeking to stabilize its currency and prevent a broader economic fallout.
www.cnn.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Put this in the "Authoritarians support other authoritarians" pile.
Put this in the authoritarian pile.
Free speech censorship
Political hit lists
Detentions w/o due process
Internment camps
Military in our streets
Corrupted law enforcement
Demonization of vulnerable communities Coercion of private institutions
MSM amplifying state propaganda
We are not barreling towards fascism.
We are in it.
Political hit lists
Detentions w/o due process
Internment camps
Military in our streets
Corrupted law enforcement
Demonization of vulnerable communities Coercion of private institutions
MSM amplifying state propaganda
We are not barreling towards fascism.
We are in it.
September 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Put this in the authoritarian pile.
Put this in "take public monies and tranfer it into private hands" pile. (+eugenics)
What a cursed sentence (gift link)
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Put this in "take public monies and tranfer it into private hands" pile. (+eugenics)
Put this in the "what a modern concentration camp looks like" pile.
WTAF? At Fort Bliss?
The Trump regime is now building concentration camps in multiple states. One is being built in Texas at Fort Bliss, an Army base. They also intend to build camps at New Jersey and Indiana military bases as well.
July 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Put this in the "what a modern concentration camp looks like" pile.
Can we say profoundly gifted? Why, yes, we can!
Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet.
IG risolve
IG risolve
July 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Can we say profoundly gifted? Why, yes, we can!
Put this in the "break it, blame it, so it can be privatized" pile.
Sabotage strategy: remove senior staff who have institutional knowledge, are able to mentor & supervise staff, & understand how to advocate for programs & funding. This creates chaos, reduces productivity, and leaves staff without advocates or resources for their work.
At least 2,145 senior-ranking NASA employees are set to leave as part of a push to reduce staff.
July 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Put this in the "break it, blame it, so it can be privatized" pile.
Put this in the "how Authoritarians do things" pile.
Trump's civil war open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Trump's civil war open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Trump's civil war
And our new birth of freedom
open.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Put this in the "how Authoritarians do things" pile.
Trump's civil war open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Trump's civil war open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Put this in the "how they do things" pile.
I've been talking about this for years but the fossil fuel industry has five key narratives, they haven't changed much in decades, and they just shift between them/combine them depending on what is happening in the world. Made a quick and dirty flow chart to illustrate it:
July 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Put this in the "how they do things" pile.
Put this in the "how authoritarians do things" pile.
A diseased and impoverished nation is easier to control.
Spoke with someone who works with a public hospital system. His assessment of the effects of the GOP spending bill: “I think this is going to be a very apparent catastrophe, very quickly.”
July 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Put this in the "how authoritarians do things" pile.
Put this in the podcast pile.
Need good (not two rando idiots yammering) podcasts to listen to while running. So far, the ones I listen to regularly include:
• Three Buddy Problem (cyber)
• 404 Media (cyber)
• BBC Newshour (News)
• The Rest Is Classified (espionage history)
• Risky Business (cyber)
• The WW2 Podcast (dug)
• Three Buddy Problem (cyber)
• 404 Media (cyber)
• BBC Newshour (News)
• The Rest Is Classified (espionage history)
• Risky Business (cyber)
• The WW2 Podcast (dug)
June 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Put this in the podcast pile.
Put this in the "protest" file pile.
June 8, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Put this in the "protest" file pile.
Put this in "this was their plan" pile.
This was their plan. This is what they want. They picked LA on purpose.
Video from about an hour ago as less than lethal rounds are being used against protesters in Southern California
June 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Put this in "this was their plan" pile.
Put this in the "pretend this is normal" pile.
Goldman Sachs on why they see only a one-time inflation hit from tariffs: “The main reason we are less worried is that we expect the economy to be weak this year, with solidly below-potential growth and a modest rise in the unemployment rate.”
May 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Put this in the "pretend this is normal" pile.
Put this in the "use frequently" pile (thank you, Megan Rothery) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Senate and House representatives with phone numbers/addresses/emails
docs.google.com
May 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Put this in the "use frequently" pile (thank you, Megan Rothery) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Public Funds success story
THANKS to early childhood dx
THANKS to behavioral language intervention
THANKS to school district speech pull out sessions
THANKS to special ed aides and IEPs and a neurodivergent high school
Now a masters in Applied Mathematics
(Anyone need a great mathematician?)
THANKS to early childhood dx
THANKS to behavioral language intervention
THANKS to school district speech pull out sessions
THANKS to special ed aides and IEPs and a neurodivergent high school
Now a masters in Applied Mathematics
(Anyone need a great mathematician?)
May 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Public Funds success story
THANKS to early childhood dx
THANKS to behavioral language intervention
THANKS to school district speech pull out sessions
THANKS to special ed aides and IEPs and a neurodivergent high school
Now a masters in Applied Mathematics
(Anyone need a great mathematician?)
THANKS to early childhood dx
THANKS to behavioral language intervention
THANKS to school district speech pull out sessions
THANKS to special ed aides and IEPs and a neurodivergent high school
Now a masters in Applied Mathematics
(Anyone need a great mathematician?)
Spring time in the Rockies.
May 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Spring time in the Rockies.
Put this in the "erasing history" pile.
Yikes!! They've erased a reference to Brown v. Bd. of Ed. at a site that commemorates that landmark case!!!!
𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐯. 𝐁𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝.
Compare these 2 versions of the homepage of Brown v Board Nat'l Historic Park in Topeka.
Left: as of 5/4.
Right: as of today.
Before: Brown's "one of the most pivotal ... ever rendered."
After: "a class photo."
www.nps.gov/brvb/index.htm
#HistorySky #LawSky
Compare these 2 versions of the homepage of Brown v Board Nat'l Historic Park in Topeka.
Left: as of 5/4.
Right: as of today.
Before: Brown's "one of the most pivotal ... ever rendered."
After: "a class photo."
www.nps.gov/brvb/index.htm
#HistorySky #LawSky
May 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Put this in the "erasing history" pile.
Put this in the “right answer” pile.
BBC: "Make it make sense."
Me: "I can't."
[awkward pause]
[pause lengthens]
Me: "That's the answer."
Me: "I can't."
[awkward pause]
[pause lengthens]
Me: "That's the answer."
May 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Put this in the “right answer” pile.
Put this in the Ayn Rand pile.
The tens—maybe hundreds—of thousands of anonymous professionals who quietly did the critical work that made everyone else’s pampered lives possible were analogous to Ayn Rand's producers. The looters turned out to be the captains of industry.
Ayn Rand Was Right. Sort Of.
There is a class of looters who contribute little to society. And a class of heroic people who keep everything functioning.
www.thebulwark.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Put this in the Ayn Rand pile.
Put this in the Facist Methodology pile.
This happened today, too
Don't let this one get buried
"The Justice Department under Mr. Trump has launched a criminal fraud probe targeting NYAG Letitia James."
www.cbsnews.com/news/letitia...
Don't let this one get buried
"The Justice Department under Mr. Trump has launched a criminal fraud probe targeting NYAG Letitia James."
www.cbsnews.com/news/letitia...
Trump's Justice Department launches criminal probe into Letitia James, multiple sources say
New York Attorney General Letitia James pursued the civil fraud case against President Trump while he was a presidential candidate.
www.cbsnews.com
May 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Put this in the Facist Methodology pile.
Put this in the "another bad thing" pile.
NEW: Dark money spending in the 2024 federal elections hit $1.9 billion — nearly double the previous record.
This is an unprecedented surge in secret political spending.
Here’s the full @brennancenter.bsky.social report with all of the details: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
This is an unprecedented surge in secret political spending.
Here’s the full @brennancenter.bsky.social report with all of the details: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Dark Money Hit a Record High of $1.9 Billion in 2024 Federal Races
Spending by groups that do not disclose their donors has increased and become harder to trace.
www.brennancenter.org
May 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Put this in the "another bad thing" pile.