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Alisha Grauso (She/Her)

@alishagrauso.bsky.social

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Books & TV Features Editor & Writer | Pittsburgh sports, literature, history, politics, the weird & dark, ADHD, practicing druid, nature & conservation | Views mine | You can find me among the trees 🌿🌲 https://muckrack.com/alisha-grauso

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · Aug 5

Lemme tell you, @aimod.social's AI banner and avatar imagery labeler is doing the Lord's work. So many of you happily RTing shit from people with AI in their profiles without knowing it.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 1h

What you're NOT going to do is say weird, misogynistic and transphobic shit in my mentions. Do better.

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 11h

...so he's definitely dying, right?

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 12h

Trump just got his Covid and flu shots, so should you!

PHYSICIAN TO THE PRESIDENT
THE WHITE HOUSE
MEMORANDUM
October 10, 2025
TO: KAROLINE LEAVITT, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
PROSIC TO ME PREE, D.O. J
PHYSICIAN TO THE PRESIDENT
affa 0.o.
CAPTAIN, U.S. NAVY
SUBJECT: President Donald J. Trump Completes Comprehensive Follow-Up Evaluation at
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
President Donald J. Trump successfully completed a scheduled follow-up evaluation today at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The visit was part of his ongoing health maintenance plan and included advanced imaging, laboratory testing, and preventive health assessments conducted by a multidisciplinary team of specialists. These evaluations were performed in coordination with leading academic and medical consultants to ensure optimal cardiovascular health and continued wellness.
Comprehensive laboratory studies performed in conjunction with the visit were exceptional, including stable metabolic, hematologic, and cardiac parameters.
In preparation for upcoming international travel, President Trump also received preventive health screenings and immunizations, including annual influenza and updated COVID-19 booster vaccinations.
President Trump continues to demonstrate excellent overall health. His cardiac age-a validated measure of cardiovascular vitality via ECG-was found to be approximately 14 years younger than his chronological age. He continues to maintain a demanding daily schedule without restriction.
SUMMARY: President Donald J. Trump remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, and physical performance.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 12h

I disagree, but to each, their own.

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 14h

I truly believe a future alternative name for Gen Alpha will be Gen Brainrot. Maybe the Skibidi Generation. Brainrot defines this generation right now.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 15h

The obvious reason why the latest brainrot phrase is driving non-Gen Alphas up the wall. f-st.co/am6d5oW

Heard kids saying '6-7'? It's so annoying that schools are banning it

The obvious reason why the latest brain rot phrase is driving non-Gen Alphas up the wall.

f-st.co

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 17h

Oh, yeah, that's definitely fantastic news before the 2026 midterms.

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 1d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 18h

I don't know how I can be reasonably expected to work when she looks at me like this when she wants attention:

A small black cat with a white patch on her chest and light green eyes looks at her human wanting to play.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 18h

I'm so sorry, Celeste. She seems like a wonderful person - and she raised an incredible daughter.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 20h

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory

Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

ballsandstrikes.substack.com

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 20h

The billionaire owners gobbling up our media don't, sadly.

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 20h

Omg why would they do that??

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Merrill Barr @merrillbarr.com · 20h

Made one of mine into a blogpost this year that no one read: merrillbarr.substack.com/p/bones-hart...

Ever Crash a Meeting by Mistake? Try Doing It With the Creator of Bones

Sorry, Hart!

merrillbarr.substack.com

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 20h

I will say, working in this industry affords so many moments that seem normal at the time, but you look back and go, "Well, THAT'S a story."

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 20h

I was also a DJ for my college's radio station! It was so much fun.

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 20h

OH NO. Oh that last one is hard to live down as a kid. You can't appreciate irony then.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 20h

Girl, the way I have been considering writing niche smut under a pseudonym these days as our industry collapses around us, just to see what happens...

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 20h

Nope, makes perfect sense. Plus, I started out in street hockey and my bff then played goalie so I liked being D so I could talk to him haha. We worked well together.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

It's an ouroboros of fascism.

The influencers who create the content distributed by the platforms and put on national TV to be heard by Trump to make decisions that inform the influencers who create the content distributed by the platforms and put on national TB to be heard by Trump to make decisi

makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It

Wrote a bit about the content mill for consensus the Trump administration has created to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.

More here:
www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It

The Trump administration has built its own content mill to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.

www.wired.com

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 20h

I ALREADY KNEW THIS LORE.

But then I guess there really isn't any lore you and I don't know about each other.

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 20h

Honestly, I don't think my then-undiagnosed ADHD could have handled being a forward. Constantly having to think and calculate would have overloaded me lol. Defense was a good balance of not zoning out for periods of time (goalie) or always being "on" (forward).

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 20h

Those who have only known me for my dulcet & perky personality (😐) in adulthood may be most surprised to know I was a cheerleader all through HS.

...perhaps less surprising is that I didn't get along with most of them as they were bitchy & I chose to ride with my friends in the band bus instead.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 20h

Oh really? What kind of dancing?

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 20h

I feel like I should be more surprised about the FedEx ban thing than I am. And yet, I am still gonna need the story here. 😂

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 20h

Bsky, sate my curiosity & drop some personal lore.

Me? I played hockey for years - street and ice hockey. And, at only 5' tall & about 100-105 lbs. then, I inexplicably chose to play defense instead of wing or center.

Also, I was a Tower of Terror bellhop at Disney World.

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