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MN Grubert

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Optimistic Stoic. musician, electronics, computers, construction, builder, occasional McGyver. People watcher; amazing species. What will become of them?

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MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · May 24

My mission is to write clearly and affirmatively.

It's common to use metaphor and imagery, which is fine, but it can lead to misunderstanding. Overuse is obfuscatory, excessive use is a red flag of intentional bullshitting.

But I get it, a lot of folk are reluctant to say what they really mean.

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 7h

Just claiming to not be surprised isn't much of an explanation.

Neither is "everything always sucks"

But in my experience most people don't care much for more nuanced explanations any better.

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 7h

IMO people who claim to not be surprised and so why should you be..

Are using that stance as a way to deal with their own feelings.

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 7h

Don't know about others, but I've learned enough history to know things have as awful or even worse at many points in the past.

And I don't believe people are intrinsically any better than they were in past.

But I would never scold someone for not sharing my perspective. Expectations vary.

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 18h

I do agree, but my feed has plenty of harsh words for Trump as it is 🫤

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 18h

Yes, Trump clearly doesn't want to. But what does he want?

If he really was "Putin's puppet," he would have dropped all sanctions and hard cut all aid to Ukraine including intelligence sharing.

But he hasn't done that either.

Trump is easy to manipulate, that's about all that's certain.

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 18h

Zelenskky doing what he must to help his people.

Trump doing what he must to feel a little bit less awful about himself.

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 18h

I might well be surprised.

But even dark red areas have blue voters..and.. oh you know

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 18h

I see Russia spending more money and manpower repairing the facilities.

And I see Russians becoming less confident in Putins ability to protect them.

Those must be worth something, in the opinion of Ukrainian leaders.

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 20h

Put a lifelong criminal in the WH, confirm his lackeys, and watch him dismantle the justice system.

Thank the NYT for invaluable assistance in that effort.

Now back to my toast with butter emails.

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 20h

There's a lot of "just doin my job" with no concern for results..these days

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 20h

ACA was a devils bargain that way.. a very popular but temporary reprieve.

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 20h

I suspect more hospital workers are in the 30% than not.

The patients voted for him

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 20h

That's the money question, isn't it?

I suspect there *is* no Dem message that will work on these folk. They've been trained to hate Dems.

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 20h

Could just be he hates people.

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 20h

If they're already in poor health and voting GOP 70%, could be that in even worse health the GOP gets 80% or 90%.

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 22h

Stenographers.

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 22h

IME in corpo land, orders aren't really necessary.

Employees are regularly filtered to ensure they fit in.

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 22h

Solid advice. Practical.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 13

another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces.

all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 22h

Given the nature of what he wrote, can't imagine he wouldn't want it spread far and wide.

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 22h

This feels connected somehow to those ".. could never support the lesser of two evils" arguments.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 13

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 1d

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2d

"Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History"

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured & dangerous psyche. But now Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses, writes John Harwood for Zeteo.

Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured and dangerous psyche. But now Donald Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses.

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 2d

As terrible and stupid as this reassignment is, we know that enforcement has little to do with crime rates.

Not expecting a huge wave of criming cause of this.. well, not counting the moral crime of false arrests and brutal detentions.

MN Grubert @grsmn.bsky.social · 2d

Growing dementia.

Senility is for decent people