E.J. Graff
@ejgraff.bsky.social
Editorial coaching & communications consulting. Journalist, author, loudmouth. Substack at https://howtobeamerican.substack.com. Website at ejgraff.com.
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every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
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The Trump thugs get more violent as they lose support. My latest, for your friends who aren't as steeped in news as we are. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
open.substack.com/pub/howtobea...
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Maduro and Minneapolis (and you and me)
Thug-in-chief Trump and his fellow thugs are afraid. Here's why.
open.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:07 PM
The Trump thugs get more violent as they lose support. My latest, for your friends who aren't as steeped in news as we are. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
open.substack.com/pub/howtobea...
open.substack.com/pub/howtobea...
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NEWS: Democrat Chris Dzadovsky wins Fort Pierce City Commission District 2 runoff by just 31 votes, FLIPPING the commission to Democratic control.
Dzadovsky defeated Republican Jaimebeth Galinis 50.60%–49.40% in the tight race.
Dzadovsky defeated Republican Jaimebeth Galinis 50.60%–49.40% in the tight race.
January 14, 2026 at 3:16 AM
NEWS: Democrat Chris Dzadovsky wins Fort Pierce City Commission District 2 runoff by just 31 votes, FLIPPING the commission to Democratic control.
Dzadovsky defeated Republican Jaimebeth Galinis 50.60%–49.40% in the tight race.
Dzadovsky defeated Republican Jaimebeth Galinis 50.60%–49.40% in the tight race.
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She says ICE agents mocked her: “The ICE agent who had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said ‘you guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead,’ verbatim, speaking of Renee Good. Which filled me with absolute rage and shock..."
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
‘I was flooded with fear’: Minnesotans describe their encounters with ICE, being detained
From an Uber driver to a school drop off, MPR News spoke with Minnesotans who were stopped or detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
www.mprnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 3:42 PM
She says ICE agents mocked her: “The ICE agent who had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said ‘you guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead,’ verbatim, speaking of Renee Good. Which filled me with absolute rage and shock..."
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
The Trump thugs get more violent as they lose support. My latest, for your friends who aren't as steeped in news as we are. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
open.substack.com/pub/howtobea...
open.substack.com/pub/howtobea...
Maduro and Minneapolis (and you and me)
Thug-in-chief Trump and his fellow thugs are afraid. Here's why.
open.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:07 PM
The Trump thugs get more violent as they lose support. My latest, for your friends who aren't as steeped in news as we are. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
open.substack.com/pub/howtobea...
open.substack.com/pub/howtobea...
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Current* conditions near Frankfort, MI:
January 12, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Current* conditions near Frankfort, MI:
Moms spend their lives organizing their families, their schools, their schedules. They are serious organizers. If moms organize against you, YOU WILL LOSE. BADLY.
"At schools, volunteers are forming human chains as students and employees enter and leave, with whistles to blow if ICE shows up.
Volunteers—many of them moms already involved at their schools—divvy up tasks, such as delivering groceries to immigrant families..."
www.wsj.com/us-news/insi...
Volunteers—many of them moms already involved at their schools—divvy up tasks, such as delivering groceries to immigrant families..."
www.wsj.com/us-news/insi...
Inside Minneapolis’s Sprawling Network of ICE Watchers
Renee Nicole Good lived in a community where residents by the thousands are using text alerts, whistles and Google documents to shadow federal agents
www.wsj.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Moms spend their lives organizing their families, their schools, their schedules. They are serious organizers. If moms organize against you, YOU WILL LOSE. BADLY.
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Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested.
It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...
mississippitoday.org
January 11, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested.
It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
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Fuck ICE
Fuck Trump
Fuck war
Fuck everything about that.
All power to nature and the working class.
Since we exist in a lawless world, I'm breaking a personal rule and posting a snowy plover chick within 6 months of capturing.
Exclusively on bluesky. 🪶 🐣
Fuck Trump
Fuck war
Fuck everything about that.
All power to nature and the working class.
Since we exist in a lawless world, I'm breaking a personal rule and posting a snowy plover chick within 6 months of capturing.
Exclusively on bluesky. 🪶 🐣
June 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Fuck ICE
Fuck Trump
Fuck war
Fuck everything about that.
All power to nature and the working class.
Since we exist in a lawless world, I'm breaking a personal rule and posting a snowy plover chick within 6 months of capturing.
Exclusively on bluesky. 🪶 🐣
Fuck Trump
Fuck war
Fuck everything about that.
All power to nature and the working class.
Since we exist in a lawless world, I'm breaking a personal rule and posting a snowy plover chick within 6 months of capturing.
Exclusively on bluesky. 🪶 🐣
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After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.
January 8, 2026 at 1:36 AM
After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.
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I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.
January 7, 2026 at 11:36 PM
I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.
Hey polisky, who has done recent work on tax compliance and perceptions of government legitimacy?
January 5, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Hey polisky, who has done recent work on tax compliance and perceptions of government legitimacy?
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I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 AM
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
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Trump expands his mass kidnapping operations to other part of hemisphere
January 3, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Trump expands his mass kidnapping operations to other part of hemisphere
Wait you mean we've invaded and killed leaders for oil before and have learned nothing?
A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
January 3, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Wait you mean we've invaded and killed leaders for oil before and have learned nothing?
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DC does not have a triumphal arch, despite all its other Roman architecture, because they are an imperial and not a republican symbol. They became reserved for the Caesars, and the Arc de Triomphe is a monument to Napoleon. If this dumb thing gets built, the only acceptable course is to demolish it.
Congress should stop this.
Also, if Trump wants to enjoy an imitation of the Arc de Triomphe done in a style and at a place congenial to him, he can visit the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, completed in 1982.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Also, if Trump wants to enjoy an imitation of the Arc de Triomphe done in a style and at a place congenial to him, he can visit the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, completed in 1982.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Trump says construction of the ‘Triumphal Arch’ to begin in ‘2 months’
The monument would be a centerpiece of the White House’s plans for America’s 250th birthday.
www.politico.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
DC does not have a triumphal arch, despite all its other Roman architecture, because they are an imperial and not a republican symbol. They became reserved for the Caesars, and the Arc de Triomphe is a monument to Napoleon. If this dumb thing gets built, the only acceptable course is to demolish it.
Need a little inspiration to end the year? Here's a look at the book that has inspired me for decades: Under a Cruel Star, a memoir of surviving both Auschwitz and Stalinist terror. This amazing book suggests our way forward.
open.substack.com/pub/howtobea...
open.substack.com/pub/howtobea...
December 31, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Need a little inspiration to end the year? Here's a look at the book that has inspired me for decades: Under a Cruel Star, a memoir of surviving both Auschwitz and Stalinist terror. This amazing book suggests our way forward.
open.substack.com/pub/howtobea...
open.substack.com/pub/howtobea...
Also, eye liner.
Vance is basically just a reboot of Ted Cruz’s Ivy League right-winger anti-charisma with more ethnonationalism and a slightly higher probability of actually being the Zodiac Killer
The thing about Vance is he has ZERO charisma. He is not likeable in any way, whereas Trump is a showman who's naturally funny and *seems* relatable.
December 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Also, eye liner.
We once trick-or-treated next to Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner & their little kids on our street (which is BIG for Halloween in Cambridge).
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
We once trick-or-treated next to Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner & their little kids on our street (which is BIG for Halloween in Cambridge).
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
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This isn’t fully true! You can request a manual postmark at a post office, you just need to know to do it. Just another thing to educate mail-in voters about.
nstp.org/article/usps...
nstp.org/article/usps...
December 30, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This isn’t fully true! You can request a manual postmark at a post office, you just need to know to do it. Just another thing to educate mail-in voters about.
nstp.org/article/usps...
nstp.org/article/usps...
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Also:
— Marco Rubio, Cuban parents
— Kash Patel, Indian parents
— Mehmet Oz, Turkish parents
— Marco Rubio, Cuban parents
— Kash Patel, Indian parents
— Mehmet Oz, Turkish parents
It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
December 27, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Also:
— Marco Rubio, Cuban parents
— Kash Patel, Indian parents
— Mehmet Oz, Turkish parents
— Marco Rubio, Cuban parents
— Kash Patel, Indian parents
— Mehmet Oz, Turkish parents
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On behalf of everyone in The Resistance movement following the massive EPSTEIN coverup, I want to wish all my fellow Radical Left Scum the happiest of holidays!- ♥️, Mar🐫
December 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
On behalf of everyone in The Resistance movement following the massive EPSTEIN coverup, I want to wish all my fellow Radical Left Scum the happiest of holidays!- ♥️, Mar🐫
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Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken https://theonion.com/heroic-dog-saves-family-of-5-from-herb-roasted-chicken/
December 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken https://theonion.com/heroic-dog-saves-family-of-5-from-herb-roasted-chicken/
I have so much trouble telling brad pitt and leonardo dicaprio apart.
December 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I have so much trouble telling brad pitt and leonardo dicaprio apart.