grandruston.bsky.social
@grandruston.bsky.social
Reposted
I don't think most Americans have any idea how dangerous it is for a president to declare an entire ethnic group to be "garbage." This is how the worst atrocities in human history have begun.
December 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Reposted
Tech wythout heart ys harmful.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
December 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Reposted
12/26/1892 — b. Amy Gordon Hamilton, American social work educator, relief admin, intl social welfare advisor, author. Faculty/assoc dean, NY Sch of Social Work + prolific contributor to social work literature, noted for “The Theory & Practice of Social Case Work” (1940) #womenshistory #PolSky #BOTD
December 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Reposted
"That dratted Paul Revere woke me up last night with his 'the Redcoats are coming' blather."
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
December 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
today's walkie. 😊
December 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Reposted
1/
December 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
December 23, 2025 at 5:17 AM
we pay for its healthcare why doesnt it look better? very poor ROI here all-around. 😂
December 23, 2025 at 5:15 AM
my pretty girl. 🥰
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Reposted
We are failing our kids
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Reposted
An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. - Bryan Stevenson

Pic of the day

#photography
December 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Reposted
Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.

“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”

We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
December 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Reposted
Good Trouble 🔥
December 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Reposted
In her order to release Mr. Abrego, Judge Xinis notes that she will be using the preferred term "noncitizen" in her opinion rather than "alien," and cites an interesting source in doing so.
December 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Reposted
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Reposted
Elections have consequences. A man like this never belonged near the levers of power. Not the first time. And certainly not this second time when everything was knowable. We are trapped in a tragedy and must fight our way out.
December 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Reposted
“We are targeting Venezuela because of DRUGS, not OIL, which is why we are blowing up boats without any drugs and stealing a tanker full of oil.”
December 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Reposted
Good morning to everyone but especially Justice Sonia Sotomayor who 👏🏾has 👏🏾time 👏🏾today to eviscerate the argument that Trump has near unlimited power to fire agency heads for political reasons, given that neither English law at the time of the founding nor the US Constitution supports such nonsense
December 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Reposted
A new research letter in @jamahealthforum.com suggests that "that strict abortion bans, particularly Senate bill 8 in Texas, were followed by a measurable escalation in EMTALA violations involving obstetric emergencies."
Obstetric-Related Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act Violations and No Health Exception Bans
This difference-in-differences analysis examines changes in obstetric-related Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act violation filings following state and federal restrictions on abortion.
jamanetwork.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Reposted
TEXAS CAN GERRYMANDER ALL THEY WANT, BUT THE RIGHT KIND OF POLITICIAN WILL STILL WIN.

James Talarico, Texas State Representative, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running for the U.S. Senate to take power back for working people. 🗽
December 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Reposted
Sir Beta of Grovelshire, arise, and never make eye contact again.
December 8, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Reposted
“…Even if they are able to clean up his mess … elect a supremely sane president next, America will NEVER again be a trusted partner. Because there are enough Americans who would vote for him … (again).

I couldn't even say anything. She was right. The damage this has done is endless…”
December 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Reposted
They’re not hiding the brutality anymore.
They want you to see it.
They want you to get used to it.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM