Liz Shrum
@lizshrum.bsky.social
Mom, Communicator, Digital Strategist, Writer, Reader, News Junkie, Creator, beach/ski bum.
Whether you are real or a hack, audiences know, and can smell it miles away.
Keep it in your head or you'll GET GOT.
Read My Latest Blog. Keep it Real Guys. Getting it wrong for pride isn't worth it.
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Keep it in your head or you'll GET GOT.
Read My Latest Blog. Keep it Real Guys. Getting it wrong for pride isn't worth it.
open.substack.com/pub/thegossb...
December 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Whether you are real or a hack, audiences know, and can smell it miles away.
Keep it in your head or you'll GET GOT.
Read My Latest Blog. Keep it Real Guys. Getting it wrong for pride isn't worth it.
open.substack.com/pub/thegossb...
Keep it in your head or you'll GET GOT.
Read My Latest Blog. Keep it Real Guys. Getting it wrong for pride isn't worth it.
open.substack.com/pub/thegossb...
Whether you are real or a hack, audiences know, and can smell it miles away. Keep it in your head or you'll GET GOT.
Read My Latest Blog.
Keep it Real Guys. Getting it wrong for pride isn't worth it.
open.substack.com/pub/thegossb...
Read My Latest Blog.
Keep it Real Guys. Getting it wrong for pride isn't worth it.
open.substack.com/pub/thegossb...
December 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Whether you are real or a hack, audiences know, and can smell it miles away. Keep it in your head or you'll GET GOT.
Read My Latest Blog.
Keep it Real Guys. Getting it wrong for pride isn't worth it.
open.substack.com/pub/thegossb...
Read My Latest Blog.
Keep it Real Guys. Getting it wrong for pride isn't worth it.
open.substack.com/pub/thegossb...
open.substack.com/pub/thegossb...
Love you Boomers, but this is some tough love. Atone before you can’t.
Love you Boomers, but this is some tough love. Atone before you can’t.
Dear Boomers, Pound Sand. You Deserve Your Estrangement.
You should be listening to your adult children not demanding to remain toxic while insisting everyone else accommodates you.
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Love you Boomers, but this is some tough love. Atone before you can’t.
Love you Boomers, but this is some tough love. Atone before you can’t.
open.substack.com/pub/thegossb...
You have destroyed yourselves and your descendants with your ignorance and hatred and every day we watch you get worse and worse. You know who you are, both loud and silent. Is this what you wanted?
You have destroyed yourselves and your descendants with your ignorance and hatred and every day we watch you get worse and worse. You know who you are, both loud and silent. Is this what you wanted?
America Is Gone
Liberty is no more and immigrants are not welcome.
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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You have destroyed yourselves and your descendants with your ignorance and hatred and every day we watch you get worse and worse. You know who you are, both loud and silent. Is this what you wanted?
You have destroyed yourselves and your descendants with your ignorance and hatred and every day we watch you get worse and worse. You know who you are, both loud and silent. Is this what you wanted?
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Are AI data centers sucking up resources from US manufacturers? Spending on factory construction is down 2.5% so far this year, while that for data centers is up almost 18%.
AI Data Center Boom Threatens Trump’s Manufacturing Revival
Spending on factory construction is down 2.5% so far this year, while that for data centers is up almost 18%.
bloom.bg
October 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Are AI data centers sucking up resources from US manufacturers? Spending on factory construction is down 2.5% so far this year, while that for data centers is up almost 18%.
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Reposted by Liz Shrum
The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.
Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
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"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
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It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It
He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.
futurism.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.
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This is quickly mushrooming into a real international incident
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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September 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This is quickly mushrooming into a real international incident
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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The U.S. and U.K. have signed a $42B tech pact during Trump’s state visit, focusing on AI, quantum and nuclear advances backed by major corporate investments.
Trump visit to Britain begins with $42 billion tech partnership
The U.S. and U.K. have signed a $42B tech pact during Trump’s state visit, focusing on AI, quantum and nuclear advances backed by major corporate investments.
www.scrippsnews.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The U.S. and U.K. have signed a $42B tech pact during Trump’s state visit, focusing on AI, quantum and nuclear advances backed by major corporate investments.
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Reposted by Liz Shrum
Newsmax files an antitrust lawsuit against Fox News.
News network Newsmax files antitrust suit vs. Fox News
“Fox’s behavior represents a textbook abuse of monopoly power,” Newsmax lawyer Michael J. Guzman said.
www.politico.com
September 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Newsmax files an antitrust lawsuit against Fox News.
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In a dramatic shift from 50 years ago, Republicans in Congress overwhelmingly attended nonelite universities for undergraduate and postgraduate studies.
Almost half of Democrats graduated from an Ivy League or an elite university, new research found.
Almost half of Democrats graduated from an Ivy League or an elite university, new research found.
Column | The political ‘diploma divide’ now applies to members of Congress
A new study shows that over the past 50 years, fewer and fewer Republicans have attended elite colleges, while an increasing share of Democrats attend those schools.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
In a dramatic shift from 50 years ago, Republicans in Congress overwhelmingly attended nonelite universities for undergraduate and postgraduate studies.
Almost half of Democrats graduated from an Ivy League or an elite university, new research found.
Almost half of Democrats graduated from an Ivy League or an elite university, new research found.
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Big props to whoever came up with the idea of calling Trump “Metamucilini”
August 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Big props to whoever came up with the idea of calling Trump “Metamucilini”
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Jon Stewart tackles the GOP's refusal to address gun violence unless it's carried out by a non-citizen
August 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Jon Stewart tackles the GOP's refusal to address gun violence unless it's carried out by a non-citizen
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Iowa voters saying "You first" in response to Ernst's "we are all going to die" comment
BREAKING: Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa won't seek reelection to Senate in 2026, sources say.
Joni Ernst won't seek reelection to Senate in 2026, sources say
GOP Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa is expected to announce next week she's not running for reelection in 2026.
cbsn.ws
August 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Iowa voters saying "You first" in response to Ernst's "we are all going to die" comment
We are basically living in the he plot of Harry Potter right now.
a woman sitting at a table with a cup of tea
ALT: a woman sitting at a table with a cup of tea
media.tenor.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
We are basically living in the he plot of Harry Potter right now.
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I’m sorry but she only has that job because she represents a Christian fetish-a very young woman married to a much older man. She is easily (and eagerly) controlled and administration is using her to mark to the world what a ‘good’ woman’s position is.
One of the four health agency leaders who quit the CDC has blasted White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s remarks over his use of the term “pregnant people.”
Quitting CDC Official Slaps Down Karoline Leavitt’s Attack: ‘I Don’t Care’
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis fired back at Leavitt after she criticized his use of language regarding pregnancy.
trib.al
August 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I’m sorry but she only has that job because she represents a Christian fetish-a very young woman married to a much older man. She is easily (and eagerly) controlled and administration is using her to mark to the world what a ‘good’ woman’s position is.
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Food prices are also about to SKYROCKET.
Target’s CEO did an interview on CNBC months ago telling y’all “hey we RELY on food grown in the global south during the winter months. We cannot sustain ourselves without them.”
Target’s CEO did an interview on CNBC months ago telling y’all “hey we RELY on food grown in the global south during the winter months. We cannot sustain ourselves without them.”
Mexico halts package shipments to the United States ahead of Trump tariff deadline, per FOX
August 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Food prices are also about to SKYROCKET.
Target’s CEO did an interview on CNBC months ago telling y’all “hey we RELY on food grown in the global south during the winter months. We cannot sustain ourselves without them.”
Target’s CEO did an interview on CNBC months ago telling y’all “hey we RELY on food grown in the global south during the winter months. We cannot sustain ourselves without them.”
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Let’s Talk About the Tariff-Induced Embargo on the US
Let’s Talk About the Tariff-Induced Embargo on the US
Hello and welcome to the newsletter, a grab bag of daily content from the Odd Lots universe. Sometimes it's us, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, bringing you our thoughts on the most recent developments in markets, finance and the economy. And sometimes it's contributions from our network of expert guests and sources. Whatever it is, we promise it will always be interesting.
bloom.bg
August 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Let’s Talk About the Tariff-Induced Embargo on the US
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Reposted by Liz Shrum
Kilmar Abrego García's legal team contends the Trump administration is trying to force him to plead guilty or face deportation to an African nation where crime and terror threats abound.
Kilmar Abrego García’s lawyers say threat to deport him to Uganda is coercion
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers contends the Trump administration is trying to force him to plead guilty or face deportation to Uganda.
wapo.st
August 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Kilmar Abrego García's legal team contends the Trump administration is trying to force him to plead guilty or face deportation to an African nation where crime and terror threats abound.
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US government debt could reach 250% of gross domestic product without putting upward pressure on interest rates, according to a paper presented at the Jackson Hole conference
US Debt-to-GDP of 250% Won’t Push Up Rates: Jackson Hole Paper
US government debt could reach 250% of gross domestic product without putting upward pressure on interest rates, according to a paper presented at the Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole conference.
bloom.bg
August 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
US government debt could reach 250% of gross domestic product without putting upward pressure on interest rates, according to a paper presented at the Jackson Hole conference
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Mississippi declares a public health emergency as 2024 infant deaths reach highest rate in over a decade, far above the U.S. average.
Mississippi calls infant mortality rates ‘unacceptable’ in emergency declaration
Mississippi declares a public health emergency as 2024 infant deaths reach highest rate in over a decade, far above the U.S. average.
www.scrippsnews.com
August 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Mississippi declares a public health emergency as 2024 infant deaths reach highest rate in over a decade, far above the U.S. average.
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I can testify from experience that this is extremely true and only getting more so as universities and journalism are destroyed
In this morning's newsletter, I wrote about an under-appreciated problem for liberalism — its total failure to cultivate young talent www.vox.com/on-the-right...
How conservatives help their young thinkers — and why liberals don’t
Liberalism has a serious pipeline problem.
www.vox.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I can testify from experience that this is extremely true and only getting more so as universities and journalism are destroyed