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GribWrites

@gribwrites.bsky.social

Food, beer, and travel writer. Connecticut Magazine, CTBites, Fodor's Travel, and anywhere else they'll let me. Connecticut-based, but I eat it all. What's on tap?

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Moo Dog Press@moodogpress.com · 2h ago

Hidden Gem Orchard in Southbury, CT. “Wargo and his crew tend to more than 30 different Apple varieties that range from familiar Honeycrisp, McIntosh, and Gala types to hard-to-find heirloom gems…”

Hidden Gem Heirloom Apples - Standard Shipping Included

The cultivation of Apples (Malus domestica) goes back thousands of years, and by the late 1600s, Apple orchards were common in the American colonies. Over the centuries, countless Apple varieties have...

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100 years ago news@100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 4h ago

Aug. 5, 1926: “Don Juan,” the first feature movie with synchronized sound and music, although no spoken dialogue, premieres in New York. The romantic adventure from Warner Bros. introduces the sound-on-disc Vitaphone system, later to be employed in the better-remembered “The Jazz Singer.” 1/9

A theatrical posterCrowds at the premiereThe leads, John Barrymore and Estelle Taylor
Kim@kimoco.bsky.social · 6h ago

On this day in history in 1974, SCOTUS ordered Nixon to release the "smoking gun" tape revealing his actions in covering up and interfering investigations into the break-in. His political support vanishes completely. Today's Republicans would defend Nixon vs impeach him

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)@hcrichardson.bsky.social · 6h ago

Representative Shirley Chisholm, 1972: "[W]e have looked in vain to the Nixon administration for the courage, the spirit, the character, and the words to lift us, to bring out the best in us, to rekindle in each of us our faith in the American dream."

GribWrites@gribwrites.bsky.social · 6h ago

@adelpreore.bsky.social The NM crash is a compelling story but it’s a misleading narrative. Thread is a good explainer: bsky.app/profile/mike...

Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social · 6d ago

this is clickbait garbage a) it wasn't ~dronez~ stuff, it was the same vanilla GPS jamming that has occurred at WSMR for decades b) a crew should *absolutely* be capable of conducting a nonprecision approach to an ILS, *ESPECIALLY* if there's a NOTAM out for PNT jamming

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h ago

It’s a direct attack on rule of law from the highest levels, aimed at permanently ending US Constitutional democracy and imposing a dictatorship. Always has been. Anyone who tries treating it as something else—as if they’re dealing with mistaken impressions rather than lies—gets egg on their face.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h ago

It's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...

Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer@cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 13h ago

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 2d ago

corruption is going to be endemic to any economic system and any government, because it’s not about either of those, it’s about *people* and what we are and who we are and what we are willing to do and what we are not willing to do to enforce behavioral, legal and moral standards amongst ourselves

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 2d ago

a *lot* of what a *lot* of people are rightfully angry about isn’t capitalism, it’s corruption, and i have no intention of trying to convert anticaps or leftists into capitalism, but the first principles of capitalism are derived out of an intention to curb snd inhibit corruption

John Holbo@jholbo.bsky.social · yesterday

And we've known about the IRGC money laundering since 2017. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Donald Trump’s Worst Deal

The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4d ago

When it comes to Trump’s money laundering, this is just the tip of the iceberg. The Trump Soho laundered Russian mob money. Trump Panama laundered drug cartel money. Trump Azerbaijan laundered Iranian Revolutionary Guard money. Florida real estate was used to launder Russian oligarch money.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · yesterday

NEWS: For nearly 20 years, Epstein moved over $1B through the major banks. The banks looked away. Sen. Wyden’s 3-year probe exposes it all. But most damning? How Trump and the GOP tried to bury it.

Follow the Money: How Wall Street Bankrolled Epstein, and How the Trump Administration and CBS are Blocking The Truth

For nearly two decades, Jeffrey Epstein moved more than a billion dollars through some of the biggest banks in America. He withdrew millions in unexplained

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Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterday

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS