S. M. Strand
@smstrand.bsky.social
S. M. Strand is an educator and writer living in New England.
Lets’s goooooo!
Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care (Mass-Care)@masssinglepayer.bsky.social · last wk.H5590 "An Act establishing Medicare for All in Massachusetts" which would set up a special commission on universal health care implementation was reported favorably out of committee!! masscare.org/articles/joi...
A hilarious "memoir" today, by the mechanical shark from Jaws. Turns out he's a classically trained actor with much more to offer than Spielberg imagined. *Many people forget that his name was Bruce. 😆 thedisappointedhousewife.com/2026/06/23/v...
This was so fun to work on with Jeff Bond. Proud to have it up at The Disappointed Housewife! @offbeatlit.bsky.social @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social thedisappointedhousewife.com/2026/06/23/v...
Vanya, Vanity, and Betrayal on the Bay ~ memoir by Jeff Bond and S. M. Strand
So Spielberg’s “having a moment.” Again. Maybe it’s futile, but I still have hopes that my as yet unsigned memoir will find a home. The American public deserves to know the truth about their “favor…
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Grateful any time something lands right for the McSweeney’s folk. ❤️
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 9mo ago"Avoid any fairy tales that frame wealth redistribution as heroic, such as those involving theft from lawful property owners via beanstalks."
Normal: Your toddler plays happily with the other children. Culty: Your toddler seems to be learning Latin.
Normal Mom Group vs. Culty Mom Group
Normal: Your toddler plays happily with the other children. Culty: Your toddler seems to be learning Latin.
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"Be open to the bartering process. Flexibility is the cornerstone of any successful rural birthing plan... Extra services like epidurals are nothing more than elaborate hoaxes designed by the left to rob women of God’s gift of increased pain in childbirth."
Trade Your Way to Wellness: A Patriotic Guide to Farm-Fresh Health Care
“Trump’s Medicaid cuts are coming for rural Americans: ‘It’s going to have to hit them first.’ Experts worry the tax-and-spending bill will gut hea...
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I don’t mind being the meal planner. The kitchen’s my favorite place — it’s where my coffee pot lives, and my secret stash of Swedish Fish. By @smstrand.bsky.social medium.com/frazzled/the...
The Cure to Meal-Planning Decision Fatigue
Hint: Chaos Is Your Friend
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"The flag belongs to all of us—left, right, Andrew Yang. You can love your country and still side-eye it. That’s real patriotism."
Advice from Your Conservative Neighbor on How You, a Liberal, Can Hang an American Flag Without Looking Like a Trumper
I saw you this morning as you were getting your paper, gazing wistfully at that flagpole bracket like it broke your heart in junior year. You want ...
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"I worry that the powers that be might take one look at my salt-and-pepper hair, only slightly elevated blood pressure, and spry body with both its original hips, and laugh me right out of the Capitol."
As a Seventy-Two-Year-Old Democrat, Am I Too Young to Run for Congress?
Before I blew out all seventy-two candles on my birthday cake this year, I made a wish. I wished for something that had been gnawing at my soul eve...
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"Since 1988, we’ve been waiting for the future to arrive at Little League concession stands and any place that smells like popcorn and feet. But now that the future is here, we regret to announce that we are extremely disappointed."
This Isn’t the Future We at Dippin’ Dots Envisioned
Since 1988, we at Dippin’ Dots have proudly sold the official ice cream of the future. And ever since, we’ve been waiting for the future to arrive ...
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"Be advised that we’re monitoring the em dashes, as they appear to be coded signals potentially indicative of subversive coordination."
Hope Is the Thing with Funding—and We’re Yanking Yours
“A federal agency has cancelled a $117,000 grant that was set to go to the Emily Dickinson Museum.” — MassLive - - -Dear Miss Dickinson, Following ...
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"Can you picture this year’s Christmas dinner? The Pope shows up with his seven-layer dip and gets accosted with, “The Walmart cashier said ‘Happy Holidays’ to me to deliberately persecute Christians—what are you gonna do about it, Your Holiness?!”
An Open Letter to My Dead Mother about the New Pope with the MAGA Brother
Hey Mum! Remember a couple of months before you died, when you told me the Freemasons had installed Pope Francis? And that he was in cahoots with O...
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