Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
@deardara.bsky.social
I'm a writer, a poet, a radio talker, I know it. I don't buy nonfiction, I grow it. Novelist. Magazines.
6 James Beard Awards, McKnight Fellow, FAWC teacher; NYC 4th gen, leading my best snowy, writing life in Mpls.
6 James Beard Awards, McKnight Fellow, FAWC teacher; NYC 4th gen, leading my best snowy, writing life in Mpls.
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Ice is in! Lake of the Isles, December 1 2025. Seems about right. beautiful world.
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Ice is in! Lake of the Isles, December 1 2025. Seems about right. beautiful world.
This is a very specific visual joke for people who are familiar with Renaissance pictures of the Annunciation who also like dogs in sweaters.
December 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This is a very specific visual joke for people who are familiar with Renaissance pictures of the Annunciation who also like dogs in sweaters.
I'm so old, I'll tell you what I'm so old I pay more in principal than interest
a man wearing a hat and a shirt is making a funny face with his mouth open .
ALT: a man wearing a hat and a shirt is making a funny face with his mouth open .
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I'm so old, I'll tell you what I'm so old I pay more in principal than interest
Who's hanging out at Mill City Museum's gift shop Thursday night to sign books and be idiosyncratic? Me ME me ME come on down or I'll be lonely...
www.mnhs.org/events/36091...
www.mnhs.org/events/36091...
Mill City Museum Holiday Sip & Shop
Kick off the holiday season and MNHS Member Double Discount Days.
www.mnhs.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Who's hanging out at Mill City Museum's gift shop Thursday night to sign books and be idiosyncratic? Me ME me ME come on down or I'll be lonely...
www.mnhs.org/events/36091...
www.mnhs.org/events/36091...
What does India think when Nick Fuentes goes off being racist at JD Vance? A week after Trump was defending the Tucker Carlson Nick Fuentes interview? I was pretty interested to read the Times of India comment section, we live in such terrible times.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/two...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/two...
'Two white people and 24 Indians...': Nick Fuentes mocks JD Vance's 2024 Thanksgiving dinner photo with Hindu wife Usha's family - The Times of India
US News: A 2024 photo has gone viral, showing US vice-president JD Vance celebrating Thanksgiving with his Hindu wife Usha’s Indian-origin family.Right-wing co.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
What does India think when Nick Fuentes goes off being racist at JD Vance? A week after Trump was defending the Tucker Carlson Nick Fuentes interview? I was pretty interested to read the Times of India comment section, we live in such terrible times.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/two...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/two...
The dogs couldn’t love the snow more, it reminds me of when the kids were tiny, the excitement of seeing all the changes the snow has wrought in the world. 💙
November 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The dogs couldn’t love the snow more, it reminds me of when the kids were tiny, the excitement of seeing all the changes the snow has wrought in the world. 💙
Willows in the snow yesterday, a very November Minnesota, with the honks of migrating geese in the background, and a few speckled heaps of black little migrating coots way in the middle of the slowly icing lake. 💙
November 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Willows in the snow yesterday, a very November Minnesota, with the honks of migrating geese in the background, and a few speckled heaps of black little migrating coots way in the middle of the slowly icing lake. 💙
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"Would you support or oppose creating a national health insurance program, sometimes called "Medicare for All," that would cover all Americans and replace most private health insurance plans?"
Support: 65%
Oppose: 26%
Data For Progress / Nov 17, 2025
Support: 65%
Oppose: 26%
Data For Progress / Nov 17, 2025
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"Would you support or oppose creating a national health insurance program, sometimes called "Medicare for All," that would cover all Americans and replace most private health insurance plans?"
Support: 65%
Oppose: 26%
Data For Progress / Nov 17, 2025
Support: 65%
Oppose: 26%
Data For Progress / Nov 17, 2025
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‘Medicare for All’ still big. “In a survey of 1,207 likely voters [from] Nov. 14–17, 2025, ...65% of voters [supported] a Medicare for All system, described as a ‘national health insurance program... that would cover [everyone] & replace... private health insurance...’" jacobin.com/2025/11/medi...
Medicare for All Disappeared. Its Popularity Didn’t.
The demand for Medicare for All went from the center of the discourse to political exile in record time. But the policy's popularity never faded. A new poll finds strong majority support for the neglected idea among Americans across the political spectrum.
https://jacobin.com/2025/11/medicare-for-all-popularity-polling\
November 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
‘Medicare for All’ still big. “In a survey of 1,207 likely voters [from] Nov. 14–17, 2025, ...65% of voters [supported] a Medicare for All system, described as a ‘national health insurance program... that would cover [everyone] & replace... private health insurance...’" jacobin.com/2025/11/medi...
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"He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him."
WHAT THE HELL
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
WHAT THE HELL
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
November 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him."
WHAT THE HELL
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
WHAT THE HELL
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
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He will pardon everyone in the administration including himself. Fantasy immunity and abused pardon power = unlimited crimes glitch.
November 30, 2025 at 4:44 AM
He will pardon everyone in the administration including himself. Fantasy immunity and abused pardon power = unlimited crimes glitch.
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Our system is broken. Medicare for All, now.
November 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Our system is broken. Medicare for All, now.
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Oh look: another Silicon Valley oligarch gorging on the US government. That's the game plan for every single one of these greedy monsters: cozy up to Trump to make sweetheart deals, change federal policies & grab fat govt contracts for you & your friends.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Oh look: another Silicon Valley oligarch gorging on the US government. That's the game plan for every single one of these greedy monsters: cozy up to Trump to make sweetheart deals, change federal policies & grab fat govt contracts for you & your friends.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Finished the pumpkin pie for breakfast after shoveling some very very light snow and throwing a garbage bag directly into the trash truck while thanking the trash guy for keeping this place going, I am the champion
a man in a suit is clapping his hands in front of a sign that says applause .
ALT: a man in a suit is clapping his hands in front of a sign that says applause .
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Finished the pumpkin pie for breakfast after shoveling some very very light snow and throwing a garbage bag directly into the trash truck while thanking the trash guy for keeping this place going, I am the champion
This is repellent, and I’ll add that most of these are basically food stores: Albertsons and Stop & Shop are grocery stores, Walmart is one of Americas largest grocery stores now, DoorDash, obvs, and Amazon is one of our biggest grocery-kinda retailers too.
www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/...
www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/...
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is repellent, and I’ll add that most of these are basically food stores: Albertsons and Stop & Shop are grocery stores, Walmart is one of Americas largest grocery stores now, DoorDash, obvs, and Amazon is one of our biggest grocery-kinda retailers too.
www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/...
www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/...
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Let’s talk about corruption.
Given the facts we know now - that, in short, EVERYONE around DJT and he himself is profiting off of selling Ukraine to the murderer, why are we still pretending for US to be the intermediary in these “negotiations”? What exactly are we expecting here? Where is EU?
Given the facts we know now - that, in short, EVERYONE around DJT and he himself is profiting off of selling Ukraine to the murderer, why are we still pretending for US to be the intermediary in these “negotiations”? What exactly are we expecting here? Where is EU?
November 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Let’s talk about corruption.
Given the facts we know now - that, in short, EVERYONE around DJT and he himself is profiting off of selling Ukraine to the murderer, why are we still pretending for US to be the intermediary in these “negotiations”? What exactly are we expecting here? Where is EU?
Given the facts we know now - that, in short, EVERYONE around DJT and he himself is profiting off of selling Ukraine to the murderer, why are we still pretending for US to be the intermediary in these “negotiations”? What exactly are we expecting here? Where is EU?
Gift link. This is horrifying and clearly a war crime. There will be a reckoning.
wapo.st/49KbUJ1
wapo.st/49KbUJ1
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Gift link. This is horrifying and clearly a war crime. There will be a reckoning.
wapo.st/49KbUJ1
wapo.st/49KbUJ1
I basically think about a thanksgiving turkey the way someone practices putting alone on a golf course for no particular reason.. anyway, nailed it! 🥳
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I basically think about a thanksgiving turkey the way someone practices putting alone on a golf course for no particular reason.. anyway, nailed it! 🥳
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does anyone remember like, 2014, 2016 or so, and restaurants were paying like $200K for individual apps for their restaurants? Did that happen? Am I misremembering?
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
does anyone remember like, 2014, 2016 or so, and restaurants were paying like $200K for individual apps for their restaurants? Did that happen? Am I misremembering?
This 1906 story of women on the lower east side rioting because of rising beef prices is delightful and priceless. Complete with dialogue!
"You people von't eat dead shickens," he said, "so ve must ... sell dem dead mit a quarter pound less in bleedingness."
www.nytimes.com/1906/11/30/a...
"You people von't eat dead shickens," he said, "so ve must ... sell dem dead mit a quarter pound less in bleedingness."
www.nytimes.com/1906/11/30/a...
EAST SIDE WOMEN RIOT OVER HIGH MEAT RATES; Butchers Put the Price Up and Blame the Beef Trust. HOUSEWIVES GO ON STRIKE March from Store to Store Proclaiming That They'll Live on Fish -Some Butchers Cl...
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This 1906 story of women on the lower east side rioting because of rising beef prices is delightful and priceless. Complete with dialogue!
"You people von't eat dead shickens," he said, "so ve must ... sell dem dead mit a quarter pound less in bleedingness."
www.nytimes.com/1906/11/30/a...
"You people von't eat dead shickens," he said, "so ve must ... sell dem dead mit a quarter pound less in bleedingness."
www.nytimes.com/1906/11/30/a...
The darkest way to show tech companies think their terms of service are magic spells that bind the world perpetually to Heads I Win; Tails You Lose.
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The darkest way to show tech companies think their terms of service are magic spells that bind the world perpetually to Heads I Win; Tails You Lose.
Drop everything. Read this. Every word is poetry:
“Vitriol were halfway through their monthlong Liberation Through Punishment Tour across North America with support from Weeping. (Unmerciful were supposed to join them too…)”
ALSO A 40 MINUTE RESPONSE VIDEO
“Vitriol were halfway through their monthlong Liberation Through Punishment Tour across North America with support from Weeping. (Unmerciful were supposed to join them too…)”
ALSO A 40 MINUTE RESPONSE VIDEO
The death metal band’s sole remaining member has launched a GoFundMe to get home to Portland
stereogum.com/2480744/vitr...
stereogum.com/2480744/vitr...
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Drop everything. Read this. Every word is poetry:
“Vitriol were halfway through their monthlong Liberation Through Punishment Tour across North America with support from Weeping. (Unmerciful were supposed to join them too…)”
ALSO A 40 MINUTE RESPONSE VIDEO
“Vitriol were halfway through their monthlong Liberation Through Punishment Tour across North America with support from Weeping. (Unmerciful were supposed to join them too…)”
ALSO A 40 MINUTE RESPONSE VIDEO
So… someone was busking in front of the CC Club playing remarkably well, using a pretty valuable vintage Gretsch Resonator guitar… and two young hipsters walked past, and one said to the other: Banjos are pretty easy to make fun of but i wouldn’t harsh on anyone’s fun… anyway Uptown is dead.
Again.
Again.
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
So… someone was busking in front of the CC Club playing remarkably well, using a pretty valuable vintage Gretsch Resonator guitar… and two young hipsters walked past, and one said to the other: Banjos are pretty easy to make fun of but i wouldn’t harsh on anyone’s fun… anyway Uptown is dead.
Again.
Again.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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