Kelly Gray
@elizabethkellygray.bsky.social
Historian. Author of Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776–1914 (OUP, 2023) 📚. Optimism ☀️. Baltimore ֱ🦀. Film Noir 🎥🕵️♂️. Old-time radio 📻. History 🗝️. Playwriting 🎭. The U.S. Constitution 📜🪶. I care deeply about my country. ❤️🇺🇸 Slava Ukraine! ❤️🇺🇦
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The president is increasingly erratic, forgetting promises he made just days ago and lashing out angrily at reporters for asking routine questions.
Seems like the news should talk more about this
Seems like the news should talk more about this
President Donald Trump lashed out at an ABC reporter and reversed his position on Monday afternoon after saying he would push to release the video of an alleged drug boat strike that has come into question.
'You are terrible!' Trump fumes as reporter catches him making a U-turn on strike video
President Donald Trump lashed out at an ABC reporter and reversed his position on Monday afternoon after saying he would push to release the video of an alleged drug boat strike that has come into question. Trump was taking questions from the press following a roundtable discussion about agriculture...
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December 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The president is increasingly erratic, forgetting promises he made just days ago and lashing out angrily at reporters for asking routine questions.
Seems like the news should talk more about this
Seems like the news should talk more about this
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Tutankhamun’s gallery in the new Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Giza, Egypt 🇪🇬 which now house the entire 5,000 artifacts #Travel #History #sundayvibes
Credit: gems_in_gem
Credit: gems_in_gem
December 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Tutankhamun’s gallery in the new Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Giza, Egypt 🇪🇬 which now house the entire 5,000 artifacts #Travel #History #sundayvibes
Credit: gems_in_gem
Credit: gems_in_gem
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Celebrate the Sammy Davis Jr. Centennial 🎂💯
📷 Burt Glinn, 1959
He's dancing across Madison Avenue after his last show at the Copacabana.
"There were people who wanted him to fight & people who wanted him to make or at least seek peace. And he desperately wanted to please everybody."
- Jared Grimes
📷 Burt Glinn, 1959
He's dancing across Madison Avenue after his last show at the Copacabana.
"There were people who wanted him to fight & people who wanted him to make or at least seek peace. And he desperately wanted to please everybody."
- Jared Grimes
December 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Celebrate the Sammy Davis Jr. Centennial 🎂💯
📷 Burt Glinn, 1959
He's dancing across Madison Avenue after his last show at the Copacabana.
"There were people who wanted him to fight & people who wanted him to make or at least seek peace. And he desperately wanted to please everybody."
- Jared Grimes
📷 Burt Glinn, 1959
He's dancing across Madison Avenue after his last show at the Copacabana.
"There were people who wanted him to fight & people who wanted him to make or at least seek peace. And he desperately wanted to please everybody."
- Jared Grimes
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Reader, he is, in fact, making this stuff up
Kudlow is just lying to his viewers: "Unemployment is at rock bottom. These are real facts. I'm not making this stuff up. Unemployment claims are as low as they're ever going to get."
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Reader, he is, in fact, making this stuff up
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He has been asked about this multiple times and said he would do it. But this time a black female reporter asks him the question, so it gets answered much differently. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Reporter: You said he would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2nd
Trump: I didn’t say that. This is ABC fake news. Whatever Hegseth decides is ok with me… Let me just tell you, you are an obnoxious reporter. Actually, a terrible reporter.
Trump: I didn’t say that. This is ABC fake news. Whatever Hegseth decides is ok with me… Let me just tell you, you are an obnoxious reporter. Actually, a terrible reporter.
December 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
He has been asked about this multiple times and said he would do it. But this time a black female reporter asks him the question, so it gets answered much differently. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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Justice Jackson nails it, but that this has to be spelled out is so depressing.
Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
December 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Justice Jackson nails it, but that this has to be spelled out is so depressing.
The Slaughter case: www.npr.org/2025/12/08/n...
December 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The Slaughter case: www.npr.org/2025/12/08/n...
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jared kushner is the forrest gump of all the worst events in recent history
Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix.
www.axios.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
jared kushner is the forrest gump of all the worst events in recent history
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The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
December 8, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
For #Baltimoreans who know the #ReginaldFLewisMuseum, I recommend taking a couple minutes to learn about Mr. Lewis. (I didn't know that he built a billion-dollar company! Thank you to @dytsras.bsky.social for the information.)
www.lewismuseum.org
www.lewismuseum.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
For #Baltimoreans who know the #ReginaldFLewisMuseum, I recommend taking a couple minutes to learn about Mr. Lewis. (I didn't know that he built a billion-dollar company! Thank you to @dytsras.bsky.social for the information.)
www.lewismuseum.org
www.lewismuseum.org
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"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Having finished a book tracing US migration & citizenship from the colonial period to 1888, the lesson people are missing today from history is: 1) Without legal citizenship, all kinds of discrimination can be done to you & w/ no due process/equal protection. This is the very reason why the 14th 1/
Here is the question presented. It's a relatively clean vehicle for the Supreme Court to finally decide whether it is lawful for the president to deny birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
December 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Having finished a book tracing US migration & citizenship from the colonial period to 1888, the lesson people are missing today from history is: 1) Without legal citizenship, all kinds of discrimination can be done to you & w/ no due process/equal protection. This is the very reason why the 14th 1/
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This is going to continue until we make ourselves heard. It is hard but do not look away or stop. Call your reps and show up in person when you can. #ThisIsNotNormal #ResistFascism
December 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is going to continue until we make ourselves heard. It is hard but do not look away or stop. Call your reps and show up in person when you can. #ThisIsNotNormal #ResistFascism
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If you knew they were all targets, why wait 40 minutes to kill the last two?
It’s almost like they’re making it up as they go along.
It’s almost like they’re making it up as they go along.
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources.
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling vessels.
nbcnews.to
December 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM
If you knew they were all targets, why wait 40 minutes to kill the last two?
It’s almost like they’re making it up as they go along.
It’s almost like they’re making it up as they go along.
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Frank Sinatra almost got into a fist fight with Bing Crosby on the set of High Society to defend the dignity of Louis Armstrong, who was added to the production due to Sinatra’s advocacy. It’s not hard to find PSAs for tolerance that Sinatra filmed!
December 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Frank Sinatra almost got into a fist fight with Bing Crosby on the set of High Society to defend the dignity of Louis Armstrong, who was added to the production due to Sinatra’s advocacy. It’s not hard to find PSAs for tolerance that Sinatra filmed!
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Hegseth’s own “fog of war” excuse fully contradicts this new excuse, which they have clearly just come up with to try to keep him out of the Hague
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources.
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling vessels.
nbcnews.to
December 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Hegseth’s own “fog of war” excuse fully contradicts this new excuse, which they have clearly just come up with to try to keep him out of the Hague
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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Lindsey Graham’s “plan” for healthcare is a scam. Please don’t buy what he is selling.
December 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Lindsey Graham’s “plan” for healthcare is a scam. Please don’t buy what he is selling.
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The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public
December 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
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If your appointment is invalid, you never had the job in the first place.
Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.
December 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
If your appointment is invalid, you never had the job in the first place.
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Y'all, I was in Mississippi today for my nephews J-State graduation and got this when I opened Blue Sky
December 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Y'all, I was in Mississippi today for my nephews J-State graduation and got this when I opened Blue Sky
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We are the only wealthy country with this problem at all. Remember that!
December 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
We are the only wealthy country with this problem at all. Remember that!
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The Trump administration has removed MLK Day and Juneteenth as holidays that include free entrance to national parks, adding the president’s birthday instead
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The Trump administration has removed MLK Day and Juneteenth as holidays that include free entrance to national parks, adding the president’s birthday instead