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Bill Grueskin

@bgrueskin.bsky.social

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Journalist, professor, dad. Via Sioux City, Colorado Springs, Palo Alto, Rome, Standing Rock, Bologna, Baltimore, Miami Herald, WSJ, Bloomberg, Columbia J School bit.ly/bgcjr

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 8h

Oh sure why not www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 8h

Oh sure why not www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h

The resistance lives -- in today's Spelling Bee pangram

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15h

From last year

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h

The husband who bought the “RUMP” watch for his wife said, “We expected it would have the integrity of the President of the United States.”

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h

Especially if the price of those medications could be reduced by 1,400, nay 1,500, percent

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h

The resistance lives -- in today's Spelling Bee pangram

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17h

The acting US attorney will get to it, once she's done resolving a client's lingering insurance claim over a grocery cart that dented his fender in a Sam's Club parking lot

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17h

Quite a difference from the online hed

How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland

President Trump and his administration are amplifying the voices of pro-White House podcasters and streamers eager to ratify the president’s description of Oregon’s largest city as a “hellscape.”

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

We need to start the 15th inning with a Manfred man halfway between 3rd and home

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Combined RISP for the two teams: 2 for 18

Combined left on base: 19

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Combined RISP for the two teams: 2 for 18

Combined left on base: 19

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

I guess if we can give the peace prize to Kissinger, we can give it to Thiessen.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

All these oped writers think we should give the Nobel Peace Prize to the guy who’s gutting our medical infrastructure

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

www.yadvashem.org/righteous/st...

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Jacob and Wijntje de Vries

Remembering Little LoesjeJacob and Wijntje de Vries lived with their two young children in the village of Nieuwe Niedorp in northern Holland. Jacob was a carpenter; Wijntje was a homemaker and took care of the children at home.One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

"The American Soybean Association today expressed concern following reports that President Trump has canceled his planned meeting with Chinese President Xi amid escalating trade tensions"

soygrowers.com/news-release...

ASA Statement on Canceled U.S.-China Meeting and Rising Trade Tensions - American Soybean Association

The American Soybean Association today expressed concern following reports that President Trump has canceled his planned meeting with Chinese President Xi

soygrowers.com

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Wait he said it again today bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases."

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

A few weeks ago Trump was promising he'd reduce drug prices "by 1500%," so this 100% surcharge on China is pretty modest when you think about it

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

How about something modest yet tasteful, like Mussolni's Arco dei Fileni in Libya

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

This week (so far) in expertise:

Bari Weiss is running CBS News, and Melania Trump is conducting direct negotiations with Vladimir Putin

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

(You are an exception to this rule, ofc)

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

I do still pay because the Post’s news reporting remains essential

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Fascism And Its Discontents @in-broken-country.bsky.social · 1d

to each his own I suppose Bill, but.....hope you're not paying $ for that swill....

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Neil Snyder @neilsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

The columnist may not be good a predicting outcomes.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

m.youtube.com/watch?v=MT5S...

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