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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 5h

The most Gold Glove finalists in the National League this year—and tied with the Blue Jays for the most in MLB! #Cubs ⚾️

Bleacher Nation @bleachernation.bsky.social · 1d

The Chicago Cubs Have SIX Gold Glove Finalists

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 5h

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 22h

If you’re tired of seeing your tax dollars go to Argentina while Trump tariffs kill your local businesses and make everything more expensive

…or worried you’ll get snatched off the streets by ICE because you’re not the “right” skin color, despite being here legally

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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 6h

Morning Kitten

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 6h

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 6h

Disgusting corruption if not extortion.

“He suggested those would be among the first guests in the new ballroom ‘if we still like you at that time.’”

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Trump wants a White House ballroom. These companies are funding it.

Tech, crypto and defense companies are among the donors that have committed millions to help turn Trump’s ballroom dream into a reality, according to the White House.

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 6h

Good piece, clearly written.

Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 12h

This week's post: Populism and Economic Prosperity mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/popu...
We would expect populist governments to damage the economy. Evidence suggests that they do so in a big way. But we know from Brexit that the media typically nullifies the impact of this evidence on voters.

Populism and Economic Prosperity

Mainstream political parties normally claim that populist parties, if they ever got to power, would damage the economy. We have clear evid...

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 6h

A word to the wise—especially if you’re considering Medicare Advantage

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Errors in new Medicare plan portal mislead seniors on coverage

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Errors in new Medicare plan portal mislead seniors on coverage

The directory, intended to help older Americans navigate Medicare Advantage open enrollment, produces conflicting responses about which providers are covered by health plans.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 1d

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 15h

This is the best thing ever!

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 15h

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 21h

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‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 21h

Something to think about 🧵:

Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🧵Why We Can't Panic:

Humans Are Designed to Keep Calm and Carry On

Ten months into Trump’s return to power, America feels like it’s full of pod people (you youngsters can go ahead and Google that one). open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

Why We Can't Panic

Humans Are Designed to Keep Calm and Carry On

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

Home of the Brave launched a $1 million national ad campaign ahead of the peaceful No Kings rallies this Saturday.

The ads will run in over 185 local papers and The New York Times, USA Today and The Washington Post calling on Americans to “peacefully protest our false king."

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 23h

Nice full-page ad today!

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 23h

Be sure to check out The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, or your local paper today!

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social launched a $1 million ad campaign in over 185 newspapers encouraging Americans to stand up to Trump and attend their local #NoKings peaceful protest this Saturday:

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Bleacher Nation @bleachernation.bsky.social · 23h

A Career-Best Year for Nico Hoerner – What Comes Next for Him and the Cubs?

www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2025/10...

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 1d

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 1d

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 2d

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 2d

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 2d

Good news: I’m a genius! 🙄 Bad news: One word short of 👸🏼🐝. Dangit.

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 2d

Unfortunately paywalled without access to either NYT or The Athletic, but this what I needed to explain that bizarre double play.

“This is my 39th year,” O’Driscoll said. “I’ve scored 2,500 games. Never have I seen that before. And I got it right — which is scary.”

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Making sense of Brewers-Dodgers 8-6-2 DP, the strangest double play in postseason history

What will you tell your grandchildren about the strangest double play in postseason history? Here's everything you need to know about it.

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 3d

Read.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists

When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sen...

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