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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 5h

Please get your flu shot and Covid booster. I work in fourteen different K-12 school buildings every week with about 8000 children and I can use all the help I can get to stay well every year. Follow President Trump and me in this action.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 8h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 7h

If you haven’t learned by now, please learn from this that Ross Douthat is not a person whose thoughts, interviews, or reporting are worthy of anyone’s attention. Please don’t continue to distribute his work.

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 8h

The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Children’s Hospital, one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals, is now named for Benioff. San Francisco’s general hospital is named for Zuckerberg. Now they wonder why people ever thought they cared about children and public health

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 8h

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 9h

Folks can say protest is ineffective. You can claim it's not achieving anything. But there's no way Dick Durbin is doing this if courageous protestors aren't out there daily for the last few weeks forcing people in positions of power to take action.

Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 11h

We’re outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

It’s clearer than ever before.

What’s happening in Illinois is an unprecedented, unlawful abuse of power.

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 9h

Our government lies constantly about their violent abuse of power and their destruction of our most cherished freedoms.

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 9h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 1d

There’s actually a mountain range dividing the eastern and western parts of San Francisco, they don’t need a line and some bullshit about Pop music, they just need a topographical map.

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 1d

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/is-a...

Is a River Alive?

Check out Is a River Alive? - <p><b>From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book – which answers a resounding <i>yes</i> to the question of its title.</...

uk.bookshop.org

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 1d

The most important and interesting book I have read this introduces this mind-bending concept, “Is a River Alive?” … I was and remain convinced.

Saunieindiego @saunieindiego.bsky.social · 1d

Colorado River Indian Tribes may grant personhood rights to 'living' river

www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Colorado River Indian Tribes may grant personhood rights to 'living' river

The Colorado River Indian Tribes may soon give their eponymous river personhood status, following moves by other tribes and Indigenous peoples.

www.azcentral.com

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 1d

Just like with the bill of rights, they like to pick and choose which commandments matter most. Nevermind that Jesus answered that question in plain language.

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 1d

There’s that meme graph about the chasm of “cringe” that one must walk to reach awesomeness

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 1d

“Freedom is a pure idea” is the principle, based on incredible truth, that will bring us through this moment. Frog costumes spring up as a creative expression of the pure idea of freedom.

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 1d

This is disgusting

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 1d

NEW: L.A. Times journalists just voted to authorize the newsroom’s first open-ended strike.

Eighty-five percent of the @latguild.bsky.social voted to support the strike. Just over 200 workers — 98% of members — took part in the historic vote.

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 2d

This is not even getting into rap lyricism, which is a different ballgame but if you’re calling someone greatest living lyricist you need to recognize that “key that opened my thighs” is boring crap compared to stuff teenage basement rappers produce.

Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 2d

Also if you think she’s a songwriter please read the Wikipedia page on Max Martin.

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 2d

Top 5 living songwriters are all over age 60 (Dylan, McCartney, Young, Mitchell, King, several other contenders).
If we’re talking about the newer generation, I put Sam Fender, Jason Isbell, Josh Ritter, Kathleen Edwards, and Ryan Adams well ahead of Taylor.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 5d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 2d

If 2/4 of your broadcast lineup consisted of a mediocre Yankee shortstop and the Yankee poster child of illegal steroids, solely on account of them being famous because they played for the Yankees, your program and your lineup deserve all the disrespect.

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 2d

Biggest moments of Wertz visibility? Vic Wertz hitting a deep drive to center field that Willie Mays chased down to make famous “The Catch” and the crooked cop who turned Harvey Dent’s family over to the Joker. One day we will be a winner and a good guy.

Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 2d

Farewell to crooked Gotham cop, detective Wuertz. Always loved hearing my last name in that movie, even if he was a bad guy and Christopher Nolan spelled his name a different way.

Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 2d

RIP actor & Chicago native Ron Dean.

He interrogated Dr. Richard Kimble in THE FUGITIVE, he dropped Andy off at detention in THE BREAKFAST CLUB, he was shot by Harvey Dent in THE DARK KNIGHT, he was Marty Crane's poker buddy on FRASIER, and so much more.

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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 2d

RIP actor & Chicago native Ron Dean.

He interrogated Dr. Richard Kimble in THE FUGITIVE, he dropped Andy off at detention in THE BREAKFAST CLUB, he was shot by Harvey Dent in THE DARK KNIGHT, he was Marty Crane's poker buddy on FRASIER, and so much more.

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 2d

How’s Weiss/CBS spinning it?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 2d

“College town” is an apt description of about 10% of Madison, an urban area that is home to 500,000 people, a state capital, and big industries in biotech, insurance, and healthcare

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