Jackie Matusow
@bookjackie.bsky.social
Retired Librarian, Educator. Current Literacy Coordinator for RSVP, a non-profit. Perpetual Phillies phan. “The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.” - Albert Einstein
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December 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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“And then they made him a fake trophy because he kept whining and moaning and wouldn’t STFU.”
December 6, 2025 at 4:06 AM
“And then they made him a fake trophy because he kept whining and moaning and wouldn’t STFU.”
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Well played.
December 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Well played.
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Behold we have become the worst of the worst. Not all of us of course. But our country is being run by criminals who belong in prison.
December 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Behold we have become the worst of the worst. Not all of us of course. But our country is being run by criminals who belong in prison.
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BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
December 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
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The red “pro-life” states have the worst maternal AND infant mortality statistics in the United States. That’s because “pro-life” has nothing to do with valuing the lives of women. It’s only about controlling women, & letting us know we do not own our own bodies.
sph.tulane.edu/study-finds-...
sph.tulane.edu/study-finds-...
Study finds higher maternal mortality rates in states with more abortion restrictions
Figure 1. State abortion policy context in 2015 States with more restrictive abortion policy climate have higher total maternal mortality, measured as a death during pregnancy or within one year follo...
sph.tulane.edu
December 4, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The red “pro-life” states have the worst maternal AND infant mortality statistics in the United States. That’s because “pro-life” has nothing to do with valuing the lives of women. It’s only about controlling women, & letting us know we do not own our own bodies.
sph.tulane.edu/study-finds-...
sph.tulane.edu/study-finds-...
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ATTN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES: The VA sent out an announcement with a link for employees to self-report their disabilities. I wouldn’t do this if I were you. They’ll likely use it to discriminate against you.
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
ATTN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES: The VA sent out an announcement with a link for employees to self-report their disabilities. I wouldn’t do this if I were you. They’ll likely use it to discriminate against you.
This has to be a copyright infringement lawsuit.
December 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This has to be a copyright infringement lawsuit.
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Imagine being a career officer in the chain of command on Trump's boat bombings. You have deep moral and legal concerns about them. Your faith in leadership is shaky. Then you see Pete Hegseth tweet out a sadistic cartoon about it. Must be awful.
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
December 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Imagine being a career officer in the chain of command on Trump's boat bombings. You have deep moral and legal concerns about them. Your faith in leadership is shaky. Then you see Pete Hegseth tweet out a sadistic cartoon about it. Must be awful.
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Voting is your superpower.
Tomorrow’s TN 7th Congressional District special election is going to come down to turnout and you can help.
Guardrails provides you with ways to help.
Read how: bit.ly/4isOJVK
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
Guardrails provides you with ways to help.
Read how: bit.ly/4isOJVK
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
December 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Voting is your superpower.
News flash @nytimes.com: Trump is old. Very very old. And guess what? He’s getting older every day. You’re welcome.
I join @timmiller.bsky.social to discuss--a bit intemperately, but the times do call for some intemperance--the kleptocratic, autocratic cabal of criminals atop the Trump administration, and the damage they're doing to the nation, even as the wheels come off their bus.
youtu.be/x19wwAVgArI?...
youtu.be/x19wwAVgArI?...
Trump’s Physical Slide Is Getting Hard to Ignore (w/ Bill Kristol) | Bulwark Podcast
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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December 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
News flash @nytimes.com: Trump is old. Very very old. And guess what? He’s getting older every day. You’re welcome.
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Federal Suit Seeking Names of Some Jewish Employees at Penn Sparks Backlash
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Ex Trump WH Lawyer Ty Cobb: “The Constitution is not adequate to deal with a President as evil as Trump, whose desire is to accumulate & abuse power - total authoritarianism… lawyers, judges, the military don’t have to follow illegal orders even though they have been rampantly.”
November 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Ex Trump WH Lawyer Ty Cobb: “The Constitution is not adequate to deal with a President as evil as Trump, whose desire is to accumulate & abuse power - total authoritarianism… lawyers, judges, the military don’t have to follow illegal orders even though they have been rampantly.”
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🇺🇦 Zelensky: The crux of the entire diplomatic situation is that it was Russia, and only Russia, that started this war, and it is Russia, and only Russia, that has been refusing to end it throughout the full-scale invasion.
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🇺🇦 Zelensky: The crux of the entire diplomatic situation is that it was Russia, and only Russia, that started this war, and it is Russia, and only Russia, that has been refusing to end it throughout the full-scale invasion.
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Two Step Peace Plan: Step one: leave. Step two: leave faster.
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Two Step Peace Plan: Step one: leave. Step two: leave faster.
The Justice Department- AKA, Trump’s personal law firm- is devolving (has already devolved) into a shell. How will we get it back?
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
‘It’s a Culture Now of Fear’: A Year of Chaos Inside the Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Justice Department- AKA, Trump’s personal law firm- is devolving (has already devolved) into a shell. How will we get it back?
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I posted this piece earlier. Doing it again to emphasize that it is well worth your time.
In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I posted this piece earlier. Doing it again to emphasize that it is well worth your time.
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Trump is incapable of resisting charm, (male) charisma, and - most importantly - celebrity. He has an unquenchable desire to be near it, has been chasing it his whole life.
That's mostly it. Forget all the "He's a populist!" bullshit from both the centrist commentariat and the anti-liberal Left.
That's mostly it. Forget all the "He's a populist!" bullshit from both the centrist commentariat and the anti-liberal Left.
Every article by a 'savvy' political analyst reads like a focus group transcript with a low-information voter.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
November 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Trump is incapable of resisting charm, (male) charisma, and - most importantly - celebrity. He has an unquenchable desire to be near it, has been chasing it his whole life.
That's mostly it. Forget all the "He's a populist!" bullshit from both the centrist commentariat and the anti-liberal Left.
That's mostly it. Forget all the "He's a populist!" bullshit from both the centrist commentariat and the anti-liberal Left.
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How I feel about the whole Olivia Nuzzi story is that there are a lot of talented, ethical, underemployed or unemployed black and brown journalists right now who are ready to work.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
How I feel about the whole Olivia Nuzzi story is that there are a lot of talented, ethical, underemployed or unemployed black and brown journalists right now who are ready to work.
All of this is/was known. And yet, the American people thought him fit for the office. Unchecked by Congress and the Supremes, we can now add to the list: misogynist, pedophile, and traitor.
November 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
All of this is/was known. And yet, the American people thought him fit for the office. Unchecked by Congress and the Supremes, we can now add to the list: misogynist, pedophile, and traitor.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM