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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 7h

Truly thank goodness.

Reuters @reuters.com · 9h

LIVE: Winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize is announced
www.youtube.com/live/Q3bkzLZ...

LIVE: Winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize is announced

YouTube video by Reuters

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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 7h

I am going to my 30th college reunion today and boy that is a plot twist I was not expecting.

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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 22h

Kashkaval Garden!

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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 2d

Or pre-social media blogging days!

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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 2d

Tbf I knew of you from your blogging days!

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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 2d

I initially read “Sliwa” as “Yarvin”and for a brief second it all tracked perfectly

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 2d

Just popped over to Twitter to take a quick peek at Curtis Sliwa's account. A few highlights.

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 2d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 3d

Black people in Chicago had their apartment building raided in the middle of the night, were detained for hours, and had their Fourth Amendment rights violated during an ICE operation that had nothing to do with them. Nah, they are not thrilled.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Stephen Miller: "The Black people in Chicago are thrilled that we're getting the illegal aliens out of their communities who are stealing their housing, jobs, and resources."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 4d

Could we NOT get Dem establishment consultant-approved messages that promise “try this one simple trick to save democracy” please and thank you?

Text message that reads: “MIRACLE IN CALIFORNIA. Experts just revealed: If this one thing passes, Dems win the House and Trump is TOAST! WOW: ammar-ca.com/l/0H8yJw
AFC
Quit2End”

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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 5d

I mean yes who am I kidding I’m going to watch it all. Just watched one episode tonight.

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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 5d

He’s an interesting character but it doesn’t feel very New York. Also shouldn’t Jason Bateman have the same accent because he does NOT

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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 5d

Omg THANK YOU! He clearly worked with a coach who was like “this is how a multi-generational New Yorker sounds” but the voice coach got it wrong. Honestly also the costumes the hairline everything is a little off.

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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 5d

I’m sure you were delightful.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5d

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed

According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

www.blackenterprise.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 6d

If you're in Illinois and facing criminal charges from protesting ICE, or if you were attacked by ICE or law enforcement supporting them, I might be able to represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 5d

Jude Law is not convincing as a middle-aged New Yorker.

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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 5d

Hiiiiii I’ve never done the Halloween name thing. Whatcha got?

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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 6d

UVA Faculty Senate passed a resolution strongly opposing the Trump “Compact.” We, at least, remain committed to the historic values and mission of the university.

Resolution Opposing the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education"
WHEREAS the United States Secretary of Education has requested that the University of Virginia enter into a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”, and
WHEREAS the Compact contains provisions antithetical to the mission and traditions of the University, and
WHEREAS the Compact contains provisions which endanger the independence and integrity of the University, and
WHEREAS the compact likely violates state and federal law, and infringes upon the constitutional rights of members of the University community, and
WHEREAS the University of Virginia exemplifies American academic values of the highest standard, including universal right to free speech and the cultivation of academic freedom; therefore
BE IT RESOLVED that the Faculty Senate of the University of Virginia firmly opposes this Compact as written and calls upon Interim President Mahoney and the Board of Visitors to also reject this Compact outright as well as any similar proposal compromising the mission, values, and independence of the University.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

I’m on the ground at a prayer vigil near the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7d

Universities considering capitulating to the Trump “conditions” should use this real world example to understand they will simply be destroying their own institution. bsky.app/profile/nich...

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7d

Chris Rufo's disastrous takeover of New College in Florida shows what universities would become if they sign the Trump regime's extortionary "compact."

New College was supposed to model the anti-woke conservative higher-ed Americans crave. Instead, it showed the opposite, and serves as a warning.

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Parker Butler @parkerbutler.bsky.social · 7d

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.

Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.

Legacy media failed the country.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 7d

Just because I’m a member of the Oregon Trail generation doesn’t mean I wanted everyone to die of Oregon Trail diseases

Ray Mitchell @raymitchell.bsky.social · 7d

Measles. Whooping Cough. What's RFK Jr going to bring back next? Consumption?

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 8d

“A lot of times, you know, babies don’t cough; they just stop breathing,” warned Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Dan Edney as he discussed Mississippi's first infant death from whooping cough in 13 years.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 7d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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