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Barbara Buswell @babsyb.bsky.social · 2h

Public schools are a pillar of democracy and must be protected.

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Barbara Buswell @babsyb.bsky.social · 2h

"So come and get me."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

If you think today's news media picture is grim, take stock of how Chicago's local journalists are getting at the truth despite Homeland Security's campaign of lies and intimidation.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.

The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago

Local journalism is under siege, but still makes itself indispensable

www.stopthepresses.news

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Barbara Buswell @babsyb.bsky.social · 19h

Read this book! The history and variety of the National Parks makes for marvelous reading.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Mar 5

National parks were the main places I wanted my kids to see, and I wrote about them in THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP. Breaks my heart that the book is coming out as Trump tries to make good on his plans to destroy them. I hope my book helps the effort to fight back. www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

Friendly advice to the Trump administration: PLEASE keep putting Steven Miller on TV! Everyone likes him and is very impressed by him, he does not in any way come off as a shrieking little fascist who is naturally repulsive. People love “Steve” and want to hear much more from him! 👍❤️

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller: "ICE officers have to street battle against Antifa, hand to hand combat every night."

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 3d

An Oakland parade and festival dating back a half-century sought to preserve the often neglected legacy of the Black cowboy in shaping the Old West.

Read more and see additional photos → www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

📸: Yalonda M. James/S.F. Chronicle

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 3d

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its’ children.
-Nelson Mandela

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 3d

An Oakland parade and festival dating back a half-century sought to preserve the often neglected legacy of the Black cowboy in shaping the Old West.

Photos: Oakland Black cowboy parade and festival help preserve a neglected legacy

An Oakland parade and festival dating back a half-century sought to preserve the often neglected legacy of the Black cowboy in shaping the Old West.

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Barbara Buswell @babsyb.bsky.social · 3d

This is what needed to be stated clearly. Thanks, Molly.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s a gift link to my New York Times piece on what Dems can learn from bad bunny

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Opinion | What Chuck Schumer Can Learn From Bad Bunny

www.nytimes.com

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 5d

Trump has sought emergency intervention by the Supreme Court 28 times in the first eight months of his new term, more than Bush, Obama and Biden did combined over 20 years. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Trump’s Flood of Emergency Appeals Is Straining the Judicial System

The administration has turned to the Supreme Court at a record pace, and the justices have issued orders that lower courts have struggled to interpret.

www.wsj.com

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Barbara Buswell @babsyb.bsky.social · 7d

Very happily for Billy Crudup fans (like me), Corey's back!

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 7d

“Remember that we don't want you here. Go somewhere where they might invite you. But here in Chicago, here in the state of Illinois, we don't want you,” says Gov. JB Pritzker on Trump’s plan to send troops to Chicago.

'We don't want you here': Pritzker RIPS Trump's Chicago troop plan

YouTube video by MSNBC

www.youtube.com

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Barbara Buswell @babsyb.bsky.social · 15d

Molly, maybe you just weren't taken, I know I wasn't.

Barbara Buswell @babsyb.bsky.social · 16d

The only hilarious send-up of the rapture I'm aware of is Tom Perrotta's The Leftovers (the novel).

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Barbara Buswell @babsyb.bsky.social · 18d

😂

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21d

This is why they’re deleting studies

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 25d

In a sane world, Fox host Brian Kilmeade would be fired and shunned for his depraved comments that homeless people should be euthanized. That’s sick (and deeply ignorant), but sicker still is that it’s tolerated.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25d

"Trump’s remarkable threat somehow did not get much attention. It should have." Thus writes @sbg1.bsky.social. I feel validated! www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 26d

NEW: The messages on the bullets are from a video game called Helldivers2. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-the-me...

NEW: The Messages on the Bullets are From a Video Game

The phrases engraved on the bullets found by law enforcement during the investigation into the shooting of Charlie Kirk come from a video game called Helldivers2

www.muellershewrote.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 26d

This is the best summary I've found.

Alexandra Mathieu @alexmathieu.bsky.social · 26d

a friend and I have been debating whether the alleged Kirk shooter was either a "dirtbag left cumtown chapo stupidpol poster" or if he was an "irony poisoned, terminally online, neonazi groyper type" given the gun casings, which shows just how impenetrable this is going to be for MSM

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26d

Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26d

US foreign policy in Europe is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Kremlin.

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Barbara Buswell @babsyb.bsky.social · Sep 6

"Fight by refusing to abandon your humanity, your originality, and your will to explore. Do not fall for prestige and do not bow down to power. Do not submit to anyone, including the plagiarized digital detritus called “AI.” Read and think on your own terms with your own words." Sarah Kendzior

Barbara Buswell @babsyb.bsky.social · Sep 3

Man-baby censorship strategy.

Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · Sep 3

Trump spends oodles of $$ for an absurd military flyover to silence victims of Epstein’s and Maxwell’s awful crimes as he protects the perpetrators of those crimes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 3

military flyovers disrupt the Epstein victim press conference

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · Sep 2

Oof. The Dems need to stop pretending, based on some imaginary focus group, that there’s some common ground with Trump. The key is to fight everywhere.

You should go study Neville Chamberlain’s attempt at “common ground.” It didn’t end well for his historical reputation. Or the world.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 2

Hakeem Jeffries: "Donald Trump promised that he would lower housing costs on day one. Here's a suggestion for the Trump administration: try to legislate, and maybe we can find common ground in order to get something done for the American people."

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