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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h

Usually when a sister starts drama in the group chat it doesn't end up a national story but Dolly says she's fine and also took a shot at AI photos of her on her deathbed with Reba McIntyre lmao. Queen of America indeed.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

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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States United Democracy Center @statesunited.org · 6h

DISTRICT COURT JUDGE RESPONDS TO WEEKEND DEPLOYMENTS >> “I am certainly troubled by now hearing that both California and Texas are being sent to Oregon, which does appear to be in direct contradiction of my order..."
www.opb.org/article/2025...

Federal judge blocks federalized guard from deploying to Oregon

U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut’s ruling late Sunday, her second in two days, capped a dramatic weekend that included President Trump sending California National Guard members to Oregon and o...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 7h

DEI for me, not for thee.

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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 6h

This needs to be amplified and followed up. Is #WellsFargo involved in ICE arresting U.S. citizens in a brazen nighttime raid because they wanted to clear out a problem property?

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6h

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com

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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 10h

As a plump, gray-haired woman, I’m an expert in passing unnoticed. It’s my sole superpower.

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 11h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 11h

This is how you do it.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 11h

Probably not true any more, but when I lived in Geneva in the early 1990s, you could only get peanut butter in cans unless you went to a super-expensive expat supermarket that carried American brands.

Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 11h

One of my takeaways from The Emperors of Chocolate was that while Hershey was making bank with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Mars resisted peanuts and instead put out the much less popular Toffifay, which has a giant hazelnut in the center, because Europeans don't like peanut butter.

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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 11h

Glenn is the author of "How Comics Are Made," which was obviously a MUST BUY for me. The type book looks super cool and the print edition includes an ebook, so I can read the hard copy and my husband, who gets annoyed because he can't click on things in paper books, will read the ebook.

Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 1d

Hi, folks, a little personal news. In mid-November, I'm getting my aortic valve replaced via open-heart surgery. As scary as that sounds, my prognosis is excellent. This is fairly personal health news, and I'm posting publicly for two reasons.

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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 11h

I just ordered this for my typophile husband. That's Christmas sorted!

Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 1d

Consider *Six Centuries of Type & Printing*, a beautiful, compact volume, great for typophiles and others interested in design and printing? sixcent.info Available signed; ships worldwide. Audiobook and ebook versions and bundles are available.

Hand holding open book in front of slightly out of focus bookshelves. The left and right book pages have illustrations at the top: Dance of Death (left); Common Press (right)

Decorated endpapers of book showing type and printing artifacts in black at an angle printed on top of a sharp red paper.

Pivotal type casting machine (Barth caster) in line-art form tinted green. The machine has a variety of gears and adjustments to rapidly produce the same piece of type.

Cover of Six Centuries of Type & Printing: green cloth in 8 by 5 inch format, with brass-colored foil stamping for a border around the title and "by Glenn Fleishman"

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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 12h

Hazelnut bits. Ick!

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Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 12h

Six federal circuits—the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, and 11th—all agree that the First Amendment protects the right to record police performing their duties in public.

Taught my students last week that they have a First Amendment right to record in Pennsylvania. So do folks in Chicago and Portland.

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 13h

New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 1d

Because he seems to be the actual president? They roll out the elected president occasionally so he can utter demented word salad to serve Miller's agenda, like perverting the US military, including its officers, and debasing it in the eyes of progressives and moderates in order to foment civil war.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should ask what Miller was doing between 2021 and 2025, why David Horowitz recruited him to the foreign policy team of the Trump campaign, why the Democrats never followed through on their 2017 investigation of alleged lies on Miller's SF-86 clearance forms, but no one asks real questions

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 12h

Love this dude. Big ole yes. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

In a scathing critique of President Donald Trump, Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday accused the Republican president of deploying National Guard troops to the Democratic cities of Chicago and Portland based...

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 14h

In a woodcut released today the Guild of Thieves and Cutpurses declared that enforcement of regulations against Thieving and Pursecutting would ‘devastate a growth industry’ and damage the economy.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

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onion person @junlper.beer · 22h

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