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Joyce Millman

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Salon/SF Examiner/Boston Phoenix alum. Seattleite now, Bay Area for 33 years, Greater Boston born & raised. Baseball, Springsteen, hockey. She/her. joycemillman.wordpress.com

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Joyce Millman @joycemillman.bsky.social · Jul 11

I reviewed Bruce Springsteen’s “Twilight Hours”, one of 7 albums in the “Tracks II” box. The Boss croons like the Chairman of the Board, and that ain’t bad, Jack. (I love it.)

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Easy listening about hard truths - Joyce Millman reviews TWILIGHT HOURS

July 11, 2025EDITOR'S NOTE: Below is the first-to-be-published of our promised summer deep dives into each of the seven albums that comprise Bruce Springsteen's latest release, Tracks II: The Lost Alb...

www.letterstoyou.net

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11h

Putting aside the many reasons they should include it, this is also negotiation 101: don't negotiate against yourself, such as by locking your demand in low when your counterparty refuses to negotiate.

Dems shouldn't take stuff off the table until Trump & GOP are truly negotiating.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 12h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11h

Yup. Been saying whomever can break this story that his crew is sitting him in front of a TV while he gets his IV treatments before he has to go on TV or sign EOs is gonna save the fucking country

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Joyce Millman @joycemillman.bsky.social · 12h

M’s ownership: Open up the vault for Josh Naylor. Whatever he wants. Do it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 15h

Samuel Alito basically argued that hating yourself is the natural state of a queer kid. And he pretended kids are the ones seeking conversion.

In reality, it's parents and religious leaders forcing this on kids — and it's abuse.

www.salon.com/2025/10/08/s...

How SCOTUS covers for the abuse of LGBTQ kids

In conversion therapy case, conservative justices imply queer kids are born hating themselves

www.salon.com

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 16h

Weirdly enough, I think this works. No one is more insecure than a new ICE agent. They want to be the blonde guy in DHS’s AI Nazi posting so badly. Instead, they’ll be guarding indistinguishable suburban warehouse #16361 while inflated frogs and dinosaurs thrust in their face all day every day.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16h

You cannot buy this kind of publicity, the ruling party thinks your upcoming televised mini concert is sexually demonic liberalism and keeps telling the media about why

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 17h

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 1d

When @washingtonpost.com is gone, there will be all kinds of hand wringing about its legacy and loss of a lion of journalism and of course Watergate, but it’s already gone, so gone. The time to lament the loss is now, not years from now when they pull the plug on the pale shadow that’s left.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo??

Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

This image was posted on X today by a Chicago Tribune reporter. Trump’s government has declared war on the American people — or some of them, based on race.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt: how MAGA's Bad Bunny panic is them revealing their full ass.

Subscribe today! salon.com/newsletter

Music by MJ Cole & Freya Ridings.

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 2d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 2d

We are under siege by an army of Paul Blarts that all think they are Judge Dredds

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 ICE said Marimar Martinez “rammed their vehicles.”

Bodycam footage says otherwise.

It shows an ICE agent ram his own vehicle into hers, sneer “Do something, bitch,” and then shoot her.

We can never believe anything ICE accuses anyone of.

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Katie Wilson for Seattle @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social · 5d

As a coalition of billionaires, landlords, and real estate developers invest more than $1.2 million in Bruce Harrell’s re-election, local progressive leaders Pramila Jayapal and Teresa Mosqueda are announcing their endorsements of Katie Wilson.

A graphic in Katie Wilson for Mayor campaign colors reading "Rep. Pramila Jayapal and King County Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda announce endorsements of Katie Wilson."

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is exercising more power for a fake emergency than Lincoln did for a real one.

Trump Is Destroying the U.S. Constitution and Amassing Unprecedented Powers by Sending Federal Troops to Invade American Cities

Lincoln faced a real insurrection and still did not go as far as this president

www.theunpopulist.net

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is now threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act to bully courts into letting his illegal military occupations proceed unchecked by rule of law.

Inventing a fake crisis wholesale to bulldoze what's left of constitutional restraints: Unhinged despotism.

Okay, then. Make him invoke it.

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Joyce Millman @joycemillman.bsky.social · 2d

As a fraudster, Oz already thinks like a fraudster.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

NEW inside CBS—

Staff are insulted executives will spend $150 million to buy The Free Press & make self-proclaimed “Zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief, while many of them are set to be laid off.

“If I wrote 90 percent of what’s on The Free Press, I would get flagged and fired,” one says.

‘What the F**k?’ CBS News Insiders Prepare for Takeover by Self-Described ‘Zionist Fanatic’

Bari Weiss is expected to be announced as editor-in-chief of CBS News, as employees worry her new role will bring a pro-Israel bias, more censorship, and lower editorial standards.

zeteo.com

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 3d

I keep seeing people dooming with "they're not acting like people who ever think they'll be out of power" and I keep thinking maybe, but they're also acting like they're terrified of what will happen to them when they do lose power.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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Joyce Millman @joycemillman.bsky.social · 3d

Why do I watch baseball? Don’t I have enough stress in my life?

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

"Burning to the ground," I tell ya...

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

Here's an excerpt. Escape from your sports misery for 2-3 minutes, read the whole column and tell me what you think

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