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great week for crosswords! competed in the @midwestcrossword.bsky.social on saturday and now starting the @boswords.bsky.social fall league 🥰
October 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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I always say I love my country the way Anthony Bourdain did, not as a benevolent state or one founded in innocence but as vast, beautiful place full of discrete people and cultures such as has rarely been attempted and worth fighting for.
July 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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If we don't want to repeat history, we'd better be strong enough to learn from it.

The authoritarian playbook starts with pointing to a group of people who don’t look like you and blaming them for your problems.

When those issues are still there, what comes next?
“The end of the constitutional republic as we know it could be happening now.”

@govpritzker.illinois.gov studied Germany in the 30s — targeting immigrants and jews — and he’s concerned about what could lie ahead in the US.

He says we all need to “speak out” and “show up to protest.”
June 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM