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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 22d

OUT TODAY! You Are the Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder! RIGHT NOW! You can buy it! They'll let you have it!

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The Creeping Hand Murder - Maureen Johnson

This is not a novel. This is a casefile. Have you ever thought you could solve a murder if you were given all the evidence? Well, this is your chance. YOU are the detective.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 4h

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10h

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

How do we speed buses up? There are plenty of tools already in the city's toolbox.

Just look at the 14th St busway.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jul 11

The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets.

So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 14h

It's not even clickbait, I truly do hate them.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 16h

“I HATE THOSE MASKED BASTARDS” is the greatest clickbait book title ever (it’s not about what you think, although the history is highly relevant)

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

Yooooooooooooooooo.

Gonna do a book.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 1d

Does Dolty Parton want one of my kidneys? I don’t even care if she needs it. She can just have it if she wants.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 1d

YES! Congratulations!

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

Yooooooooooooooooo.

Gonna do a book.

Journalist, podcast creator, and Punk Planet founder Dan Sinker's I HATE THOSE MASKED BASTARDS!: Terror, Truth, and the Editor Who Took on the Klan, a narrative account of crusading journalist George Dale, who faced off against a powerful, ascendant Klan movement in 1920s Indiana, and who serves as a model of journalistic integrity and defiance in the face of fascism, to Eric Kerl and Katy O'Donnell at Haymarket, at auction, by David Patterson at Stuart Krichevsky Agency (NA).

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TunafishTiger 🐟 🐯 @tunafi.sh · 2d

Get out there and be the main character in a cozy murder mystery: the body.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 2d

It's banned books week and so I'm legally obligated to bully you, a person who has ever had their name on a book, into joining @authorsabb.bsky.social.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We fight the source of book bans with calls to action, partnership w everyone in the game, and offer training.

AABB Author Sign-Up Form

Hello! We're Authors Against Book Bans, a group of authors who’ve come together to protect and promote the freedom to read on both the national and local levels. We’re creating a network of authors to...

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 2d

My daughter is on a junket to New York with her online peeps. She sent me this poster from the Ripped Bodice:

A poster on a wall among bookshelves. It's in glorious color with pink peonies along the bottom. The text reads 'Unattended children will be given an enthusiastic explanation of intersectional feminism.'

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 2d

I studied German and French, but Spanish is the thing I wish I knew on the daily.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 2d

Genuinely into Bad Bunny's four month Spanish challenge.

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TunafishTiger 🐟 🐯 @tunafi.sh · 2d

I was playing 10cc’s I’m Not In Love on my phone and swaying in my supervisor’s office when she asked me to leave.

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TunafishTiger 🐟 🐯 @tunafi.sh · 2d

Dreamt @maureenjohnsonbooks.com ran a gas station in the Midwest. I won’t say which brand, but it rhymes with Speedway. She hated this. The only good part was the fact that she could give people free gas and chips and rollers as retaliation against management. Then the place burned down suspiciously

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 2d

Photo: Richard Cahan evanstonroundtable.com/2025/10/04/b...

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 2d

hey buddy

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

Tonight of all nights I’m going to re-up my benediction for Chicago.

We are everything.

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No matter what happens in the coming weeks, we are Chicago. We rose from the ashes. We never quit.&10;&10;We are the lake in the morning, the sun rising over the water, its reflection drawing a line straight to our shores.&10;&10;We are the Haymarket Martyrs, the Pullman strikers, always demanding better than what we've got.&10;&10;We are the words of Sandburg and Algren and Brooks and Wright.&10;&10;We are the 90s Bulls, making the impossible possible.&10;&10;We are the dipped Italian Beef. Messy, sure, but incredible.&10;&10;We are the humidity in the summer, the frostbitten cheeks in the winter.&10;&10;We are smoke-kissed rib tips.&10;&10;We are elotes on the street. We are pierogis in a pot.&10;&10;We are Curtis singing Hush now child.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

lock in friends. look out for each other. we're gonna get through this together.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 3d

Me, every day now:

The butterfly meme guy looking at everything and trying to work out if it is civil war

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

I've picked up a shit-ton of new follows in the last few days, so hi.

I'd love if you would subscribe to my entirely free newsletter where I write moody but ultimately (hopefully) hopeful pieces about *waves hands in all directions*. dansinker.com/follow/

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 3d

I saw @thejazzemu.bsky.social perform tonight and now I am healed. Just the greatest. I even got a picture with him and I think I really nailed it because u am good with pictures.

The illustrious Jazz Emu and me with my eyes closed.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Fam, this is a challenging moment. We (as reporters) are trying to balance urgency of news & amplification of resistance narratives with not assisting in putting people in prison. It's tough for everyone right now with how fast videos go viral. There's a lot we are not sharing.

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 3d

Pro-tip: if you have video of you or others directly intervening to obstruct ICE or de-arrest someone, for god’s sake don’t post it on social media. Or at a minimum blur faces first. You’re just begging for federal charges.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 4d

Open data over everything.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

Some folks here are calling out ISP troopers by name, looking up their salaries, and roasting them.

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