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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 15h

It's the casual fan vs. the baseball fan. For a leader the Brewers have one of the great recent workhorses, Yelich. They have a real star of the future, Chourio. Frelick plays like his hero Pedroia. They grow pitching on trees, and they run/field as well as anybody. They rarely make mistakes.

Quickening Enabler @staledimsum.bsky.social · 15h

As a long time Milwaukee resident I can tell you there are resentments here but sweating Chicago's status in the world is waaay down the list.

People on here seem to be complaining a lot about the Brewers not being 'cool' enough. To them I say: grow up and watch yr money burn this season.

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Dave Coulter @osage2024.bsky.social · 9h

Looks interesting!

www.semcoop.com/natural-hist...

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Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 20h

"We are trying to hold our ground against an intractable enemy. We are trying to out-think brute force. We are moving in opposition to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world, without the infrastructure or resources that our efforts require. We are stretched. And there is no end in sight."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22h

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Dave Coulter @osage2024.bsky.social · 19h

Like Patton in North Africa...

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 19h

Old-school physiography disguised as cultural regions.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Dave Coulter @osage2024.bsky.social · 1d

I would imagine so. Gotta check her out!

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Dave Coulter @osage2024.bsky.social · 1d

That Bill of Rights looks bigger than my Bill of Rights 🤔

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Dave Coulter @osage2024.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely...

Dave Coulter @osage2024.bsky.social · 1d

Well played 😂🏌

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Dave Coulter @osage2024.bsky.social · 1d

Thar PBS series was a household favorite.

Dave Coulter @osage2024.bsky.social · 1d

Looks interesting!

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Dave Coulter @osage2024.bsky.social · 1d

....I posted this bit of Orwell (from 1984) last Sunday. Yeesh 😬

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Clare Follmann @clarefollmann.bsky.social · 4d

@akpress.org is publishing my book Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong. It’s about the ways we are made to blame plants and animals (and people) for the horrors of capitalism, and invites us to reimagine our relationships with nature and each other. On shelves March 3, 2026!

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Dave Coulter @osage2024.bsky.social · 1d

Was this struck before or after his beheading?

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Dave Coulter @osage2024.bsky.social · 1d

Something useful for the next world 🍺 🍞 😋

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 1d

Model Bakery and Brewery from the Tomb of Meketre ca. 1981–1975 B.C.E. Middle Kingdom (Met Museum)

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 1d

A mapping workshop with refugees from Homs, Syria, asked participants to draw their neighborhoods from memory, bridging gaps between houses to generate a shared image of a city destroyed by war. To rebuild justly, residents will need to understand this pluralist city as others have lived within it.

Memory Maps of Homs, Syria

A mapping workshop with refugees from Homs, Syria, illuminates the complexity of rebuilding after war.

placesjournal.org

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Dave Coulter @osage2024.bsky.social · 1d

Big tough guy there 😂

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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 2d

If it helps, there is a long tradition of the U.S. government sending soldiers to make things worse in Chicago. From the 1894 Pullman strike:

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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 2d

"Any vacuum of facts and values will be filled with spectacle and war."

— Timothy Snyder, "On Freedom."

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Dave Coulter @osage2024.bsky.social · 1d

Dave, have you heard of the new drummer for Rush? Don't know where they'd fall on the pwog spectwum, but I thought I'd ask 🤔

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 1d

Missed my radio show last night? 😭 Through the magic that is the @wfmu.bsky.social archives you can hear it now (or see the playlist and realtime comments) at this link: www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

It's Complicated with Dave Mandl

Audio & playlist from October 6, 2025

www.wfmu.org

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Dave Coulter @osage2024.bsky.social · 1d

Getting some overdue rain today, which hopefully puts a dent in this tenacious drought! 🌧

Dave Coulter @osage2024.bsky.social · 1d

Banned Books Week >

www.ala.org/bbooks

#bannedbookskyclub

Banned & Challenged Books

ALA compiles data on book challenges from reports filed by library professionals in the field and from news stories published throughout the United States.

www.ala.org

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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