@bstaples.bsky.social
Garden guy. Fellow, Society of American Historians. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for writing on the legacies of slavery “with extraordinary moral clarity.”
Evening music
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Just out - and recommended
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Manhattan, W 29th St.
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They can’t shoot us all - but they fully intend to track us all. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on how the data state has gone rogue.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
One of the greats
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"Among the hires at CBS News announced by Weiss is a doctor who claims he reduced his biological age by 20 years with cold plunges; that cod liver oil treats autism; and that Alzheimer’s and dementia can be reversed with supplements he sells on his online store."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
It’s a long way to the top/
If you wanna rock n roll/
Order to release Adrian and Liam Arias is a real barn burner storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Morning music
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NEW: Our photojournalists @cengizyar.com and @peterdicampo.bsky.social were on the ground in Minneapolis, covering what they saw in the days before and after the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Read their accounts below:
Well you’re built like a car/
You’ve got a hubcap diamond star halo/
A Brooklyn Three Dog Night
31.01.2026 02:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Amon-Ra = a magisterial football name
30.01.2026 18:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
30.01.2026 16:40 — 👍 23794 🔁 5565 💬 237 📌 130Vintage Fukuyama
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Important story from @alibreland.bsky.social about how the us government now speaks in the voice of an incel groyper www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Timely, from The University of North Carolina press
30.01.2026 02:52 — 👍 48 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1It’s just unfathomable to me that people think it makes sense for any law enforcement to be masked and anonymous. Police officers operate under risks and don’t wear masks. Judges & prosecutors, the same.
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Two global trading houses that brokered an opaque deal with the Trump admin this month to sell Venezuelan oil were previously prosecuted for bribery schemes involving oil sales elsewhere… A senior trader at Vitol donated $6 million to Trump’s 2024 election. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Home office assistants
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He murders you and drags your corpse through the mud. Fintan O’Toole on the “crime” of witness. www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
29.01.2026 14:46 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1This is a really important and timely message, perfectly delivered -- if you only ever got to hear one thing from @jamellebouie.net in your whole life I'd say this is it
29.01.2026 13:39 — 👍 30 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0Agreed
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After just two weeks, a top Kennedy Center official deserts the Philistine agenda. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
29.01.2026 11:44 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It is reflexive: the same story written dozens of times a year - but with the
names and topics changed.
An advance look at the cover for next week’s issue: “Targeted,” by Till Lauer.
28.01.2026 23:10 — 👍 535 🔁 215 💬 9 📌 19I spoke to a woman at the protest in minneapolis and she explained she wanted to be there in part because "i was a kid when george floyd got killed" and i nearly dropped my recorder
28.01.2026 22:00 — 👍 2895 🔁 299 💬 23 📌 77We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
28.01.2026 21:25 — 👍 24941 🔁 5993 💬 320 📌 262A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
