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It is not possible that elected republicans do not recognize and fully understand the road we are being taken down, no matter how many things Speaker Johnson claims he has not seen

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

When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead | Artnet News Read an excerpt from the book 'Art and Crime: The Fight Against Looters, Forgers, and Fraudsters in the High-Stakes Art World.'

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I’ve Gone to Look for America - The Atavist Magazine Conversations and revelations about an ailing nation along Interstate 95.

"America is encounters," a new reassurance from Masha Hamilton with photos by Cheney Orr:
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The Roberts Court Is Winning Its War on American Democracy Chief Justice John Roberts has now overseen 20 years of increasingly illiberal rulings by the Supreme Court.

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I wrote this out and it went well past the Bluesky character limit. So: I'll never understand how essentially all elected Republicans stand by when dire attacks on American principles come daily. Why is there never a new morning for Conservative principles? I will never understand

The Assassination of Charlie Kirk Who we are, and who we want to be.

Pray for America
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Opinion | The Un-Checked, Un-Balanced Reign of King Donald

"For Congress to check and balance Trump, its members must first be willing to."
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On the Power of Small Acts of Noncompliance At a moment when large-scale resistance can feel futile,
there are other ways to oppose, engage, and fight back.

Person to person
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What exactly does martial law look like? And will The People recognize it?

Littwin: A media takeover may jeopardize journalism at 9News. That’s not fake news Kyle Clark, in a post written before the Tegna sale was announced, told the truth that “integrity cannot be repurchased once it’s sold”

"Integrity cannot be repurchased once it's sold" @kylec.bsky.social

Thank you for this. A brilliant, enlightening session

No one ever did more for literature in the American West than Marilyn Auer #booksky

14 new paperbacks that hit shelves in August Notable new releases include the latest novels by Elizabeth Strout and Louis Bayard, a biography of Audre Lorde, and an account of a hostage crisis in London.

Wonderful to see Joyce Hinnefeld's THE DIME MUSEUM in this Washington Post round-up. #booksky

Author and Activist Marc Estrin Dies at 86 Heart failure claimed Burlington's "modern-day Renaissance man," a cellist, minister, physician's assistant, peace activist and cofounder of Fomite Press.

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Shantih, shantih, Marc, shantih
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Beauty! Art! Poetry! Vaudeville! Joyce's Hinnefeld's The Dime Museum "I think there are pieces of me, and of people I’ve known, in all of my characters. I feel a sense of kinship with all of them."

Tomorrow is publication day for Joyce Hinnefeld's lovely novel in stories from Unbridled Books. #booksky

The Dime Museum is a gem of a novel in stories, another gift to the reader from Joyce Hinnefeld. We're proud to have it in our summer list. Pub date is August 12. Available wherever you get your wonderful novels. #booksky

Andrea Gibson, Colorado’s poet laureate and a national voice on LGBTQ issues, has died “Come See Me in the Good Light,” a documentary film made by the poet and their wife dealing with Gibson’s cancer diagnosis in 2021, won festival favorite at Sundance this year. Gibson was 49.

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Surely Not? | Christopher R. Browning If the US president were a Manchurian candidate, are there things he would hesitate to do?

If only every elected official would read this and then stop for a moment to think. If only every elected official would stop for a moment to think. If only every elected official would think.

My Grandmother Stood Up to Nixon—Jeff Bezos Should Take Note Politics / June 26, 2025 My Grandmother Stood Up to Nixon—Jeff Bezos Should Take Note  Fifty years ago, Katharine Graham defended The Washington Post against presidential threats. Her granddaughter no...

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Next Week, an online launch of a remarkable photo-memoir that Julie Phillips has said is for "anyone who's ever tried to find herself by leaving home." #booksky

Hint for Democratic lawmakers from your voters:

We want you to vote NAY on everything the GOP wants.

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Greil Marcus's treatment of Sly is in Mystery Train.
I'm re-reading his The Shape of Things to Come (2006) now and hope to the heavens that Mr. Marcus is somewhere, right now, writing about 2025. #booksky

Anyone else thinking today about The Bonus Army conflict of 1932?

"Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare"
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“Let’s start with this: It feels good to go, to be moving . . .” Today is publication day for Katherine Oktober Matthews' Elsewhere, the kind of revelatory work that rises when "beauty and loneliness travel together" to distill a heartbreak. We at LeapingMan are proud to bring it your way. #booksky

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If you are attending a #NoKings rally/march on Saturday, consider bringing an American flag!

We need to make this clear: we are Americans and we will not abide a wannabe king

MAGA doesn't own our flag

An appropriate day to go back to Greil Marcus' The Shape Of Things To Come, his take on America and the remarkable "There's a Riot Goin' On".

R.I.P. Sly Stone.

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