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B.Mahany

@babsymahany.bsky.social
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writer, story gatherer, once-upon-a-news chaser (Chicago Tribune). once pediatric oncology nurse (Children's Memorial). author of five (The Book of Nature; Slowing Time), mother of two. pullupachair.org/

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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
What #LivingWithLungCancer means to me #WCLC26: The shock and fear catapulted me into being more awake to the Holy Ordinary in every day. Life is all the clearer living in what I now know as Scan Time. I've written a book #BrokenOpen, exploring those awakenings in the wake of cancer. @Jill Feldman
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Justice Department deletes press releases on charges against Jan. 6 rioters
The Justice Department confirmed that it had deleted the press releases as part of “stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.”
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14/05/2026
The old man doesn't care. youtu.be/IP_IlsfM4VI
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NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: It's All Bullshit
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
MAGA Religious Leaders Dedicate and Bless 22-Foot Golden Trump Statue at Doral: “But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.” open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...
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MAGA Religious Leaders Dedicate and Bless 22-Foot Golden Trump Statue at Doral
A 22-foot, gold-leafed Trump effigy at Doral, blessed by Pastor Mark Burns and a circle of evangelical and Jewish clergy. The Catholic Church has a name for what just happened — and a duty to stop it.
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
the very definition of heresy. idolatry. sickening to the nth degree.
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
if this doesn't sicken you, and if this doesn't shake the 25th amendment into action.....blasphemy, heresy, idolatry, every sin in the book wrapped into one sharp image.....from a man found guilty of sexual assault. he mocks the God of Love.....
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
this beautiful narrative from the rooftops of Tehran reminds us the imperative truth: human lives in all their beauty and frailty unfold beneath the bombs. bombs dropped in our names. mea culpa. mea maxima culpa. From the Rooftops of Tehran www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
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From the Rooftops of Tehran | Anonymous
We in Iran own our grief, mourning all by ourselves.
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
can anyone confirm if the little boy to whom Bad Bunny gave his Grammy during halftime was Liam?
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
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Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Well done
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
i was a nurse with Dr. Diane DiMaggio a long time ago, and in less-distant years enlisted her as our boys' pediatrician: she's the best, and her frontline witness to the ravages of vaccine-preventable diseases is an imperative read. those with knowledge need to be heard above the din of the madness.
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
A Battle with My Blood: Tatiana Schlossberg’s essay in the @newyorker.com is the most beautiful, wrenching piece I’ve read in forever. And, oh, it cuts mighty close to the bone. You are in my prayers, fervently, Tatiana. From someone who knows this terrain.
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Sometimes I think they spend all their time thinking if new ways to be depraved. No; scratch that. I think they do that almost all the time.
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
The @chicagotribune.com has been home to plenty of American icons and journalism legends, and some mighty fine humans as well. Ron Grossman is all of the above, and this column confirms that in indelible ink. Love to you, sir. Farewell, and thank you www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/v...
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Farewell, and thank you: A veteran Tribune writer retires after 50 years of witnessing history
As a history professor, I told students stories that I read in textbooks. The Tribune sent me to witness historical events.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
A $64,000 Thailand beach vacation package being auctioned off at Mar-a-Lago as Americans continue to struggle with high grocery prices
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Clips like this are political gold
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
another powerful piece from the @chicagotribune.com , this time from Andrew Carter. almost an essay on the essence, the resilience, that is Chicago in the face of the Midway Blitz: digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/shortcode/CH...
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Sun, 11/09/25
‘Small acts have huge consequences’
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
my nightmares aren't this horrifying......
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Nothing new here. Trump got in epic battle with @kaminblair.bsky.social years ago. Kudos to @chicagotribune.com staff for stirring trump’s wrath. That’s how journalism works.
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
by a long shot, @chicagotribune.com staff is telling the most compelling stories of this whole ICE horror show. so proud of their tireless work. if you want a close read of what's happening in Chicago, the place to turn is the Tribune. here's the latest on Broadview's hellhole:http://bit.ly/3Xcdv2B
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
when war games are played on your streets pullupachair.org/2025/10/31/w...
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when war games are played on your streets
ICE agents on the campus where my mama now lives there is nothing make-believe about it. the leafy lanes and brick streets of the little village where i live have been invaded this week. not by dis…
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
@chicagotribune.com reporters doing great job telling the stories of ICE's Midway Blitz. huge kudos. digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/shortcode/CH...
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Mon, 10/27/25
The easiest targets
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
can someone explain why these four "events" would be tucked in among the whitehouse.gov historic timeline of the white house?? pure filth. ours is now a pigsty.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
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Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
breathtaking. this is what democracy looks like.
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
scenes from NO Kings! Evanston, IL; crowd estimated at twice as big as June 14 No Kings!.....of all the signs, maybe the dark heavens and the colorless stripes and stars make their point most hauntingly....
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
"under-babied"???? sounds like a commodity you pull from a shelf. i know the grief of miscarriage, infertility; i never considered myself under-babied. that grief belonged in the realm of the sacred, not a commercial enterprise to be remedied by those who show little regard for the sanctity of life.
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Dear Karoline Leavitt, You really should take off that crucifix when you stand there spouting lies, condemning swaths of humanity, and spewing the seeds of evil hatreds. I don't know God personally, but I do know God must be weeping.
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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
"One particularly gruesome video shows a group of masked fighters, some of whom are wearing green Hamas headbands, killing 8 blindfolded people in a square in Gaza City while large crowds are watching" www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/m...
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Masked fighters seen executing men in Gaza City as Hamas fights with rival groups | CNN
Violent clashes have erupted between Hamas and rival groups in several areas across Gaza, including an incident that culminated in an apparent public execution, as worries grow about the security situ...
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
holy holy crap: EXPOSED www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Thoughts/prayers to the TIME photo editor today.
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
From Bulwark, quoting one voice rising above all else: Just this past Thursday, Pope Leo asked journalists to “act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing.”
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
JD Vance has no idea what he's talking about. He just spews non-truths. One atop another.
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The two most urgent questions in our politics: Will the administration succeed in picking off enough of the opposition such that resistance seems useless? Or will civil society hold firm against a regime that wants to center all power on itself? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
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Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I’m running out of f bombs…
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This is sick, sick, sick. “Maximal lethality.” No God I know so subscribes. Maybe the drought is God’s dried up all God’s tears.
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
"just kill em....."
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Insane isn’t the half of it…
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
the department of war under trump (previously undisclosed failed 2018 mission off the shore of N Korea, results in evil, kept secret, per NYT): "The SEALs killed the men on the boat, punctured their lungs with knives so the bodies would sink, abandoned the mission, and returned to base."
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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This Is What—and Who—We’re Losing in RFK’s Purge
The story of one scientist, a career in public health, and the crisis at the CDC.
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Everything Jeneen Interlandi says:The Public Health Disaster Everyone Saw Coming www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
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Opinion | The Public Health Disaster Everyone Saw Coming
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
sickness and cruelty without end.
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
in which i join the chorus of those mourning the loss of fanny howe: among those unafraid to ask the unanswerable pullupachair.org/2025/07/11/a...
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among those unafraid to ask the unanswerable
fanny howe (photo by lynn christoffers) If the intensity of my curiosities in this world were put to trial, and I was pressed to answer what question stirs me most, it would be the realm of the God…
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Robert Reich draws our attention to the demonic truth at the essence of the cancer metastasized by Musk & his ilk open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Trump, Musk, Republicans, and the Empathy Bug
The real crisis we are living through
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Please share far and wide. ICE thrives in darkness. A spotlight on Kelvin could potentially halt his deportation.
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B.Mahany @babsymahany.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
these people have no soul. and must have been doped half their life to not know there is no such thing as stage five cancer. why in the hell would you find the cruelest possible question in the stupidest possible way?
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Watch the number of deaths per shooting incident rise under Trump: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
nbcnews.com
Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns
Gun control groups condemned the move as “a dangerous backroom deal spearheaded by Trump’s general counsel” that “effectively legalized machine guns.”
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
A decades-long effort at Cornell University to build a medical device to save the lives of babies with heart conditions was thrown on the trash heap by the Trump regime. There's a death toll attached to the recklessness of Trump and Musk.
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The administration pulled funding for research on devices for babies with heart conditions.
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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 10/10/2024
Attention to the natural world, Barbara Mahany tells readers of The Book of Nature, provides evidence for God’s immanence in our world. Even more consequentially, that attention is how we find and restore “shards of holiness” infused throughout creation.
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REVIEWED: The Book of Nature: The Astonishing Beauty of God’s First Sacred Text
Attention to the natural world provides evidence for God’s immanence in our world.
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