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Jeff Nichols

@backwardsriver.bsky.social
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the most Bluesky targeted ad I've ever seen lmao
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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Encouraging sign that Trump is so desperate for a W that he is holding a national address to tout a factory in Iowa that will never be built
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Calling it now: Centrist pundits: Trump wins in 2024 by one point: “all of American culture has changed tonight!” Trump is so hated that Wyoming elects a Black lesbian Democrat as governor in 2026: “now, let’s not be hasty abt seeing anything national in these strange local stories.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fetterman looks like he tells his boss “we got him” when he only actually saw him fall into the river
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A systematic, critical understanding of history, especially the long history of technically skilled people either being used by elites or being blinded by their own high modernist ideology to do incredible harm, should in my opinion be a requirement of any technocratic profession
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
trump can solve this by renaming "disapproval rating" to "approval rating"
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026
Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well, Sen. Grassley, if he does something after you tell him he can't, and you don't do anything, it turns out he *does* have the authority.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.
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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
3000 block of Madison, Chicago c 1968-1969
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Muscular Christianity” means that when when you’re glazing the serial predator president who deports refugee children, executes fishermen, and builds idols to himself, you TYPE REALLY HARD.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 26/09/2026
Bullying works
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is what you do when you're a void of insatiable emotional neediness and need people cheering to soothe you in the wake of catastrophic polls, because it sure doesn't make a lick of strategic sense.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anyways, this is genuinely the funniest chart in the world because it shows Jill Stein's twitter use spikes every four years and only during years where there's a federal election so if she's breaking her silence now *someone* is panicking
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I can't wait to hear Matty Taibbi wail about censorship.
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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/cinema/2026/... Hey, y'all: Chicago fans and Algren fans. In Chicago: City on the Make, Algren refers obliquely to a documentary about the city that was suppressed by Richard J. Daley's minions. That film, not seen in Chicago in 60 years, will be screened at NU.
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Listening to Chicago: Denis Mitchell and Studs Terkel: Block Museum - Northwestern University
Denis Mitchell’s controversial Chicago documentary, unseen here since 1966, screens with a rare 1975 film profile of Studs Terkel in a program about listening to the voice of the city.
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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I wrote about the long history of Roseland's Greater Tabernacle Cathedral, an architecturally stunning building that has witnessed profound neighborhood change in the nearly 140 years that it has commanded the intersection of 113th & King Drive.
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Best Beacon of Community Strength: Greater Tabernacle Cathedral
Best of Roseland
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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KPD Max von Sydnow @mpdeejay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Reaction Bomb
ALT: Reaction Bomb
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) — The Hollywood Reporter
The Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 25/09/2026
Sept 2024: Trump promises, “We’re going to bring [mortgage rates] down very fast. ... We will drive down the rates, so you will be able to pay 2% again.” Sept 2026: Trump’s war pushes mortgage rates to 7% as he stops talking about the issue. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Mortgage rates reach 7%, despite Trump’s misguided 2024 campaign promises
Until fairly recently, the president wanted the public to see him as directly responsible for mortgage rates. I think we know why he changed course.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you guys broke watergate
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One day it was 60, some days it's almost none, before the war it was nearly 140.
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
DHS keeps accidentally proving there’s no non-citizen voting over and over
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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cubs and White Sox both clinching post-season berths within a few minutes of each other by winning their ballgames is just . . . weird. Seems like a very un-Chicago synchronicity.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nearly 3 billion opioid pills entered MI within 7 years. Big Pharma made billions and bought off politicians like Mike Rogers, who took $1M. I put free Narcan in 100 places in Wayne County to fix what he broke. Today, on National Save a Life Day, take a moment to learn how Narcan can save a life.
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Carmen Theresa @carmen-theresa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m in the Trib! www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/23/h...
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Column: A Chicago historian brings us more discoveries about Graceland Cemetery
Adam Selzer’s “Graceland Cemetery Vol. 2″ returns to the landmark Chicago cemetery to uncover more secrets about those who are memorialized there.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/09/2026
Yeah, what psychopath would want his name on a building associated with an assassinated President
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s not that this story has not gotten attention, but this is the sort of story that Fox and NewsMax would have turned into a cultural touchstone under a Dem by running for weeks, darkly hinting at a conspiracy
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Boasting of an illegal war and the war crime of pillage.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Illustration from The Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1839 of a black man standing in Canada while a white man chases him on the other side of a body of water. The illustration is captioned "John Bull's Monarchy A Refuge From Brother Jonathan's Slavery."
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 22/09/2026
nobody is falling for your pretend concern TODAY! about fascist media takeover you will never be president
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is in some ways at the heart of our political dysfunction. For a lot of folks, so long as the basic civic infrastructure keeps (kept?) humming along, they don’t feel much personal effect from electoral politics, so it becomes a kind of entertainment & mode of self-expression.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Briefly detained” = beat half to death
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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Gérard Meister preening after winning La Coupe de Noël, a Christmastime race in the Seine, 1912
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@RossWBermanIV

I’m a REAL MAN:

I’m SCARED OF CITIES

I’m MAD at the LITTLE MERMAID

My truck is TALL and I have to crawl into it like a BABY

Do not get me STARTED on women’s sports
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