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Jill C Jones

@jcjonexez.bsky.social
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Books coffee democracy friends family - things I care about. I post about books on TikTok, I do other things elsewhere. I’m an English professor and I’m not dead yet. www.tiktok.com/@jillc.jones?_t=8sR9…. Or am I?

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/09/2025
There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.
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JMoonlight @jmoonlight.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading" — Isaac Asimov
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Tandy⁷ @tandyhard.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Because y'all liked the other bot farm I posted about, here's another. Remember 60-75% of the internet is fake. You're arguing with no one and you're boosting the algorithm towards hate when you do. Don't let bots continue to control you. #Resist
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
War-ravaged Portland
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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Removing To Kill a Mockingbird and The House on Mango Street from Texas classrooms does not protect Texas kids. The Texas GOP and Governor Abbott need to answer for this. Shameful. www.fox7austin.com/news/leander...
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Leander ISD pauses dozens of books in classrooms in response to state law
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
R. F. Kuang’s Babel was, at its heart, a critique of imperialism and 19th-century academia’s role in it. I’m about a quarter into her new novel, Katabasis, and it is a blistering takedown of academia *today*. Here are reasons people are in the pride section of hell:
R. F. Kuang’s BabelThe procession of petty sins continued as they circled up the floors. Moore seemed to delight very much in explicating the moral failure of his fellow residents, for his hushed whispers nevertheless carried over the floors, eliciting the occasional peeved glare. "Now, that one self-published self-help productivity books.
"Calls himself a Communist, but hasn't read Das Kapital.
"Recites pi to show off.
"Had more of a comment, not a question.
"Wouldn't accept papers written in the first person.
"Turned his exam papers over very loudly.
"Still asks people what they got on their A-levels.
"Still tells people what he got on his A-levels.
"Made his wife call him Doctor. He's a medi-evalist, mind you.
"Now, that one keeps saying he went to school in Boston and expecting everyone to know what he means. Every few years the other Shades gang up on him and brick him up behind the stacks."
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/09/2025
BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.
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FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say
The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.
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Eleanor from outside @theboatfromjaws.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Last night in Portland I went to an event where a guy read poems from his second story window at sundown. Last week a crowd gathered to watch birds nest in a chimney. Today there's a big family-friendly picnic and a river cleanup event. By all means, send in the troops to this war torn hellhole
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
just sipping on my coffee in my city of portland, and thinking about this post
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
If a full accounting of Epstein’s crimes - and his accomplices - is ever made public, people on the left and the right are going to feel really dumb that we’ve been arguing with each other while the elites of both parties pal around and do abhorrent shit.
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Comey: My heart is broken for the Department of Justice. But I have great confidence in the federal judicial system and I'm innocent, so let's have a trial.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Trump has signed an Executive Order officially approving the sale of TikTok to a group of U.S. companies. That includes Oracle, owned by billionaire and Trump donor Larry Ellison, whose media company now oversees CBS News and may soon control CNN. What could go wrong?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
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Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 25/09/2025
When prosecutors stand up in court, they represent the United States, not the president. We need the Attorney General to stand up for the rule of law and the Constitution—not fold to the president’s tweets.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 24/09/2025
This week’s Fresh Take newsletter includes our dispatch from New York City’s Climate Week, plus a billion-dollar war over red sauce, foraging’s revival and more.
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Dr. Jane Goodall’s Take On Sustainability In Trying Times: ‘Have Courage’
This week’s Fresh Take newsletter includes our dispatch from New York City’s Climate Week, plus a billion-dollar war over red sauce, foraging’s revival and more.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This is what Ice is doing in front of the cameras, imagine what they’re doing when no one is filming
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 26/09/2025
James Comey's indictment for 'serious crimes related to the disclosure of sensitive information' comes just days after the US president called for swift prosecution of his opponents on.ft.com/4gJuuCj
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This weak, brazen attempt by Stephen Miller both to chill free speech and to set up a premise to criminalize it — and, to be clear, this is the very type of speech most central to First Amendment protections — would be laughably embarrassing if this man did not have the power that he has.
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This language incites violence and terrorism.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom calls ICE arresting illegal aliens
"authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government".
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NPR @npr.org · 23/09/2025
Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.
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Georgia senators demand answers on more than a dozen deaths in immigration detention
Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.
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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/09/2025
BREAKING: The Epstein Files just got one step closer to being released. With Adelita Grijalva’s victory in AZ-07, Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna now have the magic number — 218 votes — needed for the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the full Epstein Files.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
800 detainees are missing after being held in Alligator Alcatraz in July, showing no record of their location in ICE’s database. Other detainees have been mistakenly deported or sent to detention centers thousands of miles away. The cruelty is the point.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The Trump administration and its MAGA allies have abandoned all pretense of supporting free speech in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, using the murder to justify an accelerating drive to criminalize criticism of the president,” Thomas Edsall writes.
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Opinion | The Trump Vengeance Tour Is Coming to a Stadium Near You
The MAGA movement’s encirclement maneuver is gaining ground.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The disappearance of America’s leadership class at a time like this means that the rest of us have to be leaders. We can no longer wait to be led by those with the power and authority to lead. You must lead, I must lead, all of us must lead. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22/09/2025
"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.
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Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday
Jimmy Kimmel will return to late night on Tuesday
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
On October 18, we rise! Not to defend broken systems, but to defend each other! Because our communities deserve more than fear, silence, and billion-dollar bailouts for the powerful. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. FIND or HOST a 10/18 action at www.FiftyFifty.one #NoKings #Oct18 #50501Movement
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
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The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The Washington Roundtable is joined by the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo, the dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, to discuss...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Thank you for coming to my Teddy talk.
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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
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God @thegodshow.com · 19/09/2025
Goodbye, Disney+!
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Bless All The People Boycotting Disney
Thou shalt defend free speech.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 19/09/2025
Federal officers in camouflage and riot gear use tear gas against demonstrators in the Chicago area, after the Trump administration's stepped-up immigration enforcement.
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Tear gas used on protesters at Chicago-area ICE site as immigration crackdown escalates
Federal officers in camouflage and riot gear clashed as demonstrators blocked vehicles in protest of Trump's expanding enforcement sweep.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
"There will be tough days ahead, I can guarantee it...But let’s stay strong, refuse to be scared into silence and embrace our shared obligation to stand up for America." www.americaamerica.news/p/capitulati...
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Capitulation and the Attack on Free Speech
The crackdown on Jimmy Kimmel is an outrage that puts us all at risk
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/09/2025
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 18/09/2025
Asked by Senator Hassan, former CDC Director Susan Monarez testified that RFK Jr. told her to ignore her oath of office, abandon public health best practices, and promise to rubber-stamp his immunization policies—regardless of the evidence. When she refused, he fired her.
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The Pitt does feel like the top-notch, best version of the new kind of thing that is unnervingly similar to the old kind of thing
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16/09/2025
Political violence and threats are not the answer. This is a watershed moment — we can choose to stay silent and live in fear, or we can choose to be loud for peace and compassion. We must work together to stop this crisis, and it should start from the top with the President.
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God @thegodshow.com · 16/09/2025
Thou shalt not claim to be a champion of free speech out of one side of your mouth whilst crushing free speech out the other.
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 15/09/2025
Jean Smart wins the Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for 'Hacks' It's her fourth win in a row
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 13/09/2025
Elon, speaking at the Tommy Robinson march today: “This is a government against the people and not for the people, this is why everyone is gathered here today…we don’t have another four years…there’s got to be a dissolution of parliament” And the government just…continues to use X.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I’m tired of being pitted against my neighbor. I’m tired of being told to hate my neighbor. People across the political spectrum are hungry for a new kind of politics.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
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Alyssa MacKenzie @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I hate it here.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 12/09/2025
If you have a screenshot of a US politician or leader blaming the left, or declaring some war, or anything before we knew who the shooter was, please post in the comments. We will need to keep these
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