Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/go-ahead-a...hamiltonnolan.comGo Ahead and Use AI. It Will Only Help Me Dominate You.A message of support for my fellow writers 411314
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialRebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Stop 👏🏼 telling 👏🏼 children 👏🏼 they 👏🏼 can’t 👏🏼 make 👏🏼 a 👏🏼 living 👏🏼 in 👏🏼 the 👏🏼 arts 👏🏼 05813
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2026Trump pays tribute to Teddy Roosevelt with some double jerk dancing 2701176198
jessicamuss.bsky.social @jessicamuss.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I refuse to believe that anyone has ever said “you have the hottest country” to him except to perhaps talk about global warming. 020
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21/06/2026Algae are prolific producers of oxygen (and consumers of carbon dioxide), en masse producing a huge proportion of the oxygen we breathe, which means that the greening of the Reflecting Pool might be the most pro-climate thing Trump has ever done. 10164961341
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 16/06/2026i like that Paul Simon gets big cocky with his theory that there's 50 ways to leave your lover, and then when pressed for answers he's only got like six and one of them is just "get on the bus" 71953251
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism. 11393670111521
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialMaggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.social · 31/05/2026If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot. 125136952065
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 31/05/2026art imagines new things, upends social norms, says the unsayable, builds alternate worlds, designs counterlogics, revels in curiosity+ exercises fundamental human capacity for creative representation this is why art intrinsically sides with freedom, good discoursing on art this morning, everybody! 311835
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialCaity Weaver @caity.bsky.social · 15/04/2026MAJOR UPDATE: I found the best free restaurant bread in the United States www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comI Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in AmericaThirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf. 59548178
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialChicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 21/05/2026Natasha Cloud still doesn’t understand why she was the last WNBA player signed in free agency last month. That uncertainty will fuel her with the Chicago Sky.chicagotribune.comNatasha Cloud vows to prove herself — and continue activism — with Chicago Sky after tumultuous free agency 082
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/05/2026wow -- Trump appears to call Rachel Scott a "bitch" as he finishes taking questions from reporters 3782452971
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialIn These Times @inthesetimes.com · 28/04/2026Radical bookstores don’t just sell books. In Chicago, Baltimore, and beyond, they host book clubs, training sessions, meetings, jail support work, and organizing that can shape entire movements. New from @leftiecowboy.bsky.socialinthesetimes.comRadical Booksellers Do More Than Just RetailBookstores fight for communities through activism, despite backlash. 2377147
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialLee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I hope this doesn’t break up Tenacious D again 111204197
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialMusic Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Get flung out of space with SAPPHOPALOOZA! Last year's hit series returns May 9th - 31st, with another vibrant collection of sapphic films. Full Schedule & Ticket Info: musicboxtheatre.com/series-and-f...media.tenor.coma close up of a woman 's face with a brooch on her shirtALT: a close up of a woman 's face with a brooch on her shirt 13311
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialMaggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right? 622274607734
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 29/03/2026I wondered how WNBA players got a 400% raise. It only took a Nobel Prize winner in Economics. Claudia Goldin, I salute you. Gift link! 7504125
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialAndrew Kinsey @andrewkinsey.bsky.social · 29/03/2026The Pope is cooking now. www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...reuters.comPope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage warsPope Leo said on Sunday that God rejects the prayers of leaders who start wars and have "hands full of blood", in unusually forceful remarks as the Iran war entered its second month. 06616
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 28/03/2026Most kids play hide-and-seek. Zayd Ayers Dohrn, whose parents became fugitives after founding the Weather Underground, learned how to lose a tail. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/gt7hGWnewyorkermag.visitlink.meGrowing Up as the Child of Radical RevolutionariesMost kids play hide-and-seek. Zayd Ayers Dohrn, whose parents became fugitives after founding the Weather Underground, learned how to lose a tail. 15612
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23/03/2026Sometimes, there's an article published in the Atlantic that makes you realize that the writer is simply a sociopath who uses their writing to be sadistically homophobic, transphobic, ableist, and fatphobic all in one article. archive.ph/qsOV2 672432340
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I've taught on and off at BU for 10 years. I'm a BUSPH alum. As the first out trans woman faculty member at SSW, this is a punch in the face. Taking this down says my life and that of my students matters less to you than appeasing those who would shutter BU forever in an instant if they could.dailyfreepress.com‘That’s selective enforcement’: BU professors mobilize after University removes pride flags during spring breakFaculty are speaking out against Boston University’s signage policy amid ongoing disagreements over the removal of public-facing pride flags in office windows, an issue faculty say is an unnecessary b... 8469111
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/03/2026When you think you're a liberator of your people and you're also sexually abusing women and girls from among those people you're demonstrating that you have trouble recognizing them as people. (And that is way too common.)nytimes.comCesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years 452493457
jessicamuss.bsky.social @jessicamuss.bsky.social · 16/03/2026This is the craziest speech I've ever heard. We've got everything- woke Mickey Mouse, multiple diagnoses shared, a lot of information about paint and steel. Honestly astounding. Trump is really something. 000
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialRichard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 18/02/20262026 basically 3024089610874
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialBen Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is 303216737672
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialwhet moser @whetmoser.com · 09/02/2026the message i got from the ads tonight: potatoes, butts 6443
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands…. Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those 9244745713588
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth: “ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king. This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.” 649174634885
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialUChicago AAUP @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social · 25/01/2026We reiterate our demand, alongside our siblings in GSU-UE, @nationalnurses.bsky.social, Faculty Forward, and the Lab School Faculty Association, that the University of Chicago act immediately to exclude ICE and CBP from all buildings without a judicial warrant. 15516
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialJulie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 24/01/2026America: where people fight like hell for your right to own a gun, so that cops can shoot you for having one. 27026
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialNick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 24/01/2026At a rally in Union Square right now, Council member @chiosse.bsky.social tells the crowd, “We certainly need to abolish ICE, but that’s not enough—we need Nuremberg trials.” 212007488
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialProf. Catherine Rowett, ex MEP @catherinerowett.bsky.social · 19/01/2026It's bizarre that some politicians are trying to behave as if the US president were sane, or capable of reason or moral judgement. 496123572867
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 06/01/2026thousands of Palestinians have lost their lives in the days since Oct 7, and this is the main page of Rolling Stone magazine today. A wild piece of editorializing masquerading as a pop music piece. 216827
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialTony Martin @tonymartin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize. 764337742
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/12/2025Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms. 3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers. 4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against. It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power. Story to come. 14634121331
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year. 357238377189
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 11/12/2025I wish there was more public recognition of how batshit insane it is to call the president a dangerous authoritarian and then give him a $1 trillion military budget 6464150
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 09/12/2025Hey correct me if I’m wrong here but isn’t he just describing how health insurance currently works? 1826026
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialTim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025 "skin as part of brain?" This is that great intellect people talk about? 2151496178
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 13/11/2025For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.appsplendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.appEpstein Document Search 17974623196
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialJoe Brulle 👊🏽🇺🇸🔋 @jcbrul.bsky.social · 11/11/2025"This isn’t a maintenance bill. It’s a systems-building bill. And it positions Illinois to do something few American states have attempted: build a modern, frequent, interconnected railway network that treats mobility as essential infrastructure rather than a social service." 26613
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialjj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 31/10/2025@wanlittlehusk.bsky.social helped me put together a food/food donations resource sheet that can be distributed tonight at trick or treating for anyone in the greater chicago area - or any time after! 511677
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialmerr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 30/10/2025every couple of days the official white house website says "we want to kill you. we want to destroy everything you love. we are the living incarnation of death and we shall sweep life from this earth like an unstoppable whirlwind" and its like oh. ok. do i still have to pay taxes 43480789
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialAngelle Haney Gullett @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 31/10/2025They literally ruin everything they touch 4688993335
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 13/10/2025Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-pe… 213227975299
Reposted by @jessicamuss.bsky.socialWBEZ @wbez.org · 07/10/2025Clinée Hedspeth, Chicago’s cultural commissioner and an ardent ally of Mayor Brandon Johnson, has resigned from her post at the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. trib.al/H76PYtXtrib.alChicago cultural commissioner Clinée Hedspeth resigns City Hall postAn ally of Mayor Brandon Johnson, Hedspeth’s 18-month tenure was marked by internal turmoil, with high staff turnover and bullying accusations. 025
