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Jiří Black

@jiriblack.bsky.social
590 followers 1K following 875 posts

Just another guy who couldn’t take twitter anymore. Baltimore, public transportation, FOIA, the Philadelphia Eagles, good beer and the occasional movie. Oppose fascism. He/him

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m sorry, you simply can’t lead your newscast with that Miller tape on the birthright citizenship “order” without pointing out that that’s not the damn way it works. It’s just not journalism.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/07/2026
All we can do now is to act as quickly and unambiguously as possible to reject these policies, and to defeat decisively the spirit of indecency and inhumanity that lies behind them.
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ICE Is Shooting People Again
Routinizing Trumpian cruelty.
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Feels like we dodged a bullet, the 14th Amendment is upheld. But I’m so tired of getting shot at every day.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25/06/2026
The Supreme Court believes that there are exactly two forms of racial discrimination that the law must prohibit: Black people going to college, and Black people voting
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Rigoletto is about to begin. Hell yes.
Program for Rigoletto at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Pete Hegseth’s D-day speech on immigration condemned as ‘grotesque stupidity’
Historians and campaigners accuse US defence secretary of desecrating memory of soldiers who fell in Normandy
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
When Trump demanded "total and complete surrender," I didn't realize he was referring to us.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
John A. Klinner Ariana G. Savino Ashley B. Pruitt Seth R. Koval Curtis J. Angst Tyler H. Simmons Benjamin N. Pennington Robert Marzan Jeffrey O’Brien Declan Coady Nicole Amor Noah Tietjens Cody Khork The thirteen lives lost.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio says he is making a claim for $2-5 million in taxpayer money from Trump’s criminal slush fund. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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'I'm not greedy': January 6 rioters and Trump allies eye $1.8 billion 'weaponization' fund
Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys leader sentenced ‌to 22 years, said he planned to apply to the fund, assuming he could get between $2 and $5 million.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/05/2026
The Trump administration may be going after the Southern Poverty Law Center now, but make no mistake, this attack affects everyone. The point of prosecuting SPLC or others that make the president angry is to send a message: Fall in line or pay the price.
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Trump Administration Indictment of Southern Poverty Law Center Puts Democracy at Risk
Targeting Southern Poverty Law Center, a major racial justice group, is Trump’s latest effort to punish groups for their views.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3
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Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Listen I’ve been saying we live in a time of parables for a very long time now, and what else does the most narcissistic man on earth have left to do after finding the limits of temporal power? He must build his mausoleum.
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Wish the weekend wasn’t ending so I’m having espresso at 6:00.
Shot of espresso with seltzer chaser at Doppio in Remington
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
POW MIA flags are so funny, it’s like every post office having a flag that says “chemtrails”
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Did they really just bring out their retired rapist quarterback? Really?
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Orban may have been defeated in Hungary, Orbanism live on in the USA. This is a nuisance suit, but backed by the full power of the government.
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
It’s possible to believe that the ethical issues made this inevitable and still be appalled by the rabid misogyny directed at Russini from the moment the photos appeared.
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
There is no way to describe this that doesn’t sound ridiculous. It’s like Daffy Duck screaming “Duck Season! Rabbit Season! Duck Season!” But Bugs Bunny isn’t even there, or even Elmer.
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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭
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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
was once New Amsterdam.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The brave Hungarian freedom fighters of 1956 were brutally crushed by the Soviet Union. But their Revolution was the "first tear in the Iron Curtain." May the people of Hungary succeed today, 70 years later, in defeating those seeking to impose a new iron curtain on the free world.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/04/2026
Melania Trump wants these photos and emails to be scrubbed from the Internet. Please stop liking and sharing them. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I’ve researched the entire history that led to the 25th Amendment and what followed and wrote about all of it nearly a decade ago. Since then — and, in part, due to its limits and complications — I’ve only called for Section 4 to be invoked on two dates: January 6, 2021, and today.
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We have the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Now is the time to use it.
It's past time for Trump to be removed from office. This is a global crisis. It's time for J.D. Vance and the Cabinet to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
@vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @repkweisimfume.bsky.social Articles of Impeachment.
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Jerry Mitchell @jmitchellnews.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
#OnThisDay in 1915, Billie Holiday was born in Baltimore & became one of the greatest jazz singers of all time. She became the 1st Black female singer to work with a white orchestra. Her recording of “Strange Fruit” drew both controversy & popularity. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/07/o...
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1915: Billie Holiday was born in Baltimore
On this day in 1915, Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, was born in Baltimore.
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Does he mean Iran’s civilization or that of the United States?
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
“They had got the idea that patriotism was necessarily associated with hatred and contempt of any other country but their own, and the only foreigners to be regarded with favor were those who desired to surrender themselves to us.”
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kd @sweatnap.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
THIS. EXACTLY THIS.
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This needs more attention than it’s getting.
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Damnit, Plzeň is in Czechia, not Germany. It’s not a German Pilsner. I’m looking at you Guilford Hall.
Video screen showing but eers on tap at Guilford Hall in Baltimore
. Menu does not accurately reflect the origin of Pilsner beer, or the outcome of WWII.
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Realizing that the Secretary of Defense, or War, or Crusades or whatever they’re calling him, has never read Mark Twain’s The War Prayer. Perhaps it’s a small thing overall, given his many faults and crimes.
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Popular uprisings have started in marketplaces, schools, taverns and churches. There’s never been a revolution that began in a bomb shelter.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/02/2026
Countries that are imperialist and aggressive in their foreign policy do not remain liberal democracies in their domestic policy.
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This Is the End
Putinism abroad always morphs into Putinism at home. And we chose this path. Why? Because something-something the price of eggs.
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Shameful and cruel.
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
A member of the British royal family is more subject to the laws of his country than is the president of the United States. Happy semiquincentennial.
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ilikeplaidalot.bsky.social @ilikeplaidalot.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
While I’m here, Vive Le Minnesota! 🇫🇷 #TCMParty #Casablanca
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a black and white photo of a man standing in a crowded restaurant .
ALT: a black and white photo of a man standing in a crowded restaurant .
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Lysenkoism was nothing compared to American climate change denialism. We have set the standard of anti scientific government policy.
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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
We found so many examples of missing federal government data that we couldn’t put them all in this story. “The status quo was, the federal government is going to collect and disseminate data. That is no longer a reasonable assumption.”
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Federal Data Is Disappearing
The Trump administration has disrupted data collection on everything from homeland security, maternal mortality, hunger, drug use, education, disaster preparation and the economy.
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Glass of beer, the Brewer’s Art, upstairs at happy hour September 2025
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Cold, blue morning.
Baltimore, view of downtown from the north with Charles Village row homes in the foreground, blue sky.
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
If the reports are correct, Senate Democrats are negotiating for an assurance that when ICE shoots someone down in the street, there will be an investigation of some kind. And body cameras. Abolish ICE.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
open.spotify.com/episode/3ih2...
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How ICE Became Trump’s Very Own Paramilitary Force
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Drop the ball! You cost your team 25 yards with that interception. Just drop the ball!
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/01/2026
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Make it viral.
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Fayette St
March reaches the courthouse
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Baltimore 11/8
Protest demanding justice for Renee Good
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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Protest is too important to be left to the people who organize protests. I’m willing to march and protest with anyone, but if you are using this occasion to attack liberal democrats for not embracing full communism you are not a serious person. And we need to be serious now. #justiceforRenee
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