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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

So much better than the NY Times coverage of this disgraceful speech.

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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Getting booed by Black audiences is part of Trump’s brand. Remember how he made that ghastly appearance at the NABJ in 2024? This is calculated.

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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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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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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Agreed. Empiricism isn’t everything.

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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

It’s early yet, but the evidence would suggest that ending their political careers increases awareness of the Constitution in Republican lawmakers. We should expand the study.

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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

It’s like if you had Bertie Wooster, removed Jeeves, but added in three generations of reading Spotlight. The mind boggles.

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Haydon, frightfully @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 · 08/05/2026

This is America. I want to believe it’s not, that this is an aberration or something, but the time for rationalizations has passed.

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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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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

“All your bass belong to us.” Curious to see how the NYT would translate that if he posted it.

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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 · 25/04/2026

He’s fallen so far. It’s like he’s off the board for some reason. Maybe the Eagles will trade up for him?

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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 · 15/04/2026

If you’re talking about ethics in journalism and your critique can be summed up by the word “whore” you are not actually talking about ethics in journalism. And I am not listening to you.

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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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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This is inadequate, to the point of being insulting. Trump is threatening, hell, promising genocide and war crimes and “tsk tsk, let’s moderate the tone” is the best you can do. Sir, you are not representing your constituents right now.

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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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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

At the time, there was an agitation for the annexation of Cuba. Plus ça change…

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Jiří Black @jiriblack.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I came across this line in Frederick Law Olmsted’s account of his travels in the slave states before the Civil War.

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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 · 03/04/2026

Just another grifter getting financing to muddy the waters and draw some votes from the Democrats. Let a thousand Jill Steins bloom.

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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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