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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The Hours Are Long But the Pay is Low" Spotted in the wild at McNally Jackson books in NYC by my eagle-eyed editor @marthabayne.bsky.social Now, don't hurt yourselves rushing on over there to snap it up. @millerscave.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social #booksky📚 #alternativecountry

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cynthia was a true original and an indefatigable force, and I still can’t quite believe she’s gone. She was reviewing the copy edits on her latest book, ”On the Heartland Road,” when she died, and it’ll be out next summer from @illinoispress.bsky.social. I’m honored to help bring it to completion.

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A Remembrance of Cynthia Clampitt

David Hammond on the longtime Chicago writer and Newcity contributor, who was seventy-five.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

man, shut the fuck up

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This man is a fucking monster who limped away from Chicago's mayor's office because he'd become unelectable after closing 50 schools and half of our city's publicly funded mental health care clinics, and covering up the fact that Chicago cops murdered a teenager. Stop whitewashing his ass!

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I still have my original copy of this absolute work of art

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Nothing starts the day off right like learning your grant application has been denied on a technicality.

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Perpetually annoyed by the folks using speakerphone on the Metra but making an exception for the person blasting "I Will Always Love You" this a.m.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/08/2026

DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive Chicago apartment raid was prompted by intel on a Venezuelan gang takeover. Records reveal the real story behind the raid: targeting alleged squatters with the landlord’s blessing. 👂 Listen to the full episode:

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The True Story of Why Immigration Agents Raided a Chicago Apartment Building

Podcast Episode · Paper Trail · August 20 · 42m

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Kendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

was literally looking at this clip on Saturday dammit

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Like Jimmy Carter, Dolly Parton is proof that being kind and loving to everyone, while rejecting hatred and bigotry, is a choice, regardless of where you were born or how you grew up.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

rollingstone.com

Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I knew about the hundreds of thousands of books for kids, but forgot about this. Literally saving lives.

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris performing “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” on The Dolly Parton Show (1976)

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Zoe Tunnell ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This sounds like a bit but I assure you it is not: One of the most important things Dolly Parton did, in addition to the millions of dollars in charity and support for marginalized communities, is be an icon that showed women can be beautiful and have big ol' tits and ALSO be brilliant and strong

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Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

immediately had to search for the video of Dolly and Patti singing Shortnin’ Bread while keeping the rhythm with their acrylic nails youtu.be/AOxsQNVOhro

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Dolly Parton & Patti LaBelle play 'Shortnin' Bread' on their Acrylic Nails

YouTube video by Happy Mag

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

imaginationlibrary.com

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.

Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Brutal investigative reporting @motherjones.com on the grim consequences of selling healthcare to private equity. This tragedy happened down the road from me in Waukegan. It's been lightly covered in the local media, but not at this depth & scope. #fundlocaljournalism #heathcareisahumanright

motherjones.com

A for-profit hospital slashed costs. Then a patient froze to death on its roof.

A little-known company grew on promises to save distressed hospitals. Instead, it sunk them into financial chaos.

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The paperback edition of "Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us," edited by @sonyahuber.bsky.social & moi, drops one week from today! substack.com/home/post/p-...

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No Other Troy

Three years after her death, Sinéad O'Connor is more powerful than ever

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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Spotted in the wild by my eagle-eyed editor @marthabayne.bsky.social at the @barbarasbookstore.bsky.social in O'Hare. Terminal 3 G Concourse, in case you were wondering. It's sure to help the time...ahem...FLY by on any flight. #airportbooks @illinoispress.bsky.social #chicagobooks

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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

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Adrienne Celt @celtadri.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If you want to have a good cry in the year 2007, and then again today www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8mt...

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Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly (Official Video)

YouTube video by GlenHansardVEVO

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I was unaware of this unreal story until now! Vile harrassment conducted by adults making 3x as much money as I do, to intimidate an independent journalist whose reporting they didn't like. What the ...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Weird he can’t bring this kind of energy towards his colleague who is accused of beating up his daughter.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

the media attacked rep. rashida tlaib for four days when she said "impeach the motherfucker" and accused the democratic party of cleaving decorum, calling it "profane," a "crass expletive," "non-family language," "r-rated" and "earmuffs required" saying fuck is only news when a dem does it

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

He did a great job (eventually) against multiple horrific plagues, and multiple terrible presidents. This is a new low.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Journal of Clinical Medicine: "Hydroxychloroquine was not efficacious for treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients and caused more severe adverse events." pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Yes! May-lee's essay also linked in the attached post ...

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Sinead O'Connor died three years ago yesterday; the paperback of our book, NOTHING COMPARES TO HER: WHAT SINEAD O'CONNOR MEANS TO US, drops in August. A few of the essays in the book are linked in the Substack post, below, including work by Neko Case, Megan Stielstra, and Rayne Fisher-Quann.

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No Other Troy

Three years after her death, Sinéad O'Connor is more powerful than ever

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Broadcast here in the park is en espanol and so far I’ve been following along but wtaf

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Pausa de shakirificación

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Crowe here in Waukegan is skewing Team Spain

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Brett Shaw @brettshaw.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

He is PERFECT ... #Jimothy

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 08/07/2026

Much-needed development happening in downtown Waukegan. Especially happy to hear plans exist for 4 S. Genesee, the former Waukegan National Bank building, an 8-story high rise vacant since 1984.

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Developers busy in downtown Waukegan: ‘A diamond in the rough’

David Motley, the city’s public relations director, said Thursday the city is negotiating a development agreement for the property there known as Parking Lot B.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Reminder there is no evidence that any initial statements by ICE or DHS should be trusted — and reporters should state that in all coverage and stories. Every ICE shooting we’ve seen the agency lie about the circumstances.

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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

After this morning’s fatal ICE shooting, the community has come together to demand justice-NOT only for this latest loss of life, but for the broader pattern of deadly incidents reported nationwide🇺🇸 Hart28.com

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

New book alert #2: Democracy! dropping next week from @illinoispress.bsky.social

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