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Bob McWilliams

@radiobob.bsky.social
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Longtime jazz director and jazz and Trail Mix (folk, Americana, bluegrass, etc) shows on Kansas Public Radio. Harvard Law ‘80 and lawyer eons ago and recently retired longtime adjunct U.S. history prof at Johnson County Community College.

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 09/10/2026
She fought apartheid, defended Nelson Mandela, and helped change how the world prosecutes sexual violence. Today, at 85, Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What an extraordinary woman. 💜 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Navi Pillay smiling in a red and gold academic gown and black hat, seated at a table signing a book.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In the 10 pm CDT hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, trumpeter Terence Blanchard and alto saxophonist Donald Harrison from 1993. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In the 9 pm CDT hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, pianist Barry Harris from 1976 #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And he never mentions Ukraine
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So let's get this straight: Russia just murdered over 65 people in Ukraine in less than 48 hours. Crushed a building on top of sleeping families to celebrate Putin's birthday. And today, the U.S. announces that they are lifting sanctions on Russian diesel and planning to buy some,
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/10/2026
Trump’s deal to buy Russian diesel from Putin just weeks before the midterms funnels money directly into Russia’s war machine. Trump is now facing calls for Congress to block the deal and impeach him. Meanwhile, energy analysts say it’s unlikely to even make a dent in fuel prices.
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Trump Announces Russian Diesel Deal Ahead of Midterms
Trump campaigned against foreign oil.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ya i mean i do genuinely think that one of hegseth's goals is to drive people appalled by barbarity out of the military, because the long term plan is to make the military shoot at us, and the same guys who object to this won't do that either.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
📌Greg Abbott received a $7.4 million dollar judgement in 1985 when a tree fell on him putting him in a wheelchair. When he later ran for office, he was instrumental in passing tort reform laws capping insurance payouts for victims of accidents like his at $750,000. Enough of these horrible people.
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Matt @mattmurph24.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump is an anti-American traitor and pro-Kremlin stooge.
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In the 9 pm CDT hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, the weekly all vinyl hour. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Same but with Brewers and Rays and if not that Brewers and Guardians
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Alarming — 🇺🇸 Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social denied access to military facilities in the Middle East: “Unprecedented. Hegseth is trying to cover up the extent of the damage from a war spiraling out of control. This should be unacceptable to everybody, Republican or Democrat.”
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Andys Theory 🦋⚡️💎 @andystheory.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Every few days it hits me and I have to ask, where is the outrage on comments like this? I don’t do TrumpSpeak, I try to focus on the English language and what I perceive to be the American core values that we have been for upholding for most of my life. IMO, this is terrorism. 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🥵🤬
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 05/10/2026
Once again, Trump and Putin take the side of international corruption. Trump/Russia.
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In the 10 pm CDT hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra from 1969. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I was lucky enough to see Phil multiple times, and had a nearly two hour hang after a 15 minute interview. He was a great storyteller! I saw Stanley Cowell up close, with the Heath Brothers, circa 1978, I had not heard of him before that (still quite new to jazz) and was totally blown away.
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In the 9 pm CDT hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, trumpeter Donald Byrd and alto saxophonist Phil Woods from 1956. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In the 10 pm CDT hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, tenor saxophonist John Coltrane from 1959. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In the 9 pm CDT hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, organist Jimmy Smith from 1958. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the 10 pm CDT hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse with trumpeter Red Rodney from 1984. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the 10 pm CDT hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, alto saxophonist Charlie Parker from 1948 on a 2 LP album from 1976. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In the 9 p.m. hour of Jazz in the Night on Kansas Public Radio, the weekly all vinyl hour #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the 10 pm CDT hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, saxophonist Nathan Davis and trumpeter Carmell Jones from 1965. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the 9 pm CDT hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, guitarist Kenny Burrell from 1956. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org
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Chad Finn @chadfinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'll watch Liberty Biberty and Kelce party commercials on an alternating basis for 24 hours straight if you can get the relentless Susan Collins ads off my television.
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Remind your MAGA Boomer relatives that this is what they voted for when they try to blame it on Democrats.
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Greater Expectations
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In the 10 pm CDT hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, trumpeter Clark Terry from 1980. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org
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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Did you know your kid can be blind or have brain damage due to measles at birth? If Rubella pops off, then we can add deafness and severe birth defects to the list. Vaccinating your kids is so, so much less dangerous that the damage these diseases can cause, esp to infants sharing their air.
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In the 9 pm CDT hour of Jazz in the Night, the weekly all vinyl hour. @jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org
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The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 23/09/2026
Trump allies are pushing him to declare "martial law" this November to seize the midterms, with some aides trying to stop it but admitting they may fail. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms
Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc.
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Lori Anne @lorianneb1221.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What other time did things like this go on? Oh yeah,1930's Germany.
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 POLITICO, CNN, MS NOW barred from White House after court ruling restoring access The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier restoring access. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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POLITICO, CNN, MS NOW barred from White House after court ruling restoring access
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier restoring access.
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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the guy who'll need to explain today to a federal judge why the White House is ignoring court orders.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we just need to hold Sam Altman criminally liable for this crap, just like we hold drunk drivers criminally responsible. It would stop quickly!
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At a church service in Chicago they had set up cardboard cutouts in the pews to represent the worshippers who would have attended mass if not for fear of being disappeared. Not far away I saw a laborer’s lunch had been left uneaten and spilled over onto the sidewalk outside of a home...
Who will clean any of this up? 
At a church service in Chicago they had set up cardboard cutouts in the pews to represent the worshippers who would have attended mass if not for fear of being disappeared. Not far away I saw a laborer’s lunch had been left uneaten and spilled over onto the sidewalk outside of a home he must have just been working on. Laboring on. There’s a dumpster out front and a red white and blue flag themed porta-potty from a company called Patriot Portables. Three ladders still leaning up against the building. 

It looks like it would have been a pretty tasty lunch. Even tossed aside like that and wasted now. A smear of orange hot sauce on the cracked styrofoam container. Not yet taken away by the wind. Such a beautiful seeming neighborhood too. I imagine it’s a very nice place to live. They say that Chicago is still surprisingly affordable. 

It shows me home listings when I scroll now because I clicked on one or two at some point and so the computer believes that this is an integral datapoint that explains who I am. I just saw one hanging ten off a bluff that has been pummeled by eons of waves and so will not exist for much longer. Neither house nor bluff. Overlooking the water on Cape Cod. You could squeeze a couple of good years out of it still I thought. Until one awful night. I can’t afford it even now despite the implication but it’s a nice little nightmare to have. 

I thought of a friend who was recently diagnosed with a terrible albeit not yet terminal disease but maybe that’s a bad analogy. A beach house is worth so much more than a person. 

I don’t know how much longer it will sit there. Either the house or the guy’s lunch. Maybe everyone passing by assumes another worker is going to arrive soon to take care of it but it could be he’s already been disappeared himself.
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The CIA warned European governments of a possible Russian drone attack on Spain, France, or Italy American intelligence gathered information that Russia is preparing such an attack on one of those Mediterranean countries and shared it with several European governments.
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
50 percent tariffs for our beloved neighbor and historic ally, Canada. A red carpet and a military flyover for Communist China’s leader. Donald Trump is a sick man and a danger to America.
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pants on Fire, Court Finds, Once Again:
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Rose❤️🇨🇦Part owner of Canada.🇨🇦❤️ @scotfreeme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So we wonder why the cops are aiding ICE in some cases... Here's why. Many work for them on a contract basis. But the police departments don't want us be able to see who is involved, nor the city mayor. In this case = LAPD. Scumbags. More criminal than those taken off the streets, to soul crush.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
October 2016: WaPo publishes piece expressing amazement that someone at a Trump rally shouted out the Nazi term “Lügenpresse.” September 2026: Trump’s decision to ban the “fake news” from the White House is defended by a DOJ lawyer who once said Mein Kampf was his favorite book.
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A German crowd gives the Nazi salute to the U.S. Olympic contingent as it marches past the reviewing stand of Olympics host Adolf Hitler, pictured in semi-silhouette on the right. (International News Photos)
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In the 10 pm CDT hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, pianists John Lewis and Hank Jones from 1979. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org
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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In the 9 pm CDT hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, drummer Max Roach from 1958. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I work with Afghan immigrants in Virginia. Thousands were promised visa, vetted, and ready to come to America after our military pulled out and the Taliban retook the country. The Trump administration ended this last year. This includes the 1039 Afghans stuck at Camp As Sayliyah in Qatar.
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