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susanb @sbrann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can we dub The Trop Wrigley South? #GoCubsGo
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel you, Daniel L
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susanb @sbrann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
'Supporting me also means listening when I tell you about my own life.'
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susanb @sbrann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Love this! Chicago Mayor Johnson & Lyric Opera - hint, hint!
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in love.
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2026: Time for the Midterms
YouTube video by Hamilton
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For 64 days, starting with the detainment of the flower vendor on Sept. 7, 2025, the feds carried out a militarized immigration enforcement operation under the guise of making Chicago safer. The first in a Tribune series on the anniversary of Midway Blitz: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/06/c...
chicagotribune.com
Operation Midway Blitz, one year later: A changed Chicago forges on after the resistance
For 64 days, the federal government carried out a militarized immigration enforcement operation under the guise of making Chicago safer. A year later, why do people still feel so unsafe?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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susanb @sbrann.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Who's on first?
Image of a man in a grey shirt with black number 3 & I DONTKNOW above it
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 01/09/2026
"Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do." Thank you, and RIP, Wendell Berry.
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Dave Robinson @daverobinson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Canadians are sharing this with their American friends as the anniversary of 911 approaches:
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susanb @sbrann.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sunset over Wrigley Field, Aug. 31, 2026 (W 17-3)
Image of orange clouds reflecting sunset over Wrigley Field
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
While Trump is threatening countries to produce zero-sum outcomes, Xi is offering partners aid, trade, and investment opportunities to achieve win-win outcomes. You don't need a PhD in international relations to predict which one of these strategies will endure over time.
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Toscha 🍂 @poemless.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis."
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Truscott (& Mauldin) luciantruscott.substack.com/p/stars-stri...
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Stars stripped
The big story that’s all over the place this afternoon is the firing of the editor of Stars and Stripes, the quasi-governmental semi-independent newspaper that is provided for free to service members ...
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
R Chernow + Lin-Manuel Miranda made Hamilton anchor for triumph and tragedy of the founding years Bios of Lincoln and Douglass tell us triumph and tragedy of Civil War / Reconstruction Book proposal: Bio of John Roberts as spine for 21st century collapse of Am democracy, Florida recount onward.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I regret to inform you that in this week’s newsletter, I have been forced to take Trump’s stupid goddamn ballroom seriously. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Trump’s Ballroom Isn’t Just a Farce Anymore—It’s a Threat
In this week’s Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explains how the ballroom could gut key environmental protections. Plus, the heartbreak of Jason Arday.
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susanb @sbrann.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
For those keeping score in today's Cubs-Royals game, Bobby Witt, Jr out on a 1-3-4-1-6-4-3 rundown in the 6th.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Richard Nixon was never arrested for his crimes, but his Attorney General John Mitchell was—for helping Nixon cover them up. Have fun with the next administration, Todd Blanche!
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Echoes of the “Broadview Six” case: Justice Dept.’s Case Against Minnesota Protesters Hits Hurdles as Missteps Mount (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
nytimes.com
Missteps Mount in Justice Dept.’s Case Against Minnesota Anti-ICE Protesters (Gift Article)
The problems plaguing the case have not only hurt the government’s chances, lawyers say, but have also undermined the bonds of trust that prosecutors have traditionally enjoyed in court.
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susanb @sbrann.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
For today's geography lesson...
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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
living in Chicago is incredible because sometimes you just stumble across a Scene of Epic Proportions
Big tall ship in front of huge cumulonimbus clouds at golden hour
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susanb @sbrann.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Early morning fog on the Great Pond, Biddeford Pool, ME.
Image of 2 egrets in a pond in fog, with cat-o-nine tails in left foreground.
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susanb @sbrann.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Wow! #wc2026
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
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BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction
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susanb @sbrann.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Yes, I'm a 'recovering' (read: retired) lawyer, but even normal people would want to know which Court of Appeals issued this decision! 19 paragraphs long, no id. C'mon, #NYT, do better! (It's the 2d Circuit Court of Appeals.)
NYT headline: Court Revives Lawsuits Tying Tylenol Use in Pregnancy to Autism and A.D.H.D.
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susanb @sbrann.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Hey Jude 2.0!
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susanb @sbrann.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Hey Jude! #2026WC #threelions
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
“.. Firms should be able to say that they are prioritizing shareholder interests .. rather than the president’s ego. But we do not live in that kind of democracy at the moment. We live in Donald Trump’s America ..” @crampell.bsky.social $WMT www.thebulwark.com/p/the-price-...
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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Rosanne Cash is an author and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter. Cash recounts the 1970 Kent State killings, when National Guardsmen opened fire, leaving four students dead and forcing a national reckoning over protest and police violence. #WeAreAmerica250
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susanb @sbrann.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Not politics. Not immigration. Not WC soccer/football. But a cool aquatic bird (think puffin) robot!
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A new kind of robot swims the seas and soars the skies
Inspired by diving birds, roboticists built the lightweight machines to move from water to air. The design may one day lead to robots that can monitor and sample the coastal ocean.
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KC @kcwinters.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
In this 250 minute from @hcrichardson.bsky.social & team, Min Jin Lee, the Korean-American author of Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, one of the New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, highlights multi-talented Nam June Paik, the father of video art. youtu.be/mEfuPkbBc4M?...
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Nam June Paik, Narrated by Min Jin Lee
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A murder of crows at Graceland Cemetery
Fourteen crows gathered in a graveyard.
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
omg 😭🫡 With alt txt
The post reads: 

Writer: "Is it 'firsthand' or 'first hand'?"

Editor: "Either one is fine." 

Screenshot of a newspaper headline: 

Mentoring Day: Students get first hand job experience
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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Dr. Sherrilyn Ifill is a nationally recognized civil rights attorney, expert, and scholar. Ifill is the former president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the founder and director of the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy at Howard University School of Law. #WeAreAmerica250
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susanb @sbrann.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Why is Alex Bregman batting 2d?
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy 250th birthday, America 🇺🇸 ! We continue the struggle for a ‘more perfect union.’ And I continue to agree with James Baldwin: “I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Absolutely insane that Cape Verde — a country of 500,000 — played Spain, Uruguay and Argentina…and lost to none of them in regulation. Easily one of the greatest performances in World Cup history.
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susanb @sbrann.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
'What on earth is going on?' Magic.
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susanb @sbrann.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Cabo Verde! Gooooal!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...
And yet…McConnell refused to vote to convict. Seven of his colleagues did, and with McConnell’s leadership, more would have done so, potentially enough to get to the supermajority needed. With conviction, the Senate could have also taken the vote to block Trump from running again. Doing so would have ended Trump as a political power. McConnell was clearly considering this option. In an oral history interview at the time the House was impeaching Trump, McConnell said

But apparently you can impeach somebody after they leave office, and if that happens, there’s a second vote in the Senate, which only has to pass by a simple majority, that prevents that person from seeking office again. So he could not only be impeached, but also eliminated from the possibility of a comeback for this office. So it is significant.

In the end, McConnell protected Trump from punishment. It was not just the refusal to vote to convict. After a swift House impeachment, he pushed to delay the Senate trial. He opposed the Senate joining in a Congressional investigation of Jan 6. He endorsed Trump in 2024, although this matters little except to further diminish McConnell’s dignity, as it was clear by this point that the Republican Party was Trump’s and McConnell’s time of influence was at an end.
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susanb @sbrann.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Ann Telnaes nails it. 'Happy 250th Anniversary from the Supreme Court.'
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/06/2026
Michael Cembalest is out with his annual energy report for JP Morgan and it's full of fascinating stuff, but this graph jumps out: Trump is succeeding in stifling America's clean energy boom. Absolutely ceding the field to China.
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Beth Peaka’sMom @sassyvan.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Oh…. I REALLY like THIS one. Nice job @hcrichardson.bsky.social youtu.be/xAU-FvTPNys?...
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Jimi Hendrix’s “The Star-Spangled Banner” Live at Woodstock, Narrated by Justice Brown
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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susanb @sbrann.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Alexander Calder's Flamingo (1974), in Chicago's Federal Plaza. Three views.
Three views of large Vermillion stabile by Alexander Calder, Flamingo (1974).
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This Day in Labor History: June 26, 1894. The American Railway Union, headed by Eugene Debs, called a nationwide boycott in solidarity with their striking members at Pullman, Illinois. This turned a small strike into a challenge over corporate control over America. The government crushed it!
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susanb @sbrann.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Gee, I didn't know that.
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